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Fallibility, Freedom, and This Spinning World n 1870 the Vatican Council declared the Pope infallible when he now one of the most abused words in the modern languages. Ispeaks on matters of faith and morals ex cathedra (which I Some are born free, apparently, and some achieve freedom, while translate, admittedly loosely, as “from his bully pulpit”). Which others are to have freedom thrust upon them. As a nation we are leads me “by a commodius vicus of recirculation” (as James Joyce simultaneously thrusting freedom upon reluctant foreigners and put it) to wonder if the Delegate Assembly of this organization curtailing the freedoms of our own citizens, even as we are spend- might grant a similar indulgence to the president of the MLA ing to restore educational institutions abroad while allowing them when he or she speaks on matters of language and literature. to become impoverished at home. These reflections were stimulated, no doubt, by my own strong Perhaps allowing is too generous a term for what is happening sense of fallibility in thus addressing you for the first time on to our schools. Reductions in federal assistance to state budgets, matters I take to be of interest to members of the MLA. combined with attempts to reduce taxes at all levels, are making One thing you learn quickly, if you have anything to do with it more and more difficult for public schools and universities to the governance of this organization, is that there is no MLA, in compete with private institutions. This privatization of education the sense of an essence or unified position. The ruler of France will allow the wealthy to purchase the best education available once complained about trying to govern a country with several for their children, even as it condemns the children of ordinary hundred different cheeses in it. Well, the MLA is cheesier by far citizens to overcrowded schools with overworked faculties. In the than France. We can offer nearly thirty thousand positions on name of “freedom” of choice, economic status is rigidifying into a most issues, all passionately held and subject to revision should class structure all around us. anyone agree with any of them. Which is fine. This is not a com- And in the name of “patriotism” (as in the Patriot Act), our aca- plaint, you understand, merely an observation, a way of saying demic freedom to seek the truth and teach what we find is also that I shall be very careful in speaking for you on any occasion, being restricted. We members of the MLA know something about and even rather cautious in speaking to you—but speak I must. terrorism. Our offices in New York, where the executive director The words I write now, in November, will not reach you for and her staff work for all of us, are close to where the World Trade several months, which further complicates the situation. As I sit Center used to stand—close enough to have been evacuated for in front of my monitor, I am thinking of several things, ranging some days after the infamous 9/11. We wish to offer no comfort to from matters close to us as members of this organization to larger terrorists who kill innocent people. But we also know that patriot- issues that affect our professional and personal lives. The recent ism and freedom are words that are capable of abuse and therefore deaths of two admired colleagues who have been leaders in this in constant need of scrutiny. Thoreau advised us to beware of en- profession—Edward Said and Carolyn Heilbrun—are very much terprises that require new clothes. And I would say that we should on my mind. These two scholars accomplished many things, but be doubly cautious of those who drape themselves in the flag. I find myself thinking of Heilbrun as one of the first to direct our In Luca Signorelli's famous frescoes of the apocalypse on the attention to the significance of androgyny in literature and of Said walls of the duomo at Orvieto, the preaching Antichrist looks re- as one who gave us advice on “speaking truth to power.” This markably like standard representations of Jesus. We can only combination of thoughts led me (the mind being a strange thing) wonder what words he is uttering, but we can be certain that he to recall Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio. I was led to think of Fi- is a master of spin, as he is so clearly an expert in disguise. I am delio, I believe, because in that opera Leonora, the heroine, takes saying no more, I suppose, than that we need to read and listen on, androgynously, the role of a young man named Fidelio and critically to all the words we encounter, and we need to insist on works in a prison while searching for her husband, Florestan, our right to bring critical judgments to bear on the language of our who is in chains and close to death because he is “der Edle der leaders, to insist on our right, and even our duty, to speak truth to für Wahrheit stritt,” the noble man who strived for truth. power, in our classrooms and in public as well. And we must also Speaking truth to power can be a dangerous thing, as Florestan remember that, in those classrooms, we are power, so we must discovered, but he has no regrets, because he has done his duty. recognize the rights of those who disagree with us to speak their It is my duty as well, and, in some sense our duty, the duty of all truths to their classmates and to us. Academic freedom must go of us who teach language and literature, to speak truth to power. all the way down, or it starts to spin ominously itself. Our language is being abused daily by masters of spin. In his prison, Florestan dreams of Freiheit—freedom. But, alas, this is Robert Scholes

2003 Election Results In the elections conducted last fall, Marjorie Perloff (English, membership categories, Guillory is a regular member of the asso- Stanford Univ.) was elected second vice president of the associa- ciation and Rose and Stern are life members. tion. Perloff will serve in that office in 2004, will become first vice Fifty-one new representatives were elected to the Delegate As- president in 2005, and will succeed to the office of president in sembly. Sixteen delegates were elected to represent special-interest 2006. categories in the assembly, and thirty-five delegates were elected to John Guillory (New York Univ.), Marilyn Gaddis Rose (State represent seven geographical regions in the United States and Can- Univ. of New York, Binghamton), and Guy Stern (Wayne State ada. The names of Delegate Assembly members will appear in the Univ.) were elected members of the Executive Council for the September 2004 PMLA. term 2003–06. Guillory represents the field of English, Rose repre- In addition, eighty-five members were elected to the division sents a field defined as “other” by the MLA constitution (art. executive committees. Their names will also appear in the Sep- 8.A.5), and Stern represents the field of German. In terms of tember 2004 PMLA. NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 4

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“All Languages Are Up”: A Look at Foreign Language Enrollments Today he most striking discovery of the fall 2002 foreign language rely on contingent labor to teach a high percentage of undergrad- Tenrollment survey is, simply, that the study of all the most uate courses in beginning and intermediate language, which commonly taught languages in the United States has increased means that there are fewer opportunities to study with professors notably since the last time the survey was conducted, in fall 1998. who get adequate institutional support in terms of job security, The new report, scheduled to appear in the Spring 2004 issue of salary, benefits, research funding, and so forth. This situation is the ADFL Bulletin, is summarized in this Newsletter (see p. 5). most acute in the less commonly taught languages, but it also has When we released the enrollment numbers to the media in early implications for French, German, Russian, Italian, and other com- November, we expected the obvious question from reporters: monly taught languages. Even Spanish classes, in which around “Have the numbers in Arabic grown so much because of Septem- half the enrollments in foreign languages fall, are frequently as- ber 11th?” Certainly, I typically say, and then add: “But all lan- signed to contingent faculty members. To build an enduring cul- guages are up.” This fact is significant, especially because the ture of language study as an integral part of a humanistic number of students studying foreign languages in United States education, universities must create and sustain core programs institutions of higher education increased seventeen percent, that will hold up even when state budgets are down. nearly ten percentage points more than the general increase in It is not coincidental, I think, that the increased demand for undergraduate enrollments since 1998. language courses comes at a time when the number and percent- Not only are more college students than ever studying lan- age of people in the United States who speak a language other guages other than English, but they are choosing a great variety of than English have increased. According to the United States Cen- commonly and less commonly taught languages. Of the 148 less sus Bureau, eighteen percent of the total population aged 5 and commonly taught languages studied in fall 2002, 35 are indige- over, or 47 million people, reported they spoke a language other nous to Europe, 37 to the Middle East or Africa, 41 to Asia or the than English at home. The Census Bureau reports that “while the Pacific, and 35 to North or South America. This linguistic diver- population aged 5 and over grew by one-fourth from 1980 to sity mirrors the spectrum of languages spoken in the United 2000, the number who spoke a language other than English at States, so it is not surprising to learn that students are pursuing home more than doubled” (Shin and Bruno 2). We have a tre- course work in Ojibwe, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Igbo, for exam- mendous resource in the large communities of speakers of lan- ple. It is clear that students are recognizing the importance of guages other than English, one that is still largely untapped in knowing more than one language, whether they choose to pursue higher education. There are some highly successful university- a heritage language from their family background, a language spo- community partnerships and projects, many of which involve ken in the communities where they live, a classical language such internships, financial support for teaching, and interactions be- as Latin or biblical Hebrew, or a widely spoken modern language tween native speakers and students. In far too many institutions, that will serve them well in their careers. however, language study takes place in an isolated classroom, There are as many reasons for taking a language as there are sometimes enhanced by a virtual Internet environment and a learners, and it is risky to make assumptions about student moti- recommendation to spend time abroad. I suggested in my editor’s vation and interest. In general terms, however, it is safe to say column of a year ago that we would be wise to develop “study at that attention to world events in the aftermath of 11 September home” opportunities for our students by integrating the language 2001 has increased sharply, and along with this increase comes an communities all around us with our campus settings. Have any awareness that language is one of the most important factors for of you had experiences with this kind of learning? I’d be pleased understanding and even surmounting the international conflicts to report on your observations. we face. The enrollment patterns suggest that students in the Finally, the Office of Foreign Language Programs is following United States realize that it isn’t just knowledge of one or even up on the 2000 Census Bureau report by creating an amazing new two particular strategic languages that is lacking—though clearly tool: an interactive language map, to be housed on the MLA Web there is a need for more speakers of Arabic and Farsi. They also site in the near future. The map shows in vivid color the range of know that learning many languages—I would go so far as to say linguistic riches to be found in the United States. It also allows any languages—will give them insights into what other modes and users to see the number of speakers of a given language at the systems of communication teach us about history, religion, and state, county, city, and even zip-code level. We expect to produce a culture. It’s a metaprocess, if you will. By laying down your native static version of the map for classroom use, and we hope the lan- language and picking up one that is “foreign” to you, you learn guage community will be thrilled to have such a user-friendly how linguistic and cultural differences affect everything having to way to explore the linguistic diversity around us. We previewed do with human encounters. the map at the San Diego convention to positive response. All lan- While it is good news for the profession that so many students guages in the United States are up, then, as far as speaking and have elected to pursue language studies as part of their postsec- studying go. How to translate this growth into renewed strength ondary education, we need to be concerned with access to the for our profession is a challenge we’ll want to meet. courses we know they want to take. In the light of the budget cuts that have afflicted many public institutions of higher education, Rosemary G. Feal administrations are forced to make difficult choices about allocat- ing resources. How many new tenure-track positions will open up Work Cited in areas of foreign languages to meet the documented student de- Shin, Hyon B., and Rosalind Bruno. Language Use and English-Speaking mand? Not enough, we fear. Colleges and universities continue to Ability: 2000. Washington: US Census Bureau, 2003. NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 5

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Members of the MLA Executive Council and the MLA staff met with NEH chairman Bruce Cole and NEH staff members on 12 November 2003 at the NEH ZAID HAMID office in Washington, DC. Left to right: Cherie Harden (NEH senior counsel), Amada Sandoval, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Domna C. Stanton, Rosemarie Scullion, Rosemary G. Feal, Bruce Cole (NEH chairman), Mary Louise Pratt, Michael Bérubé, Tey Diana Rebolledo, Lynne Munson (NEH deputy chairman).

MLA’s Fall 2002 Survey Shows Increase in Foreign Language Enrollments The MLA has released the results of its table also shows an aggregate count for 2004 issue of the ADFL Bulletin and will fall 2002 survey of foreign language en- the 147 other languages for which enroll- be available at the Web sites of the MLA rollments in United States colleges and ment data were recorded. The table (www.mla.org) and ADFL (www.adfl universities. The survey is the twentieth makes clear how the totals for specific .org). Further information will appear in conducted since 1958 with the support of languages grew between 1998 and 2002. the project report that will be submitted grants from the United States Depart- Spanish, which continues to be the most to the United States Department of ment of Education. This year, for the first commonly taught foreign language in Education. time, survey participants were able to re- United States colleges and universities, ex- spond on the World Wide Web using an perienced a 13.7% increase in enrollments Table 1 interface designed for the collection of between 1998 and 2002 and accounts for Fall 2002 and Fall 1998 Foreign Language the survey data. Responses from 2,781 in- 53.4% of the total of foreign language reg- Enrollments in United States Colleges stitutions, or 99.6% of those surveyed, in- istrations in higher education. With and Universities dicated a record-high total of 1,397,253 746,267 registrations, Spanish has further Percentage enrollments in 162 different languages, consolidated its already strong position in Language 1998 2002 Change ancient and modern. This total represents the United States college curriculum. an increase of 17.0% above the total All the fifteen most commonly taught Spanish 656,590 746,267 13.7 recorded in the previous survey, in 1998, languages show increases in enrollments French 199,064 201,979 1.5 which showed an increase of 4.8% be- for the first time since 1998. The following German 89,030 91,100 2.3 tween 1995 and 1998. In relation to the groupings in percentage growth can be Italian 49,287 63,899 29.6 growth in size of the college student pop- seen. ASL’s increase at 432.2% is more American Sign ulation, 8.6 students out of a hundred than four times that of any other language. Language 11,420 60,781 432.2 were studying a language in fall 2002, Next are Arabic at 92.3%; biblical Hebrew Japanese 43,141 52,238 21.1 and 7.9 students out of a hundred were at 55.9%; Italian at 29.6%; Japanese, Chi- Chinese 28,456 34,153 20.0 studying languages in 1998. Striking is nese, ancient Greek, Modern Hebrew, and Latin 26,145 29,841 14.1 the continued rise in foreign language en- Portuguese between 20% and 30%; and Russian 23,791 23,921 0.5 rollments in community colleges, which Spanish, Latin, and Korean between 10% Ancient Greek 16,402 20,376 24.2 increased 36% from 1998 to 2002 and and 17%. French, German, and Russian Biblical Hebrew 9,099 14,183 55.9 8.8% from 1995 to 1998. The overall rise showed an increase under 3% and thus Arabic 5,505 10,584 92.3 in enrollments, though small, suggests can be said to have had reasonably stable Modern that undergraduates in the United States enrollments from 1998 to 2002. Hebrew 6,734 8,619 28.0 are increasingly interested in studying The development and completion of Portuguese 6,926 8,385 21.1 other languages and cultures. the survey was overseen by Elizabeth B. Korean 4,479 5,211 16.3 Table 1 summarizes the results of the Welles, director of foreign language pro- Other languages 2002 survey and compares registrations in grams, with the aid of David Goldberg (147) 17,771 25,716 44.7 the fifteen most commonly taught lan- and Natalia Lusin of the MLA staff. A Total 1,193,830 1,397,253 17.0 guages with those recorded in 1998. The detailed report will appear in the Winter NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 6

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GOVERNANCE Summary of Delegate Assembly Actions in San Diego At its meeting on 29 December 2003 in San Diego, the Delegate cil found (1) that the resolution’s claim of a cause-and-effect rela- Assembly took the following actions. tion between increased government spending on war and de- The assembly conducted five elections. In the balloting for the creased spending on education was sufficiently unsubstantiated Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee, Michelle A. Massé as to be considered erroneous and (2) that the resolution, by tak- (English, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge) and Suzanne R. ing a position on a matter that falls outside the association’s Pucci (French, Univ. of Kentucky) were elected to three-year chartered mission, raised a fiduciary concern related to the asso- terms (2004–06). Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Spanish, Univ. of ciation’s tax-exempt status. The council concluded by noting that Pennsylvania) was elected to the Executive Council for the term one of the resolutions on the assembly’s 2003 agenda dealt with 2004–07. Leslie A. Adelson (German, Cornell Univ.), Françoise the same subject. Lionnet (French, Univ. of California, Los Angeles), and David In other business, the assembly approved one motion and five Palumbo-Liu (comparative literature, Stanford Univ.) won two- resolutions. The motion, the text of which appears below, will be year terms (2004–05) on the Nominating Committee. Elected to forwarded to the Executive Council in February, and the council the Elections Committee for two-year terms (2004–05) were Bar- will consider its implementation. Following the provisions of arti- bara Harlow (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Steven Mailloux (Univ. of cle 7.B.3 of the MLA constitution, the Executive Council, also in California, Irvine), Gretchen Schultz (Brown Univ.), and Stepha- February, will conduct a review of the constitutional, legal, and nie A. Smith (Univ. of Florida). Finally, Lina Bolzoni was elected fiduciary issues posed by the language of each resolution. The an honorary member of the association. The assembly’s election council will then forward to the membership for ratification the of an honorary member is subject to ratification by the member- resolutions that do not pose constitutional, legal, or fiduciary ship. This ratification vote will be conducted later this year. problems. The membership ratification vote will be conducted In addition to annual reports from the association’s standing later this year. committees, the assembly received three reports that did not re- A complete report of the Delegate Assembly meeting will ap- quire action: the report of the Delegate Assembly Organizing pear in the May 2004 issue of PMLA. Committee (DAOC), the executive director’s report, and the Fi- nance Committee’s report. The DAOC’s report introduced an ex- Motion 2003-1 perimental item on the agenda for the 2003 assembly meeting: an Whereas the Association has repeatedly endorsed decent pay and open discussion of two issues of considerable concern to the pro- working conditions for graduate students, teaching assistants, and fession. Delegates spent one hour discussing and exchanging in- adjunct faculty; and formation on the crisis in scholarly publishing and the difficulties Whereas many in MLA fields teaching writing; and surrounding the conversion of non-tenure-track to tenure-track Whereas the Conference on College Composition and Communication, faculty lines. at its 2003 convention, passed a resolution, “On Professional Standards The assembly also received a report from the Executive Council for Instruction in Literacy,” that led to establishment of an “Academic that presented the council’s reasons for not forwarding to the Quality Commission,” one of whose charges is to seek co-sponsorship membership two resolutions that the 2002 Delegate Assembly with organizations such as the MLA of conferences to support had approved. The council’s decisions on withholding the two professional standards and pay; resolutions from ratification by the membership were based on Moved that the MLA Executive Council and staff are asked to cooperate the council’s constitutional responsibility (art. 7.B.3) to withhold with the CCCC’s Academic Quality Commission in this effort. resolutions that contain erroneous statements or that pose a threat to the association’s continuing operation as a tax-exempt organization. Resolution 2002-2 dealt with policies and practices GOVERNANCE at the University of California, Davis, affecting both probationary lecturers and long-term non-tenure-track faculty members. The Membership Ratification Vote council found that the material submitted with the resolution did not support the resolution’s claim that “a category of long-term In December 2002 the Delegate Assembly approved a resolution non-tenure-track faculty” at Davis was being “weakened.” How- that was presented to the membership for ratification this past ever, the council decided that the resolution raised a number of fall. The membership ratified the resolution, the preamble and issues related to the conversion of faculty lines and provided an text of which are printed below. opportunity for the council not only to address these issues but Resolution 2002-1 also to examine how MLA policy statements had been used to justify staffing practices to which the council strongly objected. Whereas the current violence in the Middle East has resulted in The council therefore formed a subcommittee that was charged deplorable acts of bigotry at North American colleges and universities, with clarifying the association’s position on the issues raised in Be it resolved that university administrations and faculties be pro- the resolution. The subcommittee’s report, which the council re- active in promoting productive dialogue and mutual respect among viewed and accepted at its October 2003 meeting, was presented students of different religious, cultural, and political backgrounds; and to the assembly along with a motion calling for the assembly to Be it further resolved that the MLA condemn anti-Jewish and anti- endorse the report. The assembly approved the motion. Emer- Arab or anti-Muslim racism as equally abhorrent; and gency Resolution 2002-B dealt with government spending on war, Be it further resolved that the MLA condemn boycotts and blacklists claimed that such spending caused cuts in funding for education against scholars or students on the basis of nationality, ethnic origins, and other services, and called for the MLA to “encourage funding and religious background as unfair, divisive, and inconsistent with allocation for education and services rather than war.” The coun- academic freedom. NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/0412:20PMPage7

CAMERA’S EYE PHOTOGRAPHY committee trytocover toomuchgroundorarevague or broadly they definetheirtopic. Many proposalsthatcometothe speakers. Proposersneedtoconsidercarefullyhow narrowly or parts andtriggersadiscussionthatengagestheensembleof among papers, thesessionbecomesmorethansumofits strong connectiontooneanother. However therelationismade In thebestpanels, asI’msureyou allknow, thepapershave a add thepaperabstractstoapreformulatedprécisofsession. the specialsessionwithindividualpapersandnotsimplyto is importantforthesessionorganizertointegraterationale under acatch-allheadingdoesnotmake foraviableproposal.It defined. Gatheringtogetheratenuouslyrelatedsetofpapers session needtorelatecentrallytheoriginaltopicthatyou’ve greatly overlap witharecentlyheld session.)Thepapersinthe years tobesurethatyour proposaldoesn’t duplicateortoo cinct. (Itisworthwhile alsotolookatprogramsfromthelastfew the committeereadshundredsofproposals, you shouldbesuc- especially relevant orgroundbreaking,butsinceeachmemberof cision andclarity. We needtoknow why aparticulartopicis uated andsufficientlyspelledoutfornonspecialists. Goforcon- the session’s contributiontoscholarshipinthefieldisbothsit- Exhibit hallatSanDiegoconvention vice we give attheconvention. helpful toproposersofspecialsessionsreview thekindofad- selection process ways aboutwhy specialsessionproposalssucceedorfail.The gram Committeeattheannualconvention, thelion’s shareisal- Web siteandintheSeptember(Directory)issueof MLA Organizing Meetings attheMLAConvention,” whichappearsonthe scription ofhow toproposeaspecialsession,consult“Proceduresfor Cora Kaplan offersthefollowing analysisandadvice. For afullde- to sharesomeinsights intohow thecommitteeevaluates proposals. sions forthe2004convention,IaskedaProgramCommitteemember acceptance ratein2003wascloseto50%.Inanticipationofsubmis- ries frommemberswhosespecialsessionproposalsaredeclined. The Editor’s note:As chairoftheProgramCommittee, Ianswertheinqui- Proposal? What Makes aSuccessfulSpecial-Session CONVENTION The committeelooksforproposalsinwhichtheoriginalityof When membersaskquestionsattheOpenHearingofPro- is a very competitive one, andwe hopeitwillbe PMLA . many ways. members whoseeffortsgotomakingtheconvention “special”in content.We arealways pleasedtoseethecreativityof in Committee welcomes adiversity ofproposals, bothinformand special sessionisaccepted. Norshouldtherebe. TheProgram riod withoutrunningover theallottedtime. proof thatthey willindeedallow foraquestionandanswer pe- that listfourspeakers plus arespondenthave atoughburdenof discussion, your proposal willnotbeaccepted. Specialsessions too many isaswell. Ifyou donot leave atleastfifteenminutesfor the speakers isnotamember. Too few speakers isaproblem,but merous proposalsaredeclinedeachyear becauseoneormoreof check thecurrentrosterofmembersonlineatwww.mla.org. Nu- are listedontheMLAmembershiprollsby 7April.You cannow get derailed. Make sureallthespeakers (andthesessionproposer) stellations ofscholarship. members canadvance new areasofwork andtryoutnew con- special sessions—afterall,itisinthesessionsthatMLA the committeelooksforvariety intopic, scope, andshapeforthe rationale, includingitsdescriptionofindividualpapers. Thissaid, posal either. Aproposalisjudgedonthestrengthofitsoverall nior scholarascommentatorwillnotsave apoorlyconceived pro- through oncelebrityalone. Don’t believe it!Adding a“famous”se- eral well-known scholarsalongwiththeirpapertitleswillget MLA office(646576-5133;[email protected]). 2003–04 membershipstatusshouldcontactRoy Chustekatthe membership formsorinformationabouttheirdepartments’ reserved throughtheMLAWeb site. Chairswhowould like the bestopportunitytodoso.Pleasenotethatsuitesmay notbe viewing jobcandidatesattheconvention, butitdoesgive them that departmentchairswillbeabletoreserve asuiteforinter- the MLAconvention. Thisearlynotification doesnotguarantee 2004 earlyinformationaboutmakinghotelroomreservations for May partments thatarepaidmembersofADEorADFLby 1 In August 2004 theMLAconvention officewillmailchairsofde- Rooms Hotel Receive EarlyNoticeaboutReserving to andADFL DepartmentChairs ADE CONVENTION As you cansee, thereisnomagicformulaforensuringthatyour Finally, two simplestepstoensurethatyour proposal doesn’t It istoooftenassumedthataproposalcontainslistofsev- or fieldaswell. least, addressesandinterestsmembersoutsideaparticularperiod posal isonethatbothspecificandfocusedbut,potentiallyat scholars whoareworking ononelittle-known text. Agoodpro- session hasenoughbreadthtodomorethanappealthefive audience, soitisalsoimportantthatproposersensurethe an ference ofitsown toaddressit!Apanelmustnevertheless win abetterchanceofsucceedingthantopicthatrequirescon- has themes, orquestions, albeitonesthatopenuptowiderissues, general. Amodestproposalthatfocusesonaspecificsetofissues, L ESETR•Spring2004Page 7 NEWSLETTER MLA NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 8

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CONVENTION 19th-century American literature and culture should be reading but aren’t. Proposals by Deadline for Audiovisual Requests Calls for Papers for 2004 1 Mar.; Glenn Hendler ([email protected]). All requests for audiovisual equipment Revolution. On the bicentennial of the Hai- must be made by the chair of the session Convention in Philadelphia tian Revolution, we invite papers on “revolu- by 1 April. Requests must be received The 2004 convention will be held in Phila- tion” in 19th-century culture and letters. by mail or by fax by 5:00 p.m. on this delphia. Members should familiarize Papers may focus on Haiti or on “revolution” date. Because the need for audiovisual equipment is a major factor in the sched- themselves with the guidelines for the in other contexts. Proposals by 1 Mar.; Chris Castiglia ([email protected]). uling of meetings (and because the move- MLA convention, which appear in the Sep- ment of equipment is both costly and tember 2003 PMLA (pp. 746–57), before LATE-19TH- AND EARLY-20TH-CENTURY hazardous), the deadline is firm. Partici- writing to the organizers listed below. If AMERICAN LITERATURE pants who plan to use audiovisual equip- not provided, organizers’ addresses are in Performance and Politics in Turn-of-the- ment should check with the chair of the the September 2003 PMLA and available Century American Literature. Theatricality session or with the MLA convention of- on the MLA Web site to MLA members. in campaigning, strikes, suffrage, war, lynch- fice to be sure that the necessary equip- All participants in convention sessions ing, social reform; performance and politics ment has been ordered by 1 April. must be MLA members by 7 April 2004. in oratory, religion, mass culture, everyday life, or mass culture of the period. Abstracts Organizers are responsible for responding by 25 Feb.; Sarah Robbins (srobbins@ to all inquiries. A member may participate Class Critique and the Work of Asian kennesaw.edu). American Literature. Examinations of class as speaker or respondent only twice (e.g., in relation to Asian Americans within local or by organizing and chairing a meeting, 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE global frameworks, including attention to the reading a paper, or serving as a speaker, Humor and Social Change. Treatments of “labor” of literary and critical production. panelist, or respondent in one or two ses- humor as a stratagem for subversion; correc- E-mail 250-word proposals and vitae by sions) at a single convention. tion; social mobility; acculturation; protest 15 Mar.; ([email protected]). (especially for racial, ethnic, and gender is- Calls for papers are limited to thirty- Teaching Asian American Literature: sues). Abstracts by 10 Mar.; John Lowe Strategies and Innovations. 8-min. papers five words, including the session title but ([email protected]). not the name or address of the organizer. for a roundtable. 1-page vitae, 1-page abstracts, Groups that announce two or more Modernism and Science. Electronic submis- and sample syllabi (1–4 pages) of junior sur- sions preferred. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Suzanne calls for papers with the same contact veys, senior special topics, or graduate courses Clark ([email protected]). by 15 Mar.; Eleanor Ty. person list the contact person only once. BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE CHICANA AND CHICANO LITERATURE Divisions AND CULTURE Meta-Chicanas. Presentations delivered in Philadelphia Fire. Philadelphia as dreamed honor of formative Chicana scholars; founda- American Literature and dissected in African American thought tional creative, critical, or theoretical writings; and expression, from Jesse Fauset to John movements, feminisms, and emergent Chi- AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1800 Edgar Wideman, from The Philadelphia Negro cana studies. Federalism and Antifederalism. Broader to the Sound of Philadelphia. 1-page abstracts Metacommentary. Critical presentations on cultural, literary definitions of (anti)federalism. by 15 Mar.; Amritjit Singh ([email protected]). Chicana/o theory and criticism—its construc- Possible topics: form or genre and (anti)- tions, paradigms, movements, erasures, fis- federalism; (anti)federalism and literary mar- AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES sures, essentialisms, appropriations, influences, ketplace; sexuality and (anti)federalism. 8-page In Honor of James Welch: Shaping Native and emergent developments in queer, post- papers or 2-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Ed American Literature, Voicing Native Amer- colonial, oppositional, or postmodern studies. White ([email protected]). ican Experience. 15-min. essays reflecting on Metahistory. Critical presentations on Philadelphia Circulations. Circulations of the significance of the poetry and novels of Chicana/o literary history—its construction, 18th-century Philadelphians in manuscript, Blackfeet author James Welch (1940–2003). plots, erasures, fissures, revisions, or alterna- print, periodicals, lending libraries, stages. Top- Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Alanna K. Brown tives in the light of the Recovery project; queer ics can include Carey, Brown, Cobbett, Frank- ([email protected]). and gender studies; new cultural geographies. lin, women writers, theatrical or cultural Lamenting Tribal Language Loss. 15-min. 1-page abstracts by 1 Mar.; Jesse Alemán performances. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; proposals exploring issues related to the loss of ([email protected]). Carla Mulford ([email protected]). Native American languages in literature and Reading “Lewis and Clark.” The bicenten- culture and capturing the emotional distress Comparative Studies nial celebration has witnessed the proliferation associated with this loss. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; of documentaries, commemorations, poems, Frederick H. White ([email protected]). COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE and novels on this famous expedition. This Teaching through the Crossfire: Student Animals and Ethics in the Middle Ages. panel solicits papers that critically analyze Anger in the Native Literature Classroom. Animals before the law, exemplary animals, these productions. 2-page proposals by 15-min. presentations addressing the question animal suffering. Abstracts by 7 Mar.; Jeanette 15 Mar.; Dana D. Nelson. “How should teachers respond when students Beer ([email protected]). react with anger to Native literature and is- 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE sues?” Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Joanne DiNova Professional Issues in Medieval Studies. American Antipathy. Hatred, anger, con- ([email protected]). Technical training, pedagogy, language prepa- tempt, revulsion, fear, envy, anxiety, panic, ration, institutional resources. Abstracts by paranoia, mistrust, disidentification. What lies ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE 7 Mar.; Marilynn Desmond (mdesmon@ beyond or beneath sympathy in 19th-century Asian Pacific American Travel Narratives. binghamton.edu). American literature and culture? Proposals by Returning, visiting, migrating, touring. Dias- Queer Theorists in the Middle Ages. 1 Mar.; Pat Crain ([email protected]). pora, tourism, geography. Tales, stories, histo- Where is queer theory already embedded in The Critical Archive. Brief presentations ar- ries, literature, film, or visual media. 1-page medieval ethics, theology, literature, and law? guing for the relevance of a critical or theoreti- vitae and 500-word proposals by 15 Mar.; Abstracts by 7 Mar.; Bill Burgwinkle (web25@ cal text, past or present, that scholars of Greta Niu ([email protected]). cam.ac.uk). NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 9

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COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE Bibliomania and Bibliophobia. Institutional LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH AND BAROQUE LITERATURE and material histories of archive fever; bibli- RENAISSANCE, EXCLUDING SHAKESPEARE Comparative Literacies. What do compara- ography; the book as fetish; the ordering and British 16th-Century Literature in a Trans- tive stances contribute to recent debates over disordering of print. 500-word proposals by national or Specifically European Context. and redefinitions of early modern literacy? 15 Mar.; Deidre Lynch ([email protected]). Theories of inter- and contextuality and of cul- How are Renaissance and baroque literacies 18th-Century Enchantments: Theory, tural translation. Translations; appropriations; sources; political, literary intertexts; cross- differently theorized? Abstracts addressing Magic, and the Irrational. Papers on both cultural critiques. Papers or 2-page abstracts by polyglossia, alternative, non-Western and 18th-century themes and contemporary ap- 15 Mar.; Susanne Wofford ([email protected]). nonalphabetic literacies by 10 Mar.; Bianca proaches to the 18th century. 500-word pro- Calabresi ([email protected]). posals by 15 Mar.; Julia Douthwaite (julia.v Contemporary Poets and Renaissance Comparative Studies and the Early Ameri- [email protected]). Verse. On the ways in which Renaissance cas. How does the “hemispheric perspective,” poems, poetics, and forms inspire, infuriate, which compares texts, performances, and tra- EUROPEAN LITERARY RELATIONS and inform modern practice. 1-page abstracts ditions in a colonial context, transform colonial Neostoicism in Early Modern Europe: A by 1 Mar.; Joseph Loewenstein. studies? How are these new approaches posi- Reconsideration. The revival of Stoicism in May and Ringler’s Bibliography and First- tioned vis-à-vis comparative literature? Ab- literary or visual texts written in England, Line Index of English Verse, 1559–1603. stracts by 10 Mar.; Barbara Fuchs (fuchsbar@ France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, or An examination of the recently published sas.upenn.edu). Spain. The international republic of letters: index to Elizabethan poetry, focusing on its use History in and around Comparative Liter- thoughts on community, exchanges, dialogue(s). as a reference work and what it tells us about ature. How do the disciplines of history and Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Lia Schwartz the verse of the period. 1-page abstracts by literature intersect in comparative studies? ([email protected]) 1 Mar.; Douglas Bruster. Does historicization contradict, support, politi- cize, etc. the conceptual nature of comparative English Literature SHAKESPEARE studies of the Renaissance and baroque? Ab- Shakespeare and Humanist Education. stracts by 10 Mar.; Abby Zanger (zanger@fas OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Humanist education in relation to Shake- .harvard.edu). Church and State: Alfred to Cnut speare’s works—topics, practices, ideology, and Beyond. erotics. 2-page abstracts by 7 Mar.; Lynne COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Creating Community: Kinship, Class, Magnusson ([email protected]). AND THE 19TH CENTURY and Gender. 17TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE The Bildungsroman and Comparative Lit- Open Session. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Lisa Heresy in 17th-Century England. Nature erature. Reflections on the idea or genre of the Weston ([email protected]). Bildungsroman in relation to ideas of Bildung and significance of religious, sexual, political, or literary heresy. Canonical and noncanonical and comparative literature; or comparative ap- MIDDLE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND writers. Radicalism and the state. Print and the proaches to the Bildungsroman; or (preferably) LITERATURE, EXCLUDING CHAUCER both at once. 500-word abstracts by 15 Mar.; promulgation of heresy. Abstracts or papers by Old Age. While figures of old age are less com- 8 Mar.; John Rogers ([email protected]). Marc Redfield. mon in Middle English literature than those of Comparing Knowledge I: Comparing Dis- youth, where we find them they register im- Marvell for the 21st Century. A session ciplines. Comparing disciplines (literature, portantly. Papers are invited taking up these marking the appearance of new major editions philosophy, science) as forms of knowledge. characters in context. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; of Marvell’s poetry and prose. Any aspect of Marvell’s life, works, politics, or literary rela- Crossing disciplines: the philosophizing or po- Robert Yeager ([email protected]). tionships. Abstracts or papers by 8 Mar.; Anna- liticization of science, the philosophy of art, Outlaws and Out of Law. Illegal identities bel Patterson ([email protected]). philosophy as an art, the historicization of phi- and communities in medieval literature, and losophy and aesthetics. the alternatives and models they suggest to 17th-Century Women. Domesticity, religion, Comparing Knowledge II: Comparing constituted authority. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; and politics; bridging of public and private; Epistemes. Nationalities of knowledge Geraldine Heng ([email protected]). state, privacy, and individualism; gender and sexuality; fiction and nonfictional life writings. (German versus British philosophy; French What Does a Doctoral Student Want? 10- versus German science; aesthetics versus lit- Abstracts or papers by 8 Mar.; Katharine Gil- min. position papers from doctoral candidates lespie ([email protected]). erary criticism). Comparing disciplines or or- on the field, profession, pedagogy, culture, in- ganizations of knowledge (encyclopedias, stitutions, or very category of Middle English. archives) in Romanticism versus the later RESTORATION AND EARLY-18TH-CENTURY Where we are, where we should head. Propos- ENGLISH LITERATURE 19th century. 500-word abstracts by 15 Mar.; als by 15 Mar.; Christina Fitzgerald (christina Tilottama Rajan. Sex in the 18th-Century City. Sexualities .fi[email protected]). and gender identities in the context of urban- ization; city-country comparisons; scandal and COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN 20TH- CHAUCER CENTURY LITERATURE scandalous desires; prostitution; molly houses; Chaucer and Lyric. Any aspect of Chaucer’s theater; seduction narratives; novels of amo- Comparative Approaches to Identity Stud- lyrics, including those interpolated into larger rous intrigue. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Lisa Free- ies. The construction, articulation, or contes- works. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Larry Scanlon man ([email protected]). tation of identity (race, ethnicity, gender, ([email protected]). sexuality, nationality, religion, etc.) in two or Sounds in the 18th-Century City. The aural more cultural or historical contexts. May in- Chaucer and the Politics of Literary Form. experience in the city or city compared to volve comparisons between identity catego- Convergences of the aesthetic and the political country. Soundscapes, habits of listening, ries. Abstracts by 7 Mar.; Jarrod Hayes in Chaucer’s work or in the study of Chaucer. acoustics and epistemology, noise and alterity, ([email protected]). Abstracts by 15 Mar.; H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. oral culture. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Paula Mc- ([email protected]). Dowell ([email protected]). COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN 18TH- Moral Chaucer. The place of Chaucer and The World in the 18th-Century City. Cos- CENTURY LITERATURE his contemporaries in the construction of mopolitanism, urban contact zones, exoticism, The Advantages of Anachronism. The limits morality in late medieval England and in the luxury imports, worldly commodities, travel of periodization; the utility of presentism; and growth of specific vernacular features in En- narratives, relations between colonies and the destabilization of “the 18th century.” 500- glish moral thought of this period. Abstracts urban centers, foreigners, diverse populations, word proposals by 15 Mar.; Lynn Festa by 15 Mar.; Richard Newhauser (rnewhaus@ religion versus worldliness. Any genre. ([email protected]). trinity.edu). (continued on next page) NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 10

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(continued from previous page) of wealth and poverty. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; 16TH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE Enda Duffy ([email protected]). Open topic. Papers on any aspect of 16th- Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Laura Rosenthal (lr118@ Mind the Gap: Body, Brain, or Between? century French literature. umail.umd.edu). Papers on the relation between mind and Reading the Renaissance. Which recent ap- body, circa 1870–1925. Issues may involve proaches (e.g., geographical exploration, gender, LATE-18TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE phenomenology, artistic representations of em- the book market) are the most useful for under- Epistolary Affection. 1-page abstracts by bodiment, trauma, obsession, psychosomatics, standing French Renaissance literature and cul- 1 Mar.; George Haggerty ([email protected]). denigration or valorization of superficiality. ture? How does a particular methodology inform, complicate, or distort our reading? 8–10- Traveling “Nature” in the Late 18th Cen- Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jessica Burstein (jb2@u page papers or 500-word abstracts by 15 Mar.; tury. 18th-century travel writing drew on nu- .washington.edu). Cathy Yandell ([email protected]). merous discourses to investigate and interrogate The Nineties and the Decadents. New views “nature,” including human nature; papers may of the decadent movement; the decadent move- 17TH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE be comparative or may treat a single writer. ment in the context of other literatures of the Justices et passions de la vengeance: De 1-page abstracts by 1 Mar.; Elizabeth Bohls. 1890s; decadence and religion, science, empire; l’Ancien Régime au XXIème siècle. How re- women writers of decadence; decadence and War and Peace: War and National Identity venge (private/public, legitimate/unjust) oper- in the Late 18th Century. 1-page abstracts American literature. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; ates in the ancien régime and in recent, by 1 Mar.; Charlotte Sussman, Natl. Humani- Marjorie Howes ([email protected]). national, ethnic, and religious conflicts. 1-page ties Center, 7 Alexander Dr., PO Box 12256, abstracts by 15 Mar.; Eric Méchoulan, Etudes Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2256 20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE Françaises, Université de Montréal, CP 6128 ([email protected]). England in Europe. Relations between ideas succ.centre-ville, Montréal, PQ H3C 3J7, of England and ideas of Europe; English litera- Canada ([email protected]). ture and Europe; the new England/Britain and THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC PERIOD Philosophers of Death. Proposals concern- Ladies’ Magazines, 1770–1840. Forms, the new Europe. Effects of immigration, exile, new theories of nation and citizenship. Ab- ing discourse on learning to die and concern- contexts, audiences, politics, evolution, mar- ing the way consciousness of death shaped keting, content (literary or visual), authors, stracts and vitae by 1 Mar.; Rebecca L. Walko- witz ([email protected]). writing about life. 300–500-word abstracts editors, illustrators, publication histories. for15-min. papers by 15 Mar.; John Lyons, 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Paula Feldman Philo-Semitism and Anti-Semitism: New Dept. of French, Univ. of Virginia, PO Box ([email protected]). Challenges. Papers interrogating relations be- 400770, Charlottesville 22904-4770 (jdlyons@ Psychopathologies of Everyday Romanti- tween philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism in virginia.edu). cism. Questions of habit, attachments, mem- modern English cultural production and theo- ory, symptoms, therapies in Romantic-era retical and political effects of reassessment. 18TH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE 250-word abstracts, 8-page papers, and vitae texts; developments in contemporary psychol- Communication: Forms, Techniques, by 15 Mar.; Phyllis Lassner (phyllisl@ ogy; the political uses of psychoanalytic theo- Ideals. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Daniel northwestern.edu). ries; psychoanalysis and history. 1-page Brewer ([email protected]). abstracts by 15 Mar.; Sonia Hofkosh (sonia ENGLISH LITERATURE OTHER THAN Critique and Criticism. Authorial interven- [email protected]). BRITISH AND AMERICAN tions; editorial decisions and choices; falsifica- tion and plagiarism; debates, provocations, and Short Stories: Romanticism and Shorter Africa in India, India in Africa. Both terms querelles; questions of legitimacy and author- Narrative Forms. Innovations in fiction and can be read literally and metaphorically: the ity. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Downing creative nonfiction prose; the status of the Caribbean, for example, is not beyond scope. Thomas ([email protected]). story in annuals, individual careers, literary How has literature reflected the cross- histories. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Mary fertilizations of large migrations, voluntary or The Other Theaters: Foire, Boulevard, Pa- Favret ([email protected]). enforced? 300-word abstracts and vitae by rade, Opéra comique, Vaudeville, Marion- 15 Mar.; John C. Hawley. nettes. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Nadine THE VICTORIAN PERIOD Berenguier ([email protected]). Edward Said: New Perspectives. Critical en- Hybrids I: Double Forms. How do the mul- gagements and fresh directions. tiple uses of sequels, pendants, textual and in- 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE tertextual foils, literary forgeries, divisions, and Writing in a Foreign Language. Particu- Feminists and Antifeminists. Canonical or serial rearrangements betoken distinctly new larly interested in writers in English, from noncanonical authors who directly or in- modes of perception and representation? any era, beyond the Anglophone world (e.g., directly set forth arguments for or against Eco, Farah, Dorfman; Kundera in French) granting rights to women or other forms of Hybrids II: Generic Mixes. How characteris- and beyond canonically nativized English tically “Victorian” are the cross-generic and in- feminine empowerment. Abstracts or papers writers such as Conrad and Nabokov. 500- by 1 Mar.; Doris Y. Kadish ([email protected]). terdisciplinary splicings so prevalent in the word proposals and vitae by 15 Mar.; David era? How are such mixings related to the Chioni Moore. Geriatric Sex. Narrative representations of emergence of new cross-cultural and cross- sex (and love) d’un certain age (and beyond) in generational audiences? French Literature works by canonical and noncanonical writers. Hybrids III: Psychosocial Amalgams. How Papers or abstracts by 1 Mar.; Charles J. Stivale ([email protected]) and Deborah Harter does the transhistorical and transnational yok- FRENCH MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE ([email protected]). ing of disparate eras and races revise binaries AND LITERATURE from earlier periods (ancients versus moderns, Codex and Context. 250-word abstracts by Papier à musique: Musique sur papier. urban versus pastoral, metropole versus colo- e-mail by 15 Mar.; Jody Enders (jenders@ 19th-century responses to music: representa- nial, etc.)? 1-page abstracts by 10 Mar.; U. C. french-ital.ucsb.edu). tions of concerts, songs, performances in liter- Knoepflmacher. ary texts; music criticism’s impact on literary Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age. texts; response to major composers; musical LATE-19TH- AND EARLY-20TH-CENTURY 250-word abstracts by e-mail by 15 Mar.; innovations and poetry. Abstracts or papers by ENGLISH LITERATURE Michel-André Bossy (michel-andre_bossy@ 1 Mar.; Rosemary Lloyd ([email protected]) The Clan Question and Protomodernism. brown.edu). and Adrianna Paliyenko ([email protected]). New ways of thinking about class divisions, Poetics of Personification in Medieval clan consciousness, social and cultural capital French Literature. 250-word abstracts by 20TH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE and its relation to the origins of modernist e-mail by 15 Mar.; Paul Rockwell Cinema’s Encounters with Literary Form. form; snobberies and elitisms; representations ([email protected]). How French cinema has transformed models NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 11

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of narrative, lyricism, or drama. 2-page pro- to decolonization movements. Papers on poet- texts as well as topics such as literary history, posals by 15 Mar.; Steven Winspur ries from outside the United States and Europe teaching, or the state of the field. ([email protected]). especially welcome. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Ada- Text as Spectacle, Spectacle as Text. Explore Lessons from the 20th Century: War Fic- laide Morris ([email protected]) and intersections of the visual and the textual, tion. 1-page proposals by 15 Mar.; Ora Avni Juliana Spahr ([email protected]). themes such as visual metaphors, text-image ([email protected]). Visioning the Contemporary Canon. Papers relations, ekphrasis, the organization of manu- scripts and prints, spectacles and their docu- Religions and the Republic. 1-page propos- on “what gets taught”: Is the canon closed? Is there anything newer than “Language Poetry”? mentation. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Helmut Puff als by 15 Mar.; Ann Smock (asmock@socrates ([email protected]). .berkeley.edu). Who or what limits anthologies and disserta- tion topics? 500-word abstracts by 15 Mar.; Lorenzo Thomas ([email protected]). 18TH- AND EARLY-19TH-CENTURY FRANCOPHONE LITERATURES GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURES PROSE FICTION Open topic. This session topic will be de- Contemporary Quebec Literature: Becom- termined on the basis of all proposals sub- Forms of Feeling. Three sessions on affect, ing Transcultural. Works by writers from mitted on 18th- and 19th-century German emotions, and passions in reading, writing, other cultural horizons have opened the cul- literature topics. tural space of Quebec literature. How have and teaching of prose fiction. Papers on indi- Sex, Gender, and the Body. Proposals con- such literary voices transformed Quebec’s cul- vidual affects or theoretical frameworks wel- cerning heterosexuality, same-sex desire, gen- tural space? Brief biographies and abstracts by come. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Laura Green der, sexual orientation or identities in 18th- 15 Mar.; Eloise Brière ([email protected]). ([email protected]). and 19th-century literary texts, medical dis- Oral Literature and Politics. Oral literature LITERARY CRITICISM courses, diaries, art, aesthetics, etc. and political satire and parody. Brief biogra- Forms of Experiment. Examinations of the Travel and Nation, Self, and Other. Propos- phies and abstracts by 15 Mar.; Roseanna Du- als concerning travel beyond German borders fault ([email protected]). relations between form and experimentation. Approaches from literature, theory, film, sci- and its impact on constructions of nationhood, Traveling Diasporas. Biographical, theoreti- ence, music, or aesthetics welcome. 500-word self, or race in 18th–19th-century travelogues, cal, and intertextual cross-currents, e.g., Ca- abstracts only (e-mail preferred; no attach- texts, etc. Submit by 1 Mar.; Susan Gustafson ribbean and African to Canada, the United ments) by 12 Mar.; E. L. McCallum (emc@ ([email protected]). States, Europe, and beyond. Outsiders looking msu.edu). in, crossing languages, traveling theories. Brief 19TH- AND EARLY-20TH-CENTURY GERMAN LITERATURE biographies and abstracts by 15 Mar.; Clarisse METHODS OF LITERARY RESEARCH Zimra ([email protected]). Origins of Totalitarianism. Literary and cul- Early Modern Women in the Archives. De- tural origins of fascism and communism. Lib- tailed abstracts or papers on discoveries or Genre Studies eral and illiberal romanticism; Hegel, Marx, readings of texts, life records, or other archival Wagner, Nietzsche; anti-Semitism, colonialism, materials that illuminate early modern wom- DRAMA and the authoritarian state. Bureaucracy and en’s writing (c. 1500–1800) by 1 Mar.; Elizabeth culture; avant-gardes and revolution. Ab- Utopia in Performance. “Utopian performa- Hageman ([email protected]). tives” as “doings” crafted from interactions be- stracts by 1 Mar.; Russell Berman (berman@ stanford.edu). tween performers and spectators; communitas; AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, AND ethics; affect; performance that models how to LIFE WRITING “do” fluid, nonhegemonic utopias. 300-word 20TH-CENTURY GERMAN LITERATURE Technologies of the Self. Whether or how The Discursive and Textual Effects of Glob- abstracts by 1 Mar.; Jill Dolan ([email protected] new media, new technologies of the human .utexas.edu). alism. Features of a global poetics, role of di- sensorium, etc. produce new forms of self- versity and particularity in a globalized world, representation, with what potential challenges relation of feminism to globalization. FILM to theories of identity? New hybrid identities Globalism and Its Impact on German Brotherly Love. “Philadelphia” invites reflec- or forms? tion on cinematic modes of fraternal attach- Studies. Interdisciplinarity in the context of a Travel Writing, Empire, Globalization. ment. How is brotherly love invoked, changing discipline; submissions in all areas of Travel writing in transnational contexts, within displaced, or translated in political, generic, 20th-century German literature that reflect on religious, historical, queer idioms of affiliation or against empire, in relation to globalization. the impact of globalization on German studies. and attachment? Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Aaron Papers considering how we travel now and Toward a History of Globalism. History of Baker ([email protected]). how such travel might be represented in globalization as it relates to 20th-century Ger- (auto)biographical projects especially welcome. man culture, the trajectory of globalization in NONFICTION PROSE STUDIES, EXCLUDING Why Ethics? Why Now? The Crisis in Au- 20th-century German culture and beyond. BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY tobiography, Biography, and Life Writing. 1-page abstracts by 12 Mar.; Sabine Wilke Embedding Nonfiction. How does inclusion How or why questions of ethics have arisen in ([email protected]). of scientific, environmental, legal, medical, contemporary autobiography, biography, life technical, bibliographical, polemical, or elec- writing? Ethics as opposed to what other Hispanic Literatures tronic documents “embedded” in contempo- frames? Problem of norms in life writing? rary literature alter context, offer proof, Abstracts by 10 Mar.; (lgilmore@socrates LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM challenge boundaries? E-mail queries by .berkeley.edu). INDEPENDENCE TO 1900 5 Mar.; abstracts by 15 Mar.; Cheryl J. Fish Modernidad y ciencia. Cruces discursivos ([email protected]). German Literature entre ciencia y literatura en las obras de los Reportage, Race, and War. Studies of race in modernistas en Latinoamérica. 1-page abstracts reportage about war in any time period. Com- GERMAN LITERATURE TO 1700 (Spanish or English) by 14 Mar.; Francisco parative pieces welcome. Queries by 1 Mar.; Conflict and Peacemaking in Premodern Solares-Larrave ([email protected]). abstracts by 15 Mar. by e-mail only; Todd German Literature. Strife counts among the Representing Masculinities in 19th- Vogel ([email protected]). dominant themes in premodern literature. Century Latin America. Discussions of This session will discuss representations and dandies, flaneurs, heroic, sentimental, and do- POETRY rituals of conflict as well as how forms of toler- mestic masculinities. 1-page abstracts (Spanish Cultural Strategies and Poetic Communi- ation emerge from hostilities. or English) by 14 Mar.; Ana Peluffo ties. Poetry’s role in cultural resistance and Open Session. Submissions on aspects of pre- ([email protected]). preservation, such as the importance of poetry 1750 German literature, readings of individual (continued on next page) NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 12

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(continued from previous page) 20TH-CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE tural studies. 1-page abstracts or papers by Historical Imagination in Turn-of-the- 10 Mar.; Santa Arias ([email protected]). Utile et dulce: La literatura infanto-juvenil Century Spanish Cinema: Memory, Nostal- Public Spectacles and Clandestine Perfor- del XIX en Latinoamérica. Ciudadanías, gia, and Remembrance. Explores filmic mances in Colonial Latin America. Exam- agendas, pedagogías. Énfasis en el ejemplar- mechanisms of distance and proximity through ine spectacles and performances that reinforce ismo, el sentimentalismo y el eros lector como which public and private history is docu- or weaken social control, define and under- estrategias de escritura y lectura. 1-page ab- mented, aestheticized, and turned into collec- mine social codes, including theater, festivals, stracts (Spanish or English) by 14 Mar.; Raúl tive memory. 1-page abstracts by 1 Mar.; Isolina executions and rituals of secret societies. Ab- Ianes ([email protected]). Ballesteros, Dept. of Romance Langs. and Lits., stracts by 1 Mar.; Kathryn McKnight Wesleyan Univ., 300 High St., Middletown, CT ([email protected]). 20TH-CENTURY LATIN 06457 ([email protected]). AMERICAN LITERATURE Cuba in the Postmillennial Imagination. 16TH- AND 17TH-CENTURY SPANISH DRAMA Interdisciplinary Approaches Contemporary fascination with Cuba among Geography and the Comedia. How is geogra- ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES artists, filmmakers, journalists, literary schol- phy represented in the comedia? Does the TO LITERATURE ars, students, study-abroad directors, writers. transgression of the unity of space make the Anthropologies of the Secular. Critical ge- Abstracts by 5 Mar.; Lucille Kerr (lckerr@ comedia a hybrid genre? Can we establish a nealogies of the secular and secularism, which northwestern.edu). “poetics of space” for the comedia? may lead to reconsiderations of the culture From Postmodernism to Globalization. Science and the Comedia. What scientific concept in an age of globalization. Abstracts Latin America and the transition from de- ideas (e.g., medical [health practices], psycho- by 15 Mar.; Vincent Pecora (pecora@humnet bates about postmodernism to discussions logical, legal, or cosmological) inform the .ucla.edu). of globalization. Abstracts by 5 Mar.; María baroque comedia in Spain? What would be the Evidence and (Literary or Ethnological) Rosa Olivera Williams (olivera-williams.1@ dramatic function of invoking scientific prac- Objects. At what point does literature know it nd.edu). tices in the comedia? Verisimilitude? is in the presence of anthropology or vice Theology and the Comedia. What theologi- The Place(s) of Latino Studies. Languages versa? Under what conditions does a thing or cal ideas inform the comedia of counter- and objects of study, disciplinary and geo- text become an object of inquiry? Historical reformation Spain? How is theology treated in graphical locations, and institutionalization of and theoretical considerations. Abstracts by the comedia? Issues of ecclesiastical censorship Latino studies. Abstracts by 5 Mar.; Claire F. 15 Mar.; Brad Evans ([email protected]). Fox ([email protected]). may be addressed. Consider also the use of stagecraft and tramoyas. 1-page abstracts by Primitive Marriage: 19th-Century Theories 10 Mar.; A. Robert Lauer ([email protected]). of Marriage and Kinship. Papers on 19th- SPANISH MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE century anthropological ideas appearing in an- AND LITERATURE LUSO-BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE thropological or literary texts. Abstracts by Exemplary Animals in Medieval Iberian AND LITERATURE e-mail (no attachments) by 15 Mar.; Kathy Literature. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Mary-Anne Concretism and Beyond: A Tribute to Alexis Psomiades ([email protected]). Vetterling ([email protected]). Haroldo de Campos. Papers about concrete Open Topic. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Isidro J. poetry and related theory, translations, inter- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Rivera ([email protected]). locutors, interrelations, legacies, and polemics Children’s Literature and the Left. Rela- Visions of the East in Medieval Iberia. Ab- in all artistic fields, national and international tions between children’s literature and pro- stracts by 15 Mar.; Consuelo López Morillas contexts. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Christopher gressive political movements. Possible topics: ([email protected]) Dunn ([email protected]). the Bank Street School, activist children’s Lusophone World in Global Dialogue. books, and authors with related interests. 16TH- AND 17TH-CENTURY SPANISH Papers examining literary and cultural transac- 1-page abstracts by 1 Mar.; Philip Nel POETRY AND PROSE tions, migrations and (mis)translations be- ([email protected]). Chains, Frames, and Hybrids: Narrative tween Portuguese-speaking countries and Children’s Literature and the Literary. Forms in the Spanish Golden Age. Ab- other parts of the world as well as transcul- Papers exploring the literary and the aesthetic stracts for 20-min. papers on a variety of 16th- tural exchanges within the Lusophone world. in children’s literature and children’s cultural and 17th-century genres and texts. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Anna Klobucka studies, literariness in specific texts, or chil- Circa 1605: Exploring the Cervantine Mo- ([email protected]). dren’s literature’s disciplinary status. Detailed ment. Abstracts for 20-min. papers on a vari- Transgenderings. Critical papers focusing abstracts by 1 Mar.; Richard Flynn (rflynn@ ety of topics that investigate the cultural on transgender identities in the Portuguese- gasou.edu). moment in which the Quijote appeared. speaking world. Representations, reflections, Philip Pullman. Critical approaches to Pull- Teaching Golden Age Poetry: Challenges, debates in literature, history, film, media, or man’s life and works; 8-page papers or 2-page Choices, and Strategies. Abstracts for 10- popular culture. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Fer- abstracts by 7 Mar.; Lisa Rowe Fraustino min. presentations designed to stimulate dis- nando Arenas ([email protected]). ([email protected]). cussion. Abstracts by 12 Mar.; Ignacio Navarrete ([email protected]). COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES ETHNIC STUDIES IN LANGUAGE Coloniality and Modernity in Latin Amer- AND LITERATURE 18TH- AND 19TH-CENTURY ica. Critical examinations of the relation be- Ethnicity in the Hood: Ethnic Artists from SPANISH LITERATURE tween coloniality and modernity in Latin Philadelphia and Other Urban Locations. Open Topic. Any topic related to 18th- and America. Of particular interest, the ways in Performances or papers by or on ethnic artists 19th-century Spanish literature. Abstracts by which coloniality and modernity manifest who have made of an urban “hood” a factor in 1 Mar.; Alda Blanco ([email protected]). themselves in (or as) colonial discourse. 1-page their artistic endeavor. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Peripheral Enlightenments. Practices, abstracts by 10 Mar.; Galen Brokaw (brokaw@ Luzma Umpierre ([email protected]). texts, and agents working outside the margins buffalo.edu). Ethnic Studies under Siege. Roundtable dis- of centers of “Enlightenment” traditionally Opening the Canon to Other Voices and cussion analyzing disciplinary challenges fac- the focus of histories of the period. Papers on Textualities. Thinking about the importance ing US ethnic studies programs since 9/11 and regional, gendered, spatial, institutional, or of foregrounding marginal voices and dis- conceptualizing new directions for the study of textual-theoretical peripheries welcome. Ab- cussing the pedagogical, theoretical, and ethnicity and culture in a transnational social stracts by 1 Mar.; Rebecca Haidt (haidt.1@ (inter)disciplinary concerns reshaping the field climate. Proposals by e-mail by 1 Mar.; Marcial osu.edu). of colonial Latin American literary and cul- González ([email protected]) NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/0412:20PMPage13

CAMERA’S EYE PHOTOGRAPHY fined eitherasone’s uniquepersonalityoras Religion and Authorial Identity. ([email protected]). cretism. Abstractsby 8Mar.; David Damrosch pers ontheliteraryimpactofreligioussyn- Balinese puppetsstagethe mingle: Native Americanscomposepsalms, often beentransformedasreligioustraditions Literary Syncretism. LITERATURE ANDRELIGION Elissa Marder. Technology. Walter BenjaminintheAge ofNew Images andtheEvent. Architecture andtheBody. LITERATURE ANDOTHER ARTS po.cwru.edu). ([email protected]) andTodd Oakley (tro2@ word abstractsby 11Mar.; MargaretFreeman linguistic analysesofliterarytexts. 300–500- Papers characterizing theoreticalfeaturesof Literary Linguistics:Toward aDefinition. perspective ofliterarytexts fromany genre. presenting specificanalysesfromalinguistic Literary Linguistics:Approaches. LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LITERATURE Abelove ([email protected]). page abstractsandvitaeby 5Mar.; Henry Queer Japan:Literature andCulture. williams.edu). by 1Mar.; KathrynR.Kent (kathryn.r.kent@ AIDS andRepresentation. LITERATURE AND GAY STUDIESINLANGUAGE ([email protected]). stracts by 1Mar.; MarthaJ. Cutter texts, infilm,art,etc. 250–500-word ab- the constructionofurbanethnicityinliterary ethnicities andethniccommunities?Topics: of thecityenableordisableconstructions Urban Ethnicities. 500-word abstractsby 10 Mar.; How dotheurbanspaces Literary genreshave Mahabharata 1-page abstracts Identity de- Papers . Pa- Half- Anime and LITERATURE ANDSCIENCE marriage, migrants, “illegals,” etc. 500-word health carecrises, alternative families, gay implications ofadoptionandparental rights; before theLaw. Psychoanalysis andthePolitical: Abject LITERATURE TO PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES 1 Mar.; Tom Foster ([email protected]). comics, iconicity, andstereotype. Abstractsby Web cross-cultural circulation,politicalcomics, Art. Comics, Graphic Novels, andSequential POPULAR CULTURE yorku.ca). proposals by 15Mar.; IanBalfour(ibalfour@ isting deathpenalties. Abstracts, papers, or the deathpenalty(orpenalties)oractuallyex- considerations ofaspectsdiscourseabout Death Penalties. LITERATURE TO PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES Semiotics andGeometry. Metaphor intheTrading Zone:Between tha StoddardHolmes([email protected]). Narrative. Medical Intervention andtheLifeCycle ([email protected]). word abstractsby 1Mar.; Pamela Gossin and cyberneticthemesnarratives. 250- els). Emphasisonapocalyptic, environmental, Japanese animationand tural, artistic, scientific, andtechnologicalin Human/Nature. .edu) andJamesJ. Paxson (jpaxson@ufl.edu). by 1Mar.; MartinE. Rosenberg (mer19@psu ([email protected]) ([email protected]) orDayton Haskin 8-page papersby 8Mar.; CarolV. Kaske works ofSpenser, Donne, Herbert,andMilton. one’s gender, race, andclass, especiallyinthe Possible topics includehybrid media, 250-word abstractsby 1Mar.; Mar- Manga Psychic andsociopolitical A panelontheliterary, cul- Philosophical ortheoretical : Animated/Graphic manga 250-word abstracts (graphic nov- L ESETR•Spring2004Page 13 NEWSLETTER MLA albany.edu). New York, Albany 12222(hennessy@ of Univ. English,State of mary Hennessy, Dept. resistance here. Abstractsby 10 Mar.; Rose- opment, andthepossibilitiesfororganizing alliance, theroleofuniversity initsdevel- understanding ofthenew military-corporate Capital, University. Approaching, OpposingFascism: State, LITERATURE TO SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES son ([email protected]). 2-page abstractsby 15Mar.; CharlesShepherd- democracy, agency, citizenship).Vitaeand sis andcurrenttheoriesofthepolitical(radical relation between the“subject”ofpsychoanaly- tivity andCitizenship. Psychoanalysis andthePolitical: Subjec- Callum ([email protected]). ferred; noattachments)by 15Mar.; E. L.Mc- or translations. Abstractsonly(e-mailpre- psychoanalysis forindividuals, groups, nations, approaches toquestionsofaccessinand analysis be?Political, theoretical,orclinical mocratization? How accessibleshouldpsycho- be democratized?Whatarethelimitsofitsde- tizing Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis andthePolitical: Democra- both bequeathedparadigmsforlife andart. and Alberti(b. 1404),papersonhow either or berti. Models for LifeandArt:Petrarch andAl- LITERATURE ITALIAN MEDIEVAL ANDRENAISSANCE Italian Literature (echang@ Chang Elaine Feb.; uoguelph.ca). 20 by papers vitae 15-min. and or abstracts other 2-page and differences? sexual, gender, of and notions reinforce, rewrite unsettle, criminal crime (as) feminized female and the of representations do Criminality/Liminality. and Women and culturalcontexts, languages, etc. welcome. across genres, media,historicalperiods, social differences ineconomiesofamusement.Work laughter, wit,irony; gender, sexual andother and theorizationsofcomedy, satire, humor, Funny Women. community, spirituality. ality, friendship,philanthropy, intimacy, der theory:e.g., desire, familyrelations, sexu- topic inwomen’s writingandfeministorgen- Feminists inandonLove. LITERATURE AND WOMEN’S STUDIESINLANGUAGE carleton.edu). stracts by 15Mar.; SilviaLopez(slopez@ of historicalandformalelements. 2-pageab- specific aestheticformthroughaconstellation the notionofconstellationorinquiringintoa thetics (Benjamin,Adorno), eitheraddressing Forms. Constellations: TheSocialLifeofAesthetic utah.edu). Mar.; EstherRashkin (esther.rashkin@ 15 abstracts, briefvitae(noattachments)by For thecentennialsofPetrarch (b. 1304) Papers dealing withlateMarxistaes- Women’s contributionsto (continued onnextpage) Analyses thatfurther Should psychoanalysis Papers addressingthe Any aspectofthe How NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 14

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(continued from previous page) this change in influence and intertextuality. Internet-mediated foreign language study. The 500-word abstracts, provisional bibliographies research may represent diverse theoretical Open Session. Papers on any topic in Italian by 10 Mar.; Stefania Lucamante (lucamante@ approaches including interactional socio- medieval or Renaissance literature. cua.edu) and Luca Somigli (luca.somigli@ linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, Renaissance Italian Literature in the Class- utoronto.ca). interactionist SLA, sociocultural theory, and room. Pedagogical approaches to presenting communication theory. specific texts, broad cultural movements, and Language Studies Research on Study Abroad. Original re- various theoretical issues in 14th- to 16th- search reports on any aspect of study abroad century Italian literature. 300-word abstracts LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY in any foreign language. Research reports from by 10 Mar. Sherry Roush ([email protected]). Language and Society. All aspects of the in- diverse theoretical perspectives encouraged. teraction between language and social factors; 400-word abstracts by 20 Feb.; Julie A. Belz 17TH-, 18TH-, AND 19TH-CENTURY the linguistic analysis of social phenomena. ([email protected]). ITALIAN LITERATURE Language Variation and Change. How so- From Play to Opera: Trends and Develop- cial, geographical, economic, or gender factors LANGUAGE CHANGE ments in Italian Theater from the Baroque influence language variation and change. Pa- Open Session. to the Late 1800s. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Mas- pers about William Labov’s work in this area The Perils of Databases for Studying Lan- simo Lollini ([email protected]). are especially welcome. 500-word abstracts guage Change. What are the biases, obvious Gender and Cultural Identities from the by 15 Mar.; Raúl Aranovich (raranovich@ and covert, of linguistic material in current 1600s to World War I. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; ucdavis.edu). highly-used databases and in the methods of Andrea Ciccarelli ([email protected]). searching them? What do historical linguists need to know? Myths, Rituals, and Commemorations in LANGUAGE THEORY 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italy. Theoretical Approaches to Language Ac- Standardization in Global English, Span- Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Gabriella Romani quistion. Abstracts that discuss how theoreti- ish, and Other World Languages. How can ([email protected]). cal constructs meet (or fail to meet) the data the continued spread of written forms of lan- from L1, L2, bilingual, or multilingual lan- guages beyond national borders and through 20TH-CENTURY ITALIAN LITERATURE guage acquisition. transnational media alter the character, detec- The Ethics and Rhetorics of Ambiguity. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of tion, and trajectory of a 21st-century standard Is there an antiessentialist philosophy of the Interfaces. Abstracts should discuss the inter- language? 2-page abstracts (with bibliographies) body/subject emerging in Italian thought? nal interfaces among core disciplines of lin- by 2 Mar.; Mary Blockley (blockley@mail Are modes of perception regulating knowl- guistics or address the external links with .utexas.edu) and R. D. Fulk ([email protected]). edge connected to social practices? Is generic related fields. Abstracts by 17 Mar.; Alfonso hybridity to be considered a consequence of Morales-Front. HISTORY AND THEORY OF RHETORIC this mode? AND COMPOSITION Social Justice: Is It a Concern in Recent APPLIED LINGUISTICS Rhetorics of Second Wave Feminism. Italian Fiction and Essayism? Are Italian in- Policy Perspectives on Postsecondary For- Practices of persuasion, writing, invention in tellectuals dealing at all with the issue of social eign Language Requirements. Research re- the women’s movement: writers, scenes of justice in their writing? Is recent writing for ports and position papers on how institutional performance, genres. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; many turning into escapism? educational priorities (e.g., internationalization Susan Wells. Writing Narrative through Cinematic of the curriculum) and budgetary constraints Culture: The Inverted Image of the Italian (e.g., increasing class sizes, staffing patterns) Other Languages and Literatures Contemporary Novel. Contemporary novels affect perspectives and policies on the foreign show literary images drawn from cinema, language requirement. AFRICAN LITERATURES media, and computer games rather than from Research on Internet-Mediated Foreign African Language Writing into the 21st more traditional sources. Papers dealing with Language Study. Original research reports on Century. 250-word proposals from any angle on contemporary, indigenous African language writing by one or several authors by 1 Mar.; Charles Cantalupo ([email protected]). The City in African Literatures. Literary or theoretical treatments of urbanization in Africa; the city and colonial discourses; the city and the state; the city and sexuality. 250- word abstracts by 1 Mar.; Olakunle George

CAMERA’S EYE PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA’S ([email protected]). J. M. Coetzee, African Nobelist. Papers on the poetics and politics of Coetzee’s work in the light of his receiving the Nobel Prize. 250- word abstracts by 1 Mar.; Gaurav Desai [email protected].

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES TO 1900 The Dissemination of Literati Culture in East Asia. Papers addressing the dissemina- tion of literati culture in aesthetic, philosophic, and sociohistorical terms and seeking to gener- ate broader insights into literary production, translation, and circulation in the East Asian context. 1-page abstracts by 8 Mar.; Haruo Shi- rane ([email protected]). Participants in the session “Is Now the Time for Paul de Man?” Left to right: Lindsay Waters, Gayatri Miscegenation as a Metaphor: Purity and Chakravorty Spivak, and Ian Balfour. Contamination in East Asian Literature. NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 15

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Papers addressing themes of miscegenation, THE TEACHING OF WRITING CELTIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES contamination, purification and hygiene, de- Linked Courses in Writing Pedagogy. Celtic Studies 2004. Exploring science fiction marcations of exclusion, or other approaches Discussion of actual cases of experimental retellings of Celtic literature. How does “Celtic testing the bounds of generic, national, cul- programs. science fiction” distort original Celtic litera- tural, and racial categories. 1-page abstracts by Literature, Genre Theory, and Writing Ped- ture? What are the pedagogical implications 8 Mar.; Faye Yuan Kleeman (faye.kleeman@ agogy. Innovative uses of genres, languages, for Celtic studies? 500-word abstracts by colorado.edu). and literary conventions in rethinking stu- 1 Mar.; Brian Ó Conchubhair, Irish Studies, dents’ writing and the teaching of writing. Boston Coll., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 ([email protected]). EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND Writing Programs and Academic Freedom. LITERATURES AFTER 1900 External coercions of undergraduate writing CLASSICAL STUDIES AND Asian Cinema: Nation, Region, World. Ex- curricula; the relation of doctoral programs in plore Asian cinemas at national, regional, and MODERN LITERATURE rhetoric and composition to undergraduate Nunc est legendum: Reception of Horace’s global levels and investigate patterns of copro- writing program curricula. Document with ac- duction and the trafficking of themes, genres, Poetry. Considering Horace’s influence on the tual cases. Abstracts by 12 Mar.; David Bleich subsequent literary tradition in terms of topic, and film artists across industries and national ([email protected]). boundaries. 250-word abstracts by 15 Mar.; language, meters, etc. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Sarah Spence ([email protected]). Sheldon Lu ([email protected]). TEACHING AS A PROFESSION Popular Culture in East Asia I: Gender Contingent Faculty Members and Institu- COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO LITERATURE and Family. Specific configurations of gender tional Teaching Cultures: Problems and Cognition and Creativity. What value do and family in popular fiction, performance, TV Solutions. Roundtable discussion on integrat- cognitive accounts of creativity have for under- drama, and film in contemporary East Asia. ing contingent faculty members (part-time and standing authorship, individual literary works, 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Jung-Soon Shim adjunct) into the teaching cultures of depart- trends in literary history, and so forth? 250- ([email protected]). ments at all types of institutions. 500-word word abstracts by 10 Mar.; Patrick Colm Popular Culture in East Asia II: Naming abstracts by 1 Mar.; Randy Bass (bassr@ Hogan ([email protected]). and the Power Politics. Explore issues on the georgetown.edu). politics of naming and the power structures Teaching as Publishing. When and how can COMPARATIVE ROMANCE LINGUISTICS represented in East Asian popular culture. Pa- teaching (written, oral, digital—any genre) be Abstracts covering any aspect of Romance pers related to minority discourse are wel- understood and valued as a way of making languages (phonology, syntax, semantics, mor- come. 8-page drafts by 15 Mar.; Aoi Mori knowledge public and thus of “publishing”? phology) as well as philological studies. Al- ([email protected]). 500-word abstracts by 1 Mar.; Hugh English though preference paid to articles addressing ([email protected]). more than one Romance language, all ab- SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN LITERATURES stracts addressing Romance considered. Ab- stracts by 1 Mar.; Christina Tortora (tortora@ By Word of Mouth: Slavic Oral Traditions. postbox.csi.cuny.edu). Oral tradition and related forms in any of the Discussion Groups Slavic languages. All approaches are welcome, ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE COMPUTER STUDIES IN LANGUAGE as are genres that interface with textuality. Irish Studies and Race. Irish writing and AND LITERATURE 250-word abstracts by 10 Mar.; John Miles race, especially in the wake of postcolonial the- Computing, Theorizing, Communicating. Foley ([email protected]). ory, studies of whiteness, and transatlantic and Papers that explore impacts of computing tools circumatlantic cultures. Abstracts by 5 Mar.; (databases, text analysis software, multimedia, Teaching Marjorie Howes ([email protected]). etc.) on theorizing research, teaching, and communication between language and litera- THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGE ARABIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE ture researchers, students, and the wider com- Sequencing Language Learning: Lessons Arabic Literature in and as Translation. munity. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Donald E. Hardy, from Research. Standards-based curricula Politics and practice of translating Arabic liter- English, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins call for measurable and progressive language ature; translation theory and Arabic literature; 80523 ([email protected]). development in the learner. What works? Ex- translational or bilingual texts; uses of Arabic DISABILITY STUDIES amples may include College Board’s AP in Anglophone and Francophone Arab litera- courses, joint-enrollment, service-learning, ture; cultural translation. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Get Down: Disability, Depression, and Dif- and other programs. Waïl S. Hassan. ference. Alienation and alternatives: how can Smart Classrooms, Hybrid Courses, and we value mental health difference? Differences in time, space, and meaning; marketing depres- the Teaching of Languages. Ways to inte- ARTHURIAN LITERATURE grate technology to promote measurable stu- sion; systems and survivors. Abstracts only by Open Topic. 250-word abstracts by 20 Mar.; 1 Mar.; Tammy Berberi and Petra Kuppers. dent learning. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Carmen C. Rupert T. Pickens. Tesser ([email protected]). GERMANIC PHILOLOGY CANADIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE Topics in Germanic Philology. Papers on Packaging Canada: Canadian Booker Prize any topic dealing with Germanic philology and Cluelessness and Difference in the Litera- Winners and Oprah Best Sellers. Exploring linguistics. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Thomas F. ture Classroom. How do literature teachers the politics of book prizes in Canada in rela- Shannon ([email protected]). address issues of difference in the classroom? tion to individual authors or the prizes them- Possible topics: teaching multicultural litera- selves. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Priscilla Walton HEBREW LITERATURE ture, accommodating disabled students, curric- ([email protected]). Hebrew Letters, Jewish Polemic. Litera- ular revisions, anthologies and otherness; ture’s response, collusion, resistance, and use students; subjectivities and marginality versus CATALAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE as polemic throughout the modern period. dominant cultures. 1–2-page abstracts by Gendered Spaces. How does gender structure 250-word abstracts by 1 Mar.; Irene Tucker 15 Mar.; Marcy Schwartz (mschwartz@ space and space construct gender? How is it ([email protected]). spanport.rutgers.edu). written in literature and film? How do urban Cluelessness and the Literature Classroom. planning, politics, anthropology, feminism, etc. HUNGARIAN LITERATURE Any related topic, including responses to think about it? Abstracts or papers by 7 Mar.; Feminism in Central Europe. Women writ- Graff. 1–2-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Kimberly J. Sabadell-Nieto ([email protected] and ers in Central Europe, primarily Hungary: Nance ([email protected]). [email protected]). (continued on next page) NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/0412:20PMPage16 Bos ([email protected]). 250–500-word abstractsby 15Mar.; Pascale sions in(Literature of)theLow Lands. Dutch (In)Tolerance? Multicultural Ten- LITERATURE AND NETHERLANDIC LANGUAGE ([email protected]). tuguese. Abstractsby 8Mar.; LuísGonçalves disciplinary solutions. Papers inEnglishorPor- newly emergentsocietiesrequirebroadinter- struction, representation,andcohesionin sentação para umaera nova. a New Era /Áfricalusófona: Nova repre- Lusophone Africa:New Representation for OUTSIDE PORTUGAL ANDBRAZIL LUSOPHONE LITERATURES ANDCULTURES ([email protected]). Barbara Califor- Santa of Univ. nia, English, of Mar.; Dept. 1 Huang, Yunte by papers of or context Abstracts the multilingualism. in modernism American of ing Modernism. and Multilingualism LANGUAGES OTHER THANENGLISH LITERATURE OFTHEUNITEDSTATES IN umich.edu). stracts by 15Mar.; AnneCurzan(acurzan@ developing world English(es),etc. 1-page ab- guages andnonstandardlanguagevarieties, in nial contexts, inlegitimizingnationallan- current orhistoricaldictionariesinpostcolo- Dictionaries. Language andLegitimacy: TheRole of LEXICOGRAPHY .rutgers.edu). by 20Feb.; VirginiaTiger(vtiger@andromeda course, adulteryanddivorce laws. Abstracts feminism, propertyandtrustlaw, rapedis- ature. Possible topicsincludecriticallegal sive strategiesandconcernswithlaw andliter- Feminist literarycriticismsharesmany discur- Law, Literature, andFeminist Discourses. LAW ASLITERATURE ([email protected]). ments only)by 5Mar.; HerbertShapiro stracts andbriefvitae(as place ofJewish intellectualsinsociety. Ab- American literatureoraboutthe Representations oftheintellectualinJewish erature: ATribute to MarkKrupnick. The IntellectualinJewish AmericanLit- JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE ([email protected]). 1-page abstractsby 5Mar.; JohnDomini lished ethnichierarchiesandcommunities. enizing andglobalizingpressuresonestab- film, andotherartwork inresponsetohomog- Comes to LittleItaly. The Poetry ofResistance: WhenWal-Mart ITALIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE ([email protected]). M.Basa garian. Abstractsby 10 Mar.; Eniko vakia toCroatia)welcome. Sourcetext inHun- writers inthearea(HungarytoRomania, Slo- feminist literatureorpapersaboutwomen (continued fromprevious page) •Spring2004Page 16 NEWSLETTER MLA Papers addressingtheroleof Exploring literature, MS Word Social recon- attach- rethink- A ([email protected]). Mar.; Gaurav Desai word abstractsby 1 ans, Saharoui,Native Americans, etc. 250- Chechens, PuertoRicans, Basques, Palestini- Kurds, Tatars, West Irians, Hawai‘ians, nial contexts ofcontemporarypopulations: PUERTO RICAN LITERATURE ANDCULTURE Sarah Spence([email protected]). written-and-read phenomenonby 10 Mar.; papers thatconsidertroubadourlyricasa Reading Troubadour Lyric. PROVENÇAL LANGUAGE ANDLITERATURE Austin ([email protected]). lishes. 1-page abstractsby 11Mar.; Timothy R. dress therichvariety ofcontemporaryEng- wide rangeoftheoreticalperspectives thatad- Emerging (Sub)Cultures. Aiming ataMoving Target: Englishand PRESENT-DAY ENGLISHLANGUAGE Actually ExistingColonialisms. AND CULTURE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIESINLITERATURE ([email protected]). Randi Eldevik Mar.; 15 by their Abstracts and consequences. etc.) bias, realist certain 20th-century of works, privileging (Victorian outside imposed from literature Norse Old Literature. of Norse Perceptions Old 20th- of and 19th- Reception Beholder: Century the of Eye The OLD NORSELITERATURE ANDLANGUAGE eto fsinefito,fnay n utopia and fantasy, fiction, science of section Social. the Reimagining Collectivities: Alternate FANTASTIC LITERATURE SCIENCE FICTIONANDUTOPIAN AND ([email protected]). Abstracts by 15Feb.; Tanya Thresher Drama andtheDramatic inScandinavia. LITERATURES AND SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES Mar.; LetitiaGuran([email protected]). 1 of theWestern world. 1-page abstractsby imagined today by theirown writersandthose ways inwhichCentralandEasternEuropeare Europe: New Faces oftheImaginary. Constructing Postcommunist Eastern ROMANIAN STUDIES Abby Zanger([email protected]). Romanian). 500-word abstractsby 15Mar.; culture (Italian,Spanish,French, Portuguese, languages, etc. Any timeperiodorRomance ied asgender, genre, geography, chronology, of crossingsover bordersorboundariesasvar- Literary (andOther)Relations. Border Crossings intheWorld ofRomance ROMANCE LITERARY RELATIONS Hall, AnnArbor48109 ([email protected]). can Culture, Univ. ofMichigan, 3700Haven Mar.; Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Ameri- 1 cans andotherethnicgroups. Abstractsby educational groups;intersectionofPuertoRi- Ricans inPhiladelphia;community, social,and literary, andculturalcontributionsofPuerto a LuzMaríaUmpierre. Puerto RicansinPhiladelphia: Homenaje nitroaino h yai inter- dynamic the of interrogation An Papers on scholarly, Submissions froma Abstracts for Discussions The colo- The Alice Burgan.” Academic Profession:ASessionHonoring Mary of Academic Labor, Academic Laborers, andthe Paul Strohmspeaking atthesession“For theDignity eaigtasainter n rcieto practice and theory translation relating Psychoanalysis. and Translation TRANSLATION Holland ([email protected]). and family. Abstractsby 10 Mar.; SharonP. with emphasisonracializedbodies, kinship, sues ofsexuality intheoldandnew South— Sexuality’s PlantationMyth(s). SOUTHERN LITERATURE Ahmad ([email protected]). contexts. 300-word abstracts by 15Mar.; Hena preindependence orpostindependencetexts or stitute, evoke, representsecularidentities; texts. Framing theSecular:SouthAsianCon- LITERATURES AND SOUTH ASIANLANGUAGES email.arizona.edu). stracts by 15Mar.; David Graizbord(dlgraizb@ period andgeographicallocationwelcome. Ab- reflections. Proposalsaddressingevery time plinary manner, explore literaryandhistorical tion ofSephardi Identities. Childhood, Family Life, andtheForma- SEPHARDIC STUDIES Ritchie ([email protected]) to contemporary. Abstractsby 11Mar.; Jeff imperialism, colonization,andwar—medieval on Scotland’s culturalandhistoricrelationto ticipant inBritishimperialismorboth?Papers to Postmodernity. The ScottishEmpire Writes Back:Pictland SCOTTISH LITERATURE r,DlueadGatr) btat y1Mar.; ([email protected]). 1 by Buchanan Abstracts Ian Guattari). Ne- and and Deleuze Hardt gri, (e.g., theory anti- (like critical activism and WTO) social of work the with How doSouthAsian literarytexts con- Scotland: victimoforpar- In aninterdisci- Address is- Topics

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psychoanalytic theory or applied psycho- sues that swirl around the question of national Philadelphia: Black Writers on Fire. Papers analysis. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Kathleen Ross, literatures taught in translation. Abstracts by engaging representations of African American 289 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA 19106 (kar1@ 1 Mar.; Malcolm Alan Compitello (compitel@ life in Philadelphia or works by black Philadel- nyu.edu). email.arizona.edu). phians, especially considering the historical depth of the black presence in Philadelphia. TRAVEL LITERATURE COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM Abstracts by 5 Mar.; Lawrence Jackson. Travel Literature and War. In the light of AND PROFESSIONAL RIGHTS AND 9/11, 1-page proposals on any historical period RESPONSIBILITIES COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARLY EDITIONS or national literature. Examples: soldiers or Best Staffing Practices and Instructional Seals and Walruses: What Can We Learn correspondents as travelers; the Other as host Effectiveness. Possibilities for positive prac- from Bad Editions? Outlines by 15 Mar.; or enemy. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Robert Boyer tice for departments facing demands to docu- Donald H. Reiman ([email protected]). ([email protected]). ment instructional effectiveness while staffing required first-year writing and language COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF GRADUATE THE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE courses given diminishing resources. Abstracts STUDENTS IN THE PROFESSION Learning for Life: Becoming and Produc- by 7 Mar.; Sue Hintz. Alternative Forms of the Dissertation. ing Lifelong Learners. Topics: continuing ed- Plagiarism and the Internet. Reported How should the changes in scholarly publish- ucation theories, faculty development support, ing (the publishing “crisis”) affect graduate ed- generalization pitfalls, rewards and punish- cases of student plagiarism have risen dra- ucation? Should the dissertation evolve? How? ments of crossing disciplines, motivating con- matically. Why? Contributions are especially How do we (should we) think about the disser- tinued student learning, avoiding syllabus welcome that discuss strategies to promote re- tation? Other alternatives? stagnation. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; sponsible online research. Abstracts by 7 Mar.; William Tell Gifford ([email protected]). Andrew Parker. Alternatives to a “Book for Tenure.” In the context of the publishing crisis, has your de- WEST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY COLLEGES partment or school moved away from a pre- Teaching West Asia: Reconstructing Identi- The Community College as Cultural Cata- vious “book for tenure” requirement? What ties in a Post-9/11 World. Papers that discuss lyst. Papers describing community-college alternative models work? Challenges and ad- 9/11 and the ways this event and aftermath programs, courses, or activities that enhance vantages. Ideals or examples from real life. have created new identities or reinforced old cultural opportunities in local communities. Abstracts or papers by 1 Mar.; Michael Reder ones. Abstracts by 19 Mar.; Negar Mottahedeh 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Sean Murphy ([email protected]). ([email protected]). ([email protected]). Diversity and Classroom Practice. Papers COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN YIDDISH LITERATURE exploring practical classroom applications IN THE PROFESSION Yiddish Literature and Society. How has MLA members have developed for diverse Conceptualizing the Posttenure Research Yiddish literature helped shape and reflect de- student learners and learning styles. 1-page Agenda. Possibilities and problems such as velopments in the societies in which it was abstracts by 15 Mar.; Deborah Gill (djg25@ mid-career cross- and interdisciplinary refocus- created? Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Joel Berkowitz psu.edu). ing, choosing research directions, the push to- ([email protected]). ward promotion to full, and career changes. COMMITTEE ON DISABILITY ISSUES IN 1-page abstracts and vitae by 15 Mar.; Ellen MLA Committees THE PROFESSION Rees ([email protected]). Disability and Ethnicity. Papers addressing Perception, Power, and Promotion: Seeing AD HOC COMMITTEE ON DIVERSITY the relation between disability and ethnicity Women’s Authority in the Academy. The AND TOLERANCE and the ways in which the disciplines of ethnic power women have and can envision; wom- Teaching Tolerance: Combating Bigotry. and disability studies inform each other. 250- en’s visibility or invisibility in the academy; Strategies that increase sensitivity to diversity word abstracts by 15 Mar.; David Neal Miller. support or obstacles on the road to promo- issues and promote an environment of respect. Obesity as Disability. There is an extensive tion. 1-page abstracts by 1 Mar. Kirsten M. Ways to oppose racism, sexism, and ethnic, literature representing obesity across most Christensen. disability-related, and class prejudice. Propos- cultures and times. Can these images be used als by 15 Mar.; Laraine Fergenson. Service as Activism at Mid-Career. Service to define the margins and centers of disability and rank; service chosen and imposed; ser- ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN studies? 250-word abstracts by 15 Mar.; vice, teaching, and research distribution, dif- LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES S. L. Gilman. ferences in colleagues’ service; evaluation of Are They Being Served? Student expecta- Sex and Disability. Papers on the sexual exis- service. 250-word abstracts, 1-page vitae by tions, professional and government needs, and tence of people with disabilities, cultural and 15 Mar.; Michelle Massé ([email protected]). the foreign language curriculum. Abstracts by historical representations of disability, institu- 1 Mar.; Marina Perez de Mendiola (mperezde@ tional effects on sexual practices and identities, OFFICE OF ENGLISH PROGRAMS scrippscol.edu) issues of privacy, personal assistants, technol- The Small College Department: Jobs for Generalists. Intellectual challenges and peda- Ethnographies of Language Learning and ogy. Proposals or abstracts by 15 Mar.; Tobin Language Use. Contexts of communication Siebers ([email protected]). gogical issues for generalist practice in English; and contacts among languages; multilingual formative experiences from newly hired gener- workplaces; voluntary and enforced learning; COMMITTEE ON THE LITERATURES OF alists. 250-word abstracts for 12-min. presenta- bilingual families; cultures of adaptation. Titles PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE UNITED STATES tions by 10 Mar.; Lawrence Moe (lawrence and summaries by 1 Mar.; Haun Saussy AND CANADA [email protected]). ([email protected]). Artist-Critic, Critic-Artist. Papers question- ing the mutual dynamics, contradictions, and OFFICE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS Lost in New Interpretations: Translation, dilemmas of the artist-critic of color by reflect- Language in National Crises. Fear and the Original Text, and Teaching Bilingually. ing on interplay of artistic-critical texts. Ab- teaching in two world wars; after Sputnik; and Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Pierre Saint-Amand stracts or proposals by 5 Mar.; Roberta Hill ([email protected]). after 9/11. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Michael E. ([email protected]). Geisler ([email protected]). ASSOCIATION OF DEPARTMENTS OF Indigenous Encounters as Sites of Ethnic What Drives Foreign Language Enroll- FOREIGN LANGUAGES Reproduction. Any period or textual form, ments? Abstracts by 1 Mar.; H. Jay Siskin Who Teaches Borges, Brecht, Cervantes, 1492–1898. 1-page abstracts by 5 Mar.; Malea ([email protected]). and Nabokov? Creative solutions to the is- Powell ([email protected]). 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(continued from previous page) tory); effects on local markets and bookstores Wendy Bishop’s Legacy in Writing Peda- globally. Abstracts and vitae; Emily Satter- gogy. How did Bishop’s work shape writing Special Sessions white, 1203 Euclid Ave., NE, 4, Atlanta, GA pedagogy and classroom practices? How did 30307 ([email protected]). Bishop mentor teachers and writers? Session These proposed topics for special sessions American Economic Fiction in the Gilded documents and pays tribute to Bishop’s contri- at the convention have not been ap- Age. Papers addressing fictional representa- butions. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Anna Leahy (am- proved; the announcements are intended tions of economic themes. Treatments of non- [email protected]). to bring potential organizers and panelists canonical authors and texts are particularly Bookshelves of Ricardian Poets. Recent together before organizers send in their welcome. 1–2-page proposals by 5 Mar.; Jay studies on, latest evidence on the learning of, final proposals. Organizers and panelists Andrews ([email protected]). and intellectual influences on Chaucer and his should note the 7 April deadline for American English as a Tool of Globaliza- contemporaries. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Grover Furr ([email protected]). membership and the 1 April deadline for tion. Critical treatments of the role of Ameri- submission of final proposals. can English in cultural, political, or economic Cervantes in 20th-Century Germany. Pa- colonization. Plain text proposals (no attach- pers examining the reception of Miguel Cer- The Absurdity of Contemporary Criticism. ments) by 5 Mar.; Patricia Brodsky vantes’s texts in German literature and film Gender, multicultural, racial, or ____ studies ([email protected]). since 1900. 1–2-page proposals by 15 Mar.; Gabriele Eckart ([email protected]). are unrelated to literary criticism. Rather than American Space and Characters in Con- tell us what literature says, they make litera- temporary Foreign Drama. What do these Changing Practice. Proposals that explore ture say what they want. Or they ____. Ab- cross-cultural representations reveal about the- transformations to instructional practice. What stracts or papers and short vitae by 15 Mar., ater and theatricality as well as about culture might these changes model for the future pro- George Bellis, River Boat Books, PO Box and cultural identity? 1-page abstracts and short fessorate and future secondary school teachers 65314, Saint Paul, MN 55165. vitae by 15 Mar.; Les Essif ([email protected]). in English? Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Donna L. Pasternak ([email protected]). Academic Gothic. Literary or filmic treat- The Andes Imagined. Perspectives on articu- ments of gothic horror in academic settings, lations of the Andean region and its literature Lydia Maria Child and Conventions of including schools and universities, pedagogical and culture as presented in modern and con- 19th-Century American Womanhood. Per- relations, scientific experimentation, and read- temporary cultural production. 250-word ab- sonally and professionally, to what extent did ing. Papers or abstracts by 15 Mar.; Steven stracts in Spanish or English by 15 Mar.; Jorge Child conform to and rebel against standards Bruhm ([email protected]). Coronado ([email protected]). of true womanhood? Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Susan Lord, English Dept., Lake Erie Coll., 391 The Achievement(s) of Abraham Cowley. Archive Fever: Following the Paper Trail in West Washington St., Painesville, OH 44077. Samuel Johnson credited Cowley with “diversi- Spain and Latin America. Papers exploring fied excellence.” Essays on facets of Cowley’s the theory and practice of archival research in Clothing and the Self in Golden Age Span- achievement. Abstracts considered; papers Hispanism. 2-page abstracts by 1 Mar.; Alejan- ish Literature. Papers dealing with different preferred by 15 Mar.; Hugh Wilson (hwilson@ dro Herrero-Olaizola ([email protected]). functions of clothing in the constitution of sub- together.net) and Julia Griffin (juliabgriffin@ jectivity in golden age literary texts are wel- Arts of Forgetting. How is the act of forget- hotmail.com). come. Abstracts and brief résumés by 15 Mar.; ting represented in early modern literature? Encarnación Juárez ([email protected]). Aestheticism across the Map (Not Just Is it merely a failure of memory? Is there a London) and the Centuries. “Aestheticist” grammar or an aesthetics of oblivion? Detailed Complexity Theory and the Humanities. phenomena in history; their causes, features, proposals by 15 Mar.; Andrea Frisch (afrisch@ Applications of complexity theory to the hu- and legacies. Non-English instances and com- usc.edu). manities and concepts such as complex sys- parative approaches especially welcome. Ab- tems, emergence, information, cultural The Attraction of Christianity for American stracts by 15 Mar.; Gene H. Bell-Villada. complexity, literature and representation, and Jewish Writers. Mailer, Potok, Roth, Salinger, complexity and transatlantic studies. 1-page African American Modernism. Papers on etc. Examination of the religious, sociological, abstracts by 15 Mar.; Juan Luis Suárez the aesthetic concerns of black modernism; ex- and historical, as well as literary and symbolic, ([email protected]). aminations of specific writers, novels in the implications welcome. Papers or abstracts by black modernist tradition (e.g., Cane, Maud 15 Mar.; Mashey Bernstein ([email protected]). Cosmopolitanism in the Americas. Any Martha); photography, art, music. 1-page ab- aspect of cultural or literary discussions of Mary Austin and Willa Cather: Writing the stracts and vitae by 5 Mar.; Miriam Thaggert cosmopolitanism in the Americas. Inter- Desert. Proposals or abstracts by 10 Mar.; ([email protected]). disciplinary and comparative approaches Melinda M. Rosenthal. African American Philadelphia. From welcome. Abstracts and vitae by 15 Mar.; Olaudah Equiano to Harriet Jacobs, W. E. B. Mary Austin’s Desert Garden: Fertile Camilla Fojas ([email protected]). Ground for Women. Proposals or abstracts Du Bois, Frances Harper, Toni Bambara, Sonia Critical Revisions of Gender Constructs in by 10 Mar.; Melinda M. Rosenthal. Sanchez, and Lorene Cary, African Americans Spanish Literary Prose, 1895–1910. Papers are prominent in the city’s long literary his- Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy: Celebrating Fail- on noncanonical authors’ use of changes in tory. 1-page abstracts by 8 Mar.; Joan Wylie ure in Modernism. Papers that examine any gender constructs in relation to class, crises, Hall ([email protected]). aspect of failure in Beckett’s Trilogy. Considera- war, or changes in readership. Abstracts by Afrofuturism. What kinds of speculative fic- tion of textual, artistic, and physical failure es- 10 Mar.; Louise Ciallella ([email protected]). pecially encouraged. 500-word abstracts by tions have emerged from the African dias- Cuba Libre: Critical Approaches to Mirta 1 Mar.; Ellen Scheible ([email protected]). pora? Papers may address this question in Yáñez. Critical approaches to the fiction and relation to theoretical, formal, or thematic Walter Benjamin Re-examined. New per- poetry of Cuban writer Mirta Yáñez. The au- concerns. Abstracts and biographical state- spectives on all aspects of Benjamin’s works. thor has agreed to participate. Abstracts and ments by 1 Mar.; Lisa Yaszek (lisa.yaszek@lcc Abstracts and brief vitae by 8 Mar.; Tessa Lee vitae by 15 Feb.; Sara E. Cooper (scooper@ .gatech.edu). ([email protected]). csuchico.edu). (Alter)native Modernisms. 250-word pro- Between Comedy and Despair: Ionesco, Cuban Cinema since 1990. Critical interpre- posals by 15 Mar.; Suzanne Kehde (suzanne_ Beckett, and Pinter. This session addresses tations of Cuban films since 1990: e.g., semiot- [email protected]). three variations of the absurd: Ionesco’s “théâ- ics, postcolonial, postmodern, interdisciplinary, Amazon and Abe: The Book, the Market, tre de la dérision,” Beckett’s clownish ontologi- cultural approaches. May contrast with Cuban and the World Wide Web. Possible topics: cal tragedy, and Pinter’s “comedy of menace.” cinema prior to 1990. Detailed abstracts and transformations in collectivities of readers and Abstracts by 7 Mar.; Jeanine Teodorescu short vitae by 8 Mar.; Ada Ortuzar-Young in research methodologies (i.e., reception his- ([email protected]). ([email protected]). NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 19

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Cultural Studies and Ghosts of Culture: Early Modern Forensic Fiction. Papers ad- Smith, Robinson, Edgeworth. Abstracts by Making Culture Count (Again). Contempo- dressing relations between real and imaginary 1 Mar.; A. A. Markley ([email protected]). early modern trials, including pamphlet ac- rary cultural studies treats culture as au- Experiments with Form in Modern Afri- tonomous from economic relations, especially counts of interrogations and proceedings and can American Drama. Papers invited on new class. Should culture be reconnected with prose or poetic courtroom drama. Connec- dramatic forms created by modern playwrights them? If so, how? Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Robert tions to contemporary concerns welcome. Ab- such as Adrienne Kennedy, Baraka, and Faivre ([email protected]). stracts by 15 Mar.; Owen Staley (ostaley@ earthlink.net). Shange as structural correlates to their subjec- Current Approaches to Pierre Loti. Presen- tivities. 1-page abstracts and brief vitae by tations of current approaches to the works of Ecocritical Views of 18th- and 19th-Cen- 15 Mar.; Nita Kumar ([email protected]). Pierre Loti. Abstracts and vitae by 1 Mar.; tury American Literature. Continue to ex- FBI Files on Literary Modernism. Analyses Richard M. Berrong. ([email protected]). pand the scope of ecocritical inquiry and engage other critical practices. 500-word ab- of the FBI files on modernists such as Ernest Cursed Celebrity: Scandal as a Reading stracts and vitae by 1 Mar.; Helena Feder Hemingway, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Frame. Papers addressing the complex dy- ([email protected]). Bertolt Brecht, Ezra Pound, John Steinbeck. namics of public morality, fame, social my- Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Karen Leick (leick.1@ thography, and mass media in the modeling of 1880s British Political Writers Crossing osu.edu). Latin American literary icons. 1–2-page pro- Genres. Journalist-poets, lecturer-novelists, FGM in Creative Writing. Papers on female posals by 15 Mar.; Magdalena Maiz-Peña diarist–social observers, and others. 250-word ([email protected]) or Luis H. Peña abstracts by 15 Mar.; Diana Maltz (maltzd@ genital mutilation as a theme in all genres and ([email protected]). sou.edu). languages using any theory to explore relations between activism and art. Abstracts and biog- Carl Einstein’s Literary Aesthetics. Papers Dark Princesses, Detectives, and Saviors: raphies by 15 Mar.; Tobe Levin (levin@em dealing with Einstein’s literary work or aes- African American Genre Fiction. The cur- .uni-frankfurt.de). rent flourishing of African American romance, thetic theories as they relate to literature. detective, and speculative fiction and the for- E-mail 100-word abstracts and short vitae by Fractured Bodies, Fractured Minds: Dick- mal, cultural, and political work it performs. 8 Mar.; David Pan ([email protected]). ens and Disability. Disability and physical or mental dysfunction are an overwhelming pres- Abstracts by 12 Mar.; Daylanne English Emblem, Rebus, and Blason in Early Mod- ([email protected]). ern Literature. Papers exploring relations be- ence in Dickens’s opus. How do we respond? Papers that address issues of power, agency, Desexualizing Homosexuality. From the tween text and image in early modern print culture; processes of structuring, interpreta- and identity are especially welcome. 250-word “lesbian continuum” to the “metrosexual,” abstracts; Julia Miele Rodas ([email protected]). what happens when homosexuality becomes tion, and decoding. Interdisciplinary ap- a nonsexual affiliation? Do these construc- proaches encouraged. 1-page abstracts by Ben Franklin, the Philadelphian. Franklin’s tions expand the boundaries of queerness or 15 Feb.; Julie Singer ([email protected]). relations with his adopted city and its Quaker strip it of its most essential element? Abstracts Epics without Nations. What’s new with the establishment: as young stranger, entrepreneur, by 10 Mar.; Michelle Abate (mabate1937@ early modern epic? Submissions dealing with lover, community organizer, politician, scientist, juno.com). any aspect of this genre other than its partici- or prose stylist. 1–2-page proposals or 20-min. pation in the definition of nations and national- papers by 5 Mar.; Tom Smith ([email protected]). Deterritorialization after Deleuze. Is deter- ity. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Adam McKeown, ritorialized space the best location for marginal Albert French’s America. Representations of Dept. of English, Adelphi Univ., 1 South Ave., cultures? Or is it an impossible fantasy that de- American identity and culture in French’s nov- Garden City, NY 11530 (adam.mckeown@ nies minorities a place in the nation-state? 750- els and war memoir. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; adelphi.edu). word abstracts by e-mail by 8 Mar.; Marc Pearlie Peters ([email protected]). Caplan ([email protected]). Epiphany as Epistemology in Contempo- Friends like These: Literature, Politics, and rary Literature. 250-word abstracts and Emily Dickinson and Belief. Papers sought the Quakers. Early or late Quakerism; English, 1-page vitae by 15 Mar.; Anne Hunsaker Haw- colonial, or US Quakerism; influence on spe- exploring Dickinson and belief: Puritanism, kins ([email protected]). the Bible, including cultural, historical, or fem- cific authors or texts; representations of Quak- inist approaches. Papers or 200-word abstracts Eurovision Song Contest: Music, Media, ers or Quakerism; Quaker writings. 250-word and vitae by 1 Mar.; John Wargacki Politics. Submissions concerning Eurovision abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jeffrey Shoulson ([email protected]). on the changing aspects of “Europe,” specific ([email protected]). countries and languages, or border crossings From Talk to Tok : Oral Genres and Liter- Did Rocky Sullivan Really “Go Yellow”? within the European context are welcome. ary Publication on the Russian Internet. Papers or abstracts by 15 Mar.; Paula Marantz Abstracts, vitae by 1 Mar.; Ivan Raykoff 500-word abstracts; Alexandar Mihailovic Cohen ([email protected]). (raykoffi@newschool.edu) and Robert Tobin ([email protected]). Disability and Postcoloniality. How is dis- ([email protected]). ability represented in postcolonial literature, Examining Methods of Modern Language The Future of Franco-American Relations: film, and visual culture? How do these repre- Teaching outside of the United States. Pa- Que Faire? Papers that reflect on the status sentations complicate, resist, or comply with pers comparing or contrasting the foreign class- and future of French–United States relations Euro-American constructions of disability and room with the American or detailing methods in the wake of the war in Iraq. Submissions disability studies paradigms? 2-page abstracts of language teaching somewhere other than by 15 Mar.; Rosemarie Scullion by 12 Mar.; Heather Hewett (heather.hewett@ the United States. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Don- ([email protected]). earthlink.net). nie C. Stepp, Jr. ([email protected]). Girls as Patrons in Early Modern Britain. Documentary Cinema, Literary Forms. Exceptional Bodies in Premodern Spanish Papers exploring writers’ strategies in address- Tensions between the conventional and the Literature. Papers addressing the literary rep- ing girls in the families of their patrons and in “real” in documentary theory and practice; resentation of sick or handicapped bodies, characterizing their relations to these young documentary’s (avowed or disavowed) use of cripples, monstrosities, freaks, deformities, muses. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar. (no attach- rhetorical devices, poetic forms, narrative gen- hermaphroditism, etc. Disability theory and ments); Ann A. Huse ([email protected]). res. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; John Mackay (john interdisciplinary approaches welcome. Ab- The Golems of Paris. Papers addressing rep- [email protected]). stracts and brief résumés by 15 Mar.; Encar- resentations and metaphoric ramifications of Eugeni d’Ors: From Gloss to Philosophy. nación Juárez ([email protected]). the figure of the golem in French literature, How does the Catalan writer’s oeuvre enter Expanding the Boundaries of the Jacobin film, civilization, and culture from the 1920s into dialogue with contemporary critical ap- Novel. Examining reformist political content onward. Interdisciplinary approaches wel- proaches? Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Timothy in 1790s British novels not usually labeled Ja- come. Abstracts or papers by 1 Mar.; Peter Lowenhaupt ([email protected]). cobin, particularly those by women such as (continued on next page) NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 20

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(continued from previous page) Le 11 septembre. French literary perspec- the literary text? Literary readings or theoreti- tives on 11 September 2001: Beigbeder, cal approaches. 100-word abstracts and short Schulman ([email protected]) or David Met- Goupil, Grief, Lang, Rehr, Virilio, Y. B. Ab- vitae by e-mail by 8 Mar.; David Pan (dtp3@ zger ([email protected]). stracts in French or English and brief vitae by psu.edu). 1 Mar.; Jocelyn Van Tuyl ([email protected]). Green Shakespeare. Reevaluations from an Literature: European Minority Languages. ecological perspective, texts or performance. The Legacy of Crónica Sentimental de Focus on the writers and contemporary fiction Abstracts and vitae by 10 Mar.; Sharon O’Dair. España. A tribute to Manuel Vázquez Montal- in western European minority languages—e.g., bán. Papers on Spanish popular music, consider- Aragonese, Breton, Frisian, Basque—excluding Patricia Highsmith’s Century. Papers ex- ing genre and performance and the concepts of nonindigenous languages spoken by immigrant ploring any aspect of Highsmith’s work wel- gender; ethnicity; nation; ideology. Abstracts by communities. Lists and references: http://www come. 250-word abstracts and vitae (preferably 15 Mar.; Pepa Anastasio ([email protected]). .smo.uhi.ac.uk/saoghal/mion-chanain/en/ and as attachments) by 1 Mar.; Lisa Fluet http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/europe_ (lisa.fl[email protected]). The Legacy of Walter J. Ong: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics, 1550–1750. Reprises report.html; Stewart James-Lejarcegui, 1791 History and Queer Writing. Historical con- and reappraisals of Ong’s approaches to 2nd St., White Bear Lake, MN 55110 sciousness in queer writing. Possible topics: lit- Ramism and Renaissance rhetorics, Puritan ([email protected]). erary ancestry and influence, problems of and colonial American rhetorics and herme- Love in the Age of Reason. Representations literary historiography, identity politics and neutics, the “pedagogical juggernaut,” related of love, circa 1650–1830; the influence of new historical fiction, post-Stonewall changes in les- topics. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jan Swearingen psychologies, of aesthetics and theories of af- bian and gay literature. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; ([email protected]). fect, of socioeconomic developments, etc. Brit- Richard Bozorth ([email protected]); Linking Alternative Psychologies to Mod- ish, American, and Continental instances Robert Caserio ([email protected]). ernism: Bergson, William James, Others. welcome. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Patrick Honoring Louis Owens. Louis Owens’s Does psychoanalysis hide from view other sig- Harrison ([email protected]). (Choctaw and Cherokee) work has signifi- nificant psychological theories of the period Love, Sex, and Globalization. How and when cantly contributed to Native American studies that allow us to evaluate modernism in new does the love story go global? Implications for and literature. Papers that critically address ways? Genealogically, formally, historically? the genre and “the global”? Submissions from Owens’s work. 300-word abstracts by 1 Mar.; Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Omri Moses (omri@ all periods (including early modern) and re- Christopher B. Teuton ([email protected]) or Pa- socrates.berkeley.edu). gions encouraged. 35-word abstracts and vitae tricia Ploesch ([email protected]). Literacy and Short Fiction. Papers concern- by 15 Mar.; John Marx ([email protected]). The Hymn in English: Affect, Politics, ing short fiction (Hemingway or Faulkner), Maupassant’s Body. Representation of the Identity. Literary, historical, rhetorical, theo- reading, or writing, demonstrating how your body in Maupassant’s novels and short fiction; retical, theological, or musicological ap- area could improve undergraduates’ achieve- relation to narrative strategies, the uncanny proaches; with respect to gender, sexuality, ment levels. E-mail 250-word abstracts and and fantastic, or larger context of 19th-century race, nation, class, or popular culture. 1–2-page vitae by 15 Mar.; Tom William (tom.william@ French short story. Proposals or 15-min. pa- abstracts and brief vitae by 8 Mar.; Robert Sul- utoronto.ca). pers, brief vitae by 15 Mar.; Katherine Collin cer and Frederick Roden. The Literary Artist and Architecture. The ([email protected]). Iberian Encounters between the Crescent intersection between literary artist and archi- Medieval and Modern: Reassessing the and the Cross: New Perspectives. Medieval, tecture often informs the world of literature. 15th Century in Literary History. Current early modern, and contemporary approaches Papers or abstracts addressing this interdisci- discussions of the English 15th century; specif- to the intersection of Christianity and Islam in plinary approach by 5 Mar.; Margaret Wye ically, papers discussing canon construction, the literature of Iberia. Metacritical and inter- ([email protected]). historicity, the literary production. Short ab- disciplinary proposals welcome. Abstracts by The Literary Fantastic. By disrupting “real- stracts; William Kuskin, Dept. of English, 1 Mar.; Jan Gilbert ([email protected]); Kirsty ity,” fantastic texts present new insights. Pro- Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Box 5037, Hat- Hooper ([email protected]). posals may cover a range of applications of the tiesburg 39401 ([email protected]). Imagining Intimacies in Early Modern fantastic, from politics and psychology to fan- Medievalism in English Renaissance Liter- English Drama. Papers addressing imagined tasy and superstition. Abstracts by 14 Mar.; ature. Medieval literary, religious, and artistic Jason Harris ([email protected]); Jon intimacies in early modern English drama. values abiding in 16th-century English texts. Is Levine ([email protected]) 250-word abstracts and 1-page vitae as MS the persistence of the medieval an aspect of Word attachments by 1 Mar.; James Bromley Literary History of Philadelphia. Examina- the Renaissance? Proposals or papers by ([email protected]). tions of the literary cultures of the city (in- 1 Mar.; Deanne Williams, Dept. of English, cluding major authors, coteries, communities York Univ., 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J The Importance of Punctuation. Punctua- of readers, interdisciplinary studies) from the 1P3, Canada ([email protected]); Kent Cart- tion topics related to linguistics, writing, its settlement to the present. Proposals by wright ([email protected]). use in certain genres, or by specific literary fig- 15 Mar.; William Pannapacker (pannapacker@ Message, Medium, and Science Fiction. ures. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Albert E. Krahn hope.edu). ([email protected]). Print isn’t dead, but it is evolving. Do new forms Literary Responses to Lynching. How has of presentation (electronic?) alter the message of In Defense of American Exceptionalism. new scholarship on lynching influenced under- science fiction? How? Why? Analysis and specu- Theory, practical readings, or both. It’s time standing of literary responses? Possible topics: lation welcome. 250-word abstracts by 12 Mar.; for a counterstatement, don’t you think? Ab- literature and/as resistance; women writers, Edward Carmien ([email protected]). stracts by 15 Mar.; Kenneth Dauber (dauber@ activists, victims; literature and other arts or buffalo.edu). Modernism, Materialism, and the Spatial. disciplines. 1-page abstracts and vitae by New work on materialist modernisms, espe- Interiors. Literary treatments of interior decor 1 Mar.; Julie Buckner Armstrong (jarmstro@ cially in relation to spaces, geographies, archi- that reflect a psychological interior. Detailed stpt.usf.edu). tecture, urbanism, territorialization. Maurizia abstracts or papers (e-mail submissions pre- Literature and Social Capital. How does lit- Boscagli ([email protected]). ferred) by 15 Mar.; Peter Schwenger (peter erature contribute to social capital and com- Modernity, Aesthetics, and Gender in [email protected]). munity formation in various historical periods? Modern and Contemporary Spanish Liter- Intersections of Working-Class Studies and How might literary scholarship be enlisted in ature. Papers addressing interactions of mod- Native American Literature. Papers address- this evolving body of social theory? Abstracts ernization, cultural production, and gender in ing the relation between class and nativeness by 1 Mar.; Mark Bayer ([email protected]). Spanish literature from the 18th century to the in tribal literatures. 1-page abstracts by 5 Mar.; Literature and Violence in German Cul- 21st century. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Iñigo Penelope Kelsey ([email protected]). ture. To what extent does violence structure Sánchez-Llama ([email protected]). NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 21

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Walter Mosley Connections. Easy Rawlins, Mosley’s other fiction, other detective fiction, Mosley’s nonfiction, history, African American fiction. 1-page proposals by 21 Mar.; Eric Hyman. Mothering and the Creative Imagination. Papers exploring the nature, scope, direction, effects, and results of new visions of maternal EYE PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA’S creativity that allow for women to choose both books and babies. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Amy Hudock ([email protected]). Mourning Dove and Zitkala Sa:´ “Trans- planting the Native Spirit.” Proposals or ab- stracts by 10 Mar.; Melinda M. Rosenthal. Mourning Theory: The Day After. Recent “end of theory” discussions displace theory with a particular historical manifestation of it in the West known as “poststructuralism.” Is theory dead? What are its futures? Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Rob Wilkie ([email protected]). Narratives of Work. Papers that examine nar- ratives about work, whether fiction or nonfic- tion, literature or film. Also historically and geographically open. Abstracts and brief vitae by 7 Mar.; Jessica Livingston (jaliving@ufl.edu). The Natures of Early Modern Courtier- ship. Papers exploring the relations between the discourses of “nature” and early modern Kristen C. Harmon, left, and Shauna Eddy at the session “American Sign Language (ASL) and Literature, the English and Continental courtiership in theory MLA, and the Academy.” and practice. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Vin Nardizzi ([email protected]). by 7 Mar.; Sarah McNamer (mcnamers@ Postcoloniality and the Detective. How New Developments in Pre-Raphaelite Po- georgetown.edu). does the postcolonial environment resist or etry. New ways of reading, locating, or com- Philadelphia Writing. How does Philadel- transform the epistemic modes embodied in paring Pre-Raphaelite poetry in/to its own time the detective? Can the detective or spy operate or later movements: 250-word abstracts and phia figure in American or world literature? Papers on Philadelphia-affiliated writers; writ- independently of nation and empire? Abstracts résumés by 15 Mar. (no attachments); by 1 Mar.; Marc Singer ([email protected]). Thomas J. Tobin, 406 East 10th Ave., Munhall, ings set in or descriptive of Philadelphia; pub- PA 15120 ([email protected]). lishing and journalism in Philadelphia. 1-page Postcolonial Masculinity. 250-word pro- proposals by 1 Mar.; Christopher Looby posals by 15 Mar.; Jean Pickering (jean_ Noises On: Sonic Landscapes of the Stage. ([email protected]) and Sam Otter [email protected]). Scripted sound plots or noise broadly con- ([email protected]). ceived, e.g., music, paralanguage, aural rheto- Postmodernism in the Cold War. Papers in- rics, sonic properties of speech, deaf theater Picturing Adoption. Seeking discussions of vestigating relations between postmodern liter- and performance. All periods, approaches wel- adoption imagery or of the interplay between atures—specific texts, genres, theories—and come. 1-page proposals by 5 Mar.; Beth Mesza- such images and adoption writing. 250-word cold war material and ideological conditions. ros ([email protected]). abstracts by 20 Mar.; Emily Hipchen, 208 Abstracts and brief vitae by 1 Mar.; Doug Not Black Enough? Papers expanding the na- 48th Ave. North, Saint Petersburg, FL 33703 Davis ([email protected]). scent discussions of identity, politics, tradition, ([email protected]). Postwar German Mourning and Melan- and form in contemporary experimental black Poéticas experimentales / Poéticas experi- cholia. Literary historiography of postwar poetry. 1-page proposals by 15 Mar.; G. Mat- mentais. Abstracts of studies on visual, sound, Germanies, including recent revisions, seems thew Jenkins ([email protected]). or digital poetry. Preference given to studies of unthinkable without the Mitscherlich’s The In- Otherness in Medieval Film. How do mod- authors from Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking ability to Mourn. Contestations, alternatives in, ern preoccupations with difference shape countries. 300-word abstracts with short vitae inter alia, Kluge, Syberberg, Sebald, Theweleit. filmic representations of the Middle Ages? 250- by 15 Mar.; Angélica J. Huízar (ahuizar@odu Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Arnd Wedemeyer word abstracts by 15 Mar.; Lynn Ramey .edu) and Laura Lopez-Fernandez (laura. ([email protected]). ([email protected]). [email protected]). The Premodern in Poststructuralist The- Outside the Technical Writing Box: Work- The Poetics of Everyday Life in Postwar ory. How have poststructuralist theorists con- place Writing Alternatives. Course develop- Poetry. New methods of representing the ceived of (or not conceived of) premodern ment and teaching strategies designed to help everyday and ordinary: aesthetic and political periods, texts, and cultures? What is the rela- English majors transfer their analytical and implications, theories of everyday life, and the tion between the post- and the premodern in writing skills to the business and professional avant-garde’s particular investment in the quo- theory? Papers or abstracts by 10 Mar.; Todd workplace. Submissions by 10 Mar.; Mary tidian. Abstracts by 5 Mar.; Andrew Epstein Reeser ([email protected]). Morse ([email protected]). ([email protected]). Psychoanalysis and Asian American Liter- Pastiche. The theory and practice of nonparo- Politics of Genre in Renaissance Drama. ature. Papers employing psychoanalytic the- dic stylistic imitation, with a focus on its liter- Papers combining cultural history and formal- ory in innovative readings of Asian American ary or cultural function (what is Joyce’s aim in ist criticism, including local readings, synoptic literature following recent developments in “Oxen of the Sun,” e.g., if not humor?). Propos- studies of a genre, comparisons across genres critical race studies and post-Lacanian femi- als by 8 Mar.; David Gorman. or national traditions, theories of genre. Ab- nism. Proposals and brief vitae by 15 Mar.; The Performance of Emotion in Medieval stracts and vitae by 10 Mar.; Zachary Lesser Wenxin Li ([email protected]). England. All approaches welcome. Abstracts ([email protected]). (continued on next page) NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 22

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(continued from previous page) Representing Reproduction in Early Mod- als by 15 Mar.; Caroline Maun (cmaun@ ern England. Narratives of bizarre, unnatural, morgan.edu). Psychoanalysis and the Writing of Sexuality and monstrous births. Royal birthing drama and The Semiprivate Life. Literatures, institu- in the United States. How has psychoanalysis courtly spectacle. Political and public uses of tions, and cultural practices that bridge or maternity and birth. Abstracts or papers by influenced fictional representations of gender breach the divide between the private and 10 Mar.; Melissa Hull (melissa.l.hull@vanderbilt and sexuality? How have US writers adapted, public spheres. What are their aesthetics, polit- .edu) and Laura Knoppers ([email protected]). revised, or challenged psychoanalytic narra- ical effects, and history? Brief abstracts by tives and images? Abstracts, brief vitae by The (Re)Shaping of Anglo Masculinity in 15 Mar.; Lloyd Pratt ([email protected]). 10 Mar.; Sarah Relyea ([email protected]). Native American Literature. How have Na- Sensation(al) Fiction: Story Papers to Pulps. tive American writers reinforced or challenged Queer Theory and Shakespeare on Film. Submissions exploring aspects of race, gender Anglo masculine norms? To what ends? All 8–10-page papers or 1–2-page abstracts by and historical or literary links in and between historical eras welcome. 250-word abstracts 15 Mar.; W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. story papers, dime novels, pulp magazines, and and brief vitae by 10 Mar.; Peter L. Bayers, En- ([email protected]). pulp novels. 250-word abstracts, brief vitae by glish Dept., Fairfield Univ., Fairfield, CT 06824 1 Mar.; Janet Tanke ([email protected]). Race and Four-Stages Theory in the Trans- ([email protected]field.edu). atlantic Eighteenth Century. The relation of The Sensorium in Exile: Ved Mehta’s Con- Rethinking British Romantic Period Fic- Scottish Enlightenment historicism to the artic- tinents of Exile. Relations among the senses, ulation of “race” in political tracts, linguistics, tion. New approaches, definitions, and prob- lematizations; genre boundaries, literary the retrospective subject, and the experience of anthropology, novels, poetry. Proposals by exile in Mehta’s soon-to-be-complete 11-volume 1 Mar.; Jennifer Thorn ([email protected]). conventions, periodization, canons; print cul- ture, authors, readers, printers, publishers, il- personal history. 1-page abstracts by 15 Mar.; Reading the Schwarzenegger Administra- lustrators; relations to gender, sexuality, race, Sujata Iyengar ([email protected]); Paul tion: California Politics through the Termi- nationalism, geographical boundaries, other Saint-Amour ([email protected]). nator Trilogy. Poststructuralist, cultural arts; Lisa M. Wilson ([email protected]). Shadowing Film Noir. Political, social, his- studies, queer theory readings of the Termina- torical, economic perspectives: noir as dream- tor films and their relation to California poli- Revaluation of W. H. Auden. To create a new world of interart combining literature text; noir as idea; noir representation; noir as tics. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; James Sheldon proving ground for issues of class, technology, ([email protected]). with other arts like music and paintings based on Auden’s poetry. 200-word abstracts by gender, race or ethnicity, cold war politics. Realism Now. What if we took Lacan seri- 5 Mar.; Eriko Hayashi ([email protected]) Abstracts only by 1 Mar.; Mark Osteen ously when he claims that psychoanalysis is a ([email protected]). The Rhizome and the Errant Medieval or form of realism? Hasn’t that kind of realism, Shakespeare’s Richard II: The Circulation both as an aesthetics and an epistemology, re- Neomedieval Self. Role of errancy (to wander or err) and rhizome theory (Deleuze and Guat- of Authority. Papers that examine royal and mained untheorized? Abstracts by 15 Mar.; legal authority as well as the power of the sub- Sara Nadal ([email protected]). tari) in medieval romances or neomedieval texts (film, video games, postmedieval narra- ject. Reconsideration of monarchy and resis- The Reception of Walt Whitman, 1892– tives). Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Tamara O’Cal- tance encouraged. 250-word abstracts by 1919. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Gary Schmidgall. laghan ([email protected]). 1 Mar.; Ambereen Dadabhoy (ambereen. [email protected]). Recovering Hispanic Philadelphia. Papers Romancing the Colonies: Australia and the on Hispanic literary production in 19th- South Seas as Utopia and Wasteland. 19th- “Shock and Awe”: The Culture of War. Pa- century Philadelphia. Transnationalism, trans- and 20th-century colonial and postcolonial fic- pers on cultural aspects of the Iraq war: tele- lation, revolution, or postcolonialisms in the tion and poetry in England. 1-page abstracts or vised war as “entertainment,” war movies, writings of Hispanic insurgents, exiles, or 15-min. papers by 15 Mar.; Mark Kipperman. media framing of warfare, representation of patriotism and propaganda. 1-page abstracts Philadelphia’s Spanish press. Abstracts by Romantic Friendship: Texts, Theories, His- 15 Mar.; Anne Gebelein (acg2105@columbia by 8 Mar.; Tony Grajeda (agrajeda@pegasus tories. Papers relating to same-sex (or cross-sex) .cc.ucf.edu). .edu); Jesse Alemán ([email protected]). romantic friendship in any culture or historical Red Rhetoric. Examining literary and other period; exempla, paradigms, narratives, or arti- Sight and Spectacle in Anglo-Saxon En- cultural nationalist discourses that stigmatize facts. Papers or abstracts and brief vitae by gland. Papers exploring any aspect of sight, political opposition as “Red.” How is this rhet- 1 Mar.; Axel Nissen ([email protected]) spectacle, visuality, witnessing, etc. in Anglo- Saxon literature and culture. Papers or ab- oric raced, classed, sexualized? How has the Rumor in the Renaissance. Its relation to rhetoric changed? 1-page abstracts and vitae stracts by 8 Mar.; Shari Horner (slhorn@ reason of state; anonymity and publicity; au- ship.edu). by 1 Mar.; Sondra Guttman (sguttman@ rality versus spectacle; social, political, and ithaca.edu). legal dimensions. While not necessary, English Slavery Museums and Heritage Sites. Look- Christopher Reeve’s Body. Papers from any context preferred. Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Mere- ing for papers that examine the museum as perspective—illness, disability, trauma, gen- dith Evans ([email protected]). site of (historical) recovery or intervention. der, masculinity, myth, epic, science fiction, 2-page abstracts and short vitae by 15 Mar.; Sacred Tropes: Hebrew Bible, New Testa- Helena Woodard ([email protected]). comics, cyborgs, Superman, the superhuman— ment, Qur’an as Literary Works. Applying in literature, film, television, and online. Ab- polymorphous, interdisciplinary theory to Sound and Resonance in the Modernist stracts by 10 Mar.; Fran Bartkowski (franb@ readings of the sacred texts as literature. Novel. Papers addressing the many ways in andromeda.rutgers.edu). E-mail (as attachments) paper title, 100-word which the modernist novel reverberates, echoes, Reforms and New Subjectivities. How did abstracts, brief vitae by 15 Mar.; Roberta Sab- and demands to be listened to. Abstracts by literature, reform, and print capital help create bath ([email protected]). 5 Mar.; Angela Frattarola ([email protected]). new subjectivities in Britain and its colonies for The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. South-South: Connecting Latin America what kinds of groups and individuals? Vitae and How does literary scholarship inform and en- and the Middle East. Analyses of intersec- abstracts using comparative perspectives by hance the teaching and learning enterprise? tions between literary and cultural phenomena 10 Mar.; Karni Bhati ([email protected]). Can teaching language and literature be inves- of the two (post)colonial regions. From early Representations of Philanthropy. The con- tigated as a scholarly form of inquiry? Ab- modern to contemporary, interdisciplinary or struction or uses of philanthropy in literature, stracts and brief vitae by 5 Mar.; Herbert discipline-specific. 250-word abstracts by film, or popular culture. Philanthropy will be Shapiro ([email protected]). 15 Mar.; Hosam Aboul-Ela (hosam.aboul-ela@ mail.uh.edu); Christina Civantos (ccivantos@ defined broadly as generosity, altruism, or vol- Evelyn Scott’s Poetry. Papers that treat any untary action for the public good. Abstracts aspect of Evelyn Scott’s poetry. Papers empha- miami.edu). and vitae by 15 Mar.; Nancy Goldfarb sizing the connections between Scott’s poetry Gertrude Stein’s Peculiar Fame: “Known” ([email protected]). and prose are also welcome. 1–2-page propos- but Not Read. How do we understand Stein’s NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 23

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peculiar fame as person(ality), literary icon, transformed societies. Abstracts (English/ stracts and vitae by 8 Mar.; Lincoln Konkle unread writer? What might it tell us about con- Portuguese) by 8 Mar.; Joseph Abraham Levi ([email protected]). temporary English studies? 500-word proposals ([email protected]). Women and Technoculture. How have by 1 Mar.; Hugh English ([email protected]). Understanding Poetry: Reevaluating New women written about science and technology Storytelling in The Life of Pi. 500-word ab- Criticism and Its Pedagogy. New approaches in literature since World War II? Papers that stracts, bibliographies, brief biographies, and to the history, theory, and practice of Brooks address women’s writing across literary move- statements to agree to participate in the ses- and Warren’s groundbreaking anthology. Are ments or genres are particularly welcome. Ab- sion, if approved, by 1 Mar.; Miriam N. Kotzin we “after the New Criticism”? Should we be? stracts and biographical statements by 1 Mar.; ([email protected]) or Eva M. Thury, En- 2-page abstracts by 1 Mar.; Steve Newman Lisa Yaszek ([email protected]). glish Dept., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA ([email protected]) and Jack Kerkering Women Making History. Women’s roles in 19104 ([email protected]). ([email protected]). historiography as authors of histories and his- Techno-modernism. New work on the con- United States Travel Writing before 1865. torical fiction or as historical figures repre- junction of varied technologies and their ef- James Kirke Paulding, Timothy Dwight, oth- sented in literary texts. 1–2-page abstracts on fects on modernist culture; speed, slowness, ers. Submissions on national identity, class, re- literatures of any period or nationality by and modernity; intersections of the technical, gionalism, the backwoods, the frontier, and 5 Mar.; Lynette Felber ([email protected]). the cultural, and the political. Andrew Enda satirical treatments of travel welcome. Ab- Duffy ([email protected]). stracts, brief vitae by 1 Mar.; Katherine E. Led- Women Theorizing Notoriety, 1558–1830. ford ([email protected]). Early modern women imagining themselves as Territoires d’enfance et mémoires de objects of the public eye—as queens, patrons, langues. Francophone childhood stories: con- (Un)veiling Sexual Identity in Film. Theory artists, saints, etc. Cultural change and the self- and practice concerning filmic representations figuration of space and negotiation of and be- portrayals of fame-seeking women. Abstracts of gay, lesbian, bi-, or transgendered sexual tween languages. Antillean and Maghreban by 1 Mar.; Mary Trull ([email protected]) or identity, including considerations of the closet, writers. Detailed abstracts in French or En- Laura Engel ([email protected]). glish and short vitae by 1 Mar.; Marie-Agnès coming out, and “family” values. 250-word ab- Sourieau ([email protected]field.edu). stracts by 1 Mar.; Daniel A. MacLeay Women Writers Adapt, Adopt, and Appro- ([email protected]). priate Male Models of Education. Transna- Theater in Recent French Film. Analyses of tional or mononational papers examining any aspect of the importance of theater (as The Victorians and the Orient: Reconsid- erations. New work on Victorian Orientalism nonfictional treatises, reports, and accounts, as source, theme, model, metaphor, etc.) in well as fictional representations, in the period French films of the last fifteen years. Abstracts and literary representations of the Orient; scholarship, criticism, translation, poetry, 1650 to 1850. Submissions by 12 Mar.; Carol and brief vitae by 10 Mar.; Marja Warehime at Strauss Sotiropoulos ([email protected]). ([email protected]). drama, the novel; 250-word abstracts and 1-page vitae by 1 Mar.; Christopher Decker or Writing and the Visual in Early Modern Theorizing the Politics of Form in Beat as MS Word attachments to [email protected]. Europe. Process, perspective, point of view; Poetry. The cultural dissidence of beat poetry. relations between writing and painting; vision Special interest in approaches that deal with Visions of History in American Literature, and spectacle as models for thinking through style and form while using relevant theory to 1876–86. How did historical literature (in all texts. 250-word abstracts by 10 Mar.; Katherine illuminate political significance. 250-word ab- genres) portray and construct the American Ibbett ([email protected]). stracts by 1 Mar.; S. Farrell ([email protected] past in this critical postcentennial and .edu.tw). -reconstruction decade? All approaches wel- Writing Technology: Contemporary German come. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Ben Railton Literature and Media. Relations between tra- Too Much Information? The Novel in the ([email protected]). ditional and new media and contemporary Age of the Internet. How has immediate ac- cess to the Internet changed the form or the Visual Language, Visual Being. Papers on German literature, especially with regard to relevance of the contemporary novel? Ab- the relations of epistemology, language, and visual-verbal representation and studies in nar- stracts and brief vitae by 15 Mar.; Quentin culture. Papers encouraged that explore the rative form. Abstracts and short vitae by 15 Mar.; Miller ([email protected]). implications of signed languages and their Stefanie Harris ([email protected]). communities on the philosophy of language. Training the Reader in Early Modern Eu- Yourcenar and the Orient. How does read- 1-page abstracts by 10 Mar.; H-Dirksen Bau- ing Yourcenar from the perspective of her in- rope. Papers investigating reader-training man ([email protected]). strategies used by 16th-, 17th-, and 18th- terest in the East challenge earlier readings of century European authors. 250-word abstracts Welty in/and American Literature. What her texts? Abstracts, brief vitae by 15 Mar.; by 15 Mar.; Allison Stedman (astedman@ happens (to Welty studies and/or constructions Joyce Janca ([email protected]). of American literature) when Welty assumes bucknell.edu). Zukofsky at One Hundred. An assessment her place as a major 20th-century author? of Louis Zukofsky’s work and reputation one Transnational Hybridities: Migrancy, So- Abstracts by 1 Mar.; David McWhirter cial Spaces, and Work in Recent Fiction. ([email protected]). hundred years after his birth. Complete papers 500-word abstracts by 15 Mar.; Helga Druxes or proposals by 15 Feb.; Barry Ahearn. ([email protected]). When Indians Go Bad: Banned Books. Fiction, poetry, by Native American or First Trauma, Death, and the Failure to Mourn Nations authors banned in classrooms or Allied and Affiliate Organizations in Literary Works of the Age of Goethe. communities: responses from native commu- Pathological grief, repressed emotion. Theoriz- nities, dominant culture; textual analysis; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ing of the topic or analysis of an example. Ab- rationales and theories; resolution strategies. ITALIAN STUDIES stracts by 15 Mar.; Gail Hart. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Deborah Miranda Gramsci, Rhetoric, and Philology. Abstracts Truth in Creative Nonfiction. How closely ([email protected]). by 8 Mar.; Roberto M. Dainotto; (dainotto@ duke.edu). are creative nonfiction writers bound to the lit- White Postcolonials. Proposals about white eral truth of the experiences they narrate? Def- writers (e.g., Gordimer, Coetzee, Lessing, At- Violence, Ethics, and Literature. Abstracts by initions and contestations of “truth” in creative wood, etc.) whose narratives explore relations 8 Mar.; Joseph Francese ([email protected]). nonfiction. 1-page abstracts, brief vitae by between descendants of white colonizers and 15 Mar; James Lang. “nonwhite” indigenous populations. Abstracts AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIAN 21st-Century Portuguese Africa: New by 1 Mar.; Linda Seidel ([email protected]). LITERARY STUDIES Millennium, New Solutions / A África Por- Tennessee Williams’s “Apprentice” Plays. Australia: Past and Present. tuguesa no século XXI: Novo Milénio, Any approach on Candles to the Sun (published Children’s Literature of Australia. Proposals Novas Soluções. Literary images of the five May 2004), Fugitive Kind, Spring Storm, Not by 15 Mar.; Jim Hoy ([email protected]). Lusophone countries portraying a history of Nightingales, Battle Angels, or Stairs Roof. Ab- (continued on next page) NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 24

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(continued from previous page) Native literary texts and visual texts? Examples about children. 1–2-page proposals by 15 Mar.; include photography, film, TV, advertising, Kara Keeling ([email protected]) or Scott Pol- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS iconography, video games, and book illustra- lard ([email protected]). OF YIDDISH tions. Abstracts and vitae by 15 Mar.; Dean Here and Now: Approaches to Current American Jewish Literature: Celebrating Rader ([email protected]). Events through Children’s Literature. Panel Jewish Literature and 350 Years of Jewish Problems in Applying Feminist Theory to exploring how cultural tensions and sociopoliti- Life in America. Works of all genres. Propos- Native American Literature. Can white fem- cal issues may be negotiated via texts produced als by 15 Mar.; Evelyn Avery. inist theory be applied to Native American lit- for young readers. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Na- Yiddish Literature: 350 Years of Jewish erature? Why do terms such as “tribalist” or thalie op de Beeck, Illinois State Univ., Dept. of Life in America—Yiddish Literature and “activist” better describe Native female charac- English 4240, Normal 61790 ([email protected]). the Americas. Works of all genres. Proposals ters? Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Patrice Hollrah by 15 Mar.; Jerold Frakes, 319 Hamilton Hall ([email protected]). JOHN CLARE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA mc2812, 1130 Amsterdam Ave., New York, John Clare in Context. Papers should explore NY 10027. ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF DADA AND SURREALISM the poetry and prose of John Clare in historical, literary, and biographical contexts. Detailed ab- AMERICAN BOCCACCIO ASSOCIATION Dada and Surrealist Collage. Papers by stracts by e-mail by 15 Mar.; Scott McEathron. 21 Mar.; Rudolf Kuenzli (rudolf-kuenzli@ Boccaccio. By 1 Mar.; Janet Smarr (jsmarr@ uiowa.edu). ucsd.edu). PAUL CLAUDEL SOCIETY Claudel et l’art. Papers reflecting on Claudel ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT and painting, sculpture, poetry, and music, LITERATURE ASSOCIATION among other art forms. E-mail abstracts by Ecocritical Perspectives on Cosmopolitan Poetry and Interdisciplinarity. Do new ap- 1 Mar.; Eric Touya ([email protected]). Spaces. Urban ecocriticism must reflect the proaches in comparative literature reduce po- clash of culturally diverse ideas of nature and etry to thematics, or do they enhance our COMMUNITY COLLEGE interpretations of voice, audience, forms, environments that constitute the postmodern HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION city. Papers that discuss urban environmental media, and cultural significance? 1-page ab- Community College Scholarship: High- and multicultural issues by 1 Mar. stracts by 10 Mar.; Sandra Bermann lighting Exemplary Projects. Examples of ([email protected]). Reconsidering Theoretical Approaches to discipline-based research projects undertaken Global Environments. There is a need to by faculty members at community colleges. AMERICAN HUMOR STUDIES ASSOCIATION consider methodologies based on awareness of Papers can discuss faculty development sup- Defying Limits: Subversive Humor in the postcolonial histories and transnational reali- port as well as project content. Abstracts by Texts of American Minorities or Women. ties. Papers that consider issues such as Third 15 Mar.; George Scheper ([email protected]) World economies, environmental justice, and or Stacey Donohue ([email protected]). Transcending and Transforming Humorous ecotourism by 1 Mar.; Barbara Cook Stereotypes in American Film Comedy. In- ([email protected]). quiries or paper proposals, not exceeding 500 JOSEPH CONRAD SOCIETY OF AMERICA words, by 5 Mar.; Ed Piacentino (epiacent@ Conrad in the 21st Century. Considerations MARGARET ATWOOD SOCIETY highpoint.edu). of Conrad’s contemporaneity and future rele- Margaret Atwood and the Craft of Narra- vance, with regard to any topic and from any AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY tive. Papers on Atwood’s innovations in nar- theoretical perspective. 2-page abstracts or rative technique in fiction and in poetry. completed papers by 15 Mar.; Andrea White Two Open Sessions. Fields may include liter- 2-page proposals by 5 Mar.; Lynda Hall ([email protected]). ature, literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, ([email protected]) and Susan Fisher (susan Nostromo at 100. Centenary reconsiderations geography, sociology, history. Panels may be .fi[email protected]). organized on single authors or subjects. 150- and reevaluations of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo. word abstracts by 1 Mar.; Lynn C. Hattendorf Margaret Atwood’s Doomsday Visions. 2-page abstracts or completed papers by Westney ([email protected]). The apocalyptic warnings, dystopian visions, 15 Mar.; Wallace Watson ([email protected]) political oppression, and redemptive possibili- or Peter Mallios ([email protected]). AMERICAN THEATRE AND DRAMA SOCIETY ties presented in Atwood’s works. 2-page pro- American Dramatic Realism and Antireal- posals by 15 Mar.; Theodore F. Sheckels DICKENS SOCIETY ism. Back-to-back sessions on either realism ([email protected]) and Joy Arbor (jarbor@ Accounting for Dickens: Realism, Num- or antirealism. 500-word abstracts by 12 Mar.; bigred.unl.edu). bers, Accountability. Dickens’s relation to David Krasner ([email protected]). numbers and to numerical certainty, including SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR SOCIETY Dickens and the statistical; counting in serial ASSOCIATION DES AMIS D’ANDRÉ GIDE Abstracts, titles dealing with some aspect of fiction; money, interest, and investment; nu- Gide-Proust. Two sessions. 300-word propos- Beauvoir’s life or works, and short vitae by meracy and literacy. Abstracts, brief vitae by als (French or English) by 10 Mar.; Martine 1 Mar.; Yolanda Patterson ([email protected]). 1 Mar.; Helena Michie ([email protected]). Benjamin ([email protected]) or Joce- Dickens’s Life Stories. Papers dealing with lyn Vantuyl ([email protected]). SAMUEL BECKETT SOCIETY the stories told about Dickens by Dickens, by “Know Happiness”: Beckett and Joy. Titles, his friends and biographers, or by his works. ASSOCIATION FOR 1-page abstracts, and short vitae by 1 Mar.; Roles of biography in literary, historical, cul- BUSINESS COMMUNICATION Mary Bryden ([email protected]). tural interpretations. Abstracts, brief vitae by The Power of Praxis: Best Practices in Pro- 1 Mar.; Robert L. Patten ([email protected]). fessional Communication. What are the CERVANTES SOCIETY OF AMERICA best practices in business and industry? Which Cervantes and the Hapsburgs. Papers by EMILY DICKINSON theoretical approaches and research methods 10 Mar.; Frederick De Armas, Dept. of Ro- INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY are the most appropriate? Abstracts and brief mance Langs. and Lits., Univ. of Chicago, Dickinson and Biography. Reflections on the biographies by 5 Mar.; Melinda Knight 1050 East 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637. legacy of (recently deceased) Richard Sewall’s ([email protected]). biography, Alfred Habegger’s (or other) recent CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION biographical work, or on biographical implica- ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF Food in Children’s Literature. Papers inves- tions of new work on the 19th century. AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES tigating the construction and uses of food as a Dickinson and the Emersonian Tradition. American Indian Literature and Visual complex signifier for socialization and identity Abstracts by 1 Mar.; Cristanne Miller Culture. 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CAMERA’S EYE PHOTOGRAPHY uiowa.edu). (waltraud-maierhofer@ Maierhofer W. Mar.; by 15 preferred) ab- submissions 1-page perspectives. (e-mail of stracts range fic- a and biography from in tion or work authors’ on both impact relationship’s the work; revisionist Revisited. Schiller and Goethe GOETHE SOCIETYOFNORTH AMERICA E-mail submissionspreferred. by 10 Mar.; Jeffrey Steele([email protected]). tion inhertexts. 1–3-page proposalsandvitae 1848;symbolsofliberty, freedom,orrevolu- of revolutionaries; tiestotheItalianRevolution strategies ofliberation;reviews ofEuropean Liberty. Margaret Fuller andtheDiscourses of MARGARET FULLERSOCIETY man ([email protected]). Costantino ([email protected]) andDaraGold- Mar.; Roselyn stracts for15-min.papersby 1 ables ofSpanish-speakingcommunities. Ab- considering gender, economic, culturalvari- teaching peaceandresponsiblecitizenship, Citizenship Teaching for Peace: Feminisms, Resistance, FEMINISTAS UNIDAS Goodwyn Jones(ajones@ufl.edu). pers orpanelsby e-mailby 1Mar.; Anne Fable A foodways; theunreadFaulkner; whoreads pression; Faulkner andpatriotism;Faulknerian ner inglobalcontext; Faulkner and(the)De- Open Topic. WILLIAM FAULKNER SOCIETY 20-min. papersby 1Mar.; Jeffrey Johnson. John Donne:AnOpenSession. Mar.; Raymond JeanFrontain. pers by 1 Donne andSincerity. JOHN DONNESOCIETY right: MichaelSkau,GregorySadlek,GordonMundell, andGarcía. OfficeofForeign Language Programs. Leftto The receptioninhonorofElviraGarcía,arranged by theMLA ?; teachingFaulkner. Proposalsforpa- Fuller’s relationtodemocraticideals; . Exploringfeministpedagogyfor Faulkner andeconomics, Faulk- 8–11-page, 20-min. pa- e and New 8–11-page, att.net). (dolan.hubbard@ Hubbard Dolan Mar.; by 7 statements biographical and submission preferred) (e-mail American abstracts the 1-page and Dream. Americas the of inter- rogation and with engagement Hughes’s treat Dream. American Hughes the Langston and America”: Am Too, “I, LANGSTON HUGHESSOCIETY uiowa.edu). Mar.; Astrid Oesmann(astrid-oesmann@ by 22 to conflictresolution(e.g., Lehrstueckmodels) about violence, andonBrechtianapproaches or psychological cruelty),onhisreflections resentations ofviolence(war; physical, mental, Brecht andViolence. temple.edu). by 22Mar.; NormanRoessler (nroessle@ formance (includingjazz,rock,punk,rap,etc.) that mediateissuesofpopularmusicandper- music practitionersoronBrechtiandiscourses on connectionsbetween Brechtandpopular Brecht andPostwar Popular Music. INTERNATIONAL BRECHTSOCIETY ([email protected]). Phillips Mar.; Edward 1 Philip by abstracts to 1–2-page Ages present. Middle the the from thought Boethian tion Philosophy Boethius’s interdisciplinary to or approaches theoretical new with ing Boethius. to Approaches New INTERNATIONAL BOETHIUSSOCIETY ([email protected]). Mar.;of Peter AlanE. Smith Bly. Abstractsby 1 Galdós andtheVisualArts. ([email protected]). Pérez Galdós. Abstractsby 1Mar.; JoeLabanyi Open Topic. SCHOLARS GALDÓS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF rwrsdrcl nune by influenced directly works or , ae rnltoso the of translations later , Any aspectrelatedtoBenito Papers onBrecht’s rep- h oslto of Consolation The aesthat Papers Panel inhonor aesdeal- Papers Consola- Papers L ESETR•Spring2004Page 25 NEWSLETTER MLA .berkeley.edu). 23 Feb.; Jeffrey Knapp(jknapp@socrates Spenser seemstothink?1–2-page abstractsby ects? Arethegodsasideologicallypliable ploy paganisminhispoeticandcolonialproj- in Spenser?How andwhy doesSpenserem- ship changedourunderstandingofpaganism Spenser andtheGods. ([email protected]). ies? 1–2-page abstractsby 23Feb.; David Baker ser in“dialogue”withhisIrishcontemporar- often conflictingcommentary. How was Spen- Gaelic, English,Latin,etc.—and resonantwith Spenser’s Irelandwas richinlanguages— Spenser andHisIrishContemporaries. INTERNATIONAL SPENSERSOCIETY und.nodak.edu). by 15Feb.; Joyce Coleman(joyce_coleman@ cal, feminist,andotherimplications. Proposals ing women asflowers, fortheliterary, politi- Papers examining thepoetichabitofallegoriz- and theFlower andLeafasCourtlyCults. Females inFlower: Marguerites, Roses, .edu). Markus I.Cruse(mqc4540@nyu Feb.; script illumination.Proposalsby 15 physical appearance, miseenpage, andmanu- phrasis, heraldry, publicceremony, costume, ble topicsincludespectating,spying, ek- literature andinromancemanuscripts. Possi- visual languageandsightareusedincourtly The CourtlyGaze. SOCIETY LITERATURE INTERNATIONAL COURTLY thor’s place(which“HenryJames”?moreor Jamesian Futures. HENRY JAMESSOCIETY ([email protected]). abstracts by 15Mar.; ZoranKuzmanovich of Nabokov’s work andlife. E-mail250-word ative, butnonrancorouspapersonany aspect Open Session. ([email protected]). Mar.; CorinneScheiner stracts by 15 and assesshisagendas?E-mail250-word ab- there’s apoliticalNabokov, how doweIf find some ofhismorepolitical“strongopinions”? the self-proclaimedapoliticalNabokov with Nabokov andPolitics. SOCIETY NABOKOV INTERNATIONAL VLADIMIR Apart from SOCIETY WOOLF VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL otterbein.edu). Mar.; BethRigelDaugherty(bdaugherty@ 15 approaches. 250–500-word abstractsby egories, attitudes, subjects, angles, moods, retical. Then.Now. Early. Late. Somany cat- Literary. Occasional.Feminist. Critical.Theo- Signed. Commissioned. Not.Personal. Formal. troductions. Extendednonfiction.Anonymous. Virginia Woolf’s Essays. Mar.; MarkHussey ([email protected]). 15 Cunningham! 250–500-word abstractsby Sontag, Schaberg,Atwood). Nopopcultureor temporary intellectualandartisticwork (e.g., Scene. Continuing Presence ontheIntellectual How Woolf motivates andinformscon- The Hours Thoughtful, informed, provoc- Papers addressingtheway Papers prognosticatingau- (continued onnextpage) : Virginia Woolf’s How dowe reconcile Has recentscholar- Reviews. Essays. In- NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 26

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(continued from previous page) Jewish reception in criticism and fiction. Pro- Vitae and 2-page proposals by 20 Mar.; Flo- posals by 15 Mar.; Liliane Weissberg, German rence Boos (fl[email protected]). less James?) in English studies of tomorrow— Dept., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 133 Bennett curricula, scholarship, emergent theoretical Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6203. NORTH AMERICAN HEINE SOCIETY models—or addressing James’s assessment of Political Theater, Mimesis, and the Limits Left-Wing Melancholia. Papers addressing his possible fortunes. of Empathy. Dynamics of mimesis and em- Heine and left-wing politics in the present Jamesian Pasts. Papers reflecting on 20th- pathy in German dramaturgy and praxis, global order. Possible topics include religion century constructions of “Henry James” in questioning in particular stated or implied and power, nationalisms, end of modernity, criticism and teaching (e.g., Partisan Review boundaries (cognitive, political, ethnic, reli- media control, consumerism, corporate power, James, Cold War James, post-Sedgwick James) gious, linguistic, etc.) of empathetic identifica- Third World societies, digital media networks. and the cultural work or ideological burden of tion. By 15 Mar.; Sara Eigen (sara.eigen@ Proposals by 1 Mar.; Roger Cook (cookrf@ such constructions. 2-page abstracts by 1 Mar.; vanderbilt.edu). missouri.edu). Eric Haralson. LYRICA SOCIETY FOR WORD- EUGENE O’NEILL SOCIETY KAFKA SOCIETY OF AMERICA MUSIC RELATIONS Modernism, Metaphor, and O’Neill. Kafka and Music, Kafka and Aurality. All When the Words Come First: Art Songs O’Neill’s experimental works in the 1920s in aspects of Kafka’s perception of music, theme Setting Preexisting Literary Texts. Inquiries, relation to the seemingly naturalistic master- of music, musical consciousness in his works proposals, abstracts by 20 Mar.; Leslie Dunn works at the end of his career. Proposals by (also sound effects, noises), adaptations, com- ([email protected]). 1 Mar; Diane Schinnerer ([email protected]). positions, etc. 200-word abstracts by 28 Mar.; Maris Luise Caputo-Mayr (mlcaputomayr@ MARLOWE SOCIETY OF AMERICA HAROLD PINTER SOCIETY hotmail.com) and Judith Ryan (jryan@fas The Politics of Marriage in the Work .harvard.edu). Open-Topic Session. Abstracts or 15-min. papers (e-mail attachment or hard copy) by of Harold Pinter. 250-word abstracts by 1 Mar.; Ann C. Hall (halla@ KEATS-SHELLEY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 1 Mar.; Bruce E. Brandt, Marlowe Soc. of America, English Dept., Box 504, South Da- ohiodominican.edu). Intercultural Imaginings after Waterloo. kota State Univ., Brookings 57007 (bruce_ Forms of thinking and imagining between or [email protected]). PIRANDELLO SOCIETY OF AMERICA across cultures after the revolutionary wars: Luigi Pirandello and the Italian American travel writing, translations, philosophical dia- MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE Experience. Panel discussion format with logue, exilic writing, etc. New modes of iden- DRAMA SOCIETY papers submitted to PSA for publication. tity and belonging reinflected earlier models. Domestic Violence in Early Drama. Papers 250-word synopses by 1 Mar.; Rose Fichera 2-page abstracts or completed papers by McAloon ([email protected]). 15 Mar.; Ina Ferris ([email protected]). discussing domestic violence—physical, psy- chological, verbal—on the early stage, espe- Pirandellian Doubles and Desire. Presen- Memory: Mechanism, Management, and cially exploring staging of violence or theorizing tations may involve staged readings. E-mail Meaning. The discourse—or social construc- its function. 250-word synopses of papers by 1 Mar.; tion of memory in the first third of the 19th Teaching Early Drama in the Undergrad- Kathryn Wylie-Marques (kwylie@jjay century—preferably with links to the Keats- uate Classroom. Short contributions (ap- .cuny.edu). Shelley circle; the appropriation of memory proximately 10 minutes) to panel discussing in texts of members of the circle. Abstracts or methods, resources, and strategies for teaching POE STUDIES ASSOCIATION 12-page papers by 15 Mar.; Stuart Peterfreund early drama to undergraduates. E-mail 1-page (s.peterfreund.neu.edu). Poe and Solitude. Addressing the ramifica- abstracts by 1 Mar.; Gloria Betcher (gbetcher@ tions of Poe’s alienation from mainstream iastate.edu). D. H. LAWRENCE SOCIETY OF 19th-century America. NORTH AMERICA Poe and the Ratiocinative Intellect. Ad- MELVILLE SOCIETY D. H. Lawrence and America. Suggested ap- dressing Poe’s employment of the concept. proaches include Lawrence and Native Amer- Melville’s Dialogic Muse. Papers that explore Proposals by 1 Mar.; Richard Fusco, Dept. of ica, American symbolism, influences from or Melville’s “multi-voiced” discourse in his po- English, Saint Joseph’s Univ., Philadelphia, PA on American literature (including Canadian or etry or fiction, from any critical approach and 19131 ([email protected]). Mexican). 300-word abstracts by 15 Mar.; Vir- any phase in his writing career. 3-page ab- ginia Hyde ([email protected]). stracts by 1 Mar.; Susan Fanning, Humanities POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION Dept., Orient 116, Suffolk Community Coll., Popular Representations of 9-11-01 and Its DORIS LESSING SOCIETY Eastern Campus, 121 Speonk-Riverhead Road, Aftermath. Theoretically informed analyses of Riverhead, NY 11801-3499 (sfanning@ Doris Lessing: Prophet or Maverick? Do representations of the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks afanning.com). Lessing’s works offer a vision for the future? in the American popular media. 2-page ab- How does Lessing shatter traditional modes of stracts or 15-min. papers and vitae by 27 Feb.; MILTON SOCIETY OF AMERICA thinking? 2-page proposals by 15 Mar.; Debrah Liahna Armstrong. Raschke ([email protected]) and John Milton: A General Session. 8-page Jeanie Warnock ([email protected]). papers by 15 Mar.; Charles W. Durham EZRA POUND SOCIETY ([email protected]). Reassessing Lessing: Prescience and Prej- Ezra Pound’s American Voices. How Pound udice in The Golden Notebook. Perspectives Milton and Toleration, Then and Now. addressed an American audience from abroad, on the novel’s formal experimentation, place Studies of Milton’s pro- and antitolerationist including efforts to promote his work at home in literary and social history, psychologies and writings on groups like the Irish, Spanish, and representations of distinctively American politics, narrative personae. 2-page abstracts French, Muslims, Native Indians, Jews, Euro- voices in his poetry, prose, correspondence, by 10 Mar.; Judith Kegan Gardiner pean and English Catholics, dissenters in En- and broadcasts. Vitae and usefully detailed ([email protected]). gland and the New World. 8-page papers by précis by 15 Mar.; Matthew Hofer (mrhofer@ 15 Mar.; Elizabeth Sauer (emsauer@spartan uchicago.edu). G. E. LESSING SOCIETY .ac.brocku.ca). Ezra Pound’s Patria Mia: Forms of an Lessing’s German-Jewish Legacy. Perhaps American Renaissance. In keeping with the no other German author had such a profound WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY Philadelphia setting, proposals on any aspect influence on German-Jewish thought, writing, The International Morris. of Pound’s conception of an American Renais- and self-definition, as Gotthold Ephraim Less- Taking Liberties: Parodies and Adaptations sance, past or future, are welcome. Short vitae ing. Papers considering Lessing’s German- of the Pre-Raphaelites, Then and Now. and abstracts by 15 Mar.; Evelyn Haller. NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/0412:20PMPage27

CAMERA’S EYE PHOTOGRAPHY Theory: ARoundtable.” Bruce R.Smithpresiding atthesession“Poetry and have analyzedherrepresentationsofyouth, works portray charactersofallages, few critics Sand andtheStages ofLife. cat ([email protected]) vitae abrégépourle22mars. BénédicteMoni- Sand quesaréception?Résumésd’unepage, tique del’enfancedéfinit-elletantl’œuvre La poétiquedel’enfance. GEORGE SAND ASSOCIATION [email protected]). stracts by 15Mar.; Roxana M.Verona (roxana celebration of“difference”fromtheWest. Ab- similationist modelandnationalidentity, the Paris andtheEuropean“other,” theFrench as- Eastern Europe. Paris asPromised Land:Francophilia in ([email protected]). Lee Univ., Lexington, VAand 24450 Mar.; DomnicaRadulescu, Washington 20 society (e.g., jokes, oralculture).Proposalsby theater andfilmdirectors, andofwomen in ern Europeanfemalewriters, performers, ing thehumorandcomicdimensionsofEast- Humor: Culture, Literature, Film. Eastern European Women asCreators of AMERICA OF ROMANIAN STUDIESASSOCIATION Ohmann ([email protected]). .o’[email protected]) andRichard Abstracts by 1Mar.; SusanO’Malley (susan class literatureconnectedtooldertraditions? tion, etc.? How arenew strands ofworking- of internationalmigrations, ceaselesscasualiza- working-class literaturechanginginacontext Working-Class Literature Today. MODERN LANGUAGES RADICAL CAUCUS INENGLISHANDTHE Suggested topics:cultural Comment lapoé- While Sand’s How is Explor- ([email protected]). Mar.; BonnieWheeler 200-word abstractsby 7 Women andWork intheMiddleAges. Feminist Scholarship. Electronic PublishingandMedieval SCHOLARSHIP FEMINIST SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL Karin Wurst ([email protected]). Roundtable. A Teaching theEarlyModern Period: disciplinary Enterprise. The EarlyModern Period asanInter- BAROQUE LITERATURE SOCIETY FOR GERMANRENAISSANCE AND ([email protected]). Osteen Mark Mar.; by 15 Abstracts modes. communicative and alternative textual of formation etc.; retar- dyslexia, autism, dation, dementia, injury, brain of effects and Depictions consumption? and textual production enable or constrain disabilities cognitive Textuality. and Disability Cognitive SOCIETY FOR CRITICAL EXCHANGE Problems intheRomance Epic. CANADIAN BRANCH SOCIÉTÉ RENCESVALS, AMERICAN- race. Dalitliteratures, relationsofcastewith on conceptsandrealitiesofcaste, class, and tures. Race, Class, andCasteinSouthAsianCul- SOUTH ASIANLITERARY ASSOCIATION ([email protected]). Coll., 5050EastStateSt.,Rockford, IL61108 Weaks-Baxter, Dept.ofEnglish,Rockford Mar.; MaryLouise 500-word proposalsby 15 grotesque insouthernwritingandfilm. sentations ofsexuality andconstructionsofthe Literature andFilm. Sexuality andtheGrotesque inSouthern an internationalcontext, anditsliterature(s). of theSouth,astraditionallyunderstoodorin tiers, boundaries, contactzones, andmargins The Borders ofSouthernLiterature. LITERATURE SOUTHERN SOCIETY FOR THESTUDY OF Richardson ([email protected]). abstracts (noattachments)by 17 Mar.; Brian modern subjectswelcome. Papers or400-word etc. Canonical,minority, non-Western, orpost- the legacyofopenendings, enforcedclosure, ings innarratives, includingfabricatedorigins, Nonfiction. Beginnings andEndingsinFiction LITERATURE NARRATIVE SOCIETY FOR THESTUDY OF Jones ([email protected]). Mar.; Catherine Romance epic. Abstractsby 15 sions. Papers areinvitedonany aspectofthe ([email protected]) vitae by 22Mar.; AnnikDoquireKerszberg adulthood, oroldage. 1-page abstracts, brief rpsl 3050wrs y1 Mar. Proposals (300–500words) by 15 Any aspectofbeginningsorend- –-aeasrcsb Mar.; 1–2-page abstractsby 1 The interplay ofrepre- Two ses- o do How Fron- L ESETR•Spring2004Page 27 NEWSLETTER MLA ([email protected]). Mar.; JulieOlin-Ammentorp proposals by 10 adaptations ofWharton’s works. 250-word Wharton’s lifeandwork; theaterandopera performing arts(suchasoperaandtheater)in Edith Wharton and the Arts. ([email protected]). Mar.; Frederick Wegener vitae by 15 destine orthewithheld. Abstractsandbrief gender-orientedimplicationsoftheclan- and ethical, social,discursive, aesthetic, marital, Wharton’s writing; cealment andcovertness in Wharton andSecrets. Edith EDITH WHARTON SOCIETY Walls ([email protected]). Thoreaus. Abstractsby 12Mar.; LauraDassow who broke breadwiththeEmersonsand scendental contexts asrepresentedby those Dinner Table. The Emersons’ Parlor andMrs. Thoreau’s THOREAU SOCIETY ([email protected]). 500-word abstractsby 15Mar.; HenaAhmad literatures, andculturalperformance. 300– roles, evolutions offeminismsinSouthAsian resentations challengingtraditionalwomen’s and practice:thestate, violence, activism,rep- posals concerningdebatesonfeministtheory Varieties ofSouthAsianFeminism. James McKusick ([email protected]). Mar.; logue. E-maildetailedabstractsby 15 and dissemination,theartist-scientistana- tories andantecedents, formsofexpression literature andthesciences, theircommonhis- pers shouldexamine naturalaffinitiesbetween Romantic Literature andtheSciences. WORDSWORTH-COLERIDGE ASSOCIATION Roseanna Dufault([email protected]). Mar.; role genderplays intheirexperience. 15 and challengesoftheirjobdiscusswhat vited tosharetheirthoughtsontherewards Women chairsofEnglishdepartmentsarein- The Work ofWomen Chairs: ARoundtable. LANGUAGES MODERN WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR THE Mar.; ColetteTrout. 15 Une nouvelle écriture féminine? Audrey Sartiaux. tions littéraires delahonte. Le corpsdanstous ses états:Représenta- WOMEN INFRENCH Mar.; ChrisMacGowan ([email protected]). 15 culture, andhistory. 1-page abstractsby Papers on Williams andAmericanliterature, can Republic: IntheAmericanGrain. William CarlosWilliamsandtheAmeri- WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMSSOCIETY ([email protected]). interethnic approaches;AmritjitSingh nationalism andglobalization.Cross-cultural, Transcendentalists andtran- Motifs ofcon- y1 Mar.; By 15 Fine artsand By Pro- Pa- NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/0412:20PMPage28 aiintde.tl h ediefrsbitn da n rpsl s1 pi 2004. April 15 is proposals and ideas submitting for deadline The galicianstudies.html. welcome. Detailedinformationisavailable onlineathttp://users.ox.ac.uk/~hert0036/ quests foratentative tableofcontents, suggestionsforcontributors, andsofortharealso Galician Studies, Queen’s Coll.,OxfordOX1 4AW, England. Preliminaryinquiries, re- queens.ox.ac.uk. Submissions may alsobemailedtoKirstyHooper, OxfordCentrefor one- ortwo-page proposalandcurriculumvitaetoKirstyHooperatkirsty.hooper@ media resources. tributors willbeasked to includeannotatedsuggestionsforfurtherreadingandmulti- both GalicianandIberianstudiestoday. Interdisciplinaryapproachesarewelcome. Con- and provocative essays thatreflectonthemethodologies andassumptionsthatunderpin issues andasectionofessays onspecificculturalmedia.Theeditorsseekwell-argued rently conceived, thebookwillincludeasectionofessays onconceptualandtheoretical state anditsothertwo historicalnationalities, CataloniaandtheBasqueCountry. As cur- paucity ofinformationaboutGaliciaonitsown termsandinrelationtotheSpanish post-1975 Galiciancultureinaglobalcontext. Thevolume seekstoremedytherelative known fieldandtoredefineitslimitsby offeringacomprehensive anddynamicvisionof jected volume. Hooper, ManoloPuga,andJohnRutherford, seekcontributionsandideasforthepro- development ofavolume ofessays onGalicianstudies. Thebook’s editors, Kirsty For theseriesWorld LiteraturesReimagined, thePublicationsCommitteehas approved Reimagined Series Call for ContributionsinWorld Literatures BOOK NEWS Harryette Romell Mullen, LorenzoThomas, Adalaide Morris. HarryetteMullen” (lefttoright): JulianaMary Spahr, RolandParticipants Greene, inthesession“ConversationswithPoets: Ste •Spring2004Page 28 NEWSLETTER MLA If you areinterestedincontributing,pleasee-mailas The purposeoftheproposedbookisdouble:toprovide apracticalguidetothislittle- Microsoft Word attachments a ([email protected]; fax:646458-0030). ([email protected]; MLA officeby 1April2004 mailing addresstoJeremy Georgeatthe volumes, pleasesend your nameand If you wishtocontributeany ofthese BOOK NEWS Latin American,andSpanishliterature: new titlesinFrench, German,Italian, mittee hasapproved development ofsix World Literature, the PublicationsCom- For theseriesApproachestoTeaching Approaches Series Call for Contributionsin • • • • • • Heptaméron Teaching Marguerite deNavarre’s Colette H.Winn,ed., Spanish Mystics ing theWorks ofTeresa ofAvila andthe Alison Weber, ed. ing Grass’s Monika Shafi,ed., ing theWorks ofItaloCalvino Franco Ricci,ed., resque Tradition ing Anne J. Cruz,ed., of SorJuana eds., Emilie BergmannandStacey Schlau, Lazarillo deTormes Approaches toTeaching theWorks ve McCaffery, The TinDrum

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COMMITTEES Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: An Invitation MLA members involved in book publication programs have an globalization that our scholarship and our praxes are especially opportunity to shape and even transform the field by proposing needed, to foster discerning, situated interpretative acts in hetero- areas of engagement that deserve, perhaps even demand, atten- geneous textual environments. tion for the benefit of the academic community. The intersection of these trends remains to be further specified, A relatively recent initiative, the MLA publication series Teach- explored, and made into fertile ground. As a venue for such work, ing Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, hopes to contribute to the series Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures has thus transformative changes in the field that afford opportunities for far published two edited volumes: Learning Foreign and Second examining “how teaching different languages, literatures, and cul- Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship and Cultural tures intersects in theory, research, curriculum and program de- Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America. Projects at vari- sign, and pedagogical practices” (Anderson and Kuhnheim vii). In ous stages of preparation pertain to the creation of an integrated particular, developments in language acquisition research increas- collegiate language curriculum with a multiple-literacies focus, ingly portray language as socioculturally situated and propose an modern French studies, performing as knowing, and the role of understanding of language learning as a complex process of nego- translations in the literature classroom. As members of the series tiating multiple linguistic and cultural identities in the emerging editorial board, we invite colleagues, be they individual research- user of multiple languages. Neither “the native”—typically En- ers and practitioners or groups collaborating across linguistic and glish—nor “the foreign” are as neatly delineated or privileged as cultural, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries, to contribute to we once thought. Developments in literary studies, too, have ex- the series. We encourage you to visit the MLA Web site for further panded boundaries into noncanonical and nonliterary texts that information about the series and its submission process. We wel- explore their relations to a range of social practices. And the cul- come your inquiries and proposals; please send them to David G. tural studies movement has “shifted the focus of literary, linguis- Nicholls, Director of MLA Book Publications ([email protected]). tic, and historical studies to . . . marginal groups and the study of expressive forms and social practices associated with popular and Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures mass culture” (Anderson and Kuhnheim 1). Series Editorial Board Members of the MLA in their roles as teachers understand that Heidi Byrnes, chair these shifts affect scholarship and professional practice in curric- Andrew P. Debicki ula and pedagogies because it is through acts of teaching that we Sally Sieloff Magnan make real for our students ongoing social and intellectual trans- Isidore Okpewho formations. Instead of imagining teaching in terms of exposure, Peter Steiner conveyance, and transmission, we might find more appropriate for both teaching and learning the metaphors of translation, nego- Works Cited tiation, and choices in various social spaces, including classrooms Anderson, Danny J., and Jill S. Kuhnheim. “Introduction: From Culture and programs, both undergraduate and graduate. As Mary Louise into Cultural Studies in Latin America.” Cultural Studies in the Curricu- Pratt states, when we recognize that heterogeneity, and not an lum: Teaching Latin America. Eds. Anderson and Kuhnheim. New York: idealized homogeneity, of community in a globalized environment MLA, 2003. 1–16. is the new norm, we are engaging in the “pedagogical arts of the Pratt, Mary Louise. “Arts of the Contact Zone.” Profession 91. New York: contact zone” (40). It is in the seemingly normalizing practices of MLA, 1991. 33–40.

BOOK NEWS Two New MLA Titles Published Please note that prices on all paperback volumes in the Approaches to Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Emma is edited by Marcia Mc- Teaching World Literature series were increased to $19.75 (MLA Clintock Folsom. Teachers seeking to introduce Austen’s intricate, members $15.80) on 1 January 2004. subtly crafted world to new readers often find that students are The MLA is scheduled to publish two new titles in early 2004. Set put off by the novel’s seeming lack of action and by its preoccupa- for March release, Reading Sites: Social Difference and Reader Re- tion with the details of daily life. This eighty-second volume in the sponse, edited by Patrocinio P.Schweickart and Elizabeth A. Flynn, MLA’s Approaches to Teaching series outlines the specific chal- explores how social differences condition and shape reader re- lenges of teaching Emma and shows teachers how to construct lec- sponse. Integrating scholarship from literary studies and tures, initiate classroom discussions, and devise writing composition and rhetoric, Reading Sites examines a host of genres, assignments. The volume is 246 pages; it costs $37.50 (MLA mem- from nineteenth-century working-class autobiographies and twen- bers $30.00) in cloth and $19.75 (MLA members $15.80) in paper- tieth-century women’s confessional magazines to detective fiction back. and book-club selections, to question how various groups of read- To purchase these or other MLA publications, please call cus- ers and authors identify with competing social hierarchies. The tomer services (646 576-5161), fax your order (646 576-5160), or book is 360 pages; it costs $40.00 (MLA members $32.00) in cloth place your order through the MLA Web site at www.mla.org. The and $22.00 (MLA members $17.60) in paperback. MLA accepts Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/04 12:20 PM Page 30

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COMMITTEES Committee on Information Technology Issues Statement on Electronic Publishing As publication in electronic journals becomes more common in tronic monographs, digital archives, and experimental forms of the profession, especially among younger scholars, the MLA Com- electronic scholarship. The CIT wants to promote continuing mittee on Information Technology (CIT) believes that tenure and dialogue on the issue of publication in electronic venues and promotion committees and those who are asked to write external invites MLA members to send their comments and concerns to letters for these committees may value guidance from the MLA in [email protected]. assessing scholarship published in electronic formats. The CIT further believes that, as one aspect of the MLA's response to the Statement on Publication in Electronic Journals crisis in academic publishing, it is important for the association to Electronic scholarly journals have existed for over a decade. encourage the development of electronic publication and the dis- Commonplace in the sciences, they are gaining in audience and ciplinary infrastructure that supports it. professional use in the humanities. Scholars at all levels may The MLA Statement on Publication in Electronic Journals grew choose to publish their research in electronic formats because of out of a conversation the CIT had in 2001 with executive director the ease of distribution, discovery, and retrieval in these formats— emerita Phyllis Franklin. She expressed concern that young schol- which is a significant aid to research—and because of the multi- ars who publish electronically are often at risk because of a wide- media features that the electronic environment affords. spread perception that scholarship is published electronically only The electronic journal is a viable and credible mode of scholarly if it is not good enough to get into print. Franklin strongly encour- publication. When departments evaluate scholarly publications aged the CIT to develop a statement on the credibility of elec- for purposes of hiring, reappointment, tenure, and promotion, the tronic journals to help create an atmosphere more accepting of standing of an electronic journal should be judged according to good research published in electronic venues. In 2002 the CIT the same criteria used for a print journal. These criteria include drafted a statement and in January 2003 circulated the draft to the journal’s peer review policy, its rate of acceptance, the nature the ADE and ADFL e-mail discussion lists for comment by de- of its editorial board and publisher, and its general profile in the partment chairs. In October 2003 a final version of the statement field it covers. was approved by the MLA Executive Council. The MLA believes that the continuing development of elec- The CIT continued its investigation of this issue in a session at tronic publishing in the humanities offers exciting possibilities the 2003 MLA convention (“Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in and a new medium for the dissemination of scholarly work. It the Academy”). A follow-up session at the 2004 convention will represents a particularly important development in the light of re- address issues of evaluation that arise with publication in elec- cent constraints on university press publication.

MEETINGS 2004 ADFL Summer Seminars: At the Interface of Chairing—Vision and Management ADFL Summer Seminars offer chairs of foreign language and lit- and culture programs offer a nation suddenly discovering it needs erature departments a chance to meet and discuss issues and to know more languages? challenges in their daily work and in the field; nothing takes the Seminar East will feature a workshop on attracting local press place of face-to-face conversations with peers. ADFL Seminar coverage for department projects that serve the community; the West (10–12 June) will be sponsored by the University of New workshop will incorporate the MLA’s new Language Map of the Mexico, Albuquerque, and will be hosted by Tey Diana Re- United States. At Seminar West, a special session will focus on the teaching of Chicana and Chicano literature and culture in depart- bolledo. Seminar East (24–26 June) will be sponsored by Miami ments of Spanish and English. Both seminars will address issues University, Oxford, and will be hosted by Charles Ganelin. Each of assessment and curricular transparency and highlight programs seminar is preceded by a Workshop for New Chairs. The work- teaching local Native American languages and cultures. shops are conducted by experienced chairs from the ADFL Execu- Other topics for sessions and discussion groups include tive Committee, who will address such topics as budget; curriculum development; time management; hiring, promotion, •The impact of assessment on student learning •Language in area studies programs versus language in language, and tenure; retirement; and personnel issues. literature, and culture departments This year’s seminars focus on the chair’s dilemma: how not to •The crisis in scholarly publishing in relation to foreign lan- lose sight of intellectual leadership in the day-to-day managerial guages and literatures necessities of the job. Central to the 2004 seminar theme is the •Heritage languages and the role of the language department in need to advocate for the importance of languages in the humani- the off-campus community ties. Speakers will also address how departments can respond to The seminar registration fee of $300 for members and $400 for the heightened awareness of America’s language education needs nonmembers includes most meals and the Workshop for New in the face of demands for national security. Language has been Chairs. Hotel accommodations this year will be $69 per night in much mentioned in the press since 9/11, but the nation’s concerns Albuquerque and $79 per night in Oxford. Information about have been described in instrumental terms sometimes questioned membership in ADFL, seminar programs, hotel accommodations, in academic circles. In turn, the humanist approach to language and travel arrangements is available at the ADFL Web site and culture has been seen by some as irrelevant to national secu- (www.adfl.org) or by contacting David Goldberg, Associate Direc- rity needs. What can college and university language, literature, tor, ADFL, [email protected]. NL_Spreads_36-1_P6T1.qxd 1/27/0412:20PMPage31 from David Laurence, Director, ADE([email protected]). bership inADEareavailable atADE’s Web site(www.ade.org) or programs, hotelaccommodations, travel arrangements, andmem- tration feeof$350includesmostmeals. Detailsaboutseminar partments thatarecurrentmembersofADE. Theseminarregis- Seminar EastinSouthCarolina. from programsthatleadtothedoctorateareinvitedmeet at meet atSeminarMidwest inIowa. Directors ofgraduatestudies of graduatestudiesfromterminalmaster’s degreeprograms to terest inmaster’s degreeprograms, in2004ADEinvitesdirectors tion ofnew facultymembers. Becauseoftherecentrenewal ofin- admission tograduateschoolandthehiringcareerprepara- partments anddirectorsofgraduatestudiesaboutapplication and sion fordiscussionsbetween chairsofbaccalaureatecollegede- hundred undergraduatestudentsfromtheclassof2001. which collectedwritingdoneacrossfouryears ofcollegeby four Seminar EastabouttheHarvard studyofundergraduatewriting, director ofexpository writingatHarvard University, willspeakat will includesessionsonundergraduatewriting.NancySommers, ferred toininstitutionalbenchmarkinginitiatives. Bothseminars structional CostsandFaculty Productivity, asourcewidelyre- Middaugh istheleadresearcherforDelaware StudyofIn- institutional researchandplanningattheUniversity ofDelaware. seminars willbeMichaelMiddaugh,assistantvicepresidentfor include JohnGuilloryandAnnetteKolodny. Speakingatboth president Robert Scholes. Confirmedspeakers inSouthCarolina scholars. Confirmedspeakers inIowa Cityinclude2004MLA and thework facultymembersdoasteachersandpublishing rounding criteriaandmeasuresusedtoevaluate ourdepartments manities amongtheacademicdisciplinesandonquestionssur- n nwr oqetosaotayadalapcso chairing. of aspects all and any advice about practical questions with to chair com- answers department just and as or year start first sea- to their two about pleting by those led provide Chairs, to New administrators, years. for soned many Workshop for a followed features Thurs- has seminar from ADE Each than schedule rather the Sunday, Thursday for to to scheduled day Monday is from seminar fall Carolina that South note dates the Please experiment, Carolina. En- an South the as of and that, University Lynn the Steven at and department Iowa de- glish of English University the the and Island, at Landon Kiawah partment Brooks in are July June–1 Hosting 17–20 28 Carolina. place and South take Iowa, City, will Iowa Seminars in Summer the June ADE and the departments 2004 their In facing field. problems con- and to issues and about information of sult share chairs to where gather seminars departments two ADE-member arranges ADE the summer Each Departmental Administrators 2004 ADESummerSeminars for MEETINGS • • • • • • Attendance attheseminarsislimitedtorepresentatives ofde- Since themid-1990sseminarshave alsoprovided anocca- Future directionsformaster’s programs(atSeminarMidwest) Future directionsfordoctoralstudy(atSeminarEast) Coping withbudgetcuts tenure-track facultymembers Guidelines andstandardsforhiringemployment ofnon- of scholarlypublishingandhighereducation Standards forpromotionandtenureinthechanginglandscape Legal issuesfacingdepartmentchairs Other topicstheseminarprogramswilladdressare Programs atbothseminarswillfocusonthestandingofhu- 6CanadianStudiesGrantPrograms 16 Fordham Medieval Fellows Program 15 major titleunderwhichinformationislistedintheSeptemberissue. The arrangement ischronological,andeachdatefollowed by the JUNE 15 Rockefeller Foundation 10 MAY APRIL details, canbefoundintheSeptember2003 further description ofgrants, numberofgrantsawarded, andsourcesfor June. More specificinformation,suchaseligibility, Apriland30 tween 1 The following listincludesfellowships andgrantsthathavedeadlinesbe- Fellowships andGrants Women’s CaucusfortheModernLanguages 1 IREX(InternationalResearch andExchanges Board) 1 CenterforLesbianandGay StudiesoftheCityUniversity of 1 HelenAnnMinsRobbins Fellowship 1 DEADLINES odo isnNtoa elwhpFoundation Fellowship National Wilson Woodrow New York L ESETR•Spring2004Page 31 NEWSLETTER MLA PMLA , pages 1124–44.

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MARCH MAY 1 Deadline for receipt of entries in the 2004 James Russell Lowell 1 Deadline for receipt of entries in the 2004 competitions for Prize competition the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, the Kenneth W. 5 Deadline for receipt of departmental administrators’ statements Mildenberger Prize, the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, the for the April 2004 Job Information List Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, the William Sanders Scarborough 15 Deadline for receipt of forum proposals for the 2004 Prize, the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and convention Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, and the 15 Deadline for receipt of submissions for Profession 2004 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes for Comparative Literary Stud- ies and for French and Francophone Studies and for the biennial APRIL competitions for the Howard R. Marraro Prize, the MLA Prize 1 Deadline for receipt of entries competing for the 2004 MLA for a Distinguished Bibliography, the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Prize for a First Book and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize Memorial Prize, and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for for a Translation of a Literary Work Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures 1 Postmark deadline for proposals for special sessions for the 23 Deadline for receipt of departmental administrators’ statements 2004 convention for the 2004 Summer Supplement of the Job Information List 1 Deadline for receipt of requests for audiovisual equipment for (no solicitations will be made) the 2004 convention 28 Deadline for submission of manuscripts for the PMLA special 1 Postmark deadline for program copy from divisions, topic The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature discussion groups, MLA committees, and allied and affiliate organizations JUNE 1 Deadline for receipt of requests for waivers of membership 15 Notification of decisions on funding requests mailed to session requirements for participants in the 2004 convention organizers who have applied for funds for speakers at the 7 Deadline by which organizers and panelists in the 2004 2004 convention convention must be listed on the MLA membership rolls 30 Deadline for receipt of new members’ applications for listing 15 Deadline for receipt of requests for funds for speakers at the in the September 2004 (Directory) issue of PMLA 2004 convention 30 Deadline for current members to submit changes in rank or 30 Deadline for applications for dues subsidies for residents of affiliation for listing in the September 2004 (Directory) issue developing or soft-currency nations of PMLA

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