CFP: Special session on "Queer Characters," MLA, Boston, 3-6 January 2013
Kenneth Nolley <[email protected]>
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From: Nils Axel Nissen <[email protected]> Dear colleagues, Papers are invited on any aspect of the role and function of queer supporting characters in classic Hollywood films (1930-60) and/or the actors who played them for a proposed special session on "Queer Characters" at the MLA convention in Boston 3-6 January 2013. 300-500 word abstract and short cv to [email protected] ASAP and by Friday, March 23rd at the latest. Sincerely yours, Axel Nissen Professor of American Literature University of Oslo **Just out: Axel Nissen, Mother, Mammies, and Old Maids: Twenty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood, foreword by Siân Phillips (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012) http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6137-0