Rebecca Schaefer

College of Art and Design College of Engineering Technology College of Health Sciences and Technology College of Liberal Arts College of Science Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Golisano Institute for Sustainability International Campuses Kate Gleason College of Engineering National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Rebecca Schaefer

College of Liberal Arts
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

2024 Submissions

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Schäfer, Rebecca. "‘Time No Longer Exists, It’s Wonderful:’ Queer Temporalities and Transnational, Heterotopian Spaces in the Films of Austrian Filmmaker Patric Chiha." 121st Annual Meeting of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA). PAMLA. Palm Springs, CA. 7-10 Nov. 2024. Conference Presentation.

2023 Submissions

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Schäfer, Rebecca. "Finding Futurity in Your Fifties: Queer Age Narratives in Contemporary Documentary Film." Symposium Rated Queer – Deconstructing Narratives of Age. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 4-5 Apr. 2023. Conference Presentation.

2021 Submissions

Full Length Book

Schäfer, Rebecca. Time(s) of Lives: (Non-)Normative Temporalities, Age(ing), and Kinship Narratives in Contemporary U.S. American Culture. 1st ed. Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021. Print.

2016 Submissions

Book Chapter

Schäfer, Rebecca. "Mother(hood) Monster? Lady Gaga, Family Discourse, and Alternative Modes of Kinship." Family and Kinship in the United States: Cultural Perspectives on Familial Belonging. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, 2016. 101-122. Print.

2015 Submissions

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Schäfer, Rebecca. "‘Look at These Children Playing!’ Queer Temporalities and Narratives of Age(ing), the Transgender Body, and Perpetual Adolescents in J. Soloway's Transparent." 113th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA). PAMLA. Portland, OR. 6-8 Nov. 2015. Conference Presentation.

Schäfer, Rebecca. "‘A Perfect Child Caught in a Freeze-Frame?’ (Non-)Aging, (Non-)Futurity, and the Transhuman, Posthuman, and Non-Human Child in Contemporary Science Fiction Film." 130th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA). MLA. Vancouver, Canada. 8-11 Jan. 2015. Conference Presentation.

2014 Submissions

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Schäfer, Rebecca. "‘And the Oscar Goes to…’: Celebrating Performances of Otherness and the ‘Excessive’ Celebrity Body in Hollywood Film Culture." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA). ASA. Los Angeles, CA. 6-9 Nov. 2014. Conference Presentation.