Session Details

Friday, 30 December

742. Queers and Religious Rhetoric in Contemporary America

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Maryland Suite C, Marriott

Program arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

Presiding: Frederick Scott Roden, Univ. of Connecticut, Stamford

1. “Sexularism: Religion, Politics, and Democratic Practice in the Contemporary United States,” Ann Pellegrini, New York Univ.

2. “Feeling the Ecstasy of Representation in Chicana Lesbian Poetry,” Mary Patricia Anderson, Washington State Univ., Pullman

3. “Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of Vulnerable Identities in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America,” Ranen Omer-Sherman, Univ. of Miami

Respondent: Ed Ingebretsen, Georgetown Univ.

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