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Calls for Papers - Special Sessions
17th and 18th century French Fairy Tales: novelties
Representation and exploration of avant-garde elements such as technical, scientific or medical ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 1930s Activist Literature Depression-era writers responded to vulnerabilities exposed by economic and environmental crisis ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 20th/21st Century Antisemitisms Papers theorizing antisemitism in law/policy debates, literature, film, television, etc. What ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Accenting Punctuation Punctuation--as used by a specific literary figure, in certain genres, or topics related to ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Addressing re-generation (1914-2014) Theoretical issues about the cultural uses of the concept generation; focusing on the construction ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Affect in Literature What can we say about affect in literature? 250-word abstracts plus vitae by 10 March 2013; Yubraj ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Affect Theory or Affect Studies? What would shifting to a "studies" model of affects, rather than focusing on affect "theory," mean ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Affirmation and the End of the Negative Foucault dreamt of criticism that "would not judge." Has theory become affirmation of the existing? ... See more Posted 3 February 2013 African Literature and Modernism This panel considers colonial and postcolonial African literature in relation to transnational ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Afro-Diasporic Popular Culture Interventions This panel addresses Afro-diasporic popular culture forms (eg. Brazilian capoeira, Hip Hop, rumba) ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Allegory - reflection between ornament and sign Seeking papers exploring allegory as a mode of meaning-making dependent on counter-mimetic ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Almost Human This panel explores the roles that human replicas (puppets, mannequins, robots) play in Spanish ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 American Literature and New Technologies 1865-1945 We invite papers that consider the fault lines between literary narrative and new technologies. How ... See more Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 20 January 2013 American Literature and the Sea in the Long Nineteenth Century This panel focuses on oceanic spaces, journeys, and work to redraw geography of nineteenth-century ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Animal and Artistic Life Does capital’s expansion over life link the vulnerabilities of animal life to those of artistic ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Animation in French Literature, 1550-1750 Exploring the act, process, or result of imparting life, spirit, motion or activity. Theories and ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Antebellum Affects: Literature & Theory Theories of affect and antebellum American literature, including sentiment’s historical mutations, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Anticolonialism Since the 18th Century Papers invited on: anticolonial & antislavery thought in Europe/Americas/(post)colonial spaces; ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Approaches to Feminist Orientalism The session will assess, complicate, and extend the important intersectional concept of “feminist ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Approaches to Narconarratives What form does narcotrafficking take? How does narcotrafficking come to bear on literature? This ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Arguing Religion in Early Modern England Panel will focus on the creative uses of various types of religious argument—satire, polemic, ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Arthur Miller: Self and Tragedy The Arthur Miller Society invites papers on the construction of the self and the conception of ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 At Peril: Lives on the Verge of Extinction Papers analysing and theorizing German 20th-century art, films and texts on human and animal ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Authorship, Lecture Tours, & Politics in the U.S Their intersections in places and historical moments, particularly as writers addressed communities ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Balancing Personal Life and Academia What is “work-life balance”? Does it exist? Bringing personal to work and vice versa, work-life ... See more Posted 24 December 2012 Balkan Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Music Is Balkan “always the other," and for whom? How has Balkan self-consciousness or the Balkan image ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Beat Poets and L.A.N.G.U.A.G.E. Poetics Beat Studies Association: subjects open. Welcome proposals on Beat literature and L.A.N.G.U.A.G.E. ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Being Vulnerable, Negotiating Life and Hope Desperate times, desperate measures? Vulnerability/empowerment, market successes/failures for those ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Between "Gay" and "Queer" The persistence of gay identity in a queer world; gay/lesbian vs/in queer theory; ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 Between Vulnerability and Resilience: Representations of the Veil in Literature This roundtable will explore the re-emergence of the veil and its literary and cultural ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Beyond Autobiography, Ethnography, and Profiling: Tabish Khair and Postcolonial Narrative Today The narrative interventions into history found in Tabish Khair’s novels (and/or in those of ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Beyond the Proto-Monograph: New Models for the Dissertation Focus on how the dissertation should/is changing in response to the digital turn, doctoral reform, ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Black German History and Culture in Research and Teaching Proposals addressing: current state of research; transnational/cross-cultural/comparative ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Borges and Perception In light of Rodrigo Quian Quiroga's recent text, this panel will examine competing theories of mind ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Bottom's Dreams and Beyond: Arno Schmidt at 100 New perspectives on this post-war author's writings and his legacy, particularly on "Zettel's ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 British South Africa, 1795-1919 How was British identity constructed in or in relation to southern Africa? Abstract (250-500 words) ... See more Posted 17 November 2012 British Women Writers and the Arts 1880-1920 How did music, theatre and art influence the construction of novels and poetry by British women ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 The Brothers Quay and Literature The Brothers Quay and Literature Papers that consider the films of the Brothers Quay and their ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Building a Book History of Theory and Criticism Investigating the book history of theory and criticism, for instance anthologies, journals, book ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Changing Minds: Boethius and Philosophical Exercise Aspects of medieval and early modern reception of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Focus on ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Chanson and Cinema - A French Affair Chanson as genre, as narrative vehicle in French language fiction films. Literary, cultural, ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 Chess and Literature Proposals on the representation of chess in literature in any period or genre. 250 word abstracts ... See more Posted 25 January 2013 Chicago's Playwriting Renaissance Since 1950 a renaissance in playwriting has occurred in Chicago. Proposals about playwrights, ... See more Posted 14 November 2012 Children's Literature and New Trends We invite papers that consider 'transgressed boundaries' across Aesthetics, Content, and/or Genre ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 China in World Literature Chinese literary works have a long history of circulation outside of China. What patterns of ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Cid Corman and American Poetry Looking for papers that examine the work of the Japan-based expatriate American poet Cid Corman and ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Cinema of Guantanamo: Torture, Temporality, Complicity How do recent films normalize or critique torture, rewrite history or reconcile audiences to ... See more Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013 Class Vulnerabilities in Academia Roundtable on the dangers and potentialities of class as a marker of scholarly, pedagogical, and ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Colonial Heroes and Martyrs Explorers, conquerors, and victims in early North and Latin America. Are heroism and sacrifice ... See more Posted 17 January 2013 Coming Out as ‘Alt Ac’ How open can students be about wanting non-tenure track careers? Roundtable on the personal and ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Common Core State Standards: Paradigmatic Shifts An exploration of how CCSS will impact English majors who enter the K-12 teaching profession and ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Comparative Translation Strategies and the Market for Foreign Literature This panel explores the relationship between translation strategy and saleability in major ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Comparing Theories of Trauma From antiquity to the present, panel will compare theories of trauma on the subject in literature. ... See more Posted 4 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013 Conceptual Writing After Literature What is the status of conceptual writing after the "death of poetry" (Place) or the "event of ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Conservadurismo y literatura en el siglo XIX hispanoamericano Exploraciones sobre las diferentes formas de articulación del pensamiento conservador en la ... See more Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 Contagious Disorder(s) (Interdisciplinary) papers approaching bodies that are particularly vulnerable to disorder, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Contemporary Central American Cultural Production DEADLINE EXTENDED! This session will adopt a fresh approach to contemporary Central American ... See more Posted 11 December 2012, last updated 8 February 2013 Contemporary Poet-Critics & Creative Scholarship What are the forms and purposes of hybrid creative-critical texts? How do they elucidate the ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 "The Controversy over Attribution of De Doctrina Christiana to Milton." This session welcomes papers by partisans in the controversy over Milton's reputed authorship of ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Corpulence, Excess, Obesity: Sizing Up the Body from Shakespeare to The Biggest Loser We seek papers that explore popular and canonical representations of the fetishized, non-normative ... See more Posted 7 January 2013 Costumbrismo en producción visual y escrita del siglo XIX latinoamericano Propuestas que aborden el costumbrismo como problema estético e ideológico en textos visuales y ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 Country Music and Resistance How does country music (and country-influenced literature and film) construct narratives and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The dandy: fashionable victim or hybrid reflection? Social self-made novelty, Baudrillard identifies the dandy's position as "an aesthetic form of ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Death and Affect in Chaucer How does Chaucer’s literature confirm/counter medieval ‘norms’ of emotions related to death? How do ... See more Posted 4 October 2012 The Death of God in Nineteenth-Century America This session explores how American authors grapple with the time's spiritual crises by providing ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Decade Modernism Forgot: The 1930s What is the relationship between modernism and 1930s literature, and is it as distinct and ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Deletion, Erasure, Cancellation How might we theorize the aesthetics and poetics of practices such as deletion and erasure? All ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Demons, Goblins, Ghosts and Witches in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature Papers will focus on demonology, demonolatry, idolatry, witchcraft, bestiality, demoniality, etc. ... See more Posted 6 January 2013 Desire for Narrative in Law and Literature This roundtable (detailed cfp: See more Posted 11 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013 Developing and Funding Online Teaching Platforms Given differently-resourced departments, how best to create and maintain Open Source teaching ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Diapora in Middle Eastern Literatures Proposals that focus on diaspora in Anglophone Middle Eastern Literatures and discuss broader ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Digital Humanities and Early Modern Hispanic World Papers about websites, google articles, blogs, e-Journals, related to the early modern Hispanic ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Digital Humanities and French Renaissance Culture Projects and practices that illustrate the promise of the Digital Humanities for the study of ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Digital Pedagogy Going Global This panel focuses on the pedagogical benefits of cross-cultural online collaborative projects in ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Digital Poetics Not digital humanities but digital poetics. What does digital literature and the emergent critical ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 "Disability, Prosthesis, and Medieval Literature" This panel explores how medieval literature makes use of disability and/or prosthesis as theme, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Discursive Responses to the Politics of Domestic Seclusion Last decades of 19th-Century and beginnings of the 20th Latin American texts, about discursive ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Dreiser and Money Financial systems and their epistemologies in Theodore Dreiser’s work, including the "Trilogy of ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Du Bois, King and the Discourse of Freedom Examines the discourse of freedom and the promise of America in the work of Du Bois and Martin ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Duras at 100 Papers on her work and on authors of her generation that confront personal, social, historical ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Early Modern Media Ecologies How do Renaissance media (ranging from book to actor’s body to tapestry to ballad) cross-fertilize, ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Eastern European and US American Cultures Seeking papers on connections between Eastern European and US literatures, cultures, or media ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Electronic Literature after Flash Lightning talks on the death of Flash e-lit, the study and preservation of Flash works, and the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Embedded Music: Sung Song in Narrative and Theatre Embedded songs influence on audience: e.g., ballads in novels, leitmotifs in soap operas, songs in ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Enduring Noise: Sound and Sexual Difference Gendered sound in literature, theory, culture. Possible topics include: (queer) feminism and sonic ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Epic, Tragedy, and Community How do the memorializing practices instituted in epic and tragedy from any period or region ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Essaying Masculinity How does Montaigne try out/question/reify masculinity? What is the role of intertextuality? Of the ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Ethics of Vulnerability Vulnerability (hospitality, weakness, kenosis) has risen to prominence in interdisciplinary ethics. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Ethics, Politics and Contemporary Poetry How do contemporary poets and poetries respond to world politics and ethics? How do ethics inflect ... See more Posted 6 January 2013 Evaluating the Course Evaluation Process This session examines the course evaluation process, particularly its relationship to pedagogy: ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The expulsion of the Moriscos (1609-1614): History and Memory Post-1614 history and memory of the Moriscos: where they went and how they were remembered. ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Extreme Politics in Popular Culture Papers on post-W.W. II popular cultural representations of neofascism, white supremacist groups, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Eyes and Ears on "Homeland" How have critics and viewers responded to the TV show “Homeland”? How does the show complicate ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Failed Hispanic Commemorations This session invites papers on 19th- to 21st- century cultural celebrations that were unsuccessful ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 Failure Studies Panel will investigate reasons why failure is subordinated as a category of critical thought, in an ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 Family Feeling in Early Modern Texts Questions of kinship and emotion in texts published between 1450-1750. Send abstracts and CVs to ... See more Posted 7 January 2013 Fiction in the Digital Age Exploring ways in which contemporary works of fiction are influenced by new media and digital ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 First Person Vulnerable Papers addressing first person and hybrid accounts of pain, including ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Forgotten Sources, Alternative Archives Documenting and explaining more elusive sources of well-known literary works; expanding what it ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Form and Formalisms in Literature and Science Roundtable discussion of how approaches like STS, disciplinary history, cognitive theory, etc. ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Formal Education How do literary and cultural productions relate to theories and practices of aesthetic education? ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Forms of Devotion in Early Modern Poetry Panel exploring “forms”—aesthetic, doctrinal, physical, material—in 16th and 17th century ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Forms of Freedom: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought This session will explore the ways that poetry responds to the rise of liberalism during the long ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Fragile Theatre Latin American theatre often breaks or blurs boundaries. How can the concept of fragility (of ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Frank Wedekind at 150 Wedekind's work was ahead of its time. Or was it? What about today? Proposals sought focusing on ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 French National Identity at Moments of Crisis Representations of French identity during war, regime change, social upheaval, etc. Any time period ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Friendship in Early Modern Spanish Literature Female friendship, visual representations of friendship, politics of friendship; friendship and ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 From Lope To Lorca: Reading The Social Nature Of Humans Panel seeks papers that apply an evolutionary perspective to the study of Spanish theater. 250-300 ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 The Future of Close Reading This panel will examine emergent practices of close reading. We particularly seek papers addressing ... See more Posted 27 October 2012, last updated 29 October 2012 Futures of South-South Comparison Seeking proposals for a roundtable on the challenges/potential of comparison in the Southern ... See more Posted 4 February 2013, last updated 6 February 2013 Gandhi's Modernity This panel will read texts that surround MK Gandhi's writing/thought (eg Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau), ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 Gendered spaces and aging in contemporary Spanish literature and film Representations of spaces occupied or traversed by the aging; perceptions of safety, opportunities ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 The Generation of 1914 – The (Re)Evaluation of an Aesthetic (1914-2014) This panel reevaluates the aesthetics of the Generation of ’14, and its contribution to Spanish ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Generations of Contemporary American Fiction Looking for papers that focus on particular generations in contemporary U.S. fiction and think ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Geospatial Literary Studies Investigating the geospatial in digital literary studies: GIS, gazetteers, spatial narratives, ... See more Posted 25 January 2013 Getting the Word Out: Communication Disabilities in Literature/ Scholarship Describing/experiencing/studying "invisible" communication disabilities: critiques of memoirs about ... See more Posted 25 January 2013 Girls and the f-word: twenty-first century representations of women’s lives Papers addressing the pioneering HBO show, attendant discussions and controversies, and/or related ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Globalización 2.0 en la ciencia ficción latinoamericana Es posible pensar en una postglobalización? Cómo diferentes manifestaciones de lo posthumano y la ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Golden Age to Our Age: Re-reading 19th Century Aesthetics Seeking to explore twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature's reworking of ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 The Great War in Modern Literature Perspectives on the First World War as represented in fiction published 1970 to the present, ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Guns in American Culture Analyses of firearms, violence, gun culture and armed (or targeted) identities in American ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Gypsies in the American Cultural Imagination This session will include representations of Gypsies (Romani) in American Literature, Music, Film, ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 The Half-life of the Cold War This panel explores representations of the Cold War in recent literature, film, television, and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Harlem’s Transnational Modernisms: Recovering the Black Archive Beyond the Nation Presentations on canonical or non-canonical Harlem writers addressing black transnationalism. ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Harriet Monroe, Poetry Magazine, and Chicago Modernism We invite papers on the central role these figures and sites played in shaping poetic modernism. ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies Roundtable on how the spatial turn contributes to Latin American, Spanish, U.S. Latino and Chicano ... See more Posted 13 January 2013, last updated 29 January 2013 How Inequality Has Displaced Class "Exploitation," Hardt and Negri claim, is "expropriation of the common" because capitalist ... See more Posted 6 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013 How to Do Things with New Media in Medieval Studies A hybrid-roundtable-session on intersections of theory and praxis in our forays into the digital ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 How We Talk about Contingent Faculty How are contingent faculty described and discussed, and by whom? What are the implications of this ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Human Rights Modes: Protest Public shame and literary form in works in any genre, period, or nationality that protest a state's ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Humanities in an Anthropocene Era This roundtable will consider the concept of the anthropocene. What challenges /opportunities does ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain This panel explores fictionalized representations of Queen Elizabeth I and their impact on the ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Immigrant Auto/biography How does auto/biography help the immigrant subject negotiate, and situate him/herself in, shifting ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Imprisonment and Resistance Current directions in American prison studies, with a focus on how twentieth-century US literature ... See more Posted 3 February 2013 In the Eye of the Press: Journalism and Tabloidism in Fiction (1830-1930s) Papers examining the roles and representations of journalism and tabloidism in fiction welcomed. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Incorporating Undergraduate Research in English Studies Panelists will discuss best practices and innovative approaches to incorporating undergraduate ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Indigenous Literatures in the Twenty-First Century: Performance, Text, and Reception We seek papers that discuss the diffusion and reception of indigenous literatures and narrative ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Infrastructuralism Themes of infrastructure - its environmental sustainability, its social and economic desirability, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Innovative Criticism Roundtable discussion about the production and publication of innovative, experimental, affective, ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Innovative Session on Teaching Complex Prose How do you lead students to navigate syntactically-difficult narrative (Conrad, Faulkner, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Integrating Ecocriticism in New and Established Curricula We invite papers on theory and best practices of introducing ecological themes and/or ecocritical ... See more Posted 25 February 2013 Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Teaching of Foreign Languages We seek proposals from alternative, innovative methods of teaching foreign languages. Papers might ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Interpretation in Law and the Humanities Can the cultural study of law shape practical jurisprudence? The interpretive traffic among legal, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 "I've Known Rivers": Water in African Diasporic Literary Consciousness Research that engages water in African Diaspora literature. Including: migration, memory, access, ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 James T. Farrell and Chicago: New Approaches Proposals that consider the fiction and nonfiction of James T. Farrell, particularly investigations ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 JEAN-LUC GODARD: HISTORY, THEORY, CINEMA This panel will reassess the historical and theoretical implications of Godard’s films and media ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Jewish Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Pedagogy What constitutes a specifically "Jewish" rhetoric or pedagogy? And how do new developments in the ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Job Success despite these Vulnerable Times Papers discussing successful academic and non-academic job searches, particularly offering tips for ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 The John Brown Event: Approaches to Antebellum Righteous Violence Innovative takes on responses to John Brown and other agents of nineteenth-century political ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writing This proposal seeks creative writers/scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Kafka in Search for Alternative Realities Alternative realities (familiar - unfamiliar settings, narrative positions; Kafka's works; ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion Fifty Years Later The 50th anniversary calls for a renewed evaluation of this product of the early sixties. Abstract ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 La política de género: Reflexiones culturales en el capitalismo de la España contemporánea La redefinición de géneros sexuales desde la perspectiva literaria y fílmica. Brief abstract (500 ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Lab Lit Panel welcomes explorations of the genre of lab lit, especially with emphasis on contemporary ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Language Games and Normative Publics Would Marx permit a pragmatist philosophy of language? Papers on materiality and meaning; Marx, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Las hijas del mar. Emociones de costa a ciudad Rosalía de Castro su generación. La exploración de la emotividad entre los sexos. Abstract inglés o ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Latin American Darwinisms Literary responses to Social Darwinist discourses, analyses of texts only possible in a post-Darwin ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Latin American Feminist Representation a New Way of Resistance for the “Third World Women.” Feminist contemporary Latin American narrative: new scheme/representation a-response of the 20th ... See more Posted 19 January 2013 Latin American Kitsch 2000 Does kitsch exist in Latin America? Have theorizations of kitsch there evolved since milleneum, in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Latina/o Chicago Seeking papers about Latina/o writers from Chicago or the Midwest and papers about Latina/o ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Law and Literature in the Postcolony This panel explores how literary works articulate and think through problems of law and legality ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Law, Literature, and the Possibility of Justice Papers on the relationship between literature and law/justice in American/global contexts, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Learning Language History through Literature Seeking papers that explore issues in the history of the vernacular in tandem with national ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Life/Death through Deleuze and Derrida This session will discuss both philosophers' texts in relation to literary, psychoanalytic or ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Lit Misbehaving: Digital Accidents and Agency Critical approaches to unmanageable, deviant, erring electronic texts--including digitized ... See more Posted 31 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013 Literary Communism: Community without Community Papers on the dialectics of class and difference in Nancy's "literary communism" as the ... See more Posted 9 February 2013 Literary Study in the twenty-first century Vision for a new agenda related to new series, Oxford University Press from 2013. The Literary ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Literature and Bioethics Proposals invited for short papers examining, perhaps interrogating, "literature" and "bioethics" ... See more Posted 24 December 2012 Literature and Health In what ways might literature, broadly defined, be implicated in health, individual or public, and ... See more Posted 24 December 2012 Literature and Liturgy Interpenetrations of ritual, liturgy, and literature in English: language, form, text, theology, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Literature and Philosophy: New Perspectives We seek papers exploring new interconnections between (European or analytical) philosophy and ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Literature integration in language classes The 2007 Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages called for integrating literature in language ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Literature of Innocence and Escape Between the World Wars Explorations of how the World Wars influenced writers who served and then went on to write ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Literatures and Cultures of the Mediterranean: Approaches and Case Studies Exploring interdisciplinary theoretical/methodological approaches to conceptualizing Mediterranean ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Long Weekend: Popular Culture in Inter-War Britain Papers on any form of popular culture, including genre fiction, popular drama, film, middlebrow ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Making Community in Vulnerable Medieval Times Roundtable to discuss how people made community in medieval Iberia. See blog on La corónica ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Making Digital Counterpublics How can humanities classroom and research practices use digital tools and platforms to facilitate ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Marketing the Humanities Seeking critical analysis of how humanities have or have not been marketed, currently and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Marxism and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century Addresses the theoretical-methodological intersectionality of two influential but controversial ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 The Materiality of Power: Embodied Performances of Resistance in Medieval and Early Modern Spain This session examines how subjects traditionally seen as disenfranchised express resistance through ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Medicine, Literature, and Gender We invite proposals that consider the relationship between gender and medicine in 19th- and early ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Medieval Revival in France This panel investigates how the Middle Ages were remembered, imagined and reinvented in the arts ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Memory, History, and Cultural Discourses in Spain Papers on the relationship between memory and politics, nationalist movements and the past, the ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Merely Mnemonic? Reconsidering Middle English Medical Verse We invite papers on all aspects of Middle English medical verse, including poetics, sources, ... See more Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Metafiction Revisited What are some contemporary and post-postmodern manifestations of metafiction? How has it evolved ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Michael Haneke: Vulnerable Minds, Bodies, Spectators Human vulnerabilities to modernity, emotion, violence, age, etc. in Haneke’s films. How Haneke ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Mincing Their Words: Spanish Women in the Kitchen How did nineteenth through twentyfirst-century authors present food and food preparation? What does ... See more Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 11 March 2013 Modernism and Personality How did modernists theorize personality or engage personality discourse as it emerged in academic ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Modernism and the Body How does modernist literature approach and appropriate the body? Topics: non-normative bodies ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Modernist Melodrama Traditional melodrama operates around the figurability and legibility of emotion. How do modernist ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Modes of Learning in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds Forms of pedagogy and apprenticeship in communities beyond the University — academic, artistic, ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 The Musics of Chicago From jazz to rock, disco and house to hip-hop, this panel examines the cultures, histories, and ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Muslim Utopia Seeking abstracts that explore Muslim fiction writers’ overt as well as covert engagement with the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Naked Eye: Visuality and Vulnerability How does the visual/visible alongside, within, as text convey or resist vulnerability? Abstracts ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Nation, Authorship, and Visual Culture: Revisiting 19-Century Latin America Reshape recent readings of this period in relation to nation, authorship, and visual culture. A 7 ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 9 March 2013 Negotiating Impermanence in medieval Germanic text and words Papers concerning linguistic or literary transience and the awareness thereof in medieval Germanic ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 New Digital Vanguards in Spanish Literature Papers exploring the relationship between new media technologies and recent experimental changes in ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 New German Discourses About Conservatism: Forms and Expressions in Contemporary German Literature Panel critically explores discourses about conservatism in contemporary German literary production ... See more Posted 28 January 2013, last updated 17 February 2013 New Modernist Studies/Feminist Pedagogy Roundtable How might the methodologies or subjects of new modernist studies influence the practice of feminist ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 New Perspectives on Sentimental Fiction Innovative readings of sentimental fiction - historical, intertextual, theoretical; including ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The New Weird Papers on authors/artists (any language) associated with the New Weird in fiction, film, or other ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Newer New or Coming After? Americanist Literary Criticism at the Present Moment This panel seeks papers that reflect on the work of the New Americanists. Abstracts (300-500 words) ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Nineteenth-Century American Popular Publishing Approaches defined broadly by production factors, volume, form, or relationships between publisher, ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 No U-Turn: Chinese Literature, Film and Arts in the 1980s and the 1990s We would like to revisit the last two decades in mainland China through literature, film and arts. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Occupy MLA @OccupyMLA was a netprov about vulnerable adjuncts dreaming of tenure. Papers analyzing work as ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Of Love Possessed: Biopolitics as/of Love Is love an “ontological event...producing the common” (Hardt and Negri) or a spiritual resolution ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 On the Road; the American Auto-Mobility Story The automobile in American literature. Cars liberate drivers; what's generated by the freedom to ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 One Thousand and One Nights as World Literature Theoretical, hermeneutic, and historical approaches to translations, rewritings, and adaptations of ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 One World, One Speed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Nation This panel explores the ways in which the pace-setting, synchronizing power of globalization is ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 The Online Seminar Table How can we use technology to create intimate seminars that collapse geographical distance, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Orientalismo en el cine contemporáneo ¿Cómo está siendo revisitada la representación de asiáticos, árabes y judíos en el cine hispano y ... See more Posted 17 January 2013 Pacifism and the Avant-Garde 1900-1950 This panel explores Modernism's engagement with pacifist movements, philosophies, and thinkers. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Parodic Form in Asian Diasporic Literature The roles of parodic form in Asian diasporic literature via the comedic, satirical, or absurd in ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Periodicals as Tastemakers We seek papers from a variety of fields and disciplines which explore the role of 19th- and ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 The Perpetrator's Viewpoint Fiction focalizing and describing the perpetrator - from Dostoevsky to Littell - faces ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Picturing the 1914 "jeune-fille" What does the French literature, art and culture of the years 1890-1920 tell us about the blooming ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Piety and Pastry: Catholic Cooking in the English Renaissance The role of food in recusant culture in any literary capacity. Please send 250-word abstract and ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Piracy and Illicit Knowledge Seeking short papers on book piracy, underground libraries, illicit knowledge. Digital humanities, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Poetics of Information How are contemporary poets responding to the culture of information? How is information culture ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Poetry in the First-Year Writing Classroom How do we use poetry to challenge and engage first-year writers? Seeking innovative pedagogies and ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 The Policy Era This panel attends to the relationship between postwar American foreign policy and the aesthetic ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Popular Narrative during the American Depression How do popular narratives respond to vulnerable times? Transnational, eco-critical, feminist, and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 (Post-)Racial Vulnerabilities Papers exploring black vulnerability in the so-called “post-racial” moment, including affective, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Post-Revolutionary Arab(ic) Literature Panel investigates the emerging “literature of the Revolution” in Arabic, English or French from ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Post-war Town: Constructing Urban Identity Urban space is defined by urban memory. But whose memory is it? Have WWII and Holocaust left place ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Postcolonial Environmental Criticism: Development, Modernity, and the Environment This panel examines the intersections of postcolonialism and environmentalism in contemporary ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Postcolonial Intimacies This panel approaches materiality and locality by focussing on close relationships in particular ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Postcolonial Studies and Human Rights Papers that address contemporary theoretical debates within postcolonial studies in relation to new ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Postcolonial Trauma This panel explores how postcolonial contexts challenge the current rubric of trauma in fostering ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Posthumanism and the Premodern Papers addressing the animal or bestial, the in- or non-human, the machine, the cyborg; in relation ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Postnational Identities in Hispanic Literature As globalization is problematizing the question of identity, how do processes of hybridization/the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Postwhat?! Literary Postmodernism in the 21st Century Has postmodernism run out of steam, or are its effects only just now beginning to manifest ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Poverty and Naturalism New perspectives (interpretive or theoretical) on naturalism as a genre that takes the poor and ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Precarity and Poetry in the 21st Century Papers on poetry in relation to the casualization of labor, burden of debt, and felt sense of ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Premodern East Asia in/and the World Literature Canon Papers on classical East Asian genres or texts, and their position in, invisibility to, or impact ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 The Price of Culture in Latin America This panel interrogates the slippery concept of autonomy (literary/intellectual), and the tensions ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 The Project of a General Poetics Including but not limited to the theory of poetry. Broad or specific discussions on where we stand, ... See more Posted 24 October 2012 Public Memory in an Age of Digital Privacy Public memorials/sites of memory interacting with/challenging the performance of personal memory on ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Publishing a Persona Exploring the typification, marketing and consumption of a diasporic author's identity in the ... See more Posted 3 January 2013 Queer Youth This panel features scholarship focused on the intersections of childhood and queer identities in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Queering "China": Transnational and Sinophone Perspectives Theorizing Chinese and/or Sinophone cultures through queer theory; queer Asia as methodology; ... See more Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 The Quixotic in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction This panel will focus on the representation of the quixotic in twentieth-century women's fictions. ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Radical Curators, Vulnerable Genres: Lost Histories of Collecting, Editing, Bibliography Engaging institutional genres and textual practices as intellectual history of gender, race and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Radical Ecologies: (Re)Grounding Digital Pedagogy A conversation/workshop exploring the following: Is there a role for ecological thinking in ... See more Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 9 January 2013 Re-evaluating "Historical Context" Papers that reassess the relationship between literature and history; challenge the priority of ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Re-evaluating the [English] Literary "Coterie" 1550-1790 The role of social and literary networks, reading groups, and writing communities on English ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Reading after Negri Hardt and Negri read Bartleby's “refusal to work" as inaugurating “a liberatory politics." Papers ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Reading Between Musical Lines Exploring perspectives on how the presence of music intensifies the meaning and/or the form of ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Reading new India Writers pander to the demands of the market thereby reshaping India. How has globalization changed ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Reading Postmodern Space How do postmodern literary and theoretical texts map and navigate, construct and alter, inhabit and ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Reading Pragmatically in Vulnerable Times How might pragmatic critical methods (exemplified by Peirce, Dewey, James, Rorty, Poirier) help us ... See more Posted 8 February 2013 Red Chicago: Leftist Chicago Writers 19th Century to the Present Leftist Chicago writers 19th-21st centuries; representation of socialist/ communist/ anarchist ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Remembering the Perpetrators: Empathy and Moral Responsibility in Spanish Cultural Production Analyses of the figure of the power-abuser and perpetrator of violence in 20th/21st century Spanish ... See more Posted 3 February 2013 Representation of Vulnerable Societies The representation of societies in conflict: social exclusion, marginalization and forced ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Representations of Lawyers and the Legal Profession in Fiction (1880-1930) This session will offer engaging perspectives on the roles and representations of lawyers in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Representations of Muslim Female Sexuality in Early Modern English Travel Narratives Any theoretical paradigm is encouraged, especially feminist or post-colonial theory. Please submit ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Representing African American Adolescence Seeking papers that address the literary representation of African American adolescence, ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Representing Evil: The Holocaust, Slavery, and Beyond 15-20 min. papers on American film/literature representations of "evil" and/or the pathological ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Retheorizing the "Vernacular" Inviting fresh critical considerations of local, subaltern, and other non-canonical processes that ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Rethinking Hispanic Orientalism Papers theorizing and analyzing the development of Hispanic Orientalism in Spain and Latin America. ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Rethinking Lydia Sigourney For a critical reassessment, papers on any approach to her writings, including psychoanalytical, ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 (Re)Thinking the Animal and the Human in Lusophone Literature since the 19th century Critical analysis of literary works concerning animal issues and the relations between humans and ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Reticent Regionalism: Postwar Midwestern Literature Overlooked postwar artists who unsettle aesthetic or spatial definitions of Midwestern art. ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Revisiting Popular Culture in Early Modern Spain New perspectives on the cultural practices of the popular classes in 15th- to 18th-century Spain. ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Revisiting the Culture Wars Seeking new perspectives on the culture wars as they become part of our institutional history. ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 Revisiting the US Queer of Color Canon Papers focused on revisiting/reinterpreting canonical texts by 20th/21st century US queers of ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Revolutionary Afterlives: Creative Conversation about Two Books, One Year Later Session juxtaposes new books on French Revolution by Julia Douthwaite and Katherine Astbury. ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Romantic Partisanship Aesthetics of taking sides in period that birthed radicalism, conservatism, liberalism; interplay ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Romanticism After the Critique of Lyric Is the "critique of lyric" a critique of the Romantic lyric? What can the study of Romantic poetry ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Romanticism of a Return to Communism Is it possible to rethink Marx(ism) and Romanticism by considering recent, non-economist ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 Roots of Ecocriticism: the 1970's and 1980's papers on earliest initiatives toward ecocriticism both as scholarly theory and practice and in the ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century How do we reassess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Scenes of Reading in Luso-Hispanic Cultures (c. XV-XIX) Examining the ideologies embedded in textual and visual representations of reading in Luso-Hispanic ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 The Sentimental Worlds of Ray Bradbury Topics include folktale, fairy tale, science fiction, children, and domesticity in the work of Ray ... See more Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 18 March 2013 Sex, aging in contemporary Spanish writing Effect of aging on creativity and expressions of the body; vulnerability and invisibility of the ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Sex-Radical Feminist Revolution in Early-Modern Poetry Studies The politics of women's desire: queer theory, new historicism, and pro-sex feminism as renovating ... See more Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Shakespeare in Performance Choose any play of Shakespeare on stage in the Western world and illustrate how the social and ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 Shakespeare, Feminism, Psychoanalysis Feminism and feminist reactions to psychoanalysis informed much of the best Shakespeare criticism ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Shaw and Adaptation This panel invites papers that discuss specific play-scripts by Bernard Shaw and their ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 Shifting Vulnerabilities: Writing after the Truth Commissions Papers examining the roles of Latin American cultural production (literature, film, journalism, ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 1 March 2013 Singularity and Transnational Poetics If ‘singularity’ conveys singular-plural, relational, differential existences of bodies (of text), ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Sixteenth-Century French Women and their Transnational World This session invites papers on French Renaissance women's cross-border forms of communication and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Size and Scale in Literature and Culture Papers on bigness, smallness, proportion, the sublime, or other topics related to size and scale in ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Slavery in the 21st-Century American Cultural Imagination This panel seeks critical assessments of recent representations (filmic, literary, etc.) of racial ... See more Posted 14 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013 Soupirs et murmures From the unspoken sufferings of classical tragedy to the seditious mutterings of encyclopedic ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 South to North: Modern Inter-American Cultural Transactions How have Latin American cultural productions informed political, aesthetic and cultural practices ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Spanish Shakespeares The image of Spain in England, the reverberations of Spanish literature in English drama, or ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Spanish/Latin American Children and Adolescent Literature This panel invites papers that analyze children and adolescent literature written in Spanish from ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Speculative Realism and Literary Studies Philosophers on literature (e.g. Meillassoux on Mallarmé, Harmon on Lovecraft); literature attuned ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Sports in French and Francophone Literature and Film How are athletic activities (traditional games, modern sports) portrayed in literature and film ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 The Sublime Emotion and Cognitive Neuroscience Papers exploring the sublime emotion and question of disinterestedness in context of cognitive ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Teaching and Hospitality This roundtable explores how hospitality as a metaphor for teaching informs particular pedagogical ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Teaching Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Remapping the Canon Explores contemporary works by Arab women as they relate to teaching new/existing courses on ... See more Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013 Teaching Current Events in Target Language Media: Roundtable Discussion Seeking participants to share pedagogical approaches to teaching language and culture through ... See more Posted 7 January 2013 Teaching narrative theory in undergraduate foreign literature courses Inviting researchers to present approaches of teaching and applying narratology in undergraduate ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Teaching Racist Texts: Roundtable on Pedagogy What problems/issues are at stake when teaching racist literature? What are our pedagogical ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Tenure Denied: What Happens Next (A Roundtable Discussion) What happens to people after tenure denial? How do they reinvent, reorient themselves. Let's share ... See more Posted 4 January 2013, last updated 14 March 2013 Terrorism and Temporality How do terrorist literary narratives reflect, respond to, or reconfigure notions of temporality ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Testimonial Literature: The Role of Narrative in National Truth Commissions Panel explores the role of testimony in restorative justice processes in relation to truth, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Theorizing the Villain in Early Modern England Seeking new theorizations of the early modern villain or reconsiderations of old approaches ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Studies in Medieval Contexts Seeking papers on any aspect of medieval things and objects, simulacra, automata, or mirabilia, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Thomas Lovell Beddoes Papers on life or works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, who suffered multiple vulnerabilities as ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Time and the Sublime around 1800 Temporality and Romantic aesthetics circa 1780-1820. Seeking 5-10 minute talks (e.g. Lightning ... See more Posted 5 February 2013 Trans-Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies An exploration of the multilingual/multicultural or hybrid nature of Iberian literatures from any ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Transatlantic Maghreb Explores engagement of American writers with North Africa and how this informed their own cultural ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Transcendentalist Women and Friendship This session invites papers on transcendentalist women’s conceptions and practices of friendship, ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Translingual Practice: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations Presentations on translingual practice in literature, linguistics, literacy, and rhetoric in ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Transpacific Memory: Life Writing Across the Western Divide Papers on life writing from transpacific travel in all directions, including Western expatriate ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Transperiod Literary Studies What alternatives are there to period-based literary studies? What are the limitations of the ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Travel and Seeing the Real Place How do authors represent the quest to experience the "authentic" in their journey? What threatens ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 1 March 2013 Troubleshooting gender in 19/20th-Century French/European literature Exploring masculinity, femininity or/and hybridity of being throughout French and other ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 U.S. Immigrant Literature Goal: to establish a field of recent U.S. Immigrant Writing. Wanted: papers NOT treating works as ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 Unamuno’s Niebla 100 Years Later This panel will explore the continued significance of Niebla on the occasion of its 100th ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 Unveiling Herself: Women in the Works of Arab Women Filmmakers What happens when Arab women leave a position of ideological invisibility to step both before and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Using the Corpus of Historical American English for Literary Study Papers are invited exploring ways to use COHA (See more Posted 1 October 2012 Verbal and Visual Satire in the Nineteenth Century Verbal and/or visual satire; relations to other forms; histories; British or comparative. 250-word ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 The Vernacular as Critical Category Reviews, explications, contestations through theoretical reflections and/or readings of texts, ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 The Victorian Photographic Imaginary Papers on any aspect of the relationship between Victorian literature and photography. Topics may ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Videogames and Mental Health How can videogames represent mental health issues in ways that films/literature/biographies cannot? ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Violent Sympathies This session explores how violent representation produces a space of vulnerability that allows for ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Visual Artifacts in Modern Latin America An exploration of the opacity of visual archives and their relationship to material culture, visual ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Visualizing Vulnerability How does Caribbean visual culture bear upon imaginings of social, historical or political ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literature How does 20th/21st century Caribbean literature grapple with political, economic, environmental, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vulnerable Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature Joint session Gemela / Comediantes: hagiography , martyrdom, wife murder, rape, abuse of ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Vulnerable Children in Contemporary Narratives How is the vulnerability of children depicted or resisted within contemporary narratives? Abstracts ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Vulnerable Lives/Vulnerable Lands Analyses of literature/film/lifewriting that considers vulnerability of particular lives and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vulnerable Readers Mid-century American novels and the reading practices they engender. How do experiments in genre ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Vulnerable Subjects Papers exploring cultural and political effects of constructions of vulnerability/agency in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vulnerable Texts Approaches to the material vulnerabilities of texts in any medium as methodological and/or ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vulnerable Times and the Rise of Fascism: Radical Writers on the Front of the Spanish Civil War This panel explores testimonies of writers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. 250-word ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Vulnerable Times in the Archive: Forgotten Modernist Literary Magazines Texts or individuals excluded from the recent Oxford critical volumes (by Brooker & Thacker) are ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Vulnerable Victorians: Identity and "Deviance" We seek papers that explore boundaries of normative behavior and “moral disability” in 19thc ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Vulnerada y curativa: Contemporary Poetry in Latin America This roundtable rethinks Latin American poetic productions as always-already 'vulnerated' ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 War Media Spectacles of combat; the cinema of endless war; the facts, fictions and fables of battlefield ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 War/Scar: Representing U.S. Torture and Imperial Violence since 1945 How have literary and cultural productions represented instances of U.S. imperial violence and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 What is reading poetry worth, in the Age of Knowledge? This panel explores the specific heuristic nature of the contemporary Italian poetic language. Send ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 What Is the Impact of Humanities Scholarship? How are we to theorize or measure the impact of humanities scholarship? How might dwindling ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 What's Material about Vulnerability? Seeking new perspectives on materialist theory and study of vulnerability in American culture, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 What's Where in Latin America How, and for what purpose, do manuscripts inaugurate a new cartography of Latin America or of ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Why Rancière is important? Rethinking the Political in light of Contemporary Global Revolution This session invites papers discussing themes of vulnerability, resistance and social change in ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Women-Authored Novels, Sound Studies, and Music How do women's representations of music evoke listening or artistic expression that transcends, ... See more Posted 30 December 2012 Wordsworth's Excursion at 200 Keats called Wordsworth's Excursion one of the "three things to rejoice at in this Age." Papers ... See more Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 19 January 2013 Work and Workers in 18th-century France Conceptualizations, representations, critiques. Practices, norms, values. Types of sociability, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 The Work of Alfonso Ruiz de Aguirre Abstracts dealing any aspect of any of the works of Alfonso Ruiz de Aguirre. 300 word abstract and ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 The Work of Literary Pastoral in Vulnerable Times How have contemporary novelists re-envisioned the pastoral mode in order to produce what Shoshana ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Writing (Beyond) Regionalisms in Northeastern North America Seeking papers that consider or challenge the ways in which Atlantic Canadian/New England ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 “Feminism and Nationalism”: The Case of South Asian Women Seeking proposals (roundtable) on the creation of the nation-state and the role of women in South ... See more Posted 20 February 2013
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