 Lauren BakstI am a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. My research interests include performance studies, poetics, Black feminisms, queer theory, and critical pedagogies. My dissertation focuses on experimental scenes of lesbian and queer performance from the 1990s into the present. |
 Nat RivkinI am a PhD Candidate in English at Penn. My research interests include premodern poetry, trans studies, and the history of sexuality. I am working on a dissertation that examines gender variance, race, and classical reception history in late medieval and early modern England. The project focuses on four specific figures: the monstrous birth, the virgin, the hermaphrodite, and the angel. I show... Read More |
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