Book Launch Imagining Pasts with author Kristin Franseen
Wed, Jan 10
|Montréal
We are honored to host Kristin Franseen's book launch for Imagining Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson.
Heure et lieu
Jan 10, 2024, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Montréal, 40 Rue Beaubien E, Montréal, QC H2S 1P8, Canada
À propos de l'évènement
Imagining Musical Pasts explores the complicated archive of sources, interpretations, and people present in queer writings on opera and symphonic music from ca.1880-1935. It focuses primarily on the work of three turn-of-the-twentieth-century music scholars--philosopher and horror writer Vernon Lee.
Kristin M. Franseen is a postdoctoral fellow in history at Concordia University,
where she is also a research associate with the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Her research is
supported by research and knowledge mobilization grants from the Fonds de recherche du
Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC). She received her PhD in musicology from McGill
University in 2019, where her dissertation examined early 20th-century queer writings on opera