Organizers: Dr. Todd Reeser, Xena Dulac, Anthony Revelle, and Lucas LaVere
Dates: March 26th - 27th, 2027
Location: University Club, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland Campus
Please check back soon for more information!
Registration
Register here (due Monday, September 14, 2026)
Colloquium Program
Program forthcoming this fall
Travel & Hotel Guides
The following hotels offer conference rates for attendees who book by February 24, 2027. Both properties are within walking distance of the colloquium venue.
Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh University Place
$159/night.
Reservation Link: Click Here
Residence Inn by Marriott Pittsburgh Oakland / University Place
$139/night.
Reservation Link: Click Here
For both hotels, the rate is available for stays between March 24 and March 28, provided reservations are made by February 24.
Presenters
| Name | Affiliation | Chapter Title |
Airelle Amédro | University of Warwick | The autofictional enterprise: Queer French fiction from the 1990s to today |
Ty Blakeney | Northwestern University | Representing Sex in Prison |
| Cole R. Cridlin | Virginia Commonwealth University | (Re)Mapping Desire: Queer Rurality and Metronormativity in Contemporary French Fiction |
| Cailtin Dahl | University of Tennessee | Homme Galant, Précieuse: Queer figures in 17th-century French Court Culture |
| Eric J. Disbro | Duke University | Archipelagic Solidarity: Queer Literatures of the Mascarene Islands and Oceania |
| Matthieu Dupas | Northwestern University | La Passion d'Alceste dans Le Misanthrope (1666) de Molière, ou le sujet galant entre chair et sexualité. |
| Julin Everett | Scripps College | Black Queer Francophone Diasporic Literature from the 1960s to the 2020s |
| Julie Fette | Rice University | Queer French Children's Literature |
| Maggie Flinn | The Ohio State University | La Bande Dessinée Queer: Joy, Passion, and Transition |
| Maxime Foerster | Southern Methodist University | A Whole Spectrum of Queer Novels in19th Century French Literature |
| Mat Fournier | Ithaca College | Sexing Imperialism: How French Colonialism Shaped Modernist Gender Deviance |
| Hannah Frydman | Harvard University | Queering Theory: French Literature's Critical Thought |
Blake Gutt | University of Utah | Gender transition and transformation in medieval romance |
| Melanie Hawthorne | Texas A&M University | Lesbos on the Seine: Literary Lesbianism in the Belle Epoque |
| Ryan Joyce | The Ohio State University | Caribbean/Queer: Authors, Texts, and Expressions of Guadeloupe, Guyane, and Martinique |
| Anna Kłosowska | Miami University | Transtemporal Subjectivities |
Kathleen Long | Cornell University | Intersex in Early Modern France |
| Mehammed Mack | Smith College | Queer in the French Banlieue |
Rachel Mesch | Boston University | TBD via email |
| Etienne Miqueu | New York University | Queer Ecologies Meet French Ecocriticism |
| Jennifer Row | University of Minnesota | Reading Disability Queerly, Cripping Queer Readings |
| Tracy Rutler | Penn State University | Queering the Literature of the Enlightenment |
| Charles Samuelson | University of Colorado, Boulder | Courtliness and Queerness: Limits of/as the Analogy |
| Marc Schachter | Durham University | Early Modern Sapphisms |
| Lewis Seifert | Brown University | Queer(ing) Fairy Tales in French (provisional title) |
| Peter Tarjanyi | Middlebury College | Workers and Tourists: Toward a History of Queer Sexual Tourism in the Maghreb |
| Alan Yeh | Pomona College | Queer Re/memberings of French Indochina: Genre-Bending the Asian Body |
| Chantal Zabus | Afro-queer-and-trans Futurities in Francophone Postcolonial West African Literatures |