44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 21-24, 2013

Host Institution: Tufts University

In the recent anthology Shakesqueer (2011), Madhavi Menon claims, “Reading Shakespeare as queer rather than queered challenges the rule of chronology and identity that has thus far kept his poems and plays from exercising queer agency.” This panel takes up Menon’s urge to reconsider the relationship between queer theory and the ...