THIRD ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT
CONFERENCE ON SEXUALITY AND GENDER
SATURDAY
OCTOBER 27, 2001
8:45 am – 6:30 pm
306 ROYCE HALL
UCLA
(building 21 on the campus map)
UCLA Campus
Registration @ 8:30 am
Panels from 9:00 am – 6:45 pm
Reception 7 pm – 9 pm
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The conference is open to the public free of charge. We do, however, ask that you sign in when you arrive at 306 Royce
PARKING INFORMATION
There will be some parking available for conference participants/guests in Parking Structure 5 at a cost of $6 per day. Go to the parking kiosk at Hilgard Avenue & Wyton, say that you are attending the Qgrad Conference in Royce Hall & want to park in Lot 5.
Additional parking is also available in Parking Structure 2 (a little farther from Royce) or Parking Structure 4 (you have to walk up a steep hill, with stairs to reach Royce) at a cost of $6 per day.
Co-Sponsored by
The Office of the Provost
The Graduate Division
The Division of the Humanities
International Studies and Overseas Programs
The Center for the Study of Women
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Campus Resource Center
and The Departments of:
Applied Linguistics, Economics, English, French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, History, Musicology, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese, and Writing Programs
PROGRAM
8:45-9:00 WELCOME
9:00-10:30 SESSION ONE
QUEER LEARNING
ROYCE 148
MODERATOR: Peter McLaren, UCLA, Education
John Palladino, University of Nebraska, Education
“Understanding the High School Experiences of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth”
Brian C. Lewis, Michigan State University, English (Critical Studies in the Teaching of English)
“A Comparative Study of Reading Experiences of LGBT and Heterosexual Students in the First-Year Composition and Literature Classrooms”
NINETEENTH CENTURY WRITING
ROYCE 156
MODERATOR: Christopher Looby, UCLA, English
Michael K. Borgstrom, UC Davis, English
“Crisis and Confession: Subversive Sexuality in The Blithedale Romance”
Michelle Ann Abate, CUNY, Graduate Center
“Topsy and a Topsy-Turvy Tomboy: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women”
Helena Gurfinkel, Tufts, English
“Walter Pater’s Subversive Science: Queering Darwin in The Renaissance”
SELLING QUEER
ROYCE 150
MODERATOR: Robert Hennig, UCLA, Political Science
Dereka Rushbrook, University of Arizona, Geography
“Queer Space and the Cosmopolitan Tourist”
Owen L. Pillion, University of Missouri-Columbia, Communication
“Behind Closed Doors: Escaping into the Home and the Queering of ‘Lifestyle’ Television”
TRANSGENDERINGS
ROYCE 314
MODERATOR: Jacob Hale, California State University, Northridge, Philosophy
S. Masen Davis, UCLA, Social Welfare
“Learning Gender: Bicultural Gender Socialization in Female-To-Male Transsexuals”
Meredith H. Trauner, University of Arizona, Women’s Studies
“‘What Do You Want? I Can Get It!’: Transgender Technologies”
Kate Drabinski, UC Berkeley, Rhetoric
“The Place of Ideology in All She Wanted”
10:45-12:15 SESSION TWO
POSTCOLONIAL / TRANSNATIONAL
ROYCE 150
MODERATOR: Richard T. Rodriguez, California State University, Los Angeles, Chicano Studies
Nishant Shahani, Univeristy of Florida, English
“Interrogating Compulsory Nationality (=) Heterosexuality: Towards a ‘Postcolonial’ ‘Queer’ Methodology”
Luis I. García, George Washington University, Clinical Psychology
“Acculturation and Sexual Orientation: Disclosure in Latinos of Puerto Rican and Mexican/Chicano Descent Living in the U.S.”
Juan Pedro Pereira Marsiaj, University of Toronto, Political Science
“‘I Can’t Afford to Be Queer!’: Dependent Development, Socioeconomic Inequalities, and Sexual Orientation Movements in Latin America”
PREMODERN/MODERN/POSTMODERN
ROYCE 148
MODERATOR: Trish Loughran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, English
Michael A. Almony, Cleveland State University, English
“Orifices of Sin: Medieval and Postmodern Discourses on Sodomy and Laughter in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose”
Brooke Cameron, Trent University, Methodologies for the Study of Western History and Culture
“Inverted Margins in The Well of Loneliness”
Chelsea Ray, UCLA, Comparative Literature
“Sapphic Modernism: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Pensées and the Fragmented Nature of Gender and Desire”
QUEER HISTORIES
ROYCE 314
MODERATOR: Alice Echols, UCLA, LGBTS & Women’s Studies
Matthew D. Johnson, University of Michigan, Anthropology and History
“Gay History: Who’s Got It – Who Needs It”
Catherine A. Pomerleau, University of Arizona, History
“Women-Identified Women Bringing a Lesbian Nation Home: Anti-Sexism Work and Sexual Identity in Califia Community”
Craig Loftin, USC, History
“Acceptable Mannerisms: Constructing a Gay Minority in the Age of McCarthy”
RACE / WRITING / THEORY
ROYCE 156
MODERATOR: Arthur Little, UCLA, English
Paige Sweet, NYU, John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Program
Emily Thuma, NYU, History
“Queering Whiteness”
Dorothy Stringer, SUNY, Albany, English
“Love, Guilt, and the Refusal of Reparation in Nella Larsen’s Passing”
Courtney D. Johnson, UCLA, English
“Sisters in Struggle: Black Lesbian Writers’ Poetic Activism and the Black Arts Movement”
12:15-1:45 LUNCH
ROYCE 306
1:45-3:15 SESSION THREE
PERFORMING ONESELF
ROYCE 314
MODERATOR: Richard Meyer, University of Southern California, Art History
Nicholas de Villiers, University of Minnesota, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
“‘What Do You Have to Say for Yourself?’: Warhol’s Opacity”
Liberty Smith, UC San Diego, Literature
“Strategies for the Unmerciful Kamikaze Queer: Confessional Subjection and Resistance in Edwin Sánchez’s Plays”
Peter Carpenter, UCLA, World Arts & Cultures
“Still a Boy, Both of Us”
POP CULTURAL APPROPRIATIONS
ROYCE 156
MODERATOR: Andrew Hewitt, UCLA, Germanic Languages
Shih Kuao Chang, UC Berkeley, English
“Internalizing the Black Diva: Gay Asian Male Subjectivities and the Visual Pleasure of Desire”
Kimberly Robertson, University of Michigan, American Culture
“‘Dancing’ Disco into the Heterosexual Heart of White America: John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever”
Erik Leidal, UCLA, Musicology
“‘Because I Have Loved So Deeply’: Mapping the Interior Through Late 1950s Sentimental Jazz/Pop Ballads”
PRECOLONIAL AND COLONIAL SEXUALITIES
ROYCE 150
MODERATOR: Alicia Gaspar de Alba, UCLA, Chicana/o Studies
Walter D. Penrose, Jr., CUNY Graduate Center, History
“A Thousand Words the Picture Doesn’t Tell: The Gendered Iconography of Woman-to-Woman Homoeroticism in a Seventeenth-Century South Asian Illustration”
Gabriel S. Estrada, University of Arizona, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies
“Imprisoning Indians/Indios in the Celluloid Closet: An Epistemological Critique”
José Guillermo de los Reyes-Heredia, University of Pennsylvania, Folklore and Folklife
“Sodomy and Performance: Issues of Sexuality, Gender, Class, and Culture in Colonial Mexico”
LESBIANS AND ….
ROYCE 148
MODERATOR: Christine Littleton, UCLA, Law & Women’s Studies
Amy DeLorenzo, Claremont Graduate University, Religious Studies
“Hearing Bodies, Queering Bodies: Thoughts on Sign Language, Dildos, and Penetration”
Emily Crandall, University of Michigan, English and Women’s Studies
“Stand Bi Your Woman: Rethinking the (Theoretical) Divide Between Lesbians and Bisexual Women”
3:30-5:00 SESSION FOUR
CANONS OF SPECTATORSHIP
ROYCE 150
MODERATOR: Kathleen McHugh, University of California Riverside, Comparative Literature & Film
Jon Lupo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Communication
“Loaded Canon: The GLAAD ‘Absolut Best’ Lesbian and Gay Films of the 20th Century Poll and the (Im)Possibility of a Queer Film Canon”
John Talbird, University of Nebraska, English
“Complicating Culture: Queering Die Hard”
Jeff Solomon, USC, English
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Who is Hailed and What’s at Stake?”
COMMUNITIES
ROYCE 156
MODERATOR: Judith Stacey, University of Southern California, Sociology & Gender Studies
Alain Dang, UCLA, Urban Planning
“‘You’ve Got Male!’: Community Formation Through Online Dating Among Queer API Men”
Marlon M. Bailey, UC Berkeley, African American Studies
“Places We Call Home, People We Call Family: Examining Black Queer Performance of Kinship”
Sébastien Chauvin, Department of Social Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
“Drag Culture, Oakland’s Black Gay Houses, and American Multiculturalism
EXPLORING DESIRE THROUGH THE BODY
ROYCE 314
MODERATOR: David Román, University of Southern California, English
Lara J. Descartes, University of Michigan, Anthropology
“Body as Research Site, Desire as Research Tool: Exploring Gender and Sexuality”
Héctor Carbajal, University of Texas, El Paso, History
“Toward Race(ing) and (Homo)Sexuality in Desire; Queer(ing) Chicano Male Desire in Luis Alfaro’s ‘Angel Baby'”
Jack Kirven, UCLA, World Arts and Cultures
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5:15-6:30 SESSION FIVE
FACULTY SCHOLARS PANEL
ROYCE 314
“Out to Reviewers: How to Get Your Work Published in a Scholarly Journal”
Sandra Harding, co-editor, Signs
Chon Noriega, editor, Aztlán
David Román, editor, Theatre Journal
7:00 – 9:00 CLOSING RECEPTION
ROYCE 306
The UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program
251A Kinsey Hall
Box 951384
Los Angeles CA 90095-1384
(310) 206-0516
lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu” > lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu
Director: James A. Schultz
LGBT Studies Program Coordinator: Tamara Ho
Faculty Advisory Committee
Susan D. Cochran, Chair
Eric Avila
Karen Brodkin
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
David Gere
Sandra Harding
John Horton
Sheila Kuehl
Arthur L. Little
Christine Littleton
Mitchell Morris
David Rodes
William Rubenstein
Ronni Sanlo
James A. Schultz
Curt Sheppard