Calls for Papers - Divisions
Mass versus Coterie II: The Rare Book
Prose Fiction
How does the limited edition shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider audiences, forms, histories. Abstracts and brief CVs by 15 March 2013; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
Candor, Deception, and Dissimulation
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
The contexts, uses, and reception of candor, its appearance, and/or its manipulation in Italian literary and theatrical works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Title, 300-word abstract by 18 March 2013; Linda L. Carroll (lincar@tulane.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
Drama Divisions Today
Drama
What’s right or wrong about the present configurations of theater and performance studies, in the MLA and beyond? Critiques, cartographies, elegies welcome. 350 word Abstract by 15 March 2013; Tavia Nyong'o (tavia.nyongo@nyu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
New Approaches to Vivifying Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Roundtable examination of how today's scholars bring Medieval and Renaissance literature to modern students: technology, interdisciplinarity, works in translation and other strategies. Title, 300-word abstract by 18 March 2013; Linda L. Carroll (lincar@tulane.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Odeporic Middle Ages: Portraying Real and Quack Pilgrims, Adventurers, Merchants and Various Humanity on the Road. Santiago, Rome, Jerusalem, and Babylon as symbolic topoi. Title, 300-word abstract by 18 March 2013; Linda L. Carroll (lincar@tulane.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
Autobiographies of Applied Linguists
Applied Linguistics
Emerging fields inevitably struggle with identity; with questions of membership; and with defining the parameters of research/theory. Session investigates the question “Who is an applied linguist?”. 150-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Sébastien Dubreil (sdubreil@utk.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013
Sign language use and development around the globe
Applied Linguistics
Papers that analyze or problematize the use and/or development of signed languages. Abstract: 150 words by 11 March 2013; Sébastien Dubreil (sdubreil@utk.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013
Social pedagogies and second language development
Applied Linguistics
Theoretical/empirical papers that examine the feasibility and effectiveness of pedagogical practices that bridge classroom-based language instruction and learning experiences rooted in students’ lives. 150-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Sébastien Dubreil (sdubreil@utk.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013
Making Sense of Big Data
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Papers would address issues in creating comparative literature data sets and/or methodologies for exploring them. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Laura C. Mandell (mandell@tamu.edu)
Posted 26 February 2013
Abject Comedy
Film
Exploring abjection in screen comedy. Are comedies of embarrassment, excess, or awkwardness a new development toward the abject, or a continuation of comedy's traditional relationship to the body? 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Nicholas Sammond (nic.sammond@utoronto.ca) and Paul Young (paul.d.young@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted , last updated 25 February 2013
The Philosophical (Re)Turn?
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
After the cultural turn, the philosophical return? Assessments of (or perspectives from) the recent philosophical turn in literary studies: object-based ontology, animal studies, aesthetics, Peirce, Dewey, James. 200-word Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Brad Evans (bevans@rci.rutgers.edu)
Posted 25 February 2013
Italian Maladies
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
Narrative medicine, illness, vulnerability, biopolitics, disease, trauma, disability and representations of post-unification Italy. Multidisciplinary papers welcome. 250 word abstract and brief bio by 15 March 2013; Dana E. Renga ( renga.1@osu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 25 February 2013
Chidren's Literature and The Common Core
Children's Literature
Roundtable discussion of the consequences of common core standards to teaching children's literature at the university level. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jan Susina (jcsusina@ilstu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013
Life Drives
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century
Papers on human and non-human forms of life in literary and scientific discourse, competing notions of wills to power and life, psychoanalysis and biopolitics. One page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Michal Peled Ginsburg (m-ginsburg@northwestern.edu) and Barbara Spackman (spackman@berkeley.edu. )
Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013
When Chicago Was In Vogue: A "Second Awakening" in African American Art and Culture
Black American Literature and Culture
New perspectives on the Chicago’s South Side as a milestone site for creative ferment among black artists. Abstract. by 15 March 2013; Sherita L. Johnson (sherita.johnson@usm.edu)
Posted 22 February 2013
Native Literary Chicago
American Indian Literatures
This panel seeks papers on Chicago as an Indigenous space in Native literature, from early trade center to World’s Fair, relocation, and/or the present. Please send 250 word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Channette Romero (cromero@uga.edu)
Posted 22 February 2013
Critical Indigenous Studies
American Indian Literatures
This panel seeks papers that take a critical indigenous studies approach to the alliances and tensions between Chicana/os and American Indians as represented in both literary traditions. by 15 March 2013; Jim Cox (jhcox@austin.utexas.edu)
Posted 22 February 2013
Marx and Poetry
Literary Criticism
How might reading poetry with and through Marx shape poetry criticism and Marxism? 500-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Kristin Ross (kr1@nyu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Manifesto Revisited
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
The manifesto as a unique nonfiction genre and vehicle for aesthetic and political intervention. Papers welcomed on all historical periods, national contexts and artistic movements. 500 Word Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Amardeep Singh (amsp@lehigh.edu) and Roderick Cooke (rcooke@haverford.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Oulipo : Avant-garde Language
Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Session fits theme “Vulnerable Worlds." Oulipo, the last international avant-garde (1961), manipulates language ("constraints," "combinatorics") to produce literature. Title/brief abstract. by 22 March 2013; Claudia Becker (cbecker@nccu.edu) and Jean-Jacques Thomas (jt96@buffalo.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
History of Style: Language’s Impact on Literature
Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Session fits topic of “Vulnerable Discourses: Linguistic Manipulation of Literature,” specifically style’s influence on literature. Title/brief abstract. by 22 March 2013; Donald E. Hardy (donhardy@unr.edu) and Claudia Becker (cbecker@NCCU.EDU)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
Vital Matters III: Things, Animals, Humans
Philosophical Approaches to Literature
We welcome papers on writing livingness, with emphasis on biopolitics, animal studies, posthumanisms, or thing theory. 250-word abstract; cv. by 15 March 2013; Suzanne Guerlac (guerlacsuzanne@gmail.com)
Posted 21 February 2013
Digital Queers or Queering the Digital
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Queering online presences; queer digital performances and objects; queering the codes; digitizing race and sexuality; queer contacts; queer approaches to new media. 250-word abstracts; brief CV by 15 March 2013; Martha Nell Smith (mnsmith@umd.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Vital Matters II: Lively Materialisms
Philosophical Approaches to Literature
The animation of materialism, literary or nonliterary, including questions of vitality and vitalism, animate being, lively materialisms modern and ancient (Stoicism, Epicureanism, atomisms). Abstract, c.v. by 15 March 2013; Natania Meeker (nmeeker@usc.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Deviant Chicago
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Sexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial sociability, commercial sex; nightlife, music, subculture; labor, print culture, activism; progressivism, reform literature, urban ethnography. 250-word abstracts; brief CV by 15 March 2013; Heather K. Love (loveh@english.upenn.edu) and Ellen McCracken (emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Deviant Chicago
Popular Culture
Sexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial sociability, commercial sex; nightlife, music, subculture; labor, print culture, activism; progressivism, reform literature, urban ethnography. 250-word abstracts; brief CV by 15 March 2013; Ellen McCracken (emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu) and Heather K. Love (loveh@english.upenn.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Cultures of the Global South
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
Collaboration with Sociological Approaches to Literature; papers foregrounding lifeworlds in the historically disadvantaged "industrializing" global South, and cultural engagements with precarity,loss, resilience, survival. 250-word abstracts and CVs by 15 March 2013; Bishnupriya Ghosh (bghosh@english.ucsb.edu) and Gina Dent (ginadent@ucsc.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
The Embodied Mind
Eighteenth-Century French Literature
How was the relationship between mind and body understood in the eighteenth century? In what literary forms were the mind and its processes embodied? One-page abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Joanna Stalnaker (jrs2052@columbia.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Transnational Comics
Literature and Other Arts
Comics and graphic narratives present visual and textual testaments to global interaction. This panel invites papers exploring their cultural exchange. 250 word abstracts and short bios by 15 March 2013; Anke K. Finger (anke.finger@uconn.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Rape of the Lock at 300
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
(Why) do we still read and teach Rape of the Lock? How can innovative theoretical approaches reframe/revise/resituate the text? Reconsiderations, critical interventions, media presentations. Abstracts by 8 March 2013; Catherine Elizabeth Ingrassia (cingrass@vcu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
Literature and Architecture
Literature and Other Arts
This panel explores literature and architecture in view of recent spatial, pictorial, affective, sensorial, and phenomenological turns in aesthetics and cultural studies. Abstracts (250 w) and short bios by 15 March 2013; Anke K. Finger (anke.finger@uconn.edu) and Lisa Siraganian (lsiragan@mail.smu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Cities and Cultural Mobility
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
Population dispersals and re-aggregations were significant effects of colonialism; papers exploring urban space-making, cultural mobilities and their links to political projects in postcolonial texts. 250-word abstracts c.v. by 10 March 2013; Ato Quayson (a.quayson@utoronto.ca)
Posted 21 February 2013
Tragedy of the Commons?
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Historicizing the affective appeal of the idea of a commons, commonality and/or communism in 20-21C. Reconsidering the 'tragedy of the commons' in terms of drama, performance. 350-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jonathan Flatley (jonathanflatley@wayne.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
The Streets of Bronzeville: Gwendolyn Brooks
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
Seeking new approaches to the novels and poetics of Gwendolyn Brooks. Particular attention given to proposals that incorporate digital media. Title, 300 word abstract; by 10 March 2013; Angelita D. Reyes (angelita.reyes@asu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Russian Periodical Studies
Slavic and East European Literatures
Periodicals, a marker of aesthetic and social change, offer a glimpse into the modes of cultural production. This panel addresses their prominent role in Russia's literary landscape. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; David L. Cooper (dlcoop@illinois.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Culture and Activism in the 2011-13 Russian Protest Movements
Slavic and East European Literatures
Papers may discuss specific figures (Pussy Riot, Akunin, Sobchak) or broader questions of theory, practice, media, divergences from pre-2011 activism, etc. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Kevin M. F. Platt (kmfplatt@sas.upenn.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Digitizing Slavic Studies
Slavic and East European Literatures
The panel invites papers examining the engagement of Slavic arts and humanities with technology, media, and computational methods. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova (svk@ku.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Making Community in Vulnerable Medieval Times
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Roundtable to discuss how people made community in medieval Iberia. Submit proposal for a brief presentation. by 15 March 2013; Jean Dangler (jdangler@tulane.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Representing Passion Narratives in Varied Linguistic Registers in the Iberian Peninsula: Mirroring or Conflicting Versions of Affective Piety?
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Invites cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary approaches to medieval Iberian Passion texts. Abstract and a brief c.v. by 15 March 2013; Montserrat Piera (mpiera01@temple.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
The Wisdom of Translation
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
This session will explore the role of medieval Iberia as a center for linguistic, literary, and cultural translation. Please send abstracts by the deadline. by 20 March 2013; Ryan Giles (rdgiles@indiana)
Posted 20 February 2013
Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, cosmopolitanism, circuits of migration, and multinational/multilingual literature and cinema. Brief abstract and CV. by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Literature, Culture and Film of the Indian Ocean
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
New developments, genres, modes of expression, performance, and intellectual inquiry in today’s cultural production from the Indian Ocean. 250 word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Valérie Orlando (vorlando@umd.edu )
Posted 20 February 2013
Performance in Francophone Cultures
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Pioneering cultural models in performance—collaborative, experimental, and innovative genres such as dance, hip-hop, music, poetry, RAP, slam, spoken word, and theater. 250 word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Dominic Thomas (dominict@humnet.ucla.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
New Currents in Medieval Hispanic Studies
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
New work, issues or approaches in medieval Hispanic or Iberian studies. Abstract, CV by 15 March 2013; Benjamin M. Liu (benjamin.liu@ucr.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
The Unconscious in Translation
Psychological Approaches to Literature
The unconscious structured like a foreign language? Papers welcome on topics relating psychoanalysis to translation, rhetoric, performativity, cultural differences, global vs. collective unconscious. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui (bjauregui@amst.rutgers.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Capitalism III: Rebellions and Riots
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Uprisings, riots, and other forms of rebellion in relation to transnational capital. Reflections on cultural articulations of popular insurgency, religious resistance, organized labor welcome. 250 word abstracts by 20 March 2013; Gabriela Nouzeilles (gnouzeil@princeton.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Capitalism II: Body and Labor
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Aesthetic and ideological dimensions of literary and visual constructions of the body in different regimes of labor (e.g. slavery, indentured and wage-labor, peonaje). 250 word abstract by 20 March 2013; Agnes Lugo (lugortiz@uchicago.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Capitalism I: Commodities and Mass Culture
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Responses to commodification and the rise of mass culture in nineteenth-century Latin America. Studies of literature, visual and material culture, exhibition spaces welcome. 250 word abstracts by 20 March 2013; Natalia Brizuela (brizuela@berkeley.edu) and Gabriela Nouzeilles (gnouzeil@princeton.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Discourse, Food, and Social Justice
Language and Society
Language at the intersection of food and society: justice, foodways, labor, ethics. How does discourse shape and/or subvert the role of food in sociopolitical practice? 2-pp. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Andrea Adolph (aea13@psu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas (collaborative session)
Film
Visual technologies and the historical advancement of capitalism in the Americas. Objects of the period or retrospective treatments. Collaboration w/LA-Lit-1900. Abstract (400 words) by 15 March 2013; Joshua Lund (JKL7@pitt.edu) and Salome Aguilera Skvirsky (skvirsky@uic.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Traffic
Twentieth-Century American Literature
The everyday circulation of people, information, capital, and commodities. Literary and methodological reflections on flows and exchange; web traffic, data streams, and congestion. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Mark Goble (mgoble@ber by 15 March 2013; Mark Goble (mgoble@berkeley.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Materialist Aesthetics
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Rethinking/revisiting materialism as a concern for politicized notions of aesthetics; Marxism; embodiment; Spinoza; new materialisms; aesthetic form in visual or written texts. 300 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Zahid Chaudhary (zrc@princeton.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Cultures of the Global South
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Foregrounding lifeworlds in the historically disadvantaged "industrializing" global South, and cultural engagements with precarity, loss, resilience, survival. 250-word abstracts and CVs by 15 March 2013; Gina Dent (ginadent@ucsc.edu) and Bishnupriya Ghosh (bghosh@english.ucsb.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Women and the Literature/Language of Human Rights
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
Possible topics: the language/practice of the Beijing Platform for Action or CEDAW; human rights (trafficking, FGM, immigration, forced early marriage); development and NGOs. Abstracts by 10 March 2013; Susan G. O'Malley (susanomalley4@gmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013
Literary Crossroads: African-American Literature and Christianity
Literature and Religion
Papers exploring the complex intersection between African-American literature and Christianity, ranging from discussions of slavery and Christianity/Bible to current engagements about race, religion, politics. 300-word abstracts by 4 March 2013; Katherine Bassard (kcbassar@vcu.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Drama Divisions Tomorrow
Drama
How should the Drama Division transform to address emerging debates and shape the future of theater and performance studies? Manifestos, prognoses, proposals welcome. 350 word Abstract by 15 March 2013; Tavia Nyong'o (tavia.nyongo@nyu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Rustbelt Migrations: Ethnicities and (De)Industrialization
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Literature of immigrants (Europe, Asia) and internal migrant populations (Blacks, Chicanos, American Indians) connected to urban spaces, racial formation, and global capitalism. Brief abstract and 1-page CV by 15 March 2013; Richard T. Rodríguez (rtrodrig@illinois.edu) and Lingyan Yang (Lingyan@iup.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Literary Sociologies of Race and Ethnicity
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Theorists and sociologists such as Randolph Bourne, Robert E. Park, Alain Locke, Charles S. Johnson in relation to 20th-century American poetry, fiction, and drama. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Richard T. Rodríguez (rtrodrig@illinois.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Biodiversity and Extinction
Literature and Science
Submissions sought for panel on literary/cultural approaches to species, biodiversity, endangered species, conservation, extinction, and environmental memory. 250-word abstract and CV by March 15, 2013, to Ursula Heise: uheise@humnet.ucla.edu. by 15 March 2013; Ursula K. Heise (uheise@humnet.ucla.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Randall Jarrell at 100
Children's Literature
This panel seeks papers celebrating Randall Jarrell, children’s author, teacher, poet, critic, novelist, essayist; his collaborations, translations and influence. Send title, 500-word abstract and 2-page CV. by 15 March 2013; Tali Noimann (cnoimann@bmcc.cuny.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
World War I in Film and Literature
European Literary Relations
The military self-destruction of Europe that took place between 1914 and 1918 has been portrayed and analyzed in film and literature. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Paul Lutzeler (jahrbuch@wustl.edu ) and katerina clark (katerina.clark@yale.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Constantinople/Istanbul: East/West
European Literary Relations
Literary and visual representations of the ancient and modern city in European texts. Send abstracts by 15 March. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Bella Brodzki (to: bbrodzki@slc.edu.) and katerina clark (katerina.clark@yale.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Author vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Shifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable presentations, comparativist and/or Americanist. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Ramon Saldivar (saldivar@stanford.edu) and Robert Parker (rparker1@illinois.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Diaries of the Young Girl: The Craft of Female Selfhood
Children's Literature
Girls’ diaries from diverse perspectives: feminism, the bildungsroman, constructions of adolescence, ethnicity, gender, cultural theory, and new diary forms. Send 500-word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; June Cummins (jcummins@mail.sdsu.edu) and Rocio Davis (rdavis@cityu.edu.hk )
Posted 19 February 2013
Author vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Shifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable presentations, comparativist and/or Americanist. Abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Robert Dale Parker (rparker1@illinois.edu) and Ramón Saldívar (saldivar@stanford.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Have we ever been secular?
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Papers revisiting customary narratives about Enlightenment and secularization; exemplifying 18th-century studies after the “theological turn”; etc. 500-word proposals by e-mail by 22 March 2013; Deidre Lynch (deidre.lynch@utoronto.ca)
Posted 19 February 2013
World War
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
In the wake of the 250th anniversary of the Seven Years War, we invite submissions upon concepts, effects, and literature of global war. 500 word abstract by March 22nd by 22 March 2013; William Warner (warner@english.ucsb.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Renaissance Cosmopolitanism
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
Poetics, politics and/or philosophies of being at home all over the world, as seen from the world of sixteenth-century France. Title and abstract for a 20-minute presentation by 15 March 2013; Andrea Marie Frisch (afrisch@umd.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Rethinking the Place of the Novel in the History of Genre
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
What can other genres teach us about the early English novel? Seeking papers that revise our novel-centric literary histories. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Wolfram Michael Schmidgen (wschmidg@artsci.wustl.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Medieval German Literature and Mystical Theology
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers addressing the intersection of literature and mystical theology. One-page CV, abstract by 13 March 2013 by 13 March 2013; Niklaus E. Largier (nlargier@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
The Lyrical 'I'
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers exploring the figure and function of the 'I' in medieval German poetry. One-page CV, abstract by 13 March 2013 by 13 March 2013; Niklaus E. Largier (nlargier@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Medieval 'World Literature'?
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers addressing questions of what moves, what doesn't move, what circulates, and what doesn't circulate among medieval literatures of different languages. One-page CV, abstract by 13 March 2013; Niklaus E. Largier (nlargier@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Continental Arthur
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers discussing the role of Arthurian motives in literature on the continent, especially the Low Countries, German-speaking lands, and Scandinavia. Co-sponsor: Arthurian Literature Discussion group. One-page CV, abstract by 13 March 2013; Niklaus E. Largier (nlargier@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Feel the Pain: Medieval Trauma
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
Round Table Possible topics: hagiography, romance, psychoanalysis, affect, bodies, torture, witnessing, empathy, animals, medicine, pedagogy, or critical narratives as traumatic. 500-word abstract and cv by 8 March 2013; Erin Labbie (labbie@bgsu.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Medieval England and the History of the Book
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
session will address the materiality of written culture: codicology, paleography, manuscript illumination, and the transmission of texts and textual traditions. 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Marilynn Desmond (mdesmon@binghamton.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Asian American Literary Criticism Today
Asian American Literature
Open call for papers on Asian American literature. 1 pg abstract, 2 pg CV by 8 March 2013; Paul Lai (pylai@stkate.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Aiiieeeee! and Asian American Literature, 40 Years Later
Asian American Literature
Debating the legacy of Aiiieeeee!, the first major anthology of Asian American literature, forty years after its publication in 1974. 1-page abstract, c.v. by 15 March 2013; Timothy Yu (tpyu@wisc.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Asian Americans and the Undead
Asian American Literature
Considerations of the undead (including but not limited to zombies, vampires, ghosts) in relation to Asian American cultural production or subject formation. 250 word abstract 2 page CV by 8 March 2013; Julia Lee (jxlee@utexas.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013
Organic Mechanisms: Whitehead, Literature, and Science
Literature and Science
New approaches to literature and science informed by the resurgent philosophy of nature, metaphysics, and cosmological speculations of Alfred North Whitehead. One-page CV and 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Steven J. Meyer (sjmeyer@wustl.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
In the Meme Time
Popular Culture
“Meme” accounts for phenomena such as “Gangnam Style” dance. Papers that pressure the “popular” through the technical, theoretical and performative logic of the meme. CVs and short abstracts by 8 March 2013; John Mowitt (mowit001@umn.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Chaucer and the New Aesthetics
Chaucer
Rethinking aesthetics, including affect and the sensorium; material culture; the descriptive turn; form and symptom. Abstracts by 15 March 2013 to Mark Miller (jmmiller@uchicago.edu). abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Mark Miller (jmmiller@uchicago.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Middle English Keywords
Chaucer
This roundtable asks: What are the critical terms through which we currently think about Chaucer and medieval literature? Single-word titles with abstracts by 15 March to Kellie Robertson (krobert@umd.edu). by 15 March 2013; Kellie Robertson (krobert@umd.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Where is French Theory Today?
Twentieth-Century French Literature
“French Theory” in a global context (e.g. migration studies, social media, Occupy movements); how other cultures, emergent scholarship, new political practices reconfigure theory. 250-word abstract, brief CV by 15 March 2013; Danielle Marx-Scouras (marx-scouras.1@osu.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013
Deleuze and the States of Film Analysis
Film
Relate Deleuze’s philosophy to film analysis. How do 'movement-image' and 'time-image' help understand role of cinema, film, visual images, 20th century and beyond? Abstract, bio by 10 March 2013; Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio (serena.anderlini@gmail.com) and Paul Young (paul.d.young@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013
Textual Carnivals Revisited
the Teaching of Writing
20 years after Susan Miller’s Textual Carnivals, Are we still “the sad woman in the basement?” This panel will explore the gendered politics of rhetoric and composition. Proposal, 250words. by 1 March 2013; Victor J. Vitanza (sophist@clemson.edu) and Jacqueline Rhodes (jrhodes@csusb.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013
Torture and Popular Culture
Popular Culture
Papers on the representation of torture in popular culture, especially in recent work like Zero Dark Thirty. Is there a benefit and what is the effect? CVs/ Abstracts by 8 March 2013; Hillary L. Chute (chute@uchicago.edu)
Posted 17 February 2013
Assessing Early Modern Queer Studies
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare
Roundtable exploring current debates and new trends. 8-10 minute position papers. Newer voices especially welcome. Send 250 word abstract, cv to Graham Hammill (ghammill@buffalo.edu) by March 22. by 22 March 2013; Graham Hammill (ghammill@buffalo.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013
Cognitive Approaches to Film
Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Theory; new interpretations; unexpected angles. We invite papers at the intersection of cognitive studies and the moving image. Send 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Julien Jacques Simon (jjsimon@iue.edu) and Lisa Zunshine (lisa.zunshine@gmail.com)
Posted 16 February 2013
Cognitive Historicist Approaches to Literature
Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Papers examining literary works (across cultural traditions) in relation to the ideas about the mind circulating when the works were produced. Send 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Julien Jacques Simon (jjsimon@iue.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013
The Graphic Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Submissions addressing the combination of word and image in the nineteenth century, from proto “graphic novels” to graphic work popularized in periodicals. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Augusta Rohrbach (augustarohrbach@gmail.edu) and Hillary Chute (chute@uchicago.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013
Literature and Media in the Nineteenth-Century US
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
How have media history and media theory transformed the study of nineteenth-century American literature? Roundtable on new approaches; statements posted in advance. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Meredith McGill (mlmcgill@rci.rutgers.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013
Political Animals: Nature, Culture, Race in Early America
Colonial Latin American Literatures
Colonizers believed the 'natures' of nations obeyed geography. How did contact among Europeans, Indians, Africans, and their descendants test this belief? CV, abstract by 15 March 2013; Nicolás Wey-Gómez (nwey@caltech.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013
Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Visual technologies and the historical advancement of capitalism in the Americas. Objects of the period or retrospective treatments. Collaboration with Film Division. Abstract (400 word max). by 15 March 2013; Joshua K. Lund (JKL7@pitt.edu) and Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky (skvirsky@uic.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013
South Asians in North America
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Inter-ethnic readings of history, culture, representation, theory - including and beyond race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality, emphasizing transnational connections and global divides. Abstracts and short CVs by 15 March 2013; Amritjit Singh (singha@ohio.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 15 February 2013
Early American Networks of Writing and the Politics of Writing Instruction
the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition
Seeking new research on the politics of early American rhetoric and writing instruction networks. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Shevaun E. Watson (watsonse@uwec.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Raising the Bar: Academic Rigor in the Language Classroom
the Teaching of Language
This session examines frameworks and approaches for teaching foreign language through intellectually challenging content. One-page abstract/20-minute paper by 15 March 2013; Fernando Rubio (fernando.rubio@utah.edu) and Heather Willis-Allen (hwallen@wisc.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Linguistic Foundations for Teaching in the Post-Methods Era
the Teaching of Language
Discusses how foundations in Linguistics (L1 and L2 acquisition theory, phonology, phonetics, syntax) may inform teacher education or L2 instruction. One-page abstract, 20-minute paper by 15 March 2013; Fernando Rubio (fernando.rubio@utah.edu) and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp (j.tharp@utah.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Heresy: Arius to Rushdie
Literature and Religion
We seek a range of papers from different periods, languages, religious traditions. 300-500 word abstracts or 8-page papers by 15 March 2013; Stephen M. Fallon (sfallon@nd.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Language Change and Literature
Language Change
How does language change matter to literature (and vice versa)? How might change inform recent theoretical perspectives (e.g., historical, cognitive, digital, ethical, rhetorical, or descriptive approaches)? 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Chris Palmer (cpalme20@kennesaw.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Diversity and Change
Language Change
What role does “diversity” play in understanding language change? Papers will explore perspectives on linguistic diversity, e.g. language maintenance, decline, and loss; language policy; and/or social variation. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Chris Palmer (cpalme20@kennesaw.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Debt and Indebtedness
English Literature Other Than British and American
Financial (states, individuals), ecological, cultural, literary (intertextuality, anxieties of influence): how do these different forms of indebted relations intersect? 400 word abstracts by 10 March 2013; Jennifer Wenzel (jawenzel@umich.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Non-Christian Identities in the Italian Context
Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature
This session welcomes papers that address Atheist, Jewish, Libertine, Muslim, and Protestant identities as expressed and negotiated in Christian and non-Christian texts. Please submit 1-page abstract. by 15 March 2013; Nathalie Hester (nhester@uoregon.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
African Literature/Performance and New Media
African Literatures
Paper proposals considering how new media technologies are shaping the production, circulation and reading of creative texts by Africans are invited. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Moradewun Adejunmobi (madejunmobi@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Contesting the Radical Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century French Literature
This session will be devoted to a reevaluation and critique of the concept of Radical Enlightenment. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Ourida Mostefai (mostefai@bc.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Montaigne and Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Intertextual relations including such issues as translation, rhetoric, skepticism, and the coming of modernity. Submit abstract by 15 March to Leonard Barkan (lbarkan@princeton.edu) and Bradin Cormack (bcormack@uchicago.edu). One-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Bradin Cormack (bcormack@uchicago.edu) and Leonard Barkan (lbarkan@princeton.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Women on Work, Women's Work
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Literary and cultural approaches to work; material labor and the work of culture and language in the writings of George Sand and nineteenth-century women writers. One-page abstract by 15 March 2013; Pratima Prasad (Pratima.Prasad@umb.edu) and David Bell (dfbell@duke.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Roundtable on the Renaissance Mediterranean
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
Current research on the early modern Mediterranean. Comparativist proposals, focus on the Mediterranean as a concept and analytic paradigm particularly welcome. Title and Abstract for 10-minute presentation by 15 March 2013; Andrea Marie Frisch (afrisch@umd.edu) and Marcus Keller (mkeller@illinois.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013
Montaigne and Shakespeare
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Intertextual relations including issues of rhetoric, of translation and cultural exchange, of philosophical skepticism, and of selfhood at the edge of modernity. One-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Leonard Barkan (lbarkan@princeton.edu) and Bradin Cormack (bcormack@uchicago.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Comparative Renaissance Festivity
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Papers on religious and secular festival, festive custom, festive drama, literary representations of festivity, comparative European and new world festivity. One-page abstracts by 20 March 2013; Susanne Wofford (susanne.wofford@nyu.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Renaissance Rhetoric
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
All aspects and topics of Renaissance rhetoric in a comparatist context, with an emphasis on epideictic rhetoric or the rhetoric of praise and blame. One-page abstract by 15 March 2013; Eric MacPhail (macphai@indiana.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Asia in Germany
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature
How does engagement with Asia precede the concept of world literature? Romantic interest in Sanskrit, representations of China after chinoiserie, adaption of Islamic genres, Asia in fantastic tales/opera. by 11 March 2013; Daniel Purdy (dlp14@psu.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Profession
Old English Language and Literature
Roundtable on Anglo-Saxon curricula and studies in the profession. Short papers on teaching, administration, research, and the role of popular media (blogs, Facebook, etc.). 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Samantha Zacher (sz66@cornell.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Old English Law and Literature
Old English Language and Literature
How do legal and literary texts illuminate social and political developments, or conceptions of self and the community? Why is interdisciplinarity important? 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Samantha Zacher (sz66@cornell.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Wonder in Anglo-Saxon England
Old English Language and Literature
Wonder as an emotional, physical or intellectual response; textual and material catalysts for wonder; boredom or malaise as wonder’s opposite. 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Samantha Zacher (sz66@cornell.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Cultures of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England
Old English Language and Literature
Forms of meditative, ascetic, and active reading; representations of reading/ readers; close reading and its others; connections to contemporary reading praxis. 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Samantha Zacher (sz66@cornell.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
New Oceanic Studies of the Colonial Americas
Colonial Latin American Literatures
How have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers exploring oceans in the cross-currents of our fields welcome. One-page CV, abstract by 15 March 2013; Stephanie Louise Kirk (skirk@wustl.edu) and Kathleen Donegan (kdonegan@berkeley.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013
Encyclopedism
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature
The many facets of the encyclopedic urge in the 13th-15th centuries. Any and all approaches are welcome. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; David F. Hult (dhult@berkeley.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013
Medieval Literature, Digital Humanities
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature
Methods, tools, new directions: any and all approaches considered. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Geraldine Heng (heng@austin.utexas.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013
Nature
the English Romantic Period
of/ and/ or Romanticism: the un-green, post-green, ever-green; grafts, transplants, hybrids; histories, economies; scale, pace; local/ total/ micro; de-naturing, re-naturing; (without) life; the “all in all”/ “now no more.”. 300-word proposals by 11 March 2013; Miranda Jane Burgess (mirandab@mail.ubc.ca)
Posted 11 February 2013
"How to Read Now"
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Can hermeneutics of suspicion and "surface readings" join forces? Can ideological interpretations be reparative? Reflections on recent divides in reading 20th-century U.S. texts. 1-2 page abstracts and CVs. by 15 March 2013; William J. Maxwell (wmaxwell@wustl.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Italian Difference
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
The Italian historical-theoretical disposition to impurity, profanation, and contamination in Novecento and contemporary literature and/with other media. Multidisciplinary papers welcome. 250 word abstract and brief bio by 20 March 2013. abstracts by 20 March 2013; Manuela Marchesini (mmarchesini@tamu.edu)
Posted 2 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Re-Thinking Divismo: Italy and Modern Celebrity Culture
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
Celebrity studies analyzing identities, politics, theatre, literature, cinema, media from Duse and D’Annunzio to Berlusconi and Benigni. 250 word abstract, bio by 15 March 2013; John Welle (John.P.Welle.1@nd.edu)
Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Scandal and Early American Literature
American Literature to 1800
Innovative approaches to the interdynamic between scandal and EAL and culture: scandals in literature, literature as scandal; scandal and authorship, genre, economy, sex, etc. CV and abstract by 15 March 2013; Sean X. Goudie (sxgoudie@psu.edu)
Posted 8 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Scientific Americans: Exploring Science in Early American Literature
American Literature to 1800
New perspectives on the place of scientific inquiry in early American literature, and/or the literary qualities of scientific writing. One-page CV and abstract. by 15 March 2013; Kathleen Donegan (kdonegan@berkeley.edu) and Sean X. Goudie (sxgoudie@psu.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
New Oceanic Studies of the Colonial Americas
American Literature to 1800
How have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers exploring oceans in the cross-currents of our fields welcome. One-page CV, abstract by 15 March 2013; Kathleen Donegan (kdonegan@berkeley.edu) and Stephanie Kirk (stephanielouisekirk@gmail.com)
Posted 11 February 2013
Literature and/as Ethnography
Twentieth-Century French Literature
Papers will explore the ethnographic impulse in 20th/21st-century French literature. Topics may include the exotic and the everyday; ethnographic narrative and fiction; description and participation. 250-word abstracts, brief CV by 15 March 2013; Alison S. James (asj@uchicago.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Francophone African Writers and Anthropology
Twentieth-Century French Literature
This collaborative session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in the 20th-century. 300-word abstract, short CV by 15 March 2013; Vincent Debaene (vd2169@columbia.edu) and Justin Izzo (justin_izzo@brown.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Francophone African Writers and Anthropology
African Literatures
This session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in the 20th-century. 300-word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2013; Justin Izzo (justin_izzo@brown.edu) and Vincent Debaene (vd2169@columbia.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Expatriation, Authorship, and Reception in African Literatures
African Literatures
Forms and themes of expatriation and location in African literatures. Who/what is an African author? Examinations of relationships between expatriation and literary form. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi (tunjitunji@yahoo.com) and Joya Uraizee (uraizeej@slu.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
The State in African Literatures
African Literatures
Papers on representations of the state (both the real and the desired) and biopolitics in African literatures; Alain Lawo-Sukam (lawosukam@tamu.edu) and Neil Kortenaar (kortenaar@utsc.utoronto.ca). 250-WORD ABSTRACTS by 8 March 2013; Neil Koortenaar (kortenaar@utsc.utoronto.ca) and Alain Lawo-Sukam (lawosukam@tamu.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Postcolonial Graphic Memoirs
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Please submit abstracts examining graphic texts dealing with self-construction/representation and questions of diasporic identification, decolonization, empire and transnational belonging. 200-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Linda Rugg (rugg@berkeley.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
2014's 1914: Great War
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature
Emergent approaches to World War One stressing revisionism motivated by recent events and theoretical developments. Abstracts (300 words) to Jesse Matz (matzj@kenyon.edu) by March 1. 300-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Jesse E. Matz (matzj@kenyon.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Shakespearean Hierarchies: History and Natural History
Shakespeare
sovereignty; legitimacy; subordination; natural law; chain of being; order and disorder; proportion; perfection; properties; categories; kinds; rank; class; dominion; offices; genre; mediation; accommodation. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Mary L. Floyd-Wilson (floydwil@email.unc.edu)
Posted 10 February 2013
Cognitive Approaches to French Renaissance Literature
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
What can cognitive science tell us about literature, and literature about cognitive processes? Case studies in the French Renaissance. Title and Abstract for a 20-minute presentation by 15 March 2013; Andrea Marie Frisch (afrisch@umd.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013
Economy and Literature
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
How are 18th and 19th-century economic processes (profit, value, money, commerce, management of material wealth) connected to literary, cultural and social formations (i.e., gender, class, race)? abstracts by 1 March 2013; Ana Hontanilla (amhontan@uncg.edu)
Posted 6 February 2013
Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
This panel will explore the tensions between cosmopolitanism and its various conceptual antagonists within 18th- and 19th-century culture and its study today. 250-page abstracts by 1 March 2013; Michael Iarocci (miarocci@berkeley.edu)
Posted 6 February 2013
Contingency at the Core
Teaching as a Profession
Implications for curriculum change when a school's curriculum is taught largely by contingent faculty members. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Kimberly Nance (kanance@ilstu.edu)
Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013
The History of Teaching as a Profession
Teaching as a Profession
Short papers examining past historical accounts of teaching or presenting new histories from which we can learn lessons. 500 word abstracts and short bios by 8 March 2013; Steven Mailloux (sjmaillo@uci.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013
Chicago Schools of Anthropology and Literature
Anthropological Approaches to Literature
Papers that explore or exemplify anthropological methods associated with Chicago in dialogue with literary analysis or that interrogate texts by Chicago anthropologists. 250-word abstracts, brief CV by 15 March 2013; Brian T. Edwards (bedwards@northwestern.edu)
Posted 4 February 2013
Disability Discourses in Latin America: Academy and Activism
Disability Studies
Roundtable exploring current issues and discourses in disability studies in LA. 6-7 minute position papers identifying areas of research, activism. 200-word abstract, cv by 1 March 2013; Beth Jorgenson (beth.jorgensen@rochester.edu) and Susan Antebi (susan.antebi@utoronto.ca)
Posted 4 February 2013
Fiction in Flux: Genre and Transmission in Recent Latin American Narrative
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Exploring manifestations of fiction and modes of transmission (hand-made books, blogs, other electronic platforms). 250-word abstracts and brief bios by 15 March 2013; Marcy Schwartz (mschwartz@spanport.rutgers.edu)
Posted 3 February 2013
Life Writing and Vulnerable Ethnic Communities
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Life writing that communicates the vulnerability of certain ethnic groups or is embraced by them. Proposals from all time periods and cultures welcome. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Irene Kakandes (irene.kacandes@dartmouth.edu)
Posted 30 January 2013
Stealing Lives: appropriation, hoaxes, ownership
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Papers consider the ethics and legality of online and print publishing when life stories are stolen or appropriated by individuals, insitutions or corporations. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Julie Rak (julie.rak@ualberta.ca)
Posted 30 January 2013
Cisneros, Chicago, Mango
Chicana and Chicano Literature
Seeking papers considering The House on Mango Street's impact on its 30th anniversary and in a year when MLA will be held in Chicago. 250 word abstracts by 28 February 2013; Yolanda Padilla (padilla.y@googlemail.com )
Posted 30 January 2013
¿Anthologizing Latinidad?
Chicana and Chicano Literature
What are the promises and pitfalls of teaching with Latina/o literature anthologies, and with the Norton in particular? Does your institution affect your choice of teaching texts? 250 word abstracts by 28 February 2013; Marissa K. Lopez (mklopez@ucla.edu)
Posted 30 January 2013
Queer Matter
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Queer materialisms; queer mattering; the queerness of matter; queer material; material queer; queer objects, queer things; queer theories and approaches to matter. 250-words abstracts and brief CVs by 15 March 2013; Carla Freccero (freccero@ucsc.edu)
Posted 29 January 2013
Slavery and the Book Trade
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
This panel will combine the methodology of the history of the book with recent studies of slavery and aesthetics, focusing on the 18th century. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Sean D. Moore (sean@unh.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
Activist Poetics: Jayne Cortez and Adrienne Rich
Poetry
Seeking papers on any aspect of the works of Jayne Cortez and/or Adrienne Rich. 300-word abstract and 2 page c.v. by 1 March 2013; Meta Jones (metad.jones@gmail.com) and Virginia Jackson (vwjackson@gmail.com)
Posted 28 January 2013
Nineteenth-Century French Studies in the Twenty-first Century
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Roundtable on the state of research/teaching in the field. What are the emerging trends/looming challenges? What forces will shape the field? Abstracts for 10-minute presentations by 22 February 2013; Susan McCready (smccread@southalabama.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
Animals and Animality
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Animal encounters in fiction and theory, discourse, images, phenomena, events. Topics: allegory, anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, ethics, animals on display, le regard de l’animal, animals and thought. Abstracts of 250-350 words by 22 February 2013; Cheryl Kreuger (clk6m@virginia.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
Chronicling a Financial Crisis
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
Seeking papers on the task of chronicling a financial crisis. What questions do such accounts ask? What problems do they encounter? What are their duties? 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Howard Horowitz (h.horwitz@English.utah.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
East Asian Traditional Poetry in the Digital Age
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900
Impact of modern technology on circulation, discussion, and composition of poetry in traditional forms (shi, tanka, haiku, etc.). 250-word abstract by 10 March 2013; Paul Rouzer (prouzer@umn.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
End(s) of Poetry: A Roundtable
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Modern, postmodern, diasporic, epic, web-based, spoken word, queer, feminist, nationalist, multilingual, untimely. 7-minute papers on any aspect of contemporary or 20th century poetry. 300-word abstracts and bios by 14 March 2013; José Quiroga (jquirog@emory.edu)
Posted 26 January 2013
Queer Philology
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Explorations of “queer philology,” the close inspection of the historical meaning of words and phrases that bear upon sexuality studies. 250-word abstract Brief CV by 15 March 2013; Christopher Looby (clooby@humnet.ucla.edu)
Posted 26 January 2013
Chicago Women Playwrights
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
The panel invites work by or about women playwrights from Chicago such as Sarah Ruhl, Lydia R. Diamond, and Lorraine Hansberry. abstracts of 250 word or less by 1 March 2013; Susan G. O'Malley (susanomalley4@gmail.com)
Posted 25 January 2013
Letters
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature
Letters as literature; letters in literature; letters as autobiography; open letters; letters and technology; letters and gender; the letter as material object; editions of letters. Proposals of 250 words by 1 March 2013; Jocelyne Kolb (jkolb@smith.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013
Góngora’s Soledades After 400 Years
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose
Interpretations, Reception and Appropriations. Send one-page abstract and two-page CV by 7 March 2013; Steven Wagschal (MLA2014@indiana.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013
Science (and) Fiction in Early Modern Spain
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose
History of Science, New Technologies, Magic and Marvels. Send one-page abstract and two-page CV by 7 March 2013; Steven Wagschal (MLA2014@indiana.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013
The Pleasure of the Text: Creating Life-Long Readers
the Teaching of Literature
Teaching literature with an eye to life beyond the classroom. How do we connect literature to students' lives? Theory or practice. Abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Jeanne A. Follansbee (follansb@fas.harvard.edu)
Posted 24 January 2013
Multilingualism in Native American/Aboriginal Texts
American Indian Literatures
Panel analyzes Native American/Aboriginal texts in original languages and/or with other languages; region, time, and genre are open. 250-word abstract and short bio by 25 February 2013; Beth Piatote (piatote@berkeley.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013
Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Literary explorations of relationships between mothers and daughters and/or mothers and sons, as narrated in early modern European cultures, especially Italian. Title, 250-word abstract by 1 March 2013; Laura Giannetti (lgiannetti@miami.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013
Voice and Silence
French Medieval Language and Literature
Inviting responses to how voice speaks in a text or voices silence so that it can be heard. 250-word abstract and two-page CV by 15 March 2013; Cary Howie (caryhowie@cornell.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Nature and the Natural World
French Medieval Language and Literature
We invite papers on NATURE AND THE NATURAL WORLD in its many guises – theological, legal, linguistic, poetic, artistic, scientific, political, sexual. 250-word abstract and two-page CV by 15 March 2013; Cary Howie (caryhowie@cornell.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Broadway Babies
Children's Literature
Papers should examine constructions of childhood and issues of child performance in musicals such as The Secret Garden, The Lion King, The King and I, or Sarafina! Abstracts (250-300 words) by 15 March 2013; Donelle Ruwe (donelle.ruwe@nau.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Victorian Informatics
the Victorian Period
Papers related to producing, organizing, circulating knowledge; information taxonomies and technologies; narrating information; the poetics or aesthetics of information; wanting facts. 500 word abstract, 1 page CV by 1 March 2013; Richard Menke (rmenke@uga.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Victorian Temporalities
the Victorian Period
Papers related to instantaneity, lived time, realtime, geological time, duration, (a)synchrony, intermittence, spending time, saving time, wasting time. 500 word abstract; 1 page CV. by 1 March 2013; Richard Menke (rmenke@uga.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Lope de Vega and Peasant Drama: 400 years later
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
new approaches to peasant drama, canonical and lesser known plays and authors, consideration of campesinos/campesinas. 1 page abstract and 1 page CV by 1 March 2013; Barbara Simerka (simerkabarbara@gmail.com)
Posted 22 January 2013
Domesticity and the Comedia
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
New perspectives on the marriage plot and family relations, domestic spaces . Consideration of marginal figures: spinsters, widows , orphans . 1 page abstract and 1 page CV by 1 March 2013; Barbara Simerka (simerkabarbara@gmail.com)
Posted 22 January 2013
Representations of Disaster in Contemporary Asia
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers that consider issues of representation of recent disasters throughout Asia, such as earthquakes, famine, tsunami, or nuclear meltdown, in a variety of media. 250-word abstract by 10 March 2013; Doug Slaymaker (dslaym@uky.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013
Asia and the Nobel Prize in Literature
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers exploring the cultural, linguistic, literary, and political meanings of this prize and the works of the surprisingly few Asian laureates and nominees. 250-word abstracts by 10 March 2013; Melek Ortabasi (mso1@sfu.ca)
Posted 21 January 2013
What is Data in Literary Studies? A Roundtable
Methods of Literary Research
Do all literary scholars work with data of some kind? Or are projects involving data methodologically distinct? Do we need better data? 250-word abstracts by 4 March 2013; James F. English (jenglish@english.upenn.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013
Artistic and Scholarly Practice in the Digital Age
Twentieth-Century German Literature
Seeking papers that explore the interplay of aesthetics, science, and politics across sites of engagement in the digital era. 300 word abstracts for TRANSIT by 9 March 2013; Deniz Göktürk (dgokturk@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 January 2013, last updated 21 January 2013
Narrative and Language Theory
Language Theory
We solicit papers exploring relationship between narrative and theory of language. Paper proposals of 250-300 words by 15 March 2013; Jiyoung Yoon (jiyoung.yoon@unt.edu)
Posted 20 January 2013
New Work in Language Theory
Language Theory
We solicit papers exploring any aspect of linguistics that contributes to recent trends in language theory. Paper proposals of 250-300 words by 15 March 2013; Jiyoung Yoon (jiyoung.yoon@unt.edu)
Posted 20 January 2013
Thinking Fanlation
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers that explore the theoretical or political ramifications of fanlation, scanlation, fansubbing, or other forms of unauthorized and/or crowdsourced translation in a global media context. 250-word abstract by 10 March 2013; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@eastasian.ucsb.edu)
Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 18 January 2013
Critical Regionalisms
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analysis of emergent conceptualizations of the regional and of cultural difference that question traditional notions of territorialization, authority, and identity in an Iberian context. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Cristina Moreiras-Menor (moreiras@umich.edu)
Posted 17 January 2013
Novels of the Arab Diaspora
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers on novels by Arab writers of the diaspora, early and contemporary topics welcome, including Arabic, Francophone, and Anglophone texts. Brief abstract and CV by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 16 January 2013
New Arabic Genres
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers on new Arabic media, including electronic modes of writing, graphic narratives, and innovations in genres of Arabic writing. Brief abstract and CV by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 16 January 2013
Vulnerable Expression after the Arab Uprisings
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers examining cultural freedoms since the Arab Uprisings, with an emphasis on legal and economic transformations in cultural production. Brief abstract and CV by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 16 January 2013
Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, cosmopolitanism, circuits of migration, and multinational/multilingual literature and cinema. Brief abstract and CV by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 16 January 2013
Luso-Hispanic Exchanges
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
A comparative examination of Portuguese- and Spanish-language literary and cultural materials. Latin American, peninsular, transatlantic, and other approaches welcome. 300-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Robert Newcomb (rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Sport and Nation in the Lusophone World
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
The relationship between sport and nationality in literary, cinematic and visual texts. We encourage the consideration of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. 300-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Emanuelle Oliveira Monte (Emanuelle.olveira@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Memory/History/Stories
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
The intersection of memory, history and fiction in the construction of national and self identity; memory and post-memory; remembering versus forgetting; collective and personal trauma. 300-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Cristina Pinto-Bailey (pinto-baileyac@wlu.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Diplomacy in 17th-century French Culture
Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Relations between disparate cultures; evolving practices and forms of diplomacy; its languages; its influence on literary production. 300 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Faith Beasley (Faith.Beasley@Dartmouth.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Blockbusters and Bestsellers
Twentieth-Century English Literature
How does popular success shape novels? Topics might include literary prizes, adaptations in other media, distribution networks, reading clubs, genre, graphic novels, highbrow and middlebrow fiction, specific bestsellers. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Allan Hepburn (allan.hepburn@mcgill.ca)
Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 15 January 2013
Influence/Confluence of Genres in East Asia
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900
Explorations of the influence between and confluence of literary and performative genres as perceived in East Asian cultures before 1900. 250-word abstract by 10 March 2013; Joseph Sorensen (jsorensen@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 14 January 2013
Milton in the Long Restoration
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
This session will explore Milton's presence in the long Restoration. We seek papers that address this topic from various critical perspectives. Title and brief abstract of paper by 15 March 2013; Albert J. Rivero (albert.rivero@marquette.edu) and Blair Hoxby (bhoxby@stanford.edu)
Posted 14 January 2013
Teaching Brecht
the Teaching of Literature
Proposals sought with critical reflections and best practices on teaching Bertolt Brecht’s ideas and works (dramas, prose, poetry), including text selection, performing excerpts, and integrating theoretical issues. Abstracts (200 words) by 15 March 2013; Per Urlaub (urlaub@austin.utexas.edu) and Paula Hanssen (hanssen@webster.edu)
Posted 13 January 2013
Latinoamericanismo Reloaded
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Contemporary theoretical readings on thinkers of Latin Americanism writing between 1900 (Ariel) and 1971 (Caliban). 300-word abstract and brief bio. by 1 March 2013; Ignacio Sanchez Prado (isanchez@artsci.wustl.edu)
Posted 13 January 2013
History, Form, Theory of Early Modern Disability
Disability Studies
Reflections on historical, formal, theoretical models of disability representation in early modern period. Compare existing methodologies and/or propose inroads for future studies. 250-word abstracts, cv by 1 March 2013; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013
Toxic Bodies
Disability Studies
Disabled persons as canaries in coal mines of globalization. Intersectional connections to other vulnerable populations based on proximity to toxicity (fracking, irradiation, strip mining, mercury poisoning, pharmaceuticals). 350-word abstracts, cv by 1 March 2013; David Mitchell (dtmitchel@gmail.com)
Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013
New Social Movements
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin America, Spain, or the US-Latino context. Round table format; comparative perspectives welcome. 250-word abstracts to: hchacon6@naz.edu and susanm by 1 March 2013; Hilda Chacón (hchacon6@naz.edu) and Susan Martin-Marquez (susanmm@rci.rutgers.edu )
Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013
The Commons/Lo común
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analysis of how the concept is deployed in contemporary Spanish cultural production, including articulation or questioning of cultural and political imaginaries, communities, relationships and subjectivities. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Elena Delgado (ldelgado@illinois.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013
New Social Movements
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin America, Spain, or the US-Latino context. Round table format; comparative perspectives welcome. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Susan Martin-Márquez (susanmm@rci.rutgers.edu) and Hilda Chacón (hchacon6@naz.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013
Alternative Histories
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Theoretically informed proposals for, or analyses of, new ways of conceptualizing cultural, literary, or film history. Should have relevance for the study of 20th-21st century Spain. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Jo Labanyi (jo.labanyi@nyu.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013
The Imagined Text
Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Exploring the boundaries between texts and meta-texts: what is there to learn from edits, rewrites, variantes, hypothetical genetics, possible texts, unwritten pages, and creative criticism. 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Hélène Bilis (hbilis@wellesley.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013
The Essay in the Age of Its Electronic Reproducibility
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
The essay and its "digital" production, storage, and distribution; the essay as scholarly writing and communication in networked programmable media. 500-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Brian Lennon (bul5@psu.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013
Literature and the English Revolution: 1640-1659
Seventeenth-Century English Literature
We welcome papers on any kind of written material from this period (pamphlets, poems, treatises, etc.). A detailed abstract of at least 500 words. by 15 March 2013; Molly Murray (mpm7@columbia.edu)
Posted 10 January 2013
Networks of Influence in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry
Seventeenth-Century English Literature
We welcome papers on individual poets, pairs of poets and coteries, cultures, and subcultures of literary transmission. A detailed abstract of at least 500 words. by 15 March 2013; Richard Strier (rastrier@uchicago.edu)
Posted 10 January 2013
Mass versus Coterie I: The Audio Book
Prose Fiction
How does the audio book shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider audiences, forms, histories. Abstracts and brief CVs by 1 March 2013; Mark McGurl (mcgurl@stanford.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013
Old Materials, New Materialisms
Methods of Literary Research
Submissions welcome on all aspects of archival scholarship and new materialisms (including feminism, science studies, object oriented ontology, ecocriticism, animal studies). 250 word abstracts by 14 March 2013; Robert Markley (rmarkley@illinois.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013
Cross-Cultural Dialogues
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Seeking papers about literature or film involving cultures or languages of the global south addressing events of transnational affect (e.g. 9/11, “occupy” movement). 250-word abstract and brief CV by 15 March 2013; Olakunle George (Olakunle_George@Brown.edu)
Posted 7 January 2013
20th-Century South Asian Literatures - Without English
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Seeking papers on writers of South Asia who publish in indigenous languages of the region. Abstracts of ca. 250 words, plus CV by 17 December 2012; Thomas Oliver Beebee (tob@psu.edu)
Posted 23 October 2012
Prose Fiction
How does the limited edition shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider audiences, forms, histories. Abstracts and brief CVs by 15 March 2013; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
Candor, Deception, and Dissimulation
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
The contexts, uses, and reception of candor, its appearance, and/or its manipulation in Italian literary and theatrical works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Title, 300-word abstract by 18 March 2013; Linda L. Carroll (lincar@tulane.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
Drama Divisions Today
Drama
What’s right or wrong about the present configurations of theater and performance studies, in the MLA and beyond? Critiques, cartographies, elegies welcome. 350 word Abstract by 15 March 2013; Tavia Nyong'o (tavia.nyongo@nyu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
New Approaches to Vivifying Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Roundtable examination of how today's scholars bring Medieval and Renaissance literature to modern students: technology, interdisciplinarity, works in translation and other strategies. Title, 300-word abstract by 18 March 2013; Linda L. Carroll (lincar@tulane.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Odeporic Middle Ages: Portraying Real and Quack Pilgrims, Adventurers, Merchants and Various Humanity on the Road. Santiago, Rome, Jerusalem, and Babylon as symbolic topoi. Title, 300-word abstract by 18 March 2013; Linda L. Carroll (lincar@tulane.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013
Autobiographies of Applied Linguists
Applied Linguistics
Emerging fields inevitably struggle with identity; with questions of membership; and with defining the parameters of research/theory. Session investigates the question “Who is an applied linguist?”. 150-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Sébastien Dubreil (sdubreil@utk.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013
Sign language use and development around the globe
Applied Linguistics
Papers that analyze or problematize the use and/or development of signed languages. Abstract: 150 words by 11 March 2013; Sébastien Dubreil (sdubreil@utk.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013
Social pedagogies and second language development
Applied Linguistics
Theoretical/empirical papers that examine the feasibility and effectiveness of pedagogical practices that bridge classroom-based language instruction and learning experiences rooted in students’ lives. 150-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Sébastien Dubreil (sdubreil@utk.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013
Making Sense of Big Data
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Papers would address issues in creating comparative literature data sets and/or methodologies for exploring them. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Laura C. Mandell (mandell@tamu.edu)
Posted 26 February 2013
Abject Comedy
Film
Exploring abjection in screen comedy. Are comedies of embarrassment, excess, or awkwardness a new development toward the abject, or a continuation of comedy's traditional relationship to the body? 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Nicholas Sammond (nic.sammond@utoronto.ca) and Paul Young (paul.d.young@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted , last updated 25 February 2013
The Philosophical (Re)Turn?
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
After the cultural turn, the philosophical return? Assessments of (or perspectives from) the recent philosophical turn in literary studies: object-based ontology, animal studies, aesthetics, Peirce, Dewey, James. 200-word Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Brad Evans (bevans@rci.rutgers.edu)
Posted 25 February 2013
Italian Maladies
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
Narrative medicine, illness, vulnerability, biopolitics, disease, trauma, disability and representations of post-unification Italy. Multidisciplinary papers welcome. 250 word abstract and brief bio by 15 March 2013; Dana E. Renga ( renga.1@osu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 25 February 2013
Chidren's Literature and The Common Core
Children's Literature
Roundtable discussion of the consequences of common core standards to teaching children's literature at the university level. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jan Susina (jcsusina@ilstu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013
Life Drives
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century
Papers on human and non-human forms of life in literary and scientific discourse, competing notions of wills to power and life, psychoanalysis and biopolitics. One page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Michal Peled Ginsburg (m-ginsburg@northwestern.edu) and Barbara Spackman (spackman@berkeley.edu. )
Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013
When Chicago Was In Vogue: A "Second Awakening" in African American Art and Culture
Black American Literature and Culture
New perspectives on the Chicago’s South Side as a milestone site for creative ferment among black artists. Abstract. by 15 March 2013; Sherita L. Johnson (sherita.johnson@usm.edu)
Posted 22 February 2013
Native Literary Chicago
American Indian Literatures
This panel seeks papers on Chicago as an Indigenous space in Native literature, from early trade center to World’s Fair, relocation, and/or the present. Please send 250 word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Channette Romero (cromero@uga.edu)
Posted 22 February 2013
Critical Indigenous Studies
American Indian Literatures
This panel seeks papers that take a critical indigenous studies approach to the alliances and tensions between Chicana/os and American Indians as represented in both literary traditions. by 15 March 2013; Jim Cox (jhcox@austin.utexas.edu)
Posted 22 February 2013
Marx and Poetry
Literary Criticism
How might reading poetry with and through Marx shape poetry criticism and Marxism? 500-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Kristin Ross (kr1@nyu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Manifesto Revisited
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
The manifesto as a unique nonfiction genre and vehicle for aesthetic and political intervention. Papers welcomed on all historical periods, national contexts and artistic movements. 500 Word Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Amardeep Singh (amsp@lehigh.edu) and Roderick Cooke (rcooke@haverford.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Oulipo : Avant-garde Language
Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Session fits theme “Vulnerable Worlds." Oulipo, the last international avant-garde (1961), manipulates language ("constraints," "combinatorics") to produce literature. Title/brief abstract. by 22 March 2013; Claudia Becker (cbecker@nccu.edu) and Jean-Jacques Thomas (jt96@buffalo.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
History of Style: Language’s Impact on Literature
Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Session fits topic of “Vulnerable Discourses: Linguistic Manipulation of Literature,” specifically style’s influence on literature. Title/brief abstract. by 22 March 2013; Donald E. Hardy (donhardy@unr.edu) and Claudia Becker (cbecker@NCCU.EDU)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
Vital Matters III: Things, Animals, Humans
Philosophical Approaches to Literature
We welcome papers on writing livingness, with emphasis on biopolitics, animal studies, posthumanisms, or thing theory. 250-word abstract; cv. by 15 March 2013; Suzanne Guerlac (guerlacsuzanne@gmail.com)
Posted 21 February 2013
Digital Queers or Queering the Digital
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Queering online presences; queer digital performances and objects; queering the codes; digitizing race and sexuality; queer contacts; queer approaches to new media. 250-word abstracts; brief CV by 15 March 2013; Martha Nell Smith (mnsmith@umd.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Vital Matters II: Lively Materialisms
Philosophical Approaches to Literature
The animation of materialism, literary or nonliterary, including questions of vitality and vitalism, animate being, lively materialisms modern and ancient (Stoicism, Epicureanism, atomisms). Abstract, c.v. by 15 March 2013; Natania Meeker (nmeeker@usc.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Deviant Chicago
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Sexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial sociability, commercial sex; nightlife, music, subculture; labor, print culture, activism; progressivism, reform literature, urban ethnography. 250-word abstracts; brief CV by 15 March 2013; Heather K. Love (loveh@english.upenn.edu) and Ellen McCracken (emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Deviant Chicago
Popular Culture
Sexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial sociability, commercial sex; nightlife, music, subculture; labor, print culture, activism; progressivism, reform literature, urban ethnography. 250-word abstracts; brief CV by 15 March 2013; Ellen McCracken (emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu) and Heather K. Love (loveh@english.upenn.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Cultures of the Global South
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
Collaboration with Sociological Approaches to Literature; papers foregrounding lifeworlds in the historically disadvantaged "industrializing" global South, and cultural engagements with precarity,loss, resilience, survival. 250-word abstracts and CVs by 15 March 2013; Bishnupriya Ghosh (bghosh@english.ucsb.edu) and Gina Dent (ginadent@ucsc.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
The Embodied Mind
Eighteenth-Century French Literature
How was the relationship between mind and body understood in the eighteenth century? In what literary forms were the mind and its processes embodied? One-page abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Joanna Stalnaker (jrs2052@columbia.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Transnational Comics
Literature and Other Arts
Comics and graphic narratives present visual and textual testaments to global interaction. This panel invites papers exploring their cultural exchange. 250 word abstracts and short bios by 15 March 2013; Anke K. Finger (anke.finger@uconn.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Rape of the Lock at 300
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
(Why) do we still read and teach Rape of the Lock? How can innovative theoretical approaches reframe/revise/resituate the text? Reconsiderations, critical interventions, media presentations. Abstracts by 8 March 2013; Catherine Elizabeth Ingrassia (cingrass@vcu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013
Literature and Architecture
Literature and Other Arts
This panel explores literature and architecture in view of recent spatial, pictorial, affective, sensorial, and phenomenological turns in aesthetics and cultural studies. Abstracts (250 w) and short bios by 15 March 2013; Anke K. Finger (anke.finger@uconn.edu) and Lisa Siraganian (lsiragan@mail.smu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Cities and Cultural Mobility
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
Population dispersals and re-aggregations were significant effects of colonialism; papers exploring urban space-making, cultural mobilities and their links to political projects in postcolonial texts. 250-word abstracts c.v. by 10 March 2013; Ato Quayson (a.quayson@utoronto.ca)
Posted 21 February 2013
Tragedy of the Commons?
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Historicizing the affective appeal of the idea of a commons, commonality and/or communism in 20-21C. Reconsidering the 'tragedy of the commons' in terms of drama, performance. 350-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jonathan Flatley (jonathanflatley@wayne.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
The Streets of Bronzeville: Gwendolyn Brooks
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
Seeking new approaches to the novels and poetics of Gwendolyn Brooks. Particular attention given to proposals that incorporate digital media. Title, 300 word abstract; by 10 March 2013; Angelita D. Reyes (angelita.reyes@asu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Russian Periodical Studies
Slavic and East European Literatures
Periodicals, a marker of aesthetic and social change, offer a glimpse into the modes of cultural production. This panel addresses their prominent role in Russia's literary landscape. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; David L. Cooper (dlcoop@illinois.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Culture and Activism in the 2011-13 Russian Protest Movements
Slavic and East European Literatures
Papers may discuss specific figures (Pussy Riot, Akunin, Sobchak) or broader questions of theory, practice, media, divergences from pre-2011 activism, etc. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Kevin M. F. Platt (kmfplatt@sas.upenn.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Digitizing Slavic Studies
Slavic and East European Literatures
The panel invites papers examining the engagement of Slavic arts and humanities with technology, media, and computational methods. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova (svk@ku.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Making Community in Vulnerable Medieval Times
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Roundtable to discuss how people made community in medieval Iberia. Submit proposal for a brief presentation. by 15 March 2013; Jean Dangler (jdangler@tulane.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
Representing Passion Narratives in Varied Linguistic Registers in the Iberian Peninsula: Mirroring or Conflicting Versions of Affective Piety?
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Invites cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary approaches to medieval Iberian Passion texts. Abstract and a brief c.v. by 15 March 2013; Montserrat Piera (mpiera01@temple.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013
The Wisdom of Translation
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
This session will explore the role of medieval Iberia as a center for linguistic, literary, and cultural translation. Please send abstracts by the deadline. by 20 March 2013; Ryan Giles (rdgiles@indiana)
Posted 20 February 2013
Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, cosmopolitanism, circuits of migration, and multinational/multilingual literature and cinema. Brief abstract and CV. by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Literature, Culture and Film of the Indian Ocean
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
New developments, genres, modes of expression, performance, and intellectual inquiry in today’s cultural production from the Indian Ocean. 250 word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Valérie Orlando (vorlando@umd.edu )
Posted 20 February 2013
Performance in Francophone Cultures
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Pioneering cultural models in performance—collaborative, experimental, and innovative genres such as dance, hip-hop, music, poetry, RAP, slam, spoken word, and theater. 250 word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Dominic Thomas (dominict@humnet.ucla.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
New Currents in Medieval Hispanic Studies
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
New work, issues or approaches in medieval Hispanic or Iberian studies. Abstract, CV by 15 March 2013; Benjamin M. Liu (benjamin.liu@ucr.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
The Unconscious in Translation
Psychological Approaches to Literature
The unconscious structured like a foreign language? Papers welcome on topics relating psychoanalysis to translation, rhetoric, performativity, cultural differences, global vs. collective unconscious. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui (bjauregui@amst.rutgers.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Capitalism III: Rebellions and Riots
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Uprisings, riots, and other forms of rebellion in relation to transnational capital. Reflections on cultural articulations of popular insurgency, religious resistance, organized labor welcome. 250 word abstracts by 20 March 2013; Gabriela Nouzeilles (gnouzeil@princeton.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Capitalism II: Body and Labor
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Aesthetic and ideological dimensions of literary and visual constructions of the body in different regimes of labor (e.g. slavery, indentured and wage-labor, peonaje). 250 word abstract by 20 March 2013; Agnes Lugo (lugortiz@uchicago.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Capitalism I: Commodities and Mass Culture
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Responses to commodification and the rise of mass culture in nineteenth-century Latin America. Studies of literature, visual and material culture, exhibition spaces welcome. 250 word abstracts by 20 March 2013; Natalia Brizuela (brizuela@berkeley.edu) and Gabriela Nouzeilles (gnouzeil@princeton.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Discourse, Food, and Social Justice
Language and Society
Language at the intersection of food and society: justice, foodways, labor, ethics. How does discourse shape and/or subvert the role of food in sociopolitical practice? 2-pp. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Andrea Adolph (aea13@psu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas (collaborative session)
Film
Visual technologies and the historical advancement of capitalism in the Americas. Objects of the period or retrospective treatments. Collaboration w/LA-Lit-1900. Abstract (400 words) by 15 March 2013; Joshua Lund (JKL7@pitt.edu) and Salome Aguilera Skvirsky (skvirsky@uic.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Traffic
Twentieth-Century American Literature
The everyday circulation of people, information, capital, and commodities. Literary and methodological reflections on flows and exchange; web traffic, data streams, and congestion. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Mark Goble (mgoble@ber by 15 March 2013; Mark Goble (mgoble@berkeley.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Materialist Aesthetics
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Rethinking/revisiting materialism as a concern for politicized notions of aesthetics; Marxism; embodiment; Spinoza; new materialisms; aesthetic form in visual or written texts. 300 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Zahid Chaudhary (zrc@princeton.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Cultures of the Global South
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Foregrounding lifeworlds in the historically disadvantaged "industrializing" global South, and cultural engagements with precarity, loss, resilience, survival. 250-word abstracts and CVs by 15 March 2013; Gina Dent (ginadent@ucsc.edu) and Bishnupriya Ghosh (bghosh@english.ucsb.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Women and the Literature/Language of Human Rights
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
Possible topics: the language/practice of the Beijing Platform for Action or CEDAW; human rights (trafficking, FGM, immigration, forced early marriage); development and NGOs. Abstracts by 10 March 2013; Susan G. O'Malley (susanomalley4@gmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013
Literary Crossroads: African-American Literature and Christianity
Literature and Religion
Papers exploring the complex intersection between African-American literature and Christianity, ranging from discussions of slavery and Christianity/Bible to current engagements about race, religion, politics. 300-word abstracts by 4 March 2013; Katherine Bassard (kcbassar@vcu.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Drama Divisions Tomorrow
Drama
How should the Drama Division transform to address emerging debates and shape the future of theater and performance studies? Manifestos, prognoses, proposals welcome. 350 word Abstract by 15 March 2013; Tavia Nyong'o (tavia.nyongo@nyu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
Rustbelt Migrations: Ethnicities and (De)Industrialization
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Literature of immigrants (Europe, Asia) and internal migrant populations (Blacks, Chicanos, American Indians) connected to urban spaces, racial formation, and global capitalism. Brief abstract and 1-page CV by 15 March 2013; Richard T. Rodríguez (rtrodrig@illinois.edu) and Lingyan Yang (Lingyan@iup.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Literary Sociologies of Race and Ethnicity
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Theorists and sociologists such as Randolph Bourne, Robert E. Park, Alain Locke, Charles S. Johnson in relation to 20th-century American poetry, fiction, and drama. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Richard T. Rodríguez (rtrodrig@illinois.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Biodiversity and Extinction
Literature and Science
Submissions sought for panel on literary/cultural approaches to species, biodiversity, endangered species, conservation, extinction, and environmental memory. 250-word abstract and CV by March 15, 2013, to Ursula Heise: uheise@humnet.ucla.edu. by 15 March 2013; Ursula K. Heise (uheise@humnet.ucla.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013
Randall Jarrell at 100
Children's Literature
This panel seeks papers celebrating Randall Jarrell, children’s author, teacher, poet, critic, novelist, essayist; his collaborations, translations and influence. Send title, 500-word abstract and 2-page CV. by 15 March 2013; Tali Noimann (cnoimann@bmcc.cuny.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013
World War I in Film and Literature
European Literary Relations
The military self-destruction of Europe that took place between 1914 and 1918 has been portrayed and analyzed in film and literature. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Paul Lutzeler (jahrbuch@wustl.edu ) and katerina clark (katerina.clark@yale.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Constantinople/Istanbul: East/West
European Literary Relations
Literary and visual representations of the ancient and modern city in European texts. Send abstracts by 15 March. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Bella Brodzki (to: bbrodzki@slc.edu.) and katerina clark (katerina.clark@yale.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Author vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Shifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable presentations, comparativist and/or Americanist. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Ramon Saldivar (saldivar@stanford.edu) and Robert Parker (rparker1@illinois.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Diaries of the Young Girl: The Craft of Female Selfhood
Children's Literature
Girls’ diaries from diverse perspectives: feminism, the bildungsroman, constructions of adolescence, ethnicity, gender, cultural theory, and new diary forms. Send 500-word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; June Cummins (jcummins@mail.sdsu.edu) and Rocio Davis (rdavis@cityu.edu.hk )
Posted 19 February 2013
Author vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Shifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable presentations, comparativist and/or Americanist. Abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Robert Dale Parker (rparker1@illinois.edu) and Ramón Saldívar (saldivar@stanford.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Have we ever been secular?
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Papers revisiting customary narratives about Enlightenment and secularization; exemplifying 18th-century studies after the “theological turn”; etc. 500-word proposals by e-mail by 22 March 2013; Deidre Lynch (deidre.lynch@utoronto.ca)
Posted 19 February 2013
World War
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
In the wake of the 250th anniversary of the Seven Years War, we invite submissions upon concepts, effects, and literature of global war. 500 word abstract by March 22nd by 22 March 2013; William Warner (warner@english.ucsb.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Renaissance Cosmopolitanism
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
Poetics, politics and/or philosophies of being at home all over the world, as seen from the world of sixteenth-century France. Title and abstract for a 20-minute presentation by 15 March 2013; Andrea Marie Frisch (afrisch@umd.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Rethinking the Place of the Novel in the History of Genre
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
What can other genres teach us about the early English novel? Seeking papers that revise our novel-centric literary histories. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Wolfram Michael Schmidgen (wschmidg@artsci.wustl.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Medieval German Literature and Mystical Theology
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers addressing the intersection of literature and mystical theology. One-page CV, abstract by 13 March 2013 by 13 March 2013; Niklaus E. Largier (nlargier@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
The Lyrical 'I'
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers exploring the figure and function of the 'I' in medieval German poetry. One-page CV, abstract by 13 March 2013 by 13 March 2013; Niklaus E. Largier (nlargier@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Medieval 'World Literature'?
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers addressing questions of what moves, what doesn't move, what circulates, and what doesn't circulate among medieval literatures of different languages. One-page CV, abstract by 13 March 2013; Niklaus E. Largier (nlargier@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Continental Arthur
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers discussing the role of Arthurian motives in literature on the continent, especially the Low Countries, German-speaking lands, and Scandinavia. Co-sponsor: Arthurian Literature Discussion group. One-page CV, abstract by 13 March 2013; Niklaus E. Largier (nlargier@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013
Feel the Pain: Medieval Trauma
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
Round Table Possible topics: hagiography, romance, psychoanalysis, affect, bodies, torture, witnessing, empathy, animals, medicine, pedagogy, or critical narratives as traumatic. 500-word abstract and cv by 8 March 2013; Erin Labbie (labbie@bgsu.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Medieval England and the History of the Book
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
session will address the materiality of written culture: codicology, paleography, manuscript illumination, and the transmission of texts and textual traditions. 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Marilynn Desmond (mdesmon@binghamton.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013
Asian American Literary Criticism Today
Asian American Literature
Open call for papers on Asian American literature. 1 pg abstract, 2 pg CV by 8 March 2013; Paul Lai (pylai@stkate.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Aiiieeeee! and Asian American Literature, 40 Years Later
Asian American Literature
Debating the legacy of Aiiieeeee!, the first major anthology of Asian American literature, forty years after its publication in 1974. 1-page abstract, c.v. by 15 March 2013; Timothy Yu (tpyu@wisc.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Asian Americans and the Undead
Asian American Literature
Considerations of the undead (including but not limited to zombies, vampires, ghosts) in relation to Asian American cultural production or subject formation. 250 word abstract 2 page CV by 8 March 2013; Julia Lee (jxlee@utexas.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013
Organic Mechanisms: Whitehead, Literature, and Science
Literature and Science
New approaches to literature and science informed by the resurgent philosophy of nature, metaphysics, and cosmological speculations of Alfred North Whitehead. One-page CV and 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Steven J. Meyer (sjmeyer@wustl.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
In the Meme Time
Popular Culture
“Meme” accounts for phenomena such as “Gangnam Style” dance. Papers that pressure the “popular” through the technical, theoretical and performative logic of the meme. CVs and short abstracts by 8 March 2013; John Mowitt (mowit001@umn.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Chaucer and the New Aesthetics
Chaucer
Rethinking aesthetics, including affect and the sensorium; material culture; the descriptive turn; form and symptom. Abstracts by 15 March 2013 to Mark Miller (jmmiller@uchicago.edu). abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Mark Miller (jmmiller@uchicago.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Middle English Keywords
Chaucer
This roundtable asks: What are the critical terms through which we currently think about Chaucer and medieval literature? Single-word titles with abstracts by 15 March to Kellie Robertson (krobert@umd.edu). by 15 March 2013; Kellie Robertson (krobert@umd.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013
Where is French Theory Today?
Twentieth-Century French Literature
“French Theory” in a global context (e.g. migration studies, social media, Occupy movements); how other cultures, emergent scholarship, new political practices reconfigure theory. 250-word abstract, brief CV by 15 March 2013; Danielle Marx-Scouras (marx-scouras.1@osu.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013
Deleuze and the States of Film Analysis
Film
Relate Deleuze’s philosophy to film analysis. How do 'movement-image' and 'time-image' help understand role of cinema, film, visual images, 20th century and beyond? Abstract, bio by 10 March 2013; Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio (serena.anderlini@gmail.com) and Paul Young (paul.d.young@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013
Textual Carnivals Revisited
the Teaching of Writing
20 years after Susan Miller’s Textual Carnivals, Are we still “the sad woman in the basement?” This panel will explore the gendered politics of rhetoric and composition. Proposal, 250words. by 1 March 2013; Victor J. Vitanza (sophist@clemson.edu) and Jacqueline Rhodes (jrhodes@csusb.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013
Torture and Popular Culture
Popular Culture
Papers on the representation of torture in popular culture, especially in recent work like Zero Dark Thirty. Is there a benefit and what is the effect? CVs/ Abstracts by 8 March 2013; Hillary L. Chute (chute@uchicago.edu)
Posted 17 February 2013
Assessing Early Modern Queer Studies
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare
Roundtable exploring current debates and new trends. 8-10 minute position papers. Newer voices especially welcome. Send 250 word abstract, cv to Graham Hammill (ghammill@buffalo.edu) by March 22. by 22 March 2013; Graham Hammill (ghammill@buffalo.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013
Cognitive Approaches to Film
Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Theory; new interpretations; unexpected angles. We invite papers at the intersection of cognitive studies and the moving image. Send 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Julien Jacques Simon (jjsimon@iue.edu) and Lisa Zunshine (lisa.zunshine@gmail.com)
Posted 16 February 2013
Cognitive Historicist Approaches to Literature
Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Papers examining literary works (across cultural traditions) in relation to the ideas about the mind circulating when the works were produced. Send 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Julien Jacques Simon (jjsimon@iue.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013
The Graphic Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Submissions addressing the combination of word and image in the nineteenth century, from proto “graphic novels” to graphic work popularized in periodicals. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Augusta Rohrbach (augustarohrbach@gmail.edu) and Hillary Chute (chute@uchicago.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013
Literature and Media in the Nineteenth-Century US
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
How have media history and media theory transformed the study of nineteenth-century American literature? Roundtable on new approaches; statements posted in advance. abstracts by 15 March 2013; Meredith McGill (mlmcgill@rci.rutgers.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013
Political Animals: Nature, Culture, Race in Early America
Colonial Latin American Literatures
Colonizers believed the 'natures' of nations obeyed geography. How did contact among Europeans, Indians, Africans, and their descendants test this belief? CV, abstract by 15 March 2013; Nicolás Wey-Gómez (nwey@caltech.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013
Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Visual technologies and the historical advancement of capitalism in the Americas. Objects of the period or retrospective treatments. Collaboration with Film Division. Abstract (400 word max). by 15 March 2013; Joshua K. Lund (JKL7@pitt.edu) and Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky (skvirsky@uic.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013
South Asians in North America
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Inter-ethnic readings of history, culture, representation, theory - including and beyond race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality, emphasizing transnational connections and global divides. Abstracts and short CVs by 15 March 2013; Amritjit Singh (singha@ohio.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 15 February 2013
Early American Networks of Writing and the Politics of Writing Instruction
the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition
Seeking new research on the politics of early American rhetoric and writing instruction networks. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Shevaun E. Watson (watsonse@uwec.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Raising the Bar: Academic Rigor in the Language Classroom
the Teaching of Language
This session examines frameworks and approaches for teaching foreign language through intellectually challenging content. One-page abstract/20-minute paper by 15 March 2013; Fernando Rubio (fernando.rubio@utah.edu) and Heather Willis-Allen (hwallen@wisc.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Linguistic Foundations for Teaching in the Post-Methods Era
the Teaching of Language
Discusses how foundations in Linguistics (L1 and L2 acquisition theory, phonology, phonetics, syntax) may inform teacher education or L2 instruction. One-page abstract, 20-minute paper by 15 March 2013; Fernando Rubio (fernando.rubio@utah.edu) and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp (j.tharp@utah.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Heresy: Arius to Rushdie
Literature and Religion
We seek a range of papers from different periods, languages, religious traditions. 300-500 word abstracts or 8-page papers by 15 March 2013; Stephen M. Fallon (sfallon@nd.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013
Language Change and Literature
Language Change
How does language change matter to literature (and vice versa)? How might change inform recent theoretical perspectives (e.g., historical, cognitive, digital, ethical, rhetorical, or descriptive approaches)? 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Chris Palmer (cpalme20@kennesaw.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Diversity and Change
Language Change
What role does “diversity” play in understanding language change? Papers will explore perspectives on linguistic diversity, e.g. language maintenance, decline, and loss; language policy; and/or social variation. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Chris Palmer (cpalme20@kennesaw.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Debt and Indebtedness
English Literature Other Than British and American
Financial (states, individuals), ecological, cultural, literary (intertextuality, anxieties of influence): how do these different forms of indebted relations intersect? 400 word abstracts by 10 March 2013; Jennifer Wenzel (jawenzel@umich.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Non-Christian Identities in the Italian Context
Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature
This session welcomes papers that address Atheist, Jewish, Libertine, Muslim, and Protestant identities as expressed and negotiated in Christian and non-Christian texts. Please submit 1-page abstract. by 15 March 2013; Nathalie Hester (nhester@uoregon.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
African Literature/Performance and New Media
African Literatures
Paper proposals considering how new media technologies are shaping the production, circulation and reading of creative texts by Africans are invited. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Moradewun Adejunmobi (madejunmobi@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Contesting the Radical Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century French Literature
This session will be devoted to a reevaluation and critique of the concept of Radical Enlightenment. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Ourida Mostefai (mostefai@bc.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Montaigne and Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Intertextual relations including such issues as translation, rhetoric, skepticism, and the coming of modernity. Submit abstract by 15 March to Leonard Barkan (lbarkan@princeton.edu) and Bradin Cormack (bcormack@uchicago.edu). One-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Bradin Cormack (bcormack@uchicago.edu) and Leonard Barkan (lbarkan@princeton.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Women on Work, Women's Work
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Literary and cultural approaches to work; material labor and the work of culture and language in the writings of George Sand and nineteenth-century women writers. One-page abstract by 15 March 2013; Pratima Prasad (Pratima.Prasad@umb.edu) and David Bell (dfbell@duke.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013
Roundtable on the Renaissance Mediterranean
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
Current research on the early modern Mediterranean. Comparativist proposals, focus on the Mediterranean as a concept and analytic paradigm particularly welcome. Title and Abstract for 10-minute presentation by 15 March 2013; Andrea Marie Frisch (afrisch@umd.edu) and Marcus Keller (mkeller@illinois.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013
Montaigne and Shakespeare
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Intertextual relations including issues of rhetoric, of translation and cultural exchange, of philosophical skepticism, and of selfhood at the edge of modernity. One-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Leonard Barkan (lbarkan@princeton.edu) and Bradin Cormack (bcormack@uchicago.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Comparative Renaissance Festivity
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Papers on religious and secular festival, festive custom, festive drama, literary representations of festivity, comparative European and new world festivity. One-page abstracts by 20 March 2013; Susanne Wofford (susanne.wofford@nyu.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Renaissance Rhetoric
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
All aspects and topics of Renaissance rhetoric in a comparatist context, with an emphasis on epideictic rhetoric or the rhetoric of praise and blame. One-page abstract by 15 March 2013; Eric MacPhail (macphai@indiana.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Asia in Germany
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature
How does engagement with Asia precede the concept of world literature? Romantic interest in Sanskrit, representations of China after chinoiserie, adaption of Islamic genres, Asia in fantastic tales/opera. by 11 March 2013; Daniel Purdy (dlp14@psu.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Profession
Old English Language and Literature
Roundtable on Anglo-Saxon curricula and studies in the profession. Short papers on teaching, administration, research, and the role of popular media (blogs, Facebook, etc.). 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Samantha Zacher (sz66@cornell.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Old English Law and Literature
Old English Language and Literature
How do legal and literary texts illuminate social and political developments, or conceptions of self and the community? Why is interdisciplinarity important? 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Samantha Zacher (sz66@cornell.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Wonder in Anglo-Saxon England
Old English Language and Literature
Wonder as an emotional, physical or intellectual response; textual and material catalysts for wonder; boredom or malaise as wonder’s opposite. 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Samantha Zacher (sz66@cornell.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
Cultures of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England
Old English Language and Literature
Forms of meditative, ascetic, and active reading; representations of reading/ readers; close reading and its others; connections to contemporary reading praxis. 500-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Samantha Zacher (sz66@cornell.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013
New Oceanic Studies of the Colonial Americas
Colonial Latin American Literatures
How have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers exploring oceans in the cross-currents of our fields welcome. One-page CV, abstract by 15 March 2013; Stephanie Louise Kirk (skirk@wustl.edu) and Kathleen Donegan (kdonegan@berkeley.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013
Encyclopedism
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature
The many facets of the encyclopedic urge in the 13th-15th centuries. Any and all approaches are welcome. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; David F. Hult (dhult@berkeley.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013
Medieval Literature, Digital Humanities
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature
Methods, tools, new directions: any and all approaches considered. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Geraldine Heng (heng@austin.utexas.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013
Nature
the English Romantic Period
of/ and/ or Romanticism: the un-green, post-green, ever-green; grafts, transplants, hybrids; histories, economies; scale, pace; local/ total/ micro; de-naturing, re-naturing; (without) life; the “all in all”/ “now no more.”. 300-word proposals by 11 March 2013; Miranda Jane Burgess (mirandab@mail.ubc.ca)
Posted 11 February 2013
"How to Read Now"
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Can hermeneutics of suspicion and "surface readings" join forces? Can ideological interpretations be reparative? Reflections on recent divides in reading 20th-century U.S. texts. 1-2 page abstracts and CVs. by 15 March 2013; William J. Maxwell (wmaxwell@wustl.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Italian Difference
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
The Italian historical-theoretical disposition to impurity, profanation, and contamination in Novecento and contemporary literature and/with other media. Multidisciplinary papers welcome. 250 word abstract and brief bio by 20 March 2013. abstracts by 20 March 2013; Manuela Marchesini (mmarchesini@tamu.edu)
Posted 2 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Re-Thinking Divismo: Italy and Modern Celebrity Culture
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
Celebrity studies analyzing identities, politics, theatre, literature, cinema, media from Duse and D’Annunzio to Berlusconi and Benigni. 250 word abstract, bio by 15 March 2013; John Welle (John.P.Welle.1@nd.edu)
Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Scandal and Early American Literature
American Literature to 1800
Innovative approaches to the interdynamic between scandal and EAL and culture: scandals in literature, literature as scandal; scandal and authorship, genre, economy, sex, etc. CV and abstract by 15 March 2013; Sean X. Goudie (sxgoudie@psu.edu)
Posted 8 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Scientific Americans: Exploring Science in Early American Literature
American Literature to 1800
New perspectives on the place of scientific inquiry in early American literature, and/or the literary qualities of scientific writing. One-page CV and abstract. by 15 March 2013; Kathleen Donegan (kdonegan@berkeley.edu) and Sean X. Goudie (sxgoudie@psu.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
New Oceanic Studies of the Colonial Americas
American Literature to 1800
How have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers exploring oceans in the cross-currents of our fields welcome. One-page CV, abstract by 15 March 2013; Kathleen Donegan (kdonegan@berkeley.edu) and Stephanie Kirk (stephanielouisekirk@gmail.com)
Posted 11 February 2013
Literature and/as Ethnography
Twentieth-Century French Literature
Papers will explore the ethnographic impulse in 20th/21st-century French literature. Topics may include the exotic and the everyday; ethnographic narrative and fiction; description and participation. 250-word abstracts, brief CV by 15 March 2013; Alison S. James (asj@uchicago.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Francophone African Writers and Anthropology
Twentieth-Century French Literature
This collaborative session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in the 20th-century. 300-word abstract, short CV by 15 March 2013; Vincent Debaene (vd2169@columbia.edu) and Justin Izzo (justin_izzo@brown.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Francophone African Writers and Anthropology
African Literatures
This session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in the 20th-century. 300-word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2013; Justin Izzo (justin_izzo@brown.edu) and Vincent Debaene (vd2169@columbia.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Expatriation, Authorship, and Reception in African Literatures
African Literatures
Forms and themes of expatriation and location in African literatures. Who/what is an African author? Examinations of relationships between expatriation and literary form. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi (tunjitunji@yahoo.com) and Joya Uraizee (uraizeej@slu.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
The State in African Literatures
African Literatures
Papers on representations of the state (both the real and the desired) and biopolitics in African literatures; Alain Lawo-Sukam (lawosukam@tamu.edu) and Neil Kortenaar (kortenaar@utsc.utoronto.ca). 250-WORD ABSTRACTS by 8 March 2013; Neil Koortenaar (kortenaar@utsc.utoronto.ca) and Alain Lawo-Sukam (lawosukam@tamu.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
Postcolonial Graphic Memoirs
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Please submit abstracts examining graphic texts dealing with self-construction/representation and questions of diasporic identification, decolonization, empire and transnational belonging. 200-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Linda Rugg (rugg@berkeley.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013
2014's 1914: Great War
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature
Emergent approaches to World War One stressing revisionism motivated by recent events and theoretical developments. Abstracts (300 words) to Jesse Matz (matzj@kenyon.edu) by March 1. 300-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Jesse E. Matz (matzj@kenyon.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013
Shakespearean Hierarchies: History and Natural History
Shakespeare
sovereignty; legitimacy; subordination; natural law; chain of being; order and disorder; proportion; perfection; properties; categories; kinds; rank; class; dominion; offices; genre; mediation; accommodation. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Mary L. Floyd-Wilson (floydwil@email.unc.edu)
Posted 10 February 2013
Cognitive Approaches to French Renaissance Literature
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
What can cognitive science tell us about literature, and literature about cognitive processes? Case studies in the French Renaissance. Title and Abstract for a 20-minute presentation by 15 March 2013; Andrea Marie Frisch (afrisch@umd.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013
Economy and Literature
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
How are 18th and 19th-century economic processes (profit, value, money, commerce, management of material wealth) connected to literary, cultural and social formations (i.e., gender, class, race)? abstracts by 1 March 2013; Ana Hontanilla (amhontan@uncg.edu)
Posted 6 February 2013
Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
This panel will explore the tensions between cosmopolitanism and its various conceptual antagonists within 18th- and 19th-century culture and its study today. 250-page abstracts by 1 March 2013; Michael Iarocci (miarocci@berkeley.edu)
Posted 6 February 2013
Contingency at the Core
Teaching as a Profession
Implications for curriculum change when a school's curriculum is taught largely by contingent faculty members. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Kimberly Nance (kanance@ilstu.edu)
Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013
The History of Teaching as a Profession
Teaching as a Profession
Short papers examining past historical accounts of teaching or presenting new histories from which we can learn lessons. 500 word abstracts and short bios by 8 March 2013; Steven Mailloux (sjmaillo@uci.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013
Chicago Schools of Anthropology and Literature
Anthropological Approaches to Literature
Papers that explore or exemplify anthropological methods associated with Chicago in dialogue with literary analysis or that interrogate texts by Chicago anthropologists. 250-word abstracts, brief CV by 15 March 2013; Brian T. Edwards (bedwards@northwestern.edu)
Posted 4 February 2013
Disability Discourses in Latin America: Academy and Activism
Disability Studies
Roundtable exploring current issues and discourses in disability studies in LA. 6-7 minute position papers identifying areas of research, activism. 200-word abstract, cv by 1 March 2013; Beth Jorgenson (beth.jorgensen@rochester.edu) and Susan Antebi (susan.antebi@utoronto.ca)
Posted 4 February 2013
Fiction in Flux: Genre and Transmission in Recent Latin American Narrative
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Exploring manifestations of fiction and modes of transmission (hand-made books, blogs, other electronic platforms). 250-word abstracts and brief bios by 15 March 2013; Marcy Schwartz (mschwartz@spanport.rutgers.edu)
Posted 3 February 2013
Life Writing and Vulnerable Ethnic Communities
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Life writing that communicates the vulnerability of certain ethnic groups or is embraced by them. Proposals from all time periods and cultures welcome. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Irene Kakandes (irene.kacandes@dartmouth.edu)
Posted 30 January 2013
Stealing Lives: appropriation, hoaxes, ownership
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Papers consider the ethics and legality of online and print publishing when life stories are stolen or appropriated by individuals, insitutions or corporations. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Julie Rak (julie.rak@ualberta.ca)
Posted 30 January 2013
Cisneros, Chicago, Mango
Chicana and Chicano Literature
Seeking papers considering The House on Mango Street's impact on its 30th anniversary and in a year when MLA will be held in Chicago. 250 word abstracts by 28 February 2013; Yolanda Padilla (padilla.y@googlemail.com )
Posted 30 January 2013
¿Anthologizing Latinidad?
Chicana and Chicano Literature
What are the promises and pitfalls of teaching with Latina/o literature anthologies, and with the Norton in particular? Does your institution affect your choice of teaching texts? 250 word abstracts by 28 February 2013; Marissa K. Lopez (mklopez@ucla.edu)
Posted 30 January 2013
Queer Matter
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Queer materialisms; queer mattering; the queerness of matter; queer material; material queer; queer objects, queer things; queer theories and approaches to matter. 250-words abstracts and brief CVs by 15 March 2013; Carla Freccero (freccero@ucsc.edu)
Posted 29 January 2013
Slavery and the Book Trade
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
This panel will combine the methodology of the history of the book with recent studies of slavery and aesthetics, focusing on the 18th century. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Sean D. Moore (sean@unh.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
Activist Poetics: Jayne Cortez and Adrienne Rich
Poetry
Seeking papers on any aspect of the works of Jayne Cortez and/or Adrienne Rich. 300-word abstract and 2 page c.v. by 1 March 2013; Meta Jones (metad.jones@gmail.com) and Virginia Jackson (vwjackson@gmail.com)
Posted 28 January 2013
Nineteenth-Century French Studies in the Twenty-first Century
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Roundtable on the state of research/teaching in the field. What are the emerging trends/looming challenges? What forces will shape the field? Abstracts for 10-minute presentations by 22 February 2013; Susan McCready (smccread@southalabama.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
Animals and Animality
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Animal encounters in fiction and theory, discourse, images, phenomena, events. Topics: allegory, anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, ethics, animals on display, le regard de l’animal, animals and thought. Abstracts of 250-350 words by 22 February 2013; Cheryl Kreuger (clk6m@virginia.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
Chronicling a Financial Crisis
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
Seeking papers on the task of chronicling a financial crisis. What questions do such accounts ask? What problems do they encounter? What are their duties? 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Howard Horowitz (h.horwitz@English.utah.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
East Asian Traditional Poetry in the Digital Age
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900
Impact of modern technology on circulation, discussion, and composition of poetry in traditional forms (shi, tanka, haiku, etc.). 250-word abstract by 10 March 2013; Paul Rouzer (prouzer@umn.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013
End(s) of Poetry: A Roundtable
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Modern, postmodern, diasporic, epic, web-based, spoken word, queer, feminist, nationalist, multilingual, untimely. 7-minute papers on any aspect of contemporary or 20th century poetry. 300-word abstracts and bios by 14 March 2013; José Quiroga (jquirog@emory.edu)
Posted 26 January 2013
Queer Philology
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Explorations of “queer philology,” the close inspection of the historical meaning of words and phrases that bear upon sexuality studies. 250-word abstract Brief CV by 15 March 2013; Christopher Looby (clooby@humnet.ucla.edu)
Posted 26 January 2013
Chicago Women Playwrights
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
The panel invites work by or about women playwrights from Chicago such as Sarah Ruhl, Lydia R. Diamond, and Lorraine Hansberry. abstracts of 250 word or less by 1 March 2013; Susan G. O'Malley (susanomalley4@gmail.com)
Posted 25 January 2013
Letters
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature
Letters as literature; letters in literature; letters as autobiography; open letters; letters and technology; letters and gender; the letter as material object; editions of letters. Proposals of 250 words by 1 March 2013; Jocelyne Kolb (jkolb@smith.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013
Góngora’s Soledades After 400 Years
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose
Interpretations, Reception and Appropriations. Send one-page abstract and two-page CV by 7 March 2013; Steven Wagschal (MLA2014@indiana.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013
Science (and) Fiction in Early Modern Spain
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose
History of Science, New Technologies, Magic and Marvels. Send one-page abstract and two-page CV by 7 March 2013; Steven Wagschal (MLA2014@indiana.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013
The Pleasure of the Text: Creating Life-Long Readers
the Teaching of Literature
Teaching literature with an eye to life beyond the classroom. How do we connect literature to students' lives? Theory or practice. Abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Jeanne A. Follansbee (follansb@fas.harvard.edu)
Posted 24 January 2013
Multilingualism in Native American/Aboriginal Texts
American Indian Literatures
Panel analyzes Native American/Aboriginal texts in original languages and/or with other languages; region, time, and genre are open. 250-word abstract and short bio by 25 February 2013; Beth Piatote (piatote@berkeley.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013
Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Literary explorations of relationships between mothers and daughters and/or mothers and sons, as narrated in early modern European cultures, especially Italian. Title, 250-word abstract by 1 March 2013; Laura Giannetti (lgiannetti@miami.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013
Voice and Silence
French Medieval Language and Literature
Inviting responses to how voice speaks in a text or voices silence so that it can be heard. 250-word abstract and two-page CV by 15 March 2013; Cary Howie (caryhowie@cornell.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Nature and the Natural World
French Medieval Language and Literature
We invite papers on NATURE AND THE NATURAL WORLD in its many guises – theological, legal, linguistic, poetic, artistic, scientific, political, sexual. 250-word abstract and two-page CV by 15 March 2013; Cary Howie (caryhowie@cornell.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Broadway Babies
Children's Literature
Papers should examine constructions of childhood and issues of child performance in musicals such as The Secret Garden, The Lion King, The King and I, or Sarafina! Abstracts (250-300 words) by 15 March 2013; Donelle Ruwe (donelle.ruwe@nau.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Victorian Informatics
the Victorian Period
Papers related to producing, organizing, circulating knowledge; information taxonomies and technologies; narrating information; the poetics or aesthetics of information; wanting facts. 500 word abstract, 1 page CV by 1 March 2013; Richard Menke (rmenke@uga.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Victorian Temporalities
the Victorian Period
Papers related to instantaneity, lived time, realtime, geological time, duration, (a)synchrony, intermittence, spending time, saving time, wasting time. 500 word abstract; 1 page CV. by 1 March 2013; Richard Menke (rmenke@uga.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013
Lope de Vega and Peasant Drama: 400 years later
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
new approaches to peasant drama, canonical and lesser known plays and authors, consideration of campesinos/campesinas. 1 page abstract and 1 page CV by 1 March 2013; Barbara Simerka (simerkabarbara@gmail.com)
Posted 22 January 2013
Domesticity and the Comedia
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
New perspectives on the marriage plot and family relations, domestic spaces . Consideration of marginal figures: spinsters, widows , orphans . 1 page abstract and 1 page CV by 1 March 2013; Barbara Simerka (simerkabarbara@gmail.com)
Posted 22 January 2013
Representations of Disaster in Contemporary Asia
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers that consider issues of representation of recent disasters throughout Asia, such as earthquakes, famine, tsunami, or nuclear meltdown, in a variety of media. 250-word abstract by 10 March 2013; Doug Slaymaker (dslaym@uky.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013
Asia and the Nobel Prize in Literature
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers exploring the cultural, linguistic, literary, and political meanings of this prize and the works of the surprisingly few Asian laureates and nominees. 250-word abstracts by 10 March 2013; Melek Ortabasi (mso1@sfu.ca)
Posted 21 January 2013
What is Data in Literary Studies? A Roundtable
Methods of Literary Research
Do all literary scholars work with data of some kind? Or are projects involving data methodologically distinct? Do we need better data? 250-word abstracts by 4 March 2013; James F. English (jenglish@english.upenn.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013
Artistic and Scholarly Practice in the Digital Age
Twentieth-Century German Literature
Seeking papers that explore the interplay of aesthetics, science, and politics across sites of engagement in the digital era. 300 word abstracts for TRANSIT by 9 March 2013; Deniz Göktürk (dgokturk@berkeley.edu)
Posted 18 January 2013, last updated 21 January 2013
Narrative and Language Theory
Language Theory
We solicit papers exploring relationship between narrative and theory of language. Paper proposals of 250-300 words by 15 March 2013; Jiyoung Yoon (jiyoung.yoon@unt.edu)
Posted 20 January 2013
New Work in Language Theory
Language Theory
We solicit papers exploring any aspect of linguistics that contributes to recent trends in language theory. Paper proposals of 250-300 words by 15 March 2013; Jiyoung Yoon (jiyoung.yoon@unt.edu)
Posted 20 January 2013
Thinking Fanlation
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers that explore the theoretical or political ramifications of fanlation, scanlation, fansubbing, or other forms of unauthorized and/or crowdsourced translation in a global media context. 250-word abstract by 10 March 2013; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@eastasian.ucsb.edu)
Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 18 January 2013
Critical Regionalisms
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analysis of emergent conceptualizations of the regional and of cultural difference that question traditional notions of territorialization, authority, and identity in an Iberian context. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Cristina Moreiras-Menor (moreiras@umich.edu)
Posted 17 January 2013
Novels of the Arab Diaspora
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers on novels by Arab writers of the diaspora, early and contemporary topics welcome, including Arabic, Francophone, and Anglophone texts. Brief abstract and CV by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 16 January 2013
New Arabic Genres
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers on new Arabic media, including electronic modes of writing, graphic narratives, and innovations in genres of Arabic writing. Brief abstract and CV by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 16 January 2013
Vulnerable Expression after the Arab Uprisings
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers examining cultural freedoms since the Arab Uprisings, with an emphasis on legal and economic transformations in cultural production. Brief abstract and CV by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 16 January 2013
Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, cosmopolitanism, circuits of migration, and multinational/multilingual literature and cinema. Brief abstract and CV by 8 March 2013; Christopher Micklethwait (chrisdm@stedwards.edu)
Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 16 January 2013
Luso-Hispanic Exchanges
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
A comparative examination of Portuguese- and Spanish-language literary and cultural materials. Latin American, peninsular, transatlantic, and other approaches welcome. 300-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Robert Newcomb (rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Sport and Nation in the Lusophone World
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
The relationship between sport and nationality in literary, cinematic and visual texts. We encourage the consideration of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. 300-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Emanuelle Oliveira Monte (Emanuelle.olveira@vanderbilt.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Memory/History/Stories
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
The intersection of memory, history and fiction in the construction of national and self identity; memory and post-memory; remembering versus forgetting; collective and personal trauma. 300-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; Cristina Pinto-Bailey (pinto-baileyac@wlu.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Diplomacy in 17th-century French Culture
Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Relations between disparate cultures; evolving practices and forms of diplomacy; its languages; its influence on literary production. 300 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Faith Beasley (Faith.Beasley@Dartmouth.edu)
Posted 15 January 2013
Blockbusters and Bestsellers
Twentieth-Century English Literature
How does popular success shape novels? Topics might include literary prizes, adaptations in other media, distribution networks, reading clubs, genre, graphic novels, highbrow and middlebrow fiction, specific bestsellers. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Allan Hepburn (allan.hepburn@mcgill.ca)
Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 15 January 2013
Influence/Confluence of Genres in East Asia
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900
Explorations of the influence between and confluence of literary and performative genres as perceived in East Asian cultures before 1900. 250-word abstract by 10 March 2013; Joseph Sorensen (jsorensen@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 14 January 2013
Milton in the Long Restoration
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
This session will explore Milton's presence in the long Restoration. We seek papers that address this topic from various critical perspectives. Title and brief abstract of paper by 15 March 2013; Albert J. Rivero (albert.rivero@marquette.edu) and Blair Hoxby (bhoxby@stanford.edu)
Posted 14 January 2013
Teaching Brecht
the Teaching of Literature
Proposals sought with critical reflections and best practices on teaching Bertolt Brecht’s ideas and works (dramas, prose, poetry), including text selection, performing excerpts, and integrating theoretical issues. Abstracts (200 words) by 15 March 2013; Per Urlaub (urlaub@austin.utexas.edu) and Paula Hanssen (hanssen@webster.edu)
Posted 13 January 2013
Latinoamericanismo Reloaded
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Contemporary theoretical readings on thinkers of Latin Americanism writing between 1900 (Ariel) and 1971 (Caliban). 300-word abstract and brief bio. by 1 March 2013; Ignacio Sanchez Prado (isanchez@artsci.wustl.edu)
Posted 13 January 2013
History, Form, Theory of Early Modern Disability
Disability Studies
Reflections on historical, formal, theoretical models of disability representation in early modern period. Compare existing methodologies and/or propose inroads for future studies. 250-word abstracts, cv by 1 March 2013; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013
Toxic Bodies
Disability Studies
Disabled persons as canaries in coal mines of globalization. Intersectional connections to other vulnerable populations based on proximity to toxicity (fracking, irradiation, strip mining, mercury poisoning, pharmaceuticals). 350-word abstracts, cv by 1 March 2013; David Mitchell (dtmitchel@gmail.com)
Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013
New Social Movements
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin America, Spain, or the US-Latino context. Round table format; comparative perspectives welcome. 250-word abstracts to: hchacon6@naz.edu and susanm by 1 March 2013; Hilda Chacón (hchacon6@naz.edu) and Susan Martin-Marquez (susanmm@rci.rutgers.edu )
Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013
The Commons/Lo común
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analysis of how the concept is deployed in contemporary Spanish cultural production, including articulation or questioning of cultural and political imaginaries, communities, relationships and subjectivities. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Elena Delgado (ldelgado@illinois.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013
New Social Movements
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin America, Spain, or the US-Latino context. Round table format; comparative perspectives welcome. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Susan Martin-Márquez (susanmm@rci.rutgers.edu) and Hilda Chacón (hchacon6@naz.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013
Alternative Histories
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Theoretically informed proposals for, or analyses of, new ways of conceptualizing cultural, literary, or film history. Should have relevance for the study of 20th-21st century Spain. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Jo Labanyi (jo.labanyi@nyu.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013
The Imagined Text
Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Exploring the boundaries between texts and meta-texts: what is there to learn from edits, rewrites, variantes, hypothetical genetics, possible texts, unwritten pages, and creative criticism. 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Hélène Bilis (hbilis@wellesley.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013
The Essay in the Age of Its Electronic Reproducibility
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
The essay and its "digital" production, storage, and distribution; the essay as scholarly writing and communication in networked programmable media. 500-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Brian Lennon (bul5@psu.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013
Literature and the English Revolution: 1640-1659
Seventeenth-Century English Literature
We welcome papers on any kind of written material from this period (pamphlets, poems, treatises, etc.). A detailed abstract of at least 500 words. by 15 March 2013; Molly Murray (mpm7@columbia.edu)
Posted 10 January 2013
Networks of Influence in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry
Seventeenth-Century English Literature
We welcome papers on individual poets, pairs of poets and coteries, cultures, and subcultures of literary transmission. A detailed abstract of at least 500 words. by 15 March 2013; Richard Strier (rastrier@uchicago.edu)
Posted 10 January 2013
Mass versus Coterie I: The Audio Book
Prose Fiction
How does the audio book shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider audiences, forms, histories. Abstracts and brief CVs by 1 March 2013; Mark McGurl (mcgurl@stanford.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013
Old Materials, New Materialisms
Methods of Literary Research
Submissions welcome on all aspects of archival scholarship and new materialisms (including feminism, science studies, object oriented ontology, ecocriticism, animal studies). 250 word abstracts by 14 March 2013; Robert Markley (rmarkley@illinois.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013
Cross-Cultural Dialogues
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Seeking papers about literature or film involving cultures or languages of the global south addressing events of transnational affect (e.g. 9/11, “occupy” movement). 250-word abstract and brief CV by 15 March 2013; Olakunle George (Olakunle_George@Brown.edu)
Posted 7 January 2013
20th-Century South Asian Literatures - Without English
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Seeking papers on writers of South Asia who publish in indigenous languages of the region. Abstracts of ca. 250 words, plus CV by 17 December 2012; Thomas Oliver Beebee (tob@psu.edu)
Posted 23 October 2012