If you are interested in proposing a paper for one of these sessions, please contact the session organizer directly. The abstract deadline was March 30, but some organizers may still welcome inquiries.
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. African American Historical Fiction, Poetry, and Drama: Reconstructing the Past. Against the backdrop of U.S. historical erasures, how African American writers use literature to renegotiate history and reshape historical methods. Linda Krumholz, English, Denison Univ., Granville, OH 43023, krumholz@denison.edu
AMERICAN LITERATURE I: LITERATURE BEFORE 1870. AngloAmerican Literature. Invites papers on the "translation" of British cultural forms and values into American literature. Though interested in European influence, the focus should be on American texts. One-page abstracts to David Slater, 207 Lind Hall, Univ. of Minnesota, 207 Church Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455,
AMERICAN LITERATURE II: LITERATURE AFTER 1870. American Literature in the 21st Century: Traditions and New Directions. Papers should discuss texts published in 2000 or 2001 that draw from and/or redefine an American literary tradition. Elizabeth Rich, English, Saginaw Valley State Univ., 7400 Bay Road, University Center, MI 48710,
APPLIED LINGUISTICS. Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching. Topics may include but are not limited to: teaching language variation, register, culture, gender differences, and/or language attitudes in the classroom. Joyce Milambiling, English, Baker Hall, Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TEXTUAL STUDIES. The Regulation of Print: 1557-1700. This panel will examine the regulation of expression in print and public utterance by the Stationers' Company in England and the American colonies. Terri Bourus, English, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL 60115,
CANADIAN LITERATURE. The New (and Old) Margaret Atwood: Post-Booker Prize Reassessment. Papers are solicited that discuss various Atwood works, including the newest novel. Tomoko Kuribayashi, English Department, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI 54481,
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. Issues of Translation in Children's Literature: Language to Language, Genre to Genre and Media to Media. What are the difficulties in translating works between languages, genre and media? What elements are compromised or sacrificed? What has been done that is exemplary? What is ludicrous? Papers covering any area or any language, topics such as high-tech media welcome. 500-word abstracts to Marnie Jorenby, Osaka-fu, Suita-shi, Yamada Higashi 3-26-40, Green Heights Banpaku Koen II 206, 565-0821, Japan,
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Teaching: How Do You Do It? Seeking participants for roundtable discussion. What works, what doesn't? Ron Harris, English, Univ. of Wisconsin, 127 North Franklin Avenue, Madison, WI 53705,
COMPUTER RESEARCH. Technology and Its Impact on the Humanities: Theoretical, Evaluative, and Practical Concerns. Theoretical, evaluative, or practical ideas/concerns connected with the use of modern technology in all area of the humanities. Krista Homicz, 2014 School of Education, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109,
CREATIVE WRITING I. Poetry. Selected poets read from their work. Rhonda Pettit, English, Raymond Walters College, Univ. of Cincinnati, 9555 Plainfield Road, Blue Ash, OH 45236-1096,
CREATIVE WRITING II. Fiction and Drama. Selected writers read from their fiction or play scripts. Rhonda Pettit, English, Raymond Walters College, Univ. of Cincinnati, 9555 Plainfield Road, Blue Ash, OH 45236-1096,
CREATIVE WRITING. Open Mike. Open to all writers. Drop in or sign up in advance. Rhonda Pettit, English, Raymond Walters College, Univ. of Cincinnati, 9555 Plainfield Road, Blue Ash, OH 45236-1096,
DRAMA. New Plays. Papers on, brief performances of, and reviews about any play in the last ten years are welcome. Abstracts by March 17 to Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican College, 1216 Sunbury Road, Columbus, OH 43219,
ENGLISH I: ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1800. Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. How scholarship and the teaching of early modern literature intersect: theory and scholarship in the classroom, teaching-inspired research, etc. Mary Bowman, English, Univ. of Wisconsin, 2100 Main Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481,
ENGLISH II: ENGLISH LITERATURE 1800-1900. Newgate and Beyond: Critical Perspectives on Crime. We invite submissions that address aspects of crime in 19th-Century British literature and culture. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed. Joann Hentsch Fisher, 3960 Martindale Road NE, Canton, OH 44714,
ENGLISH III: ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER 1900. The Post Heroic Ideal in Late-Twentieth-Century British Fiction: Promoting Androgynous Equilibrium in Protagonists. Robert K. Phillips, English, Lander Univ., Greenwood, SC 29649,
FILM STUDIES. Women/Filmmakers and Noir. This panel examines women in Film Noir-particularly how women filmmakers participate in and/or interrogate the tradition. Kellie Bean, English, Marshall Univ., 400 Hal Greer Boulevard, Huntington, WV 25755,
FRENCH I. Multimedia Approaches to Literature and Culture. On the uses and limits of Internet and other audiovisual resources for teaching literature and culture. All periods and approaches. Roland Racevskis, French & Italian, 555 Phillips Hall, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1409,
FRENCH II. Problems of the Postcolonial. The investigation of different problematics addressed by postcolonial studies. Papers on postcolonialism's definition(s), cultural implications, and narrative concerns are welcome. Meaghan Emery, French & Italian, Ohio State Univ., 1841 Millikin Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1229,
FRENCH III: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN FRENCH STUDIES. Constructions of Identity in French and Francophone Cinema. We invite papers focusing on construction/problematization/interplay of identity/ies (race, gender, sexual orientation, nation or ethnicity) in French or francophone film. Kristine Butler, Humanities, Univ. of Minnesota, 600 East 4th Street, Morris, MN 56267,
GENDER STUDIES: MALE. Representations of Masculinity in Criminal Contexts. This panel will investigate representations of masculinity in crime fiction and film. Blake R. Westerlund, English, Univ. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI 54703,
GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE I. The Enlightenment and the Construction of the Modern Subject. Inviting theoretically informed proposals that address the inheritance of and resistance of the individual and freedom from the eighteenth century to the present in German literature and philosophy. One-page abstracts by April 1 to Volker Langbehn, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 55011,
GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE II. Twentieth-Century German Literature. Inviting papers that explore gender and sexuality, especially the depiction of masculinity/femininity in twentieth-century German literature and philosophy. One-page abstracts by April 1 to Volker Langbehn, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 55011,
GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE III. Decadence and Morality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Literature. Inviting papers that thematize the issue of decadence and morality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature. One-page abstracts by April 1 to Volker Langbehn, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 55011,
GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IV. Wenderomane or Reflections on a Time Gone By. Seeking submissions thematizing Germany's unification in German literature and film. One-page abstracts by April 1 to Volker Langbehn, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 55011,
HISTORY OF LITERARY RECEPTION. Literary Reception as Cultural Studies. How issues of literary reception illuminate cultural practices, values, movements. Charlotte Templin, English, Univ. of Indianapolis, 1400 East Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46227,
ILLUSTRATED TEXTS. Illustration/Re-illustration/De-illustration. What happens to a text when illustrations are added, revised, or deleted? Detailed abstracts or papers. Fern Kory, English, Eastern Illinois Univ., 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920-3099,
INTERNATIONAL FRANCOPHONE STUDIES. Negotiating Borders. Papers examining the permeability of postcolonial spaces and identities. Nick Nesbitt, French & Italian, Miami Univ., Oxford, OH 45056,
IRISH STUDIES. Epistemology of the (Closeted) Irish. Investigating historical, cultural, or theoretical significance of “closeted” Irishness of characters in literary texts that are explicitly Irish or not. Victor Mendoza, English, Univ. of Illinois, 608 South Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801,
ITALIAN. Open Topic. Rebecca Messbarger, Romance Languages & Literatures, Washington Univ., Campus Box 1077, St. Louis, MO 63130,
LINGUISTICS. Technology and Language Acquisition. In what ways is current technology most effective in helping learners acquire language ability? Papers on related topics considered. Daren Snider, Modern Languages, Univ. of Nebraska, Kearney, NE 68849,
LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY. Interpretation in the Writing Classroom. Papers might address teaching interpretation to writers, teacher interpretation of student text, or students' interpretations of writing activities and theory. Mickey Hess, English, Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292,
LUSO-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE & CULTURE I. "Várias Brasis"/Multi-Cultural Brazil. Susan Martin, Languages, Northern Michigan Univ., 1401 Presque Isle Avenue, Marquette, MI 49855-5357,
LUSO-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE & CULTURE II. Re-Visiting Women Writers in Luso-Brazilian Literature. Susan Martin, Languages, Northern Michigan Univ., 1401 Presque Isle Avenue, Marquette, MI 49855-5357,
MODERN LITERATURE. To Make Language Stutter. How author or filmmaker joins affect to words or images. Complete description at
MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE IN THE CLASSROOM: PEDAGOGY AND POLITICS. Interrogating Whiteness. Has whiteness gone from invisible to racially marked? What and how should we teach about whiteness in literature courses? Linda Krumholz, English, Denison Univ., Granville, OH 43023,
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE. Literary Sovereignty. Inviting discussions of Indian stories' resistance to the academic discourse of literary criticism; the relationship of storytelling to identity. Jim Ottery, English, Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605,
OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Virtual Tourism: The Other World and Exotic Places in Old and Middle English Texts. Examination of the continuity of the Other World motif from early to late medieval English texts. John B. Marino, English, St. Louis Univ., 221 North Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63103,
PEACE LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGY. Cultural Translations as Related to Peace Literature and Pedagogy. Aletha Stahl, Languages and Literatures, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374-4095,
POPULAR CULTURE. Cartoons and Contemporary Culture. Emphasis on cartoons targeted at adults, like The Simpsons. Rhonda Nicol, 4240 English, Stevenson Hall, Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL 61790-4240,
RELIGION AND LITERATURE. Open Topic. Eileen Quinlan SND, Notre Dame College of Ohio, 4545 College Road, South Euclid, OH 44121,
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. Science and War. Technology and the production/containment of war; empiricism, imperialism, and war, physiological and psychological effects of war; medical treatment; gender, science, and war. Jennifer Shaddock, English, Univ. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI 54702,
SCIENCE FICTION. Futuristic Elizabethans: The Next Generation. Shakespeare and the Star Trek Spin-off Series. Papers exploring the use of Shakespearean imagery, characters, themes, and motifs in "Star Trek," especially the spin-off series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," and "Star Trek: Voyager." One-page abstracts to Larnell Dunkley, English, Benedictine Univ., 5700 College Road, Lisle, IL 60532,
SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEAREAN CRITICISM. Shakespeare and Authority. On institutional, monarchical, patriarchal, familial, sexual, cultural, or literary authority in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Kara Northway, English, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045,
SHORT STORY. Selling It Short: The Short Story's Relation to the Marketplace? Any aspect of the relation between the short story and the marketplace. Papers on magazine publishing, serialization, marketability of short stories, collections, anthologies, newspapers, etc. Susan Rochette-Crawley, English, Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613,
SPANISH I: PENINSULAR LITERATURE BEFORE 1700. Courtly Images: Social and Spatial Representations of Power. Olympia Gonzalez, Modern Languages, Loyola Univ. Chicago, 6525 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626,
SPANISH II: PENINSULAR LITERATURE AFTER 1700. Open Topic. Susan Martin-Marquez, Spanish & Portuguese, Rutgers Univ., 105 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901,
SPANISH III: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Written Oralities. Analysis of popular or “spontaneous” speech-dialect, dialogue, monologue, answerback, proverbs, riddles-within any genre. To what purpose? With which techniques? Patricia D. Fox, Romance Languages, 143 Arts & Science Building, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211,
SPANISH IV: LITERARY THEORY AND HISPANIC CRITICISM.Interdisciplinary Hispanic Criticism. An examination of the ways critical approaches generally associated with literary texts are invoked in the analysis of extra-literary modes. Lucy Harney, Southwest Texas State Univ., 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666,
SPANISH CULTURAL STUDIES. Whose Culture Is It Anyway? The reason "culture" has become such an intense topic of concern among Hispanists in Spain and Latin America is precisely because the idea of culture has become one of the most important tools of power at a time of global restructuring. This interdisciplinary session will create an opportunity to explore how audiences for cultural production and cultural resistance are organized in Spain. Susan Larson, Modern Languages & Literatures, Fordham Univ., 441 East Fordham Road, Room 560, Bronx, NY 10458-9993,
TEACHING WRITING IN COLLEGE. The Nature of Narrative Revisited: Its Role and Place(s) in Composition. Discussion of relationships between narrative and composition, revisiting the roles of literature and composition, narrative in the age of technology. Edith M. Baker, English, 328 Bradley Hall, Bradley Univ., 1305 West Bradley Avenue, Peoria, IL 61625,
TRAVEL WRITING/WRITING TRAVEL. Traveling the Body. How do travel writers construct the body? Paper addressing any aspect of the topic welcomed. Suggested: marginalized bodies, sexuality, ethnography, etc. Nancy Hanway, Modern Foreign Languages, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 West College Avenue, St. Peter, MN 56082,
WOMEN IN LITERATURE. Women, Writing, and Madness. Papers should interrogate the assumed links between creativity and insanity in women's literature. 200-word abstracts. Jessica Walsh, English, 308 EPB, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 542242,
WOMEN'S STUDIES. Avant-Garde Women: Recovering Lost Voices. This session welcomes papers on forgotten or critically neglected works by women who have taken part in avant-garde movements. Stacy Hoult, Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603,
WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM. WAC and Technology. How do computer technologies affect WAC in courses and programs? How will they? Richard Jewell, English, 225 Lind Hall, Univ. of Minnesota, 207 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55403,
YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE. Robert Cormier: A Retrospective. Come to praise him, come to bury him-we seek papers that deal with any aspect of Robert Cormier's work. Karen Coats, English, Campus Box 4240, Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL 61790-4240,