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17th and 18th century French Fairy Tales: novelties
Representation and exploration of avant-garde elements such as technical, scientific or medical discourses, fashion innovations, food novelties, etc. In French or English, 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Berenice Le Marchand (blemarch@sfsu.edu)
Posted 22 February 2013

1930s Activist Literature
Depression-era writers responded to vulnerabilities exposed by economic and environmental crisis with artistry intended to bring about change. Papers must address marginalized writers or forgotten works. 300 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Marnie Sullivan (msullivan@mercyhurst.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

20th/21st Century Antisemitisms
Papers theorizing antisemitism in law/policy debates, literature, film, television, etc. What approaches/theories are needed to contend with antisemitism in the 21st Century? Abstract (300 words) and 1-page CV by 15 March 2013; Lara A. Trubowitz (laratrubowitz@gmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013

Accenting Punctuation
Punctuation--as used by a specific literary figure, in certain genres, or topics related to linguistics. Abstracts of 100 to 300 words by 5 March 2013; Albert E. Krahn (krahn@punctuation.org)
Posted 19 February 2013

Addressing re-generation (1914-2014)
Theoretical issues about the cultural uses of the concept generation; focusing on the construction of intellectual generations at the beginning of the twentieth-century in Iberia. 250-word abstract, brief bio by 15 March 2013; Aurelie Vialette (vialette.1@osu.edu) and Anna Hiller (hillanna@isu.edu)
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 Aryal (yaryal@purdue.edu). 250-word abstracts plus vitae by 10 March 2013; Yubraj Aryal (philitsociety@gmail.com)
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 for contemporary understandings of affect and emotion? 250-word abstracts plus vitae by 15 March 2013; Octavio Gonzalez (octaviorgonzalez@gmail.com)
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? Papers on abandonment of the negative, dialectics, and critique. abstracts by 1 March 2013; Julie P. Torrant (Julie.Torrant@kbcc.cuny.edu)
Posted 3 February 2013

African Literature and Modernism
This panel considers colonial and postcolonial African literature in relation to transnational modernism, and the possible problems with a "modernist studies" approach to African texts. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Mark DiGiacomo (mjdigiacomo@gmail.com)
Posted 21 February 2013

Afro-Diasporic Popular Culture Interventions
This panel addresses Afro-diasporic popular culture forms (eg. Brazilian capoeira, Hip Hop, rumba) throughout the Americas and globally to approach transnational social vulnerabilities. 350-word abstracts by 5 March 2013; Naomi Wood (naomi.wood@coloradocollege.edu)
Posted 31 January 2013

Allegory - reflection between ornament and sign
Seeking papers exploring allegory as a mode of meaning-making dependent on counter-mimetic constellations of lines and letters, which challenge conventional models of relationality. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Andrea Wald (awald@uchicago.edu) and Luisa Banki (Luisa.Banki@uni-konstanz.de)
Posted 20 February 2013

Almost Human
This panel explores the roles that human replicas (puppets, mannequins, robots) play in Spanish theater in different periods. How do such figures affect the theatrical experience? Please send 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Miguel Angel Balsa Marín (mb823@cornell.edu)
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 has American literature responded to technological innovation? 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Sarah R. Gleeson-White (sarah.gleeson-white@sydney.edu.au)
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 American literature. 250 word abstract and short bio by 15 March 2013; Edward Sugden (edward.sugden@linacre.ox.ac.uk)
Posted 28 January 2013

Animal and Artistic Life
Does capital’s expansion over life link the vulnerabilities of animal life to those of artistic life? Can their vulnerabilities be addressed simultaneously? Send abstracts to gvarner@purdue.edu or mapplega@g by 8 March 2013; Matthew Varner (gvarner@purdue.edu) and Matt Applegate (mapplega@gmail.com)
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 representations of life, death, vitalism, mechanism, machines, bodies etc. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Allison Stedman (allison.stedman@uncc.edu)
Posted 13 January 2013

Antebellum Affects: Literature & Theory
Theories of affect and antebellum American literature, including sentiment’s historical mutations, literary assemblages, nationalism as social bond, and racial/gender epistemes in flux. Brief CV. 250– word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Richard A. Garner (ragarner@buffalo.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013

Anticolonialism Since the 18th Century
Papers invited on: anticolonial & antislavery thought in Europe/Americas/(post)colonial spaces; emancipatory aims of Enlightenment thought and creative misreadings. Send 500-word abstracts to Sunil Agnani (sagnani1@uic.edu). 500-word abstract by 17 March 2013; Sunil Agnani (sagnani1@uic.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Approaches to Feminist Orientalism
The session will assess, complicate, and extend the important intersectional concept of “feminist orientalism.” Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Send abstracts of 300 words to Samara Cahill by 15 March 2013; Samara Cahill (sacahill@ntu.edu.sg)
Posted 19 February 2013

Approaches to Narconarratives
What form does narcotrafficking take? How does narcotrafficking come to bear on literature? This panel will explore intersections between literature and narcolife in the Americas. 250 word abstract. by 28 February 2013; Sharada Balachandran Orihuela (sbalacha@umd.edu)
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, animadversion—their innovations, interplay, and relationship to humanism and print culture. 250-word abstracts by 10 March 2013; Melissa M. Caldwell (mcaldwell@eiu.edu)
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 tragedy in plays by Miller and other dramatists. Abstracts <500 words by 15 March 2013; David Palmer (dpalmer@maritime.edu)
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 precarious existences are welcome. Please submit 250-word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Cecilia Novero (cecilia.novero@otago.ac.nz)
Posted 21 February 2013

Authorship, Lecture Tours, & Politics in the U.S
Their intersections in places and historical moments, particularly as writers addressed communities on issues of American identities and social justice. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Carrie Johnston (cjohnston@smu.edu)
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 balance for LGBT students (co-sponsored by GLQ Caucus). 300-word abstract, short bio by 22 February 2013; Svetlana Tyutina (svetatyutina@yahoo.com) and Sarah Kremen-Hicks (sarahkh@uw.edu)
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 altered, if at all, since 2000? 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Mihaela Harper (mharper@bilkent.edu.tr)
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. poets/poetics. 300-word proposal and 300-word biography. “doc” or “pdf”. 300-word abstracts; 300-word professional bio. by 10 March 2013; Ronna Catherine Johnson (ronna.johnson@tufts.edu) and Deborah Geis (dgeis@depauw.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013

Being Vulnerable, Negotiating Life and Hope
Desperate times, desperate measures? Vulnerability/empowerment, market successes/failures for those hiring and (not)hired:two-body "problem," declining offers, A.B.D., race and class...Roundtable:8 minute testimonial presentations. abstract (100 words), mini-bio by 11 March 2013; Sarah Ohmer (ohmers@uindy.edu) and Luziris Piñeda (lpturi@rice.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Between "Gay" and "Queer"
The persistence of gay identity in a queer world; gay/lesbian vs/in queer theory; transgender/cisgender and sexual identity; cruising; clubs; drag; social media; activism. 300-word proposal and brief CV by 11 March 2013; Zachary Lamm (zlamm@uic.edu)
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 representations. 250-word abstracts and vitae by 15 March 2013; Afrin Zeenat (azeenat@uark.edu) and Umme Al-Wazedi (ummeal-wazedi@augustana.edu)
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 Rushdie, Hamid, etc.). 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jim Hicks (jhicks@complit.umass.edu)
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, or various 'crises.' Pechakucha style presentations. 250-300 word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Daniel Powell (djpowell@uvic.ca)
Posted 12 February 2013

Black German History and Culture in Research and Teaching
Proposals addressing: current state of research; transnational/cross-cultural/comparative approaches; theoretical/interdisciplinary innovations; teaching/pedagogical considerations; integration into US/German college curricula. 500-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Maria S. Grewe (mgrewe@jjay.cuny.edu)
Posted 14 January 2013

Borges and Perception
In light of Rodrigo Quian Quiroga's recent text, this panel will examine competing theories of mind in the prose of Jorge Luis Borges. Abstracts (250-500 words) by 15 March 2013; Stacey Balkan (sbalkan@bergen.edu)
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 Traum". CV and abstract by 1 March 2013; Stefan Hoeppner (shoppner@ucalgary.ca)
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) and CV. by 10 March 2013; Melissa Free (mfree@binghamton.edu)
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 writers who published 1880-1920? 300-word abstracts, one page CV by 5 March 2013; Donna S. Parsons (donna-parsons@uiowa.edu)
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 relationship to literature (Walser, Kafka, Schulz). 500-word abstracts to jplug@uwo.ca. 500-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jan Plug (jplug@uwo.ca)
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 series, etc. 250-500 word abstracts and short bio or cv by 15 March 2013; Jeffrey J. Williams (jwill@andrew.cmu.edu)
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 ethical teaching, the subject as agent and product of philosophical exercise. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Ian Cornelius (ian.cornelius@yale.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Chanson and Cinema - A French Affair
Chanson as genre, as narrative vehicle in French language fiction films. Literary, cultural, historical aspects of specific rapport between chanson and cinema. abstracts (250-300 words) by 15 March 2013; Olivier Bourderionnet (obourde1@uno.edu)
Posted 1 February 2013

Chess and Literature
Proposals on the representation of chess in literature in any period or genre. 250 word abstracts plus brief biography by 12 March 2013; Gina Bloom (gbloom@ucdavis.edu)
Posted 25 January 2013

Chicago's Playwriting Renaissance
Since 1950 a renaissance in playwriting has occurred in Chicago. Proposals about playwrights, workshops, ensembles, degree programs should address the subject's social and economic contexts. 300 word abstracts by 4 March 2013; Arvid F. Sponberg (arvid.sponberg@valpo.edu)
Posted 14 November 2012

Children's Literature and New Trends
We invite papers that consider 'transgressed boundaries' across Aesthetics, Content, and/or Genre in contemporary children's texts and how they may redefine the field. 350-word abstracts; short bio by 1 March 2013; Abbie Ventura (abbie-ventura@utc.edu)
Posted 2 February 2013

China in World Literature
Chinese literary works have a long history of circulation outside of China. What patterns of mobility and appropriation emerge from the close study of this history? One-page abstract by 15 March 2013; David Porter (dporter@umich.edu)
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 his influence upon, and contribution to, American poetry. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Gregory Dunne (gdunne@sky.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp)
Posted 18 February 2013

Cinema of Guantanamo: Torture, Temporality, Complicity
How do recent films normalize or critique torture, rewrite history or reconcile audiences to America's treatment of its racial/ethnic 'enemies'? 500w abstract by 15 March 2013; Lance Duerfahrd (lduerfah@purdue.edu) and Megha Anwer (manwer@purdue.edu)
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 social vulnerability within the academy. Abstract (250 words) by 10 March 2013; Sara Appel (sea10@duke.edu) and Michele Fazio (michele.fazio@uncp.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013

Colonial Heroes and Martyrs
Explorers, conquerors, and victims in early North and Latin America. Are heroism and sacrifice (think: John Smith and Pocahontas) interwoven? Abstracts by 15 March 2013 to Joanne.van.der.Woude@rug.nl. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Joanne van der Woude (Joanne.van.der.Woude@rug.nl)
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 professional consequences of “coming out” as Alt Ac. 200 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Stacy Hartman (stacyh1@stanford.edu) and Bridget Whearty (bwhearty@stanford.edu)
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 how CCSS will/may shift college course design and offerings. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jocelyn Ann Chadwick (jocelynchadwick@yahoo.com)
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 translation markets and in smaller ones like the U.S. 250-word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Jennifer Croft (jenniferlcroft@gmail.com) and Corine Tachtiris (tachtco@umich.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Comparing Theories of Trauma
From antiquity to the present, panel will compare theories of trauma on the subject in literature. Theological, psychological, and other perspectives. Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length. by 15 March 2013; Jeffrey Weiner (jeffreyweiner@berkeley.edu)
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 literature" (Eagleton): that is, viewed in a critical-historical framework? 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Jamie Hilder (jamiehilder@gmail.com) and Clint Burnham (clint_burnham@sfu.ca)
Posted 21 February 2013

Conservadurismo y literatura en el siglo XIX hispanoamericano
Exploraciones sobre las diferentes formas de articulación del pensamiento conservador en la literatura hispanoamericana decimonónica. Propuestas de 250 palabras (español o inglés) by 22 March 2013; Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik (kari.salkjelsvik@if.uib.no) and Felipe Martínez Pinzón (felipemartinezpinzon@csi.cuny.edu)
Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013

Contagious Disorder(s)
(Interdisciplinary) papers approaching bodies that are particularly vulnerable to disorder, social/cultural attitudes toward disability and disabled individuals, in (twentieth-century) literature. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Claire Barber (cbarber3@illinois.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Contemporary Central American Cultural Production
DEADLINE EXTENDED! This session will adopt a fresh approach to contemporary Central American literature, film and music. We welcome papers from all disciplines. Abstracts (300 words) by 15 February 2013; Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar (jgomezme@d.umn.edu)
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 category of the poet-critic today? 250-word abstracts and short CV. by 15 March 2013; Gillian C. White (gcwhite@umich.edu)
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 De Doctrina Christiana. Send abstracts or complete papers. by 15 March 2013; Hugh Wilson (wilsonh@gram.edu) and Paul Sellin (psellin@ucla.edu)
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 body. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Ambereen Dadabhoy (ambereen_dadabhoy@hmc.edu) and Ellen Scheible (escheible@bridgew.edu)
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 escritos posteriores a la independencia. Abstract 250 words by 22 March 2013; Felipe Martinez-Pinzon (felipemartinezpinzon@csi.cuny.edu) and Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik (Kari.Salkjelsvik@if.uib.no)
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 subjectivities of resistance to mainstream, elite, and normative ideologies? 250-word abstract and vita or bio by 16 March 2013; Nicholas Gorrell (ngorrell@olemiss.edu)
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 nihilism" by reinventing aesthetic values throughout the centuries. abstracts, approx. 250-300 words by 8 March 2013; Dany Jacob (danyjaco@buffalo.edu)
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 Chaucer’s affects of death work on listeners and readers, medieval to modern? Abstracts by 1 March 2013; Rebecca McNamara (rebecca.mcnamara@sydney.edu.au)
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 readers with post-secular possibilities. 300 word abstracts and one page CV by 15 March 2013; Daniel Boscaljon (daniel-boscaljon@uiowa.edu)
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 antagonistic as the critical mythology suggests? 250-word proposals with brief bio by 1 March 2013; Erica Gene Delsandro (ericadelsandro@gmail.com)
Posted 23 January 2013

Deletion, Erasure, Cancellation
How might we theorize the aesthetics and poetics of practices such as deletion and erasure? All periods, genres, media welcome. Full CFP at paulbenzon.com/mla14cfp. Abstracts with short biographical statement by 1 March 2013; Paul Benzon (pbenzon@temple.edu)
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. Send an abstract (400-500 words) and a CV. by 15 March 2013; Jorge Abril-Sanchez (jorgeabrilsanchez@hotmail.com)
Posted 6 January 2013

Desire for Narrative in Law and Literature
This roundtable (detailed cfp: http://bit.ly/lawandlitcfp) will explore legal and literary aesthetics and narrative, particularly as construed historically, pedagogically, or formally. Bio and 250 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Robin Wharton (robin.wharton@lcc.gatech.edu) and Derek Miller (dkmiller@stanford.edu)
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 platforms? Those experienced with grant-funded, direct-budget, or unfunded single-maintainer systems are encouraged. 350-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Scott Henkle (shenkle@hotmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013

Diapora in Middle Eastern Literatures
Proposals that focus on diaspora in Anglophone Middle Eastern Literatures and discuss broader issues such as gender, ethnicity, language and narrative. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Eda Dedebas Dundar (eda.dedebas@gmail.com)
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 world are welcome. 1 page abstract, 1 page CV by 1 March 2013; Juan Pablo Gil-Oslé (gilosle1@gmail.com)
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 French Renaissance Culture. 300-word abstracts by 10 March 2013; Dorothea Heitsch (dheitsch@unc.edu)
Posted 21 January 2013

Digital Pedagogy Going Global
This panel focuses on the pedagogical benefits of cross-cultural online collaborative projects in teaching literature, writing, linguistics, and modern languages. 300 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Zsuzsanna Palmer (zpalm001@odu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Digital Poetics
Not digital humanities but digital poetics. What does digital literature and the emergent critical reading practices for approaching it illuminate about our vulnerable times? 500-word abstract and short vita by 15 March 2013; Jessica Pressman (jessicapressman0@gmail.com)
Posted 21 February 2013

"Disability, Prosthesis, and Medieval Literature"
This panel explores how medieval literature makes use of disability and/or prosthesis as theme, metaphor, and/or plot device. Please send 250-word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Tory V. Pearman (pearmatv@muohio.edu) and Joshua Eyler (jeyler42@gmail.com)
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 responses to the politics of domestic seclusion. 250 words abstract by 15 March 2013; Adriana Pacheco (apacheco@utexas.edu) and Rocio del Aguila (rociodelaguila@gmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013

Dreiser and Money
Financial systems and their epistemologies in Theodore Dreiser’s work, including the "Trilogy of Desire" and other fiction and nonfiction. 250 word abstracts and one-page CVs by 18 March 2013; Gary Totten (gary.totten@ndsu.edu) and Jude Davies (jude.davies@winchester.ac.uk)
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 Luther King. (300 words; dolan.hubbard@morgan.edu). Abstracts by 7 March 2013; Dolan Hubbard (dolan.hubbard@morgan.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013

Duras at 100
Papers on her work and on authors of her generation that confront personal, social, historical cataclysms: colonies, death, exile, WWII, through innocent eyes. One-page abstract by 15 March 2013; Meaghan Emery (meaghan.emery@uvm.edu) and Jennifer Willging (willging.1@osu.edu)
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, reproduce, surmount and consume each other? 250-word abstracts and CV by 15 March 2013; Scott A. Trudell (trudell@umd.edu)
Posted 27 January 2013

Eastern European and US American Cultures
Seeking papers on connections between Eastern European and US literatures, cultures, or media post-1989; 300-word abstract and brief CV. by 15 March 2013; Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Claudia.Sadowski-Smith@asu.edu) and Ioana Luca (ioana.luca@ntnu.edu.tw)
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 rise in electronic literature of HTML5, Javascript, and apps. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Mark Sample (msample1@gmu.edu)
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 non-musical theater. 15-20 min papers, performances, or informal presen by 15 March 2013; Jeffrey Weiner (jeffreyweiner@berkeley.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013

Enduring Noise: Sound and Sexual Difference
Gendered sound in literature, theory, culture. Possible topics include: (queer) feminism and sonic temporalities; duration, rhythm, frequency, flows; spatializing sound (enveloping, penetrating, extimate, etc.). 300-word abstracts. by 10 March 2013; Aliza Shvarts (aliza.shvarts@gmail.com) and Amalle Dublon (amalle.dublon@gmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013

Epic, Tragedy, and Community
How do the memorializing practices instituted in epic and tragedy from any period or region contribute to constituting communities and negotiating ethical relations? 250 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Jennifer R. Ballengee (jballeng@towson.edu) and Erin Fehskens (efehskens@towson.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013

Essaying Masculinity
How does Montaigne try out/question/reify masculinity? What is the role of intertextuality? Of the essay as genre? Abstracts electronically to Todd Reeser. by 15 March 2013; Todd W. Reeser (reeser@pitt.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Ethics of Vulnerability
Vulnerability (hospitality, weakness, kenosis) has risen to prominence in interdisciplinary ethics. What are the benefits and risks of such an ethics in literature and theory? 200-word abstracts and CVs by 15 March 2013; Cynthia Wallace (cwallace@stmcollege.ca)
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 the political and the poetic? 250-word abstracts and a short CV by 15 March 2013; Andrew R. Mossin (amossin@princeton.edu)
Posted 6 January 2013

Evaluating the Course Evaluation Process
This session examines the course evaluation process, particularly its relationship to pedagogy: alternate means of evaluation, effects on instruction, perceptions of students and instructors, etc. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Joseph Price (joe.price@ttu.edu)
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. Abstract (500 words) and CV. by 1 March 2013; Raul Marrero-Fente (rmarrero@umn.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013

Extreme Politics in Popular Culture
Papers on post-W.W. II popular cultural representations of neofascism, white supremacist groups, and/or the ultra right-wing. All media/all approaches welcome. Abstract (300 words) and 1-page CV by 15 March 2013; Lara A. Trubowitz (laratrubowitz@gmail.com)
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 notions of “home,” “heroism,” and “terrorism”? abstracts of 500 words by 15 March 2013; Laura E. Savu (laura_savu@yahoo.com)
Posted 9 January 2013

Failed Hispanic Commemorations
This session invites papers on 19th- to 21st- century cultural celebrations that were unsuccessful in commemorating events of national significance, specially centenaries. 300-word abstract by 5 March 2013; David Rodriguez-Solas (dsolas@bard.edu)
Posted 1 February 2013

Failure Studies
Panel will investigate reasons why failure is subordinated as a category of critical thought, in an effort to highlight a new cross-disciplinary analytic--failure studies--to understand the experience of modernity. Abstract/CV. by 8 March 2013; Keith Gandal (kgandal@ccny.cuny.edu) and Gavin Jones (grjones@stanford.edu)
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 Megan Allen (meallen@wustl.edu) or Anna Leeper (galeeper@wustl.edu). 400-500- word abstracts by 27 February 2013; G. Anna Leeper (galeeper@wustl.edu)
Posted 7 January 2013

Fiction in the Digital Age
Exploring ways in which contemporary works of fiction are influenced by new media and digital technology. Vulnerability, resilience and ingenuity of writers. 300-word abstracts and CV by 15 March 2013; Lara Vapnyar (lv25@nyu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

First Person Vulnerable
Papers addressing first person and hybrid accounts of pain, including bodily/mental/psychic/chronic. Vulnerable states/embodiment in memoir/poetry/lyric essay/graphic memoir. 200 word abstracts/proposals. by 15 March 2013; Leigh Gilmore (leighgilmore@mac.com)
Posted 20 February 2013

Forgotten Sources, Alternative Archives
Documenting and explaining more elusive sources of well-known literary works; expanding what it means to read for sources and/or the traditional sense of “archive." 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Sean O'Toole (sean.otoole@baruch.cuny.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Form and Formalisms in Literature and Science
Roundtable discussion of how approaches like STS, disciplinary history, cognitive theory, etc. intersect with literary studies’ renewed focus on form. 250-300 words and brief cv by 5 March 2013; John Savarese (jsavarese@utexas.edu) and Debapriya Sarkar (dsarkar@eden.rutgers.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Formal Education
How do literary and cultural productions relate to theories and practices of aesthetic education? Proposals welcome on representations and theories of form in pedagogy, broadly conceived. 250-word abstract and cv by 15 March 2013; Lisa Siraganian (lsiragan@smu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Forms of Devotion in Early Modern Poetry
Panel exploring “forms”—aesthetic, doctrinal, physical, material—in 16th and 17th century devotional poetry. Abstracts of 250-300 words by 12 March 2013; Jessica Beckman (beckman1@stanford.edu) and Luke Barnhart (labarn@stanford.edu)
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 nineteenth century. Abstracts of 250 words by 15 March 2013; Anna Barton (a.j.barton@sheffield.ac.uk)
Posted 18 February 2013

Fragile Theatre
Latin American theatre often breaks or blurs boundaries. How can the concept of fragility (of genre, the fourth wall, or tradition) inform our analysis? Please submit abstracts of 250 words. by 15 March 2013; Julie Ward (wardjulie@berkeley.edu)
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 Wedekind (drama, narrative, poetry/cabaret) in the 21st century. Abstracts, 200 words by 8 March 2013; Mary M. Paddock (mary.paddock@quinnipiac.edu)
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 or medium welcome. 300 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Melissa Deininger (mdein@iastate.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Friendship in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Female friendship, visual representations of friendship, politics of friendship; friendship and relaciones de servicio, picaresca, celestinesca, and patronage. 1 page abstract and 1 page CV by 1 March 2013; Juan Pablo Gil-Oslé (gilosle1@gmail.com)
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 word abstracts, in English or Spanish by 10 March 2013; Ana Dotras (ad100@nyu.edu)
Posted 31 January 2013

The Future of Close Reading
This panel will examine emergent practices of close reading. We particularly seek papers addressing the ethics of close reading non-canonical texts, including queer/traumatic work. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Meridith Kruse (meridithkruse@gmail.com) and Katherine Wilson (katherinefmw@gmail.com)
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 Hemisphere—from material histories of exchange to more abstract critical “resonances”. 300-word (approx.) abstract and bio by 15 March 2013; Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (marmilla@olemiss.edu)
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), especially in the contexts of anticolonial thought. Submit abstracts (500 words) & a brief bio by 5 March 2013; James Daniel Elam (jdelam@u.northwestern.edu)
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 for travel, work, and play. 300-word abstract, short bio. by 15 March 2013; Amy L. Sellin (sellin_a@fortlewis.edu)
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 literature. 250-word abstract, plus brief bio-sketch by 15 March 2013; Anna Eva Hiller (hillanna@isu.edu) and Aurelie Vialette (vialette.1@osu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Generations of Contemporary American Fiction
Looking for papers that focus on particular generations in contemporary U.S. fiction and think about broader issues such as definition, coherence, relation, and historical context. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Samuel Cohen (cohenss@missouri.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013

Geospatial Literary Studies
Investigating the geospatial in digital literary studies: GIS, gazetteers, spatial narratives, literary cartographies, spatio-temporal visualization of literary datasets. 250– word abstract (plus visuals) and bio by 15 March 2013; David Joseph Wrisley (dw04@aub.edu.lb)
Posted 25 January 2013

Getting the Word Out: Communication Disabilities in Literature/ Scholarship
Describing/experiencing/studying "invisible" communication disabilities: critiques of memoirs about Aphasia/Autism; literary occurrences; scholars' and teachers' language disability experiences. Please send 100-200-word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Carolyn McCue Goffman (cgoffman@depaul.edu)
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 media exploring twenty-first century feminisms. 250-word abstract and short bio by 8 March 2013; Tahneer Oksman (toksman@gc.cuny.edu)
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 cibercultura ofrecen otra visión de la globalización. Abstract de 300 palabras by 15 March 2013; Hernán Manuel García (hgarcia@wayne.edu)
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 nineteenth-century aesthetics, politics and culture. 250 word abstract and brief bio to c.blinder@gold. by 15 March 2013; Caroline Blinder (c.blinder@gold.ac.uk)
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, including relationship of literature to national memory. 250-word abstracts plus vitae by 1 March 2013; Marguerite Helmers (helmers@uwosh.edu)
Posted 30 January 2013

Guns in American Culture
Analyses of firearms, violence, gun culture and armed (or targeted) identities in American literature, film and television. 250-word abstracts by 18 March 2013; Louis Sherman (louis.sherman@utah.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013

Gypsies in the American Cultural Imagination
This session will include representations of Gypsies (Romani) in American Literature, Music, Film, and/or Television. Abstracts of no more than 500 words. by 15 March 2013; David Shane Wallace (dshanew@gmail.com)
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 art. How does the Cold War haunt contemporary cultural production? 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Theo Finigan (tfinigan@ualberta.ca)
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. 250-word-abstract and short CV by 15 March 2013; Belinda Wheeler (bwheeler@paine.edu) and Joseph Donica (jdonica@wileyc.edu)
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. 250-word abstracts by 4 March 2013; Erin J. Kappeler (erin.kappeler@tufts.edu) and Sarah Ehlers (sarah.ehlers@usd.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013

Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies
Roundtable on how the spatial turn contributes to Latin American, Spanish, U.S. Latino and Chicano cultural criticism. 250-word abstracts to Susan Larson by March 1. by 1 March 2013; Susan Larson (slarson@uky.edu)
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 accumulation has become "external" to production. Papers on class and inequality in the contemporary. Abstracts by 6 March 2013; Robert Wilkie (rwilkie@uwlax.edu)
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 reconstruction of the pre-modern world. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Heather Blatt (mdvlmedia@gmail.com) and Mary Kate Hurley (mdvlmedia@gmail.com)
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 rhetoric for their place in the academy? 300-word abstracts by 4 March 2013; Catherine Keohane (keohanec@mail.montclair.edu) and Julia Wagner (wagnerj@mail.montclair.edu)
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 ongoing violations of human rights, dignity, and/or freedoms. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Michael S. Galchinsky (mgalchinsky@gsu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Humanities in an Anthropocene Era
This roundtable will consider the concept of the anthropocene. What challenges /opportunities does it pose for humanities scholarship? Interdisciplinary approaches welcome. 250 word abstract and short CV. by 12 March 2013; Rosanne M. Kennedy (rosanne.kennedy@anu.edu.au)
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 Spanish collective imagination at the time. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Esther Fernández (ef336@cornell.edu) and Eduardo Olid (EOlid@muhlenberg.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013

Immigrant Auto/biography
How does auto/biography help the immigrant subject negotiate, and situate him/herself in, shifting contexts of space, society, gender and religion? 250-word abstract and 50-word bio by 15 March 2013; Alana J. Fletcher (7af15@queensu.ca) and Shadi Ghazimoradi (11sg28@queensu.ca)
Posted 5 February 2013

Imprisonment and Resistance
Current directions in American prison studies, with a focus on how twentieth-century US literature has contributed to prison abolition. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Katy Ryan (kohearnr@mail.wvu.edu)
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. Invite you to send abstracts (300-500 words). by 15 March 2013; Denise Mok (denise.mok@ubc.ca)
Posted 21 February 2013

Incorporating Undergraduate Research in English Studies
Panelists will discuss best practices and innovative approaches to incorporating undergraduate research in English Studies. 250-word abstract and short bio. by 1 March 2013; Donna M. Bickford (dbickford@unc.edu) and Jenny Shanahan (Jenny.Shanahan@bridgew.edu)
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 performance in the Americas (North/South). 200-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Ramsey Tracy (Ramsey.Tracy@trincoll.edu) and Adam Coon (adamw.coon@gmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013

Infrastructuralism
Themes of infrastructure - its environmental sustainability, its social and economic desirability, its political vulnerability - in literary representation from any period and tradition. See more at http://infrastructuralism.commons.mla.org/. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Michael Rubenstein (michael.d.rubenstein@gmail.com)
Posted 18 February 2013

Innovative Criticism
Roundtable discussion about the production and publication of innovative, experimental, affective, multi-genre, or performative criticism, with participants at different stages of academic careers. abstracts and vitae by 8 March 2013; Robin Silbergleid (silberg1@msu.edu) and Kristina Quynn (quynn@colostate.edu)
Posted 4 February 2013

Innovative Session on Teaching Complex Prose
How do you lead students to navigate syntactically-difficult narrative (Conrad, Faulkner, Woolf...)? Send your six-minute story about teaching one short but difficult textual passage. 950-word paper by 15 March 2013; Debra Romanick Baldwin (dbaldwin@udallas.edu)
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 discourse into literature and content-based language curricula. 200-300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Alexander E. Pichugin (pichugin@sas.upenn.edu)
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 consider methodologies, reception, case studies... 250-word abstracts & brief CV by 10 March 2013; Adrian Gras-Velazquez (adrian.gras-velazquez@durham.ac.uk) and Prof. Doris Sommer (Harvard University)
Posted 18 January 2013

Interpretation in Law and the Humanities
Can the cultural study of law shape practical jurisprudence? The interpretive traffic among legal, literary and cultural hermeneutics. 300-word abstracts and brief CV by March 15. by 15 March 2013; Matthew Titolo (matthew.titolo@mail.wvu.edu)
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, transatlantic crossings, black spirituality, disaster, trauma. 350 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Kameelah L. Martin (kmsamuel@uh.edu) and Folashade Alao (ALAOF@mailbox.sc.edu)
Posted 4 February 2013

James T. Farrell and Chicago: New Approaches
Proposals that consider the fiction and nonfiction of James T. Farrell, particularly investigations that employ contemporary approaches to literature. 300 word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Shawn Patrick Gillen (gillens@beloit.edu)
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 productions since 1990. 450-word proposals by 15 March 2013; Richard Neupert (neupert@uga.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013

Jewish Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Pedagogy
What constitutes a specifically "Jewish" rhetoric or pedagogy? And how do new developments in the field of Visual Rhetoric relate to Jewish thought and textuality? papers, abstracts by 10 March 2013; Susan A. Handelman (susanhandelman@gmail.com)
Posted 24 January 2013

Job Success despite these Vulnerable Times
Papers discussing successful academic and non-academic job searches, particularly offering tips for recent PhDs, are especially welcome. 250-word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2013; Belinda Wheeler (bwheeler@paine.edu)
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 violence. Submit a 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Jason Berger (jason.berger@usd.edu)
Posted 13 January 2013

Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writing
This proposal seeks creative writers/scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and sociopolitical import of Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action. 250-words abstracts by 4 March 2013. by 4 March 2013; Ruben Quesada (rmquesada@eiu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Kafka in Search for Alternative Realities
Alternative realities (familiar - unfamiliar settings, narrative positions; Kafka's works; comparative - transnational topics) where marginalized people (women, children, animals) speak and act. 500 word abstsacts by 20 March 2013; Marie Luise Caputo-Mayr (mlcaputomayr@hotmail.com) and Dagmar Lorenz (dcglorenz@gmail.com)
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 or 2500 word paper by 15 March 2013; C. Herbert Gilliland (gillilan@usna.edu)
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 words max) and brief CV by 15 March 2013; Ana-Maria Medina (amedin40@mscd.edu) and Jen Brady (Jennifer.Brady@du.edu)
Posted 8 February 2013

Lab Lit
Panel welcomes explorations of the genre of lab lit, especially with emphasis on contemporary vulnerabilities of science and scientists. Please submit abstracts of 200-250 words by 15 March 2013; Deborah Bailin (dbailin@ucsusa.org)
Posted 21 February 2013

Language Games and Normative Publics
Would Marx permit a pragmatist philosophy of language? Papers on materiality and meaning; Marx, Wittgenstein, and pragmatism; language, class, and the Pittsburgh School. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Steven Wexler (steven.wexler@csun.edu)
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 español, 300 palabras. by 15 March 2013; Ana Simon (AISimon@adelphi.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013

Latin American Darwinisms
Literary responses to Social Darwinist discourses, analyses of texts only possible in a post-Darwin world, impacts of Larmarckian (and other) theories, reassessments of “La raza cósmica.”. 1-page proposals, CV by 15 March 2013; Todd Garth (garth@usna.edu)
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 Century feminist movement failure. abstract 400 words. by 12 March 2013; Gina Ponce de Leon (gina.poncedeleon@fresno.edu)
Posted 19 January 2013

Latin American Kitsch 2000
Does kitsch exist in Latin America? Have theorizations of kitsch there evolved since milleneum, in the face of globalization and new social media? 250-word abstract and brief CV by 15 March 2013; Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody (ngoodbody@qf.org.qa)
Posted 21 February 2013

Latina/o Chicago
Seeking papers about Latina/o writers from Chicago or the Midwest and papers about Latina/o literary works set in Chicago and the Midwest. 250-word abstracts by 4 March 2013; William Orchard (worchard@colby.edu)
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 unique to postcolonial states. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; David Babcock (babcock@fas.harvard.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Law, Literature, and the Possibility of Justice
Papers on the relationship between literature and law/justice in American/global contexts, including responses to critics of the law and literature movement. Abstracts and CVs by 15 March 2013; Eric Ashley Hairston (ahairston@elon.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Learning Language History through Literature
Seeking papers that explore issues in the history of the vernacular in tandem with national literatures and literary identities. Abstracts (300 words) by 1 March 2013; Ashley Brandenburg (adb52@cornell.edu)
Posted 10 January 2013

Life/Death through Deleuze and Derrida
This session will discuss both philosophers' texts in relation to literary, psychoanalytic or artistic works that dwell on the limits between life and death. Abstract 300 words by 15 March 2013; James Martell (jmartel4@nd.edu) and Erik Larsen (alarsen1@nd.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Lit Misbehaving: Digital Accidents and Agency
Critical approaches to unmanageable, deviant, erring electronic texts--including digitized literature, codework, internet art, e-lit, etc. Specifically questions of intentionality and reading. 400-word abstract & short cv by 15 March 2013; Rachael Sullivan (sulliv97@uwm.edu)
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 transformative writing that inserts difference into community and Agamben's "the coming community." Abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Stephen C. Tumino (stephen.tumino@kbcc.cuny.edu)
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 Agenda: individual voices in defence by 15 March 2013; Philip Davis (p.m.davis@liv.ac.uk)
Posted 22 February 2013

Literature and Bioethics
Proposals invited for short papers examining, perhaps interrogating, "literature" and "bioethics" and the possible relationships between these two variously definable fields. Abstract of 400-500 words, and one-page CV by 1 March 2013; Catherine Belling (c-belling@northwestern.edu)
Posted 24 December 2012

Literature and Health
In what ways might literature, broadly defined, be implicated in health, individual or public, and in health care? Abstract of 400-500 words and 1-page CV by 1 March 2013; Catherine Belling (c-belling@northwestern.edu)
Posted 24 December 2012

Literature and Liturgy
Interpenetrations of ritual, liturgy, and literature in English: language, form, text, theology, power, allusion, community, identity, performance, reading, history, theory, order, agency, representation, allegory, aesthetics. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Timothy Rosendale (trosenda@smu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Literature and Philosophy: New Perspectives
We seek papers exploring new interconnections between (European or analytical) philosophy and modern literature. 250-page abstracts to henry.pickford@colorado.edu by 15 March 2013; Henry Pickford (henry.pickford@colorado.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013

Literature integration in language classes
The 2007 Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages called for integrating literature in language courses. How is this being done? Abstracts of 350 words should be submitted. by 1 March 2013; Cecilia Ojeda (cecilia.ojeda@nau.edu)
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 children's stories or fantasy. 250 word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Daniel Payne (Daniel.Payne@oneonta.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Literatures and Cultures of the Mediterranean: Approaches and Case Studies
Exploring interdisciplinary theoretical/methodological approaches to conceptualizing Mediterranean literatures/cultures. Exploiting intellectually productive transhistorical/transdisciplinary fault-lines that constitute Mediterranean basin cross-cultural experience. 300 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Yasser Elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu)
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 literature, reportage, etc., that illuminate the period. Abstract, brief bio. by 1 March 2013; Rosemary Erickson Johnsen (rjohnsen@govst.edu)
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 website: http://www2.ku.edu/~lacoronica/cgi-bin/wordpress/. Submit proposal for a brief presentation. by 15 March 2013; Jean Dangler (jdangler@tulane.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Making Digital Counterpublics
How can humanities classroom and research practices use digital tools and platforms to facilitate counterpublic formation for marginalized populations, activist organizations, and community outreach? 300 Word Abstracts by 15 March 2013; David Parry (dparry@utdallas.edu) and Kim Knight (kknight08@gmail.com)
Posted 15 February 2013

Marketing the Humanities
Seeking critical analysis of how humanities have or have not been marketed, currently and previously; discussions of PR problems, specific audiences, marketing vs. advocating welcome. 250-300 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Paige Morgan (paigecm@uw.edu) and Rachel Arteaga (rarteaga@uw.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Marxism and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century
Addresses the theoretical-methodological intersectionality of two influential but controversial disciplines, with special focus on their current historical, cultural, and/or political relevancy and applicability. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Adam Meehan (ameehan@email.arizona.edu) and Carlos Gallego (gallego@stolaf.edu)
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 embodied behavior. Send 250 words abstract by 15 March 2013; Rebeca Castellanos (castellr@gvsu.edu)
Posted 6 February 2013

Medicine, Literature, and Gender
We invite proposals that consider the relationship between gender and medicine in 19th- and early 20th-century literature (British or American). Abstract of 300 words and one-page CV by 15 March 2013; Danielle Coriale (dcoriale@unc.edu) and Anne Stiles (astiles1@slu.edu)
Posted 10 February 2013

Medieval Revival in France
This panel investigates how the Middle Ages were remembered, imagined and reinvented in the arts and literature of fin-de-siècle or early XX century France. 500-word abstract, paper title. by 15 March 2013; Stephen P. McCormick (smccormi@mailbox.sc.edu) and Leah K. S. Holz (Leah.Holz@colorado.edu)
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 collective unconsciousness through cultural products, and ethics of memory. 500-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco (sosavelasca1@southernct.edu)
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, manuscript contexts, reading communities, and contemporary use. 250-word abstract and CV by 14 March 2013; Jake Walsh Morrissey (jake.walshmorrissey@mail.mcgill.ca)
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 and changed since the 80's which is considered its hallmark? 250-word abstract by 11 March 2013; Lissi Athanasiou Krikelis (lissi.krikelis@gmail.com)
Posted 14 February 2013

Michael Haneke: Vulnerable Minds, Bodies, Spectators
Human vulnerabilities to modernity, emotion, violence, age, etc. in Haneke’s films. How Haneke engages/exploits/critiques spectators' own vulnerabilities. Individual and comparative analyses welcomed. Abstracts, 250-500 words by 15 March 2013; Donald F. Larsson (donald.larsson@mnsu.edu)
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 this reveal about them and their readers? Abstract (300 words), CV by 18 March 2013; Michelle Sharp (michelle.m.sharp@gmail.com)
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 and popular psychology, popular periodicals, and self-help? 250-word abstract and brief bio by 15 March 2013; Heather Arvidson (arvidson@uw.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Modernism and the Body
How does modernist literature approach and appropriate the body? Topics: non-normative bodies (pregnant, disabled, “othered,” “queer”), or ordinary bodies. Abstracts (max. 350 words) by 15 March 2013; Erin Kingsley (erin.kingsley@colorado.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013

Modernist Melodrama
Traditional melodrama operates around the figurability and legibility of emotion. How do modernist texts alter or engage this convention? 200 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Rochelle Rives (rchllrives@gmail.com)
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, religious — and their textual forms of expression. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Nicole Hughes (nth2106@columbia.edu) and Noel Blanco Mourelle (nb2491@columbia.edu)
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 discourses of Chicago's musics. 200-300 word abstracts / full papers & CV. by 15 March 2013; Shawn Higgins (shawn.higgins@uconn.edu)
Posted 16 January 2013

Muslim Utopia
Seeking abstracts that explore Muslim fiction writers’ overt as well as covert engagement with the notion of ‘utopia’, both theological and material. 300-word abstract with brief bio by 15 March 2013; Mosarrap Khan (mhkhan@nyu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

The Naked Eye: Visuality and Vulnerability
How does the visual/visible alongside, within, as text convey or resist vulnerability? Abstracts addressing any time period, genre, culture(s) welcome. 300-400-word abstract and 1 page CV by 8 March 2013; Allison Crawford (allison.crawford@utoronto.ca)
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 pages paper in Spanish. by 17 March 2013; Alicia B. Rios (abrios@syr.edu)
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 languages and literature are requested. Abstracts of 300 words or less by 13 March 2013; Adrienne Damiani (damia004@berkeley.edu) and Adam Oberlin (oberl024@umn.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013

New Digital Vanguards in Spanish Literature
Papers exploring the relationship between new media technologies and recent experimental changes in Spanish-language literature (aesthetics, themes, means of distribution, hybrid genres, mutli-platform, etc). 250-500-word abstracts by 5 March 2013; Alexandra Saum-Pascual (saum-pascual@berkeley.edu)
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 and reception. Abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Arnim Alex Seelig (arnim.seelig@mail.mcgill.ca)
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 pedagogy? Where and how do their ethos intersect and/or diverge? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Laurel Harris (lharris@qcc.cuny.edu) and Lauren Rosenblum (lauren.rosenblum@gmail.com)
Posted 29 January 2013

New Perspectives on Sentimental Fiction
Innovative readings of sentimental fiction - historical, intertextual, theoretical; including challenges to the genre definition. Abstract (150 words), CV by 15 March 2013; Sanda Munjic (sanda.munjic@utoronto.ca)
Posted 21 February 2013

The New Weird
Papers on authors/artists (any language) associated with the New Weird in fiction, film, or other media. Political, aesthetic, narratological, historical topics all welcome. Abstract (300 words) and 1-page CV by 15 March 2013; David Wittenberg (david-wittenberg@uiowa.edu)
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) and brief cv by 15 March 2013; Jed Dobson (james.e.dobson@dartmouth.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013

Nineteenth-Century American Popular Publishing
Approaches defined broadly by production factors, volume, form, or relationships between publisher, author, and the mass consumer. 250-word abstract and cv by 15 March 2013; Dustin Kennedy (dmk336@psu.edu)
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. 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Hongjian Wang (hw001@uark.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Occupy MLA
@OccupyMLA was a netprov about vulnerable adjuncts dreaming of tenure. Papers analyzing work as e-literature, activist fiction, netprov, hoax. 250-word abstract, brief CV by 15 March 2013; l.skallerup@moreheadstate.edu. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Lee Skallerup Bessette (l.skallerup@moreheadstate.edu)
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 of material contradictions? Papers on love, private property, and the common. Abstracts by 17 March 2013; Jennifer M. Cotter (cotterj@william.jewell.edu)
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 drive? 300 word abstracts, 3/15. Christina Mesa (xcamesa@stanford.edu). 300 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Christina Mesa (xcamesa@stanford.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

One Thousand and One Nights as World Literature
Theoretical, hermeneutic, and historical approaches to translations, rewritings, and adaptations of the Nights from any time period, language, and geography. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Sevinc Turkkan (sturkkan@brockport.edu)
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 challenged in specific locales throughout the world. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Juan Meneses (jmeneses@purdue.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013

The Online Seminar Table
How can we use technology to create intimate seminars that collapse geographical distance, connecting far-flung students and institutions in meaningful new intellectual relationships? 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Meg Lamont (melamont@stanford.edu)
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 brasileño contemporáneo? Enviar abstracto de 250 palabras. by 15 March 2013; Michele C. Dávila (mdavilagoncalv@salemstate.edu)
Posted 17 January 2013

Pacifism and the Avant-Garde 1900-1950
This panel explores Modernism's engagement with pacifist movements, philosophies, and thinkers. 250-word abstracts and CV by 15 March 2013; J. Ashley Foster (jashfoster@yahoo.com)
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 experimental writing, graphic novels, or traditional print formats. 200-word abstracts by 25 February 2013; Karen An-hwei Lee (klee@vanguard.edu)
Posted 13 January 2013

Periodicals as Tastemakers
We seek papers from a variety of fields and disciplines which explore the role of 19th- and 20th-century European and American periodicals as tastemakers. 250-word abstracts and CVs by 15 February 2013; Edward Whitley (whitley@lehigh.edu) and Melissa Renn (melissa_renn@harvard.edu)
Posted 31 January 2013

The Perpetrator's Viewpoint
Fiction focalizing and describing the perpetrator - from Dostoevsky to Littell - faces epistemological, narratological, and ethical challenges. This panel investigates examples of perpetrator literature. 400-word abstract and bio by 15 March 2013; Levin Arnsperger (larnspe@emory.edu)
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 young girls ? One-page abstract & bio by 14 March 2013 by 14 March 2013; Virginie Pouzet-Duzer (virginie.pouzet-duzer@pomona.edu)
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 bio by 22 March 2013; Hannah Crumme (hannah.crumme@gmail.com)
Posted 30 January 2013

Piracy and Illicit Knowledge
Seeking short papers on book piracy, underground libraries, illicit knowledge. Digital humanities, computational, and sociological approaches welcome. 250-word abstracts due on March 18th. by 18 March 2013; Dennis Tenen (dt2406@columbia.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

The Poetics of Information
How are contemporary poets responding to the culture of information? How is information culture coming into relation with literary culture? Abstract and short cv. by 15 March 2013; Scott J. Pound (scott.pound@lakeheadu.ca)
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 tales from the classroom. 300-word abstracts to mickelsonjn@yahoo.com by 4 March 2013; Nate Mickelson (mickelsonjn@yahoo.com)
Posted 1 February 2013

The Policy Era
This panel attends to the relationship between postwar American foreign policy and the aesthetic problems facing American novelists involved with these initiatives. Submit 250 word abstracts by March 15. by 15 March 2013; Merve Emre (merve.emre@yale.edu) and Maggie Doherty (doherty4@fas.harvard.edu)
Posted 11 February 2013

Popular Narrative during the American Depression
How do popular narratives respond to vulnerable times? Transnational, eco-critical, feminist, and other approaches to popular literature, serial fiction, film, comics, radio drama, etc. One-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Michael Tavel Clarke (michael.t.clarke@ucalgary.ca) and Martha Patterson (mhpatterson@mckendree.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

(Post-)Racial Vulnerabilities
Papers exploring black vulnerability in the so-called “post-racial” moment, including affective, sexual/gender, socioeconomic precariousness inherent in the “post-racial.”. 300 word abstract, 1 page CV by 11 March 2013; Candice M. Jenkins (candice.jenkins@earthlink.net) and Stefanie K. Dunning (skdunno@gmail.com)
Posted 21 February 2013

Post-Revolutionary Arab(ic) Literature
Panel investigates the emerging “literature of the Revolution” in Arabic, English or French from the Arab world. How have these texts contributed to contemporary literature? abstracts by 10 March 2013; Douja Mamelouk (dmamelou@utk.edu)
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 for any substantial identity? 250-word abstract, 100-word bio by 22 March 2013; Pawel Wolski (wolski@brandeis.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013

Postcolonial Environmental Criticism: Development, Modernity, and the Environment
This panel examines the intersections of postcolonialism and environmentalism in contemporary British and Anglophone literature. Please send an abstract of 300-400 words. by 20 March 2013; Arun Pokhrel (arun.pokhrel@gmail.com)
Posted 20 February 2013

Postcolonial Intimacies
This panel approaches materiality and locality by focussing on close relationships in particular places as they are represented as part of a world literary space. 300 word abstracts with CV by 15 March 2013; Veronica Barnsley (ronniesfrog@yahoo.com)
Posted 21 February 2013

Postcolonial Studies and Human Rights
Papers that address contemporary theoretical debates within postcolonial studies in relation to new directions in human rights in literary and cultural studies. 300-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Alexandra Schultheis Moore (tanagerlodge@yahoo.com) and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg (egoldberg@babson.edu)
Posted 8 January 2013

Postcolonial Trauma
This panel explores how postcolonial contexts challenge the current rubric of trauma in fostering transcultural connections, and how they inaugurate new theoretical perspectives on trauma. 300 word abstract with CV by 15 March 2013; Jennifer Yusin (jyusin@drexel.edu)
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 to embodiment, cognition, perception, affect, ecology, and technology. abstracts of 250 words by 15 March 2013; Jennie Votava (jmv289@nyu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Postnational Identities in Hispanic Literature
As globalization is problematizing the question of identity, how do processes of hybridization/the emergence of postnational affiliations impact the works of Hispanic writers? 250 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Heike Scharm (heikescharm@usf.edu) and Natalia Matta Jara (natalia.matta@ttu.edu)
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 themselves in literature of the 21st century? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Matthew Mullins (mmullins@sebts.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013

Poverty and Naturalism
New perspectives (interpretive or theoretical) on naturalism as a genre that takes the poor and vulnerable as its preferred topic. Any literary tradition or period. 300-word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Eleni Eva Coundouriotis (eleni.coundouriotis@uconn.edu)
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 vulnerability in our precarious times. 500-word Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Charles Legere (cdlegere@pitt.edu)
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 on conceptions of world literature. 1 page abstract by 1 March 2013; Charlotte Eubanks (cde13@psu.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013

The Price of Culture in Latin America
This panel interrogates the slippery concept of autonomy (literary/intellectual), and the tensions between cultural production and money since 1900. 250-word abstracts and brief bios by 15 March 2013; Claudia Cabello-Hutt (c_cabell@uncg.edu)
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, what needs doing. by 4 March 2013; David J. Gorman (dgorman@niu.edu)
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 social networks, memoirs, and sites of private memory. 300-word abstract, brief CV by 15 March 2013; Joseph Donica (jdonica@wileyc.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Publishing a Persona
Exploring the typification, marketing and consumption of a diasporic author's identity in the publishing process. Kindly sumbit a 250 word abstract and CV for a 15 by 1 March 2013; Melanie Wattenbarger (mrwattenbarger@cohab.mu.ac.in)
Posted 3 January 2013

Queer Youth
This panel features scholarship focused on the intersections of childhood and queer identities in literature, popular culture, and film. Send abstracts/bios to kproehl@clemson.edu. Abstracts, 250 words, Short Bio, 150 words by 15 March 2013; Kristen Proehl (kproehl@clemson.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Queering "China": Transnational and Sinophone Perspectives
Theorizing Chinese and/or Sinophone cultures through queer theory; queer Asia as methodology; Sinophone as queering Chineseness; critique of queer Eurocentrism. 250-word abstracts; brief CV by 15 March 2013; Alvin Ka Hin Wong (alvinwong@humnet.ucla.edu) and Howard Chiang (H.H.Chiang@warwick.ac.uk)
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. by 15 March 2013; Gina Tomasulo (jeanrhys_4@hotmail.com)
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 archives. CV and 250-word abstracts by March 15. by 15 March 2013; Jane Carr (jgc219@nyu.edu) and Laura Helton (laura.helton@nyu.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Radical Ecologies: (Re)Grounding Digital Pedagogy
A conversation/workshop exploring the following: Is there a role for ecological thinking in developing humanities curricula? How can ecological concepts (re)shape digitally-inflected pedagogy? 250-400 word abstract by 1 March 2013; Pavel Cenkl (pcenkl@sterlingcollege.edu)
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 context over content; critique, interrogate, or reframe historicism in literary studies. Brief abstract and bio by 15 March 2013; Steven J. Syrek (steven.syrek@rutgers.edu)
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 literature. Please submit 250-word abstract and brief bio by 22 March 2013; Hannah Crumme (hannah.crumme@gmail.com)
Posted 30 January 2013

Reading after Negri
Hardt and Negri read Bartleby's “refusal to work" as inaugurating “a liberatory politics." Papers on the "ends" of politics of singularity/collectivity and the place of "reading" in it. Abstracts by 1 March 2013; Kimberly DeFazio (kdefazio@uwlax.edu)
Posted 4 February 2013

Reading Between Musical Lines
Exploring perspectives on how the presence of music intensifies the meaning and/or the form of narrative discourses reconfiguring the way we read. 250-300-word abstract, short bio by 22 March 2013; Andrea Perez Mukdsi (perezmukdsi@gmail.com)
Posted 21 February 2013

Reading new India
Writers pander to the demands of the market thereby reshaping India. How has globalization changed the face of India and IWE? 500-word abstract and a short bio. by 15 March 2013; Cristina Maria Gamez-Fernandez (cristina.gamez@uco.es) and Om P. Dwivedi (om_dwivedi2003@yahoo.com)
Posted 21 February 2013

Reading Postmodern Space
How do postmodern literary and theoretical texts map and navigate, construct and alter, inhabit and evacuate space? 250 word abstracts – brief biography. by 15 March 2013; Karen Jacobs (karen.jacobs@colorado.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013

Reading Pragmatically in Vulnerable Times
How might pragmatic critical methods (exemplified by Peirce, Dewey, James, Rorty, Poirier) help us to live in an uncertain “universe of chance”? 300-word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2013; Kate Stanley (kate.stanley@uwo.ca)
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 midwest movements; working-class, feminist, and racial/ethnic radicalisms; revolutionary aesthetics. 200-300 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Melissa Macero (melissa.macero001@umb.edu) and Barbara Foley (bfoley@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
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 film and literature. 250-word abstracts by 10 March 2013; Katherine Stafford (kostafford@ucdavis.edu) and Ana Luengo (luengo@gmx.net)
Posted 3 February 2013

Representation of Vulnerable Societies
The representation of societies in conflict: social exclusion, marginalization and forced displacement in the contemporary Latin American Novel. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Hilma-Nelly Zamora-Breckenridge (nelly.zamora-breckenridge@valpo.edu)
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 fiction (1880-1930). Please send abstracts (300-500 words). by 15 March 2013; Denise Mok (denise.mok@ubc.ca)
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 abstracts of 250-500 words. by 18 March 2013; William Reginald Rampone (wrampone@scsu.edu)
Posted 7 February 2013

Representing African American Adolescence
Seeking papers that address the literary representation of African American adolescence, particularly from the perspective of Black youth narrators, in the post-Civil Rights period. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jennifer Griffiths (jgriff02@nyit.edu)
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 perpetrator as explanations for the Holocaust and slavery. http://www.daniellechristmas.com. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Danielle Christmas (dchris20@uic.edu)
Posted 15 February 2013

Retheorizing the "Vernacular"
Inviting fresh critical considerations of local, subaltern, and other non-canonical processes that are antithetical to classical, cosmopolitan, and national formations in language, literature, culture. 350-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Aparna Dharwadker (adharwadker@wisc.edu) and Vinay Dharwadker (vdharwadker@wisc.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013

Rethinking Hispanic Orientalism
Papers theorizing and analyzing the development of Hispanic Orientalism in Spain and Latin America. 300-word abstract, short bio by 10 March 2013; Svetlana Tyutina (svetatyutina@yahoo.com)
Posted 4 February 2013

Rethinking Lydia Sigourney
For a critical reassessment, papers on any approach to her writings, including psychoanalytical, cultural studies, globalization or transnational, canon formation, comparative, disability studies, or other. Abstract and 2-page CV. by 10 March 2013; Elizabeth Petrino (epetrino@fairfield.edu) and Mary Lou Kete (mkete@uvm.edu)
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 nonhumans. Maximum 250 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Anita DeMelo (Anita.Demelo@usma.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013

Reticent Regionalism: Postwar Midwestern Literature
Overlooked postwar artists who unsettle aesthetic or spatial definitions of Midwestern art. Importance of class, race, or sexuality to a redefined regionalism. Submit 300-word abstract. by 10 February 2013; Tyler T. Schmidt (tyler.schmidt@lehman.cuny.edu)
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. One-page abstract by 8 March 2013; Miguel Martinez (martinezm@uchicago.edu)
Posted 19 February 2013

Revisiting the Culture Wars
Seeking new perspectives on the culture wars as they become part of our institutional history. Please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words. by 15 March 2013; Hala Herbly (hala.herbly@utexas.edu) and Stephanie Odom (stephanie.odom@utexas.edu)
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 color: canonicity, critical reappraisal, iconography, legacies. 250 word abstract and 1 page CV by 10 March 2013; Aureliano DeSoto (aureliano.desoto@metrostate.edu)
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. Conversation, debate between authors, respondents. 2-page CV, 300-word abstract by 1 March 2013; Julia V. Douthwaite (julia.v.douthwaite.1@nd.edu)
Posted 13 February 2013

Romantic Partisanship
Aesthetics of taking sides in period that birthed radicalism, conservatism, liberalism; interplay of democracy and art: literary-ideological battles, affective excess, polemical genres, ad hominem attacks, straw (wo)men. 250-word abstract CV by 15 March 2013; Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud (gerard@utk.edu)
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 add to debates on the "lyric"? 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Daniel Stout (dstout@olemiss.edu)
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 philosophies of communism, “being-in-common,” and the commons? Abstracts up to 250 words. by 15 March 2013; Lenora Hanson (lahanson3@gmail.com) and Karim Wissa (kwissa@gmail.com)
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 classroom; particular interest in first-person accounts. queries or 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Frederick O. Waage (renwag@charter.net) and Michelle Balaev (michellebalaev@gmail.com)
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 previous output and changing political beliefs? 1-2 page abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Dr. Charlie Wesley (cwesley@daemen.edu)
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 cultural productions (c. XV-XIX). 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Heather Allen (hjallen@olemiss.edu) and Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu)
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 Bradbury. . 300-word abstracts by 23 March 2013; Adam Lawrence (BradburyMLA@gmail.com) and Andrea Krafft (BradburyMLA@gmail.com)
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 aging body and the creative impulse. 300-word abstract, short bio. by 15 March 2013; AMY SELLIN (sellin_a@fortlewis.edu)
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 studies of Herrick, Donne, and Lanyer. 250 word abstracts 15 March by 15 March 2013; Harold Aram Veeser (veeserh@aol.com)
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 cultural context have affected performance. Papers on the playing of Shakespeare. by 4 March 2013; John Camera (jcamera@wgfilms.com)
Posted 26 January 2013

Shakespeare, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Feminism and feminist reactions to psychoanalysis informed much of the best Shakespeare criticism of the late 20th century. Can these critical modes be revived? 350 word abstract and CV by 18 March 2013; James Stone (jameswstone@aol.com)
Posted 21 February 2013

Shaw and Adaptation
This panel invites papers that discuss specific play-scripts by Bernard Shaw and their transformation across genres and media. Visit http://www.shawsociety.org/Shaw-at-MLA-2014.htm for details. CVs and abstracts of 250 words. by 15 March 2013; Lawrence Switzky (lawrence.switzky@utoronto.ca)
Posted 2 February 2013

Shifting Vulnerabilities: Writing after the Truth Commissions
Papers examining the roles of Latin American cultural production (literature, film, journalism, etc) in processes of truth and reconciliation. Abstracts (around 300 words) by 10 March 2013; Michelle Hulme-Lippert (mhulmel@emory.edu) and Stephanie Pridgeon (spridge@emory.edu)
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), what are the concept's potentials for new comparative literatures and readings of transnational poetics? abstracts (400 words) by 15 March 2013; Birgit Kaiser (b.m.kaiser@uu.nl)
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 networking in literature and/or the arts. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Anne Larsen (alarsen@hope.edu) and Julie Campbell (jdcampbell@eiu.edu)
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 literature and culture. Abstract (300 words) and 1-page CV by 15 March 2013; David Wittenberg (david-wittenberg@uiowa.edu)
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 slavery in US culture. Send 250-word abstracts and a brief CV. by 15 March 2013; Gregory Laski (gmlaski@gmail.com)
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 logorrhea, how does pre-revolutionary French literature still resonate with our quietly manipulative identities? 250-300 word abstract. by 17 March 2013; Eric Turcat (eturcat@hotmail.com)
Posted 2 February 2013

South to North: Modern Inter-American Cultural Transactions
How have Latin American cultural productions informed political, aesthetic and cultural practices in North America from the 19th Century to the present? (250-500 word abstract) by 15 March 2013; Lara Tucker (let2108@columbia.edu)
Posted 23 January 2013

Spanish Shakespeares
The image of Spain in England, the reverberations of Spanish literature in English drama, or Spanish reinterpretations of English works. Please send 250-word abstract and brief bio by 22 March 2013; Hannah Crumme (hannah.crumme@gmail.com)
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 any approach. Please submit 300 w. abstracts and a brief CV. by 15 March 2013; Maria Fernandez-Lamarque (maria.lamarque@tamuc.edu)
Posted 14 February 2013

Speculative Realism and Literary Studies
Philosophers on literature (e.g. Meillassoux on Mallarmé, Harmon on Lovecraft); literature attuned to SR (Ligotti, Mieville); the New Weird; new possibilities for literary criticism. 750 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Peter Schwenger (pschweng@uwo.ca)
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 from the French-speaking world? 300-word abstract, 50-word biography by 15 March 2013; Roxanna Curto (roxanna-curto@uiowa.edu) and Rebecca Wines (RWines@cornellcollege.edu)
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 neuroscience and affect theory. Abstracts of 500 words and 2 page curriculum vitae by 17 March 2013; Jana Maria Giles (giles@ulm.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Teaching and Hospitality
This roundtable explores how hospitality as a metaphor for teaching informs particular pedagogical decisions (e.g. teaching as "host" or "guest, food, safety, physical space, etc.). Abstracts of 200-300 words by 12 March 2013; Jacob Stratman (jstratman@jbu.edu)
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 women’s writing and culture. Abstracts of 300 words or less by 15 March 2013; Lynne Dahmen (ldahmen@purdue.edu)
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 course on current events in target language media. 250-word proposal; CV by 10 March 2013; Heather Hennes (hhennes@sju.edu)
Posted 7 January 2013

Teaching narrative theory in undergraduate foreign literature courses
Inviting researchers to present approaches of teaching and applying narratology in undergraduate foreign literature courses. 300-word abstract, brief bio. by 20 March 2013; Ute Inselmann (uki@buffalo.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Teaching Racist Texts: Roundtable on Pedagogy
What problems/issues are at stake when teaching racist literature? What are our pedagogical strategies for teaching students how to talk and write about racism? 100-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Brigitte Fielder (brigitte.fielder@gmail.com)
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 stories. 250-word abstract and short bio by 21 March 2013; Annette Van (avan@centralmethodist.edu)
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 (chronology, periodization, history, the present, Jetztzeit, futurity, the new, the "post-," repetition, etc.)? 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Todd Kuchta (todd.kuchta@wmich.edu)
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, justice, recognition, individual and national healing. 1-page abstracts by 15 March 2013; Terri Gordon (gordont@newschool.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Theorizing the Villain in Early Modern England
Seeking new theorizations of the early modern villain or reconsiderations of old approaches (“motiveless malignity,” the legacy of medieval Vice, etc.). Short abstract by 1 March 2013; David Hershinow (dhershi1@jhu.edu)
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, whether textual or material. 300-word Abstract by 15 March 2013; Anthony Adams (ajadams@colby.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Papers on life or works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, who suffered multiple vulnerabilities as alcoholic, homosexual, depressive, scientist struggling to be a poet, and, ultimately, marginalized author. 400-500-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Shelley Rees (srees@usao.edu)
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 Shorts, PechaKucha). Detailed call on cfp.english.upenn.edu. Proposals describing content and format by 15 March 2013; Angela Vietto (arvietto@eiu.edu)
Posted 5 February 2013

Trans-Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies
An exploration of the multilingual/multicultural or hybrid nature of Iberian literatures from any period(s). Abstracts may be in English, Portuguese, or Spanish. Please submit a 50-100 word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Robert Simon (rsimon5@kennesaw.edu)
Posted 18 January 2013

Transatlantic Maghreb
Explores engagement of American writers with North Africa and how this informed their own cultural identity. Papers on missionary activity, travel, fiction, and their representations of Maghrebi culture. 300 words; by 17 March 2013; Ahmed Idrissi Alami (aidrissi@purdue.edu)
Posted 16 February 2013

Transcendentalist Women and Friendship
This session invites papers on transcendentalist women’s conceptions and practices of friendship, especially in comparison to their male counterparts. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Eileen Abrahams (abrahae@sunysccc.edu)
Posted 28 January 2013

Translingual Practice: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations
Presentations on translingual practice in literature, linguistics, literacy, and rhetoric in different languages, periods, and genres with the objective of developing an integrated orientation. Abstracts of 400 words by 8 March 2013; Suresh Canagarajah (asc16@psu.edu)
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 memoirs. Abstract and short bio by 15 March 2013; Mary Goodwin (profgood@hotmail.com)
Posted 23 January 2013

Transperiod Literary Studies
What alternatives are there to period-based literary studies? What are the limitations of the periodization model? How may we approach literature across two or more periods? 500-word abstracts by 5 March 2013; Hassan Melehy (hmelehy@unc.edu)
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 and complicates that experience? Abstracts of 250-500 words and C.V. by 15 March 2013; Alexandra Lauren Milsom (alexandramilsom@ucla.edu)
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 literatures/cultures, as well as different medias. Comparative works encouraged. 250-300word abstracts in French or English by 14 March 2013; Dany Jacob (danyjaco@buffalo.edu)
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 ethnic, diasporic, or post-colonial, but as new forms of American literature. 300-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Susan K. Harris (skh5@ku.edu)
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 anniversary. Please send abstracts to bcope@wooster.edu before March 8. abstracts (250 words) by 8 March 2013; Brian J. Cope (bcope@wooster.edu)
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 behind the camera? 250-300 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Susan Blood (sblood@albany.edu) and Nabila El Guennouni (nelguennouni@albany.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Using the Corpus of Historical American English for Literary Study
Papers are invited exploring ways to use COHA (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/) for historical research and/or undergraduate and graduate literature classes. Abstracts (300 words) by 1 March 2013; Peter J. Schmidt (pschmid1@swarthmore.edu)
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 abstracts by 1 March 2013; Frank A. Palmeri (fpalmeri@miami.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013

The Vernacular as Critical Category
Reviews, explications, contestations through theoretical reflections and/or readings of texts, literary, cinematic or otherwise. Approaches from postcolonial and/or comparative perspectives especially welcome. 250 word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; S. Shankar (subraman@hawaii.edu)
Posted 18 January 2013

The Victorian Photographic Imaginary
Papers on any aspect of the relationship between Victorian literature and photography. Topics may include genre, theater, intermediality, proto-photography, spiritualism, mourning, identity, or empire. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2013; Jesse Hoffman (jessehoffman@gmail.com)
Posted 19 February 2013

Videogames and Mental Health
How can videogames represent mental health issues in ways that films/literature/biographies cannot? What are the ethical/rhetorical effects of playing as a character with mental health issues? 250-word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Toby Smethurst (toby.smethurst@ugent.be)
Posted 21 February 2013

Violent Sympathies
This session explores how violent representation produces a space of vulnerability that allows for different forms of sympathy to emerge in 19th/early 20th century America. 250-word abstract, CV by 1 March 2013; Rebeccah Bechtold (rebeccah.bechtold@unco.edu)
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 technologies, and the politics of looking. abstract (400 word max.) by 15 March 2013; Alejandra Uslenghi (a-uslenghi@northwestern.edu) and Javier Guerrero (jg17@princeton.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Visualizing Vulnerability
How does Caribbean visual culture bear upon imaginings of social, historical or political vulnerability? 150 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Guillermina De Ferrari (gdeferrari@wisc.edu) and Jacqueline Loss (jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu)
Posted 12 February 2013

Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literature
How does 20th/21st century Caribbean literature grapple with political, economic, environmental, social, or affective vulnerabilities? Abstracts (200 words) and brief bio by 15 March 2013; Kristine Wilson (wilson67@purdue.edu)
Posted 21 February 2013

Vulnerable Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Joint session Gemela / Comediantes: hagiography , martyrdom, wife murder, rape, abuse of marginalized groups (indigenous/ poor ). 1 page abstract and one page CV by 20 February 2013; Barbara Simerka (simerkabarbara@gmail.com) and Dana Bultman (dbultman@uga.edu)
Posted 22 January 2013

Vulnerable Children in Contemporary Narratives
How is the vulnerability of children depicted or resisted within contemporary narratives? Abstracts addressing post-WWII narratives of all types are welcome. 300-word abstract and a brief CV by 15 March 2013; Mark Heimermann (heimerm5@uwm.edu) and Eric Herhuth (eherhuth@uwm.edu)
Posted 17 February 2013

Vulnerable Lives/Vulnerable Lands
Analyses of literature/film/lifewriting that considers vulnerability of particular lives and populations in relation to climate change/scarcity. Interdisciplinary approaches (anthropology, ecology, animalstudies, geography) welcome. 250 word abstract and short CV by 12 March 2013; Rosanne M. Kennedy (rosanne.kennedy@anu.edu.au)
Posted 21 February 2013

Vulnerable Readers
Mid-century American novels and the reading practices they engender. How do experiments in genre instruct readers in attending to the vulnerabilities of social life after WWII? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Jenny M. James (jamesja@plu.edu)
Posted 20 February 2013

Vulnerable Subjects
Papers exploring cultural and political effects of constructions of vulnerability/agency in literature, film, human rights, particularly in relation to child, family, place and populations. 250 word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2013; Rosanne M. Kennedy (rosanne.kennedy@anu.edu.au)
Posted 21 February 2013

Vulnerable Texts
Approaches to the material vulnerabilities of texts in any medium as methodological and/or theoretical problems in the digital humanities and scholarship on electronic literature. 300-word abstracts by 11 March 2013; John David Zuern (zuern@hawaii.edu)
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 abstract by 15 March 2013; J. Ashley Foster (jashfoster@yahoo.com) and Evelyn Scaramella (evelyn.scaramella@manhattan.edu)
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 particularly welcome. 250 word abstract and short CV by 15 March 2013; Belinda Wheeler (bwheeler@paine.edu)
Posted 18 February 2013

Vulnerable Victorians: Identity and "Deviance"
We seek papers that explore boundaries of normative behavior and “moral disability” in 19thc Britain: identity, deviance and vulnerable personhood for women, homosexuals, the disabled. 300w abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Brandy Schillace (bls10@case.edu)
Posted 11 January 2013

Vulnerada y curativa: Contemporary Poetry in Latin America
This roundtable rethinks Latin American poetic productions as always-already 'vulnerated' enunciations and to identify their vulnerary qualities. 250 word abstracts by March 1st. by 1 March 2013; José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra (jrruisanchez@uh.edu) and Tamara R. Williams (williatr@plu.edu)
Posted 12 January 2013

War Media
Spectacles of combat; the cinema of endless war; the facts, fictions and fables of battlefield reportage; drone optics; the militarization of social media; the military-industrial-entertainment complex. abstracts or papers by 15 March 2013; Jan Mieszkowski (mieszkow@reed.edu) and Ross Etherton (etherton@colorado.edu)
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 torture of "enemyˮ bodies since 1945? Abstracts (300-word) by 15 March 2013; Katharina Motyl (katharinamotyl@gmail.com)
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 abstract and bio not later than March 15. by 15 March 2013; Enrico Minardi (eminardi@asu.edu)
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 resources change how we conceptualize projects? 200-word abstracts by 15 March 2013; Matthew F. Wickman (matthew_wickman@byu.edu)
Posted 29 January 2013

What's Material about Vulnerability?
Seeking new perspectives on materialist theory and study of vulnerability in American culture, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; racial, economic, sexual vulnerabilities; vulnerability and property. Abstracts, 250-300 words by 15 March 2013; Joanna Fax (jmf4@rice.edu) and Kimberly Macellaro (kam5@rice.edu)
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 spaces therein? Written and drawn texts considered. 250-word abstract and CV by 1 March 2013; Samuel Jaffee (sjaffee@uci.edu)
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 Jacques Rancière’s work. 500 word abstract by 15 March 2013; Haythem Guesmi (h.guesmi@umontreal.ca)
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, dismantles, or sublimates mourning or trauma? 300-word abstract, short bio by 10 March 2013; Linda Kick (linda.lee.kick@gmail.com)
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 should consider its legacy. Co-Sponsored by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. Abstracts (250 words) by 15 March 2013; Jacob Risinger (risinger@fas.harvard.edu)
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, conflicts, vulnerabilities. All approaches welcomed. Papers in French or English. 300-word abstracts. by 15 March 2013; Laurence Mall (lmall@illinois.edu)
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 abbreviated CV (2 pages max. by 15 March 2013; Tania De Miguel Magro (tania.demiguelmagro@mail.wvu.edu)
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 Felman has termed "literature in action"? 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; Judith Ailsa Seaboyer (j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au)
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 literatures reinforce the Canada/U.S. border. Please submit a 200-300 word abstract. by 15 March 2013; Rachel Bryant (rachel.bryant@unb.ca)
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 Asia. an abstract of 250 words by 15 March 2013; Umme Al-wazedi (ummeal-wazedi@augustana.edu) and Feroza Jussawalla (imohf@aol.com)
Posted 20 February 2013

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