Jeffrey Escoffier Memorial Fund

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and partner scholars are raising $10,000 to design and run a course, in spring 2023, dedicated to exploring the work of the remarkable queer theorist, intellectual historian, and BISR faculty Jeffrey Escoffier (1942-2022). Your donation will enable us to not only pay faculty, but also subsidize seats to ensure maximum accessibility for students of all income levels. Donations to BISR (a registered 501c3) are fully tax-deductible.


About Jeffrey Escoffier


When Jeffrey Escoffier joined the BISR faculty in 2015, he was already well-established as a trailblazing public intellectual. From editorial perches at Socialist Review and OUT/LOOK magazine, he helped shepherd into print lasting work by such authors as Barbara Ehrenreich, Winona LaDuke, Howard Winant, and Donna Haraway. And in his own capacity as a writer, he published on everything from John Maynard Keynes to the American LGBT movement (American Homo: Community and Perversity (Verso)) to the aesthetics and social significance of pornography (Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography: The Pornographic Object of Knowledge (Rutgers)). At BISR, Jeffrey taught courses on the Sexual Revolution (asking, is sexual liberation possible?), Herbert Marcuse, and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's mammoth Anti-Oedipus. A wonderful scholar, he was also, as so many people can attest, a wonderful person—kind, generous, thoughtful, open.


In honor of Jeffrey, BISR and partner scholars and friends are organizing a course dedicated to amplifying, contextualizing, and closely studying Jeffrey's work on queer sexuality, biopolitics, pornography, dance, and beyond. With your support, we can offer the course at nominal cost, enabling students of all backgrounds to attend, regardless of the ability to pay.

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