GOTH is pleased to share details of an upcoming online conference that may be of interest to members. More information, including abstracts for all papers, can be found at the conference website.
TRANS/QUEER GENDER AND NARRATIVE FORM
15TH, 22ND AND 29TH APRIL 2021
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
SUSAN LANSER, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, US
TRISH SALAH, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, CAN
Since the first interventions in feminist narratology in the 1980s, the importance of gender as a contextual aspect of cultural productions has been firmly established in the study of narrative form. The interpretation of formal features such as narrative voice, poetic structure, temporality, genre and medium is inevitably influenced by the gender of those who produce, experience or are represented by texts. At the same time, queer and trans studies have established methodologies for approaching embodiment, ethics, social structures and cultural politics. This symposium brings together scholars working at the intersection of form and queer/trans gender in order to foster new approaches to the relationship between embodied identities and texts.
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Conference Organiser: Chiara Pellegrini
@chiarapg4 | c.pellegrini2@newcastle.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 15th April 2021, 3pm-5pm BST (GMT+1)
Writing/Reading/Playing Narratives of Trans Embodiment
Cody Mejeur, University at Buffalo
Tristessa de St Ange: A Character Study in TERF Light
Nemo Gorecki, Université de Lille SHS
Mad about the “Boys”? Passing and (Mis)recognition in Varro’s Eumenides
Chris Mowat, Sheffield University/Newcastle University
‘The Monopoliser of Her Own Sex’: Queering Methodism in The Female Husband
Grainne O’Hare, Newcastle University
Keynote:
Narrating Trans Genres: Ordinary Time Travel and Autobiographical Science Fictions
Trish Salah, Queen’s University (CA)
Thursday, 22nd April 2021, 3pm-5pm BST (GMT+1)
Trans Touches Across Time and Text: Confessions of the Fox
Gil Mozer, Mesa Community College
Trans Forms: Gender-variant Subjectivity and First-person Narration
Chiara Pellegrini, Newcastle University
From Male Impersonator to Drag King Performer: A Palimpsestuous Reading of Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet
Elsa Adán Hernández, University of Zaragoza
Asking Queer Questions about Narrative Coherence and Identity: How to Read ‘What She Knew’?
Joonas Säntti, University of Jyväskylä
Keynote:
Trans-forming Narratology
Susan Lanser, Brandeis University
Thursday, 29th April 2021, 3pm-5pm BST (GMT+1)
Narrating Queer Subjectivity in 1830s Russia: Nadezhda Durova’s A Year in St Petersburg (1838)
Margarita Vaysman, University of St Andrews
Duchess Achilles: Trans Narratives in James Thornhill’s Achilles on Scyros
Aimee Hinds, University of Roehampton
When Literary Studies meet Trans/Gender Studies: Working with German Autobiographies Written by Trans People using Queer Theory and Narratology
Sandy Kathy Artuso, LEQGF – Laboratoire d’Études Queer, sur le Genre et les Féminismes
Untimely Subjectivities: Queer/Diasporic Temporality in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other
Carolina Sánchez-Palencia, University of Seville (Spain)
‘My Male Skin’: (Self-)Narratives of Transmasculinities in Fanfiction
Jonathan A. Rose, University of Passau
Conclusion of Symposium:
Breakout Rooms Discussion