Friday April 17, 2009
Riggs Alumni Center and McKeldin Library, University of Maryland

9:30 - 10:00 AM
Registration and Welcome
Riggs Alumni Center

quickanddirty V: A Graduate Queer Studies Symposium
Presentations by graduate students from American University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and University of Maryland

10:00 – 11:15 AM
Concurrent Graduate Symposium Sessions

» Speaking Truth to Power: Lesbian Performances, Politics, and Production
Chaney Library

Moderator: Marilee Lindemann, University of Maryland, English

» Unpacking Pat Parker: Radical Black Queer Feminist Poetics in “Movement in Black”
Amy L. Washburn, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

» Lesbian Poetry: Textuality, Intertextuality, and Materiality
Julie R. Enszer, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

» Latina Lesbians Speak Out About Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
Maria Vargas, University of Maryland, American Studies

» Deviant at the Core: Reading Queerness in Iconic Texts
AAI Conference Room

Moderator: Michele Mason, University of Maryland, Asian and East European Languages and Cultures

» “I Go Naked as a Beast”: Deviant Sexuality and Heteronormativity in Marie de France’s Bisclavret
Caroline Sidman, Georgetown University, English

» The “Secret Inside” All’s Well that Ends Well
Melissa Yinger, American University, Literature

» Transatlantic Sex: Symonds and Carpenter in Whitman’s America
James Goodwin, University of Maryland, English

11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Concurrent Graduate Symposium Sessions

» Heteronormativity: Seductions and Subversions
Chaney Library

Moderator: JV Sapinoso, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

» Testing Our Powers of Deduction: Queer Theories, Marriage, and the Internal Revenue Code
Mary Elizabeth Bazemore, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

» Resisting the Marriage Mandate: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Elegy, and Tentative Queer Alternatives
Reed Cooley, George Washington University, English

» Arabfaces and Skeletal Moves
Maria Velazquez, University of Maryland, American Studies

» Paranoia, Trauma, and Laughter: Combating Queer Invisibility in the 1960s and 1970s
AAI Conference Room

Moderator: Jason Rudy, University of Maryland, English

» Cold War, Warm Fire: Homosexual (In)visibility in Nabokov’s Pale Fire
Lisa Chinn, Georgetown University, English

» The Constant Throw: Queering Trauma in Rechy’s City of Night
Yee-Hang Tam, Georgetown University, English

» Queering Citizenship Through Laughter and Law
Rebecca Krefting, University of Maryland, American Studies

1:00 – 2:15 PM
Lunch on own (Within walking distance of the Riggs Alumni Center, Stamp Student Union has a food court on the ground floor and Adele’s, a seated restaurant, on the first floor. The Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland, University College, has the Garden Restaurant and the Mt. Clare Café.)

2:30 – 4 PM
Queer Writers Read
McKeldin Library 6137, Special Events Room

» Regie Cabico, Reginald Harris, Richard McCann

4:30 – 6:30 PM
Keynote Address and Reception
McKeldin Library 6137, Special Events Room

» Queer Negativities
   Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California, English/Gender Studies

Saturday April 18, 2009
Benjamin Banneker Room, Adele H. Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland (Seating for Saturday events is limited so preregistration is required. Contact lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu for information).

9:30 - 10:00 AM
Registration and Coffee

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Faculty Paper Session: Queer Pasts

Moderator: William A. Cohen, University of Maryland, English

» Falstaff's Fairies: Queer Ravishment in Shakespeare's Windsor
   Holly Dugan, George Washington University, English

» History as Quick Cash: The Female Husband and the Pregnant Man   Mandy Berry, American University, Literature

» What It Feels Like for a Grrrl: Susan and Emily Dickinson
   Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland, English

» “Where’s That Partner of Mine?”: Ethel Waters and the    Management of Black Queer Desire
   Samantha Pinto, Georgetown University, English

12:00 – 1:00 PM
Buffet Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 PM

Faculty Paper Session: Constructing Queer Knowledges

Moderator: Ricardo Ortíz, Georgetown University, English

» Period Cramps
   Madhavi Menon, American University, Literature

» My Love for Hip-Hop Is In Its Queerness
   Jeffrey McCune, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies and American Studies

» Queer Transdisciplinarities
   Katie King, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

2:30 – 3:00 PM
Break

3:00 – 5:00 PM
Faculty Paper Session: Sex, Sexuality, Politics

Moderator: TBA

» Creating Kenyan Intimacies
   Keguro Macharia, University of Maryland, English

» Men Get Lean and Mean, Women De-Clutter: Weight Loss,    Heteronormative Temporality, and the Thin Contract
   Abby Wilkerson, George Washington University, University Writing Program

» LAUREL: The Irony of Lesbian Identity?
   Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland, American Studies and LGBT Studies

» Left Melodrama
   Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University, American Studies

7:00 – 10 PM
Reception and Dinner

(Off campus.)