Preface and introduction.
Abstract
We are pleased to welcome to new members to our Advisory Board, Quinn Duclos and Kyle Glover. Quinn is a Doctoral Candidate in Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. whose primary research focus is on social media use by health educators. Kyle is obtaining his PsyD. in Applied Clinical Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology at San Diego.
In Issue No. 2 of New Male Studies for 2020 we have three referreed articles, which in turn examine fatherhood after parental separation, boys' early school leaving, and men as displaced refugees. There are also two short contributions the first of which describes the author's liefe experience of the consequences of male embodiment; the second is a transcript of an interview with the founder of Menspeak, a non-hierarchical, male-centred British men's group.
The issue closes with yet another thought provoking photographic essay from one of our regular contributors.
Author Biography
Dr Gouws is a Professor of English at Springfield College in Massachusetts, U.S.A. and a Lecturer in English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A. He has resident status in Australia, and lives in Canberra for several months of the year, working with Australian colleagues in the fields of male health and male studies. He serves on the editorial board of The International Journal of Family Research and Policy and on the advisory board of The Foundation for Male Studies. His recent publications include Manhood and Mettle in George Eliot Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss: Male Characters Negotiating Victorian Material Culture, The Confidential Clerk. (Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University, India) and Oriental Interiors: Identities, Performance, Space. (John Potvin, Ed.)
