"Body Language: Constructing Gay Identity in the Age of AIDS," Bill Begert, Department of Art History, UCLA

 "Opening the Maternal Body: The Metropolitan Vierge Ouvrant Shrine," Lianne McTavish, Program of Visual and Cultural Studies, Univesity of Rochester

 "Ideological Encounters of the Right-Wing Kind: E.T., Alien, and the Disembodied Fetus," George Dimock, Program of Cultural Studies, University of Rochester

 "Buying into Modernity: The MoMA and the Department Store Tie-ins in the 1930s," Amy L. Marver, Department of Art History, USC

 "The Politics of Space. (In)sights and Mirror-trpas in Brancusi's Studio," Roxanna Marcoci, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

 "From Didactics to Devotion: Multiple Meanings in a Jesuit Meditational Engraving," Deborah Zafman, Department of Art History, UC Berkeley

 " 'Dutch Interiors': Virtual Spaces and partial Subjects in Pieter de Hooch's Woman Preparing Bread and Butter ," Julian Yates, Department of English, UCLA