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Let’s Hear It for the Old Guy: The Recent Rise of Sexagenarian Action Heroes

Presenter: 
Gary Earl Ross (State University at Buffalo)
Presentation type: 
Paper
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Scheduled on: 
Saturday, November 8, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm

About the presenter

Gary Earl Ross

Gary Earl Ross is a retired University at Buffalo professor and author of the books The Wheel of Desire, Shimmerville, and Blackbird Rising, and the plays Sleepwalker, Picture Perfect, The Best Woman, Murder Squared, The Scavenger’s Daughter, and Matter of Intent, winner of the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America. Other honors include the Emanuel Fried Outstanding New Play Award, a LIFT Fiction Fellowship, a Saltonstall Foundation Playwriting Fellowship, and public radio commentary awards from the New York Associated Press and the New York Broadcasters Association. Ross is a member of the Just Buffalo Literary Center, the Dramatists Guild of America, Mystery Writers of America, Ujima Theater Company (where he is resident playwright), and MAPACA, for which he has served as president, Almanack editor, and area chair for Film and for Comics-Cartoons-&-Video-Games.

Session information

High-Density Popular Culture Crash Course

Saturday, November 8, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm (Theater)

This special session will feature several 5-minute micro-presentations about a variety of current popular culture subjects—it’s a pop culture crash course! Come take advantage of this opportunity to learn about a range of topics meant to inform popular culture scholars beyond their specific research interests. “Snacks provided”

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