Sex: Alternative Positions

1. "'A la Marie-Antoinette': Bisexual Erotics in Verlaine's 'Reddition,'" Seth A. Whidden, Univ. of Rhode Island
2. "Through the Courtesan's Eyes: Liane de Pougy's Idylle Saphique," Rachel L. Mesch, Univ. of Pennsylvania
3. "'Sugar Daddies' and 'Chicken Hawks': The Homosexual as Pedophile in Nineteenth-Century French Prose Poetry," Michael E. Lane, Dickinson Coll.

Eros and Pain in the Middle Ages

1. "Sadism and Submission in Fin Amors: Perverse Punishments for Unwilling Women," Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
2. "Sweet Suffering Transformed: Eros and Pain the Works fo Christine de Pisan," Heather M. Arden, Univ. of Cincinnati
3. "Cutting and Eros: Castration Knighthood, and Composite Genders," Anna Maria Roberts, Miami Univ. Oxford
4. "'You, Lord, Endured All Things Pleasure': Homocrotic Violence in A Talking of the Love of God," Michele M. Sauer-Bures, Washington State University, Pullman

Resisting Gender

1. "Constructing the Transgender Subject: Sexuality, Gender, and the Female- Bodied Man in Diane Wood Middlebrook's Suits Me and Jackie Kay's Trumpet," Yvonne J.Huang, Univ. of Sussex, England
2. "The Illogics of Masculine Identification in Christopher Lee's Transvideos," Selena J.Wahng, New York Univ
3. "Genetic Counter-memory and the Genealogy of the Transsexual," Jody Norton, Eastern Michigan Univ.

Bigotry, Tolerance, Diversity II: Engaging the Issues

1. "Teaching Tolerance or Capitulation?" Candace Spigelman, Penn State University, Berks Campus
2. "When Marginalizing Language Moves to Perceived Insult," Dona L. Pasternak, Marshall Univ.
3. "To Queer or to Fear? Pragmatic Responses to Classroom Homophobia," James D. David, Georgia State University

Constituting Ethnic Americans

1. "Radical Black Femininity: The Idealization of Social Progress," Claudia C. Tate, Princeton University
2. "(M)Other Countries and Paper Sons: Reproducing Chinese Canadians in Literature and Law," Elaine K. Chang, Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick
3. "Fraudulent Papers: United States Citizenship and the Making of Chicana and Chicano Subjects," John M. Gonzalez, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4. "Your Blood Will Run in Our Veins: Jefferson, Trival Nations, and the Assimilation Paradigm," Priscilla B. Wald, Duke Univ.

Queering the Family

1. "Daddy's Boys," Tim James Dean, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
2. "Tardy Epithalamia: Queer Love, the Family, and the Poetry of Marriage," Vincent A. Lankewish, Penn State Univ., University Park
3. "Papadada: Reinventing the Paternal," Andrew Elfenbein, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities; John Allen Watkins, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Peanuts at Fifty

1. "Chips off the Ol' Blockhead: Cultural Critique in Peanuts Parody and Pastiche," Eugene P. Kannenberg
2. "Politicizing the Pooch: Snoopy as Ideological Apparatusm," Scott F. Stoddart, Nova Southeastern Univ.
3. "Peanuts and Alternative Comix: Good Grief and the Underground Ethos," Charles Hatfield, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs