Conference Schedule
Friday, February 6
9:00am - 10:30am
"What is the present if not the graveyard of the past..." Recalling, Remembering, Revisioning through Horror
Motivations of Ghosts in the Queer Literary Space
Patrick R. Field
“I am the Chief of Sufferers Also”: A Contemporary Twist on Disability-as-Monstrosity
Emma Webster
Re-visioning The Undefinable: A Generative Rhetoric Analysis Of Trauma Narratives In Horror Films
Janice Day
11:00am - 12:00pm
University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives & Special Collections Presentation
1:00pm - 2:30pm
"We are fashioned creatures, but half made up" Forms of Re/Creation
Sexuality, Reproduction, and Posthumanism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Tatiana Konrad
Death Becomes You: Queer Poetic Forms + Monstrous Revisions
Shannon Kearns
Emasculate Conception
Jake Makela
2:45pm - 4:15pm
"We ally ourselves...with the chaos and blackness from which Nature itself spills forth": Identity and Body Horror
A Crisis of Flesh: Transness and Rhetorics of Crisis in Your Body is Not Your Body
Hayden Cuttone
”A Form Unmatched With My Desire”: A Queer and Trans Reflection on Body Horror
Victoria Serafini
Poisonous Roots: Exploring Nature, Body Horror, and Otherness in “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and Frankenstein
Sara Tantlinger
4:30pm - 5:45pm
"You are the first human to come here in a long time": Video Games and Witnessing
Queerness, Godhood & the Trauma of Inherited Violence
Henry Corrigan & Sage Moon
The Numinous in Undertale: Quiet Horror and the Closet
Roxanne Cianci
Honkai: Star Rail and the Cosmic Horror of Gender—The Irontomb of Amphoreus
J. Valencia-Cheng
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Reclaiming Monstrosity: A Conversation with Queer Horror Scholars
Heather O. Petrocelli, Peter Marra, and Sam Tabet