Desiring History and Historicizing Desire: Sexuality in Early Modern England

Madhavi Menon, discusses "Queer Orientations". Menon is Professor of English at Ashoka University in Delhi. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Whither Historicism?”.

James Bromley, discusses "Cruising Historicism: Superficiality and Public Sexual Culture in Early Modern City Comedy". Bromley is Professor of English at Miami University. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Whither Historicism?”.

Ari Friedlander, discusses "Things Long Past Seem Present: The Temporalities of Rogue Sexuality". Dinshaw is Professor the University of Dayton. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Queer Temporalities”.

Carolyn Dinshaw, discusses "Paradise Lost, Regained, Refracted: Saint Brendan's Isle and the Temporalities and Optics of Desire". Dinshaw is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, English at New York University. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Queer Temporalities”.

Ruth Mazzo Karras, discusses "John/Eleanor Karras Revisited: Do Clothes Make the Woman?". Karras is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Gender and Desire”.

Will Stockton, discusses "Chasing Chastity: The Case of Desdemona". Stockton is Professor at Clemson University with a focus on Renaissance Literature and Queer Theory. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Gender and Desire”.

Jeffey Masten, discusses "Reading Quarchives". Masten is Professor of English, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Queering the Archive”.

Carla Freccero, discusses "Desire's Fictional Archives: Reading Early Modern Textuality". Freccero is Professor and Chair of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Professor of Feminist Studies at University California, Santa Cruz. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Queering the Archive”.

Katherine Crawford, discusses "Desiring Enuchs". Crawford is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Queer Pasts”.

Mario DiGangi, discusses "Boundless Desire, Limited Acts: Empirical Claims and Queer Historiography". DiGangi is Professor of English at Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Queer Pasts”.

Melissa Sanchez, discusses “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Love in Early Modern Lyric Poetry”. Sanchez is Graduate Chair, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Queer Pasts”.

Valerie Traub, discusses "Talking Sex”. Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “(Queer) Historiographies”.

Will Fisher discusses, "'Every Bodies Fancy Varies': Historicizing Early Modern Sexual Practice". Fisher is an English Professor at Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “(Queer) Historiographies”.

Steve Hindle and Will Stockton welcome participants and attendees to the “Desiring History and Historicizing Desire: Sexuality in Early Modern England" conference, held at the Huntington Library on September 19-20, 2014. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington. Stockton is Professor at Clemson University with a focus on Renaissance Literature and Queer Theory.