Transgender Embodiment: 1400 to 1700

Conference schedule

9am to 9.30am

Registration

• Tea, coffee and biscuits

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9.30am to 11am

Panel one: Spenser and Poetics

“Like a lovely Boy, and beautie without peare”: Re-reading Beauty as Transgender Identity and Invisible Labor in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene

• Dr Lisa Jennings, Assistant Professor of English (University of Houston-Downtown)

Queer Creatures: The Sexual Embodiment of Monstrosity in Early Modern Literature

• Cat Stiles, Ph.D. student (University of Bristol)

Trans Hermeneutics in the Alchemical Poems of Hester Pulter

• Laurence Chen (Independent)

11am to 12 noon

Panel two: Icelandic Sagas

Gender Matters, Matters Gender: Transmasculine Potentiality in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks

• Jake Ferguson, M.A. student (University of Leeds)

Wild Desire: The Transecology of Jökuls þáttr Búasonar and Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls

• Basil Arnould Price, Ph. student (University of York)

12 noon to 1pm

• Buffet lunch

1pm to 3pm

Panel three: Theatre and Performance

The Early Modern Theatre, Effeminization, and Apophatic Embodiment

• Emma McCabe, Ph.D. student (University of Stirling)

“Change is my felicity”: Pandora’s Transplanetary Body in John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon

• Dr Hes Bradley, Teaching Fellow (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

Rewilding Ariel: Queer Ecology and The Tempest

• Saraya Haddad, PhD student (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

Early Modern Representations of Transmasculinity and its Methods

• Kameron Johnson, PhD Student (King’s College London)

3pm to 3.30pm

• Break
• Tea, coffee and pastries

3.30pm to 5pm

Panel four: Law, Religion, Philosophy

‘Re-Membering’ Trans Femininity in the Mexican Sodomy Trials of 1656-58

• Jamey Jesperson, PhD student (University of Victoria)

Queering Gender and the Body in Early Modern English Preaching

• Professor Monica Poole, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Bunker Hill Community College, Boston)

“Hermaphroditical Effects”: Nature, Artifice, and Trans Embodiment in Margaret Cavendish and John Bulwer

• Sandra Goldstein Lehnert, PhD student (CUNY Graduate Center)

5pm to 5.15pm

• Comfort Break

5.15pm to 7pm

Keynote lecture

Transmisogyny, Colonial Cacophony and Early Modern Trans Studies

• Professor Melissa Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania)

7pm

• Dinner