Keynote Address
Saturday, March 23rd
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Zoom link: http://tinyurl.com/IUgradconference1

Sean Grattan

Sean Grattan is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Quincy University. He is the author of Hope Isn’t Stupid: Utopian Affects in Contemporary American Literature (University of Iowa Press, 2017). His work has recently appeared in edited collections like Life In Plastic: Artistic Responses to Petromodernity (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), The City in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and Noir Affect (Fordham University Press, 2020). He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Aesthetics of the Fucked. 

Kate Haffey

Kate Haffey is an Associate Professor at the University of Mary Washington in the Department of English and Linguistics. Her areas of expertise include twentieth and twenty-first-century literature, feminism, and queer theory. She is the author of Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality: Eddies in Time (2019). More recently her work has turned toward ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the goblincore aesthetic.