5 March 2024
Keynote Panel
Join us on Thursday, April 18th to kick off the Stories for All Festival with our Keynote Panel, presenting their work at the Carnegie Library (200 W 9th Street) from 7:00-8:30pm. Read on to learn more about the panelists:
Alex Ketchum – The Feminist Restaurant Project
Eric Gonzaba – Wearing Gay History
Kelly Baker Josephs – The Caribbean Digital
Natchee Barnd – Native Space
Facilitated by Giselle Anatol, Principal Investigator for the Stories for All Project
Alex Ketchum
Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of McGill University; Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab
Dr. Alex Ketchum is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of McGill University. She is the Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab and the organizer of Disrupting Disruptions: The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Tech Speaker and Workshop Series. Her work integrates food, technological, queer, and gender history. Ketchum’s first peer-reviewed book, Engage in Public Scholarship!: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication (2022), examines the power dynamics that impact who gets to create certain kinds of academic work and for whom these outputs are accessible. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Ketchum’s second book, Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses (2022), is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present. You can find out more about her other writings, podcasts, zines, exhibitions, and more at https://www.alexketchum.ca.
Eric Gonzaba
Assistant Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton
Eric Gonzaba is a historian of LGBT culture and nightlife, and an Assistant Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. From 2000 to 2023, he served as co-chair of the Committee on LGBT History, one of the oldest LGBT historical associations in the United States. Gonzaba is the creator of Wearing Gay History, a digital archive that explores the global history of LGBTQ people through t-shirts. In 2019, he co-founded Mapping the Gay Guides with Professor Amanda Regan, a digital project that uses historical gay travel guides to map ignored and overlooked LGBTQ spaces. His work has previously been supported by grants and fellowships from the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, and the Point Foundation
Kelly Baker Josephs
Professor of English at the University of Miami
Kelly Baker Josephs is Professor of English at the University of Miami. She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2013) and coeditor of The Digital Black Atlantic (2021). She is currently Director of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship summer institute, co-organizer of The Caribbean Digital annual conference, and co-principal investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
Natchee Barnd
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University; Director of the Difference, Power, and Oppression program
Dr. Natchee Barnd is a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar interested in intersections between ethnic studies, cultural geography, and Indigenous studies. He is author of Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism which illustrates how Native communities sustain and create Indigenous geographies in settler colonial nations. His most enduring pedagogical and storytelling project is the ongoing Social Justice Tours of Corvallis, a student-led research and experiential community learning series. His second book-in-progress, A People’s Guide to Portland and Beyond, utilizes similar storytelling techniques to highlight lesser known sites of social justice and oppression across the city. Dr. Barnd enjoys ongoing work with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. He is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University, and Director of the Difference, Power, and Oppression program.
Giselle Anatol
Professor of English at the University of KansasDirector of the Hall Center for the Humanities; PI for Stories for All
Giselle Anatol is a Professor of English at the University of Kansas, Interim Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities, and will take over as PI on the Stories for All Mellon Foundation grant for Dr. Jelks in the spring of 2024. Anatol’s primary fields of interest are Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora Literature, especially 20th- and 21st-century women’s writing, African American Literature, and Children’s and Young Adult Literature, particularly representations of race, ethnicity, and gender in narratives for young people.