International Masculinities Workshop in Dresden, June 9-11, 2010

“Between the National and the Transnational, 1945-1980: Masculinities in British and American Literature between World War II and Thatcher/Reagan,” the first of three international workshops, will take place in Dresden, Germany, June 9-11, 2010. The workshop organizers, Prof. Dr. Stefan Horlacher (TU Dresden) and Prof. Kevin Floyd (Kent State University), describe the workshop as encouraging “scholarly movement in a direction that both builds on recent work in the field of masculinity studies and moves past it, toward more comparative analysis…. We seek papers that examine, within a transatlantic framework, literary representations of masculinity in the U.S. and/or the U.K. from the post-World War II period to the period immediately preceding the era of Thatcher and Reagan. We especially encourage literary analyses that consider or propose connections between US and UK masculinities, and that examine those masculinities at simultaneously national and transnational levels.”
Abstracts for paper proposals are due by December 31, 2009. Download the “Call for Papers.”

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