Less Tomorrow, More Today: Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction
Less Tomorrow, More Today: Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction
Join a virtual conversation with English's Visiting Professor Gero Bauer.
For a copy of Bauer's paper, contact Karen Nelson (knelson@umd.edu).
Gero Bauer is a visiting professor who teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen, and is the managing director of Tübingen's Center for Gender and Diversity Research. Since the publication of his first monograph, "Houses, Secrets and the Closet: Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James" (2016), Bauer has been working on a new book project on "Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction". He has published journal articles and book chapters on early modern natural philosophy, gender and literature, queer film and television, and queer pedagogies, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London. This fall term, he is a visiting professor at UMD, teaching one class each at the Department of English and at the Honors College.