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Calls for Papers - Special Sessions
" I am a pretty piece of flesh" : The Eroticism of Male Beauty in Early Modern English Literature
All theoretical paradigms are encouraged regarding this topic. 250-500 word abstracts by 5 March ... See more Posted 13 October 2011 The 1930s: Scholarly Politics, Political History Seeks papers presenting new approaches to British fiction of the 1930s that consider the decade’s ... See more Posted 13 February 2012 20th Century Imperial Spain Residues and resonances of Spain's imperial legacy in 20th Century constructions of national ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 21rst Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism Issues of postmodern feminism- Latin American narrative 21rst century: Marginalization, ... See more Posted 6 February 2012 The 21st Century Woman’s Historical Novel How have historical novels written by women in the 21st century transformed, challenged, and ... See more Posted 9 January 2012 The 411 on Roberto Bolaño's 2666 How does Bolaño's monumental novel 2666 treat issues of language and its ability to name or evade ... See more Posted 8 February 2012 Accessing Gower: Translation and Hypertextuality The Gower Project invites presentations that focus on medieval or contemporary translations, ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Adapting Social Science Methods to Humanities Research Session examines emerging overlap between the humanities and sociological, ethnographic, and ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 The Aesthetics of Debt Papers on the relation of aesthetic and economic debt, via Bloom or other. Abstracts by 15 March ... See more Posted 18 February 2012 The Aesthetics of Vice in French Literature (1800-present) How do authors give form to vice, which connotes deformation? Possible topics include genre and/of ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 African American Culture through the Eyes of Alan Lomax We solicit papers dealing with ways the Lomax Collection informs modern/contemporary African ... See more Posted 23 January 2012 After Taste: Modernism's Lingering Aesthetic We request papers addressing the concept of taste as it persists in 20th-century literature and ... See more Posted 12 February 2012 Agency, Identity, and the Petitionary Genre in Colonial Latin America Strategic uses Natives, Africans, creoles, mestizo/as made of petitionary media to stake claims, ... See more Posted 22 January 2012 'All Black Everything': Speculative Futures of Blackness Futures of blackness/cultures of black speculation. SF blackness, black queer, black femininity, ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 All Ears: Listening as a Way of Understanding Literature Invites papers on acts of listening in literature and literary theory. . 250 - 400 word proposal ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Alternative Early Modern Perspectives Explores representations of animal and other non-human modalities of sensation and perception in ... See more Posted 18 February 2012 America and (the End of) the Road From John Steinbeck to Jack Kerouac to Cormac McCarthy: changing meanings of 'the road' in American ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 America as Access and Excess in Maurice Dantec's oeuvre America as site of access (to literary genres, postmodern technological cultures) and source of ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Amnesia and the Romantic Novel Papers discussing the role of amnesia, forgetting or forgetfulness in late-18th or early-19th ... See more Posted 6 January 2012 Anger in Women's Fiction This session invites papers that address the significance of anger, pettiness, and ressentiment in ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Anglo-Saxon Futures Papers on any aspect of futurity and/or future directions for Anglo-Saxon Literary Studies. ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Animality Studies and Its Discontents Animality studies in relation to fields such as animal studies, critical animal studies, ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 Antifascism and Culture An exploration of cultural productions which use antifascism as a means of critiquing and resisting ... See more Posted 9 February 2012 The Archival Turn Papers exploring the uses, the reconceptualization, or the lure of the archive for literary ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Articulations of Home in Contemporary Literatures of Migrancy: House, Place and Metaphor Comparative studies of articulations of home as both place and metaphor in contemporary world ... See more Posted 22 February 2012 Atlantic Slavery and Transatlantic Romanticisms, 1767-1867 Intimate, vexed relationship between Romantic literature (British, American, and Anglophone) and ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Auden at Work This panel addresses craft’s relation to thought. How do formal patterns embody/develop ideation? ... See more Posted 4 February 2012 Avenues of Access for Recent PhDs This roundtable will address the current academic climate and discuss where panelists have found ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Baby at the Breast: Representations and Discourses of Breastfeeding in Western Culture Breastfeeding in Western literature, film, art, and contribution to/engagement with discourses of ... See more Posted 18 February 2012 Ballad Modernism This panel seeks papers that explore how theories of the ballad shaped modernist poetry and ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Before Humanity This Special Session investigates representations of time ahead of emergence, finitude, or ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 The Beginning of Now: Contemporaneity in Early Modern Writing Papers invited on theatre, poetry, newsbooks, as explorations of present experience and/or ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Bewitching Postmodern Forms Feminist or queer approaches to the body in a digital age; spectacle or glamour in representing the ... See more Posted 13 February 2012 Beyond Critique? This panel explores methodologies that go beyond ideological critique to explore reparative, ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Beyond the Essay: Assignment Innovation Papers addressing the development and use of innovative assignments that extend and challenge the ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Beyond the madeleine: Digesting Proust 100 years later At the centennial of the Recherche, we seek papers that address food in and after Proust. 250-300 ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Beyond the PDF: Experiments in Open-Access Scholarly Publishing What innovative forms, review strategies, engagement techniques, analytical metrics, social tools, ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Black Women’s Literature and the Carceral State Panel invites papers exploring how African-American women's creative texts theorize legally ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Bohémien, Tsigane, Gitano, Roma: Representing the Margins Inviting assessments of the (mis)representation of Roma in literature or film from the middle ages ... See more Posted 19 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012 Breaking Bad and American Culture Papers on any aspect of the television show Breaking Bad are welcome, including drugs, violence, ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 British Literature and the State, 1880-1940 How do literary works explore the economic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of ... See more Posted 26 December 2011, last updated 10 February 2012 The British Mediterranean Papers addressing any aspect of British writing in and about the Mediterranean. Comparative ... See more Posted 11 January 2012 British Romantic Expatriates Essays should examine real and imaginary journeys by British Romantic writers to the United States, ... See more Posted 8 January 2012 Building a Book History of Criticism How might we tell the history of modern criticism through its means of publication, for instance ... See more Posted 19 January 2012 Bullying and Self-expression This session examines how writers, critics, young people and others create commentaries on ... See more Posted 9 January 2012, last updated 10 January 2012 BUSINESS AND LITERATURE Literary reactions to business activities_Power of literature stirring public opinion to better ... See more Posted 11 February 2012 The cinema of Marco Tullio Giordana Open session on Italian film director Marco Tullio Giordana. Please send a 250 words abstract by 15 ... See more Posted 25 August 2011 The Classroom As Interface This panel seeks presentations about the classroom as interface, a point of interaction between the ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Community and Belonging in Post-9/11 US-American Literature 9/11 led to negotiations of the relation between community and the self. Submissions addressing ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 Contemporary Fiction and the Twenty-First-Century Media Ecology Print fiction as part of an age of social media, smartphones, ebooks, crowdsourcing. Forms, themes, ... See more Posted 10 February 2012 CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FILM This panel will address significant films, filmmakers, and trends in French and Francophone cinema ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 Convergent Histories of the Book: From Manuscript to Digital Manuscript and digital: What authorial/readerly roles do these mediums facilitate/foreclose? Do ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England Explores conversation as a collaborative, compositional methodology. Possible topics: ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Cosmopolitanism and the Study and Teaching of Literature The implications for teaching and criticism of Kwame Anthony Appiah's idea of cosmopolitanism. ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Creating the King: Masculinity and Governance in Early modern France How is the image of Medieval and Renaissance French kings created through masculinity and gender in ... See more Posted 5 January 2012, last updated 12 January 2012 Criminality and Passing This session invites papers examining the intersection of tropes of criminality with tropes of ... See more Posted 25 January 2012 Critical Digital Humanities This panel seeks to explore how new digital humanities tools and methodologies develop unique ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Critical Gender Narrative Approaches to Comics Critical analyses of feminist, queer, and anti-heteropatriarchal narrative techniques in comics and ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Crossing Borders/ Finding Homes This session aims to discuss Diaspora writers immigrating to the US from various geographic ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Cultural Critique and New Materialisms Papers on materialism and cultural critique. Abstracts by 15 March 2012; Kimberly DeFazio ... See more Posted 2 February 2012 Cultural Ludology: Video Games and the Future of Cultural Studies This session seeks papers addressing any aspect of the relationship between games and culture in ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 A Currency for Collaboration: The Ethics and Economics of Academic Partnership Exploring financial, ethical, and other ramifications of individual and institutional partnerships, ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 Deconstructing Chicano Literature after the Chicano Movement Hybridity, assimilation, biculturalism, are concepts that incentivize the validity of the Chicano ... See more Posted 11 February 2012 Deconstructing Downton Abbey The “costume soap opera” as contemporary commentary; Neo-Edwardianism; Julian Fellowes’s Tory ... See more Posted 11 February 2012 "Delight and Instruct": Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century British Popular Entertainment This session will examine various genres and texts, including popular novels and plays performed on ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Denise Levertov's Converging Poetics This session invites submissions which explore Denise Levertov's poetics as a converging space of ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 The Diabolical Fin de Siècle Female Artist Representations of female genius as diabolical, Dionysian or decadent; artistic-vs-“natural” ... See more Posted 11 February 2012 Diasp(horror) We invite abstracts for a proposed panel on the links between diasporas and the literary or ... See more Posted 29 January 2012 Digital Culture and Environmental Practice This session invites projects that consider intersections between digital poetics and environmental ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Disability and African American Literature Session explores the language, representation, and meaning of disability in African American ... See more Posted 24 February 2012 Disability and the Ghost Story In what ways can disability studies offer new approaches to the ghost story, including ... See more Posted 30 January 2012 Early Modern Contemporary Browning waxed Shakespearean; Eliot got metaphysical; Rich composed her own valediction. How has ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Early Tory Women Writers This panel seeks papers on the raucous, philosophical, hybrid, experimental literature that ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Economic Misfits Papers examining lack of ambition, the refusal to capitalize on money/talent, the underemployed in ... See more Posted 19 December 2011 Education and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century England Explorations of education in England during the long nineteenth century. Topics: narrative ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Education in Prison Papers on the challenges and opportunities of higher education programs in prisons. 250-word ... See more Posted 25 November 2011 Ekphrasis and the Politics of Perception This session invites papers on the relationship between ekphrasis, aesthetic politics, and theories ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Elements of Genre Creation Unlike most published genre studies, this session invites papers that look practically at how ... See more Posted 2 January 2012 Embodying Modernism: Feminist Approaches to Corporeality This panel will explore the intersection between feminism and embodiment in the modernist epoch. ... See more Posted 12 February 2012 Enabling Access: Gower and Premodern Disability Studies We seek papers that explore Gower's work (in English, French, and Latin) in relation to perceptions ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 The End of Postmodernism in the Digital Age Postmodernism championed the subjective voice. In the Digital Age, writers must negotiate a ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Enigma and Epiphany in the Narratives of Soledad Puértolas To explore the role of enigma and/or epiphany in the narratives of the Spanish writer and ... See more Posted 26 January 2012 Entertaining Resistance Musicians are committed human rights activists . This panel explores the lyrics of songwriters who ... See more Posted 5 February 2012, last updated 12 February 2012 Environment, Epistemology, and Literature of the Americas This roundtable will explore environmental epistemologies in the literature of the Americas, ... See more Posted 13 January 2012 Environments in Science Fiction: Beyond Dystopias How do spaces (both built and unbuilt) in science fiction texts and films help shape the ... See more Posted 5 February 2012 EUROPEAN FEMALE MIGRATION: CONTEMPORARY NOVELS We explore reasons behind the increasing trend of women migration to and from Europe in the late ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 The Event How do extreme events have a positive non-traumatic formative influence on the subjectivity of the ... See more Posted 31 January 2012 Everyday Romanticism Papers are welcome that examine the category of ‘the everyday’ in transnational Romantic-era ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 FEELINGS FOR SALE: The Commodification of Affect The commercialization of emotion, the rise of affective labor, the "waning of feeling"--how the ... See more Posted 6 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012 Figuring Translation in Renaissance Literature How is literary or linguistic translation represented or figured in Renaissance literary works ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Finance Capital and Contemporary Theory Papers on Value, Finance and Cultural Theory from Marx to Badiou by way of Negri. Abstracts by 15 ... See more Posted 9 February 2012 Finishing the Cooper Edition This session will discuss strategies for scholarly publications appropriate for editing the ... See more Posted 19 October 2011 Forgetting, Memory: Time and Mourning in Sebald Papers addressing the role of memory and forgetting and their relation to time and mourning in the ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 French and Francophone Women's Writing in the Wake of the New Novel: Literary Heirs of Nathalie Sarraute and Marguerite Duras An exploration of the influence of Sarraute and Duras. Abstracts of 250-500 words by 1 February ... See more Posted 14 November 2011 French Literature and/on the Radio Studies of the relationship between French authors and radio (interviews, literary programs, ... See more Posted 7 February 2012 French Pre-Revolutionary Libertines Discarding social constraints and challenging moralistic fallacies on the margins of Ancien Régime ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 French Radio Dramas and their Stage Adaptations Strategies and techniques for adapting French radio dramas to the stage including success stories ... See more Posted 7 February 2012 The Functioning of the Public Sphere in 16th Century France Papers on pamphlets, publishing, printing, reading practices, propaganda, oratory, rumors, oral ... See more Posted 11 February 2012, last updated 12 February 2012 The Future of Jewish Literature from the Maghreb Proposals in French or in English are welcome on all aspects dealing with the future of Maghrebi ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Gender and Love in Opera We seek papers that explore the performance of gender in the context of the history of love as a ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Gender Conflict and Ethics in Latin America New treatments of male and female as conflicting ethical discourses or territories. Implicit or ... See more Posted 5 February 2012 A Genealogy of Poetry: Elegies for Poets Welcomes papers on elegiac responses to poets' deaths from the sixteenth century to the present ... See more Posted 8 February 2012 Genres of Evidence How are texts constructed as 'evidence' in courtrooms or elsewhere? Is genre addressed? What ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 George Saunders: Post-Postmodernist? Abstracts welcome on any aspect of George Saunders's fiction (and nonfiction) as it relates to ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Girls and Girlhood in Adaptations of Shakespeare Representations of girlhood and girl characters; girls as actors, patrons, performers, readers, ... See more Posted 17 January 2012 Giving and Getting Access: Student Access and Success in General Education Courses This proposed roundtable discussion explores possible solutions to help diverse student bodies ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 "A God-Intoxicated Man": Romantic and Victorian Representations of Spinoza This session invites papers examining the diverse literary and philosophical representations of ... See more Posted 29 November 2011 Graham Greene in the 21st Century How is Graham Greene relevant today? Topics are open; possible subjects include coloniality, ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 Graphic Novels and Life Writing I am seeking abstracts on any topic exploring the unique relationship between graphic novels and ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Grotesque Romanticisms The grotesque as an important aesthetic category within Romanticism and/or as a distortion of the ... See more Posted 15 February 2012 Habits of Highly Successful Language Learners College students are self-directed learners who thrive by taking responsibility for their own ... See more Posted 12 February 2012 Harry Potter and the Feminine Ideal This panel examines the contributions girls and women made to the wizarding world and their role in ... See more Posted 5 February 2012 Hispanic Literature on the Opera Stage Roundtable exploring operatic treatments of Hispanic literary texts. Seeking a range of treatments ... See more Posted 31 January 2012 A History of a Lie and The Future of the University Examination of the lies, deceptions, rationalizations used by higher education to justify its ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Horror Film Trends and Paradigms in Latin America Explores emerging issues such as: political and allegorical readings of horror films; its ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Human Rights in U.S. Literature and Beyond Panel studies U.S. writers, activists, filmmakers who deploy human rights discourses to undermine ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Iberian Literature in the Age of Globalization Approaching issues like: the death of the novel, Trans-Atlantic studies and the question of world ... See more Posted 8 January 2012 Images of Inquisition Papers on medieval or early modern representations — literary or visual — of inquisitorial ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Imagining Socialism in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature Papers that investigate fictional works that take a positive or negative view toward socialism to ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Independent Publishing in the Romantic Era Papers that explore self-publishing during the Romantic Era: inducements, advancements, and/or ... See more Posted 28 January 2012 The Influence of African Discourse on Western Texts Presentations that focus on European texts and African cultures to argue that African thought ... See more Posted 11 February 2012 Integrating One-on-One Teaching Strategies in the Classroom This session focuses on innovative ways of translating one-on-one teaching strategies to the ... See more Posted 9 January 2012 Intellectual/Cognitive Disability Studies Any aspect of intellectual/cognitive disability studies will be considered. Of particular interest ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Interdisciplinary Methodologies How do scholars embarking alone or collaboratively on interdisciplinary research define their ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Intersections between Academic and Creative Writing Role of creative process in constructing academic essays; value of creativity in light of ... See more Posted 13 February 2012 Intonation and Poetic Convention What is the relation between conventions of verse lineation and intonation? How might metrical and ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 The Irish Fin de Siècle Papers are invited exploring formal and textual experimentation in Irish texts of the 1890s; New ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Irish Neoclassical Verse Proposals are welcome on any aspect of Irish neoclassicism, from Thomas Parnell to William Preston ... See more Posted 11 February 2012 Is Disability Studies Accessible? Is Disability Studies accessible in “the real world”? How can we make Disability Studies more ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Islands without Borders: Teaching the Caribbean across Languages This panel explores teaching Caribbean literature in a comparative manner. Proposals should cross ... See more Posted 17 January 2012 Israeli and Palestinian Literature and Culture Seeking papers with focus on social, psychological, historical, philosophical, traumatic, ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Issues in Data Management for Humanities Research This session asks: What counts as data in the humanities? Can humanists develop models for ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 J. G. Ballard and the Community of Violence Welcome papers on Ballard's major themes, such as elective psychopathology, therapeutic violence, ... See more Posted 9 January 2012 Juan José Saer: Memory and Experience This panel aims to explore Juan José Saer's narrative, particularly in terms of the relation ... See more Posted 4 February 2012 The Kafka Factor in Post Holocaust Literature and Film All aspects, literatures, genres, ethnicities and countries will be considered. Contact See more Posted 13 January 2012, last updated 17 January 2012 L2 Sociolinguistics from the Classroom to the Community This panel seeks papers that explore the development of sociolinguistic competence by L2 learners ... See more Posted 29 December 2011, last updated 26 February 2012 La métamorphose du/dans le texte Transgression et animation du texte et de l'image par le biais de la métamorphose comme processus ... See more Posted 8 February 2012 Latin America and the Politics of Literary Form If the literary has not reached a point of exhaustion, what might a politics of form look like in ... See more Posted 29 January 2012 LATIN AMERICAN MIGRATION: CONTEMPORARY NOVELS We will study the effects of migration both internal and abroad on latino identity and self ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 Latin American print culture How has Latin American print culture (circulation, materiality, publishing practices, and/or its ... See more Posted 13 January 2012, last updated 8 February 2012 Latina/o Literature and War Analysis of any genre of U.S. Latina/o literature that focuses on war or militarism from any ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Le mouvement dans l’œuvre de Mabanckou Transgression et contestation des frontières textuelles, idéologiques et identitaires chez Alain ... See more Posted 8 February 2012 LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE New theoretical approaches on the interaction between liberation theology and philosophy and ... See more Posted 15 February 2012 The libertine or the art of bachelorhood Papers discussing seduction, loneliness, masculinity, evolution/redefinition of the figure of the ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 LIFE AFTER THE NOBEL PRIZE: MARIO VARGAS LLOSA NOVELS Papers welcome regarding his novelistic production as the main theme or a specific novel. A ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Limits of Translation How does translation operate in the transnational context of literary studies? What narrative, ... See more Posted 16 February 2012, last updated 14 March 2012 Literacy, Digital Humanities, and Pedagogy The panel is about aspects of literacy and digital humanities in today's education both in theory ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 The Literary Classic in and through Time What is the classic? Has its meaning changed? What value system underpins criticism in different ... See more Posted 23 January 2012 Literary Kinetics Papers on motions as units of meaning or models of motion as models of meaning in literature of any ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Literature and Peace This session invites papers that examine literary engagements with the problems and possibilities ... See more Posted 17 January 2012 Literature and Reductionism What is reductive thinking—and is it always a bad thing? This panel invites papers that reconsider ... See more Posted 10 February 2012 Literature and the Materiality of the Past in the British Eighteenth Century How did intellectual and affective investments in historical objects shape literary and cultural ... See more Posted 26 December 2011 Literature and the Philosophy of Technology Approaches to literature drawing from philosophy of technology or critical theory of technology. ... See more Posted 20 January 2012 Literature of American Immigrant Communities Papers on literature (including newspapers and journals in English and/or native language) from ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Literature/Film: Disciplinary Tensions As Film Studies increasingly moves away from the position of English department minor, is the field ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Local or translocal aspects of colonial modernities Sites and practices of colonial modernities, including but not limited to the cultural, linguistic, ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Logic and Nineteenth-Century Literature Literature and logical form, modes of reasoning or demonstration, probability and statistical ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Mad as Hell: Representations of Adjuncts in Higher Education & Beyond Readings of how adjuncts have been depicted in The Chronicle of Higher Education, etc. Abstracts by ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Madame de Genlis in Literary History What is Madame de Genlis’s place in literary history? How did her work participate in Enlightenment ... See more Posted 9 February 2012 Madness and Mayhem in Women's Novels of the Black Diaspora Papers invited that explore madness as political , cultural, or aesthetic resistance in women's ... See more Posted 22 February 2012 Making fun of Academia Welcomes papers on modern academic satire and campus novels, form Amis and Nabokov to Lodge and ... See more Posted 18 January 2012 Malthusian Legacies The *Essay on the Principle of Population* in aesthetic, historical, political, legal, ... See more Posted 20 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012 Mapping Real-and-Imagined Places Dickens's London, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha, Tolkien's Middle-earth, Mieville's Bas-Lag ... Essays ... See more Posted 20 January 2012 Mapping Texts and Networks Papers that consider the uses of spatial or visualization technologies for theoretically or ... See more Posted 2 February 2012 Marginalización y jerarquía: El conflicto del personaje X en la literatura y el cine latinoamericano Este panel examinará el tema de la marginalización y el derecho de gentes. Abstracts by 15 March ... See more Posted 18 February 2012 Marketing Your PhD in Literature and Languages: Languages for Special Purposes Accepting papers on adapting to the new market: Languages for special purposes, Translation, ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Marriage and South Asian Publics Papers on marriage in South Asia as it emerges in public discourses of labor, education, ... See more Posted 30 January 2012 María Zambrano in Dialogue This panel addresses María Zambrano’s literary, aesthetic, and political thought in real or ... See more Posted 12 February 2012 Masculinity and Gender Performance in Caribbean Literature How are masculinity and gender performance represented in Caribbean literature and film? 300-word ... See more Posted 5 February 2012 Materialism and Positivism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry Papers addressing entwined yet competing strands of positivism and materialism in ... See more Posted 7 February 2012 McSweeney's and Contemporary Reading Open session on McSweeney's's literary output, authors, genres, circulation, and readership and ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 The Mechanics of Fictional World-Making This panel explores the underpinnings of making and experiencing fictional worlds. Topics may ... See more Posted 28 November 2011 Medical Economics in American Literature Possible topics include: cost/value of health and illness, impact of disease(s) on economies, ... See more Posted 1 January 2012, last updated 11 January 2012 Medieval Classicisms Papers exploring any aspect of the reception, translation, transformation of the classical ... See more Posted 8 February 2012 Militant Materialism: Materialism after “materiality without materialism and even perhaps without matter” Papers on matter, materiality and materialism. Abstracts on matter, materiality and materialism. by ... See more Posted 28 January 2012 Milton and Logic Interpreted broadly and all-inclusively (8-page or 20-min). Please send abstracts or complete ... See more Posted 12 February 2012 Mind of a Rock: the Persistence of Panpsychism in Philosophical and Literary Approaches to Consciousness This session invites papers exploring the appeal of panpsychism in literature and philosophy from ... See more Posted 11 January 2012 Miracles, Demons, and Specters in Early American Literature Session will explore the miraculous, the diabolical, and the supernatural in early American ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Modern Narratives of the Afterlife This session invites discussion on how the literally dead continue to operate as active characters, ... See more Posted 13 February 2012 Modernism and Its New Engagements with the “Real” in Contemporary Time The Session is intended to discuss how the “Real” should be redefined at our moment in history? 300 ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Modernism and the Pastoral How and why do modernist writers engage pastoral traditions? This panel will take the conversation ... See more Posted 30 January 2012 Modernism and the Senses This panel will explore the intersection of modernist aesthetics and the human sensorium. Topics ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Modernism's Straw Man: Nineteenth-Century Verse Pound's insistence on breaking the pentameter hides a complicated history of prosody. We seek ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 More-Than-Words in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography The multidimensionality of women’s self-representational narratives that employ visual narratives, ... See more Posted 26 January 2012 Mothers in Theory Why has the question of the maternal re-emerged with such urgency today? How does it challenge what ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 Multimedia and the Teaching of Literature Papers on the use of web-based multimedia applications for the teaching and learning of literature. ... See more Posted 13 February 2012 Muslim Everyday Life Fictional depiction of Muslim everyday life as an indeterminate space of negotiation between the ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Narrating Value in the Long Eighteenth Century How various ways of telling stories about value c. 1660-1830 (e.g., moral philosophy, aesthetics, ... See more Posted 12 February 2012, last updated 19 February 2012 Narrative Empathy for "the Other" How do literary texts depict and/or elicit empathy that transgresses categorical lines of ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 Natural SLA and Representation in Literary Texts Papers on the representation of natural second language acquisition in literary texts involving ... See more Posted 29 January 2012 Naturalistic Pedagogical Materials in Second Language Acquisition This panel explores the benefits of incorporating naturalistic pedagogical materials in the ... See more Posted 15 February 2012 Necessity, Aesthetic Experience, and Modernist Poetics If we rely on art to give form to new socio-political relations, how does aesthetic experience give ... See more Posted 13 February 2012 Neo-Victorianism and Marginal Voices How does neo-Victorian literature provide a site for marginal voices to address identity, ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Neoplatonism and Spanish Pastoral Fiction Invites studies of Spanish pastoral fiction informed by Renaissance Neoplatonism and contemporary ... See more Posted 18 January 2012 New Approaches to Frank Yerby Interested in papers that will reintroduce Frank Yerby to a new generation of readers and scholars. ... See more Posted 6 February 2012 New Approaches to Teaching the Surveys Innovative approaches to teaching British and American literature survey courses. Seeking ... See more Posted 5 January 2012 New Aurality Audiobooks, podcasts, itunes university, streaming radio, text to speech software—arguably, the ... See more Posted 16 February 2012, last updated 14 March 2012 New Auteurism: Independent/International/Digital Cinema How have changing production/distribution conditions of American independent film, and ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 New Directions in Caribbean Enlightenment Studies Innovative interpretations of the Enlightenment--its manifestations, reverberations and ... See more Posted 23 February 2012 New Perspectives on German Ecocritical Prose Exploring works of modern German-language literature from the ecocritical perspective, including ... See more Posted 11 August 2011 New perspectives on Latin American/Latino literary journalism Innovative theoretical approaches, transnational, transhistorical, sociological, and ... See more Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 20 February 2012 New Perspectives on Paul Laurence Dunbar This panel invites new scholarship as well as aesthetic reflections by poets and writers who have ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 New World Irishness: the Celtic Survival This panel seeks papers that investigate the contemporary production and representation of Irish ... See more Posted 24 January 2012 Nineteenth-Century Classics investigations of the (aesthetic/poetological) relevance of Greek and Roman classics for ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Non-theistic mysticism, late 1800s-early 1900s Papers on non-theistic mysticism as an alternative to religious and other discourses of power ... See more Posted 28 September 2011 Not Twilight: Female Sexuality and Identity in Recent Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fantasy female characters' struggle with being a woman in the 21st Century attracts millions of ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Occupy Reading: Reading, Class, and Democracy-to-Come Papers on reading, interpretation, and critique. Abstracts by 15 March 2012; Robert Faivre ... See more Posted 29 January 2012 On the Margins of King Arthur's World Papers on all aspects of the Arthurian margins, such as lesser-known texts, marginal figures and ... See more Posted 8 February 2012 One Thing Led to Another - Our “AltAC” Jobs The “Alternative Academic” position/career is becoming more common. We seek contributions ... See more Posted 18 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012 Organic Forms How have poets revised organic metaphors for poetic form since Coleridge? Papers on organic form ... See more Posted 23 January 2012 Orientation for Crossing Cultural Barriers This panel seeks papers that explore the development of cultural readiness as advanced-level ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Oscar Wilde in Print and Visual Culture Papers on Wilde's appearance in print venues, particularly papers investigating Wilde's visual ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Otro(s) Modernismo(s): Silent Voices in Latin American Modernism(s) Papers addressing the work of unaccounted, misread, or “minor” poets, while interrogating current ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 "Overseas Filipino Workers: Commodified Labor Impinging on the Country's Consciousness." Papers on literary works by Filipinos dealing with the plight of overseas workers are solicited. ... See more Posted 22 November 2011 Palestinian Writing in English Translation Papers on literary and/or social aspects of contemporary writing by Palestinians, primarily in ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 "Payback": The Burden of Debt With reference to Atwood's "Payback", papers on the theme of debt as it figures in modern ... See more Posted 5 February 2012 "Payback": The Burden of Debt With reference to Atwood's "Payback", papers on the theme of debt as it figures in modern ... See more Posted 5 February 2012 Pedagogical Poetics Teaching students to read "difficult poems" and better yet, to write them: investigating theories ... See more Posted 15 February 2012 Pedagogy, Literary Texts, and Feminist Praxis How do literary texts instantiate feminist and/or embodied political awareness in the classroom ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 (Per)forming Women in Early Modern French Theatre Given interest in staging, stagecraft, and performance studies, how did early modern French actors, ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Perspectivizing World Literature Papers compare glocalized mappings of world literature in central or peripheral literary systems, ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Photography and Mourning Papers on any aspect of the relationship between photography and mourning. Topics may include 9/11, ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Picturing the Text About all aspects of illustrated texts ( title, illustrations, portraits, festivals, emblems). ... See more Posted 7 February 2012 Pining for Scotland: Arboreal Nation We welcome proposals about trees and Scotland in literature for this session organised by the ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Place, Memory, and Identity: Franco-Americans in New England An exploration of Franco-Americans in New England, with a focus on the themes of place, memory and ... See more Posted 9 December 2011 Planetary Modernisms/Modernities Has the “transnational turn” in Modernist studies effected a rethinking of Eurocentric models and ... See more Posted 18 February 2012 The Poet-Scholar While tenure and promotion standards tend to impose a clear division between scholarly and creative ... See more Posted 30 January 2012 Poetic Occupations from the Great Depression to the "Great Recession" How have poetic forms/movements been shaped by socioeconomic crises? Has today's recession ... See more Posted 6 February 2012 The Poetics of Race New ways of thinking aesthetics and poetics in Ethnic Studies. Submit on race and its formal, ... See more Posted 6 December 2011 Poetry of Ecology and Human Rights This panel will examine both the literary work and the role of poets located at the intersection ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 The Poetry of John Wieners Seeking papers on any aspect of the work of late Boston poet John Wieners. Abstract, CV by 8 March ... See more Posted 23 November 2011 Poetry of the Twenty-First Century Papers about English language poets who came of age in the twenty-first century, from any "school." ... See more Posted 31 January 2012 Poetry on the Spectrum Invites papers exploring any aspect of recent poetry's affiliation with autism spectrum disorder, ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Political SUblime Inviting papers on political philosophy and literature—how we construe sublime as a purely ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Politics of Comparison in Ethnic Studies Papers that exemplify or assess the recent comparative turn in ethnic studies: a recovered ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Politics of Form in the Transpacific Session explores political dimensions of genre and how aesthetics of form are implicated/utilized ... See more Posted 30 January 2012 Politics of Posthumanism Interrogations of the larger political stakes attending the growing prominence of posthumanist ... See more Posted 22 January 2012 Portlandia: Literature in the New Northwest The New Northwest literature is, like the frontier, both anachronistic and futuristic. This panel ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Postcards of the Other: The Colonial Harem and Beyond Inviting works about representations of the other (in particular colonial and national) in ... See more Posted 27 September 2011 The Prehistory of Animal Studies This interdisciplinary panel explores discourses of "the animal" prior to Bentham. How do earlier ... See more Posted 22 January 2012 PRISON ARCHITECTURE AND SUBALTERNISM Based on the Benthamite program avoiding Prison “subaltern Tyranny”, speakers must explore Prison ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 Private and Public in Contemporary American Poetry The panel will deal with the private and the public in contemporary American poetry by reading it ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Progressive-Era Periodicals and the Rhetoric of Reform How did ethnic American writers use the periodical as a vehicle for reform at the turn of the ... See more Posted 14 January 2012, last updated 3 March 2012 The Proscenium and the Political: Beckett’s Theater Theatrical aspects, performance, staging of Beckett’s plays in relation to contemporary theoretical ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Queer Characters Papers invited on any aspect of the role and function of queer supporting characters in classic ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Queerness As Form What are the conceptual advantages and/or disadvantages of identifying queerness with form (e.g., ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Quotation in Modernism How and why do quotation practices change in modernism? To what literary effect? Panel invites ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Race and Metaphor in 19th/20th Century American Literature and Thought This session engages the connections between metaphor and race to investigate the relation between ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Race and National Iidentity in the Americas Race and national identities: Literary and visual expressions from a multidisciplinary perspective. ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Race, Ethnicity and the Digital Humanities This panel will discuss the politics of race, ethnicity and access within the digital humanities. ... See more Posted 29 January 2012 Race, Sex, Class, and Bawdy-House Life in 19th-Century America This panel examines bawdy-house life and customs during an era of increased anxiety over race, sex, ... See more Posted 23 October 2011, last updated 5 February 2012 Radical Environmentalism and Ecoterrorism in Post-1945 American Literature This session explores the looming ecological crisis and radical forms of environmental philosophy ... See more Posted 14 January 2012, last updated 29 February 2012 Ramism in England and Abroad Papers concerning the political, poetical, or philosophical implications of Ramism are welcomed. ... See more Posted 24 January 2012 Re-Understanding Comics This panel considers formalism's place in comics studies in light of the 20th anniversary of Scott ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Reading Anticolonialism Inviting papers that re-read anticolonial texts as literature and/or political philosophy (e.g. ... See more Posted 8 February 2012 Reading the Black Male Submissions are invited that explore the state of Black masculinity as represented in contemporary ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Recent Endings . . . the Cold War, History, the millennium; the novel, print, film, postmodernism. Papers on any ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Reclaiming Certeau What is Certeau's place in the contemporary theoretical landscape? Papers (for and/or against) on ... See more Posted 31 January 2012 Religion and Medicine in North American Culture Seeking explorations of religion and medicine as intersecting, mutually reinforcing, or ... See more Posted 13 February 2012 Remembering or Forgetting the Past in Contemporary Spain Papers discussing the portrayal of historical memory, amnesia, fear and reconciliation in Spanish ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 The Renaissance Anthropocene: Imagining Life Without Nature in Early Modern Literature Renaissance ecocriticism, ecology without nature, decay of nature, artificial environments, ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 The Renaissance Beloved: Beatrice, Laura, Angelica, Dulcinea, Eve How does the theologically grounded beloved of the Medieval imagination come to appear an idol or ... See more Posted 28 January 2012 Representations of decision-making in medieval and early modern French literature How is decision-making represented and how do these representations relate to larger historical and ... See more Posted 19 February 2012, last updated 21 February 2012 Representations of Individual Heroism in Popular Revolution How do writers represent individual heroes in portrayals of popular revolution? What is the impact ... See more Posted 10 February 2012 Resisting Diagnosis in the Long Eighteenth Century How did "marginalized bodies" (women, non-white, and/or non-British people) respond to, resist, and ... See more Posted 13 February 2012, last updated 6 March 2012 Responses to the Baroque in 20th Century Poetry of Spain This panel will study the Baroque presence in 20th- Century poetry of Spain. Interdisciplinary and ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Rethinking the History of Literary Study What do we (think we) know about the history of literary study, and what remains to be learned? ... See more Posted 29 November 2011 Rethinking urban prostitutions New misappropriations of bodies, spaces, and social media in urban centers throughout Latin ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Revisiting Madame Bovary Papers that explore the influence of Madame Bovary on a twentieth- or twenty-first century novel or ... See more Posted 15 February 2012 Revolutionary Exchanges: Women's Networks Exchanges between women during the French Revolutionary wars, modes and networks of communication, ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Rhetoric of Religious Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia Rhetorical articulations of religious desire in texts and images across geographical and political ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Rhetorics of Phobos in Mass Media: Arousing Fear in Spectator-focused Texts Seeking rhetorical theory and criticism of New Media that primarily appeal to audience's fear ... See more Posted 23 February 2012, last updated 26 February 2012 Richard Wright Abroad Wright's association with people abroad affected the shape and meaning of his fiction and ... See more Posted 12 February 2012 Robin Hood and the Canon Examines the place and status of the Robin Hood texts and tradition in the canon. 300-word ... See more Posted 30 January 2012 The Role Of the African 'Nanas' in the Colombian Culture The nana has had an important in Colombia. A writer from the pacific makes a lecture of their ... See more Posted 6 November 2011 Romantic Embodiments This panel will consider aspects of bodies and embodiment in British Romantic literature, including ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Romantic Media Cultures Short papers for a roundtable of projects addressing questions of mediation, information, ... See more Posted 19 February 2012, last updated 24 February 2012 Romantic Science Papers on Romantic-era literature and the sciences, including but not limited to: the science of ... See more Posted 21 February 2012, last updated 22 February 2012 Roy, Djebar, and Postcoloniality This session welcomes comparative papers on the work of Arundhati Roy and Assia Djebar in the ... See more Posted 17 February 2012, last updated 18 February 2012 Ruptures in Language The decade from 9/11 to OWS marks a rupture in the power structure of language. How do we imagine ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Rushdie and Ngugi The session hopes to continue conversation on the relevance of Salman Rushdie's and Ngugi wa ... See more Posted 22 January 2012 Russian Modernism and the Problem of Language Panel invites papers exploring the problem of language as posed and dealt with in Russian Modernist ... See more Posted 17 January 2012 The Science of Romance pre-1800 Papers invited on literary depictions of the medical aspects of love. 300-word abstract and a short ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Science, Literature, Faith: The Messianic in Contemporary Fiction An interrogation of the relationship between science and faith in "post-secular" contemporary ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Scriblerians at 300 In 1713, “scribbling friends”--Swift, Pope, Gay, Arbuthnot, St. John, Parnell--pledged themselves ... See more Posted 21 February 2012, last updated 22 February 2012 Secluded Lives/Visible Bodies: Representations of Zenana Fashion in Film/Literature Papers invited that explore cinematic or literary depictions of fashion and Muslim women in ... See more Posted 18 February 2012 Service Learning and Literary Studies Service learning enriches and/or transforms the study of literature in the college and university ... See more Posted 4 January 2012 Sex, Gender, and Desire in Spanish Mass Culture, 1850-1939 How do sex, gender, and desire in the mass culture of Spain (1850 to 1939) mediate broad cultural ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Shakespeare in Translation Papers that address current issues of translating Shakespeare, foreign Shakespeare, transnational ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Shakespearean Social Work Submissions welcomed that confront the social and cultural work performed by forms of Shakespearean ... See more Posted 3 February 2012 Shaw, Beckett, and World Literature Reading Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett together beyond the Anglo-Irish axis through new ... See more Posted 8 February 2012 Shifting Relationships between Cultural Production and Politics: A Transatlantic View We welcome examinations of current dynamics between political, ethical, and aesthetic conventions ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Short Fiction in Short Considerations of short fiction (tales, sketches, short stories, etc) with a focus on formal ... See more Posted 21 December 2011 Skepticism in Early Modern England and Abroad Papers invited that explore the implications of skepticism for seventeenth-century literature, ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 South Asian-izing the Digital Turn in Humanities How does the digital turn shape contemporary South Asian Studies? Send abstracts to Rahul K. ... See more Posted 14 February 2012 The Spanish Civil War in the Language Curriculum Papers sought on teaching the Spanish Civil War in advanced language courses, with emphasis on ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Spanish Demonology and Demonolatry We invite papers on the study of the Devil in Spain and its territories during the Middle Ages and ... See more Posted 7 January 2012 Spanish Shakespeares Papers addressing any aspect of Shakespeare and Spain are encouraged. Please submit a 300 word ... See more Posted 16 January 2012 Spectral Scotlands Scotland as the site of multiple hauntings, past and present. Ghosts of cultures, sovereignties, ... See more Posted 6 February 2012 Spirituality in a Postcolonial World How might the language of spirituality intervene to further the cause of social justice in today's ... See more Posted 12 February 2012 Stranger Fictions Comparative approaches on the figure of the stranger/alien (l'étranger) in literature/film: How ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Surrealism and Christianity Connections between surrealism and Christianity have often focused on the satirical. Papers in ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Teaching in The Shallows How do arguments in Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Teaching Jane Austen This roundtable will feature speakers who briefly describe innovative ways to teach--or challenges ... See more Posted 15 February 2012 Teaching Romanticism in the Digital Classroom AI, avatars, students glued to tiny screens: what pedagogies work for "Walden" in today's ... See more Posted 15 February 2012 Teaching the Contemporary Arabic Novel in Translation Teaching Arabic novels to undergraduates; especially works concerned with ethnic diversity in the ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Temporal Forms / Forms of Time How do literary texts engage their existence in time? What do such engagements say about form? What ... See more Posted 9 February 2012 Tertulias, Journals to La Residencia de Estudiantes: The evolution of the Avant-Garde Seeks an exploration of the importance of play makers and venues that allowed the Avant-Garde ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Theories and Practices of the Literary Lab This panel will explore the theoretical, practical, and political implications of the rise of the ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Theorizing Borders Papers sought interrogating the theoretical usefulness of concepts like "border-crossing," ... See more Posted 13 February 2012 Theorizing Indigenous Literatures in the Americas Papers that discuss the theoretical considerations, analytical tools, methods, lenses for working ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Theorizing Linsanity Critical approaches to the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Possible topics: ethics, aesthetics, ethnicity, ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Theory of “You” To whom is theory addressed? Papers on the you in “Occupy Wall Street”, Lenin’s “without ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 Thinking the South Atlantic: Africa-Latin America Exchanges Papers theorizing South-South connections or addressing transnational movements of people, texts, ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Thoughts for American Transcendentalism on War and Death This panel will address the legacy of American Transcendentalism, especially considering the ... See more Posted 12 January 2012 To Kill a Mockingjay: The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins’ popular young adult series seemed like a much-needed antithesis to Twilight. This ... See more Posted 16 January 2012 Tolkien and Alterity This session in honor of Jane Chance exams the presence and function of alterity in J.R.R. ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Tony Kushner and Adaptation Tony Kushner’s free dramatic adaptations of plays and novels add new elements to already existing ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Toward Trauma Studies in Contemporary East Asian Literature and Culture Approaching contemporary East Asian literature and culture through trauma studies with an emphasis ... See more Posted 23 December 2011 Towards a Speculative Historicism What might a speculative historicism look like today? In an age of positivist historicism, what ... See more Posted 6 February 2012 Tradition and 19C Lyric Forms Papers addressing ways nineteenth-century English language poets enlarged upon traditional ... See more Posted 9 December 2011 TRAFFICKING: BODIES, CARGO, TEXTS Formal and aesthetic strategies for representing contemporary trafficking in literature and film. ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Tragedy in Asian American Literature This session examines tragedy/the tragic in Asian American Literature. An employment of theories of ... See more Posted 16 January 2012 Transatlantic Emergency Exits: Europe and America as safe havens Explorations of artists and intellectuals who crossed the Atlantic fleeing political, sexual or ... See more Posted 17 February 2012 Transatlantic Modernism(os)—late 1880s-early 1900s Transatlantic, Globalization and/or Post-National approaches on Spanish American “Modernismo.” ... See more Posted 20 October 2011 Transformations and Adaptations. Expanding Approaches to the Critical Analysis of Afro-Latin American Literature through Film How does film aid in our understanding of Afro-Latin American culture? Please submit a 200 word ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 Transformative impulses: subverting silence and dread in Rosario Castellanos’s works Compelling impulses, strategies of gender and racial empowerment, and the mechanics of potential ... See more Posted 20 January 2012 Transgressing Discipline in Medieval German Narrative We invite abstracts concerning the role of non-literary disciplines or spheres of knowledge (e.g. ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Translation, Vulgarization, and the Mediation of Access Translations and popularizing adaptations that promise "accessibility" to new audiences, but ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Translingual Literatures This panel explores how languages interact within literary texts. How is translingualism expressed ... See more Posted 30 August 2011 Transnational Connections: Looking @ Border Crossing prior to 1800 Work on visual/written/oral/aural texts pre-1800 that look beyond the idea of nation-state or ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Tricksters in Western Literature This session seeks papers concerned with characters of tricksters performing trickery with the use ... See more Posted 7 February 2012 Under Western Eyes: East Asia in Anglophone Fiction This session explores contemporary English writing on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea. ... See more Posted 16 January 2012 Under Western Eyes: East Asia in Anglophone Fiction This session explores contemporary English writing on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea. ... See more Posted 16 January 2012 Undercover America This panel will examine the motives, methodology, and genre of U.S. undercover narratives across ... See more Posted 18 January 2012 Up from Chattels: Blacks & Things Panel invites papers exploring how representations of black people’s relationships to material ... See more Posted 20 January 2012, last updated 21 January 2012 Urban Slavery This panel contests associations of American slavery with rurality and agrarian labor. We seek ... See more Posted 6 February 2012 Vegetal, Animal, Human: Early Modern Faculty Psychology Papers on early modern uses of the Aristotelian faculties of the soul as a distributed ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Vernacular Avant Gardes Avant-garde artists often sought critical alternatives to modernity in folk cultural forms.This ... See more Posted 21 December 2011 Victorian Oral Culture, c. 1861-1901 The Victorian rise of mass print media runs parallel to persisting cults of presence/orality. ... See more Posted 6 January 2012 Violence and the Black Child in Post-Civil Rights U.S.A Will explore creative texts that address public reception, cultural memory, and collective trauma ... See more Posted 10 February 2012 Violence and Women's Writing in Francophone North Africa An exploration of the interaction between violence and literary or cinematic production in the work ... See more Posted 18 February 2012 Visual Dimensions of Literary Animal Studies How does literature visualize animals, and with what effects for other media and disciplinary ... See more Posted 16 February 2012 Wales: On the Margins of England / Britain Papers analyzing how representations of Wales or the border between Wales and England engender ... See more Posted 19 December 2011, last updated 20 December 2011 War and British Identities from the 17th to the 19th Centuries This panel examines how war, in intra-national and global contexts, helped shape British identities ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Watching the World: Early-Modern Spectatorship Beyond Theater Where observation, knowledge, and spectacle intersect. Perspective on real and imagined sightings ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Weininger, Wittgenstein and the Literary We welcome papers on any aspect of Otto Weininger's work, and/or Wittgenstein's interpretation ... See more Posted 25 January 2012 What is Post-AIDS Literature? Narrating the experience of living with HIV: homosexual, heterosexual, and minority subjectivities. ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 Whatever Happened to Materialist Feminism? Papers on the contemporary situation of feminism and “new” materialisms. Abstracts by 15 March ... See more Posted 21 January 2012 What's Love Got to Do With It?: Shakespeare and Ovidian Violence How do Ovidian paradigms speak to desire, brutality, and gender in Shakespeare's works? 500-word ... See more Posted 21 November 2011 Wit, Inspiration, and Fancy in Early Modern Poetics Focusing on these three related terms, this panel considers early modern models for literary ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Women and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century Papers consider relationships among women, public spaces and institutions, and narrative form in ... See more Posted 9 February 2012 Women Writers of the Beat Movement How has the poetry and fiction of Beat women writers contributed to, challenged, or redefined the ... See more Posted 24 August 2011, last updated 22 January 2012 Women, Naming, and Academia Papers are invited which explore the ways in which women academics name themselves or are named by ... See more Posted 27 December 2011 Workshop on Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Literature: A Method This Workshop on Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Literature aims at discussing the issues on ... See more Posted 19 February 2012 World Literature and Global Health This panel examines changing representations of illness in world literature, exploring the ... See more Posted 1 February 2012 Writing Disability in Children's Literature The presentation of disability in children's/YA literature; single disability or several; ... See more Posted 23 February 2012 Writing Post-politics in the Hispanic world Politics of memory in contemporary Spain and Latin America through the lens of post-politics: ... See more Posted 21 February 2012 Young Adult Literature of the Caribbean How does the emergence of literature marketed specifically to teens revise or invoke Caribbean ... See more Posted 18 February 2012 Young Hearts: Plot, Joy, and Accessibility in Early American Novels and Contemporary Young Adult Fiction Understanding plot-driven contemporary young adult fiction in the context of early American popular ... See more Posted 20 February 2012 ‘Peterloo’ Revisited Re-examinations of the historical, political, literary significance of the 1819 Manchester ... See more Posted 28 January 2012 “Irishness” in Irish American Literature How is “Irishness” represented in Irish immigrant and Irish American literature written before ... See more Posted 13 January 2012 “Mistreated and Well-treated Foreigners in Renaissance Italy” 15th-16th c. travel literature by or about foreigners in Italy (long/short sojourns/residence). ... See more Posted 17 December 2011 “Where is Home?”: Fragmented lives, hybridity and the politics of identity in South Asian Muslim Womens' writings Muslim women's writings' distinctness in diasporic literature. Abstracts of 250 words by 15 March ... See more Posted 21 February 2012
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