
Plain-text 2023 Program
All times shown are Central Standard Time (UTC -6).
Friday, March 3rd
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Introduction and Opening Remarks with Dr. Antoinette Burton
Panel 1: Examining Gender Variance Through Biography
11:15 AM – 11:40 AM | Daniella Posy, Yale University – Performing Heteronormativity: Gladys Bentley and the Social Construction of Sexuality and Gender in Early to Mid-20th Century Periodicals
11:40 AM – 12:05 PM | Cassandra Euphrat Weston, University of Michigan – “A Crank on Socialism” with an “Ekht-Mansbilshe Kop”: Gender Variance, Jewishness, and Dr. Samuel Ackerman
12:05 PM – 12:40 PM | Mix Mann, University of Michigan – Addie and Rebecca: Notes on Black Women’s Love in the Face of Precarity
12:40 PM – 1:00 PM | Questions
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM | Short Break
Panel 2: Gender and Class
1:20 PM – 1:45 PM | Mischa Wolfinger, University of Maryland – “Your magazine interests me very much,” : Transvestia Magazine and Middle-Class Trans-Community Building
1:45 PM – 2:10 PM | Lance Pederson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – The Exceptional Position of Monsieur: Philippe d’Orléans in his Brother’s France
2:10 PM – 2:35 PM | Julie Haltom, California State University, Long Beach – Crossing the Prairie in Ribbons and Bows: Women and the Contradictions of Gender on the Frontier
2:35 PM – 3:00 PM | Questions
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Short Break
Keynote Address
3:20 PM – 4:30 PM | Dr. Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Trans Studies for Grim Times
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Reception and Meet & Greet – Join us for hors d’oeuvres and an informal meet-and-greet with our keynote speakers
Saturday, March 4th
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Opening Remarks
Panel 3: Constructing Gender Through Medicine
11:15 AM – 11:40 AM | Megan McGraw, University of Connecticut –The Threat of Deviancy: Medical Discourses on Queer Men in Post-Risorgimento Italy, 1858-1910
11:40 AM – 12:05 PM | Laurel Darling, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – “The Same Misfortune Had Happened to Her Several Times Before”: Infertility and Pregnancy Loss in Eighteenth-Century Britain
12:05 PM – 12:40 PM | Christopher M. Rudeen, Harvard University – The Case of Mr. S.: Transvestism between Medicine and Fashion
12:40 PM – 1:00 PM | Questions
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM | Short Break
Panel 4: Contemporary Histories of Gender
1:20 PM – 1:45 PM | Soraya Cipolla, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Gender-Neutral Language, Queer Identities & Monstrosity Tropes in Italian Culture and Literature: the case of Jonathan Bazzi
1:45 PM – 2:10 PM | Muhammad Yousuf, University of California San Diego – Muslim Masculinities, Inclusion, and the Work of Patriarchal Violence in ‘the West’
2:10 PM – 2:35 PM | Emily Lauletta, Claremont Graduate University – “Deceptacon” to Cyborg: Exploring the Digital Transformation of the Riot Grrrl Movement
2:35 PM – 3:00 PM | Questions
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Short Break
Keynote Address
3:20 PM – 4:30 PM | Dr. Clare Sears, San Francisco State University – Dress and Defiance: Policing Gender from Cross-Dressing Laws to Drag Show Bans
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Reception and Meet & Greet – Join us for hors d’oeuvres, light drinks, and an informal meet-and-greet with our keynote speakers