Department of English

• Thursday, March 19, 2026 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135

Join AmLit and Gen/Sex for a talk by Mary Zaborskis (Associate Professor of English at Penn State Harrisburg and UPenn English PhD) on her first book, Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability (NYU Press 2024).  Queer Childhoods was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies and shortlisted for the Modern Language Association First Book Prize.

In addition to presenting on the arguments and interventions of the book, Professor Zaborskis will discuss the origins of the book as her dissertation project, the process of turning that dissertation into a book, and how the book is informing her current work and thinking.