A Coalition of Queer Classicists and Allies
Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope
LCC Panel, 2019 Annual Meeting of the SCS in San Diego
Session #64: Sunday, January 6th: 8:00 - 11:00 am
Organizers: Robert Matera, University of Maryland, College Park; David Wray, University of Chicago; and Hannah Mason, University of Southern California
original call for papers
Hannah Mason (University of Southern California) Introduction
Rowan Ash (University of Western Ontario) "ἦλθον Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι; or, Going Amazon: Queering the Warrior Women in the Iliad"
Sarah Olsen (Williams College) "Io's Dance: A Queer Move in Prometheus Bound"
James Hoke (Luter College) "Homo Urbanus or Urban Homos?: The Metronormative Trope, Philo's Therapeuts, and Ancient Queer Subcultures"
Mark Masterson (Victoria University of Wellington) "Normal for Byzantium is Queer for Us"
Mary Mussman (University of California, Berkeley) "Blank Marks; Absence as Interpretation of Queer Erotics in 20th-21st Century Reception of Sappho"
Robert Matera (University of Maryland, College Park) and David Wray (University of Chicago) Response