steven bruhm, department of english, mount st. vincent university, halifax, canada, B3M 2J6, steven.bruhm@msvu.ca

Selected Conference Papers

Invited Talks:

2006      “Plague Dancing: Choreography and AIDS,” Faculty Dialogue Series, MSVU

2005      “Byron and the Choreography of Queer Desire,” Invited Lecturer Series, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS; also to be given as Plenary Address to “Reading past bodies/Lire les corps du passé,” Interdisciplinary Conference of the On the Body Interdisiplinary Research Group, University of Manitoba, 5 April 2007

2005      “Becoming Michael Becoming Dead,” Faculty Dialogue Series, MSVU

2001      “Only the Dead Can Dance: Gothic Choreographies of Mortality”, Plenary Address to the Fifth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Vancouver, BC

1998      “Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic,” Public Lecture for Queer Talking series at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

1997      “Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic,” Public Lecture for Queer Looking, Queer Acting, MSVU Art Gallery

1997      “Peter Straub’s Ghost Story: Tales of Lovers,” Plenary Address to the Third International Gothic Association Conference, Strawberry Hill, England

1994 “Shining the Phallus,” Public Lecture at King’s University, Halifax

Selected Conference Papers:

2005 “Gothic Oklahoma!: The Dream Ballet,” International Gothic Association Conference, Montreal; also presented at “Psychoanalysis and Community,” the annual conference of The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society,” New Brunswick, NJ

2004 “Still/Here, Still/Queer: AIDS and the Danse macabre,” Gay and Lesbian Studies Division, Modern Languages Association Conference, Philadelphia

2004 “Read Shoes Read: A Queer Dance of Death,” ACCUTE, Winnipeg

2003 “Lepers Leaping, Ladies Dancing: Aesthetics and Kinesthetics in Margaret Atwood,” Modern Languages Association, San Diego

2003 "Thus Danced Zarathustra: A Queer Choreography of the Dead," Narrative Conference, Berkeley, CA

2002 "Dancing in Michael Jackson's Mouth," American Gothic Conference of the American Literature Association, Puerto Vallarta

2002 “Becoming Michael Becoming Dead,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

2001 “Jimmied,” Modern Languages Association, New Orleans; also presented as part of invited panel on Sexualities held at University of Prince Edward Island

2001 “Dance Divisions,” “’Seeing Things’: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Literature and the Visual,” University of Tours, France

2001 “Only the Dead Can Dance: Gothic Choreographies of Mortality”, Plenary Address to the Fifth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Vancouver, BC

1999 “The Self-Possessed Child, or Nightmare on Sesame Street,” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Sherbrooke, Québec; and The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Naples, Italy

1998 “Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic,” Public Lecture for Queer Talking series at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

1997 “Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic,” Public Lecture for Queer Looking, Queer Acting, MSVU Art Gallery

1997 “‘The Picture’ of S. T. C., or The Lover’s Dissolution”, ACCUTE, St. John’s

1997 “Is Anne of Green Gables a Lesbian?”, Second Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, Nashville, TN

1995 "Pet Semiotics,” Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS), Vancouver

1995 “Blond Ambition: Tennessee Williams’s Homographesis,” Association for Theater and Higher Education, San Francisco

1995 “On Stephen King’s Phallus; or The Postmodern Gothic,” The Second International Gothic Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland; and The American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative, Université de Montréal, Montréal

1994 “Byron’s Homo-Narcissism; or Heathcliffe I am nelly!,” North American Society for Studies in Romanticism (NASSR), Duke University, Durham, NC

1994 “Reforming Byron’s Narcissism: The Deformed Transformed,” ACCUTE, Calgary

1993 "Pale Fire, Faggotry and the Fifties,” CAAS, Halifax

1993 “Coleridge’s Osorio: The Theatre of Politics, the Politics of Theatre,” NASSR, London, Ontario

1993 “Aesthetics and Anesthetics at the Revolution,” De Bartolo Conference of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Tampa

1992 “Roderick Random’s Closet,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS), St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Humanities Lecture Series, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Québec

1992 “Taking One to Know One: Pornography and Pedagogy,” Atlantic Association of University Teachers of English, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and Humanities Lecture Series, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Québec

1992 “Byron’s Body,” ACCUTE, Learned Societies Conference, Charlottetown

1991 “(De)Generating Literature: Oscar Wilde’s Teleny and Literary History,” Pornography and Literary History, Special Session of the Modern Languages Association Conference (MLA), San Francisco

1991 “Aesthetics and Anesthetics in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk,” CSECS, Calgary

1990 “Misappropriating Funds: Marlowe’s Edward II and an Economy of Eros,” The Marlowe Society of America, MLA, Chicago

1990 “Blackmailed by Sex: The Economics of Desire in Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer,” CAAS, Montréal

1990 “The ‘Tormenting Pleasures’ of Gothic Torture,” ACCUTE, Victoria