Still Here, Still Queer: Celebrating Three Decades of LGBTQ Scholarship at AMS

Presenters

Shana Goldin-Perschbacher (Temple University), Lauron Kehrer (Western Michigan University), Co-chairs, opening remarks
Lloyd Whitesell (McGill University), Moderator, Closing Remarks
Stephan Pennington (Tufts University), Panel Response

Gillian Rodger (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “Annie Hindle’s Biography and the World of Nineteenth-Century Theater”
Heather Hadlock (Stanford University), Respondent

CJ Komp (University of Georgia), “Classic Queer: Neoclassicism, Gender, and Sexual Fluidity in Benjamin Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid”
Imani Mosley (Wichita State University), Respondent

Rachel Avery (McGill University), “Imperially Queer: Modes of Orientalism in Laura Nyro’s Songwriting”
Matthew J. Jones (St. Francis Episcopal Upper School), Respondent 

Immediately after the Friday night panel, please join us for our annual party, 10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Saturday at lunchtime we hold our open board meeting 12:30-2:00 p.m, where we will celebrate the winners of the 2018 and 2019 Philip Brett Award and discuss future projects for the group.

Also this year we are delighted to invite you to an AMS-exclusive open rehearsal of the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Fellow Travelers, followed by conversation, Friday 3:30-6:00 p.m. The open rehearsal for Fellow Travelers takes place 1 November 2019, 3:30-5:00 p.m. A conversation with cast members and members of the creative team will take place 5:00-6:00 p.m. For more information on the opera, see https://blo.org/fellow-travelers/. If you wish to attend either of these two events, RSVP the BLO Events Manager, Sara O’Brien, sobrien [at] blo.org.