Sunday, March 23

Welcome from Micah Goodrich, Boston University (12:30)

Session 1 (1:00-2:15)

• Sawyer Kemp, Assistant Professor, Queen’s College CUNY - “To Roll with Pleasure in a Sensual Sty;” Or, Some People Are Into That: On Trans Sexuality and Milton’s Comus”

• Ky Merkley, Postgraduate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - “How To Be (Or Not To Be) a Man in Greco-Roman Literature: Leveraging the Gap between Embodiment and Gender Identity to Establish Normative Identities”

• Tatiana Avesani, PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University - “Dante’s Trans(lation) of Orpheus”

Coffee/Tea Break (2:15-3:00)

Session 2 (3:00-4:15)

• Neah Lekan, PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University - “No Occasion for Men:” Toryism & Transvestigation in The Convent of Pleasure

• Phoebe Pan, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University - “Trans Genres & Poetic Metempsychosis”

• Colby Gordon, Associate Professor, Bryn Mawr College - “Like; Or, Donne’s Autogynephiliac Sappho”

Happy Hour at Time Out Market (5PM)

All presenters, participants, volunteers invited!

15 minute walk from HTC

Monday, March 24

Session 3 (9:00-10:15)

• Jordan Chauncy, PhD Student, Cornell University - “Amis, Amiloun, and the “Hool” Man”

• Alice Fulmer, PhD Candidate, University of California Santa Barbara - “Who’s Afraid of Eunuchs?: Trans/crip Epistemologies of Chaucer’s Pardoner”

• Micah Goodrich, Assistant Professor, Boston University - “He/Him/Hole: The Pardoner, Again”

Session 4 (10:30-11:45)

• C. Libby, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University - “Reimagining Gender: Trans Sacrality, the Medieval Imagination, and the Proliferation of Identity”

• Kris Trujillo, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago - “From Mystical Queer to Trans Mysticism”

• Jamie Taylor, Bryn Mawr College - “Thigh Master:  Polemical Erotics in the Toledot Yeshu”

Lunch for Presenters (11:45-1:00)

Session 5 (1:00-2:15)

• Blake Gutt, Assistant Professor, University of Utah - “Medieval Trans Pessimism with Tiresias”

• Erik Wade, Assistant Professor, SUNY Oswego - “There’s a Monster at the Beginning of This Book: Trans Possibilities in the Liber Monstrorum and the Canterbury School of Hadrian and Theodore

• Caz Batten, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania - “Unmaking Men: Gender Transformation in the Medieval North”

Coffee/Tea Break (2:15-3:00)

Session 6 (3:00-4:15)

• Sarah LaVoy-Brunette (White Earth Ojibwe), PhD Candidate, Cornell University - “Queerying Settler Schematics”

• Danielle Allor, Visiting Assistant Professor, Haverford College - ““There is no sex in plants”: medieval botany and agender withdrawal”

• Aylin Malcolm, Assistant Professor, University of Guelph - “From Skin to Graft: Climate, Whiteness, and Transition in Silence”

Dinner for Presenters (6PM)

Tuesday, March 25

Session 7 (9:00-10:15)

• Basil Arnold Price, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles - “Broken Trans*masculinities: On Trans*negativity, Maiden-Kings, and Old Norse Studies”

• Tess Wingard, Postdoctoral Scholar, Trinity College Dublin - “Tranimalising the Dominicans: animality and sex in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Bonum universale de apibus (c.1259)”

• Nat Rivkin, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania - ““Nevermore a manly shape retaine”: Francis Beaumont’s Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, Fairness, and Trans Femininity c. 1602”

Session 8 (10:30-11:45)

• Jacob Romm, PhD Candidate, Yale University - “Transvestigating Johannes Pfefferkorn: Reading the Convert's Body in Early Modern Europe”

• Niyanta Sangal, PhD Student, University of Maryland - “Exploring Gender Variance in the Early Modern Mughal Manuscript of the Hamzanama”

• Simone Chess, Associate Professor, Wayne State University - “Marlowe’s Sissies and Trans Archives”

Lunch for Presenters (11:45-1:00)

Session 9 (1:00-2:15)

• Kersti Francis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University - “Intersex Natures in Le Roman de Silence”

• Johanna Alden, PhD Candidate, Boston College - “My People Would Not Recognize Me”: The Abbot of Druimenaig, Social Relations, and Discursively-Constructed Genders”

• Stephanie Burt, Professor, Harvard University - “George Herbert's Body, or, Lyric Against Sexology”

Coffee/Tea Break (2:15-3:00)

Session 10 (3:00-4:15)

• James Mulder, Lecturer, Bentley University - “‘My mind’s distempered and my body’s numbed’: Marlovian Dysphoria”

• Nick Winters, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University - “The Many-Gendered Cosmos: A Trans Account of Ancient Astrology” 

• Esteban Crespo-Jaramillo, Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston University - “Archipelagic Poiesis for Gender Utopias'“