Title of the talk: “Growing (B)Older: Representations of ‘Queer Aging’ and Why They Matter”
Linda Hess is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Her book Queer Aging in North American Fiction was published in 2019 (Palgrave Macmillan). Her research in queerness and aging has taken her into studies of literature, films, and tv shows such as Grace and Frankie and Transparent. She is also involved in the environmental humanities. In spring 2019, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. Hess has presented her work at conferences around the world—in Germany, England, Austria, Canada, and the U.S.
Book signing to follow talk
Co-sponsored by the English Department Beck Series
