The Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature presented its 2025 biennial graduate conference with the theme “Body in Excess,” turning to the entanglement between body and text already implicit in the etymology of “corpus” as well as the paradoxical condition in which the body exists inasmuch as it exceeds its own physical and discursive boundaries.
Organized into seven interrelated panels – Body Undone; Sex and Queer Corporeality; The Fragmented, the Fugitive; Obscene Bodies; “Law” and Disorder; (Re)Reading Corpus; Monstrous Excess – the participants of "Body in Excess" discussed the body’s infinite unfolding, its emergence and disappearance, across literature, art, film, performance, environment, infrastructure, court cases, and archival documents.
See the Photo Galley tab under News & Events for the program and photos from the well-attended conference.