Andrzej Brylak
University of Illinois at Chicago
“I, on the verge of non-existence and being: Biopolitics of Piotruś by Leo Lipski”
Davide Cerfeda
University of Melbourne
“Gender Representation in Report to an Academy and its adaptation”
Adrian Chubb
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Whose truth is it anyway? Images of memory and identity in Benjamin Stein’s Die Leinwand (The Canvas)”
Shemuelle Dado
University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Revealing Joke in Kleist’s Prinz Friedrich von Homburg“
Luisa Koo
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Otherization in Photogénie: The Beauty of Savage Sessue Hayakawa in The Cheat
(1915)”
Wentao Ma
Columbia University
“Practicing Sino-biopolitics: Modern Chinese Calisthenics as Physical Redemption and Re-mediation”
Sarah Miller
University of Illinois at Chicago
"The Encoded Echoes of War: Goethe’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten"
Anne von Petersdorff
Michigan State University
“Re-Framing the Woman Traveler through Feminist Cinematography”
Lucas Plazek
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Artistic Realism and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Model of Social Change in Russian Critical Realism and Socialist Realism”
Jill Quarles
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Marriage as material existence: Rethinking Ideology and Gender within the Early Modern Critical Cannon”
Sara Rezvi
University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Veiled Body: A Monologue on Muslim-American Double Consciousness”
Edith Ritt-Coulter
University of Central Oklahoma
“Pursuing Manhood: African American Soldiers in the First World War and the
Rise of the New Negro movement”
Sarah Schaefer
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Hybrid Bodies: Challenging Social Constructs of Sex and Gender in The Marriage of Figaro and The Persian Letters”
Rebecca Stewart
California State University, Long Beach
“The Female Body as an Instrument of Freeing the Nation in Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s Bianca Della Porta”
Anton Svynarenko
University of Illinois at Chicago
“From Apple Cake to Apple Pie: Transcultural Adolescence in David Bezmozgis’ Natasha and Other Stories”
Mariola Szumilas
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Between Vulnerability and Inviolability: The Employee Working Cultures in the Literature and Film of the Weimar Republic and Present-day Germany”
Fredrika Thelandersson
Rutgers University
“Virtual Negative Affects: Social Media Sad Girls and the Normalization of Sad States of Being”
Simon Whybrew
University of Graz
“’Why were there only two choices, man and woman?’ Non-Binary Identity Politics in Maureen F. McHugh's Mission Child”
Luiza Zanchi
University of Illinois at Chicago
"The Transgressive Star: Deciphering Desire in Lispector’s A Hora da Estrela”