Conveners: Brittney M. Edmonds and Jennifer D. Jones

Brittney M. Edmonds is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English at Princeton University. Her most recent research project titled, "Black Inqueeries: Space and Time in Post-Stonewall NYC, 1969-1981" focused on the contours, movements, and tenors of black queer bodies during the unique and politically volatile period following the Stonewall Riots and preceding the onsalught of the AIDS epidemic. Her research interests include 19th and 20th Century African-American literature, Afrofuturism, and Gender and Sexuality.  

Jennifer D. Jones is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. Her dissertation, tentatively titled, " 'The Fruits of Mixing':  Homosexuality and the Politics of Racial Empowerment in the South, 1945-1975," examines how ideas about same-sex desire became entangled in institutional and discursive battles over racial equality and civil rights. Her research interests include African American History after 1877, the History of Gender and Sexuality, and U.S. Cultural History.