Intersectional Studies at South Carolina State University
The ISC at SC State fosters scholarship and inquiry into how intersecting identities shape experiences of power, resistance, belonging, and transformation. ISC welcomes work that pushes disciplinary and conceptual boundaries to better understand how social, cultural, political, and embodied borders—literal and figurative—structure our worlds, limit possibilities, and open new paths.
The ISC also announces the inclusion of a permanent panel or set of panels on Intersectional Feminisms to acknowledge the origins of Intersectional Studies within Intersectional Feminisms, with the work of scholars such as Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Since this pioneering work, Intersectional Studies has expanded, but maintains its core focus of understanding how how aspects of individual identity (which can include but are not limited to gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and religion) intersect to construct different degrees of power and powerlessness.
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The 2026 ISC at SC State
2026 International Remote ISC at SC State (March 27, 2026 via Zoom)
Conference Date: Friday, March 27, 2026 (via Zoom) 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Deadline for Proposals: Friday, February 27, 2026
The Department of English and Communications at South Carolina State University invites proposals for 20-minute individual papers, panels of 3–4 presenters, roundtable discussions, and creative performances or multimedia presentations for the 2026 SC State Intersectional Studies Remote Conference (ISC). In addition to proposals from faculty affiliated with higher education institutions, we welcome proposals from independent scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students from all fields and disciplines.
This year's theme is "Beyond Borders." What does it mean to move beyond borders—geographical, epistemological, embodied, linguistic, disciplinary, or ideological—in ways that open space for intersectional engagement and justice? We invite proposals that explore, but are not limited to
• Borders and migration, displacement, diaspora, and
transnationalism
• Borders of race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, nationality, citizenship,
and other identities
• Colonial, imperial, and postcolonial boundaries
• Disciplinary borders and interdisciplinary methodologies
• Artistic, cultural, and digital practices that cross or contest
boundaries
To submit a 250-word proposal, a 50-word description of your presentation, and a brief biographical note (50 words maximum) use the following link or QR code: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2025_ISC
2026 ISC Keynote Speaker
Kathryn A. Everly, Professor of Spanish
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University
Kathryn A. Everly (PhD, 2000, The University of Texas at Austin) is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. Professor Everly has published the monographs Catalan Women Writers and Artists: Revisionist Views from a Feminist Space (Bucknell University Press, 2003) and History, Violence, and the Hyperreal: Representing Culture in the Contemporary Spanish Novel (Purdue University Press, 2010). She has also co-edited books on European cultural production and Spanish poetry. She received the MLA Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship in a foreign language field awarded by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages in 2009 and has published several book chapters and articles in various journals including, Hispanic Studies Review, Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidad, Letras peninsulares, Hispanic Journal, and Catalan Review.
Her current research examines themes of motherhood and exile in literature and surrealist painting with a focus on poets and artists from the Spanish avant-garde and civil war period. She teaches courses on literature, literary theory and archival research, which she developed through a grant with the faculty fellow program at the Syracuse University Libraries' Special Collections Research Center in 2020.
Dr. Everly will be speaking on the career and activism of Salaria Kea, the only African-American woman to serve in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War.
Registration for the 2026 ISC will begin on March 1, 2026. Information for how to register will be provided on this website.
For questions about the ISC, contact Dr. Janice Hawes at jhawes@scsu.edu
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