Organizers & Plenaries
ORGANIZERS
Jeremy Chow
Bucknell University
Jeremy Chow is Assistant Professor of English. His research and teaching interweave the environmental humanities, gender and sexuality studies, and literature. He is the editor of the collection Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities and his first book is entitled, The Queerness of Water: Violent Entanglements in Troubled Ecologies.
Maria Antonaccio
Bucknell University
Maria Antonaccio is Professor of Religious Studies and the Director of the Bucknell Humanities Center. Her research and teaching address environmental ethics, bioethics, and the ethics of consumption. She has published three books on philosopher Iris Murdoch.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Hil Malatino
Pennsylvania State University
Hil Malatino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute. Malatino’s research and teaching draws upon trans and intersex studies, critical sexuality studies, transnational feminisms, disability studies, and medical ethics to theorize how experiences of violence, trauma, and resilience play out in intersex, trans, and gender non-conforming lives. His first book, Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) examines the relationship between intersex embodiment, biomedical technologies, and the forms of subjectivity both enabled and constrained by the medicalization of gender non-conformance.
Teresa Castro
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Teresa Castro is an Associate Professor in Film Studies. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the musée du quai Branly, Paris (2010-2011) and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2011). Part of her research has focused on photography and film in colonial situations and she collaborated in the curating of the film cycle ‘Liberation Movements in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau (1961-1974)’, organized by the festival Doclisboa in 2011. Her publications on these topics include articles and book chapters on Portuguese colonial photography, scientific and ethnographic films made in Angola or the way in which Portuguese contemporary artists have explored colonial archival images.
Bénédicte Boisseron
University of Michigan
Bénédicte Boisseron is Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies, specializing in the fields of black diaspora studies, francophone studies, and animal studies. Her most recent book, Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (Columbia University Press, 2018) draws on recent debates about black life and animal rights to investigate the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and the black Atlantic.
Serenella Iovino
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Serenella Iovino is Professor of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities. Her research approach has a strong interdisciplinary and transnational orientation. Her work is internationally recognized in the fields of ecocriticism and environmental humanities, research areas to which she has contributed essays and volumes on such topics as ecocritical theory, cultural landscapes, bioregionalism and place ethics, posthumanism, feminist ecocriticism, Mediterranean studies, new materialisms, environmental justice, land art, and a number of studies bringing Italy and Italian literature and culture into the foreground.