InterSEXions

Friday, April 13, 2012
4:45-8:45 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Kevin Ohi
Respondent: Kristen Imre

Literature has always been a powerful medium for defining—and challenging the definitions of—individual and cultural identities. Our Spring 2012 Colloquium will focus on literary explorations of sex, gender, sexuality, corporeal denotation, orientation, and lifestyle. How do literary works of the past and the present contribute to the discourse of sex and gender? What critical or imaginative work can the metaphorical constructs of sex, gender, and related issues perform? How does this work interact with or complicate lived experience?

Call for Papers

We encourage submission of 5–7 page papers for a 12–15 minute presentation. Possible paper topics include but are not limited to:

• Representations of femininity and masculinity in literature of various periods
• Gender in relationship to politics or popular culture
• Gender roles
• Matriarchy/Patriarchy
• Performativity of gender
• Androgyny
• Gender and race
• Gender and nationality
• Feminism(s)
• Masculinity Studies
• Queer Theory
• Adultery/Bigamy
• Desire & Sexuality
• Pornography
• Bodies

Full papers must be submitted by Monday, March 26, 2012 for consideration in the Colloquium program. Please e-mail all questions and submissions to colloq@bc.edu.

Get Involved

We need help! Help us design flyers, market the event, or read submissions. Don't have time? Help us with set-up or tear-down on the day of the event. Contact colloq@bc.edu.

Don't forget to submit your paper by Monday, March 26. Email all submissions to colloq@bc.edu.