Assistant Professor of English Vallaire Wallace presented on a panel at CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies’ “Queer-Class Relations Conference,” held at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. The panel was called “Queer Erotics of Class Crossover,” and was facilitated by Aaron Lecklider of UMass Boston. Dr. Wallace’s paper, titled “Homosociality At Sea: Hughes, The Big Sea and Class Consciousness,” focuses on reading Langston Hughes’ 1940 biography The Big Sea through a queer lens, with attention to how same-sex desire shadows his class encounters abroad, especially while in Nigeria.