8:00am - 9:30am: "Whatever I have resurrected through this book is sure to come calling for me....": Horror on the Page
Monstrous becoming and representing queer girlhoods
Ellen McGeoch
My love bore fruit: A Reading of the Lesbian Abject Body in Kathryn Harlan's Fruiting Bodies
Mihaela Tone
Monstrous Wives: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Female Characters in Devotion and Layers of Fear
Yanzhen Liu
Queerness and the Ghost in The Brotherhood of Kaeng Khoi
Isaraporn Pissa-ard
9:45am - 11:15am: "Going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go": The Visionary Potential of Horror
Sick in the Head: The Monstrosity and Camp of Dr. Henry Anonymous
Quest Sky Zeidler
“Boy, Where Yo Daddy At?”: A Critical Commentary on the Physical Presence of Grief After Death in Jordan Peele’s Nope
zoe pierson
Queering Reproduction and Embodiment in Pregnancy Body Horror
Jacqueline Pinkowitz
The Girl Without a Face - Proof of Concept
Linus Ignatius
11:30am – 12:30pm: "Friend, do not enter without desire": Seeking Queer Possibilities in the Horror Studies Collection
with David Riser, Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Meal Break
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Adapting the Instabilities of Queer Horror Bodies: Pitt Undergraduate Research Showcase
Carmilla: Censorship to Exploitation
Sophia McAleer-Forte
An Exploration of Queerness through The Final Girl
Magdalene Bailey
Full Moon Final (screenplay)
Anastasia Matveev
Queer subtext in the 1993 Manichitrathazhu & Bhool Bhulaiyaa (video essay)
Angel Joseph Karottu
How The Ring Succeeded Where The Matrix Failed
Jon Parikh
2:45pm – 4:15pm: Demon Lovers: An Exploration of Ecological Queer Horrors
"A mad elemental thing”: Dorothy Scarborough’s The Wind and Queer Eco-Gothic Protest
Dorothy Calabro
Embodied Empathy in Creature from the Black Lagoon
Liz Hutchison
John Carpenter's The Thing and the Viral Ontology of Queerness
Timothy Welch
4:30pm – 6:00pm: "It's Like a Myth Being Born Right There in Our Living Room": Horror On/In Televisions
Transgressive Terrors: Rhetoric, Queerness, and Ideological Disruption in Contemporary Horror Television
Stephanie Graves
The Many Screens of I Saw the TV Glow: Queers, Nostalgia, and TikTok Afterlives
Anna Wald
I’ve Only Ever Wanted to Be: The Horror of ‘Just Being’ in HBO’s Lovecraft Country
Zayla Crocker
6:00pm – 8:00pm: "Marginalized within the Marginalized: Solidarity in the Underground"
Film Screening and Discussion with Monika Estrella Negra
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