Adam J. Greteman

Chair and Associate Professor, Art Education

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Adam J. Greteman has been teaching at SAIC since 2011, became Full-Time 2017. He took his sabbatical during the AY2022–23.

Adam J. Greteman is an associate professor of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work addresses the ethical and political challenges and possibilities that emerge as genders and sexualities are centralized in pedagogical and philosophical thought. He is the co-founder with Karen Morris and Todd Williams of the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project. His work has been published in various journals including Educational Theory, Journal of Philosophy and Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Studies in Art Education, and QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. He is the author of Queers Teach This!: Queer and Trans Pleasures, Politics, and Pedagogues (2024) and Sexualities and Genders in Education: Toward Queer Thriving (2018) and the coauthor with Dr. Kevin Burke (University of Georgia) of On Liking the Other: Queer Subjects and Religious Discourses (2021) and The Pedagogies and Politics of Liking (2017).

Education

PhD, 2011, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
BA, 2006, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

Notable Classes Taught:

Generating Queers: The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project – 3 years
Regenerating Queers: The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Project Studio – 1 year
Becoming Human: Evolving Conceptions of Human Development – 4 years
Curriculum Theory, Pedagogy, and Possibilities – 3 years

More info:

Open Access Version of Queers Teach This!

Sabbatical Reflection

I took my first sabbatical during the 2022-2023 academic year. During my sabbatical I had a number of international opportunities that expanded my scholarly networks and deepened my scholarship on LGBTQ+ issues in education. During the fall semester of 2022, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Iceland Reykjavík where I spent six weeks doing research on my book Queers Teach This! and exploring Iceland. In the spring of 2023, I was a Hunt-Simes Fellow in Sexuality Studies and Junior Chair of the Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies (HISS) at the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC) at the University of Sydney. I spent two months in Sydney, starting my time there as one of the inaugural faculty members of HISS, an experimental queer school that took place during World Pride 2023. While a fellow, I worked with a number of Sydney based scholars and continued to conduct research for my book Queers Teach This! Finally, I had the Krems Residency in Krems, Austria. This residency gave me five weeks to complete a draft of my book as well as begin conducting an oral history project on elder LGBTQ+ friends. Throughout all of these travels and professional opportunities, I continued to support and engage in the ongoing work of The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project which was in its 4th year and concluded with our first public art exhibition Iridescent Footprints at the Center on Addison, the project’s community partner. The opportunities I had during my sabbatical continue to influence my work, increase my scholarly reach, and have opened up new collaborations with scholars across the globe. Since my sabbatical, I was invited to return as Chair of the Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies in 2024 and 2025. The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project received a Spencer Foundation Large Research Grant that subsequently funded the project’s 5th and 6th years. And my book Queers Teach This! was published open-access by Bloomsbury press in the Fall 2024. I found the time and opportunities that emerged from my sabbatical to breathe new energy not only into my scholarship but also my teaching practice. I think my sabbatical provided me with space and time to reconnect with my scholarship and explore ways of teaching in conversation with colleagues across disciplines and the world. While the year flew by, the relationships that emerged from that year have continued to develop and thrive.