Keynote Speakers and Discussants
Keynote Speakers

Hazel Carby
Charles C and Dorothea S Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies, Emerita, Yale University

Santanu Das
Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, All Souls College, Oxford

Jed Esty
Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

James Hevia
Director of Global Studies and Faculty Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago

Tariq Jazeel
Professor of Geography, University College London

Peter Kalliney
William J. Tuggle Chair in English, Social Theory, African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky

Nasser Mufti
Associate Head and Associate Professor of English, University of Illlinois at Chicago

Elizabeth Outka
Professor of English, University of Richmond

Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto

Claire Seiler
Associate Professor of English, Dickinson College

Suman Seth
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Discussants

Maud Ellmann
Interim Chair, Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, University of Chicago

Sarah Jessica Johnson
Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago

Josephine McDonagh
Professor of English, University of Chicago

Kaneesha Parsard
Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago

Zachary Samalin
Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago

Christopher Taylor
Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago