Keynote Speakers: Priscilla Wald author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative Professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke University
Alice Echols author of Daring to be Bad Professor of English, Gender Studies, and History at the University of Southern California Conference organizers: Breanne Fahs is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of four books: Performing Sex (SUNY, 2011), The Moral Panics of Sexuality (ed. with Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage, Palgrave, 2013), Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), and Out for Blood (SUNY, in press) and dozens of articles on women's sexuality, the body, histories of feminism, and women's health. She also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma.
Annika Mann is an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. She works in the fields of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with special interests in print culture, the history of science, discipline formation, and the place of women’s writing within emergent disciplines. She teaches courses on the literature and philosophy of sympathy, the history of the novel, and Romantic poetry.
Sarah Stage is a professor of women and gender studies and history at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale in American Studies. She has taught U.S. history and been involved in women’s studies for more than thirty-five years at Williams College, the University of California, Riverside, and ASU at the West Campus. Her books include Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s Medicine (Norton, 1979) and Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession (Cornell, 1997) which was translated into a Japanese edition.
Eric Swank is an associate professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at Arizona State University. He specializes in the areas of social movements, student engagement, social stratification, and LGBT issues. He has published over forty articles in peer-reviewed journals including Sex Roles, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Social Work Education, Sociological Inquiry, Research in Higher Education, and College Student Journal.