REPRODUCTION

Abby Goode, Rice University, Melville’s Reproductive Waste

Benjamin Bagocius, Indiana University, Semen Unsexed: Darwin’s Queer Pangenesis

Mica Hilson Ph.D., Indiana University, Cuckoos of the World, Unite!

Megan Fernandes, University of California Santa Barbara, Transgenic Poetics

POLITICS

renée c. hoogland Ph.D., Wayne State University, Becoming Queer/Queer Becoming: Art, Affect, and the Dissolution of Being (Human)

Kendall Gerdes, University of Texas Austin, Butch(er)ing Subjectivity: Between Masculinity and Misogyny

Mary Bunch Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, A (Post) Queer Politics of the People-to-Come

POWER

John W. Ellis-Etchison, Rice University, Charles Butler’s Apiary Femtopia: Towards a Poetics of Posthuman Sovereignty

Larry Butz, Rice University, Power, Agency, and the Posthumanist Interjection

Sophia Hsu, Rice University, Moving On: National Inheritance and the Displaced Child in Bleak House

NON-HUMAN TESTIMONY

Peter Cibula, Georgetown University, ‘No Fitter Match than a Puppet’: Unmarked Non-Humans in Early Modern England

Amanda Davis, University of Chicago, Sci-Fi Queered

Svitlana Matviyenko Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, The Castle in Ruins: Nonhuman Tesitmonies

TIME

Matthew Halse, University of Western Ontario, On ‘Ephemeral Shards’: Generational Memory and the AIDS Memorial

Sarah Giragosian, SUNY Albany, Queer Temporalities and Anachronistic Creatures in Djuna Barnes’ Poetics

METHOD

Megan Obourn Ph.D., SUNY Brockport, Do Not Create a Hunger: Vapirism as Social Disability in Gomez’s The Gilda Stories 

Annalisa Adams, Georgetown University, Transpectrality: A Post-Queer Ghost Story

Shawna Lipton, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Queer Theory and the Modernist Author

STYLE

Scott St. Pierre Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, Not Intended for Small Boys: Henry James’s Queer Stylistics

Hillary La Mont, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, The Existence of Dualistic Absurdism:  Presented by Albert Camus and Generatively Absented by Edward Albee

Christian Hite Ph.D., California Institute of the Arts, After the Shat in Shattering: Endnotes on The Expelled (Beckett+Bersani)

SPECIES

Robert Azzarello Ph.D., Southern University at New Orleans, Desiring Species: Darwin, Freud, and Environmental Ethics

Marcel LaFlamme, Rice University, Furry/Hairy Life

Michelle Siobhan O’Brien, University of British Columbia, Architectures of Life in Asian North American Texts: Convergences of Racial Bodies, Alternate Sexualities, and the Nonhuman 

Dolleen Manning, University of Western Ontario, Queering Settler Spectacles: An Indigenous Critique of Post-(De)humanism

MILIEU

Diane Belzil, McGill University, ‘Broken flesh with one another’: Uncovering the Ecstatic Self in Mina Loy’s Poetry

Sydney Boyd, Rice University, Opera: The old Magician, The Rattlesnake of Death

Heather Houser Ph.D., University of Texas Austin, The Discordant Natures of David Wojnarowicz Jan Zita Grover

MEDIA

Jordan Youngblood, University of Florida, ‘You Needen’t Suffer Anymore’: Persona 4, the Digital Body, and Impossible Queer Utopias

Hannele Kivenen, York University, Re-coding Desire in the Digitization of Bodies: Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook

Dan Adleman, University of British Columbia, Seduction and Mastery: The UFC as Jouis-sens Event

ROUNDTABLE

Judith Roof Ph.D., Rice University

Colleen Lamos Ph.D., Rice University

James Faubion Ph.D., Rice University

Timothy Morton Ph.D., Rice University

Joseph Campana Ph.D., Rice University

renée c. hoogland Ph.D., Wayne State University

PERFORMANCE

Philomena Bradford and Aaren Pastor, Bonnes, Rice University, “A selection from Genet’s The Maids”

ART

Sara Griffin, “Real Love is When You Feel Soft All Over: A Children’s Book For Adults”