Emerging Voices
Each paper was presented on Saturday, November 11th 1995, at the
Emerging Voices conference. Two papers were given at each time.
Speakers may be contacted c/o Jason
Rudy.
- Holly Lewis, University of Pennsylvania
The Sacred Role of the Lesbian Prophet
- Adrian Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art
Odd Men Out: A Critical Inquiry into the Issue of
Obscenity in Robert Mapplethorpe's Gay S/M Images
- Forrest Tyler Stevens, Johns Hopkins
Castleraegh's Suicide: Queer Historiography and the
Irrelevance of Sex Acts
- Katherine Burdette, University of Maryland
The Queer Possibilities of Jane Campion's Cinema
- Jason Rudy, Princeton University
Proust and the Aesthetic of Gay Suffering
- Merrill Cole, University of Washington
Romancing the Family: Queer Theory meets Family
Values
- Gloria Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania
Black Lesbian Existance in Essence Magazine
- Manuel Fernández, University of Southern California
Gender Oppression and Resistance in Honduras
- Adam Feldman, Harvand University
- David Herrell, Louisiana State University
Gender, Sexuality, and Ceremony: The Construction of a
Pan-Tribal Berdache Identity among Native North Americans
- John Klomp, New York University
The Gay Aesthetic in Late Twentieth Century Art
- Margaret Butler, Clark Honors College at the University of
Oregon
The Changing Definition of Lesbian in Popular Lesbian
Fiction
- Jonathan Massey, Princeton University
Little Darlings in the Neverland: Adult Landscapes of
Childhood Sexuality
- David Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
Confronting Homophobia in the Classroom: What Educators
Can Do
- Dennis Denisoff, Princeton University
Intra-Marginal Dynamics: The Orient, the Female, and
Self-Identification in the Work of Mikhail Kuzmin
- Brad Usher, the New School for Social Research in NYC
The U.S. State and the Construction of Homosexuality,
1940-1969
- Caitlin Shaw, Princeton University
Renée Vivien: The Love That Need Not Speak Its
Name
- Kristofer Peterson, Whitman College
Queer Theory: Cultural Context
- Margaret Vendryes, Princeton University
Under Cover of Darkness: The Black Male Nude Under the
Gay Gaze
- Richard Juang, Stanford University
Transgendering Desire, Transgendering Legacies:
Revisiting Inversion, Havelock Ellis, and Radclyffe Hall
- Vihn Quoc Nguyen, Harvard University
Dynamics of Displacement in Representations of Male
Homosexual Desire in Modern Vietnamese Literature
- Alexine Fleck, University of Pennsylvania
I Know You Are But What Am I? Queer Themes and
Representation in Young Adult Literature
The following papers were scheduled to be presented but were cancelled
at the last minute:
- Tod Edgerton, University of New York at Buffalo
Heterosexed Body-Spaces; or, This Sexuality Which Is Not One:
Irigaray's Ethics of Sexual Difference
- Sidney Matrix, Syracuse University
Lesbian Read(h)er Write: Notes Toward a Personalist Politics of
Lesbian Reading

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