Sexualities Contributors

Katrin Pahl is Co-Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Associate Professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University.  She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching explores emotionality (and how logic might change when one attends to emotionality), sexuality (how it might be informed by – perhaps transgenerational – political trauma and inform the syntax and texture of literature), and sociability (how historical models of sociability might help us now to extend kinship, affinity, and mutual repair beyond the human). Pahl is the author of Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion and is currently writing a book on Kleist’s Queer Feelings.

Noelle Dubay (Sexualities) is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation examines nineteenth-century U.S. secularity and magical belief, as mediated in literature of slave revolt and resistance. She has written and presented on nineteenth-century spiritualism and mesmerism, the politics of U.S. swamplands, and contemporary queer theory and poetry.