Speakers

Dr Mathew Rickard is a Teaching and Research Fellow in English Translation and Literature at Jules Verne University of Picardy in Amiens, France. His research has focused mainly on decadent literature and its intersection with queer masculine and male identities and behaviours. His most recent research project culminated in the publication of his monograph, Against the Grain: The Poetics of Non-Normative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature in 2021, based on his PhD thesis from Queen’s University, Belfast, which he defended in 2020. He is interested more generally in transgression and gender studies, with a particular focus on masculinities and queer theory. He has recently presented on the intersection of eco-criticism and the figure of the proto-incel in 19th century decadent writing (publication forthcoming) and plans to build on this by expanding into an exploration of ecologically toxic forms of masculinity in a broader transcultural and comparative context. 

Leandro is a PhD Candidate in the Centre for Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University in the last stage of his PhD. He was a part of the Australia Research Council project coordinate by Wiradjuri trans non-binary Professor Sandy O'Sullivan tittled "Saving Lives Mapping the influence of LGBTIQA+ Indigenous artists". His thesis. "Gaining Lives: queer Indigenous resistances in videogames" centres queer Indigenous players resistances in videogames and how they navigate representation while being unexpected players, the agency they retake through gameplay and critical thinking on development decissions, and queer Indigenous futures in development. His interdisciplinary work sits across Critical Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies Game Studies and History. Leandro's work applies an anti-colonial and Latin American decolonial thinking and praxis.

Leandro is a member of  Macquarie University's Centre for Global Indigenous Futures. He is also a member of the research project "La cabeza piensa allí donde los pies pisan, Abordajes epistemológicos y territorialidades" at Universidad Salesiana. Argentina. He has also been a part of En-Gender! Project for the past six years, and has been involved in all activities carried out by the Project as editor and reviewer, co-organizer of the annual conference, co-host and producer of the "EnGender Conversations" podcast and organizer of the "EnGender Masculinities Talks".

PhD researcher in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork and the recipient of the Cara Levey Memorial Scholarship. She is a Licencee in History by Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina) and holds a Diploma in Gender and Sexual Diversity Policy with Human Rights Perspective by Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina). Her research interests lie across the construction of identities and its representation as influenced by colonialism, imperialism and gender. Her approach is done through the fields of Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and Latin American Feminisms, Anti/Decolonial thinking and History.