Exploring the Boundaries of Literary Age Studies

Authors

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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee

Valerie Barnes Lipscomb is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Her work on age and drama has appeared in a variety of journals, as well as a 2016 Palgrave Macmillan monograph, Performing Age in Modern Drama. She currently chairs the MLA’s Age Studies Forum Executive Committee.
Cynthia Port, Coastal Carolina University

Cynthia Port is Associate Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University and coeditor of Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her research on age and temporality in modern and contemporary fiction has been published in numerous venues. Currently, she serves on the North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS) governing council.
Aagje Swinnen, Maastricht University

Aagje Swinnen is Endowed Socrates Chair in International Humanism and the Art of Living at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht and Assistant Professor at Maastricht University. She has published on the workings of age ideologies in literature, photography, and film. Swinnen is cofounder and current deputy chair of the European Network in Aging Studies as well as coeditor of the journal Age, Culture, Humanities.