Ingrid Diran, Lecturer in English, DAAS, and PitE, University of Michigan
Sarah Ensor, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature and Environment, University of Michigan
Heather Love, Associate Professor of English, Universit of Pennsylvania
Marcia Ochoa, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.
2:00 p.m. rountable: Queer Temporalities, Histories, Futures, with Ingrid Diran, Sarah Ensor, Heather Love, Marcia Ochoa
3:30 p.m. grad panel: Neoliberal Affects: Regret, Pleasure, and Altruism
5:00 p.m. keynote: Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania) “Underdogs: On the Deviance Studies Roots of Queer Theory” in Angell Hall 3154
Supported by: Rackham Graduate School, Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI), Critical Contemporary Studies, and U-M Departments of Anthropology, English, History, History of Art, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s Studies.
