{"id":649,"date":"2026-04-30T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/comparative-literature-blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:27:22","slug":"roni-lakin-joined-the-graduate-conference-made-to-measure-rutgers-wgss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/comparative-literature-blog\/roni-lakin-joined-the-graduate-conference-made-to-measure-rutgers-wgss\/","title":{"rendered":"Roni Lakin joined the graduate conference &#8220;Made to Measure&#8221; @ Rutgers WGSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first-year cohort member Roni Lakin presented his wonderful paper titled &#8220;With Steady Hands: Gilman and Bittencourt\u2019s (Un)sentimental Feminist Eugenics&#8221; at the graduate conference <em>Made to Measure<\/em> hosted by the Department of Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers in early April.<\/p>\n<p>Roni&#8217;s paper was presented under the panel for &#8220;Counting on Form: The Racial Vertigo of Quantity\/Quality.&#8221; Drawing on <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kyla Schuller<\/span><\/span>\u2019s concept of \u201cbiopolitics of feeling,\u201d the paper examines how (un)sentimentalism operates in feminist utopian fictions by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Charlotte Perkins Gilman<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Adalzira Bittencourt<\/span><\/span>. It asks how both authors mobilize or subvert gendered and racialized hierarchies of feeling to articulate feminist futures grounded in eugenic thought. Roni\u00a0argues that sentimentalism functions not merely as an aesthetic mode but as a regulatory mechanism that differentiates \u201ccivilized\u201d from \u201cprimitive\u201d bodies through cultivated emotional responsiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on Roni&#8217;s big progress in his research!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first-year cohort member Roni Lakin presented his wonderful paper titled &#8220;With Steady Hands: Gilman and Bittencourt\u2019s (Un)sentimental Feminist Eugenics&#8221; at the graduate conference Made to Measure hosted by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/comparative-literature-blog\/roni-lakin-joined-the-graduate-conference-made-to-measure-rutgers-wgss\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4279,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-activities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Roni Lakin joined the graduate conference &quot;Made to Measure&quot; 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