Queer X Faculty Flash Talks #2

Join us for an event  organized by Julia Himberg and Sa Whitley, co-directors of the Queer X Humanities initiative at the ASU Humanities Institute.This roundtable features five prominent ASU scholars with an eclectic array of research projects and scholarship situated in Queer Studies and/or Transgender Studies. This event is part of a series that fosters connections and dialogue in this significant research area across ASU schools, departments, and campuses in the Salt River Valley. 

Each ASU faculty member on this roundtable will give a 5-7 minute “flash talk” about their current research projects and identify emergent and provocative directions for queer and trans theories, epistemologies, methodologies. The Queer X Co-Directors will moderate a subsequent roundtable discussion and audience Q&A, inviting panelists to bridge academic scholarship with contemporary politics, art, and subculture. There will be a reception to follow from 5:30-6:30p.m. at the Humanities Institute. 

Panelists:

• Madelaine Adelman (SST)
• Josh Coleman (ENG)
• Hilary Harp (ART) 
• Mellissa Linton-Villafranco (SST)
• Mónica Espaillat Lizardo (SHPRS) 

Madelaine Adelman is professor of justice studies in the School of Social Transformation. Her research centers on collective efforts to address institutionalized forms of gender- and anti-LGBTQ+ violence in families and schools. She currently examines how educators navigate racist and anti-LGTBQ+ censorship. She is founder and board president of Education Action Alliance.

James Joshua Coleman (Josh) (He/they) is an Assistant Professor of English Education in Arizona State University’s Department of English. His research interests include queer and trans studies in education, critical literacy, LGBTQ+ youth literature, and affect studies. Dr. Coleman can be reached at josh.coleman@asu.edu. 

Hilary Harp creates experimental videos celebrating counter-hegemonic aesthetics including camp, psychedelia, folk art and science fiction. Since 2015, Harp has collaborated with Suzie Silver on Fairy Fantastic!  - a series of experimental queer folk and fairy tale films. Their videos have screened at hundreds of festivals on five continents and are distributed by the Video Data Bank.  

Dr. Mellissa Linton is an Assistant Professor at ASU in Women and Gender Studies, holding a Ph.D. in ethnic studies from UC San Diego. Her forthcoming book, A Nation Reborn, explores post-civil war El Salvador, focusing on law, political culture, and social movements. She teaches courses in LGBT+ studies, Latin American studies, and reproductive justice.

Mónica Espaillat Lizardo (sher/her) is an interdisciplinary historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research examines the colonial and imperial legacies that shape citizenship practices across the Americas. Specifically, her work examines how race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality have influenced mobility, produced immobility, and informed the granting or rescinding of citizenship in the Dominican Republic.

Queer X Humanities is a new intellectual community and initiative at the ASU Humanities Institute that fosters queer and transgender scholarship, interdisciplinary collaboration, and critical dialogue about LGBTQIA2S+ culture, history, and politics. For more information and other upcoming events, please visit https://humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu/queer-x-humanities.

For a full listing of all the Humanities Institute events visit https://humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu/events