Calls for Papers - Allied Organizations
Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
Adoption and DisabilityAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture panel invites 15-min. papers that explore connections between adoption and disability. Abstracts (<500 words) and a brief CV (2pp.). by 1 March 2013; Marina Fedosik (mf107@nyu.edu)
Posted 18 January 2013
American Association for Italian Studies
Italian Representations of BlacknessTopics include Italy, Africa, and the Mediterranean; Afro-Italian Narratives; Italy and African-American culture; and/or Colonialism and Post-Colonialism. 300-word abstract by 4 March 2013; Charles Leavitt (c.l.leavitt@reading.ac.uk)
Posted 20 January 2013
Religious, Spiritual, Theological Approaches to Dante
Dante’s works explored from any religious, spiritual, or theological perspective. Abstract (200 word maximum) by 4 March 2013; Christian Moevs (Christian.Moevs.1@nd.edu)
Posted 20 January 2013
American Association of Australian Literary Studies
Literature and Film in AustralasiaAAALS seeks proposals for 15-20 minute papers on any aspect of Australian or New Zealand literature and/or film, including adaptation, narrative, history, and cultural identity. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Eva Rueschmann (erueschmann@hampshire.edu) and Nathanael O'Reilly (n.oreilly@tcu.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013
American Association of Professors of Yiddish
Joseph C. Landis: In MemoriamSession on topics studied by Joe Landis, the late founder of our association: An-sky, Asch, Bashevis, Hirschbein, Leivick, Philip Roth, Yiddish theater memoirs, etc. 150-300 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Alan Astro (aastro@trinity.edu)
Posted 3 February 2013, last updated 6 February 2013
American Association of Teachers of German
Constructive responses to current challenges faced by GermanConstructive, radical curricular revisions incorporated at undergraduate/graduate level in response to challenges of decreasing enrollments, closures, lack of institutional support. 300-word abstract and bio by 1 March 2013; Eva Russo (erusso@wustl.edu)
Posted 6 February 2013
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Is the Post- in Post-Humanism the Same as the Post- in Post-Socialism?Cultural phenomena from the Second World and its successor territories that question the “anthropological machine” of modern humanism. 200-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jonathan Brooks Platt (jbplatt@pitt.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Socialist Culture in the Age of Disco
Papers on any aspect of 1970s culture in socialist East Europe and/or the USSR: literature, television, visual culture, mass media, etc. 200-word abstracts by 22 March 2013; Rebecca Stanton (rstanton@barnard.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
American Boccaccio Association
Boccaccio & PetrarchWe welcome papers that deal with Boccaccio & Petrarch's friendship and with any kind of relations between their works: intertextualities, analogies, and reciprocal influence. 300-word proposals and brief CV by 15 March 2013; Elsa Filosa (elsa.filosa@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Lecturae Boccaccii
An ongoing MLA tradition, the Lecturae are intelligent readings of one Decameronian novella. This panel seeks enlightening interpretations of any one of Boccaccio's 100 tales. 300-word proposals and brief CV by 15 March 2013; Elsa Filosa (elsa.filosa@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Open Session
We welcome proposals related to the study of Boccaccio's life and/or works. 300-word proposals and brief CV by 15 March 2013; Elsa Filosa (elsa.filosa@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
American Humor Studies Association
The Tyranny of Irony and Irony's Edge300-word abstracts welcome on interpretive practice in the wake of insights from David Foster Wallace, Linda Hutcheon, and others on literary irony. 300-word abstracts. by 4 March 2013; Bruce F. Michelson (brucem@illinois.edu)
Posted 30 January 2013
Wit, Humor, and 'Serious' Texts
Abstracts welcome on any subject related to comic dimensions in literary works not normally classified as 'comic.'. 300 word abstracts by 4 March 2013; Bruce F. Michelson (brucem@illinois.edu)
Posted 31 January 2013
American Name Society
Names and naming in language studiesPapers on names and naming in any area of language study from anywhere in the world are welcomed. 250 word abstract by February 15 2013. by 15 February 2013; Carol Lombard (linguist1022@gmail.com)
Posted 9 January 2013, last updated 4 February 2013
American Portuguese Studies Association
Luso-Hispanic ExchangesA comparative examination of Portuguese- and Spanish-language literary and cultural materials. Latin American, peninsular, transatlantic, and other approaches welcome. 300-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Robert Newcomb (rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu) and Luiz Fernando Valente (Luiz_Valente@brown.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
American Theatre and Drama Society
ATDS panels at MLAATDS invites proposals for papers on performance, theatre, and/or drama, engaging the MLA theme, "Vulnerable Times." Email 300-word abstract as Word attachment, 1-page by 10 March 2013; Peter Reed (preed@olemiss.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
"Does It Explode?" Discursive Redlining in CLYBOURNE PARK
How does Bruce Norris' play revise/revisit the Youngers' neighborhood in Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN? Abstracts of 250 words, plus brief CV by 8 March 2013; Donald P. Gagnon (gagnond@wcsu.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Association des Amis d'André Gide
Les Caves du Vatican: 100 ans aprèsApproaches to Gide's sotie on the centenary of its first publication. 250-word abstracts, in French or English by 15 March 2013; Alison S. James (asj@uchicago.edu)
Posted 9 January 2013
Association for Business Communication
Bringing Contemporary Experience and Innovative Tools to Business Writing CoursesIn university Business Writing and Communication courses, how are graduate assistants using their experiences to teach/develop Business Writing? 250 word proposal by 4 March 2013; Katherine V. Wills (kwills@iupuc.edu)
Posted 30 January 2013
Association for Documentary Editing
Literary Works in Multiple VersionsThis panel investigates the implications of multiple versions of a text, particularly for scholarly editors. Proposals of 500 words or less plus bio by 15 March 2013; Carol DeBoer-Langworthy (cdbl@brown.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
American Indian GothicPanel seeks to investigate the recent prevalence of this genre within contemporary Indigenous literature and to describe its uniqueness within the Gothic. Abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Amy Gore (agore@eastern.edu)
Posted 3 September 2012
Native American Memoir in the West: Historical Trauma and Healing
This panel considers how Native authors negotiate healing of their personal histories in the context of historical trauma. Abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Patrice Hollrah (hollrahp@unlv.nevada.edu)
Posted 3 September 2012
Native Voices in Genre Fiction
Session seeks papers analyzing American Indian voices in genre fiction; will explore the possibilities these texts create within and beyond genre boundaries. Abstracts or full papers and c.v. by 8 March 2013; Ryan Winn (rwinn@menominee.edu )
Posted 4 September 2012
Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism
The Avant-Garde at WarPapers welcome on the exigency and fate of radical aesthetics in times of war: e.g. anti-colonial, world war, revolutions, Hungary 1956, May 1968, 9/11, Persian Gulf. 1-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jonathan P. Eburne (jpe11@psu.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013
Dada, Surrealism, and the Poetics of Outsider Art
Papers invited that explore the interrelationships between Dada, Surrealism and self-taught / visionary / marginal thinkers, writers, and artists. 1-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Kate Conley (kconley@wm.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013
Byron Society of America
Future Directions in Byron StudiesNew research and methodologies applied to Byron's life/works, including: material culture studies, cosmopolitanism, empire, "spatial turn," digital humanities, and/or book history. 250 word abstract and brief bio by 22 March 2013; Halina Adams (halinaad@udel.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
Cervantes Society of America
Emotion in CervantesEmotion, including the plural sense of emotions, affects, sentiments, passions, in Cervantes’ writings. How emotion is represented in texts, elicited in readers, articulated through language or character. 200-word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Steven Hutchinson (shutchin@wisc.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Children's Literature Association
Deliver Us To Normal: Children’s Literature and the MidwestThis panel considers how children’s literature and the American Midwest mutually construct one another through geographic and discursive exchanges. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Kate Slater (kslater@ucsd.edu)
Posted 14 August 2012, last updated 28 August 2012
Epistolary Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Analyses of epistolary Children’s and Young Adult literature even as these epistolary modalities become obsolete. 2-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Robyn Schiffman (rls@fdu.edu)
Posted 14 August 2012
Pre-Raphaelites and Children's Literature
On any aspect of text, illustration, or design of Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic, or Fin de Siecle children's books. Co-sponsored with the William Morris Society. 1-2 page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Florence Boos (florence-boos@uiowa.edu)
Posted 14 August 2012
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Literary Crossroads: African-American Literature and ChristianityPapers exploring the complex intersection between African-American literature and Christianity, ranging from discussions of slavery and Christianity/Bible to current engagements about race, religion, politics. 300-word abstracts. by 4 March 2013; Katherine Bassard (kcbassar@vcu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones
Crise du français, impact de la francophonie ?Consulter http://cief.org/congres/appelMLA2014.pdf pour une description détaillée de la session. Envoyer un précis de 350 mots. by 15 March 2013; Oana Panaïté (opanaite@indiana.edu)
Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
D. H. Lawrence and the PoetryOn the brink of the Cambridge University Press publication of the Poems, we invite papers on the poems and their contexts. 250-word abstracts or 8-page papers by 4 March 2013; Holly A. Laird (holly-laird@utulsa.edu)
Posted 15 October 2012
Doris Lessing and D.H. Lawrence
Lessing's reading of Lady Chatterley's Lover as an anti-war novel suggests important intertextual relations between these authors. 250-word comparative abstracts and bio by 10 March 2013; Holly A. Laird (holly-laird@utulsa.edu) and Alice Rideout (dorislessingsociety@gmail.com)
Posted 1 October 2012
Dickens Society
Dickens and the EnvironmentHow might we characterize modes of nineteenth-century environmental thinking, and how did Dickens intervene? How might we understand his contribution to a nineteenth-century environmental imaginary? 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Michael Rectenwald (Dickens.universe.environment@gmail.com) and Allen MacDuffie (Dickens.universe.environment@gmail.com)
Posted 10 February 2013
Stupid Dickens
Moving beyond pronouncements that Dickens produced one-dimensional characters appealing to our non-intellectual selves. Consider intelligence/stupidity in terms of provincialism/urbanity; cognition/affect; race, class, genre. 250 word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Rae Greiner (drgreine@indiana.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013
Doris Lessing Society
Doris Lessing and D.H. LawrenceLessing's reading of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" as an anti-war novel suggests important intertextual relations between these authors. 250-word abstracts and bio by 10 March 2013. by 10 March 2013; Alice Rachel Ridout (dorislessingsociety@gmail.com) and Holly Laird (holly-laird@utulsa.edu)
Posted 1 October 2012
Emigres, Expats, and Exiles in Postwar London
When Doris Lessing returned to Britain in 1950 she joined an influx of immigrants to London. Comparative studies welcomed. 250 word abstracts and brief bios by 14 March 2013; Alice Rachel Ridout (alice.ridout@algomau.ca)
Posted 30 January 2013
Learned Society Journals: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century
What challenges and opportunities do learned society journals face in the twenty-first century? Bios and 250-word abstracts for roundtable talks by 11 March 2013; Alice Rachel Ridout (alice.ridout@algomau.ca)
Posted 30 January 2013
Edith Wharton Society
Queer WhartonHomosexuality and homosociality in Wharton; queer authors, intertexts, and aesthetics in Wharton’s writing; Wharton’s relationships with gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals; queering Wharton’s nonfiction writing. 250-word abstracts and c.v.s by 15 March 2013; Meredith Lynn Goldsmith (mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu)
Posted 9 February 2013
Emily Dickinson International Society
Dickinson and VisualityEmily Dickinson’s engagements with vision in any of its senses. Visual cultures, technologies, arts, performances, spectacles. 19c optics. Blindness, hallucination, observation. Ekphrasis, word and image. 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Eliza Richards (eliza_richards@unc.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Dickinson, Poe, and 19c Aesthetic Practices
Papers comparing the work of Dickinson and Poe by locating them within a 19th-century cultural trend or literary practice. 250-word abstract and cv by 15 March 2013; Eliza Richards (eliza_richards@unc.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society
Hemingway and the Chicago RenaissanceWe invite papers that explore Hemingway’s relationship with the Chicago Renaissance and the writers and texts prominent within that movement. 250-500 word abstract and a brief CV by 1 March 2013; Sara A. Kosiba (skosiba@troy.edu)
Posted 9 January 2013
Eugene O'Neill Society
O'Neill and the CityO’Neill's relationship to urban life, as depicted in his plays, in contexts that influenced his writing, or in productions, including major revivals. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jefferey Kennedy (jtkennedy@asu.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Feministas Unidas
¿Terror feminista/femenina?We will engage the language of terror(ism) in creative works by Spanish-speaking/U.S. Latina women writers, film makers and visual artists. How is terrorism related to women's experience/creativity/in)visibility? 250 word abstracts by 1 February 2013; Maria DiFrancesco (mdifrancesco@ithaca.edu)
Posted 8 October 2012
GEMELA: Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800)
Women’s Fears and Fear of Women 1300-1800Women's texts about women experiencing fear, or as subjects to be feared, in Iberia and Latin America. 1 page abstract and 2 page CV. by 20 February 2013; Dana C. Bultman (dbultman@uga.edu)
Posted 29 January 2013
George Sand Association
Ecocritical SandThe natural world, artistic creativity, and the environment; nature vs. nurture; city vs. country. Environmental awareness, activism, recycling, ecosystems of affect, harmony and idealism, theories of social justice. One-page abstract by 1 March 2013; Lauren Ravalico (aurenravalico@gmail.com)
Posted 27 January 2013
Women on Work, Women's Work
Literary and cultural approaches to work; material labor and the work of culture and language in the writings of George Sand and nineteenth-century women writers. One-page abstract by 15 March 2013; Pratima Prasad (Pratima.Prasad@umb.edu) and David Bell (dfbell@duke.edu)
Posted 27 January 2013
Goethe Society of North America
National EpicWe seek papers that analyze the particular fascination of the German literary imagination with national epic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 300-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Charlton Payne (charlton.payne@uni-erfurt.de)
Posted 24 January 2013
The Sacrificial Dynamic in Goethe
Papers discussing the degree to which Goethe’s works reflect, and reflect on, sacrificial processes. Both fictional and non-fictional works may be considered. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; David Wellbery (wellbery@uchicago.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Graduate Student Caucus
Compromising, Negotiating: Being a Graduate StudentHow to be a grad student? Privacy, negotiating conflicts, living healthy, planning the future, dealing with discrimination, parenthood and school... Abstract: 300 words (Roundtable: 8 minutes/present by 10 March 2013; Loic Bourdeau (lbourdeau@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 24 January 2013
Exile, Death, Sacrifice: The Poetics of Suffering in Francophone Literature
Exile, death, and sacrifice in Francophone literature (19th to 21st century): writing “souffrance” and its implications. Abstract: 300 words. (Presentations: 20 minutes) by 10 March 2013; Loic Bourdeau (lbourdeau@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 24 January 2013
Harold Pinter Society
Pinter and the ArtsPresentations on Pinter and his relation to other art forms welcome. 250-word abstracts with name, address, phone, emai by 15 March 2013; Ann C. Hall (halla@ohiodominican.edu)
Posted 31 January 2013
Henry James Society
James and Conrad: Art, Criticism, HistoryTopics might address these issues in fiction, non-fiction, or through historical interaction. Papers comparing critically neglected texts will be given priority. 300-500 word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Kenneth W. Warren (kwarren@uchicago.edu) and Christopher GoGwilt ( gogwilt@fordham.edu.)
Posted 21 February 2013
International Association of Galdós Scholars
Alternative Sexualities in 19th-century Realist FictionWhat are the questions arising from the study of non-normative sexualities in the fiction of Benito Pérez Galdós and his contemporaries? 250 word abstracts by 3 March 2013; Collin McKinney (cm038@bucknell.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
International Brecht Society
Brecht and the Century of WarAnticipating the 100th anniversary of the onset of hostilities in WWI, this panel explores how war informs and takes form in Brecht’s works. Abstracts, 200-300 words by 15 March 2013; Marc David Silberman (mdsilber@wisc.edu) and Theodor Rippey (theodor@bgsu.edu)
Posted 16 January 2013
Teaching Brecht
Proposals sought with critical reflections and best practices on teaching Bertolt Brecht’s ideas and works (dramas, prose, poetry), including text selection, performing excerpts, and integrating theoretical issues. Abstracts (200 words) by 15 March 2013; Per Urlaub (urlaub@austin.utexas.edu) and Paula Hanssen (hanssen@webster.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013
International Courtly Literature Society
Storms at/of the CourtThis session will explore how medieval courtly literature uses the storm (emotional or literal) as motif, metaphor, and plot mechanism. abstracts, 500 words. by 15 March 2013; Kathy M. Krause (krausek@umkc.edu)
Posted 2 February 2013
International Society for the Study of Narrative
Narrative Empathy for "the Other"How do literary texts depict and/or elicit empathy that transgresses identity categories? What strategies do texts employ to elicit readerly empathy? Abstracts of 500 words or less by 1 March 2013; Patrick Horn (pathorn@unc.edu)
Posted 9 December 2012
What Makes a Modernist Plot?
Modernism's supposed resistance to plot needs reconsideration, given an enlarged modernist corpus and new cognitive and rhetorical approaches in narrative theory. 250-word abstract and short biographical statement by 1 March 2013; Richard Walsh (richard.walsh@york.ac.uk)
Posted 8 November 2012
International Spenser Society
Spenser's "Darke" MaterialsAs Amphion moved stones with songs to build Thebes, Spenser shaped matter into poetry. This panel examines Spenser’s imbrication of materials (tools, remains) and immaterial forces (language, memory). abstracts by 15 March 2013; Tiffany Jo Werth (twerth@sfu.ca) and Rebeca Helfer (rhelfer@uci.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013
International Virginia Woolf Society
Virginia Woolf, book history & artsWoolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of the material book or printing process in Woolf; or bibliographical or manuscript-based studies. lhankins@cornellcollege.edu and barnhiselg@duq.edu. 300-word abstract by 8 March 2013; Leslie Kathleen Hankins (lhankins@cornellcollege.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013
Virginia Woolf, book history & arts
Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of the material book or printing process in Woolf; or bibliographical or manuscript-based studies. lhankins@cornellcollege.edu and barnhiselg@duq.edu. 300-word abstract by 8 March 2013; Leslie Kathleen Hankins (lhankins@cornellcollege.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013
Woolf and London's Colonial Writers
Literary, political, social, and spatial connections between Virginia Woolf and London-affiliated writers from the British colonies. Elizabeth F. Evans elizabeth.evans@nd.edu. (subject to MLA approval). 300 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Leslie Kathleen Hankins (lhankins@cornellcollege.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013
Woolf, Wittgenstein, and Ordinary Language
Woolf's and Wittgenstein’s philosophies of ordinary language, their tangential relationship to the “Apostles” and/or Bloomsbury. Organizers: Madelyn Detloff detlofmm@miamioh.edu and Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. pohlhag@miamioh.edu. 300 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Leslie Kathleen Hankins (lhankins@cornellcollege.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
"Nabokov and Indeterminacy"Guaranteed session. Criticism has debated conflicting solutions for Pale Fire, Sebastian Knight, and Lolita. The panel invites papers treating open-ended interpretations of any Nabokov works. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Priscilla Meyer (pmeyer@wesleyan.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Nabokov and the Future of the Humanities
Seeking papers that explore ways Nabokov’s works can help reinvigorate the humanities’ role within university curricula and the culture at large. 300-word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Stephen H. Blackwell (sblackwe@utk.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Conrad and CognitionPapers are invited exploring the relations between recent work in cognitive science and Conrad's understanding of the mind. Abstracts are requested for papers of 15-20 minute by 15 March 2013; Paul B. Armstrong (paul_armstrong@brown.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013
James and Conrad: Art, Criticism, History
Topics might address fiction, non-fiction, or historical interaction. Comparative papers discussing critically neglected texts will be given priority. 300-500 word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Christopher GoGwilt (gogwilt@fordham.edu) and Kenneth Warren (kwarren@uchicago.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Keats & CompanyKeats’s life and work in the context of Romantic sociability: friends, coteries, and collectors, then and now; conversation, correspondence, and print. 250 word abstract and brief bio by 15 March 2013; Sarah M. Zimmerman (zimmerman@fordham.edu)
Posted 2 February 2013, last updated 4 February 2013
Langston Hughes Society
"Langston Hughes's Poetry in Vulnerable Times"Abstracts examining the theme of “vulnerable times” in Hughes’s texts. Presenters must join the Modern Language Association and Langston Hughes Society. 250 word abstract and CV by 10 March 2013; Sharon Lynette Jones (sharon.jones@wright.edu)
Posted 1 February 2013
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
Dadaphone: Interminacy in Words and MusicDada texts and indeterminate music utilize non-traditional means of organization. Send proposals that address words and sound combined using an element of chance. 250 word proposals by 1 March 2013; Jeff Dailey (drjsdailey@aol.com) and Jonathan Eburne (jpe11@psu.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013
Sir Walter Scott and Music
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Waverley, we seek proposals on any of Scott's works and music, including song settings, opera, musical theatre, etc. 250-350 word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Jeff Dailey (drjsdailey@aol.com)
Posted 27 December 2012
Margaret Atwood Society
Electronic AtwoodOn Atwood's creative use of electronic media. 250 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Theodore F. Sheckels (tsheckel@rmc.edu)
Posted 29 January 2013
Margaret Atwood's Latest Work: A Roundtable Discussion
The ORYX AND CRAKE trilogy will be completed in October. A roundtable discussion of the final book. Abstracts suggesting approach you anticipate takin by 15 March 2013; Theodore Sheckels (tsheckel@rmc.edu) and Karma Waltonen (kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 29 January 2013
Margaret Fuller Society
The Genres of Margaret Fuller's WritingTranslation. Travel. Essay. Conversation. Dialogue. Utopian vision. Mysticism. Poetry. Fiction. Sermon. Book review. History. Hybrid forms. Links to other writers. 1-2 page abstract plus short vita by 18 March 2013; Jeffrey Allen Steele (jsteele@wisc.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Mark Twain Circle of America
Beyond Huck and Puddn'head: Mark Twain and Racethree paper panel. 300 word abstracts examining Twain and race in wor by 15 March 2013; John Bird (birdj@winthrop.edu)
Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Mark Twain's Style(s)
A three-paper session analyzing Mark Twain's style. 300 word abstracts analyzing aspects of Mark Twain by 15 March 2013; John Bird (birdj@winthrop.edu)
Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Spectatorship and Reception in Early DramaRoundtable session on the audience's role in early drama, with attention to theories of spectatorship applied to medieval performance. Brief abstracts to initiate a conversation amongst by 1 January 2013; Carolyn E. Coulson-Grigsby (ccoulson2@su.edu)
Posted 9 September 2012
MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
New Directions in American Multiethnic Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Theories and CriticismsWe welcome both theoretical conceptualizations and application of them to analyzing multiethnic (women's) literature. Brief abstract and 1-page CV. by 20 March 2013; Lingyan Yang (lingyan@iup.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Rustbelt Migrations: Ethnicities and (De)Industrialization
Literature of immigrants (from Europe, Asia, etc.) and internal migrants (Blacks, Chicanos, American Indians) connected to urban spaces, racial formation, and global capitalism. Abstract and 1-page CV. by 15 March 2013; Lingyan Yang (lingyan@iup.edu) and Richard T. Rodriguez (rtrodrig@illinois.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Melville Society
Imagery and Influence: Hawthorne and MelvilleThis collaborative panel explores how Hawthorne and Melville shared influences, traded influence, and/or incorporated classical images, narratives, and sources into their work. Proposal and Short CV by 15 March 2013; Joseph Fruscione (josephk@email.gwu.edu) and David Greven (dgreven@mailbox.sc.edu)
Posted 18 December 2012
Melville and Matter
Echoing themes of vulnerability and resilience, we seek readings of Melville vis-a-vis what has been called the “new materialism” and the “new vitalism.”. 300-500 word proposal and two-page CV by 15 March 2013; Tim Marr (marr@unc.edu) and Joseph Fruscione (josephk@email.gwu.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Milton Society of America
John Milton: A General SessionPapers on all topics relating to John Milton. Please send abstracts or complete papers. 8-page o by 15 March 2013; Ken Hiltner (hiltner@english.ucsb.edu) and Rachel Trubowitz (Rachel.Trubowitz@unh.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Milton in the Long Restoration
This session will explore Milton's presence in the long Restoration. We seek papers that address this topic from various critical perspectives. Title and brief abstract of paper. by 15 March 2013; Albert J. Rivero (albert.rivero@marquette.edu) and Blair Hoxby (bhoxby@stanford.edu)
Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 15 January 2013
Milton’s Modernities
Papers addressing the poet’s seventeenth-century context or later influence. Full CFP at miltonsociety.org. Please send 500-word abstracts or eight-page paper by 15 March 2013; Ken Hiltner (hiltner@english.ucsb.edu) and Feisal Mohamed (fgm@illinois.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association
Psychoanalysis and Its LegaciesReflections on the impact of this Viennese methodology on culture, on the limitations of Freud's influence, or on the originary texts of psychoanalysis are welcome. Abstracts, short bio by 15 March 2013; Heidi Schlipphacke (hschlipp@odu.edu) and Imke Meyer (ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013
Modernist Studies Association
What Makes a Modernist Plot?Modernism's resistance to plot needs reconsideration, given new modernist corpus and narrative theories. 250-word abstract and bio to richard.walsh@york.ac.uk. 1st March 2013. 250-word abstract and bio by 1 March 2013; Susan Stanford Friedman (ssfriedm@wisc.edu) and Richard Walsh (richard.walsh@york.ac.uk)
Posted 18 November 2012, last updated 21 November 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Hawthorne in 1864In his last year of life, Hawthorne faced challenges on many fronts. All interpretations of this topic are welcome. 250-500 word abstracts and a short c.v. by 15 March 2013; Ellen Weinauer (ellen.weinauer@usm.edu)
Posted 20 December 2012
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Romanticism and SystemsAny aspect of the relationship between Romanticism and systems (aesthetic, biological, linguistic, political etc.). 500 word abstracts by 10 March 2013; Mark Canuel (mcanuel@uic.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013
Paul Claudel Society
Claudel et les Amériques: Théâtre et PoésieProposed by Sergio Villani, the session will focus on Claudel’s production in North and South America. Submit your abstract (50-100 words) by March 1, 20 by 1 March 2013; Christophe Ippolito (christophe.ippolito@modlangs.gatech.edu)
Posted 24 January 2013, last updated 25 January 2013
Pirandello Society of America
Global PirandelloPirandello in and of the world: topics such as cosmopolitanism and global geographies, including legacies, influences, audiences, adaptations. Interdisciplinary/comparative approaches encouraged. 250-word abstract, with title and brief biography. by 15 March 2013; Jana O'Keefe Bazzoni (jana.okeefebazzoni@baruch.cuny.edu)
Posted 17 February 2013
Modern Consciousness: Pirandellian Obsessions
Topics including psychology, spirituality, sexuality and other aspects of modern consciousness in Pirandello and contemporaries; interdisciplinary/comparative approaches encouraged. 250-word abstract, with title and brief biography. by 15 March 2013; Jana O'Keefe Bazzoni (jana.okeefebazzoni@baruch.cuny.edu)
Posted 17 February 2013
Poe Studies Association
Dickinson, Poe, and 19-Century Aesthetic PracticesPapers comparing the work of Dickinson and Poe by locating them within a 19th-century cultural trend or literary practice. 250-word abstract and resume. by 15 March 2013; Eliza Richards (ecr@email.unc.edu) and Paul Lewis (paul.lewis@bc.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Hoaxing Poe
Papers that deal with specific Poe hoaxes (e.g., “Hans Pfall,” “The Balloon Hoax,” “Valdemar”) and/or with the hoaxing impulse in other works are welcome. 250-word abstract and resume by 15 February 2013; Paul Lewis (paul.lewis@bc.edu)
Posted 17 November 2012
Reception Study Society
Bookshops: History of the Vanishing PresentLiterary, archival, ethnographic, and economic approaches to the question: What does it mean to read in a world with fewer bookshops? 250- to 500-word abstracts by 13 March 2013; Kinohi Nishikawa (kinohi.nishikawa.3@nd.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Reception Study
We invite papers/panels on any topic related to literary/film reception or book history. Join the Reception Study Society group on MLACommons, contribute to the conversation or email proposal. 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Ildiko Olasz (olasz@nwmissouri.edu)
Posted 22 February 2013
Romanian Studies Association of America
The Reciprocal Gaze between Romania and SpainImages of Spain in the works of Romanian-speaking writers, and/or of Romania in the works of Spanish-speaking authors. Emphasis on cross-cultural aspects. Half page abstracts. by 10 March 2013; Rodica Ieta (rodica.ieta@gmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013
Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch
Charlemagne at the Crossroads of Europe: Negotiating IntersectionsPapers addressing reflections in the romance epic of Charlemagne negotiating intersections (Church/Empire, Pan-European politics, war/peace). Abstract (250 words), brief CV. by 14 March 2013; Paula E. Leverage (leverage@purdue.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature
CORPORA: Textual, Sexual, Non-Human BodiesTopics including: gender/sexuality, body politic, bodies of text, real/imagined bodies, angelic/monstrous bodies...papers addressing contemporary theoretical debates. Selected papers may be published. 1-page abstract; 1-page CV by 11 March 2013; Elio C. Brancaforte (ebranca@tulane.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Medieval Women and PovertyWe are interested in examining medieval women and charity, limited resources in households and religious organizations, models of poverty, poor books and readers. Paper session, please submit abstracts by 20 March 2013; Dorothy Kim (dokim@vassar.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches
What happens to marginal approaches (feminist, queer, disability, racial) and boutique subjects (medieval studies) in the MOOC paradigm? please submit an abstract for this roundtable disc by 20 March 2013; Dorothy Kim (dokim@vassar.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
Dreaming the Actual: Chicago Literary VoicesHow do Chicago writers use - - and resist - - the city in their art? Title, a short Vita, and a one page abstract by 15 March 2013; Marilyn Judith Atlas (atlas@ohio.edu)
Posted 2 February 2013
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Native South: Past, Present, and FutureWhere do Native American and southern literary studies intersect? What are the perils/possibilities for imagining the Native South as a field of study? Abstracts, 250 Words by 15 March 2013; Gina Caison (gcaison@gsu.edu) and Stephanie Rountree (slittle19@gsu.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013, last updated 4 February 2013
Other Archives, Other Souths
How have authors incorporated histories beyond those found in traditional archival sources in order to broaden representations of a multicultural south in literature? Abstracts, 250 Words by 15 March 2013; Gina Caison (gcaison@gsu.edu) and Stephanie Rountree (slittle19@gsu.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013, last updated 4 February 2013
South Asian Literary Association
100 Years of BollywoodCritical reflections on a century of films coming from Mumbai and popular in the West. Themes include directors, stars, identity, representation, music, global reception. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Rahul Gairola (rgairola@uw.edu)
Posted 1 February 2013
South Asia at Risk
analyses of South Asian literary/film texts examining violated bodies, homophobia, racism, gender violence, caste barriers, religious intolerance, economic vulnerability, environmental degradation, oppression of all kinds. 150 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Nalini Iyer (niyer@seattleu.edu)
Posted 31 January 2013
South Asian Diasporas beyond the US
Presenters will explore the intersections, parallels, and tensions between South Asians and other Groups outside the US, including Australia, Africa, and South East Asia. 200-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Moumin Quazi (quazi@tarleton.edu) and Indrani Mitra (mitra@msmary.edu)
Posted 30 January 2013
T. S. Eliot Society
T. S. Eliot and the Other ArtsWe invite proposals exploring the relations between Eliot’s work and extraliterary art forms such as music, the visual arts, dance, and cinema. 500-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Frances Dickey (dickeyf@missouri.edu)
Posted 29 January 2013
Thoreau Society
Transcendental MaterialismsWe seek presentations demonstrating how new/green materialist approaches elucidate the Concord Transcendentalists’ engagements with subject/object, mind/matter, and self/world--preferably (but not exclusively) in relation to their Transatlantic contemporaries. 500-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Rochelle Johnson (rjohnson@collegeofidaho.edu)
Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 2 February 2013
Western Literature Association
Global Art, Western American ContextThe influence of reading/seeing art from all times and areas, such as in museums or books, within a personal context of the American West. 300-word abstracts by 6 March 2013; Max Despain (max.despain@gmail.com)
Posted 28 December 2012
Native American Memoir in the West: Historical Trauma and Healing
This panel considers how Native authors negotiate healing of their personal histories in the context of historical trauma. Abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Patrice Hollrah (hollrahp@unlv.nevada.edu)
Posted 22 October 2012
William Carlos Williams Society
New Directions in Williams StudiesContemporary approaches to Williams in “lightning talk” PechaKucha format -- possible topics include: medicine/embodiment; technology; transnationalism; ecocriticism; Williams and/in archives; publishing; etc. CV and 200 word abstracts by 22 March 2013; Daniel Burke (daniel.e.burke@marquette.edu)
Posted 27 January 2013
William Faulkner Society
Faulkner and DisabilitySuggested topics: representation of disability, constructions of ableism, applications of disability studies to Faulkner's work, the intersection of modernism and disability, or other related areas. 500 word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Deborah L. Clarke (deborah.clarke@asu.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013
Faulkner and Women Writers
Proposals on Faulkner’s relation to women writers, including but not limited to: specific writers, techniques associated with women writers, reception theory, cultural context. 500 word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Deborah L. Clarke (deborah.clarke@asu.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013
William Morris Society
William Morris, Arts and Crafts, and the MidwestPapers are invited on the influence of Morris and his associates on Midwestern culture. 1 page abstracts; please send by e-mail by 15 March 2013; Florence S. Boos (florence-boos@uiowa.edu)
Posted 14 October 2012
Women in German
Fifty Shades of BrechtBrecht's (mis-)treatment of female collaborators is notorious. Panel considers why women sacrificed so much to work with Brecht and what benefit they derived from this collaboration. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Julie K Allen (jkallen@wisc.edu) and Kristopher Imbrigotta (imbrigotta@wisc.edu)
Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Made in Germany: Nation Branding through Feminist Literature and Film
This panel considers how German feminist texts support, challenge, and/or undermine the creation and marketing of a German national brand. 250-word abstract by 1 March 2013; Julie K Allen (jkallen@wisc.edu) and Jamele Watkins (jamele@german.umass.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages
Alt-Academic Feminism I: "Teaching Outside the Classroom through Digital Humanities."Amid Fembot Collective, Black Girls Code, MOOCs, “brogrammers,” new collaborations—how women teach, learn, connect via DH. 250-word proposal for a roundtable presentation. by 15 March 2013; Teresa Mangum (teresa-mangum@uiowa.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Alt-Academic Feminism II: "Theorizing Collaborative Action Beyond Classrooms"
Community-based, integrative, and service-learning as recognized high-impact practices but also vulnerable programs; what are models/risks of framing activist work as teaching/research/service responsibilities? 250-word proposals by 15 March 2013; Jessica Ketcham Weber (jweber@cascadia.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Alt-Academic Feminism III: Feminist Vulnerability on Post-Feminist Campuses
Success, support, problems, or backlash in developing programs/curriculum, equity in policy (e.g., FMLA), personnel (e.g., representation/workload), and hiring (e.g., contingent labor). 250-word proposals by 15 March 2013; Michelle A. Massé (mmasse@lsu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Romantic AdaptationEssays should examine the purposes and techniques of textual adaptation in British Romantic literature, including translation, revision, retraction, bricolage, plagiarism, parody, forgery, hoax, lampoon, and caricature. Abstracts (250-300 words) by 15 March 2013; James C. McKusick (james.mckusick@umontana.edu)
Posted 14 December 2012
Community College Humanities Association
Vulnerability and Survivalism of Humanities in Corporatized AcademiaA roundtable on how humanities faculty can resist adjunctification and other neoliberal "market-driven" values and corporate structures increasingly prevalent in academia. abstracts/ position papers by 11 March 2013; George Louis Scheper (gscheper@jhu.edu) and Stacey Donohue (sdonohue@cocc.edu)
Posted 4 February 2013
John Clare Society of North America
"John Clare: The Voices of Nature."Papers addressing any aspect of Clare's poetry and prose, especially regarding the intersection between nature and language. One page abstract by 15 March 2013; Samantha Celeste Harvey (samanthaharvey@boisestate.edu)
Posted 28 December 2012
Society for Textual Scholarship
Texts Divided: Textual Scholarship and the American Civil WarPapers on Civil War textuality—broadly considered--for Society for Textual Scholarship panel. Proposals welcome on texts produced during/well after the war. 300-word abstracts, CVs by 15 March 2013; Coleman Hutchison (coleman.hutchison@utexas.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Book History and WoolfVirginia Woolf, book history & arts. Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of the material book or printing process in Woolf; bibliographical or manuscript-based studies. 300-word abstract by 8 March 2013; Greg Barnhisel (barnhiselg@duq.edu) and Leslie Hankins (lhankins@cornellcollege.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013
Books and the Law
Readers, writers, publishers, printers, booksellers, and the law: copyright, sedition/blasphemy, legal texts, censorship, the law in literature, labor law in print shops, etc. 250-word abstracts and CVs by 15 March 2013; Greg Barnhisel (barnhiselg@duq.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013
Roundtable: Book History and Digital Humanities
The relationships between book history and digital humanities. Short presentations on new scholarship in book history and DH, archival materials, learning DH skills, etc. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Lise Jaillant (ljaill01@interchange.ubc.ca)
Posted 12 February 2013