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Calls for Papers - All TypesAllied OrganizationsAlliance for the Study of Adoption and CultureAdoption and DisabilityAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture panel invites 15-min. papers that explore ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 American Association for Italian StudiesItalian Representations of BlacknessTopics include Italy, Africa, and the Mediterranean; Afro-Italian Narratives; Italy and ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 Religious, Spiritual, Theological Approaches to Dante Dante’s works explored from any religious, spiritual, or theological perspective. Abstract (200 ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 American Association of Australian Literary StudiesLiterature and Film in AustralasiaAAALS seeks proposals for 15-20 minute papers on any aspect of Australian or New Zealand literature ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 American Association of Professors of YiddishJoseph C. Landis: In MemoriamSession on topics studied by Joe Landis, the late founder of our association: An-sky, Asch, ... See more Posted 3 February 2013, last updated 6 February 2013 American Association of Teachers of GermanConstructive responses to current challenges faced by GermanConstructive, radical curricular revisions incorporated at undergraduate/graduate level in response ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European LanguagesIs 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 ... See more 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, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 American Boccaccio AssociationBoccaccio & PetrarchWe welcome papers that deal with Boccaccio & Petrarch's friendship and with any kind of relations ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Lecturae Boccaccii An ongoing MLA tradition, the Lecturae are intelligent readings of one Decameronian novella. This ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Open Session We welcome proposals related to the study of Boccaccio's life and/or works. 300-word proposals and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 American Humor Studies AssociationThe Tyranny of Irony and Irony's Edge300-word abstracts welcome on interpretive practice in the wake of insights from David Foster ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Wit, Humor, and 'Serious' Texts Abstracts welcome on any subject related to comic dimensions in literary works not normally ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 American Name SocietyNames and naming in language studiesPapers on names and naming in any area of language study from anywhere in the world are welcomed. ... See more Posted 9 January 2013, last updated 4 February 2013 American Portuguese Studies AssociationLuso-Hispanic ExchangesA comparative examination of Portuguese- and Spanish-language literary and cultural materials. ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 American Theatre and Drama SocietyATDS panels at MLAATDS invites proposals for papers on performance, theatre, and/or drama, engaging the MLA theme, ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Association des Amis d'André GideLes Caves du Vatican: 100 ans aprèsApproaches to Gide's sotie on the centenary of its first publication. 250-word abstracts, in French ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Association for Business CommunicationBringing Contemporary Experience and Innovative Tools to Business Writing CoursesIn university Business Writing and Communication courses, how are graduate assistants using their ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Association for Documentary EditingLiterary Works in Multiple VersionsThis panel investigates the implications of multiple versions of a text, particularly for scholarly ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Association for the Study of American Indian LiteraturesAmerican Indian GothicPanel seeks to investigate the recent prevalence of this genre within contemporary Indigenous ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 3 September 2012 Native Voices in Genre Fiction Session seeks papers analyzing American Indian voices in genre fiction; will explore the ... See more Posted 4 September 2012 Association for the Study of Dada and SurrealismThe Avant-Garde at WarPapers welcome on the exigency and fate of radical aesthetics in times of war: e.g. anti-colonial, ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Dada, Surrealism, and the Poetics of Outsider Art Papers invited that explore the interrelationships between Dada, Surrealism and self-taught / ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Byron Society of AmericaFuture Directions in Byron StudiesNew research and methodologies applied to Byron's life/works, including: material culture studies, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Cervantes Society of AmericaEmotion in CervantesEmotion, including the plural sense of emotions, affects, sentiments, passions, in Cervantes’ ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Children's Literature AssociationDeliver Us To Normal: Children’s Literature and the MidwestThis panel considers how children’s literature and the American Midwest mutually construct one ... See more 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 ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 14 August 2012 Conference on Christianity and LiteratureLiterary Crossroads: African-American Literature and ChristianityPapers exploring the complex intersection between African-American literature and Christianity, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Conseil International d'Etudes FrancophonesCrise du français, impact de la francophonie ?Consulter See more Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013 D. H. Lawrence Society of North AmericaD. H. Lawrence and the PoetryOn the brink of the Cambridge University Press publication of the Poems, we invite papers on the ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 1 October 2012 Dickens SocietyDickens and the EnvironmentHow might we characterize modes of nineteenth-century environmental thinking, and how did Dickens ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Stupid Dickens Moving beyond pronouncements that Dickens produced one-dimensional characters appealing to our ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Doris Lessing SocietyDoris Lessing and D.H. LawrenceLessing's reading of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" as an anti-war novel suggests important intertextual ... See more 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. ... See more 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? ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Edith Wharton SocietyQueer WhartonHomosexuality and homosociality in Wharton; queer authors, intertexts, and aesthetics in Wharton’s ... See more Posted 9 February 2013 Emily Dickinson International SocietyDickinson and VisualityEmily Dickinson’s engagements with vision in any of its senses. Visual cultures, technologies, ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Ernest Hemingway Foundation and SocietyHemingway and the Chicago RenaissanceWe invite papers that explore Hemingway’s relationship with the Chicago Renaissance and the writers ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Eugene O'Neill SocietyO'Neill and the CityO’Neill's relationship to urban life, as depicted in his plays, in contexts that influenced his ... See more 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 ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 George Sand AssociationEcocritical SandThe natural world, artistic creativity, and the environment; nature vs. nurture; city vs. country. ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Goethe Society of North AmericaNational EpicWe seek papers that analyze the particular fascination of the German literary imagination with ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 The Sacrificial Dynamic in Goethe Papers discussing the degree to which Goethe’s works reflect, and reflect on, sacrificial ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Graduate Student CaucusCompromising, Negotiating: Being a Graduate StudentHow to be a grad student? Privacy, negotiating conflicts, living healthy, planning the future, ... See more 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” ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Harold Pinter SocietyPinter and the ArtsPresentations on Pinter and his relation to other art forms welcome. 250-word abstracts with name, ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Henry James SocietyJames and Conrad: Art, Criticism, HistoryTopics might address these issues in fiction, non-fiction, or through historical interaction. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 International Association of Galdós ScholarsAlternative Sexualities in 19th-century Realist FictionWhat are the questions arising from the study of non-normative sexualities in the fiction of Benito ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 International Brecht SocietyBrecht and the Century of WarAnticipating the 100th anniversary of the onset of hostilities in WWI, this panel explores how war ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Teaching Brecht Proposals sought with critical reflections and best practices on teaching Bertolt Brecht’s ideas ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 International Courtly Literature SocietyStorms at/of the CourtThis session will explore how medieval courtly literature uses the storm (emotional or literal) as ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 International Society for the Study of NarrativeNarrative Empathy for "the Other"How do literary texts depict and/or elicit empathy that transgresses identity categories? What ... See more Posted 9 December 2012 What Makes a Modernist Plot? Modernism's supposed resistance to plot needs reconsideration, given an enlarged modernist corpus ... See more Posted 8 November 2012 International Spenser SocietySpenser's "Darke" MaterialsAs Amphion moved stones with songs to build Thebes, Spenser shaped matter into poetry. This panel ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 International Virginia Woolf SocietyVirginia Woolf, book history & artsWoolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of the material book or printing process ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Virginia Woolf, book history & arts Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of the material book or printing process ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Woolf and London's Colonial Writers Literary, political, social, and spatial connections between Virginia Woolf and London-affiliated ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Woolf, Wittgenstein, and Ordinary Language Woolf's and Wittgenstein’s philosophies of ordinary language, their tangential relationship to the ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 International Vladimir Nabokov Society"Nabokov and Indeterminacy"Guaranteed session. Criticism has debated conflicting solutions for Pale Fire, Sebastian Knight, ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Joseph Conrad Society of AmericaConrad and CognitionPapers are invited exploring the relations between recent work in cognitive science and Conrad's ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 James and Conrad: Art, Criticism, History Topics might address fiction, non-fiction, or historical interaction. Comparative papers discussing ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Keats-Shelley Association of AmericaKeats & CompanyKeats’s life and work in the context of Romantic sociability: friends, coteries, and collectors, ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 Lyrica Society for Word-Music RelationsDadaphone: Interminacy in Words and MusicDada texts and indeterminate music utilize non-traditional means of organization. Send proposals ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 27 December 2012 Margaret Atwood SocietyElectronic AtwoodOn Atwood's creative use of electronic media. 250 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Theodore F. ... See more 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. ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Margaret Fuller SocietyThe Genres of Margaret Fuller's WritingTranslation. Travel. Essay. Conversation. Dialogue. Utopian vision. Mysticism. Poetry. Fiction. ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Mark Twain Circle of AmericaBeyond 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 ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Medieval and Renaissance Drama SocietySpectatorship and Reception in Early DramaRoundtable session on the audience's role in early drama, with attention to theories of ... See more Posted 9 September 2012 MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United StatesNew Directions in American Multiethnic Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Theories and CriticismsWe welcome both theoretical conceptualizations and application of them to analyzing multiethnic ... See more 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, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Melville SocietyImagery and Influence: Hawthorne and MelvilleThis collaborative panel explores how Hawthorne and Melville shared influences, traded influence, ... See more Posted 18 December 2012 Melville and Matter Echoing themes of vulnerability and resilience, we seek readings of Melville vis-a-vis what has ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Milton Society of AmericaJohn Milton: A General SessionPapers on all topics relating to John Milton. Please send abstracts or complete papers. 8-page o by ... See more 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 ... See more 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 See more Posted 15 January 2013 Modern Austrian Literature and Culture AssociationPsychoanalysis and Its LegaciesReflections on the impact of this Viennese methodology on culture, on the limitations of Freud's ... See more Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 Modernist Studies AssociationWhat Makes a Modernist Plot?Modernism's resistance to plot needs reconsideration, given new modernist corpus and narrative ... See more Posted 18 November 2012, last updated 21 November 2012 Nathaniel Hawthorne SocietyHawthorne in 1864In his last year of life, Hawthorne faced challenges on many fronts. All interpretations of this ... See more Posted 20 December 2012 North American Society for the Study of RomanticismRomanticism and SystemsAny aspect of the relationship between Romanticism and systems (aesthetic, biological, linguistic, ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Paul Claudel SocietyClaudel et les Amériques: Théâtre et PoésieProposed by Sergio Villani, the session will focus on Claudel’s production in North and South ... See more Posted 24 January 2013, last updated 25 January 2013 Pirandello Society of AmericaGlobal PirandelloPirandello in and of the world: topics such as cosmopolitanism and global geographies, including ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Modern Consciousness: Pirandellian Obsessions Topics including psychology, spirituality, sexuality and other aspects of modern consciousness in ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Poe Studies AssociationDickinson, Poe, and 19-Century Aesthetic PracticesPapers comparing the work of Dickinson and Poe by locating them within a 19th-century cultural ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Hoaxing Poe Papers that deal with specific Poe hoaxes (e.g., “Hans Pfall,” “The Balloon Hoax,” “Valdemar”) ... See more Posted 17 November 2012 Reception Study SocietyBookshops: History of the Vanishing PresentLiterary, archival, ethnographic, and economic approaches to the question: What does it mean to ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Reception Study We invite papers/panels on any topic related to literary/film reception or book history. Join the ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Romanian Studies Association of AmericaThe Reciprocal Gaze between Romania and SpainImages of Spain in the works of Romanian-speaking writers, and/or of Romania in the works of ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian BranchCharlemagne at the Crossroads of Europe: Negotiating IntersectionsPapers addressing reflections in the romance epic of Charlemagne negotiating intersections ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Society for German Renaissance and Baroque LiteratureCORPORA: Textual, Sexual, Non-Human BodiesTopics including: gender/sexuality, body politic, bodies of text, real/imagined bodies, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Society for Medieval Feminist ScholarshipMedieval Women and PovertyWe are interested in examining medieval women and charity, limited resources in households and ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches What happens to marginal approaches (feminist, queer, disability, racial) and boutique subjects ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Society for the Study of Midwestern LiteratureDreaming the Actual: Chicago Literary VoicesHow do Chicago writers use - - and resist - - the city in their art? Title, a short Vita, and a one ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 Society for the Study of Southern LiteratureNative South: Past, Present, and FutureWhere do Native American and southern literary studies intersect? What are the perils/possibilities ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 22 January 2013, last updated 4 February 2013 South Asian Literary Association100 Years of BollywoodCritical reflections on a century of films coming from Mumbai and popular in the West. Themes ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 South Asia at Risk analyses of South Asian literary/film texts examining violated bodies, homophobia, racism, gender ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 South Asian Diasporas beyond the US Presenters will explore the intersections, parallels, and tensions between South Asians and other ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 T. S. Eliot SocietyT. S. Eliot and the Other ArtsWe invite proposals exploring the relations between Eliot’s work and extraliterary art forms such ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Thoreau SocietyTranscendental MaterialismsWe seek presentations demonstrating how new/green materialist approaches elucidate the Concord ... See more Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 2 February 2013 Western Literature AssociationGlobal Art, Western American ContextThe influence of reading/seeing art from all times and areas, such as in museums or books, within a ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 22 October 2012 William Carlos Williams SocietyNew Directions in Williams StudiesContemporary approaches to Williams in “lightning talk” PechaKucha format -- possible topics ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 William Faulkner SocietyFaulkner and DisabilitySuggested topics: representation of disability, constructions of ableism, applications of ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Faulkner and Women Writers Proposals on Faulkner’s relation to women writers, including but not limited to: specific writers, ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 William Morris SocietyWilliam Morris, Arts and Crafts, and the MidwestPapers are invited on the influence of Morris and his associates on Midwestern culture. 1 page ... See more Posted 14 October 2012 Women in GermanFifty Shades of BrechtBrecht's (mis-)treatment of female collaborators is notorious. Panel considers why women sacrificed ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 23 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Women's Caucus for the Modern LanguagesAlt-Academic Feminism I: "Teaching Outside the Classroom through Digital Humanities."Amid Fembot Collective, Black Girls Code, MOOCs, “brogrammers,” new collaborations—how women teach, ... See more 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 ... See more 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., ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Wordsworth-Coleridge AssociationRomantic AdaptationEssays should examine the purposes and techniques of textual adaptation in British Romantic ... See more Posted 14 December 2012 Community College Humanities AssociationVulnerability and Survivalism of Humanities in Corporatized AcademiaA roundtable on how humanities faculty can resist adjunctification and other neoliberal ... See more 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 ... See more Posted 28 December 2012 Society for Textual ScholarshipTexts Divided: Textual Scholarship and the American Civil WarPapers on Civil War textuality—broadly considered--for Society for Textual Scholarship panel. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingBook History and WoolfVirginia Woolf, book history & arts. Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Books and the Law Readers, writers, publishers, printers, booksellers, and the law: copyright, sedition/blasphemy, ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Roundtable: Book History and Digital Humanities The relationships between book history and digital humanities. Short presentations on new ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 DivisionsAmerican LiteratureAmerican Indian LiteraturesCritical Indigenous StudiesThis panel seeks papers that take a critical indigenous studies approach to the alliances and ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Multilingualism in Native American/Aboriginal Texts Panel analyzes Native American/Aboriginal texts in original languages and/or with other languages; ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Native Literary Chicago This panel seeks papers on Chicago as an Indigenous space in Native literature, from early trade ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 American Literature to 1800New Oceanic Studies of the Colonial AmericasHow have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Scandal and Early American Literature Innovative approaches to the interdynamic between scandal and EAL and culture: scandals in ... See more Posted 8 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Scientific Americans: Exploring Science in Early American Literature New perspectives on the place of scientific inquiry in early American literature, and/or the ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Asian American LiteratureAiiieeeee! and Asian American Literature, 40 Years LaterDebating the legacy of Aiiieeeee!, the first major anthology of Asian American literature, forty ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Asian American Literary Criticism Today Open call for papers on Asian American literature. 1 pg abstract, 2 pg CV by 8 March 2013; Paul Lai ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Asian Americans and the Undead Considerations of the undead (including but not limited to zombies, vampires, ghosts) in relation ... See more Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013 Black American Literature and CultureWhen Chicago Was In Vogue: A "Second Awakening" in African American Art and CultureNew perspectives on the Chicago’s South Side as a milestone site for creative ferment among black ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Chicana and Chicano LiteratureCisneros, Chicago, MangoSeeking papers considering The House on Mango Street's impact on its 30th anniversary and in a year ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 ¿Anthologizing Latinidad? What are the promises and pitfalls of teaching with Latina/o literature anthologies, and with the ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American LiteratureThe Philosophical (Re)Turn?After the cultural turn, the philosophical return? Assessments of (or perspectives from) the recent ... See more Posted 25 February 2013 Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureThe Graphic Nineteenth CenturySubmissions addressing the combination of word and image in the nineteenth century, from proto ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Literature and Media in the Nineteenth-Century US How have media history and media theory transformed the study of nineteenth-century American ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Twentieth-Century American LiteratureAuthor vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century LiteratureShifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 "How to Read Now" Can hermeneutics of suspicion and "surface readings" join forces? Can ideological interpretations ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Traffic The everyday circulation of people, information, capital, and commodities. Literary and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Comparative StudiesComparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century LiteratureMaking Sense of Big DataPapers would address issues in creating comparative literature data sets and/or methodologies for ... See more Posted 26 February 2013 Comparative Studies in Medieval LiteratureEncyclopedismThe many facets of the encyclopedic urge in the 13th-15th centuries. Any and all approaches are ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013 Medieval Literature, Digital Humanities Methods, tools, new directions: any and all approaches considered. 250-word abstracts by 15 March ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013 Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque LiteratureComparative Renaissance FestivityPapers on religious and secular festival, festive custom, festive drama, literary representations ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Montaigne and Shakespeare Intertextual relations including issues of rhetoric, of translation and cultural exchange, of ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Renaissance Rhetoric All aspects and topics of Renaissance rhetoric in a comparatist context, with an emphasis on ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth CenturyLife DrivesPapers on human and non-human forms of life in literary and scientific discourse, competing notions ... See more Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature20th-Century South Asian Literatures - Without EnglishSeeking papers on writers of South Asia who publish in indigenous languages of the region. ... See more Posted 23 October 2012 Author vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature Shifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Cross-Cultural Dialogues Seeking papers about literature or film involving cultures or languages of the global south ... See more Posted 7 January 2013 European Literary RelationsConstantinople/Istanbul: East/WestLiterary and visual representations of the ancient and modern city in European texts. Send ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 World War I in Film and Literature The military self-destruction of Europe that took place between 1914 and 1918 has been portrayed ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 English LiteratureChaucerChaucer and the New AestheticsRethinking aesthetics, including affect and the sensorium; material culture; the descriptive turn; ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Middle English Keywords This roundtable asks: What are the critical terms through which we currently think about Chaucer ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 English Literature Other Than British and AmericanDebt and IndebtednessFinancial (states, individuals), ecological, cultural, literary (intertextuality, anxieties of ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 The English Romantic PeriodNatureof/ and/ or Romanticism: the un-green, post-green, ever-green; grafts, transplants, hybrids; ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Late-Eighteenth-Century English LiteratureHave we ever been secular?Papers revisiting customary narratives about Enlightenment and secularization; exemplifying ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 World War In the wake of the 250th anniversary of the Seven Years War, we invite submissions upon concepts, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature2014's 1914: Great WarEmergent approaches to World War One stressing revisionism motivated by recent events and ... See more Posted 23 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding ShakespeareAssessing Early Modern Queer StudiesRoundtable exploring current debates and new trends. 8-10 minute position papers. Newer voices ... See more Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013 Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding ChaucerFeel the Pain: Medieval TraumaRound Table Possible topics: hagiography, romance, psychoanalysis, affect, bodies, torture, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Medieval England and the History of the Book session will address the materiality of written culture: codicology, paleography, manuscript ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Old English Language and LiteratureAnglo-Saxon Studies in the ProfessionRoundtable on Anglo-Saxon curricula and studies in the profession. Short papers on teaching, ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Cultures of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England Forms of meditative, ascetic, and active reading; representations of reading/ readers; close ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Old English Law and Literature How do legal and literary texts illuminate social and political developments, or conceptions of ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Wonder in Anglo-Saxon England Wonder as an emotional, physical or intellectual response; textual and material catalysts for ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English LiteratureMilton in the Long RestorationThis session will explore Milton's presence in the long Restoration. We seek papers that address ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Rape of the Lock at 300 (Why) do we still read and teach Rape of the Lock? How can innovative theoretical approaches ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Rethinking the Place of the Novel in the History of Genre What can other genres teach us about the early English novel? Seeking papers that revise our ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Slavery and the Book Trade This panel will combine the methodology of the history of the book with recent studies of slavery ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Seventeenth-Century English LiteratureLiterature and the English Revolution: 1640-1659We welcome papers on any kind of written material from this period (pamphlets, poems, treatises, ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Networks of Influence in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry We welcome papers on individual poets, pairs of poets and coteries, cultures, and subcultures of ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 ShakespeareMontaigne and ShakespeareIntertextual relations including such issues as translation, rhetoric, skepticism, and the coming ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Shakespearean Hierarchies: History and Natural History sovereignty; legitimacy; subordination; natural law; chain of being; order and disorder; ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Twentieth-Century English LiteratureBlockbusters and BestsellersHow does popular success shape novels? Topics might include literary prizes, adaptations in other ... See more Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 15 January 2013 The Victorian PeriodVictorian InformaticsPapers related to producing, organizing, circulating knowledge; information taxonomies and ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Victorian Temporalities Papers related to instantaneity, lived time, realtime, geological time, duration, (a)synchrony, ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 French LiteratureEighteenth-Century French LiteratureContesting the Radical EnlightenmentThis session will be devoted to a reevaluation and critique of the concept of Radical ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 The Embodied Mind How was the relationship between mind and body understood in the eighteenth century? In what ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Francophone Literatures and CulturesLiterature, Culture and Film of the Indian OceanNew developments, genres, modes of expression, performance, and intellectual inquiry in today’s ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Performance in Francophone Cultures Pioneering cultural models in performance—collaborative, experimental, and innovative genres such ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 French Medieval Language and LiteratureNature and the Natural WorldWe invite papers on NATURE AND THE NATURAL WORLD in its many guises – theological, legal, ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Voice and Silence Inviting responses to how voice speaks in a text or voices silence so that it can be heard. ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Nineteenth-Century French LiteratureAnimals and AnimalityAnimal encounters in fiction and theory, discourse, images, phenomena, events. Topics: allegory, ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Nineteenth-Century French Studies in the Twenty-first Century Roundtable on the state of research/teaching in the field. What are the emerging trends/looming ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Women on Work, Women's Work Literary and cultural approaches to work; material labor and the work of culture and language in ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Seventeenth-Century French LiteratureDiplomacy in 17th-century French CultureRelations between disparate cultures; evolving practices and forms of diplomacy; its languages; its ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 The Imagined Text Exploring the boundaries between texts and meta-texts: what is there to learn from edits, rewrites, ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Sixteenth-Century French LiteratureCognitive Approaches to French Renaissance LiteratureWhat can cognitive science tell us about literature, and literature about cognitive processes? Case ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Renaissance Cosmopolitanism Poetics, politics and/or philosophies of being at home all over the world, as seen from the world ... See more Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Roundtable on the Renaissance Mediterranean Current research on the early modern Mediterranean. Comparativist proposals, focus on the ... See more Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013 Twentieth-Century French LiteratureFrancophone African Writers and AnthropologyThis collaborative session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Literature and/as Ethnography Papers will explore the ethnographic impulse in 20th/21st-century French literature. Topics may ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Where is French Theory Today? “French Theory” in a global context (e.g. migration studies, social media, Occupy movements); how ... See more Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013 Genre StudiesAutobiography, Biography, and Life WritingLife Writing and Vulnerable Ethnic CommunitiesLife writing that communicates the vulnerability of certain ethnic groups or is embraced by them. ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Postcolonial Graphic Memoirs Please submit abstracts examining graphic texts dealing with self-construction/representation and ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Stealing Lives: appropriation, hoaxes, ownership Papers consider the ethics and legality of online and print publishing when life stories are stolen ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 DramaDrama Divisions TodayWhat’s right or wrong about the present configurations of theater and performance studies, in the ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Drama Divisions Tomorrow How should the Drama Division transform to address emerging debates and shape the future of theater ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 FilmAbject ComedyExploring abjection in screen comedy. Are comedies of embarrassment, excess, or awkwardness a new ... See more Posted , last updated 25 February 2013 Deleuze and the States of Film Analysis Relate Deleuze’s philosophy to film analysis. How do 'movement-image' and 'time-image' help ... See more Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013 Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas (collaborative session) Visual technologies and the historical advancement of capitalism in the Americas. Objects of the ... See more Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Literary CriticismMarx and PoetryHow might reading poetry with and through Marx shape poetry criticism and Marxism? 500-word ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Methods of Literary ResearchOld Materials, New MaterialismsSubmissions welcome on all aspects of archival scholarship and new materialisms (including ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 What is Data in Literary Studies? A Roundtable Do all literary scholars work with data of some kind? Or are projects involving data ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and AutobiographyChronicling a Financial CrisisSeeking papers on the task of chronicling a financial crisis. What questions do such accounts ask? ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 The Essay in the Age of Its Electronic Reproducibility The essay and its "digital" production, storage, and distribution; the essay as scholarly ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Manifesto Revisited The manifesto as a unique nonfiction genre and vehicle for aesthetic and political intervention. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 PoetryActivist Poetics: Jayne Cortez and Adrienne RichSeeking papers on any aspect of the works of Jayne Cortez and/or Adrienne Rich. 300-word abstract ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Prose FictionMass versus Coterie I: The Audio BookHow does the audio book shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Mass versus Coterie II: The Rare Book How does the limited edition shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider ... See more Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 German LiteratureEighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German LiteratureAsia in GermanyHow does engagement with Asia precede the concept of world literature? Romantic interest in ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 German Literature to 1700Continental ArthurSeeking papers discussing the role of Arthurian motives in literature on the continent, especially ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 The Lyrical 'I' Seeking papers exploring the figure and function of the 'I' in medieval German poetry. One-page CV, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Medieval German Literature and Mystical Theology Seeking papers addressing the intersection of literature and mystical theology. One-page CV, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Medieval 'World Literature'? Seeking papers addressing questions of what moves, what doesn't move, what circulates, and what ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German LiteratureLettersLetters as literature; letters in literature; letters as autobiography; open letters; letters and ... See more Posted 21 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013 Twentieth-Century German LiteratureArtistic and Scholarly Practice in the Digital AgeSeeking papers that explore the interplay of aesthetics, science, and politics across sites of ... See more Posted 18 January 2013, last updated 21 January 2013 Hispanic LiteraturesColonial Latin American LiteraturesNew Oceanic Studies of the Colonial AmericasHow have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013 Political Animals: Nature, Culture, Race in Early America Colonizers believed the 'natures' of nations obeyed geography. How did contact among Europeans, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish LiteratureCosmopolitanism and its DiscontentsThis panel will explore the tensions between cosmopolitanism and its various conceptual antagonists ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Economy and Literature How are 18th and 19th-century economic processes (profit, value, money, commerce, management of ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900Capitalism I: Commodities and Mass CultureResponses to commodification and the rise of mass culture in nineteenth-century Latin America. ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Capitalism II: Body and Labor Aesthetic and ideological dimensions of literary and visual constructions of the body in different ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Capitalism III: Rebellions and Riots Uprisings, riots, and other forms of rebellion in relation to transnational capital. Reflections on ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas Visual technologies and the historical advancement of capitalism in the Americas. Objects of the ... See more Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013 Luso-Brazilian Language and LiteratureLuso-Hispanic ExchangesA comparative examination of Portuguese- and Spanish-language literary and cultural materials. ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Memory/History/Stories The intersection of memory, history and fiction in the construction of national and self identity; ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Sport and Nation in the Lusophone World The relationship between sport and nationality in literary, cinematic and visual texts. We ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and CulturesMaking Community in Vulnerable Medieval TimesRoundtable to discuss how people made community in medieval Iberia. Submit proposal for a brief ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 New Currents in Medieval Hispanic Studies New work, issues or approaches in medieval Hispanic or Iberian studies. Abstract, CV by 15 March ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Representing Passion Narratives in Varied Linguistic Registers in the Iberian Peninsula: Mirroring or Conflicting Versions of Affective Piety? Invites cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary approaches to medieval Iberian Passion texts. Abstract ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Wisdom of Translation This session will explore the role of medieval Iberia as a center for linguistic, literary, and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish DramaDomesticity and the ComediaNew perspectives on the marriage plot and family relations, domestic spaces . Consideration of ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Lope de Vega and Peasant Drama: 400 years later new approaches to peasant drama, canonical and lesser known plays and authors, consideration of ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and ProseGóngora’s Soledades After 400 YearsInterpretations, Reception and Appropriations. Send one-page abstract and two-page CV by 7 March ... See more Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013 Science (and) Fiction in Early Modern Spain History of Science, New Technologies, Magic and Marvels. Send one-page abstract and two-page CV by ... See more Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013 Twentieth-Century Latin American LiteratureEnd(s) of Poetry: A RoundtableModern, postmodern, diasporic, epic, web-based, spoken word, queer, feminist, nationalist, ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 Fiction in Flux: Genre and Transmission in Recent Latin American Narrative Exploring manifestations of fiction and modes of transmission (hand-made books, blogs, other ... See more Posted 3 February 2013 Latinoamericanismo Reloaded Contemporary theoretical readings on thinkers of Latin Americanism writing between 1900 (Ariel) and ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 New Social Movements Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin ... See more Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013 Twentieth-Century Spanish LiteratureAlternative HistoriesTheoretically informed proposals for, or analyses of, new ways of conceptualizing cultural, ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 The Commons/Lo común Analysis of how the concept is deployed in contemporary Spanish cultural production, including ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 Critical Regionalisms Analysis of emergent conceptualizations of the regional and of cultural difference that question ... See more Posted 17 January 2013 New Social Movements Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin America, Spain, or the ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 Interdisciplinary ApproachesAnthropological Approaches to LiteratureChicago Schools of Anthropology and LiteraturePapers that explore or exemplify anthropological methods associated with Chicago in dialogue with ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Children's LiteratureBroadway BabiesPapers should examine constructions of childhood and issues of child performance in musicals such ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Chidren's Literature and The Common Core Roundtable discussion of the consequences of common core standards to teaching children's ... See more Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 Diaries of the Young Girl: The Craft of Female Selfhood Girls’ diaries from diverse perspectives: feminism, the bildungsroman, constructions of ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Randall Jarrell at 100 This panel seeks papers celebrating Randall Jarrell, children’s author, teacher, poet, critic, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Cognitive Approaches to LiteratureCognitive Approaches to FilmTheory; new interpretations; unexpected angles. We invite papers at the intersection of cognitive ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Cognitive Historicist Approaches to Literature Papers examining literary works (across cultural traditions) in relation to the ideas about the ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Disability StudiesDisability Discourses in Latin America: Academy and ActivismRoundtable exploring current issues and discourses in disability studies in LA. 6-7 minute position ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 History, Form, Theory of Early Modern Disability Reflections on historical, formal, theoretical models of disability representation in early modern ... See more Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013 Toxic Bodies Disabled persons as canaries in coal mines of globalization. Intersectional connections to other ... See more Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013 Ethnic Studies in Language and LiteratureLiterary Sociologies of Race and EthnicityTheorists and sociologists such as Randolph Bourne, Robert E. Park, Alain Locke, Charles S. Johnson ... See more Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Rustbelt Migrations: Ethnicities and (De)Industrialization Literature of immigrants (Europe, Asia) and internal migrant populations (Blacks, Chicanos, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 South Asians in North America Inter-ethnic readings of history, culture, representation, theory - including and beyond race, ... See more Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 15 February 2013 Gay Studies in Language and LiteratureDeviant ChicagoSexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Digital Queers or Queering the Digital Queering online presences; queer digital performances and objects; queering the codes; digitizing ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Queer Matter Queer materialisms; queer mattering; the queerness of matter; queer material; material queer; queer ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Queer Philology Explorations of “queer philology,” the close inspection of the historical meaning of words and ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 Linguistic Approaches to LiteratureHistory of Style: Language’s Impact on LiteratureSession fits topic of “Vulnerable Discourses: Linguistic Manipulation of Literature,” specifically ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Oulipo : Avant-garde Language Session fits theme “Vulnerable Worlds." Oulipo, the last international avant-garde (1961), ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Literature and Other ArtsLiterature and ArchitectureThis panel explores literature and architecture in view of recent spatial, pictorial, affective, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Transnational Comics Comics and graphic narratives present visual and textual testaments to global interaction. This ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Literature and ReligionHeresy: Arius to RushdieWe seek a range of papers from different periods, languages, religious traditions. 300-500 word ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Literary Crossroads: African-American Literature and Christianity Papers exploring the complex intersection between African-American literature and Christianity, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Literature and ScienceBiodiversity and ExtinctionSubmissions sought for panel on literary/cultural approaches to species, biodiversity, endangered ... See more Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Organic Mechanisms: Whitehead, Literature, and Science New approaches to literature and science informed by the resurgent philosophy of nature, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Philosophical Approaches to LiteratureVital Matters II: Lively MaterialismsThe animation of materialism, literary or nonliterary, including questions of vitality and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vital Matters III: Things, Animals, Humans We welcome papers on writing livingness, with emphasis on biopolitics, animal studies, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Popular CultureDeviant ChicagoSexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 In the Meme Time “Meme” accounts for phenomena such as “Gangnam Style” dance. Papers that pressure the “popular” ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Torture and Popular Culture Papers on the representation of torture in popular culture, especially in recent work like Zero ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Postcolonial Studies in Literature and CultureCities and Cultural MobilityPopulation dispersals and re-aggregations were significant effects of colonialism; papers exploring ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Cultures of the Global South Collaboration with Sociological Approaches to Literature; papers foregrounding lifeworlds in the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Psychological Approaches to LiteratureThe Unconscious in TranslationThe unconscious structured like a foreign language? Papers welcome on topics relating ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Sociological Approaches to LiteratureCultures of the Global SouthForegrounding lifeworlds in the historically disadvantaged "industrializing" global South, and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Materialist Aesthetics Rethinking/revisiting materialism as a concern for politicized notions of aesthetics; Marxism; ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Tragedy of the Commons? Historicizing the affective appeal of the idea of a commons, commonality and/or communism in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Women's Studies in Language and LiteratureChicago Women PlaywrightsThe panel invites work by or about women playwrights from Chicago such as Sarah Ruhl, Lydia R. ... See more Posted 25 January 2013 The Streets of Bronzeville: Gwendolyn Brooks Seeking new approaches to the novels and poetics of Gwendolyn Brooks. Particular attention given to ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Women and the Literature/Language of Human Rights Possible topics: the language/practice of the Beijing Platform for Action or CEDAW; human rights ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Italian LiteratureMedieval and Renaissance Italian LiteratureCandor, Deception, and DissimulationThe contexts, uses, and reception of candor, its appearance, and/or its manipulation in Italian ... See more Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons Literary explorations of relationships between mothers and daughters and/or mothers and sons, as ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 New Approaches to Vivifying Literature Roundtable examination of how today's scholars bring Medieval and Renaissance literature to modern ... See more Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Pilgrims and Pilgrimages Odeporic Middle Ages: Portraying Real and Quack Pilgrims, Adventurers, Merchants and Various ... See more Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian LiteratureNon-Christian Identities in the Italian ContextThis session welcomes papers that address Atheist, Jewish, Libertine, Muslim, and Protestant ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Twentieth-Century Italian LiteratureItalian DifferenceThe Italian historical-theoretical disposition to impurity, profanation, and contamination in ... See more Posted 2 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Italian Maladies Narrative medicine, illness, vulnerability, biopolitics, disease, trauma, disability and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 25 February 2013 Re-Thinking Divismo: Italy and Modern Celebrity Culture Celebrity studies analyzing identities, politics, theatre, literature, cinema, media from Duse and ... See more Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Language StudiesApplied LinguisticsAutobiographies of Applied LinguistsEmerging fields inevitably struggle with identity; with questions of membership; and with defining ... See more Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 Sign language use and development around the globe Papers that analyze or problematize the use and/or development of signed languages. Abstract: 150 ... See more Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 Social pedagogies and second language development Theoretical/empirical papers that examine the feasibility and effectiveness of pedagogical ... See more Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 The History and Theory of Rhetoric and CompositionEarly American Networks of Writing and the Politics of Writing InstructionSeeking new research on the politics of early American rhetoric and writing instruction networks. ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Language ChangeDiversity and ChangeWhat role does “diversity” play in understanding language change? Papers will explore perspectives ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Language Change and Literature How does language change matter to literature (and vice versa)? How might change inform recent ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Language TheoryNarrative and Language TheoryWe solicit papers exploring relationship between narrative and theory of language. Paper proposals ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 New Work in Language Theory We solicit papers exploring any aspect of linguistics that contributes to recent trends in language ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 Language and SocietyDiscourse, Food, and Social JusticeLanguage at the intersection of food and society: justice, foodways, labor, ethics. How does ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Other Languages & LiteraturesAfrican LiteraturesAfrican Literature/Performance and New MediaPaper proposals considering how new media technologies are shaping the production, circulation and ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Expatriation, Authorship, and Reception in African Literatures Forms and themes of expatriation and location in African literatures. Who/what is an African ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Francophone African Writers and Anthropology This session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 The State in African Literatures Papers on representations of the state (both the real and the desired) and biopolitics in African ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Arabic Literature and CultureNew Arabic GenresSeeking papers on new Arabic media, including electronic modes of writing, graphic narratives, and ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Novels of the Arab Diaspora Seeking papers on novels by Arab writers of the diaspora, early and contemporary topics welcome, ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, ... See more Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 16 January 2013 Vulnerable Expression after the Arab Uprisings Seeking papers examining cultural freedoms since the Arab Uprisings, with an emphasis on legal and ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900Asia and the Nobel Prize in LiteraturePapers exploring the cultural, linguistic, literary, and political meanings of this prize and the ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Representations of Disaster in Contemporary Asia Papers that consider issues of representation of recent disasters throughout Asia, such as ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Thinking Fanlation Papers that explore the theoretical or political ramifications of fanlation, scanlation, ... See more Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 18 January 2013 East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900East Asian Traditional Poetry in the Digital AgeImpact of modern technology on circulation, discussion, and composition of poetry in traditional ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Influence/Confluence of Genres in East Asia Explorations of the influence between and confluence of literary and performative genres as ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Slavic and East European LiteraturesCulture and Activism in the 2011-13 Russian Protest MovementsPapers may discuss specific figures (Pussy Riot, Akunin, Sobchak) or broader questions of theory, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Digitizing Slavic Studies The panel invites papers examining the engagement of Slavic arts and humanities with technology, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Russian Periodical Studies Periodicals, a marker of aesthetic and social change, offer a glimpse into the modes of cultural ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 TeachingTeaching as a ProfessionContingency at the CoreImplications for curriculum change when a school's curriculum is taught largely by contingent ... See more Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013 The History of Teaching as a Profession Short papers examining past historical accounts of teaching or presenting new histories from which ... See more Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013 The Teaching of LanguageLinguistic Foundations for Teaching in the Post-Methods EraDiscusses how foundations in Linguistics (L1 and L2 acquisition theory, phonology, phonetics, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Raising the Bar: Academic Rigor in the Language Classroom This session examines frameworks and approaches for teaching foreign language through ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 The Teaching of LiteratureThe Pleasure of the Text: Creating Life-Long ReadersTeaching literature with an eye to life beyond the classroom. How do we connect literature to ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Teaching Brecht Proposals sought with critical reflections and best practices on teaching Bertolt Brecht’s ideas ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 The Teaching of WritingTextual Carnivals Revisited20 years after Susan Miller’s Textual Carnivals, Are we still “the sad woman in the basement?” This ... See more Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013 Discussion GroupsAge StudiesGendered Age & Authority in Popular MediaCollaborative session on shifting popular-media representations of women across the age spectrum in ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Vulnerable Times in Academic Life Senior faculty are viewed as invulnerable, deadwood, on twilight cruises, or sage scholars/mentors. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Anglo-Irish LiteratureTransatlantic IrelandProposals (250 words) are invited on the transatlantic in any period(s) of Irish literature; ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Arthurian LiteratureContinental ArthurSeeking papers discussing the role of Arthurian motives in literature on the continent, especially ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Navigating Arthurian Waterways: Of Literary Lakes, Rivers, and Oceans The Arthurian Literature Discussion Group seeks papers that explore the significance of water ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 Bibliography and Textual StudiesDestruction and RevitalizationWe seek proposals for papers that involve questions of textual and cultural destruction and ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Early American Networks of Writing and the Politics of Writing Instruction Seeking new research on the politics of early American rhetoric and writing instruction networks. ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Canadian Literature in EnglishIndigeneity and Diaspora: Exploring Intersections Through Canadian LiteratureHow has Canadian literature refracted questions of alliance and difference between Indigenous and ... See more Posted 4 November 2012 Catalan Language and LiteratureRepresenting Passion Narratives in Medieval Iberian Languages: Mirroring or Conflicting Versions of Affective Piety?Papers devoted to the cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic study of Iberian Passion texts. A ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 The Vulnerability of Catalan Studies as a Discipline Papers that analyze challenges that Catalan Studies as a professional discipline has experienced ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Celtic Languages and LiteraturesExplorations in Celtic Languages and LiteraturesAny aspect of Celtic languages, literatures, or cultures - including history, archaeology, ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Comics and Graphic NarrativesCollaboration in ComicsThe verbal-visual form of comics offers unique opportunities for collaboration. We invite critical ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Fine Arts and Comics Papers on the historical relationship, and interconnection between the form of comics and the art ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Transnational Comics Comics have long been the visual and textual testament to global interaction. We invite papers that ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Computer Studies in Language and LiteratureDH from the Ground UpSee See more Posted 20 February 2013 Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural ProductionCuba on StageWe seek papers on any facet of Cuban or Cuban Diaspora theater or other performing arts and its ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Folklore and LiteratureSinging Out in the American Literary ExperienceProposals are sought concerning the use of folk song (blues, jazz, country, etc.) within American ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 General LinguisticsLinguistics Applied to Teach and Learn Middle-Eastern or Eastern Mediterranean LanguagesPaper proposals sought showing linguistics applied for teaching and learning a Middle-Eastern or ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 Germanic PhilologyGermanic Linguistics and PhilologyPapers addressing any aspect of Germanic Linguistics and Philology. All presenters must be ... See more Posted , last updated 27 February 2013 Hebrew LiteratureGender in Hebrew Literature and CultureThis panel invites papers on Israeli texts in order to understand gender politics, including queer ... See more Posted 25 February 2013 Hungarian LiteratureHungarian Film at Home and BeyondWe invite presentation proposals (250 words) discussing any aspects of Hungarian film, acting, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Literature and the Arts We invite comparative presentation proposals (250 words) exploring interconnections between ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 World Travelers: Travel Writing in Hungary and Beyond We invite presentation proposals (250 words) exploring Hungarian travel writing; travel writing ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and SocietyWomen's Education in Third World CountriesLiterary, legal, political, economic or social implications of and current theories and ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Italian American LiteratureComparative Mediterranean American LiteraturesPapers on works by Americans of Mediterranean origins (Anatolian, Levantine, Maghrebi, Southern ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 My Place or Yours: The Geographies of Italian American Literature Roundtable on Italian American literature as situated in urban, suburban, rural spaces; ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Jewish American LiteratureDigital Jews: Literature, Apps, Internet Mediations, ArchivingRoundtable exploring the impact of digital media on Jewish American writing, writers, and ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Jewish American or Jewish Americas? Papers examining/expanding the location of “America” in Jewish American literary study to include ... See more Posted 22 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Jewish Monsters Notions of monstrosity or the monstrous in Jewish tradition and in representations of Jews. ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Jewish Cultural StudiesJewish MonstersNotions of monstrosity or the monstrous in Jewish tradition and in representations of Jews. ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Zionisms Past, Present, and Future The Zionist imagination in global literatures and cultures. Potential topics: pre- or proto-Zionist ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Law as LiteratureCriminal Justice and the Literary ImaginationConnections between criminal justice and imaginative writing. How do texts represent, affirm, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Media, Justice and Revolution in the Middle East How are media being used in the contemporary Middle East to challenge unjust governance and ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Old English Law and Literature How do these fields illuminate social and political developments, or conceptions of self and the ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Libraries and Research in Languages and LiteraturesMeeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate ResearchSeeking best-practices, methods, activities or lessons-learned using research as a medium for ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishMultiethnic Texts in TranslationTheoretical/pedagogical approaches to the role of translation in multiethnic/multilingual studies. ... See more Posted 4 January 2013 Lusophone Literatures and Cultures outside Portugal and BrazilA Tribute to Russell HamiltonPanel discussion of the latest developments in the field. Papers circulated before the convention; ... See more Posted 2 January 2013, last updated 9 January 2013 Media and LiteratureLiterary Social Media, Past and PresentRelationships between social media (broadly conceived) and literary history, including networks of ... See more Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 12 March 2013 Mexican Cultural and Literary StudiesDisability Discourses in Latin America: Academy and ActivismRoundtable exploring current issues and discourses in disability studies in LA. 6-7 minute position ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 The Legacies of Carlos Fuentes: A Roundtable Discussion This round table seeks to explore the literary, cultural and political significance of Carlos ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Mexican Studies and the Return of the PRI: A roundtable Seven-minute position papers concerning the impact on our methodologies and paradigms of the PRI’s ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Netherlandic Language and LiteratureLanguage and Culture of the Low CountriesOpen topic on the language/culture of the Low Countries. Presentations treating the presidential ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Opera as a Literary and Dramatic FormOpera and AntiquityMonteverdi, Gluck, early Mozart, Rossini, Strauss, Schoenberg, Henze, Glass... Papers on the ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Part-Time Faculty MembersDefining the Moment, Defining the MomentumPerspectives on the language used to describe employment status. Short, focused presentations that ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Present-Day English LanguageDialects of English WorldwideThe Discussion Group on Present-Day English seeks proposals on English language topics including: ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Provençal Language and LiteratureTranslating the TroubadoursFrom early French ‘adaptations’ to Pound, one of the modes of reception of troubadour poetry has ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Puerto Rican Literature and CulturePuerto Rican Crime NarrativesWe seek papers examining any aspect of Puerto Rican crime narratives (noir, hard-boiled, true ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Romance Literary RelationsUntranslatabilityHow do writers, intellectuals, or artists advocate or refute the untranslatability of a word, idea, ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Romanian StudiesEast European Women's Tales of RelocationRecent changes in narrative patterns in oral/written/visual, conventional/unconventional ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Literature and the Arts We invite comparative presentation proposals exploring interconnections between literature, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 31 March 2013 State-Sponsored Voyeurism and Surveillance Panel/roundtable seeks to investigate approaches to secret police surveillance and/or informant ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Scandinavian Languages and LiteraturesInvisible Violences in the NorthHow does the prominence of violence in Nordic literature, film, and society challenge the Nordic ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic LiteratureNew Approaches to Science Fiction CriticismThis panel will explore intersections between science fiction criticism and emergent realisms in ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Scottish LiteratureIndependent Thinking: Scotland's Inscription of SeparationDoes possible independence inflect—or open a space for—literature? Discussion group welcomes ... See more Posted 11 December 2012 Sephardic StudiesThe Sephardic MemoirHow have Sephardic authors used the memoir to interpret their lives and the world around them? How ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Slavic Literatures and CulturesSoviet Cinema and Western Film TheoryThis panel examines how Soviet films influenced film theory philosophy in the West, and how those ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 WWI and the Poetics of Slavic Memory The significance of the outbreak of WWI cannot be overestimated. This panel confronts the variety ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 South Asian Languages and LiteraturesEveryday Unrecognized Sexual Violence in South AsiaWe invite critiques on representations of sexual violence against marginalized groups in South ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 The Sacred and the Sexual in South Asian Literature Interrogations of gender and the construction of sexuality in relation to diverse religious ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 South Asian Diasporas beyond the US Presenters will explore the intersections, parallels, and tensions between South Asian and other ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 Southern LiteratureSouthern ChildhoodsThe Southern Literature Discussion Group is organizing a panel on representations of southern ... See more Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 TranslationTechnologies of TranslationWe seek presentations that introduce experiments in the Digital Humanities relying on translation: ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Thinking Fanlation Papers that explore the theoretical or political ramifications of fanlation, scanlation, ... See more Posted 17 January 2013 Travel LiteratureTravel Literature and the Environment19th- to 21st-century travel literature and representations of the physical environment; the ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 The Two-Year College21st Century PedagogiesBrief presentations that explore alternative teaching approaches, innovative pedagogy, and English ... See more Posted 17 January 2013 Teaching Sustainability Presentations that explore the teaching of sustainability in English and Foreign Languages, ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 West Asian Languages and LiteraturesApocalyptic Voices in West Asian CultureThis panel tracks apocalyptic narratives of West Asian intellectuals as they confronted modernity ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Language, Colonialism, and the State in Nineteenth Century Southwest Asia Resistance, co-optation or disciplining? How does language act under the violence of colonialism ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 The Revolution's Memory We welcome proposals that consider how memoirs write and form narratives about contemporary ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Yiddish LiteratureYiddish ConnectionsWe seek papers connecting Yiddish with other cultures, literatures, or traditions through acts of ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 MLA CommitteesAdvisory Committee on the _MLA International Bibliography_The 21st-Century Library: Discovery Services vs. Subject SpecialistsThis panel considers the role of the literature subject specialist in an era which appears to ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Committee on Community CollegesTechnology and Teaching Vulnerable Languages in Vulnerable TimesHow technology creates new possibilities for teaching Native American, Native Latin American, ... See more Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 12 February 2013 Upstream Both Ways: Aligning Community Colleges and Four-Year Institutions Expectations, successes, and challenges in the preparation, upward passage, and persistence of ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Committee on Contingent Labor in the ProfessionOff the Tenure Track, On Our RadarPractices to improve the professional lives and working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty ... See more Posted 21 September 2012 Write on Your Own Time: Scholarship and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Managing expectations for scholarly and professional activity by non-tenure-track faculty members. ... See more Posted 21 September 2012 Committee on Disability Issues in the ProfessionThe Dis(embodied) Scholar: Access in Theory and PracticeRoundtable session on embodiment and the shifting role of identity discourse within disability ... See more Posted 28 January 2013, last updated 30 January 2013 Illness and Disability Memoir as Embodied Knowledge Life writing about illness/disability as a form of theoretical knowledge. New ways of conceiving ... See more Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 8 February 2013 Committee on Information TechnologyEvaluating Digital Scholarship: Candidate Case StudiesElectronic roundtable session. Candidates will share experiences with submitting digital ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Committee on Scholarly EditionsThe Data is the ScholarshipHow can data models represent theories of scholarly textual editing? Where in the data does textual ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and CanadaGlobal Ed?Position papers on impact of global education. Considerations may include relations among ... See more Posted 24 September 2012 Transnational Indigeneities against the Law Position papers on racial profiling, settler colonialism, and indigenous politics in Canadian and ... See more Posted 24 September 2012 Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the ProfessionRethinking the Seminar PaperHow can we reconsider the graduate seminar paper’s purpose, potential forms, and usefulness to ... See more Posted 10 December 2012 Time to Degree Papers theorizing and analyzing how pressure to decrease time to degree (often without reducing ... See more Posted 26 November 2012, last updated 27 November 2012 Publications CommitteeTheatre and Performance in the Age of DrydenCurrent scholarship on any aspect of this topic will be considered. Abstracts of 250 words. by 4 ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Special Sessions17th and 18th century French Fairy Tales: noveltiesRepresentation and exploration of avant-garde elements such as technical, scientific or medical ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 1930s Activist Literature Depression-era writers responded to vulnerabilities exposed by economic and environmental crisis ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 20th/21st Century Antisemitisms Papers theorizing antisemitism in law/policy debates, literature, film, television, etc. What ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Accenting Punctuation Punctuation--as used by a specific literary figure, in certain genres, or topics related to ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Addressing re-generation (1914-2014) Theoretical issues about the cultural uses of the concept generation; focusing on the construction ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Affect in Literature What can we say about affect in literature? 250-word abstracts plus vitae by 10 March 2013; Yubraj ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Affect Theory or Affect Studies? What would shifting to a "studies" model of affects, rather than focusing on affect "theory," mean ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Affirmation and the End of the Negative Foucault dreamt of criticism that "would not judge." Has theory become affirmation of the existing? ... See more Posted 3 February 2013 African Literature and Modernism This panel considers colonial and postcolonial African literature in relation to transnational ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Afro-Diasporic Popular Culture Interventions This panel addresses Afro-diasporic popular culture forms (eg. Brazilian capoeira, Hip Hop, rumba) ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Allegory - reflection between ornament and sign Seeking papers exploring allegory as a mode of meaning-making dependent on counter-mimetic ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Almost Human This panel explores the roles that human replicas (puppets, mannequins, robots) play in Spanish ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 American Literature and New Technologies 1865-1945 We invite papers that consider the fault lines between literary narrative and new technologies. How ... See more Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 20 January 2013 American Literature and the Sea in the Long Nineteenth Century This panel focuses on oceanic spaces, journeys, and work to redraw geography of nineteenth-century ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Animal and Artistic Life Does capital’s expansion over life link the vulnerabilities of animal life to those of artistic ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Animation in French Literature, 1550-1750 Exploring the act, process, or result of imparting life, spirit, motion or activity. Theories and ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Antebellum Affects: Literature & Theory Theories of affect and antebellum American literature, including sentiment’s historical mutations, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Anticolonialism Since the 18th Century Papers invited on: anticolonial & antislavery thought in Europe/Americas/(post)colonial spaces; ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Approaches to Feminist Orientalism The session will assess, complicate, and extend the important intersectional concept of “feminist ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Approaches to Narconarratives What form does narcotrafficking take? How does narcotrafficking come to bear on literature? This ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Arguing Religion in Early Modern England Panel will focus on the creative uses of various types of religious argument—satire, polemic, ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Arthur Miller: Self and Tragedy The Arthur Miller Society invites papers on the construction of the self and the conception of ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 At Peril: Lives on the Verge of Extinction Papers analysing and theorizing German 20th-century art, films and texts on human and animal ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Authorship, Lecture Tours, & Politics in the U.S Their intersections in places and historical moments, particularly as writers addressed communities ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Balancing Personal Life and Academia What is “work-life balance”? Does it exist? Bringing personal to work and vice versa, work-life ... See more Posted 24 December 2012 Balkan Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Music Is Balkan “always the other," and for whom? How has Balkan self-consciousness or the Balkan image ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Beat Poets and L.A.N.G.U.A.G.E. Poetics Beat Studies Association: subjects open. Welcome proposals on Beat literature and L.A.N.G.U.A.G.E. ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Being Vulnerable, Negotiating Life and Hope Desperate times, desperate measures? Vulnerability/empowerment, market successes/failures for those ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Between "Gay" and "Queer" The persistence of gay identity in a queer world; gay/lesbian vs/in queer theory; ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 Between Vulnerability and Resilience: Representations of the Veil in Literature This roundtable will explore the re-emergence of the veil and its literary and cultural ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Beyond Autobiography, Ethnography, and Profiling: Tabish Khair and Postcolonial Narrative Today The narrative interventions into history found in Tabish Khair’s novels (and/or in those of ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Beyond the Proto-Monograph: New Models for the Dissertation Focus on how the dissertation should/is changing in response to the digital turn, doctoral reform, ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Black German History and Culture in Research and Teaching Proposals addressing: current state of research; transnational/cross-cultural/comparative ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Borges and Perception In light of Rodrigo Quian Quiroga's recent text, this panel will examine competing theories of mind ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Bottom's Dreams and Beyond: Arno Schmidt at 100 New perspectives on this post-war author's writings and his legacy, particularly on "Zettel's ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 British South Africa, 1795-1919 How was British identity constructed in or in relation to southern Africa? Abstract (250-500 words) ... See more Posted 17 November 2012 British Women Writers and the Arts 1880-1920 How did music, theatre and art influence the construction of novels and poetry by British women ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 The Brothers Quay and Literature The Brothers Quay and Literature Papers that consider the films of the Brothers Quay and their ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Building a Book History of Theory and Criticism Investigating the book history of theory and criticism, for instance anthologies, journals, book ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Changing Minds: Boethius and Philosophical Exercise Aspects of medieval and early modern reception of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Focus on ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Chanson and Cinema - A French Affair Chanson as genre, as narrative vehicle in French language fiction films. Literary, cultural, ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 Chess and Literature Proposals on the representation of chess in literature in any period or genre. 250 word abstracts ... See more Posted 25 January 2013 Chicago's Playwriting Renaissance Since 1950 a renaissance in playwriting has occurred in Chicago. Proposals about playwrights, ... See more Posted 14 November 2012 Children's Literature and New Trends We invite papers that consider 'transgressed boundaries' across Aesthetics, Content, and/or Genre ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 China in World Literature Chinese literary works have a long history of circulation outside of China. What patterns of ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Cid Corman and American Poetry Looking for papers that examine the work of the Japan-based expatriate American poet Cid Corman and ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Cinema of Guantanamo: Torture, Temporality, Complicity How do recent films normalize or critique torture, rewrite history or reconcile audiences to ... See more Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013 Class Vulnerabilities in Academia Roundtable on the dangers and potentialities of class as a marker of scholarly, pedagogical, and ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Colonial Heroes and Martyrs Explorers, conquerors, and victims in early North and Latin America. Are heroism and sacrifice ... See more Posted 17 January 2013 Coming Out as ‘Alt Ac’ How open can students be about wanting non-tenure track careers? Roundtable on the personal and ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Common Core State Standards: Paradigmatic Shifts An exploration of how CCSS will impact English majors who enter the K-12 teaching profession and ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Comparative Translation Strategies and the Market for Foreign Literature This panel explores the relationship between translation strategy and saleability in major ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Comparing Theories of Trauma From antiquity to the present, panel will compare theories of trauma on the subject in literature. ... See more Posted 4 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013 Conceptual Writing After Literature What is the status of conceptual writing after the "death of poetry" (Place) or the "event of ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Conservadurismo y literatura en el siglo XIX hispanoamericano Exploraciones sobre las diferentes formas de articulación del pensamiento conservador en la ... See more Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 Contagious Disorder(s) (Interdisciplinary) papers approaching bodies that are particularly vulnerable to disorder, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Contemporary Central American Cultural Production DEADLINE EXTENDED! This session will adopt a fresh approach to contemporary Central American ... See more Posted 11 December 2012, last updated 8 February 2013 Contemporary Poet-Critics & Creative Scholarship What are the forms and purposes of hybrid creative-critical texts? How do they elucidate the ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 "The Controversy over Attribution of De Doctrina Christiana to Milton." This session welcomes papers by partisans in the controversy over Milton's reputed authorship of ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Corpulence, Excess, Obesity: Sizing Up the Body from Shakespeare to The Biggest Loser We seek papers that explore popular and canonical representations of the fetishized, non-normative ... See more Posted 7 January 2013 Costumbrismo en producción visual y escrita del siglo XIX latinoamericano Propuestas que aborden el costumbrismo como problema estético e ideológico en textos visuales y ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 Country Music and Resistance How does country music (and country-influenced literature and film) construct narratives and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The dandy: fashionable victim or hybrid reflection? Social self-made novelty, Baudrillard identifies the dandy's position as "an aesthetic form of ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Death and Affect in Chaucer How does Chaucer’s literature confirm/counter medieval ‘norms’ of emotions related to death? How do ... See more Posted 4 October 2012 The Death of God in Nineteenth-Century America This session explores how American authors grapple with the time's spiritual crises by providing ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Decade Modernism Forgot: The 1930s What is the relationship between modernism and 1930s literature, and is it as distinct and ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Deletion, Erasure, Cancellation How might we theorize the aesthetics and poetics of practices such as deletion and erasure? All ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Demons, Goblins, Ghosts and Witches in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature Papers will focus on demonology, demonolatry, idolatry, witchcraft, bestiality, demoniality, etc. ... See more Posted 6 January 2013 Desire for Narrative in Law and Literature This roundtable (detailed cfp: See more Posted 11 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013 Developing and Funding Online Teaching Platforms Given differently-resourced departments, how best to create and maintain Open Source teaching ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Diapora in Middle Eastern Literatures Proposals that focus on diaspora in Anglophone Middle Eastern Literatures and discuss broader ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Digital Humanities and Early Modern Hispanic World Papers about websites, google articles, blogs, e-Journals, related to the early modern Hispanic ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Digital Humanities and French Renaissance Culture Projects and practices that illustrate the promise of the Digital Humanities for the study of ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Digital Pedagogy Going Global This panel focuses on the pedagogical benefits of cross-cultural online collaborative projects in ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Digital Poetics Not digital humanities but digital poetics. What does digital literature and the emergent critical ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 "Disability, Prosthesis, and Medieval Literature" This panel explores how medieval literature makes use of disability and/or prosthesis as theme, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Discursive Responses to the Politics of Domestic Seclusion Last decades of 19th-Century and beginnings of the 20th Latin American texts, about discursive ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Dreiser and Money Financial systems and their epistemologies in Theodore Dreiser’s work, including the "Trilogy of ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Du Bois, King and the Discourse of Freedom Examines the discourse of freedom and the promise of America in the work of Du Bois and Martin ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Duras at 100 Papers on her work and on authors of her generation that confront personal, social, historical ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Early Modern Media Ecologies How do Renaissance media (ranging from book to actor’s body to tapestry to ballad) cross-fertilize, ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Eastern European and US American Cultures Seeking papers on connections between Eastern European and US literatures, cultures, or media ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Electronic Literature after Flash Lightning talks on the death of Flash e-lit, the study and preservation of Flash works, and the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Embedded Music: Sung Song in Narrative and Theatre Embedded songs influence on audience: e.g., ballads in novels, leitmotifs in soap operas, songs in ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Enduring Noise: Sound and Sexual Difference Gendered sound in literature, theory, culture. Possible topics include: (queer) feminism and sonic ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Epic, Tragedy, and Community How do the memorializing practices instituted in epic and tragedy from any period or region ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Essaying Masculinity How does Montaigne try out/question/reify masculinity? What is the role of intertextuality? Of the ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Ethics of Vulnerability Vulnerability (hospitality, weakness, kenosis) has risen to prominence in interdisciplinary ethics. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Ethics, Politics and Contemporary Poetry How do contemporary poets and poetries respond to world politics and ethics? How do ethics inflect ... See more Posted 6 January 2013 Evaluating the Course Evaluation Process This session examines the course evaluation process, particularly its relationship to pedagogy: ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The expulsion of the Moriscos (1609-1614): History and Memory Post-1614 history and memory of the Moriscos: where they went and how they were remembered. ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Extreme Politics in Popular Culture Papers on post-W.W. II popular cultural representations of neofascism, white supremacist groups, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Eyes and Ears on "Homeland" How have critics and viewers responded to the TV show “Homeland”? How does the show complicate ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Failed Hispanic Commemorations This session invites papers on 19th- to 21st- century cultural celebrations that were unsuccessful ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 Failure Studies Panel will investigate reasons why failure is subordinated as a category of critical thought, in an ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 Family Feeling in Early Modern Texts Questions of kinship and emotion in texts published between 1450-1750. Send abstracts and CVs to ... See more Posted 7 January 2013 Fiction in the Digital Age Exploring ways in which contemporary works of fiction are influenced by new media and digital ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 First Person Vulnerable Papers addressing first person and hybrid accounts of pain, including ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Forgotten Sources, Alternative Archives Documenting and explaining more elusive sources of well-known literary works; expanding what it ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Form and Formalisms in Literature and Science Roundtable discussion of how approaches like STS, disciplinary history, cognitive theory, etc. ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Formal Education How do literary and cultural productions relate to theories and practices of aesthetic education? ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Forms of Devotion in Early Modern Poetry Panel exploring “forms”—aesthetic, doctrinal, physical, material—in 16th and 17th century ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Forms of Freedom: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought This session will explore the ways that poetry responds to the rise of liberalism during the long ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Fragile Theatre Latin American theatre often breaks or blurs boundaries. How can the concept of fragility (of ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Frank Wedekind at 150 Wedekind's work was ahead of its time. Or was it? What about today? Proposals sought focusing on ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 French National Identity at Moments of Crisis Representations of French identity during war, regime change, social upheaval, etc. Any time period ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Friendship in Early Modern Spanish Literature Female friendship, visual representations of friendship, politics of friendship; friendship and ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 From Lope To Lorca: Reading The Social Nature Of Humans Panel seeks papers that apply an evolutionary perspective to the study of Spanish theater. 250-300 ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 The Future of Close Reading This panel will examine emergent practices of close reading. We particularly seek papers addressing ... See more Posted 27 October 2012, last updated 29 October 2012 Futures of South-South Comparison Seeking proposals for a roundtable on the challenges/potential of comparison in the Southern ... See more Posted 4 February 2013, last updated 6 February 2013 Gandhi's Modernity This panel will read texts that surround MK Gandhi's writing/thought (eg Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau), ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 Gendered spaces and aging in contemporary Spanish literature and film Representations of spaces occupied or traversed by the aging; perceptions of safety, opportunities ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 The Generation of 1914 – The (Re)Evaluation of an Aesthetic (1914-2014) This panel reevaluates the aesthetics of the Generation of ’14, and its contribution to Spanish ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Generations of Contemporary American Fiction Looking for papers that focus on particular generations in contemporary U.S. fiction and think ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Geospatial Literary Studies Investigating the geospatial in digital literary studies: GIS, gazetteers, spatial narratives, ... See more Posted 25 January 2013 Getting the Word Out: Communication Disabilities in Literature/ Scholarship Describing/experiencing/studying "invisible" communication disabilities: critiques of memoirs about ... See more Posted 25 January 2013 Girls and the f-word: twenty-first century representations of women’s lives Papers addressing the pioneering HBO show, attendant discussions and controversies, and/or related ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Globalización 2.0 en la ciencia ficción latinoamericana Es posible pensar en una postglobalización? Cómo diferentes manifestaciones de lo posthumano y la ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Golden Age to Our Age: Re-reading 19th Century Aesthetics Seeking to explore twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature's reworking of ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 The Great War in Modern Literature Perspectives on the First World War as represented in fiction published 1970 to the present, ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Guns in American Culture Analyses of firearms, violence, gun culture and armed (or targeted) identities in American ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Gypsies in the American Cultural Imagination This session will include representations of Gypsies (Romani) in American Literature, Music, Film, ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 The Half-life of the Cold War This panel explores representations of the Cold War in recent literature, film, television, and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Harlem’s Transnational Modernisms: Recovering the Black Archive Beyond the Nation Presentations on canonical or non-canonical Harlem writers addressing black transnationalism. ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Harriet Monroe, Poetry Magazine, and Chicago Modernism We invite papers on the central role these figures and sites played in shaping poetic modernism. ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies Roundtable on how the spatial turn contributes to Latin American, Spanish, U.S. Latino and Chicano ... See more Posted 13 January 2013, last updated 29 January 2013 How Inequality Has Displaced Class "Exploitation," Hardt and Negri claim, is "expropriation of the common" because capitalist ... See more Posted 6 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013 How to Do Things with New Media in Medieval Studies A hybrid-roundtable-session on intersections of theory and praxis in our forays into the digital ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 How We Talk about Contingent Faculty How are contingent faculty described and discussed, and by whom? What are the implications of this ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Human Rights Modes: Protest Public shame and literary form in works in any genre, period, or nationality that protest a state's ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Humanities in an Anthropocene Era This roundtable will consider the concept of the anthropocene. What challenges /opportunities does ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain This panel explores fictionalized representations of Queen Elizabeth I and their impact on the ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Immigrant Auto/biography How does auto/biography help the immigrant subject negotiate, and situate him/herself in, shifting ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Imprisonment and Resistance Current directions in American prison studies, with a focus on how twentieth-century US literature ... See more Posted 3 February 2013 In the Eye of the Press: Journalism and Tabloidism in Fiction (1830-1930s) Papers examining the roles and representations of journalism and tabloidism in fiction welcomed. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Incorporating Undergraduate Research in English Studies Panelists will discuss best practices and innovative approaches to incorporating undergraduate ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Indigenous Literatures in the Twenty-First Century: Performance, Text, and Reception We seek papers that discuss the diffusion and reception of indigenous literatures and narrative ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Infrastructuralism Themes of infrastructure - its environmental sustainability, its social and economic desirability, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Innovative Criticism Roundtable discussion about the production and publication of innovative, experimental, affective, ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Innovative Session on Teaching Complex Prose How do you lead students to navigate syntactically-difficult narrative (Conrad, Faulkner, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Integrating Ecocriticism in New and Established Curricula We invite papers on theory and best practices of introducing ecological themes and/or ecocritical ... See more Posted 25 February 2013 Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Teaching of Foreign Languages We seek proposals from alternative, innovative methods of teaching foreign languages. Papers might ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Interpretation in Law and the Humanities Can the cultural study of law shape practical jurisprudence? The interpretive traffic among legal, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 "I've Known Rivers": Water in African Diasporic Literary Consciousness Research that engages water in African Diaspora literature. Including: migration, memory, access, ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 James T. Farrell and Chicago: New Approaches Proposals that consider the fiction and nonfiction of James T. Farrell, particularly investigations ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 JEAN-LUC GODARD: HISTORY, THEORY, CINEMA This panel will reassess the historical and theoretical implications of Godard’s films and media ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Jewish Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Pedagogy What constitutes a specifically "Jewish" rhetoric or pedagogy? And how do new developments in the ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Job Success despite these Vulnerable Times Papers discussing successful academic and non-academic job searches, particularly offering tips for ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 The John Brown Event: Approaches to Antebellum Righteous Violence Innovative takes on responses to John Brown and other agents of nineteenth-century political ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writing This proposal seeks creative writers/scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Kafka in Search for Alternative Realities Alternative realities (familiar - unfamiliar settings, narrative positions; Kafka's works; ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion Fifty Years Later The 50th anniversary calls for a renewed evaluation of this product of the early sixties. Abstract ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 La política de género: Reflexiones culturales en el capitalismo de la España contemporánea La redefinición de géneros sexuales desde la perspectiva literaria y fílmica. Brief abstract (500 ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Lab Lit Panel welcomes explorations of the genre of lab lit, especially with emphasis on contemporary ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Language Games and Normative Publics Would Marx permit a pragmatist philosophy of language? Papers on materiality and meaning; Marx, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Las hijas del mar. Emociones de costa a ciudad Rosalía de Castro su generación. La exploración de la emotividad entre los sexos. Abstract inglés o ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Latin American Darwinisms Literary responses to Social Darwinist discourses, analyses of texts only possible in a post-Darwin ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Latin American Feminist Representation a New Way of Resistance for the “Third World Women.” Feminist contemporary Latin American narrative: new scheme/representation a-response of the 20th ... See more Posted 19 January 2013 Latin American Kitsch 2000 Does kitsch exist in Latin America? Have theorizations of kitsch there evolved since milleneum, in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Latina/o Chicago Seeking papers about Latina/o writers from Chicago or the Midwest and papers about Latina/o ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Law and Literature in the Postcolony This panel explores how literary works articulate and think through problems of law and legality ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Law, Literature, and the Possibility of Justice Papers on the relationship between literature and law/justice in American/global contexts, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Learning Language History through Literature Seeking papers that explore issues in the history of the vernacular in tandem with national ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Life/Death through Deleuze and Derrida This session will discuss both philosophers' texts in relation to literary, psychoanalytic or ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Lit Misbehaving: Digital Accidents and Agency Critical approaches to unmanageable, deviant, erring electronic texts--including digitized ... See more Posted 31 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013 Literary Communism: Community without Community Papers on the dialectics of class and difference in Nancy's "literary communism" as the ... See more Posted 9 February 2013 Literary Study in the twenty-first century Vision for a new agenda related to new series, Oxford University Press from 2013. The Literary ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Literature and Bioethics Proposals invited for short papers examining, perhaps interrogating, "literature" and "bioethics" ... See more Posted 24 December 2012 Literature and Health In what ways might literature, broadly defined, be implicated in health, individual or public, and ... See more Posted 24 December 2012 Literature and Liturgy Interpenetrations of ritual, liturgy, and literature in English: language, form, text, theology, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Literature and Philosophy: New Perspectives We seek papers exploring new interconnections between (European or analytical) philosophy and ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Literature integration in language classes The 2007 Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages called for integrating literature in language ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Literature of Innocence and Escape Between the World Wars Explorations of how the World Wars influenced writers who served and then went on to write ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Literatures and Cultures of the Mediterranean: Approaches and Case Studies Exploring interdisciplinary theoretical/methodological approaches to conceptualizing Mediterranean ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Long Weekend: Popular Culture in Inter-War Britain Papers on any form of popular culture, including genre fiction, popular drama, film, middlebrow ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Making Community in Vulnerable Medieval Times Roundtable to discuss how people made community in medieval Iberia. See blog on La corónica ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Making Digital Counterpublics How can humanities classroom and research practices use digital tools and platforms to facilitate ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Marketing the Humanities Seeking critical analysis of how humanities have or have not been marketed, currently and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Marxism and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century Addresses the theoretical-methodological intersectionality of two influential but controversial ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 The Materiality of Power: Embodied Performances of Resistance in Medieval and Early Modern Spain This session examines how subjects traditionally seen as disenfranchised express resistance through ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Medicine, Literature, and Gender We invite proposals that consider the relationship between gender and medicine in 19th- and early ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Medieval Revival in France This panel investigates how the Middle Ages were remembered, imagined and reinvented in the arts ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Memory, History, and Cultural Discourses in Spain Papers on the relationship between memory and politics, nationalist movements and the past, the ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Merely Mnemonic? Reconsidering Middle English Medical Verse We invite papers on all aspects of Middle English medical verse, including poetics, sources, ... See more Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Metafiction Revisited What are some contemporary and post-postmodern manifestations of metafiction? How has it evolved ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Michael Haneke: Vulnerable Minds, Bodies, Spectators Human vulnerabilities to modernity, emotion, violence, age, etc. in Haneke’s films. How Haneke ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Mincing Their Words: Spanish Women in the Kitchen How did nineteenth through twentyfirst-century authors present food and food preparation? What does ... See more Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 11 March 2013 Modernism and Personality How did modernists theorize personality or engage personality discourse as it emerged in academic ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Modernism and the Body How does modernist literature approach and appropriate the body? Topics: non-normative bodies ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Modernist Melodrama Traditional melodrama operates around the figurability and legibility of emotion. How do modernist ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Modes of Learning in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds Forms of pedagogy and apprenticeship in communities beyond the University — academic, artistic, ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 The Musics of Chicago From jazz to rock, disco and house to hip-hop, this panel examines the cultures, histories, and ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Muslim Utopia Seeking abstracts that explore Muslim fiction writers’ overt as well as covert engagement with the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Naked Eye: Visuality and Vulnerability How does the visual/visible alongside, within, as text convey or resist vulnerability? Abstracts ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Nation, Authorship, and Visual Culture: Revisiting 19-Century Latin America Reshape recent readings of this period in relation to nation, authorship, and visual culture. A 7 ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 9 March 2013 Negotiating Impermanence in medieval Germanic text and words Papers concerning linguistic or literary transience and the awareness thereof in medieval Germanic ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 New Digital Vanguards in Spanish Literature Papers exploring the relationship between new media technologies and recent experimental changes in ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 New German Discourses About Conservatism: Forms and Expressions in Contemporary German Literature Panel critically explores discourses about conservatism in contemporary German literary production ... See more Posted 28 January 2013, last updated 17 February 2013 New Modernist Studies/Feminist Pedagogy Roundtable How might the methodologies or subjects of new modernist studies influence the practice of feminist ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 New Perspectives on Sentimental Fiction Innovative readings of sentimental fiction - historical, intertextual, theoretical; including ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The New Weird Papers on authors/artists (any language) associated with the New Weird in fiction, film, or other ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Newer New or Coming After? Americanist Literary Criticism at the Present Moment This panel seeks papers that reflect on the work of the New Americanists. Abstracts (300-500 words) ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Nineteenth-Century American Popular Publishing Approaches defined broadly by production factors, volume, form, or relationships between publisher, ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 No U-Turn: Chinese Literature, Film and Arts in the 1980s and the 1990s We would like to revisit the last two decades in mainland China through literature, film and arts. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Occupy MLA @OccupyMLA was a netprov about vulnerable adjuncts dreaming of tenure. Papers analyzing work as ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Of Love Possessed: Biopolitics as/of Love Is love an “ontological event...producing the common” (Hardt and Negri) or a spiritual resolution ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 On the Road; the American Auto-Mobility Story The automobile in American literature. Cars liberate drivers; what's generated by the freedom to ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 One Thousand and One Nights as World Literature Theoretical, hermeneutic, and historical approaches to translations, rewritings, and adaptations of ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 One World, One Speed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Nation This panel explores the ways in which the pace-setting, synchronizing power of globalization is ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 The Online Seminar Table How can we use technology to create intimate seminars that collapse geographical distance, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Orientalismo en el cine contemporáneo ¿Cómo está siendo revisitada la representación de asiáticos, árabes y judíos en el cine hispano y ... See more Posted 17 January 2013 Pacifism and the Avant-Garde 1900-1950 This panel explores Modernism's engagement with pacifist movements, philosophies, and thinkers. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Parodic Form in Asian Diasporic Literature The roles of parodic form in Asian diasporic literature via the comedic, satirical, or absurd in ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Periodicals as Tastemakers We seek papers from a variety of fields and disciplines which explore the role of 19th- and ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 The Perpetrator's Viewpoint Fiction focalizing and describing the perpetrator - from Dostoevsky to Littell - faces ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Picturing the 1914 "jeune-fille" What does the French literature, art and culture of the years 1890-1920 tell us about the blooming ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Piety and Pastry: Catholic Cooking in the English Renaissance The role of food in recusant culture in any literary capacity. Please send 250-word abstract and ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Piracy and Illicit Knowledge Seeking short papers on book piracy, underground libraries, illicit knowledge. Digital humanities, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Poetics of Information How are contemporary poets responding to the culture of information? How is information culture ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Poetry in the First-Year Writing Classroom How do we use poetry to challenge and engage first-year writers? Seeking innovative pedagogies and ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 The Policy Era This panel attends to the relationship between postwar American foreign policy and the aesthetic ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Popular Narrative during the American Depression How do popular narratives respond to vulnerable times? Transnational, eco-critical, feminist, and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 (Post-)Racial Vulnerabilities Papers exploring black vulnerability in the so-called “post-racial” moment, including affective, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Post-Revolutionary Arab(ic) Literature Panel investigates the emerging “literature of the Revolution” in Arabic, English or French from ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Post-war Town: Constructing Urban Identity Urban space is defined by urban memory. But whose memory is it? Have WWII and Holocaust left place ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Postcolonial Environmental Criticism: Development, Modernity, and the Environment This panel examines the intersections of postcolonialism and environmentalism in contemporary ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Postcolonial Intimacies This panel approaches materiality and locality by focussing on close relationships in particular ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Postcolonial Studies and Human Rights Papers that address contemporary theoretical debates within postcolonial studies in relation to new ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Postcolonial Trauma This panel explores how postcolonial contexts challenge the current rubric of trauma in fostering ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Posthumanism and the Premodern Papers addressing the animal or bestial, the in- or non-human, the machine, the cyborg; in relation ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Postnational Identities in Hispanic Literature As globalization is problematizing the question of identity, how do processes of hybridization/the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Postwhat?! Literary Postmodernism in the 21st Century Has postmodernism run out of steam, or are its effects only just now beginning to manifest ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Poverty and Naturalism New perspectives (interpretive or theoretical) on naturalism as a genre that takes the poor and ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Precarity and Poetry in the 21st Century Papers on poetry in relation to the casualization of labor, burden of debt, and felt sense of ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Premodern East Asia in/and the World Literature Canon Papers on classical East Asian genres or texts, and their position in, invisibility to, or impact ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 The Price of Culture in Latin America This panel interrogates the slippery concept of autonomy (literary/intellectual), and the tensions ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 The Project of a General Poetics Including but not limited to the theory of poetry. Broad or specific discussions on where we stand, ... See more Posted 24 October 2012 Public Memory in an Age of Digital Privacy Public memorials/sites of memory interacting with/challenging the performance of personal memory on ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Publishing a Persona Exploring the typification, marketing and consumption of a diasporic author's identity in the ... See more Posted 3 January 2013 Queer Youth This panel features scholarship focused on the intersections of childhood and queer identities in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Queering "China": Transnational and Sinophone Perspectives Theorizing Chinese and/or Sinophone cultures through queer theory; queer Asia as methodology; ... See more Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 The Quixotic in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction This panel will focus on the representation of the quixotic in twentieth-century women's fictions. ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Radical Curators, Vulnerable Genres: Lost Histories of Collecting, Editing, Bibliography Engaging institutional genres and textual practices as intellectual history of gender, race and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Radical Ecologies: (Re)Grounding Digital Pedagogy A conversation/workshop exploring the following: Is there a role for ecological thinking in ... See more Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 9 January 2013 Re-evaluating "Historical Context" Papers that reassess the relationship between literature and history; challenge the priority of ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Re-evaluating the [English] Literary "Coterie" 1550-1790 The role of social and literary networks, reading groups, and writing communities on English ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Reading after Negri Hardt and Negri read Bartleby's “refusal to work" as inaugurating “a liberatory politics." Papers ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Reading Between Musical Lines Exploring perspectives on how the presence of music intensifies the meaning and/or the form of ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Reading new India Writers pander to the demands of the market thereby reshaping India. How has globalization changed ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Reading Postmodern Space How do postmodern literary and theoretical texts map and navigate, construct and alter, inhabit and ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Reading Pragmatically in Vulnerable Times How might pragmatic critical methods (exemplified by Peirce, Dewey, James, Rorty, Poirier) help us ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Red Chicago: Leftist Chicago Writers 19th Century to the Present Leftist Chicago writers 19th-21st centuries; representation of socialist/ communist/ anarchist ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Remembering the Perpetrators: Empathy and Moral Responsibility in Spanish Cultural Production Analyses of the figure of the power-abuser and perpetrator of violence in 20th/21st century Spanish ... See more Posted 3 February 2013 Representation of Vulnerable Societies The representation of societies in conflict: social exclusion, marginalization and forced ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Representations of Lawyers and the Legal Profession in Fiction (1880-1930) This session will offer engaging perspectives on the roles and representations of lawyers in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Representations of Muslim Female Sexuality in Early Modern English Travel Narratives Any theoretical paradigm is encouraged, especially feminist or post-colonial theory. Please submit ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Representing African American Adolescence Seeking papers that address the literary representation of African American adolescence, ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Representing Evil: The Holocaust, Slavery, and Beyond 15-20 min. papers on American film/literature representations of "evil" and/or the pathological ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Retheorizing the "Vernacular" Inviting fresh critical considerations of local, subaltern, and other non-canonical processes that ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Rethinking Hispanic Orientalism Papers theorizing and analyzing the development of Hispanic Orientalism in Spain and Latin America. ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Rethinking Lydia Sigourney For a critical reassessment, papers on any approach to her writings, including psychoanalytical, ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 (Re)Thinking the Animal and the Human in Lusophone Literature since the 19th century Critical analysis of literary works concerning animal issues and the relations between humans and ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Reticent Regionalism: Postwar Midwestern Literature Overlooked postwar artists who unsettle aesthetic or spatial definitions of Midwestern art. ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Revisiting Popular Culture in Early Modern Spain New perspectives on the cultural practices of the popular classes in 15th- to 18th-century Spain. ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Revisiting the Culture Wars Seeking new perspectives on the culture wars as they become part of our institutional history. ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 Revisiting the US Queer of Color Canon Papers focused on revisiting/reinterpreting canonical texts by 20th/21st century US queers of ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Revolutionary Afterlives: Creative Conversation about Two Books, One Year Later Session juxtaposes new books on French Revolution by Julia Douthwaite and Katherine Astbury. ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Romantic Partisanship Aesthetics of taking sides in period that birthed radicalism, conservatism, liberalism; interplay ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Romanticism After the Critique of Lyric Is the "critique of lyric" a critique of the Romantic lyric? What can the study of Romantic poetry ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Romanticism of a Return to Communism Is it possible to rethink Marx(ism) and Romanticism by considering recent, non-economist ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 Roots of Ecocriticism: the 1970's and 1980's papers on earliest initiatives toward ecocriticism both as scholarly theory and practice and in the ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century How do we reassess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Scenes of Reading in Luso-Hispanic Cultures (c. XV-XIX) Examining the ideologies embedded in textual and visual representations of reading in Luso-Hispanic ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 The Sentimental Worlds of Ray Bradbury Topics include folktale, fairy tale, science fiction, children, and domesticity in the work of Ray ... See more Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 18 March 2013 Sex, aging in contemporary Spanish writing Effect of aging on creativity and expressions of the body; vulnerability and invisibility of the ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Sex-Radical Feminist Revolution in Early-Modern Poetry Studies The politics of women's desire: queer theory, new historicism, and pro-sex feminism as renovating ... See more Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Shakespeare in Performance Choose any play of Shakespeare on stage in the Western world and illustrate how the social and ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 Shakespeare, Feminism, Psychoanalysis Feminism and feminist reactions to psychoanalysis informed much of the best Shakespeare criticism ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Shaw and Adaptation This panel invites papers that discuss specific play-scripts by Bernard Shaw and their ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 Shifting Vulnerabilities: Writing after the Truth Commissions Papers examining the roles of Latin American cultural production (literature, film, journalism, ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 1 March 2013 Singularity and Transnational Poetics If ‘singularity’ conveys singular-plural, relational, differential existences of bodies (of text), ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Sixteenth-Century French Women and their Transnational World This session invites papers on French Renaissance women's cross-border forms of communication and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Size and Scale in Literature and Culture Papers on bigness, smallness, proportion, the sublime, or other topics related to size and scale in ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Slavery in the 21st-Century American Cultural Imagination This panel seeks critical assessments of recent representations (filmic, literary, etc.) of racial ... See more Posted 14 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013 Soupirs et murmures From the unspoken sufferings of classical tragedy to the seditious mutterings of encyclopedic ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 South to North: Modern Inter-American Cultural Transactions How have Latin American cultural productions informed political, aesthetic and cultural practices ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Spanish Shakespeares The image of Spain in England, the reverberations of Spanish literature in English drama, or ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Spanish/Latin American Children and Adolescent Literature This panel invites papers that analyze children and adolescent literature written in Spanish from ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Speculative Realism and Literary Studies Philosophers on literature (e.g. Meillassoux on Mallarmé, Harmon on Lovecraft); literature attuned ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Sports in French and Francophone Literature and Film How are athletic activities (traditional games, modern sports) portrayed in literature and film ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 The Sublime Emotion and Cognitive Neuroscience Papers exploring the sublime emotion and question of disinterestedness in context of cognitive ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Teaching and Hospitality This roundtable explores how hospitality as a metaphor for teaching informs particular pedagogical ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Teaching Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Remapping the Canon Explores contemporary works by Arab women as they relate to teaching new/existing courses on ... See more Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013 Teaching Current Events in Target Language Media: Roundtable Discussion Seeking participants to share pedagogical approaches to teaching language and culture through ... See more Posted 7 January 2013 Teaching narrative theory in undergraduate foreign literature courses Inviting researchers to present approaches of teaching and applying narratology in undergraduate ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Teaching Racist Texts: Roundtable on Pedagogy What problems/issues are at stake when teaching racist literature? What are our pedagogical ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Tenure Denied: What Happens Next (A Roundtable Discussion) What happens to people after tenure denial? How do they reinvent, reorient themselves. Let's share ... See more Posted 4 January 2013, last updated 14 March 2013 Terrorism and Temporality How do terrorist literary narratives reflect, respond to, or reconfigure notions of temporality ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Testimonial Literature: The Role of Narrative in National Truth Commissions Panel explores the role of testimony in restorative justice processes in relation to truth, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Theorizing the Villain in Early Modern England Seeking new theorizations of the early modern villain or reconsiderations of old approaches ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Studies in Medieval Contexts Seeking papers on any aspect of medieval things and objects, simulacra, automata, or mirabilia, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Thomas Lovell Beddoes Papers on life or works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, who suffered multiple vulnerabilities as ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Time and the Sublime around 1800 Temporality and Romantic aesthetics circa 1780-1820. Seeking 5-10 minute talks (e.g. Lightning ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Trans-Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies An exploration of the multilingual/multicultural or hybrid nature of Iberian literatures from any ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Transatlantic Maghreb Explores engagement of American writers with North Africa and how this informed their own cultural ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Transcendentalist Women and Friendship This session invites papers on transcendentalist women’s conceptions and practices of friendship, ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Translingual Practice: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations Presentations on translingual practice in literature, linguistics, literacy, and rhetoric in ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Transpacific Memory: Life Writing Across the Western Divide Papers on life writing from transpacific travel in all directions, including Western expatriate ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Transperiod Literary Studies What alternatives are there to period-based literary studies? What are the limitations of the ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Travel and Seeing the Real Place How do authors represent the quest to experience the "authentic" in their journey? What threatens ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 1 March 2013 Troubleshooting gender in 19/20th-Century French/European literature Exploring masculinity, femininity or/and hybridity of being throughout French and other ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 U.S. Immigrant Literature Goal: to establish a field of recent U.S. Immigrant Writing. Wanted: papers NOT treating works as ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Unamuno’s Niebla 100 Years Later This panel will explore the continued significance of Niebla on the occasion of its 100th ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Unveiling Herself: Women in the Works of Arab Women Filmmakers What happens when Arab women leave a position of ideological invisibility to step both before and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Using the Corpus of Historical American English for Literary Study Papers are invited exploring ways to use COHA (See more Posted 1 October 2012 Verbal and Visual Satire in the Nineteenth Century Verbal and/or visual satire; relations to other forms; histories; British or comparative. 250-word ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 The Vernacular as Critical Category Reviews, explications, contestations through theoretical reflections and/or readings of texts, ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 The Victorian Photographic Imaginary Papers on any aspect of the relationship between Victorian literature and photography. Topics may ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Videogames and Mental Health How can videogames represent mental health issues in ways that films/literature/biographies cannot? ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Violent Sympathies This session explores how violent representation produces a space of vulnerability that allows for ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Visual Artifacts in Modern Latin America An exploration of the opacity of visual archives and their relationship to material culture, visual ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Visualizing Vulnerability How does Caribbean visual culture bear upon imaginings of social, historical or political ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literature How does 20th/21st century Caribbean literature grapple with political, economic, environmental, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vulnerable Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature Joint session Gemela / Comediantes: hagiography , martyrdom, wife murder, rape, abuse of ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Vulnerable Children in Contemporary Narratives How is the vulnerability of children depicted or resisted within contemporary narratives? Abstracts ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Vulnerable Lives/Vulnerable Lands Analyses of literature/film/lifewriting that considers vulnerability of particular lives and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vulnerable Readers Mid-century American novels and the reading practices they engender. How do experiments in genre ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Vulnerable Subjects Papers exploring cultural and political effects of constructions of vulnerability/agency in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vulnerable Texts Approaches to the material vulnerabilities of texts in any medium as methodological and/or ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vulnerable Times and the Rise of Fascism: Radical Writers on the Front of the Spanish Civil War This panel explores testimonies of writers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. 250-word ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Vulnerable Times in the Archive: Forgotten Modernist Literary Magazines Texts or individuals excluded from the recent Oxford critical volumes (by Brooker & Thacker) are ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Vulnerable Victorians: Identity and "Deviance" We seek papers that explore boundaries of normative behavior and “moral disability” in 19thc ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Vulnerada y curativa: Contemporary Poetry in Latin America This roundtable rethinks Latin American poetic productions as always-already 'vulnerated' ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 War Media Spectacles of combat; the cinema of endless war; the facts, fictions and fables of battlefield ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 War/Scar: Representing U.S. Torture and Imperial Violence since 1945 How have literary and cultural productions represented instances of U.S. imperial violence and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 What is reading poetry worth, in the Age of Knowledge? This panel explores the specific heuristic nature of the contemporary Italian poetic language. Send ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 What Is the Impact of Humanities Scholarship? How are we to theorize or measure the impact of humanities scholarship? How might dwindling ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 What's Material about Vulnerability? Seeking new perspectives on materialist theory and study of vulnerability in American culture, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 What's Where in Latin America How, and for what purpose, do manuscripts inaugurate a new cartography of Latin America or of ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Why Rancière is important? Rethinking the Political in light of Contemporary Global Revolution This session invites papers discussing themes of vulnerability, resistance and social change in ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Women-Authored Novels, Sound Studies, and Music How do women's representations of music evoke listening or artistic expression that transcends, ... See more Posted 30 December 2012 Wordsworth's Excursion at 200 Keats called Wordsworth's Excursion one of the "three things to rejoice at in this Age." Papers ... See more Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 19 January 2013 Work and Workers in 18th-century France Conceptualizations, representations, critiques. Practices, norms, values. Types of sociability, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 The Work of Alfonso Ruiz de Aguirre Abstracts dealing any aspect of any of the works of Alfonso Ruiz de Aguirre. 300 word abstract and ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 The Work of Literary Pastoral in Vulnerable Times How have contemporary novelists re-envisioned the pastoral mode in order to produce what Shoshana ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Writing (Beyond) Regionalisms in Northeastern North America Seeking papers that consider or challenge the ways in which Atlantic Canadian/New England ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 “Feminism and Nationalism”: The Case of South Asian Women Seeking proposals (roundtable) on the creation of the nation-state and the role of women in South ... See more Posted 20 February 2013
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