Keynote Speaker
Carine Mardorossian
University at Buffalo
Professor of English & Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Affiliated Faculty in Romance Languages and Literatures and Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Professor Mardorossian is author of Death is but a Dream: Hope and Meaning at Life’s End (narrative
nonfiction) with Christopher Kerr, MD, Penguin-Random House, 2020 (with documentary on NPR World), as well as
Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered (Rutgers University Press, 2014) and Reclaiming
Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism (University of Virginia Press, 2005). She was also the
2016 winner of the Authors’ Zone Award.