Jennifer to co-teach Porn course in Sociology at UvA

Sat
01
Feb
2025

Jennifer to co-teach Porn course in Sociology at UvA

University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, NL
Sat, Feb 1 2025 - Wed, Apr 30 2025

A rare opportunity: The University of Amsterdam invites Jennifer to co-teach a Porn course in the Sociology department.

 

“Porn: Past, Present, and Future”

 

As perhaps the first ever full course on pornography at the University of Amsterdam, Jennifer has been invited by the University of Amsterdam’s Sociology Department and faculty member Marie-Louise Janssen to co-teach a course in Spring 2025.

 

This course will be offered in the minor “Introduction To Gender and Sexuality Studies.”

 

The working title is “Porn: Past, Present, and Future.”

 

Course description

 

Coming soon!

 

Porn studies at the University of Amsterdam

 

The University of Amsterdam doesn’t offer a degree or course in Porn Studies. However, multiple lecturers and professors have included segments on various elements of porn (feminist, trans, alternative) in the various departments. Among those are Sara Janssen, Prof dr. Eliza Steinbock, Prof. dr. Misha Kavka, and Marie-Louise Janssen, to name a few.

 

Jennifer has  been invited over the years to lecture about porn in several of the the University of Amsterdam’s departments, among those Film Studies, Sociology, and Media Studies. Jennifer also has taught in the same  departments and others at other universities, including in Gender Studies at the University of Utrecht, a multidisciplinary honors course in Sexuality at the University of Leiden, and others.

 

And while the University of Amsterdam doesn’t offer a Porn Studies course, Jennifer was the first ever student to write a Master’s thesis about porn in the Film Studies department. Initially a bit controversial, Jennifer’s academic work won the faculty over with her obvious commitment to both the theory and the genre of porn. Working with Prof dr Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland, she earned her Film Studies  Master’s degree with the thesis “Engaging the Body: The Possibilities and Limitations of Character-Based Theory in Explaining Pornography.”

 

More to come

 

We will post more information as the class preparations develop!

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