Upcoming Queer-Friendly Talk at the U of I!

Thursday, March 31, 7:30 pm
Levis Faculty Center, Music Room (2nd Floor)

"Emerging Queer and Queer-Friendly Latina/o Filmmakers in Chicago"
Bill Johnson Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, DePaul University

A reception will follow the talk

Bill Johnson Gonzalez is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University, where he teaches courses on 20th century American literature, U.S. Latino culture, and film. He received his PhD from the Comparative Literature Department at Harvard University in 2010. With Brad Epps and Keja Valens, he co-edited the volume Passing Lines: Immigration and Sexuality, which was published by Harvard Univ. Press in 2005. He is currently at work on The Surprise of Otherness: A Barbara Johnson Reader, a co-edited project that will be published by Duke University Press in 2012. He has presented and published articles on Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodriguez, Octavio Paz, sexuality, and race.

Co-sponsored by the Queer Studies Reading Group on Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas; Department of Gender and Women's Studies; Graduate School Focal Point Initiative; Latina/Latino Studies Program; Asian American Studies Program; Department of Anthropology.

Welcome to (Dis)Locating Queer: The Conference Blog!

On behalf of the conference organizers we're pleased to invite you to our conference blog. We'll be posting relevant announcements and information related to the conference. We can't wait to see you in Urbana from May 5-7 for an exciting slate of presentation and performance!

Confirmed Events:

Keynote Address, 
Thursday May 5, 7:00pm Levis Faculty Center
Speaker: Eithne
Luibhéid
Associate
 Professor, 
Gender
&
Women's 
Studies, 
University
 of 
Arizona. Author
 of
 Entry 
 Denied: 
Controlling
 Sexuality 
at 
the
 Border
 (University of 
Minnesota 
Press,
 2002)
 and 
 co‐editor 
of
 Queer
 Migrations:
 Sexuality, 
U.S.
Citizenship, 
and 
Border
 Crossings 
 (University 
of 
Minnesota
Press,
 2005).