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Volume 33, Winter 2013 From the President Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State University Dear Colleagues and Friends, intellectual model for the humanities, which she calls Comparative Media Studies and which is located in the twin activities of making Greetings and Happy New Year 2013! I hope objects and of critique. In sum, her work helps us think about the this message finds each of you well and happy values and practices of traditional print literacy as well as about the as the new calendar year begins to unfold; it possibilities and challenges of new forms of texts emerging in digital won’t be long before we are concluding another environments. academic year. The news on the academic In addition, we will have numerous featured sessions; here’s a front, as we know, is mixed. On the one hand, preview! One of these sessions documents the use of networked it’s influenced by a US economy that continues media to help us more fully understand traumatic events. Another to recover slowly, but whose recovery is linked of these sessions focuses on the ways electronic publishing, both to global certainties (can we say global warming?) and uncertainties books and journals, can expand our scholarship and show it in new (political uprisings) alike. On the other hand, there is some sense ways. Yet another special session focuses on new spaces for teaching that colleges and universities are recovering: doing a bit more hiring and learning: the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity at Eastern than before, for example, and we certainly have new intellectual and Kentucky University; the Communication Center at Georgia Tech; pedagogical issues to address. Let’s hope that the signs of progress and the Technology Commons at the University of Central Florida. increase and expand in 2013! And not least, another session will be live and performative: “A In thinking about SAMLA 85 (yes, this is our 85th conference!), I Reading by Poets Featured in The Southern Poetry Anthology Series.” can’t help but remember our 84th, which was held on a beautiful fall We hope that with this theme and sessions like those described weekend in North Carolina. We have many to thank for that grand above, SAMLA 85 will encourage dialogues surrounding the event, among them our Executive Director, Renée Schatteman; intersections between literatures, languages, rhetorics, and media— our past Associate Director, Lara Smith Sitton; our 2012 President, problematizing boundaries between print and digital, between Charles Moore; and the enthusiastic team of amazing interns reading and writing, between scholarship and pedagogy, between from our host institution, Georgia State University. Thanks are text and image, between institutional and vernacular, and between due as well to Dr. William Long, Dean of the College of Arts and critique and making. At the same time, we continue to be interested Sciences at Georgia State, and Dr. Randy Malamud, Chair of the in sessions of all kinds addressing disciplinary interests. Department of English at Georgia State, whose collective support Please consider submitting a special session proposal, and although makes possible the daily operations of SAMLA and its annual not a requirement by any means, we encourage you to submit conference. The 2012 convention included over 260 events and proposals for roundtables, discussion panels, special and regular panels—with many featured sessions, our critical keynoter talk and sessions, working paper sessions, seminars, and workshops relating our creative keynoter reading; special evening performances of to this topic. Or, at the very least, mark your calendars now to join music and poetry; Sunday cluster sessions; the annual luncheon and us this November in Atlanta! awards ceremony; professional development seminars; and a new And in the interim, please accept my best wishes for a healthy, closing plenary session. Close to 1,200 attendees enjoyed scholarly happy, and productive 2013. and informal discussion and fellowship, and while I did not meet everyone there, I did have the pleasure of meeting and speaking Cordially, with many of you in Raleigh, and I hope to meet even more of our members and guests this fall. As your 2013 SAMLA President, I am delighted to share with kathleen blake yancey you a small preview of SAMLA 85: it promises to be an exciting SAMLA President 2013 event! We will return to Atlanta on November 8–10 and meet at Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center. Our Distinguished Research Professor special focus—celebrating the varieties of texts we read, write, Florida State University and perform—is “Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making In this Issue Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds,” and our Job Information List...... 2 Professional Development keynoter is Katherine Hayles, Professor of English and Director of Executive Director’s Letter...... 3 Seminars...... 9–10 Graduate Studies at Duke University. Professor Hayles’s interests Conference Deadlines...... 4 SAMLA 85 Plenary Speaker and range widely: her books include My Mother Was a Computer: Reflections: SAMLA 84 Plenary Talks....5 Program Committee Letter...... 11 Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (The University of Chicago Press), Writing Machines (The MIT Press), andHow We Became Reflections: Karenne Woods and Jill SAMLA 85 Featured Sessions...... 12 Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics McCorkle’s Talks...... 6 SAMLA 84 Closing Plenary...... 13 (The University of Chicago Press). In addition, she was the first “Re-Inventing Great Books . . .”: SAMLA 84 Conference faculty director of Electronic Literature, an organization dedicated A Reflection...... 7 Impressions Photo Gallery....14–15 to the facilitation and promotion of writing, publishing, and reading Open Mic...... 7 Awards Information...... 16–17 of literature in electronic media. Her current project, Making, Music of Poetry/Poetry of Music...... 8 Calls for Papers...... 21–48 Critique: A New Paradigm for the Humanities, proposes a new 1 SAMLA 2012 Executive Committee SAMLA Job Information List President Hunt Hawkins, University of South Florida Kathleen Blake Yancey Florida State University The SAMLA Job Information List website(s) are up and running, hosted by the University 1st Vice President of South Florida. The SAMLA JIL is similar to the MLA JIL, but it is focused strictly on the Lynn Ramey South Atlantic region. The rationale for the list is that many schools in the region, especially Vanderbilt University smaller ones, do not advertise their jobs on the MLA list because they cannot afford to 2nd Vice President interview at the MLA convention or bring in candidates from across the country. Heretofore, H. R. Stoneback they have tended to advertise very locally, perhaps on state lists. However, they would of State University of New York course welcome more applications, especially from candidates around the region who could Past President come inexpensively for campus interviews (even by driving) or could meet with hiring Charles B. Moore committees at regional conventions. The list also provides greater placement opportunities Gardner-Webb University for MA, MFA, and PhD-producing departments in the region. A further difference from the Executive Director MLA JIL is that ours is completely free. Renée Schatteman Georgia State University The web site for posting job advertisements is http://samla.cas.usf.edu/logininputjobform. php, and the site for searching for jobs is http://samla.cas.usf.edu/. To use these sites, you SAR Editor should email Deedra Hickman ([email protected]), and she will send you a user name Matthew Roudané and password (one for each site). 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Phone: 404.413.5817 fax: 404.413.5830 [email protected] samla.memberclicks.net 2 From the Executive Director Renée Schatteman, Georgia State University Dear SAMLA membership, 1940s. She has presented her research locally, nationally, and internationally. Her scholarly interests include labor rhetoric, vernacular rhetoric, social movement studies, Greetings from Atlanta! I want community literacy, and critical pedagogy. Please to start this letter by informing join me in welcoming Diana. I can report that she has you of some significant changes enthusiastically thrown herself into the planning of the that 2013 has brought to the conference and has already begun to reach out to many SAMLA office. First of all, Lara of you to assist you in organizing sessions. Smith-Sitton, SAMLA’s Associate Director for the past seven years, We in the SAMLA office are pleased to return to stepped down from her position Atlanta for our 2013 conference at the Atlanta Marriott at the end of 2012 so that she could devote more time Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center. SAMLA and attention to the final stages of her PhD program and 2013 President Kathleen Yancey has put together an to other pressing research projects. Lara is probably well exciting special focus on “Cultures, Contexts, Images known to many of you as she was the front-line person and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and in the SAMLA office who worked tirelessly to organize Networked Worlds” that already has generated an multiple conferences, including the 2006 Charlotte enthusiastic response. We anticipate that this conference conference, the 2007 Atlanta conference (special focus: will continue to bolster SAMLA’s membership, and we Creative Writing), the 2008 Louisville conference strongly encourage you to be part of program. (special focus: Drama), the 2009 Atlanta conference Let me remind you that you can now register for the (special focus: Human Rights and the Humanities), the conference on the SAMLA website (samla.memberclicks. 2010 Atlanta conference (special focus: The Interplay of net) and can pay the membership and registration fees Text and Image), the Atlanta 2011 conference (special through our online payment system. Please remember focus: The Power of Poetry in the Modern World), to sign up for the Saturday Presidential Address, Awards and the 2012 Durham conference (special focus: Text Ceremony, and Luncheon if you are planning to attend; as Memoir: Tales of Travel, Immigration, and Exile). the price of the luncheon is included in the registration Under Lara’s leadership, SAMLA’s membership grew at costs, but we require pre-registration so that we can an exponential rate—over 400% in seven years—and the get an accurate head-count in advance. Also, SAMLA number of sessions in the conference program increased is increasing its presence on social media, so be sure to from 116 to 261 in that same period of time. Over the like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and check the years, Lara also served as managing editor of the South website for conference updates. Atlantic Review and supervised as many as seventy- I look forward to seeing you in Atlanta in November. five undergraduate interns and graduate assistants at Georgia State who gained experience in real-world communications through their work on the conference and the journal. At present, she continues to serve as the Sincerely, managing editor for SAR. I cannot thank Lara enough for her tremendous commitment to SAMLA and for the standard of professionalism that she brought to the office. Lara will hold an important place in the history of SAMLA, and I am sure that all of us wish her the best in her future endeavors. Renée Schatteman I am also pleased to announce that SAMLA has Associate Professor, Postcolonial Literature secured an extremely qualified replacement for Lara. Georgia State University Diana Eidson assumed the role of SAMLA’s Editorial SAMLA Executive Director and Production Manager in early January. Diana has taught lower and upper-division composition courses and has served as Assistant Director of Lower Division Studies at Georgia State University. A Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at GSU, Diana is working on her dissertation, an archival project dealing with literacies in the labor movement in the South during the 3 SAMLA 85 Conference Joseph M. Flora Inducted as 2012 Honorary Member and Award Deadlines George Hovis, SUNY Oneonta On November 10, Joseph M. Flora was inducted as the 2012 April 1st SAMLA Honorary Member at the Deadline for submitting Honorary Convention’s Awards Ceremony in Member Award nominations. Durham. In addition to his books on Ernest Hemingway, Vardis Fisher, and William Ernest Henley, Flora has May 1st edited important reference works on Deadline for submitting Graduate Southern and American literatures. Student Essay Prize nominations. Atlanta Professor of Southern Culture Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Flora May 3rd has served as President of SAMLA, Magical Beginnings’: Deadline for submitting SAMLA SAADE, the Western Literature Steinbeck, Campbell, and Ricketts Studies Award nominations. Association, and the Thomas Wolfe read Robinson Jeffers, 1932.” Owen Society. Joseph Millichap presented Gilman concluded the panel by the award and recognized Flora’s taking stock of America’s cultural May 31st service to the profession and his “distraction” from our wars in the Deadline for submitting Special role as a mentor to many younger Middle East in a presentation entitled “From The Yemasseeto ‘Stringer’ and Session proposals. To submit a scholars. Additional tributes were paid Saturday afternoon as part of a special on to The Hurt Locker:America’s Special Session proposal, please panel held in Flora’s honor. In a Forever Wars.” George Hovis, the complete the Session Proposals / presentation entitled “Joseph M. Flora panel chair, also read tributes from a Calls for Papers form and submit it and the Literature of the West,” poet, few of Flora’s SAMLA colleagues and fiction writer, and biographer Robert students whose careers he has helped to the SAMLA office via e-mail. Morgan presented a recollection of to shape. In one such tribute, Anne how Flora came to write about the Zahlan recalled how when Joe Flora June 28th American West. Referencing Flora’s was assigned as her graduate school Deadline for submitting the Session scholarship on Western writers, adviser, she did not at that time realize Morgan recalled how Flora planted in she was getting an “advisor for life.” Details form to the SAMLA office. him the seeds of literary interest long When he accepted the award, Flora Audiovisual requests must be ago in an undergraduate literature self-deprecatingly remarked that received by this date. class at UNC-Chapel Hill. Next, Susan SAMLA had done much more for him Shillinglaw presented a paper on than he had ever done for SAMLA. several key figures of modernism in The ceremony was a fitting tribute to a June 28th the Western US, entitled “‘Our Year of generous and worthy scholar. Membership renewal paperwork due from chairs. Renewal information is available on the Membership Information page. 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4 A Reflection on Dr. Gustavo Pérez-Firmat’s Plenary Talk at SAMLA 84 Charles B. Moore, Gardner-Webb University At the 2012 SAMLA conference in Durham, attendees were treated to an emotional, heart-felt creative plenary keynote address from Dr. Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Dr. Pérez-Firmat emigrated to the US from Cuba as a boy, and his scholarly and creative work has been dominated by this life-changing event. His presentation, entitled “A Cuban in Mayberry,” was a literary and personal voyage of reflection filled with humor, sadness, irony, and anecdotal highs and lows of a life lived “in the hyphen” as a Cuban-American in Miami, North Carolina, and New York.

Following the conference theme of “Text as Memoir: Tales of Travel, Immigration, and Exile,” Pérez-Firmat stressed that even though he “belongs” in the US, he is still Cuban, and even though he is Cuban by descent, that life is now a distant faded memory he saw disappear as his boat left Havana now so many years ago. His memoir transcended the personal to develop universal themes of isolation, alienation, and assimilation; yet he created an informal atmosphere by doing so through concrete examples from “I Love Lucy” and “The Andy Griffith Show”— and by playing the theme music of “TAGS” before and after his presentation. Several of Dr. Pérez-Firmat’s former students and colleagues were in attendance; and it was a delight to see old friendships renewed, hugs exchanged after years of absence, and a room packed with smiles, tears, and laughter on a beautiful November afternoon just a few steps from Dr. Pérez-Firmat’s adopted “hometown” in Chapel Hill. A Reflection on Dr. Leonard Barkan’s Plenary Talk at SAMLA 84 Martha E. Cook, Longwood University

SAMLA conference attendees were treated to an outstanding critical plenary address by Dr. Leonard Barkan, professor and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Dr. Barkan, who earned degrees at Swarthmore College, Harvard University, and Yale University, is the author of several award- winning scholarly books. His most recent book-length publications illustrate the two main threads in his career. Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome (Farrar, Straus, 2006; pbk Northwestern, 2008) is a memoir, described by one reviewer as “an account of art, literature, food, wine, Italy, and Barkan himself.” Michelangelo: A Life on Paper (Princeton, 2010) uncovers a previously unrecognized dimension of Michelangelo’s life and work: the intersection of word and image on paper. Those who attended Barkan’s lecture were not sure what to expect from its title: “Scholarship in the First Person: Narcissism and Wissenschaft in the Professing of Literature.” After opening with a heartfelt statement on the work done by SAMLA members in two-year, four-year, and graduate programs—i.e., the long hours of preparation, classroom teaching, committee work, research, and publication— he continued in a warm, informal manner to guide us through an account of the narcissistic response to literature blended with the traditional German method of approaching all aspects of knowledge through the scientific method. He used as his touchstones Montaigne and Shakespeare, holding the audience’s attention with brilliant insights and earthy examples from literature and life. Dr. Barkan’s experience in Italy, as well as his scholarship in Renaissance culture, archeology, language, and literature, made for a delightful presentation. We were collectively grateful that Dr. Barkan was able to travel to North Carolina for SAMLA so soon after his state was hit by Hurricane Sandy’s devastation. 5

Jill McCorkle Presented Her New Novel Life After Life and then her mother’s dementia. Concurrently, there were the demands of other work that she loved—her teaching. Always, Joe Flora, UNC Chapel Hill though, she was writing, but not always at a desk. Stories begin Jill McCorkle, 2012 Featured SAMLA Fiction Writer, on little scraps of paper, preserved moments or ideas, as when charmed and intrigued her audience as she described her her son once said as they were driving down the highway, “I writing processes and reflected on the long journey of wonder how many murderers we passed today.” If the scrap of seventeen years that she took to complete her novel Life paper is not handy, she will write on anything: once it was the After Life. Her publisher had been urging another novel, but car’s steering wheel. Fiction writing, she surmised, is about McCorkle kept presenting collections of stories. She loves connecting memories. writing short stories, and she is known for being skillful at Life After Life is grounded in her mother’s dementia and writing in this genre. Algonquin Books obliged and published the realities of aging. The portions McCorkle read sparkled the collections—but kept pushing McCorkle for a novel. In with the wit and tenderness of McCorkle’s description of her spring 2013 the long-awaited novel will be published. writing methods. When she offered to take more questions or McCorkle explained that she was not being obstinate. to read another portion, her audience quickly called for more Her life had been pulling her in many directions fraught with of the novel, entranced by McCorkle’s glowing presentation of interruptions. There was a divorce, her father’s death, her work.

Intersections of Memory and Exile: Karenne Wood as director/educator at the Virginia Foundation for the Humani- Presented Her Poetry at SAMLA 84 ties. A member of a Nation whose language was lost in coloniza- tion, Wood’s dissertation explores the impact of language loss Tara Causey, Georgia State University on a people and attempts to revitalize indigenous languages and cultural practices. Reading from segments of her dissertation, she Karenne Wood, 2012 Featured SAMLA Speaker, captured her revealed that languages are not “interchangeable” and that with audience as she spoke eloquently and passionately about the con- the loss of a language comes the loss of an entire system of values nections between her life, her poetry, and her anthropology work and history. as a Ford Fellow at the University of Virginia. Wood explained Moving seamlessly back and forth between her poetry and that her love for poetry took root while working on her MFA her work on language and Monacan culture, Wood illuminated at George Mason University. After a bout with cancer, she was the intricate connections between language, memory, and iden- pushed by her colleagues and mentors to publish her award win- tity with stark imagery and powerful insight. When asked by an ning Markings on Earth (2001), and she openly shared that she audience member how she imagined the role of historical figures wanted to see if she had what it took to publish. Indeed she did. like Amoroleck in her poetry, Wood shared that her writing is in Since her debut, Wood has published poems in various antholo- part an attempt to rewrite and reimagine the lives of Monacan gies and has a second manuscript that is currently under review. Indians during first contact and to give a voice to all those who However, Wood’s love for poetry has often taken a backseat to have been denied it. her love for her people, the Monacan Indian Nation, and her role

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6 st sexuality, responsibility, free will, and liberty and noting that Re-Inventing Great Books for the 21 Adam and Eve have much to learn from each other. Students Century: A Reflection should take to heart that, although human beings struggle against their weaknesses, they keep fighting. Nancy D. Hargrove, Mississippi State University Bert Hitchcock of Auburn University explained that The Education of Henry Adams, which received the Pulitzer Prize This spectacular special session on Saturday, November 10, in 1919, reveals Adams’s views of what a true education should 2012 was filled to capacity with well over fifty people, indicating include—edification that Adams’s own education denied to a great interest in the topic. Joseph M. Flora, the chair and him. With wry humor and obvious enjoyment, Hitchcock organizer, introduced the session by commenting that, with the commented on what Adams thought students should know: changes in higher education curricula, there exists a need to re- analytical skills (Adams noted that Harvard did not teach him invent Great Books courses in order to preserve them in the 21st any); communication skills; appreciation of all fine arts, literature Century. Each of the speakers was given the charge of choosing (including Adams’s own work), and nature; sensitivity to other one work that should be included in today’s courses, noting cultures gained by traveling and reading widely; and knowledge that all are devoted to the concept of Great Books and all are of civics and science. This compelling and worldly book, as established and outstanding scholars. relevant today as it was one hundred years ago, Hitchcock Thomas Stumpf of UNC-Chapel Hill, a compelling speaker, concluded, is beneficial for students in every discipline. asserted that Aeschylus’s Oresteia is relevant to students today Finally, Anne Zahlen of Eastern Illinois University noted because there are striking similarities between that world and that Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse reflects 20th-century ours as seen in conflicts between male and female and between changes in society, religion, the family, women’s roles, and order and anarchy. He commented on recurring central symbols, literature. For example, the form of the novel consists of three such as the eagles that represent royalty as well as masculine sections separated by many years; the initial words of each section power and that take another turn later in the work. By analyzing indicate unresolved conflicts; Woolf’s dazzling mastery of stream the third play of the tragic trilogy, Stumpf traced the way in which of consciousness narrative reveals shifting points of view; the the importance of blood ties is replaced by the ties of democracy, novel’s intertextuality and use of visual imagery are brilliant; and pointing out that the process of discovery and compromise leads Mrs. Ramsey’s domestic roles question the place of modern-day to harmony, symbolized by the orderly and measured procession women. The novel’s concerns with the struggle for a mother’s that ends the play. love, modern instability, and the creative process make it relevant Reid Barbour of UNC-Chapel Hill began his talk, as he to today’s students. She also distributed an invaluable handout of begins his study of Milton’s Paradise Lost with his students, by meaningful questions on the novel. describing Milton as a heretic in his time: a thinker who opposed This session was exhilarating in several ways: it featured censorship and war, supported divorce and sensual pleasure, four compelling and engaging styles of teaching by outstanding and was both a poet and a public figure. Students should care professors; it made everyone want to run out and read or re- about Milton because the issues he confronted are still important. read the works; it offered important reasons students should Barbour then launched into a dramatic and passionate close not only read these works, but enjoy and learn from them; and reading of the passage describing Adam and Eve as Satan sees it reaffirmed the value of our profession! It was an incredibly them in Book IV (ll. 287-318), demonstrating how he escorts meaningful session that SAMLA should absolutely continue! students through the text as Milton touches on the subjects of Open Mic Creative Readings Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee State University SAMLA 85: Hosted by SAMLA Executive Director Renée Schatteman, the newly revived SAMLA tradition of Open Mic presenting a spoken word/open mic event offered an Creative Readings even wider representation of SAMLA members’ creative work, with an even balance of poetry and prose, much Featuring the of which fit within the conference theme of “text as memoir.” Jonathan Bradley and Susana Moreno read talent of your from their flash fiction, and Sandra Govan and Sue SAMLA colleagues Repko read memoir pieces. Sheila Cooper, Bev Hayes, Thomas Alan Holmes, Jacqueline Markham, and Felicia Friday, November 8th Mitchell read poetry. Topics ranged from the unintended complications of swim therapy to the ordeals of poverty, 9:30-11:00 pm the threat of gun violence, and the comforts of solitude To participate in this event, please in the woods. According to participant Felicia Mitchell, visit samla.memberclicks.net.

“I enjoy the diverse voices I find at each open mic event, Photostream Wired by Image and hearing my own words aloud in the company of the writers makes me feel so less alone in my quest to communicate my perspectives through poetry.” Plans are already underway for a spoken word/open mic session for SAMLA’s 85th annual conference in Atlanta, November 8-10, 2013. Those who wish to read at the event must register prior to the conference, so please watch your e-mail for an invitation to participate in next November’s session.

7 Music of Poetry / Poetry of Music at SAMLA 84 Jim Clark, Barton College

Saturday evening, November 10, 2012 found the sixth annual “The Music of Poetry / The Poetry of Music” SAMLA Special Session laden with an embarrassment of riches. The North Carolina Triangle venue allowed for two featured artists from the area—poet and folksinger Bruce Piephoff from Greensboro, and thea capella vocal group Fleur-de-Lisa from Durham. Additionally, the conference session CFP attracted two fine poet/musicians: Victorianist and guitarist John S. Prince from North Carolina Central University and poet and flautist Robin Behn from the University of Alabama. This session also saw the welcome return of long-time session standard- bearer H.R. “Stoney” Stoneback from SUNY-New Paltz, whose continuing world travels compelled his absence from last year’s session.

Stoneback and friends kicked things off in fine fashion with a folksy but energetic set of original and traditional songs and poems. Stoneback’s gruff but intimate voice perfectly suits his role as raconteur, troubadour, and man of letters. Moving easily between Nashville, New York, and Paris, with stops in between for Kentucky, New Jersey, and Tahiti, Stoneback mixed stories of country music artists and songwriters, Lost Generation Paris salons, and Appalachian poets and pickers, deftly illustrating and embodying the myriad connections between poetry and music. He quickly had the large and diverse audience of scholars, academics, graduate students, and writers engaged in rousing sing-alongs.

Fleur-de-Lisa shifted gears with their bright, intricate, quirky, and immensely entertaining a capella settings of poems from many cultures and traditions, both contemporary and traditional. Fleur-de-Lisa specializes in setting haiku to music, thus many individual pieces are brief, though pleasantly atmospheric and nearly hypnotic. Their cool, jazzy stylings, punctuated occasionally by various percussion and sound effects, were a welcome addition to the session and were very well received.

Bruce Piephoff is the unofficial folk singer laureate of Piedmont North Carolina. His career as a performer spans four decades and over twenty recordings. He received his MFA from the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina- Greensboro, where he studied with Fred Chappell and Robert Watson. Accompanied by the estimable Scott Sawyer, whose elegant guitar stylings added much color and atmosphere, Piephoff performed an affable, laid- back set of songs and spoken word pieces, many from his new CD Still Looking Up at the Stars. The moods and textures ranged from rollicking, to yearning, to down and out, to gently nostalgic.

John Prince and Robin Behn, though individual performers, had nevertheless spent enough time together at the convention that they were also able to provide some effective accompaniment for each other’s sets. Prince has a powerful, well-modulated voice that nicely complements his stylish, guitar-based settings of poems by such eminent Victorians as Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Christina Rossetti. Robin Behn closed out the session with a sampling of her wonderful and compelling “fiddle tune poems,” alternating evocative spoken word poetry with flute, pennywhistle, and guitar accompaniment by John Prince.

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8 SAMLA 84 Professional Development Seminar: Building a CV, Building a Life Renée Schatteman, Georgia State University On the Sunday morning of the 2012 conference, SAMLA held a CV workshop for graduate students and faculty members interested in learning more about how to represent their professional accomplishments on paper. Kathleen Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English, Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, and SAMLA’s 2012 First Vice President, led the program with an informative presentation in which she explored the genre of the curriculum vitae and provided multiple tips on how best to construct one. She reminded participants that a CV is meant to be an active (rather than a static) document that highlights a candidate’s past, present, and future, and she then considered the relationship of the CV to the other elements critical to the job search—the cover letter and the interview.

Following this address, SAMLA members who had pre-registered for a CV review were able to meet with seasoned scholars to get feedback on their materials. Many thanks go to Erika Lindemann from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ron Lunsford from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Meg Morgan from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charles Moore from Gardner-Webb University, and Thomas Alan Holmes from East Tennessee State University for giving time in the midst of a busy conference for this type of scholarly mentoring.

This session was so positively received that we anticipate making it an annual event and an important part of the professionalization strand of the conference. Details will soon appear on the SAMLA website regarding the professional development sessions offered during SAMLA 85 in Atlanta, so watch for updates.

SAMLA 84 Professional Development Seminar: The Paper: Academic Publications, Journal Writing, and Publication Stephanie Rountree, Georgia State University The SAMLA 84 conference was my first opportunity to attend the pre-convention Professional Development Seminar on “The Paper: Academic Publications, Journal Writing, and Publication,” and it proved a tremendously valuable experience. Robert West, Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, chaired the session with two presenters: Nancy Hargrove, a William L. Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Mississippi State University and Kathleen Blake Yancey, President of SAMLA, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, and Editor of College Composition and Communication (CCC).

Bringing her publication expertise in literary criticism, Dr. Hargrove began the session with a general overview of the publication process. Dr. Yancey built upon this overview by citing her own publishing and editing expertise in the rhetoric and composition field. Together, the presenters engaged an evocative discussion of the similarities and differences of publishing expectations and logistics between their complementary fields. They discussed submission requirements, time-to-response, and etiquette for communicating with editors and staff members on the publishing end. They reflected upon how the process and expectations might change when submitting work to various types of publications, whether academic journals or books, major nationals or smaller regionals, or anything in between.

Further into the session, the presenters welcomed questions from the audience, which generated even more fruitful discussion about such delicate topics as whether or not to send simultaneous submissions, how to interpret responses (i.e. “revise and resubmit” versus “accepted with revision”), when to follow-up on a long- outstanding submission, how to professionally negotiate revision requests, and more. Considering the strong audience turnout, the many questions asked of the presenters, and the lively conversation that ensued, this Professional Development Seminar on Publication was an immense success.

9 SAMLA 84 Professional Development Seminar: The Presentation: The Conference Paper as Genre Martha Cook, Longwood University For the third year, I chaired the pre-convention Professional helpful suggestions about the effectiveness of including anecdotes Development Seminar on “The Presentation: The Conference or stories to illustrate key points. Sabine Smith of Kennesaw Paper as Genre.” Panelists represented the fields of literature, State University used research to remind us of the importance composition, and modern languages. Attendees participated of conforming to the conventions of the genre of the conference both by asking questions and by offering their own suggestions. paper, providing concrete suggestions to use short sentences, Carla Huskey Chwat, a Ph.D. student at Georgia State University, avoid over-reliance on secondary sources, and consider handouts emphasized the importance of focusing to fit the time allotted for to supplement a presentation. The most useful points that came the paper; she also offered practical tips for coping with fellow out of the general discussion related to titles and abstracts. It panelists who do not adhere to time constraints. Chris Kocela, was the consensus of the group that both are part of a contract also of Georgia State, emphasized the importance of adhering between a panelist and a chair, and that altering either the title to the conventions of this oral genre, especially how to assure a or the focus without a negotiation with the chair would be response from the audience by focusing narrowly in order to leave unprofessional. Panelists and audience members agreed that this room for questions and discussion. Christine Ristaino of Emory topic is an invaluable one and expressed the hope that SAMLA University, whose own writing includes non-fiction, offered very would continue these Professional Development Seminars. SAMLA 84 Professional Development Seminar: The Career: Running the Tenure Track, Managing, and Shaping the Academic Career Freddy Thomas, Virginia State University The 2012 SAMLA Conference provided a very special Professor of Foreign Language at Oglethorpe University, opportunity for me as a member of the Executive Committee. provided practical advice for colleagues preparing portfolios and I had the distinct pleasure of serving as chair of one of the graduate students entering the employment market. He made pre-convention’s Professional Development Seminars: “The frequent reference to the usefulness of finding a mentor with Career: Running the Tenure Track, Managing, and Shaping whom the junior faculty colleague is comfortable. He stated that the Academic Career.” The chair and the three presenters for the “mentoring is particularly important because of the many the session represented four distinctly different types of higher unsaid expectations and virtual requirements that may lurk education institutions, which contributed to the richness and between the lines in the promotion process.” diversity of the ideas and discussion presented. Stuart Noel, Interim Dean of English at Georgia Perimeter Lynne Simpson, Professor of English at Presbyterian College College and Freddy L. Thomas, Professor of English at Virginia (Clinton, SC), stressed the importance of “institutional fit.” State University, the session’s Chair, encouraged their colleagues She reminded the members of the audience that they would to do outstanding research, make a contribution to their field experience “a ridiculously tough job market,” and then asked the by publishing, educate colleagues and key administrators about question, “but do you really want to spend the next twenty to their teaching and research, and solicit feedback from both thirty years of your life being that round peg in a square hole?” inside and outside of the department as they negotiate the She suggested that participants “build and consistently update tenure/promotion process. In submitting the tenure packet, the their portfolios rather than their CVs in preparation for making Chair emphasized the importance of candidates preparing a their case for tenure and promotion.” Returning to the main strong letter of application. focus of her presentation, she urged the participants to learn to Following the presentations, participants asked several play “Whack a Mole” by learning “to balance the multiple and questions, shared their personal experiences, and commented often conflicting demands on their time” by saying “no” when it on the usefulness of the professional development sessions. For is necessary but “remaining open to new possibilities.” an early morning session, the discussion with the panel was well Jay Lutz, Professor of French and Frances I. Eeraerts 1976 attended and animated. SAMLA 85 Professional Development Seminars The Career: Running the Tenure Track Managing and Shaping the Academic Career The Presentation: Conference Presentations Balancing the demands of teaching, service, research and The Conference Paper as Genre publishing. Discussion of the expectations and challenges The session includes how to prepare an effective paper for a of the academic profession and tips about how to optimize conference. Topic selection and oral presentation skills will successfullness. also be addressed. Building a CV, Building a Life: The Paper: Academic Publications, Journal Preparing for the SAMLA CV Workshop, 8:00 to 8:30 am Writing, and Publication Speaker: Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University The session includes how to convert a conference paper into a journal article. Writing the “right” paper, selecting SAMLA CV Workshops, 8:30 to 11:45 am a journal for submission, and the submission reviewing Pre-register for 15-minute individualized CV review process will also be addressed. sessions by emailing [email protected]. Participants must bring a hard copy of their CV. 10 SAMLA 85 Annual Conference A Word from the 2013 Program Committee SAMLA 85 Plenary Speaker: Harry Roddy, University of South Alabama Dr. Katherine Hayles, Duke University Director Lara Smith Sitton (who Diana Eidson, Georgia State University is still serving as Managing Editor of SAR). The focus of this year’s conference is “Cultures, Contexts, Images and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital and Networked Worlds.” I anticipate that this inclusive theme will yield papers and discussions that celebrate the multiplicity of modes of meaning-making across a variety of media, productive capacities, and creative techniques. Serving on the Program Committee puts one in the privileged position of previewing the richness and variety of scholarly inquiry, in SAMLA is proud to announce Dr. the form of panels, roundtables, Katherine Hayles as the 2013 SAMLA On behalf of the Program seminars and working discussions Conference Critical Plenary Speaker. N. Committee, I would like to that will be brought to bear on Katherine Hayles, Professor and Director of send many kind greetings to all this theme at the upcoming Graduate Studies in the Literature Program SAMLA members, both veteran meeting. Based on what we at Duke University, teaches and writes on and new. have seen thus far, this year’s relations of literature, science and technology The Program Committee is meeting will be as engaging and in the 20th and 21st centuries. She was the first currently engaged in reviewing provocative as past meetings have faculty director of Electronic Literature, an calls-for-papers for special been. Please see the website for organization dedicated to the facilitation and sessions for this year’s annual additional details. promotion of writing, publishing, and reading meeting, which will take place On behalf of the entire 2013 of literature in electronic media. from November 8 to November Program Committee, we would Dr. Hayles’s scholarship has long been 10 at the Marriott Atlanta like to thank all members of known for being groundbreaking and erudite. Buckhead Hotel and Conference SAMLA for their contributions to Her book How We Became Posthuman: Center. making this such an outstanding Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and As many of you know, SAMLA venue for scholarship and inquiry. Informatics won the Rene Wellek Prize for the has achieved and maintained a I encourage each of you to review Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and remarkable rate of growth over the calls and to submit your her book Writing Machines won the Suzanne the last several years, which has paper proposals. We hope to see Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in contributed not only to a larger you and hear about your work in 2003. Her 2012 text, How We Think: Digital membership, but also to an ever November in Atlanta. Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, more lively and intellectually Until then, thank you for comprises both a print book and a digital stimulating annual meeting, not your support of SAMLA and best companion at howwethink.info. In a current to mention a higher national wishes. project, Making, Critique: A New Paradigm profile for the Association. for the Humanities, Hayles proposes a new As such, we all owe a debt of intellectual model for the humanities, which gratitude to SAMLA’s leadership, Sincerely, she calls Comparative Media Studies and which including President Kathleen is located in the twin activities of craft and Blake Yancey, Past President critique. Another project forthcoming in 2013 Charles Moore, Editor of SAR is a collection of essays she co-edited, entitled Matthew Roudané, Executive Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Director Renée Schatteman, Harry Roddy Humanities in the Post-Print Era. Editorial and Production 2013 Program Committee Chair Manager Diana Eidson and most Associate Professor of German Details on Dr. Hayles’s talk are forthcoming on particularly to outgoing Associate University of South Alabama the SAMLA website. 11 Select Featured Sessions from SAMLA 85 A Reading by Poets Featured in The Southern Communication Center support an innovative Doug Eymon, Associate Editor of Kairos; George Poetry Anthology Series multimodal curriculum and our campus-wide Mason University Jim Clark, Barton College communication needs. This research-based Byron Hawk, Editor of Enculturation; University William Wright, editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology center promotes ways spaces, technologies, of South Carolina For several years now, William Wright has led and people can interact synergistically, and is the editorial staff of a massive anthology project, appropriate for multipurpose activities including Here we will hear from editors of print and The Southern Poetry Anthology, volumes of which tutoring, collaborative planning, group discussion, electronic books and journals about new are being published by the Texas Review Press. presentation rehearsals, workshops, and processes of composing, editing, and reading The goal of the project is twofold: to highlight the extracurricular events. contextualizing our publications—from contributions of Southern poets to the richness multimedia journal articles and mirrored print of American literature and to include a greater The Technology Commons and Rhetorical and e-journals to books that are available for range of Southern poetry in order to create what Practices of Student-Driven Social Learning multiple delivery—in print for purchase, in pdf the series website calls a “new poetic geography.” Stacey Pigg, University of Central Florida, for download, and as multi-touch, interactive The first five volumes—South Carolina, Mississippi, Technology Commons texts. Identifying the major features of each, Contemporary Appalachia, Louisiana, and Georgia— This presentation reports from an ongoing these distinguished editors will also consider have been published, and more volumes are in qualitative investigation of student activity within the future of scholarly publishing and issues the works, including the Tennessee volume, to be the Technology Commons of the University of associated with it. published in 2013. This performance session at Central Florida. Drawing on observational sweeps, SAMLA 85 features readings by poets whose work videotaped observations, and interviews, the Documenting Stories that Speak to Us: has been published in the series. The series website presenter offers vignettes that highlight rhetorical Making Meaning with The Digital has more information on the project: http://www. practices of student-driven social learning. From Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) southern-poetry-anthology.com/about.html. face-to-face argumentation that helps two students The Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives learn organic chemistry to coordination that is a publicly available archive of personal A Talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick of MLA assembles virtual and material resources related to literacy narratives in a variety of formats The first person to hold the position of Director an image-editing project, students bring complex (text, video, audio) that together provide a of Scholarly Communication for the Modern writing and rhetoric practices to tasks assigned historical record of the literacy practices and Language Association, Kathleen Fitzpatrick is also across courses. values of contributors, as those practices and Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College in values change. Founded by Cynthia Selfe Claremont, California. She is the author of The A Talk by Ben Miller: The Collective and Louis Ulman, the DALN documents Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Memory of Traumatic Events the diverse literacy practices of individuals Age of Television (2009) and Planned Obsolescence: Dr. Ben Miller is Assistant Professor of English in the United States. The exhibitStories that Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the and Communication at Georgia State University. Speak to Us: Exhibits from the Digital Archive Academy (2011). Dr. Fitzpatrick also co-founded the He co-founded and co-directs the GSU 2nd of Literacy Narratives can be seen at http:// digital scholarly network MediaCommons, and her Century Initiative in New and Emerging Media upsidedownstudio.com/hello/clients/DALN/ work has been published in the Journal of Electronic (2CI NEM). Dr. Miller works in critical cultural Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and studies of computational and networked media This session offers both critical framing and Cinema Journal. Details on Dr. Fitzpatrick’s talk are around the problematic of individual and practical discussion of various applications forthcoming on the SAMLA website. collective memory of traumatic events. In his of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. current project, he acts as Principal Investigator Participants will discuss how the DALN has A Space Odyssey: The Effect of New Learning on a National Science Foundation (NSF) and become a resource that deepens and expands Environments on Students and Teachers Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council scholarship, pedagogy, as well as work in As students make meaning using an increasingly of Canada (SSHRC) Digging into Data project administrative contexts. Examples of uses of the wide range of modalities, many universities called “Digging into Human Rights Violations” DALN will range across diverse institutional are investing in technology rich environments that explores methods for stitching together settings (e.g., state universities, small liberal arts designed to facilitate small group discussion, narratives and entities from across the breadth colleges), courses (e.g., basic writing, first-year digital compositions, and innovative teaching of collections pertaining to mass violations of writing, digital composition, writing program practices. This session will feature presentations human rights. Details on Dr. Miller’s talk are administration), and media. regarding three such learning environments along forthcoming on the SAMLA website. with a digital tour of their facilities. In each case, panelists will discuss how the A Life in the Profession: A Woman’s View DALN has played a significant role in both Hot Spots: Mapping the Terrain of Composition Spaces What does it mean to be a woman in the teaching and scholarship as an archive, Russell Carpenter, Eastern Kentucky University, profession? Three women at different stages exigency, a place for publication, and source for Noel Studio for Academic Creativity in their careers and with different career information and inspiration. Cognitive maps of composition spaces like the Noel trajectories reflect upon what it means to have a Studio for Academic Creativity at Eastern Kentucky life in the profession—as a woman. Roundtable Panelists: University suggest cultural and political geographies, Deborah James, University of North Carolina Asheville Kathryn Comer, Assistant Professor of English, terrains that students navigate in the composing Christina McDonald, Virginia Military Institute Barry University process. Through exploring hot spots—or areas of Kristie Fleckenstein, Florida State University Scott L. DeWitt, Associate Professor of English, repeated activity—the presenter explores the design The Ohio State University of learning spaces, including the implementation of New Worlds of Publishing: Journals, Michael Harker, Assistant Professor of English, technology and other artifacts. Books, and the New Media Editor Georgia State University (session chair) Cheryl Ball, Editor of Kairos; West Virginia University Cynthia L. Selfe, Humanities Distinguished Making Space: The Multimodal Kristine Blair, Editor of Computers and Professor, The Ohio State University Communication Center at Georgia Tech Composition and Computers and Composition H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor, The Ohio Karen Head, Georgia Tech, Communication Center Online; Bowling Green University State University The flexible spaces of Georgia Tech’s David Blakesley, Publisher and Editor of Parlor Press; Clemson University 12 Closing Plenary: The Future of Writing Programs Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State University For the first time in recent memory, SAMLA 2012 academy, Chris showed how such writing—on electronic concluded with a plenary on Sunday afternoon at 12:30, bulletin boards and blogs, for example—engages people in in this case focused on “The Future of Writing Programs.” intellectual and textual practices that, contrary to common That future was forecast by three leading scholars in perceptions, mirror those we assign and value in the rhetoric and composition: Joseph Harris, the founding academy. Chris thus recommended that we create bridges, director of the Thompson Writing Program at Duke or writing spaces, between academic and vernacular University; Chris Anson, Director of the Campus Writing literacies, especially so that their common features—e.g., and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University; writing with intentionality and engaging community— and Erika Lindemann, Associate Dean for Undergraduate could be highlighted for students. Curricula and Past Director of the First-year Writing Closing our plenary, Erika Lindemann spoke to “The Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Future of Writing: Present Tense and Future Perfect?” Hill. And the audience for this event—which was standing- Drawing on descriptive data from national surveys and room-only—was in for a treat. local studies, Erika described current trends in college Joe Harris’s talk, “The Essay in a Digital Age,” set the writing instruction and identified threats to the stability opening note for our thinking about the future of writing of our writing programs, among them reduced funding, programs by addressing how our writing changes when we increased competition, and pressures to demonstrate write for an audience reading online. In highlighting the accountability. As (or perhaps more) important, Erika differences between writing for and reading on page and then offered three possibilities for mitigating their effects: screen, Joe compared texts composed by undergraduates (1) identifying best practices in writing programs; (2) in two recent seminars—one in Creative Nonfiction (the attending to writing outside of the writing program and page) and the other in Digital Writing (the screen). Implicit across the campus; and (3) working with others inside in Joe’s remarks were two questions: (1) what rhetorical school contexts—high schools, community colleges, advantages associated with a “culture of pithiness” can colleges and universities—and with those outside school— writers draw upon as they compose for the screen? and (2) including businesses—to create alignment across multiple what writing works “better” on the page, and what works sites of writing. better on the screen? Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist, once remarked that Keeping our eyes focused on the future, Chris Anson “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future,” addressed “The Future of Writing and the Relationship and no doubt that’s so, but with the help of this plenary, Between Academic and Self-Sponsored Literacies.” those of us who care about writing programs can now do a Pointing to “vernacular” or “self-sponsored” writing that students create for contexts and audiences beyond the better job both predicting and planning for them.

Establishment of the Virginia Spencer Carr Award for Non-Fiction Writing Lara Smith-Sitton, Georgia State University To recognize the contributions of 2011 SAMLA the work of a number of other authors and chaired Honorary Member Virginia Spencer Carr to the the English Department at Georgia State University academic community, particularly in the areas of in Atlanta. In 1993, she was named the John B. non-fiction writing and biography, the SAMLA Elena Diaz Verson Amos Distinguished Professor Executive Committee approved the establishment in English Letters, a position she held until her of an award in her name. This annual award will retirement from Georgia State University in recognize a scholar for excellence in research and September 2003. writing and will provide an honorarium as well as In 2013, an organizing committee will establish a publication opportunity in South Atlantic Review the guidelines and recommend the appointment beginning in 2014. of award committee members to begin service in Virginia Spencer Carr was a Distinguished January 2014. The first award will be given at the Professor Emerita and literary scholar who wrote November 2014 SAMLA conference in Atlanta. If the definitive biography of Georgia author Carson you have an interest in serving on the organizing or McCullers and notable biographies of American the awards committee, please contact the SAMLA writers John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles. In office ([email protected]) or Stuart Noel, chair of the addition, she wrote books and essays examining organizing committee ([email protected]).

13 SAMLA 84 Conference Impressions

Stephanie Rountree, Matthew Roudané, Marta Hess, Dan Marshall, and Gina Caison Gustavo and Mary Anne Pérez Firmat Mug Sales for George Mills Harper Travel Grants

Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Kristen Kelley at the Visual Representations session Special Session: Metacriticism and the Early Modern Period: Analysis of Renaissance Analyses

14 Lynne Simpson, Jay Lutz, Stuart Noel, and Freddy Thomas Sally Newman, Matthew Sansbury, LeAnn Johnston, and LeeAnne Davis

Kathleen Blake Yancey Martha Cook, Ennio I. Rao, Nancy Hargrove, and Charles B. Moore Renée Schatteman, Matthew Roudané, and Lara Smith-Sitton

15 Awards Information SAMLA Studies Award Aidan Wasley, The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene (Princeton University Press, 2010). Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology, Chair of 2012 SAMLA Studies Award Committee Aidan Wasley’s book The Age of Auden is a study of the making of literary traditions. By tracing the impact of W. H. Auden’s emigration to the United States in 1939 on the poet’s work as well as his impact on a generation of postwar American poets, Wasley’s study is grounded in the foundations of literary criticism, and the study of inheritance and influence, while offering a fresh perspective. Rather than seeking to define “The Age of Auden,” Wasley considers the ways in which poetry is studied and can be reevaluated. Beginning with an assessment of Auden’s American career and the poems that represent Auden’s changing aesthetics, Wasley turns his focus to Auden’s influence on younger American poets James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich, before concluding with an epilogue discussing poems written by American poets about Auden after his death. Examining and questioning Auden’s placement within and outside of an American literary tradition, Wasley self-consciously explores the significance of writing poetry as well as literary criticism. The SAMLA Studies Award Committee members were impressed by this well-researched, ground-breaking study, which alone made it a strong contender for the award, and they also emphasized another aspect of the book: it is beautifully written. Wasley’s elegant prose speaks of the influence that can be traced from poets to scholars of poetry. Wasley earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2000 and is currently an Undergraduate Coordinator, Associate Professor, and Director of the British-Irish Studies Program (BISP) at the University of Georgia. Like the subject of his study, Wasley’s research and teaching is transatlantic in focus. He works in British Modernism, postwar American literature, and transatlantic literary exchange. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut, a Huntington Fellow, and a resident faculty member with the UGA/Oxford program. In addition to this award-winning study of Auden, Wasley has published articles in W. H. Auden in Context (Cambridge University Press), Contemporary Literature, and Symbiosis. Individuals who have published a scholarly single-author work or edited a book in 2012 are eligible to have it considered for the 2013 SAMLA Studies Award by a five-member committee. Current membership in the organization is required for consideration. Nomination by a SAMLA member or academic press is necessary; self-nominations are permitted. Six copies of the work to be reviewed should be submitted by May 1, 2013 to SAMLA’s office at Georgia State University. To make a nomination, complete a nomination form by May 1 and submit it via e-mail to the SAMLA office ([email protected]) with the subject line “RE: 2013 SAMLA Studies Award Nomination for (nominee’s name).” SAMLA 84 Harper Fund Award Recipients Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University, Chair of 2012 Harper Fund Committee Second place and an award for $175 was given to Sunyoung The 2012 Harper Awards Committee was delighted to Ahn of the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities for “The receive twenty-eight applications for the Harper Award, named Dialectical Form of the Ecological Catastrophe in Margaret in honor of George Harper. This competitive award provides Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.” travel support to graduate students in the humanities who are Peter Zogas of the University of Rochester received the presenting at the SAMLA Conference. After a careful review of third place award of $125 for “Charles W. Chesnutt, William A. applications and budget, the committee was pleased to announce Dunning, and the Contested Legacy of Reconstruction.” four awards. Scott Ortolano was asked to serve as the graduate student Two papers tied for first place, and the meritorious students member of the Harper Fund Committee for 2013. The Harper received a check for $225 each: Marianna Deganutti, University Fund Award Committee for 2012 was comprised of the following of Oxford, for “Fulvio Tomizza’s Istrian Double Exile,” and Scott members: Sylvia Byer (Park University), David Brauer (North Ortolano, Florida State University, for “The World in Winesburg: Georgia), and Lauren Cameron (UNC, winner of 2011 Harper Sherwood Anderson’s George Willard and the Quest for Fund award). Much thanks to all the committee members for Existential and Artistic Viability in ‘Modern’ America.” their diligent effort! 16 SAMLA 84 South Atlantic Review Prize Winners Robert Moser, University of Georgia, Chair of 2012 SAR Prize Committee First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to and historically contextualized throughout, Hegarty’s Pat Bradley (Middle Tennessee State University) for essay explores the rise and demise of the ranchera her fine job as recent chair of theSAR Prize Selection genre within Mexican film, its dialogue with the Committee, as well as to Lara Smith-Sitton who, as evolving sense of national identity in Mexico from the Managing Editor of South Atlantic Review, provided 1930’s to 1950s, and the specific symbolic function of very effective oversight of the committee’s work. the female archetype within this genre. The announcement of the most recent recipients of For 2010 (Volume 75) the SAR prize was awarded the SAR Essay Prize was made at the 2012 SAMLA to Dr. Laura Barberan Reinares for her essay Conference in North Carolina on Saturday, November “Globalized Philomels: State Patriarchy, Transnational 10, during the Presidential Address and Awards Capital, and the Femicides on the US-Mexican Luncheon. Each year the Selection Committee selects Border in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666.” Dr. Reinares is an one essay noteworthy for its outstanding scholarship Assistant Professor of English and Literature at Bronx and contribution to both the South Atlantic Review Community College of the City University of New and the field at large. All essays published in the four York. Her research interests include transnationalism, annual issues of SAR are considered and nominations Irish literature, and issues of exploitation, particularly are not required. In addition to a $500 honorarium, as they pertain to sex trafficking and migration. the prize recipient receives complimentary registration Written with poignant and unflinching immediacy, Dr. to attend the annual conference. In 2012 two scholars Reinares’s essay deftly traces a central thread of social were awarded the SAR Essay Prize. criticism in Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous novel 2666, For 2009 (Volume 74) the prize was awarded to namely how transnational capital, patriarchy, and the Dr. Kerry T. Hegarty for her essay “From Chinas state are linked to the murder and rape of subaltern Poblanas to Silk Stockings: The Symbology of the women on the US-Mexican border. Female Archetype in the Mexican Ranchera Film.” The scholarly rigor of the two essays named above, Dr. Hegarty is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and and of the many that were strong contenders for the Film Studies at Miami University of Ohio, where she prize, is surely indicative of, and bodes well for, the specializes in Latin American film and literature, with high standards that the editors have set for South a research focus on Mexico. Comprehensive, limpid, Atlantic Review now and in the future.

SAMLA 84 Graduate Student Essay Prize Winner Theresa McBreen, Middle Tennessee State University, Chair of 2012 Graduate Student Essay Prize Committee The 2012 SAMLA Graduate Student Essay Prize of Claflin University, Jennifer Colón of William Jewell winner, Arun Kumar Pokhrel, is a PhD candidate and College, and Andrea Stover of Belmont University. Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of The deadline for nominating deserving essays English at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He from the fall conference is May 1st. Nominations may is currently writing his dissertation, which examines come from either session chairs or attendees who the dialogic interaction between global and local hear excellent graduate student papers at sessions cultures and environments in British and postcolonial during the conference. The Graduate Student Essay fiction written from 1970 to the present. These research Award Committee selects the winning essay by a blind interests play a key role in his winning essay “‘Brutish review process. The winner selected by the committee Empire,’ Irishness, and ‘the new Bloomusalem in the will receive a $250.00 honorarium, complimentary Nova Hibernia’ in Joyce’s Ulysses.” This essay will appear registration for the next year’s SAMLA convention, in the winter 2013 issue of South Atlantic Review. Mr. and the winning essay will be published in South Pokhrel also won a 2011 George Mills Harper Graduate Atlantic Review. The award will be given at the annual Student Travel Award for this essay. Conference during the Awards Ceremony the year Gratitude for their work and time is due to the 2012 following the paper presentation. Let us continue to Graduate Student Essay Award Committee, including reward flourishing new scholars by recognizing quality Adam Wood of Salisbury University, León Chang Shik presentations at SAMLA. 17 SAMLA and Multiplicity Studies R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University With its rich history of encouragement for new approaches to textual AAS are eager to have the opportunity to share their work and interests study both literary and cinematic, the SAMLA annual convention with the membership more generally. We hope—and why not confess seems an ideal forum for scholars working in one of our profession’s it?—to make converts to an area of research that we find fascinating and most exciting emerging fields—so new in some ways that it has yet to rewarding. have a commonly accepted name. Recognizing the never closed-out Adaptation studies, in short, has become a thoroughly legitimate possibility of proliferation, I have suggested that we call it multiplicity area of academic research, one that has always been welcomed at studies. A series of practical applications of, and meditations on, the SAMLA, but arguably deserves an even more prominent place. It is theory of transtextuality first made prominent by Gérard Genette in my hope that the annual convention will furnish an ever more useful the early 1980s, multiplicity studies takes as its object different orders of forum for the presentation of ongoing work in adaptation studies, a relations that exist, or may be postulated as existing, among texts. Such field that arguably has never been enthusiastically welcomed by either a perspective that deals with what Genette terms liens or “links” marks the MLA or the Society for Cinema Studies. SAMLA would supply, in work in the areas of adaptation, appropriation, sequelizing, trilogizing, other words, a much-needed regional and national forum for work on serializing, genres, cycles, imitations, reboots, remakes, and, perhaps adaptation, which—it would be hard to deny—has very much come not least, authorial oeuvres. Such forms of multiplicity, of course, also of age as an academic field. Adaptation studies, of course, possesses an constitute endless forms of transtextual hybridity: trilogies are based academic pedigree that is not negligible. The founding of theLiterature/ on the subordinating/superordinating forces of the sequel, which they Film Quarterly at Salisbury State College in 1973 by James Welsh and often displace/re-orient in time (the redefinitional magic, for example, Tom Erskine is a signal event; the journal continues to offer an important that Coppola’s The Godfather III works on its two predecessors); some publishing outlet for work in the area, while the annual meeting of the remakes are also adaptations, and can even become elements of an Literature/Film Association, founded in 1989 at Dickinson College, authorial oeuvre (Hitchcock’s two versions of The Man Who Knew Too provides a significant forum devoted to work on film adaptation and Much come to mind) or a performance-driven cycle of sequels/remakes issues in cinema studies more generally. An increased focus at SAMLA (as is the case with the Psycho franchise, whose driving force was actor is not intended to rival the venues already offered by the AAS and the Anthony Perkins, a cast member of the original); the line between Literature/Film Association, no more than the various literature sessions adaptation and appropriation is fluid (is Clueless to be counted among the at SAMLA compete in a manner that harms ongoing collective research numerous recent Jane Austen adaptations or is it simply an appropriation in the same disciplines and special areas also serviced by MLA and more of Austenian themes and character types, which are interestingly specialized disciplinary conferences. Our aim, instead, is simply to offer recontextualized?); and when and how does a cycle, with its exploitation more opportunity for the kinds of scholarly exchange that advance our of some themes/elements of demonstrated popularity, become a genre? collective devotion to textual study and analysis. If more a follower than Adaptation studies, of course, is hardly new to either the profession a leader as far as adaptation studies is concerned, SAMLA does have the or to SAMLA, but if scholars once confined themselves for the most part opportunity to brand itself as an important forum for ongoing work, now to the study of the screening of literary classics, generally treating them increasing in popularity and reach, in other forms of textual multiplicity, as tristes histoires of inevitable betrayal, the field has only in recent years the sequels, cycles, serials, appropriations, remakes, and reboots so freed itself from “fidelity” protocols that inhibited the proper evaluation prominent in literary and film production, not to mention other media of the results of transmedial exchange. Adaptation studies has embraced such as television and pulp magazines. an ever-expanding repertoire of critical methodologies and analytic The post-structuralist critique of author criticism advanced by Roland objectives, as the hitherto more or less exclusive focus on comparativity Barthes and Michel Foucault has effectively—if not entirely—pre-empted (how does the adaptation measure up to its original, what exactly has neoromantic concerns with authorship as the expression of genius and been transformed, abandoned, or added) has, if not entirely abandoned, talent, of “vision,” across a flow of signed texts. And yet authorship, if in given way to other forms of exchange. Adaptation scholars now consider different forms (such as commercially constructed forms of branding and many other forms of transformation: from stage to film, from film to collective author-ness), remains a central feature of contemporary textual stage, from film to computer game, from computer game to theme park production, alongside forms that, for various reasons, are not signed or attraction, from graphic novel to film, from novel to graphic novel, from branded in such a “personal” fashion. Authorship, however, has never film to literature, from television to film, from film to television, from been eliminated from literary study, while film scholars continue to write fiction to opera, and (the perspicacious reader may here fill in the blanks) books devoted to valued auteurs. Yet film study conferences have steadily many other possibilities within a modernity that, for reasons both artistic moved away from offering venues to scholars working in this area. and commercial, finds itself heavily dependent on reuse of various kinds. Here SAMLA finds itself with another opportunity to do the discipline While such research has traditionally tended to be largely formal and, a service. The sense in which authorial oeuvres offer important objects in general terms, aesthetic, recent work has recognized how adaptation of study for those interested in multiplicity, rather than in neoromantic serves the various institutions of cultural production, enabling different, “expressive” categories, has only begun to be recognized. A session at last and I would argue, richer approaches to the writing of literary and year’s convention devoted to director John Huston’s work as a literary cinematic histories. The appeal of this discipline, situated on interesting adaptor explored the various ways in which his authorship was extended fault lines across media, has been demonstrated by the growth and across a series of disparate texts adapted from such prominent authors flourishing of associations devoted to the study of adaptation, most as Tennessee Williams and Malcolm Lowry, constituting an oeuvre recently the Association of Adaptation Studies founded in 2005 at De based in part on the various literary qualities of Huston’s approach. For Montfort University in the UK, but with a substantial US membership. next year’s convention, we would like to expand the number of sessions The AAS, funded by a substantial grant from the Leverhulme Fund, has devoted either to interesting case studies or to various issues involved in been able to sponsor an annual convention, held for the most part in authorship, especially when these are imbricated across different forms Europe and the UK, and also to found a journal, Adaptation, published of textual flow. Please consider responding to the CFPs in the areas by Oxford University Press. As was the case last year, US members of the of adaptation/multiplicity and authorship studies. Your work in these AAS intend, on behalf of the organization, to sponsor a number of special areas, for which SAMLA will be providing a series of flexible forums, is sessions in which various issues connected to adaptation constitute the especially welcome. focus. The increasing number of SAMLA members also active in the 18 Council of Editors of Learned Journals: Report from 2012 Sessions Lara Smith-Sitton, Georgia State University, and Amy Berke, Middle Georgia State College The SAMLA 84 Conference (2012) again featured two Council of Editors of Learned Journals sessions organized by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). Over the past three years, Amy Berke and Lara Smith-Sitton have organized these sessions. In addition, CELJ worked with South Atlantic Review and SAMLA to provide a space for editors to display copies of their journals at the conference. The first session, entitled, “Navigating the Publication Process: Best Practices for Preparing Scholarly Journal Articles for Review,” featured a panel of eight journal editors from the SAMLA region. Bruce Gentry of Georgia College and State University and editor of the Flannery O’Connor Review organized and served as chair of the panel. The presentations included information about the content of each journal as well as a panel discussion about best practices for manuscript preparation and submission. The second session, entitled “The Future of Academic Publishing: Digital Humanities and Online Publishing,” provided a forum for editors from electronic and print journals to explore the opportunities available through web-based publication. Both sessions were well attended and led to lively discussions about academic writing. As CELJ looks to the SAMLA 85 conference, Lara and Amy will again organize two affiliated group sessions. One will provide a forum for the conversation to continue about web-based and electronic journals, and the second will feature editors from the region exploring the topic of best practices for publication. This year, CELJ will partner with SAMLA to feature the best practices session as a part of the professionalization program of the conference on Friday. We also encourage editors to bring copies of their journals, calls for papers, or other related materials to the conference for inclusion on a table featuring the publications in our region. If you have an interest in participating in these sessions, please see the calls for papers posted on the SAMLA website or contact Amy Berke ([email protected]) or Lara Smith-Sitton ([email protected]). We look forward to the SAMLA 85 conference in Atlanta, and we are grateful to SAMLA for the opportunity to include these sessions in the program.

SAMLA 85 Member Book Display SAMLA welcomes and encourages all members to showcase their published work.

Participation Details • Email the MLA citation of each book (unlimited number) to [email protected]; please include “SAMLA Conference Book Display” in the subject line. • Scholars should deliver one copy of each text to the pre-paid registration table by Friday at 5:00 pm. • The book display begins Friday at 7:00pm and concludes Saturday at 7:00 pm. Members may retrieve their texts beginning Saturday at 7:15 pm. • Unclaimed books will be donated to the Spring 2014 New Voices Graduate Student Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Congratulations SAMLA 84 Award Winners

SAMLA Studies Book Award: Aidan Wasley, University of Georgia

2009 South Atlantic Review Prize: Kerry T. Hegarty, Miami University of Ohio

2010 South Atlantic Review Prize: Laura Barberan Reinares, CUNY Bronx Community College

Graduate Student Essay Prize: Arun Kumar Pokhrel, University of Florida

George Mills Harper Graduate Student Travel Grants: Marianna Deganutti, University of Oxford; Scott Ortolano, Florida State University; Sunyoung Ahn, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities; Peter Zogas, University of Rochester

19 Spanish Contemporary Writers Sessions Enrique Ruiz-Fornells Silverde, The University of Alabama After years spent coordinating the Spanish homage. The participants at this time were writers Contemporary Writers Session, I am very pleased to from Spain who received the homenaje and two write about the relations between today’s prominent US university professors reading papers about the writers from Spain and SAMLA. The program writers’ work. This innovation proved successful of academic cooperation between the Spanish and the attendance was gratifying. Ministry of Culture and professional associations Coordination with the Spanish Government, in the US has existed for twenty-four years, and SAMLA, writers, and professors was at times SAMLA has always been an enthusiastic part of it. problematic. The Spanish and SAMLA logistics Here is the backstory of our successful sometimes were not compatible. The different partnership. In 1988, during the MLA meeting in timetable was a permanent problem, for example, as New Orleans, a group of professors from Harvard, was SAMLA’s deadlines for printing the conference Vanderbilt, Princeton, Florida, and Alabama met programs. Ultimately, everything was possible, with Spanish government representatives to pursue thanks to the Internet, mailing, and telephone calls. the possibility of highlighting the work of Spanish Especially important in coordinating everything authors. The consequence of that meeting was the was Lara Smith-Sitton, whose hard work and beginning of the presence of young Spanish writers resourcefulness made the endeavor possible. at our meetings. Today, because of Spain’s financial problems, SAMLA began participating in the program the program has been cancelled. However, those in 1990 during our conference in Tampa, Florida. who have participated in it from the beginning The first year Miguel Morey and Luis Alberto have not given up hope for a comeback. The end de Cuenca spoke to us about the new poetry of of the program in its original form does not mean Spain. And each year since 1990, SAMLA has the Spanish Contemporary Writers Session is also organized this event as a regular session to give finished. The session has been renovated, turning its us the chance to exchange ideas and learn first- attention to Spanish writers living in the US. Last hand from Spanish authors about contemporary year was the starting point with the presentation of literary trends. Between 1990 and 2011, thirty-six Fernando Operé’s book, La vuelta al mundo en 80 Spanish writers have attended SAMLA reunions poemas. In addition to his work as a poet, Operé is a in diverse locations each year. Names well-known professor at the University of Virginia. among the intellectual circles of Spain and abroad Thanks go to all the officers of the Association, have represented Spanish literature at our annual particularly to Lara Smith-Sitton, Matthew programs. A wealth of information for our SAMLA Roudané, Charles B. Moore, Allen Josephs, and membership has been the fortuitous result. all those scholars promoting Spanish studies. We Since our initial meeting in Tampa, we were very look forward to another great session this year careful to plan a rotation concentrating on poetry, at SAMLA 85. The title of this year’s session on fiction, and theater in such a way that SAMLA Spanish writers in the US is “Reflexiones sobre el has welcomed twelve poets, twelve novelists, and libro de Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Escritores españoles twelve dramatists. Most of them have received en los Estados Unidos.” I will chair the session, and awards for their achievements. Among those our respondent will be Gloria Camarero Gómez featured, we remember Diego Jesús Jiménez (1991), from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Josefina Aldecoa and Ana Rosetti (1992), Ignacio Our presenters are Fernando Operé from the Amestoy (1993), Marina Mayoral (1996), Guillermo University of Virginia, whose talk is titled, “Exilio Heras and José Ramón Fernández (2000), Martín o peregrinaje: la intelectualidad española en USA” Casariego and Clara Sánchez (2001), Jaime Siles and Francisco Peñas-Bermejo of the University of (2002), Rosa Montero (2006), Vicente Molina Foix Dayton, who will deliver a talk called “Signos del (2008), Luis Araujo (2010), and Andrés Sánchez transtierro en la obra de escritores españoles en los Robayna (2011). Estados Unidos.” We feel optimistic that this year’s In 2006 the format of the program was modified session will prove as successful as in years past. from that of a traditional session to a “homenaje,” or 20 SAMLA 85 Call for Papers SAMLA (CFP List updated weekly through June 2013 at samla.memberclicks.net) Special Focus: Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds November 8–10, 2013 • Atlanta, Georgia The South Atlantic Modern Language Association welcomes proposals for full panels or calls for papers for the 85th Annual SAMLA Conference, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013. Proposals supporting the special focus of the conference, “Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds” are especially encouraged. Sessions, however, may also be of a more general nature or concentrate on a specific topic relating to teaching, literary and linguistic scholarship in the 85 humanities, and modern languages. Session length is 90-minutes; session format options include the following:

round table or discussion panels, working paper sessions, seminar or workshop sessions, traditional paper call for papers presentations, or clusters of three sessions.

Please submit a 300-word session proposal or call for papers that includes the session title, name of the chair, academic affiliation, and chair email address by May 30, 2013, to [email protected]. Session chairs must be members of SAMLA by June 30, 2013. Additional information about the convention can be found at samla. memberclicks.net. Individual paper proposals are not accepted, but a list of calls for papers is available on the SAMLA website. teach intercultural competency, listening comprehension, and critical thinking. By May 20, 2013, please submit abstracts of Affiliated Group Sessions approximately 250 words to Heidi Denzel de Tirado, Georgia State University, at [email protected]. American Association of Italian studies (AAIS) Chair: Carol Lazzaro-Weis, University of Missouri, [email protected] Call for papers detail forthcoming on the SAMLA website.

American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) American Association of Teachers of Spanish and This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please Portuguese (AATSP) contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Manager, at [email protected]. (AATSP) seeks papers on the 2013 SAMLA conference’s special focus. We are broadly defining texts to include literary productions, travelogues, songs, or historical accounts. Papers dealing specifically with pedagogical approaches at all levels in Spanish and Portuguese language and literature courses will be given preference. By June 15, 2013, please submit abstracts to Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott College, at [email protected].

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) Televising the Nation: Teaching German Language, Humor in the Digital Age Culture, and Social Change with Visual Media This panel will examine how the rise of new media (including German film and television are valuable sources of authentic social media, Web 2.0, and blogs) has created new contexts for contemporary German language and culture because they the production, distribution, and exhibition of American humor. offer multisensory input that can be harnessed to enhance We welcome papers on humor and comedy as it is employed linguistic, paralinguistic, and pragmatic learning. Visual in viral videos, blogs or vlogs, web series, webisodes, parodies, media—readily available in various forms on video-sharing participatory culture online, memes, or remixes. Papers may cover individual talents such as Andy Borowitz of The Borowitz websites like YouTube, live streaming sites of German public Report, Grace Helbig of DailyGrace, Jenna Marbles, Khyan and private stations, and online TV recording services— Mansley, Maddox, Tucker Max; groups Derrick Comedy and represent a popular self-directed learning device in- and the Gregory Brothers (“Auto-Tune the News”); sites College outside of the German language classroom. This panel seeks Humor, Funny or Die, The Onion, and Stuff White People papers that explore approaches to using film and TV in foreign language classes. Of particular interest are papers Like; social media Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter; and on strategies that connect visual media and pedagogy to the other “genres” like mommy blogs, movie trailer recuts, special focus of the 2013 SAMLA conference, in order to trending hashtags (#firstworldproblems, #drunknatesilver). 21 Prospective panelists could also consider how humorists 2013, please send abstracts of 300-500 words to Thomas Leitch, and comedians/comediennes use websites and social media University of Delaware, at [email protected]. to connect with their audiences, attract new fans, and disseminate their brand of humor. The overall goal is to examine how digital media technologies either democratize or restrict the creation and distribution of innovative comedy, examining key problems and possibilities posed by new media for the tradition of American humor. By May 1, Carolinas Council of Writing Program 2013, please send inquiries and proposals of 250 words to Administrators, Session I Pete Kunze, Louisiana State University, at [email protected]. The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Writing Program Administration Chair: Anthony Atkins, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, [email protected] Call for papers detail forthcoming on the SAMLA website.

Carolinas Council of Writing Program Association for the Study of Literature & the Administrators, Session II Environment (ASLE) Preparing WACky Teachers: Faculty Professional Southern Wilds and Unnatural Disasters Development in WAC/WID Contexts In Ellen Griffith Spears’s recentSouthern Spaces essay Chair: Wendy Sharer, East Carolina University, sharerw@ situating “Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South,” she ecu.edu argues that, when it comes to environmental criticism in Call for papers detail forthcoming on the SAMLA website. the region, “the problem was not that nature was not in the picture, but rather in how human relationships with Carolinas Council of Writing Program the rest of nature changed and were portrayed.” Spears’s Administrators, Session III observation might be considered alongside the 2012 film, Smooth Sailing?: Questioning State Transport of FYC Beasts of the Southern Wild, and its depiction of those Chair: Lynne Rhodes, University of South Carolina Aiken, relationships. Among its motifs are migration, dispersion, [email protected] diaspora, engineered environments, state interventions, Call for papers detail forthcoming on the SAMLA website. class and underclass, racial and terrestrial margins, riverine and lacustrine frontiers, and a flotsam-and-jetsam culture. The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and These motifs are common to regional literature as well, for Musicians example, in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. This panel will Reinterpreting Carson McCullers consider how the literary representation of disaster exposes To inspire more work on Georgia writer Carson McCullers the eco-cultural history of environmental catastrophe. In and her legacy, this panel invites papers discussing keeping with the “networked worlds” theme of this year’s innovative ways of analyzing texts related to McCullers, conference, as well as the regional and global focus of whether biographies, literary works, or adaptations. SAMLA, papers that give consideration to bioregionalism, These reinterpretations might include discussions of the US South, and Global South will be particularly McCullers’s works in contrast with her contemporaries welcomed. By May 1, 2013, please send abstracts of 250 (Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, words for proposed papers on this topic to Bryan Giemza, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, et al), film or dramatic Randolph-Macon College, at [email protected]. adaptations of her work, or her contributions to today’s call for papers call for southern gothic, Grit Lit, or Queer Studies. We welcome Association of Adaptation Studies essays that address the conference’s theme as related to

85 Crossing Borders, Building Worlds: Adaptation Studies studies of McCullers; however, the scope of the panel is In keeping with the special focus of SAMLA 85, the not limited by this theme. By May 15, 2013, please e-mail Association of Adaptation Studies invites 20-minute papers abstracts of 250-500 words to Courtney George, The Carson that consider the relations between adaptation and other McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, at george_ kinds of border crossings—between different genres, different [email protected]. media, different technologies, different national or historical contexts, different fan bases, different authors and notions of Cervantes Society authorship, and different relationships various textual practices The Works of Miguel de Cervantes imply between the creators and consumers of texts. Papers We seek papers that explore the theme of this year’s convention that explore the challenges posed to traditional notions of as it relates to the works of Miguel de Cervantes. Presentations adaptation by participatory media (wikis, fan fiction, etc.) and may focus on one or several works. By June 21, 2013, please SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA those examining the relations between adaptation and other submit a 250-word abstract to Theresa McBreen, Middle ways of world-building are especially welcome. By June 10, Tennessee State University, at [email protected]. 22 Charles W. Chesnutt Association “Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives

Chesnutt’s Gothic Psychology of the Future American of First-Year College Students” (see http://wide.msu.edu/ SAMLA This discussion will focus on how works likeMandy special/writinglives/) report that students write extensively Oxendine utilize the elements of gothic psychology in their daily lives, using multiple digital writing platforms, to confound binary racial concepts and to create the including some (e.g., cellphones) rarely tapped by formal mixed-race identity matrix at the foundation of Charles writing curricula. Yet we know relatively little about how W. Chesnutt’s theory of the future American. Papers students “transfer” their daily non-academic writing that address this topic or the way in which Chesnutt’s experiences and writing technologies into the classroom work reflects interdisciplinary engagement are strongly (or vice versa). What writing strategies and composing encouraged as are papers addressing this year’s theme. By technologies do students “transfer” between their academic June 7, 2013, please e-mail proposed paper abstracts of contexts and their other activity systems? How are no more than 300 words along with a short biography of students using composing technologies across their critical no more than 150 words to Rachel Smith or Darren Elzie, transitions, whether between academic courses or across 85 The University of Memphis, at [email protected] or their networked worlds? What features of writing curricula [email protected]. support students’ transfer of rhetorical strategies across call for papers contexts and technologies? Do students have access to tools acquired in other activity systems that faculty should encourage students to use to make meaning in academic activity systems? Responding to these questions, this panel College English Association will feature current research on writing-related transfer, Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic with an emphasis on exploring the role of composing Texts technologies in students’ attempts to make meaning across As R.E.M., that great band from Athens, Georgia, famously contexts. By June 14, 2013, please submit a proposed paper sang, “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” title and a 250-word abstract to Jessie L. Moore, Elon What is driving our current American obsession with the University, at [email protected]. apocalypse? Papers that explore imagined endings from environmental disasters to zombie invasions are welcome. Consortium for German in the Southeast What do apocalyptic literature, television, and film mean for Business Meeting of the Consortium for German in the us culturally, and what might we discern from these often Southeast cautionary tales? By June 7, 2013, please send abstracts of Chair: Hal Rennert, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida around 500 words to Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College, Because this session is a meeting of the organization, at [email protected]. submissions are not required.

Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), Session I College Language Association (CLA) Topics in Academic Publishing: Best Practices for Chair: Dana A. Williams, Howard University Preparing Scholarly Journal Publications This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time. Journal editors are invited to participate in a panel to discuss best practices for writing, submitting, and Conference on College Composition and publishing scholarly articles in academic journals. Editors Communication (CCCC) will open the panel with brief remarks, and the panel will Making Meaning Across Contexts: Writing and the engage in discussion about the editing and publication Question of Transfer process. This annual session will be a part of the SAMLA Writing Studies has experienced a jump in research on conference professionalization program. By May 30, 2013, writing transfer, as demonstrated by the recent special please send an email of interest to Amy Berke, Middle issue of Composition Forum (http://compositionforum. Georgia State College, at [email protected]. com/issue/26/) and the Elon University research seminar and conference on Critical Transitions: Writing and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), Question of Transfer (http://www.elon.edu/writingtransfer). Session II Most existing studies primarily focus on academic contexts, Publishing in Digital and Online Journals: A Round though, overlooking the composing that students do in the Table Discussion with Editors other contexts they traverse on a daily basis. In addition, This panel invites presentations on topics related to the field still has much to learn about how students use academic writing and publication in web-based journals. 21st-century literacy tools across these contexts. Studies like 23 Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the Mackenzie Conti, State University of New York at New transformation of academic publishing through technology; Paltz, at [email protected]. the future of online academic journals; academic publishers; social networking and academic publishing; best practices Ellen Glasgow Society for preparation of manuscripts for electronic publication. The Image and the Word: Visions of Southern Women in To encourage discussion, presentations should be no more the Popular Press, 1890-1945 than ten minutes in length. Editors from scholarly journals The Ellen Glasgow Society seeks papers on any aspect of and academic presses are welcome to submit proposals or to how Southern women were portrayed both visually and in attend the panel and engage in a roundtable discussion that writing in the popular press during the turbulent period of will follow the panelists’ presentations. By May 30, 2013, 1890-1945. The popular press may include but is not limited please submit brief presentation proposals to Lara Smith- to newspapers, journals, or novels. Papers may address how Sitton, Georgia State University, at [email protected]. these images were either validated or challenged by Southern women writers of the period. Other topics may include but The Edith Wharton Society are not limited to such questions as these: Did the popular The Customs of Many Countries: The Worlds of Edith Wharton press challenge the image or traditional roles of women, or The Edith Wharton Society invites papers that engage did the press seek to impose traditional roles on southern with this year’s SAMLA conference theme. We are open to women? By June 15, 2013, please send a short abstract of no a variety of interpretations. For example, what meanings more than 500 words to Gwendolyn Jones Harold, Clayton emerge when we consider Wharton’s work alongside the State University, at [email protected]. “networked worlds” of her various homes and travels? How has the rise of digital humanities and new forms of Emily Dickinson International Society communication fostered new scholarship and approaches We “Dwell in Possibility”: Digital Humanities and Poetry to Wharton’s writing? A range of responses to this topic is The Emily Dickinson International Society invites proposals welcome, including examinations of her travel writings, other that explore the productive union between digital humanities non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. By May 17, 2013, please send and poetry. While we are, of course, interested in panelists a 300-500 word abstract and one page CV to Monica Miller, who focus on Dickinson’s work, we are open to theories and Louisiana State University, at [email protected]. examples regarding poetry in general. We hope to produce a less formal setting that will allow for thoughtful and Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, Session I insightful discussion about how cultures, contexts, images, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Other Writers and texts have influenced writers and readers from the Papers for this session should deal with Elizabeth Madox 19th century to the present. We welcome traditional papers Roberts and other writers. Topics may include, but are not that explore the role of digital humanities in academic and limited to, the following: Roberts and her contemporaries creative work (i.e., the use of digital resources and archives (Roberts and Pound, Roberts and Faulkner, Roberts and in teaching and scholarship; the use of new media in the Hemingway, Roberts and Woolf, Roberts and Wescott, etc.); study and composition of poetry). We also welcome non- Roberts and her influences; Roberts’s literary friendships; traditional projects and alternative presentation modes, such Roberts’s epistolary relationships; those influenced by as pecha kucha or hypertext. By June 25, 2013, please submit Roberts; Roberts as Kentucky writer; Roberts as Southern a 200-300 word description of your project to Trisha Kannan, Writer. By June 1, 2013, please send abstracts of 250 words Santa Fe College, at [email protected]. to Matthew Nickel, State University of New York at New Paltz, at [email protected]. Eudora Welty Society

call for papers call for Approaching Insight in Welty’s Fiction Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, Session II Eudora Welty has long been recognized as an author Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Prospect and Retrospect particularly preoccupied with the workings of human

85 Papers for this session may deal with all aspects of Roberts’s insight. How do Welty or her characters come to perceive, work and life. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to know, to discover, or to create meaning? What is Welty’s to, the following: Roberts and new work (particularly her relationship to the mind, and how does she accommodate posthumously published unfinished novelFlood ); Roberts dream, imagination, and fantasy in her aesthetic? Recently, and her manuscripts; Roberts in the context of Southern a variety of emerging methodologies and theoretical literature; Roberts and Southern Agrarianism; Roberts’s frameworks, especially those linked with affect and literary and stylistic influences (i.e., Synge, Hardy, Joyce, cognitive studies, have begun to reshape the literary study Homer, Hopkins, Beethoven, Pound); Roberts and religion; of such problems. In line with the SAMLA 85 special Roberts and Modernism; Roberts and the novel; Roberts focus, this panel invites papers that take advantage of such as poet; Roberts as writer of short fiction; Roberts and emerging influences to reconceptualize the functioning Regionalism; Roberts and the politics of literary reputation; of insight in Welty’s fiction. Submissions might address SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA Roberts and feminism; and, Roberts and Kentucky. By topics such as memory, perception, imagination, affect, June 1, 2013, please send abstracts of 250 words to Jessica social belonging, the relationship between body and mind, 24 or that between reader and text. Papers that approach religion, and geographic location. Studies in all manner

these questions through Welty’s essays or archival and of O’Connor’s writing including her novels, short fiction, SAMLA biographical resources are welcome, and the use of various reviews, essays, and more are encouraged. Also welcome presentation media is encouraged. By May 31, 2013, please are any presentations of relationships between depictions email abstracts of 500-750 words to Bill Phillips, The of cultural habits and their larger contextual significance University of Mississippi, [email protected]. within O’Connor’s life. By June 15, 2013, please submit your 250-word abstract, with your name and affiliation, as a Feministas Unidas (FemUn) Word document to Ramona Wanlass, Northwest Mississippi Cultures, Literatures, Arts, and Politics: Women Artists Community College, at [email protected]. and Women Writers Making History and Making Meaning in the Spanish-Speaking World Florida WPA This panel provides an opportunity to examine the writing The Challenges of WPA Work in 2013 strategies of women writers from different cultural, This session will focus on the challenges of being a Writing 85 historical, and spatial spectrums; how they advocate Program Administrator in the state of Florida in 2013. reconfigurations of social relations and alternative ethics, We invite proposals that focus on issues including but not call for papers politics, and aesthetics; and how they challenge the power of limited to changes in Florida laws that are having an impact official narratives and/or state discourse. We are focusing on on our work as WPAs, ways in which new technologies are interdisciplinary questions of how history is reconstructed affecting what we do as WPAs, and changes in our student in Latin America and Spain through the eyes of women populations that are making our work more challenging. By from the Colonial period to the present day. The aim of June 1, 2013, please send brief abstracts of approximately this forum is to develop discussion with a focus on the art 250 words to Deborah Coxwell-Teague, Florida State and literature made by women that challenged established University, at [email protected]. aesthetics and confronted the relationship of old and new traditions, changing history. Session languages consist of English and Spanish. Potential topics for submission include, but are not limited to, the following: how images of women in art and literature interplay in the culture and history in Latin America and/ or Spain; interdisciplinary approaches to the concept of nation in Latin America Georgia and Carolinas College English Association (GCCEA) and/or Spain; understanding of diaspora as an analytical Infinite Variety: Possibilities and Choices in Writing category and as a frame of lived experience; how the The Georgia and Carolinas College English Association at mass media and history portray women in Latin America SAMLA seeks proposals that address the theme of “Infinite and/or Spain, and other topics of relevance. By May 16, Variety: Possibilities and Choices in Writing.” Topics include but 2013, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 are not limited to the following: varieties of literature; varieties words, a short biographical description, and your contact within a genre; varieties of compositions; varieties and voice, information to Maria Guadalupe Calatayud, University of including underrepresented voices; varieties of subject matters; North Georgia, at [email protected]. varieties of media in literature and composition; varieties of pedagogies for teaching literature and composition; or any other Film Studies Association topic addressing some element of variety. By May 1, 2013, please This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please submit abstracts, including a list of any technology needs, to Lee contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production Brewer Jones, Georgia Perimeter College, at [email protected]. Manager, at [email protected]. Grupo de estudios sobre la mujer en España y las Flannery O’Connor Society Américas/ Group for Women’s Studies in Spain and All Things Contextual and Cultural Must Converge: the Americas (GEMELA) Flannery O’Connor through Interrelated Factors and Papers are welcome on any topic of early modern or Cultural Depictions medieval women in Iberia or the colonial Americas; Incorporating the special focus of the SAMLA 85 comparative and interdisciplinary proposals are Conference, the Flannery O’Connor Society would like to encouraged. By May 1, 2013, please send abstracts of invite 15-20 minute presentations that reflect scholarship no more than 250 words to Mónica Díaz, Georgia State dealing with a wide range of categories within depictions University, at [email protected]. of culture and/or interrelated contextual connections in the body of work of Flannery O’Connor. Papers may choose to examine a variety of topics including belief systems, The H.D. International Society social habits, and religious groups. Topics considered may This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please include particular values or attitudes held by a given group contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production based upon any number of qualifiers, such as age, race, sex, Manager, at [email protected]. 25 The Hemingway Society serves to make meaning in courtly literature in order to Hemingway’s Economics explore SAMLA 85’s broader theme. Possible approaches From the time he was a child, Hemingway was schooled may include investigating the effects of text(s) on culture(s), in the importance of keeping scrupulous balance sheets, the influences of broadening cultural awareness on texts, or a habit that followed him through his life. Counting costs the inclusion of images within courtly literature. Presenters is arguably one of the most salient motifs in both his will be limited to 15-20 minute presentations. By April 30, life and fiction. This panel will consider Hemingway’s 2013, please send proposals of 250-300 words (including the economics, and the terms “economics” and “economies” title as it will appear in the conference program), a brief bio, will be construed broadly. Papers concerning any aspect of and the panelist’s contact information (name, position, and the economics of Hemingway’s work and life are welcome. institutional affiliation) to Michelle Golden, Georgia State These might include, for example, these topics: debts of University, at [email protected]. all kinds in Hemingway’s life and work, whether national, moral, patriotic, familial, sexual, monetary, authorial, or International Society for Travel Writing those pertaining to love and human relationships; the Southern Travel Writing Among Print, Digital, and marketplace for Hemingway’s fiction and his participation Networked Worlds in those economies; behavioral economics; economies of The International Society for Travel Writing panel will family, politics, culture, literary influence, etc.. By May 1, reflect the larger conference theme, as those “worlds” 2013, please send 250-word abstracts to Bryan Giemza, manifest themselves in or encompass travel writing about Randolph-Macon College, at [email protected]. the Southern United States or the global South. Papers may draw from a variety of approaches, although preference will Institute of the Americas, South Atlantic Center be given to papers that discuss two or more of the “worlds” (SACIdA) suggested by the conference theme. Preference will be New Directions in Digital Research: Networking through given to papers that address non-fictional travel narratives the SACIdA or that address fictional travel narratives in the context of The South Atlantic Center (SAC) for the Institute of theoretical or critical approaches to travel literature. By the Americas (IdA), created in February 2012, invites June 14, 2013, please submit abstracts of 250-350 words presentations demonstrating the potential use of resources (in Microsoft Word or PDF format) including submitter’s for professional development and research via the IdA. The name, title, institutional affiliation and contact information SACIdA fosters research in the humanities and social sciences to Russ Pottle, International Society for Travel Writing, at with a transnational potential by coordinating scholarship in [email protected]. North and Latin American studies and encouraging global dialogue between European and American universities and James Dickey Society scholars through a constantly expanding network. One can This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please find calls for papers for international colloquia, conferences, contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production seminars, and publications. One can also join databases of Manager, at [email protected]. researchers across France and the Americas. Conferences typically invite abstracts and presentations in English, French, John Dos Passos Society or Spanish. “New Directions in Digital Research: Networking Representations of Gender and Sexuality in John Dos through the SACIdA” intends to be both demonstrative Passos’s Writing and instructive. Reports of initiating research, conducting Like his modernist contemporaries, John Dos Passos research, submitting proposals, and/or successfully engages themes of gender and sexuality. But unlike many

call for papers call for participating in SACIdA or IdA research are invited. Please of his contemporaries, his works may allow for relatively see the IdA website (http://www.institutdesameriques.fr) and progressive readings of gender relations, understandings the SACIdA website (http://www.cas.gsu.edu/sacida). By May and representations of homosexuality, media-centered

85 1, 2013, please submit one-page proposals and CV to Pearl representations of the sexualized body, etc.. Such McHaney, Georgia State University, at [email protected]. progressivism may be due to his inherently activist stance during his writing career. However, merely writing during the first half of the 20th century may dictate a certain amount of problematic representation. Whether his works are read as progressive or problematic, studies that center on gender and sexuality in Dos Passos’s writing may help to complicate the general consensus that important male International Courtly Literature Society modernists’ relations to these subjects were inherently Courtly Literature and the Tangled Web of Text, Image, troubled. We invite applications for 15- to 20-minute papers that explore representations of gender and/or

SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA and Culture This year’s International Courtly Literature Society panel sexuality in any of Dos Passos’s works. Presentations questions how the intersection of text, image, and culture may address, but are not limited to, the following topics: 26 social policy, government legislation, and matters of the of 150-250 words to Emahunn Campbell, University of

law in the modernist and late-modernist period; media, Massachusetts Amherst, at 323 New Africa House, 180 SAMLA representation, and social images of gender/sexuality Infirmary Way, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 or as demonstrated in Dos Passos’s fiction or nonfiction [email protected]. writing; sex, eroticism, otherness; the body as subject or object; sexual or gender identity; feminism and post- feminism: representation and invisibility; changing images of femininity and masculinity; queer readings of specific characters, moments, narratives, novels, etc.. By June 15, 2013, please submit your 250-word abstract, with your Marxist Literary Group name and affiliation, as a Word document to Victoria M. Marxism… “That is the Question” Bryan, The University of Mississippi, atJDPSociety@gmail. Taking a cue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this panel focuses com and [email protected]. on a critical examination of the act or state of calling one’s 85 self a Marxist—that is to say, it asks the question, “What st Joseph Conrad Society does it mean to be a Marxist in the 21 century?” For call for papers Conrad and Technology instance, what are the challenges that arise when reflecting Any papers on Conrad will be considered, with preference on individual access to digital archives in relation to others given to papers that address the topic “Conrad and who may rely only on printed materials? What are the Technology.” Note that technology should be understood advantages or disadvantages of “Marxist” articulations in the broadest sense to include new teaching and across various media such as print, digital, or film, research technologies as well as technologies theoretical concerning their selection of viewpoints for defining one’s and thematic in Conrad studies. By May 17, 2013, please self as “Marxist?” How does “being Marxist” differ across submit abstracts to Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, University of ethnic, gendered, racial, sexual, and religious lines? What Wisconsin River Falls, at elizabeth.schneider-rebozo@ does “being Marxist” look like in conjunction with recent uwrf.edu. critical approaches, such as disability or the posthuman? Moreover, what exactly counts or should also be counted The Langston Hughes Society as a “class,” as “labor,” or as “oppression?” Finally, is it The Cultural History of Langston Hughes: an Omni- possible, advantageous, or detrimental to even speak of a media Investigation set of criteria for “being Marxist?” If so, what are they, and The Langston Hughes Society welcomes papers for a special why? If not, why not, and what does such open-endedness session on “The Cultural History of Langston Hughes: an mean for “Marxist” theory and praxis? By June 15, 2013, Omni-media Investigation.” We are seeking papers that please submit abstracts to Anthony Carlton Cooke, Emory examine Langston Hughes’s writings within the context University, at [email protected]. of the special session topic. Accepted presenters must join The Langston Hughes Society. By June 1, 2013, please MELUS: See Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic email a one-page typed abstract, a biographical profile, and American Literature in the United States (MELUS), contact information to Sharon Lynette Jones, Wright State Session I and Session II University, at [email protected].

The Mark Twain Circle of America Unlawful Texts: Investigating Criminality in Twain’s Literature The Mark Twain Circle invites papers that analyze and Modernist Studies Association investigate narrative tropes and modalities of escape, Archives Across Borders fugitivity, and criminality in works by Mark Twain. These The archive has often been defined as a place, one that central themes often signify both reflections and critiques exists within civic or national borders while serving as a of 19th-century historical and cultural circumstances. repository of communal memories and official histories. At While it is clear, for example, that Jim is a fugitive slave the same time, actual archives contain records of cultural in Huckleberry Finn, he also takes on and performs the and political phenomena that cross borders, including role of prisoner. In Pudd’nhead Wilson, Roxy and her son personal correspondence, circulating manuscripts, and indulge in what seems to be incessant criminal activity, writers’ itineraries, as well as the documents of broadcast concluding with Valet de Chambre’s brief time in prison and media, colonial governance, and propaganda. With the his subsequent sale to the South. Lastly, readers encounter advent of new technologies for recording, storage, and Injun Joe as an escaped prisoner, murderer, and robber. transmission, along with new theoretical approaches, how Exploring criminality, its importance, and its 19th-century might increasingly transnational literary scholarship engage context may offer interesting and provocative readings with the archive? Does the archive need to be unmoored on how the marginal criminal becomes central in Twain’s from conventional understandings of place? Drawing literary imagination. By June 14, 2013, please send abstracts 27 upon the “transnational turn” in modernist studies, that explore issues of how Beckett’s distinctive use of language this roundtable will explore the new opportunities and (in translation or in his first drafts) influenced his work and challenges for transnational archival research in the long the readers’ or viewers’ reception of it. Topics need not be 20th century. Rather than traditional conference papers, we restricted to the above, so long as they are relevant to the seek brief presentations (approx. 8 minutes) that will spark general theme of Beckett and language. By June 1, 2013, please discussion by connecting participants’ research experiences submit proposals of no more than 350 words to Stephen Graf, to methodological questions and practical issues. We Robert Morris University, [email protected]. welcome proposals for presentations addressing topics including, but not limited to, the following: theorizing the archive in transnational perspective, conducting interdisciplinary and/or multi-site research, working with informal, oral, and privately held archives, working with non-print media and obsolescent media, digitizing archival Society for Critical Exchange, Session I collections, undertaking digital humanities projects, Literature and Cognitive Disability navigating issues of access, copyright, and permissions, or Accompanying the popular recent attention to autism and evaluating institutional collecting practices. By May 10, other neurological disorders has been the publication of 2013, please send a 150-word abstract and brief professional numerous novels and nonfiction works by and about persons bio to Emily Bloom, Georgia State University, at ebloom@ with such disabilities. The list includes Oliver Sacks’s scientific gsu.edu and Nathan Suhr-Sytsma, Emory University, at tales, Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel The Curious Incident [email protected]. of the Dog in the Night-Time, Jayne Anne Phillips’s Lark & Termite, Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker, Paul and Judy Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Karasik’s The Ride Together, and others. The emergence of This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please the neurodiversity movement has provided new perspectives contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production and paradigms for scholars in the field. For this panel we Manager, at [email protected]. seek essays on fictional and non-fictional texts by or about persons with autism, traumatic brain injury, amnesia, Robert Penn Warren Circle intellectual impairment, and other neurological differences. Robert Penn Warren and His Circle: A Complicated What do these texts reveal about the nature of memory and Relationship with New Criticism intelligence? How do they represent memory, identity, and While the core issue of “close reading” became a staple of consciousness? What innovative formal devices do their Warren’s critical work, his relationships with both the label authors employ to render the disabled person’s point of view? New Critic and the other writers who bore that label were How do texts narrated from outside the disabled person’s complicated. The Robert Penn Warren Circle invites papers point of view generate empathy or understanding? We are that discuss Warren’s New Critical work, the work of other especially interested in papers on contemporary works, but New Critics, Warren’s responses to or relationships with other will consider essays on earlier texts such as The Sound and the New Critics, or the influence and legacy of the New Critics. Fury if they specifically address cognitive disability, preferably By June 1, 2013, please submit abstracts to Kyle Taylor, West from a Disability Studies standpoint. By May 15, 2013, please Georgia Technical College, at [email protected]. send a 250-word abstract and one-page CV to Mark Osteen, at Loyola University Maryland at [email protected].

Society for Critical Exchange, Session II The Later DeLillo call for papers call for Since 2001, the distinguished American novelist Don DeLillo (b. 1936) has produced a series of compressed short Samuel Beckett Society works. Gone, for the most part, is the broad historical sweep 85 Samuel Beckett and the Word of Libra and Underworld; in its place are brief, elliptical The panel is looking to explore a wide range of topics involving meditations on grief, mortality, trauma, and alienation. the work of Samuel Beckett (poetry, prose and drama) DeLillo’s style has also undergone compression, as he has including, but not restricted to these: Beckett as self-translator, relinquished the antic intellectual playfulness of his earlier Beckett as translator of others’ work, other writers’ translations work in favor of a Beckettian terseness. For this panel, of Beckett’s work, the interjection of untranslated secondary we seek papers on the plays, novels, and novellas DeLillo languages into Beckett’s work, Beckett and the subject or has published since 2000. The essays should work toward subjectivity, the influences of Gaelic on Beckett, the influences a definition of the Later DeLillo. How have his signature of French on Beckett’s work (written originally in English), concerns changed in the past dozen years? Can we discern how Beckett’s manipulation of language affected his distinctive some unity among these later works? Is there a late DeLillo

SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA style, changes in Beckett’s use of language from early to middle style? By May 15, 2013, please send a 250-word abstract and to late periods of his career, or Beckett’s use of language in one-page CV to Mark Osteen, Loyola University Maryland, comparison with other writers of his era. We welcome papers 28 at [email protected].

Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic American SAMLA Society for Early Modern Catholic Studies Literature in the United States (MELUS), Session II This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please Visual Meaning Making: Representation in Minority, contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production Postcolonial, and Immigrant Literatures Manager, at [email protected]. People in ethnic/racial minority groups, those from colonized countries, and immigrants often contend with Society for Textual Scholarship unfair, stereotypical, and/or racist images of their cultures This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please and people. Moreover, these images influence the way contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production that minorities and/or immigrants negotiate questions Manager, at [email protected]. of identity. This panel invites papers on literary texts that explore the ways in which visual images (in film, painting, 85 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, photography, internet sites, etc.) shape, influence, or and Publishing (SHARP) otherwise inform notions of national, cultural, or personal identity. Presentations should run between 15 and 20 Making Meaning in Print Culture call for papers Papers are invited for the Society for the History of minutes and allow time for discussion. By April 30, 2013, Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) affiliate please submit 250-300 word abstracts, a brief biography, session at the 2013 SAMLA Convention. Potential topics contact information, and detailed requests for specific include print culture, history of the book, authorship, audiovisual equipment to April Conley Kilinski, University publishing history, publishers’ archives, circulation, and of North Georgia, at [email protected]. reception. Papers addressing this year’s special focus are especially welcome. Proposers need not be members of SHARP to submit, but panelists must be members of SHARP in order to present. By June 1, 2013, please email a 350-word abstract and short biography (including contact Society for the Study of Southern Literature information) to SHARP liaison Melissa Makala, University Natasha Trethewey: Making Meaning of Memory, History, of South Carolina, at [email protected]. and Racial Identity in the US South and the Nation In a recent interview with literary scholar Daniel Cross Turner, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey states, “I walk through the world thinking always of what has come before, that it’s still present, and I think it’s my job as a poet to tend to that.” In Domestic Work (2000), Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic American Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002), Native Guard (2006), Beyond Katrina Literature in the United States (MELUS), Session I (2010), and Thrall (2012), Trethewey tends to the complicated Intersecting Ideas of Home: The Immigrant Novel in a nexus of memory, history, race, and identity within the Global Perspective South (and within the United States, more broadly). We Immigrant writers often have ambivalent relationships to the seek a variety of papers that, in turn, tend to Trethewey’s country in which they land. For some, it becomes a “real” home, work—papers that offer in-depth explorations of the ways in a place of freedom, security, and safety. For others, the landing which she excavates personal, regional, and national histories place is more like a perch where he/she recovers from previous and re-presents them within poetic and/or narrative forms. injuries in order to leap back to his/her place of origin. In By June 1, 2013, please submit abstracts of approximately particular, one is reminded of Claude McKay’s poem “America,” 300 words to Molly McGehee, Presbyterian College, at which speaks directly to such ambivalence: “Although she feeds [email protected]. me bread of bitterness, / And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, / Stealing my breath of life, I will confess / I love this South Central and Caribbean Society for 18th- cultured hell that tests my youth!” To explore other examples of Century Studies a writer’s reactions to being an immigrant, this session invites For SAMLA 85, the South Central and Caribbean Society papers that explore the diverse concepts of home through for 18th-Century Studies seeks proposals incorporating immigrant/postcolonial literatures. Can we come to conclusions this year’s special focus. By May 31, 2013, send one-page about what home meant in earlier waves of immigration/ abstracts and a brief bio to Murray Brown, Georgia State emigration? Does home mean something new in our global University, [email protected]. consciousness now? Is there a different reaction depending on where the immigrant arrives, be it in the developed world or a developing country? These and other questions can be answered Southeast Conference on Christianity and in this session. By June 1, 2013, please submit abstracts of 250- Literature (SCCL) 300 words to Matthew L. Miller, University of South Carolina This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please Aiken, at [email protected]. contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production 29 Manager, at [email protected]. Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) Truman Capote Society Medieval Cinema Studies of the Works and Life of Truman Capote The Middle Ages has been one of the most popular film Papers on any topic related to the title of this session will subjects since the beginning of narrative cinema. This be considered. By May 30, 2013, please send submissions panel seeks to explore strategies, significance, purposes, of no longer than two or three pages, as well as contact and functions of the representation of this time period in information, to Stuart Noel, Georgia Perimeter College, film. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, at 555 North Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA 30021- the following: relationship to history and historiography; 2361 or by email to [email protected]. choice of subject represented (a historical event or period, a legend, a literary work, a cultural movement, etc.); modes The Walker Percy Society and genres of appropriation and representation; perspective This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please employed (realistic, documentaristic, romanticized, contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production idealized, ironic, parodic, etc.); importance and specificity Manager, at [email protected]. of the film medium in creating an idea of the Middle Ages. By June 15, 2013, please send a brief bio and a 300-word Wallace Stevens Society abstract to Claudia Consolati, University of Pennsylvania, at This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please [email protected]. contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production Manager, at [email protected].

Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) Are We Using EEBO or is EEBO Using Us? TheEarly English Books Online “About” page reads in part, “Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to Regular Sessions fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of graduate Advanced Writing scholars—from their desktop—in many subject areas, including Contemporary American Creative Non-fiction English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, The genre of creative non-fiction—exemplified both by music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.” With engaging, intellectual essays and by narrative with attention Early English Books Online (EEBO), scholars in regions with little to literary style—has received increasing scholarly and or no access to original primary texts from the early modern public attention. Moreover, such writing is taking new period can now engage in serious bibliographical scholarship forms—on the page, as in the past, and on the web as well. without having to make a research trip. This panel seeks to This panel highlights and celebrates creative non-fiction determine whether the increasing availability of online and/or composed for both page and screen. Papers on any aspect digital editions of early modern texts has improved scholarship of writing, writing about, or teaching creative nonfiction on the early modern period. Has EEBO become a crutch upon are welcomed, and papers that connect to this year’s special which travel-weary scholars can rest to engage in bibliographic focus are especially encouraged. By June 1, 2013, please scholarship? Contrarily, has EEBO made for a more level send abstracts of 300 words or so and a brief bio to Diana playing field now that anyone with access to the database can see Eidson, Georgia State University, at [email protected].

call for papers call for versions of texts otherwise hidden away in university research libraries or overseas? To what extent has access to the very African-American Literature expensive EEBO created two separate classes of scholars—those Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of DuBois’s Death 85 with access and those without? By May 1, 2013, please send and the 110th Anniversary of The Souls of Black Folk abstracts of no more than 250 words to Dan Mills, Clayton State 2013 is the 50th anniversary of W.E.B. DuBois’s death and the University, [email protected]. 110th anniversary of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk. To commemorate these anniversaries, the African-American T.S. Eliot Society Literature Session at SAMLA seeks papers exploring DuBois’s T. S. Eliot: Poetry and the Other Arts legacy and influence(s) within the African-American literary The T.S. Eliot Society welcomes proposals for papers that tradition (including, perhaps, papers interrogating that very present new research dealing with the relationship between term through a DuBoisian lens). Topics might include, but Eliot’s work and extraliterary art forms such as the visual are certainly not limited to, engagements with the following arts, music, dance, and cinema. By May 15, 2013, please intentionally broad questions: How have African-American send a 300-word abstract along with a current CV to SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA literary texts written since The Souls of Black Folksqualified, Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, challenged, or otherwise engaged with DuBois’s ideas? What at [email protected]. 30 are the stakes and implications of labeling a text “African- opposed to adding merely to the clutter of stereotypes

American literature” (or not doing so), and how can DuBoisian that now abound? What images function to “define” an SAMLA theory inform these considerations? In keeping with this Appalachian culture for a writer or writers? How have print year’s conference theme, how might DuBois’s ideas speak to images been translated into film, painting/ photography, the challenges and opportunities of studying and teaching children’s book illustrations, or into digital/new media African-American literature in an increasingly digital and representations online? Proposals that consider any networked academe? By May 15, 2013, please send abstracts of approach to boundaries and intersections in Appalachian no more than 500 words, accompanied by a brief professional literature and related film or new media by Appalachian biography, to Sara Taylor Boissonneau, University of North writer(s) are welcome. Proposals that focus on the work Carolina at Greensboro, at [email protected]. of Appalachian authors across media and in new media are especially welcome. These topics may also relate to American Literature I (Pre-1900) environmentalism, ecocriticism, gender, race, class; the The Intersections of Meaning in Pre-1900 American Texts other arts, human relationships, and/or time. By May 15, 85 In keeping with this year’s focus, scholars are invited to 2013, please e-mail abstracts of at least 250 words to Darnell submit proposals for twenty-minute slots in a session on Arnoult at [email protected]. call for papers colonial, federal, or 19th-century literature of the United States. Possible topics may include but are not limited to Children’s Literature Discussion Circle the following: the intersections of print and visual culture Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, in pre-1900 American literature, how access to literary and Storytelling in Children’s Culture networks influenced publication, the power of historical In My Mother Was a Computer, N. Katherine Hayles states or cultural contextualization to shape textual meaning, or that one of the most important elements of scholarly how digital culture has altered pre-1900 American literary analysis is examining entanglement: “a manifestation studies. By June 8, 2013, please send a 250-word abstract of what [Hayles] call[s] ‘intermediation,’ that is, the and CV to Erin Wedehase, University of North Carolina at complex transactions between bodies and texts as well as Greensboro, at [email protected]. between different forms of media” (7).The 2013 SAMLA Children’s Literature Discussion Circle seeks papers for American Literature II this year’s panel addressing any aspect of technology, Violent Ecology: Representations of Violence and the entanglement, or multimodal/transmedia storytelling in Environment in 20th- and 21st- Century American Literature children’s and adolescents’ literature, poetry, media, and This year’s session will explore how moments of human games. We welcome presentations exploring depictions of violence often mark the physical environment around technology or networks, theoretical works on media shifts them in 20th and 21st century literature. From Faulkner’s and new media practices for children’s literature, as well as barn burnings to Frank Stanford’s The Battlefield Where historical or archival work with representations of media the Moon Says I Love You to Edward Abbey’s The Monkey and children/adolescents. Topics might include but are Wrench Gang, moments of violence are often figured not limited to the following: technological determinism as indelible impressions in the landscape around them, or liberation; technology and play; technology and whether as charred land or churned-up roads. In what reader/player agency; technology and utopia/dystopia; ways do depictions of land and/or the environment reveal technology through images—manuals, comics, graphic or contain the human transgressions and actions that have novels, etc.; technology and making meaning in print, occurred in, on, and around them? After the action is over digital, and networked worlds; teenagers, surveillance, and the human presence has moved on, what significances and civil rights; relationships between old and new do we read lingering in the land and the world that technologies; relationships among technology, humanity, witnessed that action? What relationships are revealed and/or the environment/government/turmoil; operational between the human world and the natural world as logics of children’s media or games; convergence, humans move through and, by so moving, alter the world intermediation, entanglement or multimodal texts; the around them? By June 15, 2013, please submit abstracts cyborg or technological enhancement of bodies. By May of 500 words or fewer to James Everett, The University of 1, 2013, please send abstracts of 300-500 words as a Word Mississippi, at [email protected]. document to Lisa Dusenberry, University of Florida, at [email protected]. Appalachian Literature Constructing Culture in Word and Image: Exploring Comparative Literature Panel Boundaries and Intersections Being Diplomatic: Negotiating Across Cultures, This session will explore the translation of Appalachian Texts, and Voices cultures through imagery—in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, The “Being Diplomatic” panel will enable discussion visual narratives and new media. What images from on two broad aspects of work in the literary and related particular works can be recognized and assessed as valid humanities at this time: (a) the relationships between touchstones or embodiments of Appalachian cultures as languages, literary forms, and genres in which creative 31 argument and imaginative representation take place, and This panel invites papers exploring the function of images (b) the question of diplomacy on all levels as an alternative of all kinds in Medieval texts. By May 15, 2013, please to both violence and defensive isolation. Papers are invited send a 300-word proposal to Dan Marshall, Georgia State on topics such as negotiating sensitive areas in international University, at [email protected]. or inter-ethnic literary history; literature and diplomacy in a globalized world; relationships between authors, translators, English II (1500-1600) and readers; textual and similar misunderstandings; Laughing it Off: Spectacles of Pain and Humor in Early representing the humanities at home and abroad; and the Modern Culture and Its Afterlives intellectual and emotional costs of “being diplomatic” in While pain is often understood as resistant to language and a political (individual or group) context. By May 15, 2013, therefore unrepresentable, from public executions to dramas please submit abstracts to Martin Griffin, University of depicting mutilated bodies, early modern culture is full of Tennessee, at [email protected]. spectacles of human suffering. Moreover, as records of the festival nature of executions attest, these instances of suffering Country Lyricists provoke not only sorrow but laughter. This panel will look at Media Consciousness in Country Music visual and literary representations of human suffering that In keeping with the SAMLA 85 special focus, this depict or are designed to provoke laughter. We seek papers year’s Country Lyricists panel will focus on means of that will illuminate these odd connections between suffering communication in country lyrics. Proposals may follow and humor in early modern visual and textual culture and either themes (such as radio as the subject of country representations of the early modern period. Under what songs) or how the works of one or two writers consistently circumstances can pain cause laughter? How does this present forms of communication in their lyrics (such as laughter change our understanding of human suffering? Does letters in lyrics by Bob Wills). Proposals should focus on visual representation serve to heighten or detract from the the works of lyricists and not on performance of the songs. humor of these experiences? From their painfulness? By May As is customary, “country” will carry a broad definition to 1, 2013, please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to include Americana, folk, and singer-songwriters. By May Jennifer Feather, University of North Carolina Greensboro, at 15, 2013, please send proposals to Thomas Alan Holmes, [email protected]. East Tennessee State University, at [email protected]. English III (Restoration and 18th-Century Literature) Critical Thinking in the Rhetoric and Making 18th-Century Sense of History Composition Classroom Many authors during this period wrote imaginative works Designing Writing Spaces for Developing Critical Thinking that imposed significant temporal patterns on events or The 2013 conference special focus reminds us that the relationships. This SAMLA session will be devoted either to writing classroom today—more than ever—is not bound works of this nature or to the 18th-century concepts of time, by the finite space of constructed architectural walls. As the memory, or history itself that inform literature from 1660- ways for making meaning shift in our networked worlds, 1800. Note: the session excludes consideration of satires, we have new opportunities for shaping the spaces within allegories, or parallels that are thinly veiled representations which our students write. From exploring local and online of specific recent events and/or personalities. By April 26, discourse communities to creating meaning through 2013, please submit proposals, abstracts, or draft papers to multimodalities and new media, the potential for increasing Jack Armistead, Tennessee Tech University, at 175 Rock students’ critical thinking through writing in new spaces Glenn Road, Athens, GA 30606. stimulates new directions for pedagogy. We invite you to

call for papers call for submit a proposal focused on writing spaces that offer English IV (Romantic and Victorian) dynamic opportunities for student writing, spaces that so Overexposed in the 19th Century engage students that the critical thinking in their writing SAMLA’s panel on Romantic and Victorian literature

85 is observable. By June 14, 2013, please submit 250-word invites papers on the theme of exposure. The proliferation abstracts to Kathleen Bell, University of Central Florida, at of new and cheaper media as well as other cultural changes [email protected]. allowed individuals and institutions in the 19th century to promote their interests widely and, sometimes, constantly. English I (Medieval) Explorations of the consequences of exposing—and Images, Illuminations, Maps, and Marginalia in Medieval Texts overexposing—personalities, bodies, desires, goods, causes, Medieval texts often include visual matter in addition to etc. are particularly welcome. Paper topics might include the the text—from the crude illustrations in the only extant following: advertising, celebrities, charitable causes, fashion manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to the and books of beauty, newspapers/newspaper sensations, elaborate Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Often politicians and political campaigns, popular songs and illustration was imbedded in the text itself in the form of the street ballads, portraits, The Royal Family, socialites, or SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA decorated initials, and sometimes decoration overwhelmed theater/actors/actresses. By June 10, 2013, please submit the text itself as in the “carpet” pages in the Book of Kells. abstracts for individual papers of no more than 250 words 32 along with a one-page CV to Catherine England, Wofford French I (Medieval and Renaissance)

College, at [email protected]. On the Margins: Literary Gestures of Suppression SAMLA and Negation English V (Modern British) The literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance presents This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please figures (and entire communities) that speak to us, whether contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production explicitly or implicitly, from the margins. The marginality of Manager, at [email protected]. those whom history has attempted to rewrite (and to write out) nonetheless interjects its own undeniable influence English in the Two-Year College, Session I on the dominant culture. Literary works manifest this Cultural Imagery: Conflict, Growth, and Resolution presence and the anxiety it inevitably produces in a variety Chair: Rick Bombard, Georgia Highlands College of forms and contexts. Topics addressed in this panel This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time. may include the following: the body and embodiment/ marginalization as “virtual” or “ghostly”/incarnation; 85 English in the Two-Year College, Session II rhetoric of inauthenticity/impurity/blindness; identities Chair: Reginald Abbott, Georgia Perimeter College, Emory. threatened by and dependent on the existence of the call for papers [email protected] other; forced conversion; temporality/conceptualization Call for papers detail will be forthcoming on the SAMLA website. of history by the Early Christian Church (e.g. Augustine); role of allegory; dehumanization/ ineffability of the English in the Two-Year College, Session III human; literary manifestations of religious tension; and/ Chair: Lauri Goodling, Georgia Perimeter College, Lauri. or hermeneutic concerns of the modern reader. By May 31, [email protected] 2013, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words Call for papers detail will be forthcoming on the SAMLA website. to Ann McCullough, Middle Tennessee State University, at [email protected]. Film Science Fiction Film French II (17th and 18th Centuries) The panel organizers welcome paper proposals related Chair: April Stevens, Vanderbilt University, to any aspect of science fiction in the cinema. In keeping [email protected]. with the special focus of the SAMLA 85 convention, Call for papers detail will be forthcoming on the SAMLA website. preference will be given to proposals that address the effects of digital technologies on cinematic form or content. By French III (19th and 20th Centuries) May 25, 2013, please send proposals of approximately 300 “L’Adaptation de la literature an cinéma” words with bibliography and presenter’s name, academic Dans le contexte francophone, peut-être beaucoup plus que affiliation, and contact information (including e-mail partout ailleurs, le cinéma a largement puisé aux sources and mailing addresses) to Steve Spence, Clayton State littéraires, et les adaptations, plus ou moins fidèles, sont le fait de University, at [email protected]. presqu’un film sur deux. Comment expliquer un tel engouement du septième art pour le littéraire? En fait, la question n’est pas Folklore simple et elle en implique bien d’autres auxquelles nous allons From Our Mouths to God’s Ear: Sharing Folklore in a tenter de répondre. Cette session s’intéresse aux communications Modern World (en anglais ou en français), qui analysent les rapports As we attempt to create and uphold community in a world particuliers qui s’établissent entre les différents genres littéraires becoming more and more digitalized, the methods of et le cinéma, que ce soit sur le plan sociologique, historique, transmitting folkloric traditions are changing. This session culturel ou esthétique. Avant le 15 mai 2013, les propositions will explore the ways meaningful traditions are shared de communication peuvent être envoyées à Martine Boumtje, in an ever-changing world. Topical presentations could Southern Arkansas University, à [email protected]. range from the ways in which traditional word-of-mouth teaching/spreading of messages evolved into the viral Gay and Lesbian Studies nature of Web 2.0 media and the ways in which users learn This session is open topic, open genre, open period, but by both hearing and sight through Internet media, to the must examine works by or about gay or lesbian authors, proliferation of folkloric themes in comic books, gaming characters, etc.. Preference given to abstracts relating to websites, and other media and genres. Presenters from the SAMLA 85 special focus. This session will cover two disciplines including Anthropology, Women’s Studies, panels, each with four presenters delivering papers that do Sustainable Development, and others are encouraged not exceed twenty minutes. By May 3, 2013, please submit to participate. By May 31, 2013, please submit abstracts abstracts of no more than 400 words to Steven J. Zani, to Donna T. Corriher, Appalachian State University, at Lamar University, at [email protected]. [email protected].

33 German I their pedagogy. The session will operate as a space for early This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please teachers of college composition to share their applications contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production and theory to invite conversation about how we use visuals Manager, at [email protected]. (and why) in our teaching. Papers are not strictly limited to pedagogical application and theory, however. This panel also German II (1700 to 1933) invites graduate students to present their work with visual Culture, Image, Text rhetoric, ranging from thesis/dissertation projects, potential This panel will explore the conference theme in the singular publications, to compelling coursework that centers on and seeks papers that examine the relationship between the visual rhetoric(s). As with the pedagogy option, presenters visual and textual representation of any culture, broadly are encouraged to share their practical and theoretical work conceived. How is a culture constructed through images for the purpose of creating a learning environment and to and texts? What technologies are relied upon to produce progress the conversation on how graduate students utilize this culture? Does the culture exist in, or is it produced visual rhetoric/studies in the humanities. Incorporating through, a network? In what ways is this culture preserved visuals into presentations is strongly encouraged. By May (artifact, painting, collection, archive, etc.) and transmitted 31, 2013, please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to other cultures? Projects from any point in the time as well as A/V requirements to Matt Donald, Georgia State period covered by this panel are encouraged. By May 31, University, at [email protected]. 2013, please send an abstract of 300 words to Richard Apgar, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, at Graduate Students’ Forum in English, Session II [email protected]. The Romance between Visual Culture and the Printed Word Film carries the power to circulate images that manipulate German III (1933 to Present) national audiences, as our senses and emotions are All the World’s a Text: Intertextuality and the German provoked. Hence, film is a powerful vehicle for ideology. Theater after 1933 However, cinematic techniques create spaces that escape This panel invites papers that address issues of the censorship of dominant ideology. Thus, understanding intertextuality in German-language theater and how how to interpret that which is hidden between frames intertextuality enriches or complicates the understanding reveals hegemonic struggles taking place. Mary Ann of German drama and/or dramaturgy after 1933. Proposal Doane’s cinematic emergence of time discussion best submission might consider any aspect of the SAMLA 85 explains how such spatial arrangements in cinema can special focus. Possible topics include, but are not limited be provocative: “Time, death, and invisibility are welded to the following: the significance of intertextual references together at the edge of the frame and between shots, in the in the dramas of 20th-century playwrights such as Brecht, unseen space that makes it possible for the cinema to say Bernhard, Dürrenmatt, and Jelinek; performativity and anything at all.” In other words, meaning may be deducted intertextuality; intertextuality and theories of acting and the from spaces where action is not visible, as movement actor; intertextual relationships between the 20th Century occurs within these spaces. Due to the cinema’s popularity, and the Goethezeit; intertextuality in the 21st-century novels have adapted film-editing techniques. Finding theater; cross-cultural intertextuality; intertextuality meaning in these narrative gaps of the novel as well as and gender; drama and intertextuality in the Digital examining the historical and theoretical exchange in the Age; reconsidering intertextual paradigms (Kristeva and gaps between the film adaptations of novels and the novels, Genette) in the context of the German theater. By June 22, panelists may bring new understanding to how authors, 2013, please send a one-page abstract, a CV, and audio- film producers, and/or actors have embedded resistance to

call for papers call for visual requirements to Matt Feminella, University of North cultural ideology. Papers may consider the following: How Carolina at Chapel Hill, at [email protected]. does understanding the relationship between cinematic techniques and narrative techniques within the novel or

85 Graduate Students Forum in English, Session I graphic novel influence how we experience literature? What Incorporating Visual Rhetoric in First-Year Composition new meanings can be found when novels are read through Courses and in Our Graduate Work the lens of film theory? Is the ideological relationship The sentiment that we are becoming more of a visually-based between film and literature reciprocal? How do film culture is something we hear (and say) quite frequently. adaptations speak to the novel, and how do graphic novel While some may argue that we have always relied on adaptations speak to both the film and the novel? By April visuality as a primary way of knowing, from billboards to 30, 2013, please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words various multi- and digital media, our contemporary fields as Word or PDF attachments to Ren Denton, The University of vision are almost constantly met with images vying of Memphis, at [email protected]. for our attention, images that invite critical thought and interpretation. This session invites graduate students who Graduate Students’ Forum in English, Session III SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA teach first-year writing courses to share the ways in which Bodies of Texts/Texts as Bodies they implement visual rhetorical theory and practice into This panel will focus on the relationships between texts and 34 bodies. Submissions from all genres and all disciplines are complexities of their characters. This panel seeks papers

welcome. Potential questions to consider include these: In that look beyond the rhetoric to the nuances of imprisoned SAMLA what ways do certain works of literature focus on bodies women in fiction and non-fiction such as “The Yellow and embodiment? In what ways are texts bodies themselves? Wallpaper” and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, to What are the relationships between the treatment of bodies Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and prisoners’ memoirs. in a work and the text as a body? How do we address a Women’s prison literature is the focus of the panel, and text as a specific body of work if it has been destabilized papers by women prisoners and their teachers will be (different versions released, new chapters discovered after welcomed enthusiastically, but papers on male prisoners the author’s death, etc.)? Other papers relating to the are also invited. Consider the following topics: women themes of text and body are also welcome. By June 15, 2013, making meaning in confined spaces, prisons as mental please submit abstracts to Victoria Dickman-Burnett, Ohio institutions, Angela Davis’s notion of the “hyperinvisibility University, at [email protected]. of women prisoners,” Kathryn Watterson’s image of the “concrete womb,” Judith Scheffler’s notion of “the female 85 Graduate Students’ Forum in French dispossessed,” and others. By May 17, 2013, please submit This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please a proposal of 500 words, a CV, and a 350-word bio to call for papers contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production Courtney Polidori, The College of New Jersey, atCourtney. Manager, at [email protected]. [email protected].

Graduate Students’ Poets’ Circle Holocaust in Literature and Film This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please Chair: Bärbel Such, The Ohio State University,[email protected] contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production Call for papers detail will be forthcoming on the SAMLA website. Manager, at [email protected]. Humanities Discussion Circle Graduate Studies in Italian Discussion Circle Humanities in Context Italian Studies 2.0: New Challenges and Opportunities In keeping with the SAMLA 85 special focus, the for Digital-Savvy Graduate Students and Scholars Humanities Circle invites proposals for viewing the This session will explore the latest scholarly and humanities through a broad range of contexts including instructional practices that take place in digital and historical, textual, aural, and visual. This session focuses networked environments. We will discuss the positive and on uses of media to explore contexts of literature, art, etc.. negative outcomes of digital scholarship, compare new By June 1, 2013, please send proposals to Susan Copeland, models of course development, and gauge the impact of Clayton State University, at [email protected]. horizontal, “liquid” interaction (e.g. wikis, social networks, online gaming) on higher education. Possible topics include Irish Studies these: the question of authority and recognition of digital Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place work; digital vs. “traditional” sources in scholarly practice; In keeping with the special focus of SAMLA 85, we interpretations or definitions of “digital humanities”; welcome papers that focus on the ways Irish identity, space, playful learning and edutainment; and ways of integrating and memory are shaped through conventionally understood film, music, and visual arts in both teaching and research. literary genres (poetry, fiction, drama, memoir) as well as By May 15, 2013, please send a 250-400 word abstract to work from related fields, including but not limited to art, Lorenzo Salvagni, University of North Carolina at Chapel critical theory, folklore, and film studies. This panel seeks Hill, at [email protected]. to address recent trends in scholarship and the ways Irish identity (systemic or individual) and space are constructed Graduate Studies in Spanish Discussion Circle and defined. By June 1, 2013, please send abstracts of The Graduate Studies in Spanish Discussion Circle seeks no more than 300 words to Sarah Dyne, Georgia State papers on the SAMLA 85 special focus. Texts may include University, at [email protected]. traditional literary productions, travelogues, songs, or historical accounts. All time periods in Spanish, Latin Italian I (Medieval and Renaissance) American, and Latino/a literatures will be considered. By Text, Image, and Context in Italian Middle Ages June 15, 2013, please send a 300-word abstract to Rafael and Renaissance Ocasio, Agnes Scott College, at [email protected]. This session will explore the relation between text and image through varied analyses and methodologies of Italian History and Theory of Rhetoric literature in art and culture. Papers related to medieval Rhetoric of the Wisewoman and the Madwoman: and Renaissance Italian literature and culture, though Perspectives of Confined Women Throughout History with another focus, will be also considered. By May 1, From wisewomen, witches and warriors, to madwomen 2013, please send abstracts to Silvia Giavanardi Byer, Park and monsters, confined females have been represented University, at [email protected]. through a variety of rhetorical strategies that mask the 35 Italian II (1600 to Present) Fantasies in Medieval Literature Italian Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts The session is receptive to any scholarship on medieval This session welcomes submissions on Italian literature encounters; these can be literal, spiritual, dream-like, and culture (1600 to the present) related to the SAMLA cultural, or fantastical; or they can be encounters between 85 special focus. Topics include but are not limited to the texts and images or texts and music. The emphasis will relationships between print and digital publications of be on making meaning through encounters either within Italian literature, the use of Italian art or film in pedagogy, literature(s) or between literature and audiences. By May analysis of Italian books in film, and using images in the 15, 2013, please send abstracts to Gale Sigal, Wake Forest interpretation of texts. This session will cover two panels University, at [email protected]. of four presenters each. Papers from all disciplines dealing with Italian works and culture are welcome. By June 20, Modern Drama 2013, please submit brief abstracts of 200-500 words to Making Meaning in Modern Drama Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke University, at [email protected]. Papers that examine the construction or disruption of meaning in modern and contemporary drama are Linguistics encouraged; however, essays that elucidate critical This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please understanding of these plays are also welcome. By May contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production 31, 2013, please send abstracts of no more than 500 Manager, at [email protected]. words to Taylor Roosevelt, American University, at [email protected]. Literary Criticism Discussion Circle This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please The Music of Poetry/ The Poetry of Music contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production Highlighted Session Manager, at [email protected]. “The Music of Poetry/The Poetry of Music,” now in its seventh year, is a regular session focusing on the links Literature of Africa and the Diaspora between music and literature, especially poetry. This Queered Africa session’s focus is entertainment; though it has a serious Sylvia Tamale’s recent anthology African Sexualities: A purpose, it is not primarily a scholarly or academic session. Reader encompasses various critical and creative attitudes We look for performers: singer-songwriters, people who towards and questions regarding non-normative sexualities set poems to music, people who explore the connection throughout Africa. Using Tamale’s work as a heuristic, between music and literature somehow in performance. this panel will focus on “queer” sexualities within Africa Though some of our featured performers come from and throughout the diaspora. Papers can focus on the outside SAMLA, we are always very happy to hear from development of navigating sexualities throughout the and consider SAMLA members who fit into our session’s diaspora; the emergence of African LGBTI communities purpose and focus. By May 1, 2013, please submit a brief and their representation within literature, film, as well as description of how you engage/explore the music/poetry other art forms; sexualities and nation states; the usage connection in performance (and if possible, a link to of queer theory within an African context; and other available recordings via YouTube, etc.) to Jim Clark, Barton questions of sexualities and the diaspora. This panel is open College, at [email protected]. to various art forms and their expressions of sexualities. By June 15, 2013, please send abstracts of 200-300 words, a Native American Literature brief bio, and contact email to Matthew Durkin, Duquesne “Inhabited By Other Words”: Exploring Native American

call for papers call for University, at [email protected]. Studies in the Digital World Poet and author Karenne Wood wrote, “My mouth would Luso-Brazilian Studies like to be inhabited by other words” when explaining

85 Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies the need for culturally specific language to accurately The Luso-Afro-Brazilian session at SAMLA 85 is seeking communicate certain memories, ideas, and stories. In many papers for presentation at the annual conference. Topics ways, the digital world has allowed people to stop the loss are open, but papers that reflect the SAMLA 85 special of language and to collect, alter, question, proliferate, and focus as it applies to the Lusophone world will be given perhaps to heal memories and stories. In what ways do special consideration. Multiple sessions are possible and digital and networked worlds provide ways to explore these will be determined by the number of submissions. By June “other words” or images, to heal or create stories, or to form 1, 2013, please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words or shift identities? This session invites submissions of paper to António M.A. Igrejas, United States Military Academy at proposals regarding ways that Native American writers, West Point, at [email protected]. artists, or communities have used digital and networked worlds (or explored these worlds in texts) to create, SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA Medieval Literature connect, remember, or reimagine “other words.” These are Other Worlds: Encounters, Clashes, Dreams, Games, and suggestions only, and we also welcome proposals on other 36 issues and topics in Native American literature. By June 21, open a debate about the myriad ways in which travelers

2013, please submit a 350-word abstract with the requisite and migrants, both voluntary and forced, experience and SAMLA information (name, title, affiliation, contact information, document their new surroundings. Moving spatially across paper title) to Rebecca Stephens, Milligan College, at cultural and geographic fault lines is a process which can [email protected]. be as traumatic as it can initiate human growth and a re- evaluation of one’s surroundings. How does the new arrival Old English Literature make sense of the unfamiliar spatial, social, and socio- Before Print, After Internet: Cultures, Contexts, Images, economic environment? How does she re-orient herself? Texts, and Anglo-Saxon Art and Manuscripts How do her past experiences enable or hinder her to come Though situated at the “edge of the world,” the art, especially to terms with this unknown geography? Because ultimately, the manuscripts, produced by the Anglo-Saxons reflect not the newcomer’s perception is never innocent. “You’ll walk only their own cultural expressions but also the influences the same streets,” the poet Cavafy wrote, “grow old in the of Irish, Scandinavian, and Mediterranean cultures. Now same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.” The 85 through digitization, especially of manuscripts, they can exert traveler, the migrant, and the refugee always do carry their a new influence upon our own arts and cultural expressions. old home, and along with it their own socialization, with call for papers Proposals for papers on Anglo-Saxon works that address them, and it colors the ways in which they perceive the new the interplay of text and/or image in the dynamic contexts home. This panel invites papers on texts of all genres that of culture (theirs or ours) or any other Old English topics engage with the topic of migration, diaspora, displacement, are welcome. By May 31, 2013, please submit abstracts of and dislocation. As this panel is interested in world 300 words to Rhonda L. McDaniel, Middle Tennessee State literature, we invite analyses of texts written in any language University, at [email protected]. and in any geographical context. Presentations should run between 10-15 minutes, allowing time for discussion. If any Popular Culture, Session I audiovisual equipment is necessary, please include a list of This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please the equipment with your proposal. By June 1, 2013, please contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production send abstracts of approximately 250 words to Balthazar Manager, at [email protected]. Becker, City University of New York, at bastian.balthazar. [email protected]. Popular Culture, Session II Chair: Joan McRae, Middle Tennessee State University, SAMLA Creative Non-Fiction Writers, Sessions I and II [email protected] Creative Non-Fiction Call for papers detail will be forthcoming on the SAMLA website. The SAMLA 85 special focus speaks deeply to the mission of creative non-fiction. The creative non-fiction panel Postcolonial Literature, Session I is seeking submissions that are rich in imagery and that Images of Subversion in Postcolonial Texts invite the reader into the home of story through windows Despite national identity, many formerly colonized people opened by the human experience—the windows that allow experience what Jean Paul Sartre terms a “Nervous Condition,” us to travel through and between genres, print, and various as the interactions between the colonizer and the colonized media that “make meaning” in creative non-fiction. Possible fundamentally alter the formation of identity in these nations. submissions could address culture, context, images, texts, In addition, politics of color, class, and/or gender also come and networked worlds. This panel welcomes narratives, lyric into play as strategies used to construct or rather deconstruct essays, travel writing, genre-breaking, hybrid, or multi- ethnic identities. As a result of competing ideologies, colonized media papers. By June 1, 2013, please email submissions people are often left with a sense of isolation. How do of no more than 1,500 words in MLA format as a .DOC or Postcolonial texts use subversive images to define their spaces? .RTF attachment to Megan Oteri, East Carolina University, How do the concepts of “otherness” and “hybridity” factor at [email protected]. into the characteristics of the Postcolonial subversion? How and in what ways do Postcolonial characters define their place SAMLA Fiction Writers in the world? Papers reporting on these or other aspects of This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please Postcolonial subversion are invited for inclusion on this panel. contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production By June 19, 2013, please send abstracts of 250-500 words to Manager, at [email protected]. Tangela Serls and Rondrea Mathis, University of South Florida, at [email protected] and [email protected]. SAMLA Poets New Work Postcolonial Literature, Session II The SAMLA Poets panel welcomes creative work. In Strangers in Strange Lands: Travelers, Refugees, and keeping with the SAMLA 85 special focus, poets are invited Castaways to examine the ways that image and text influence, energize, Focusing on the 20th and early 21st century, this panel engage, or repel each other. Multimodal and digital poets would like to offer a variety of critical analyses in order to (as well as traditional print poets) are especially encouraged 37 to submit work. Poets should send a brief publication with the country, its culture, and its literature dates from and professional CV as well as a writing sample for the beginning of the 20th century and continues beyond consideration as a participant on the SAMLA Poets panel. the years of war and revolution. This panel explores the The writing sample should include no more than 10 pages/ background to the explosion of interest in Russian literature seven poems or the digital “equivalent.” (Those submitting in both the United States and Great Britain through early ekphrastic poems are also kindly asked to provide links to 20th-century translations from the Russian. The boom images referenced in their work.) The panel will consist in translation of literary texts was a primary conduit for chiefly of poets reading or presenting original, new work efforts to alter public opinion and national policy in both with time for a brief question and answer period. By May countries. It also served to reduce the isolation of Russia 31, 2012, please send submissions with “SAMLA Poets” in from the West. Suggested topics may include the following: the subject line to JC Reilly, Georgia Institute of Technology, the work of individual translators; the English-language at [email protected]. translations of particular authors; publishing houses, “small magazines,” or editors that welcomed or encouraged Scandinavian Literature translations from the Russian; and cultural or political Occult Scandinavia contexts or movements that spurred public interest. By May This panel welcomes proposals for papers dealing with 31, 2013, please send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute the occult in relation to Scandinavian literature, visual art, papers (indicating any A/V requirements) and a brief bio and/or music from the 18th century to present-day. As per to Marilyn Schwinn Smith, Five College Consortium, at the larger theme of this year’s conference, papers with an [email protected]. interdisciplinary focus are welcomed. In addition, scholars with an interest in occult-themed heavy metal—particularly Southerners in Contemporary Film Scandinavian black metal—are encouraged to submit Images of Violence proposals. By June 15, 2013, please send abstracts of no This panel invites papers that examine depictions of the longer than 300 words (along with audiovisual or other U. S. South and Southerners in contemporary film. We are ritual equipment requirements) to Julian Knox, University especially interested in essays that address the SAMLA 85 of South Alabama, at [email protected]. special focus in terms of the ways films portray violence in (and of) the U. S. South. By June 1, 2013, please submit Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Discussion Circle 250-500 word abstracts to Amy K. King, The University of Dr. Who: Traversing Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts Mississippi, at [email protected]. It seems more than a happy coincidence that Dr. Who’s 50th anniversary falls on the same year that SAMLA’s focus is Spanish Contemporary Writers on “Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning Highlighted Session in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds.” Dr. Who has Spanish Writers in the United States not only spanned fifty years of television history, but has Chair: Enrique Ruiz-Fornells Silverde, Professor Emeritus, crossed platforms (television, print, digital, gaming) and The University of Alabama genres (science-fiction and fantasy). Papers are welcome This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time. on any topic that focuses on specific episodes, or themes such as technology versus humanity, identity, making Spanish I (Peninsular: Medieval to 1700) memory, intertextuality, Dr. Who and cultural memory, and Texts that Speak through Images the matrix of meaning in cross platforms of Dr. Who. By In keeping with the special focus of the conference, June 1, 2013, please send abstracts to Karra Shimabukuro, this session will focus on texts that are rich in images;

call for papers call for Independent Scholar, at [email protected]. both visual and linguistic. The panel will mainly discuss the value of textual images and their relationships to Slavic Literature, Session I certain aspects such as the socio-historical frameworks

85 Papers are welcome on any Slavic language, literature, or in which the texts were written. The interaction between culture, including film and comparative literature topics. By verbal and non-verbal language will have a prominent June 15, 2013, please send submissions to Karen Rosneck, role in the discussion. The panel will address research University of Wisconsin-Madison, at krosneck@library. questions such as how the image’s message is different wisc.edu. from the verbal message in the text. The session will also explore the perception of those texts and images by their Slavic Literature, Session II contemporaries and by later readership. Additionally, ways “The Russian Boom Was On”: The Inter-Cultural Work of in which today’s digital media has impacted texts written Translation from medieval times through the 1700s will be examined. Constance Garnett’s 1912 translation of Dostoevsky While we invite proposals related to the special focus, we is credited with sparking the “Russian Fever” in Great also welcome papers addressing other topics in the field of SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA Britain, while Russia’s entry into the Great War as an ally Peninsular: Medieval to 1700. Proposals for papers related set off the “Russian Boom.” Yet, an increasing fascination to texts and images are invited. Presentations may be in 38 English or Spanish, and reading time will be limited to century is marked by the existence of both literary and artistic

twenty minutes. By April 30, 2013, please send abstracts productions, as well as press and cultural discourses that are SAMLA between 250-300 words along with your name, short bio fundamental for the transmission and reification of ideas about (120-150 words), affiliation, email and mailing address nation, citizenship, and modernity. This panel aims to bring to Mónica Mulholland, George Mason University, at together scholars from different academic fields in order to [email protected]. discuss discourses from various disciplines (literature, visual arts, architecture, etc.), which, despite having been traditionally Spanish II – A and B (Peninsular 1700 to Present) considered as foundational and canonical by the intellectual Abstracts for sessions II-A and B will reflect any theme community, can be read from alternative perspectives that related to Peninsular Literature from 1700 to the present. offer accounts of other forms of signification. Understanding A wide range of topics from different periods are welcome. the critical reading of foundational discourses as a process This session will cover two panels with four participants per of re-signification, this panel aspires to discuss the spaces panel. Papers should not exceed twenty minutes. Readers of transgression and subversion that can be encountered 85 should limit their texts to 3,100 words. Potential presenters in cultural products and forms of rhetoric traditionally are urged to get one-page abstracts in as early as possible. read as foundational and disciplining. The panel welcomes call for papers By April 30, 2013, please send abstracts to Nancy A. Norris, presentations in English and Spanish, focused on diverse Western Carolina University, at [email protected] and geographical and cultural contexts and sources. Novels, [email protected]. periodicals, poetry, urban spaces, visual arts, and cultural artifacts from the period may constitute the corpus of works Spanish II – C (Peninsular 1700 to Present) read against the grain. By May 30, 2013, please send abstracts Abstracts for session II-C should focus on the SAMLA 85 of 250 words to Luz Ainai Morales Pino, University of Miami, special focus. Papers should not exceed twenty minutes. at [email protected]. Readers should limit their texts to 3,100 words. Potential presenters are urged to get one-page abstracts in as early as Spanish IV (Contemporary Spanish American possible. By April 30, 2013, please send abstracts to Nancy Literature and Popular Culture) A. Norris, Western Carolina University, at nanorris1@juno. Memory, Exile, and Migration in Mexican Literature and Film com and [email protected]. Contemporary Spanish American Literature and Popular Culture will be dedicated to various topics such as memory, Spanish III – A (Colonial Spanish American exile, chronicles, travelogues, migration, rituals, and rites Literature) of passage in Mexican literature and film. Similar themes (De)Legitimizing Metaphors in Latin American Colonial in Mexican culture will also be considered. Papers should Discourses: Re-Thinking Tropes as Political Power be written in either Spanish or English. Presentations In Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson are limited to no more than twenty minutes (eight pages argue that the “concepts that govern our thought are not double-spaced). By May 23, 2013, please send a 250-word just matters of the intellect. They also govern our everyday abstract to Romano Sánchez-Domínguez, Imperial Valley functioning, down to the most mundane details. Our concepts College, at [email protected]. structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world, and how we relate to other people.” Based on the understanding of Teaching Languages and Literature thinking as a process grounded on tropes that constitute webs of Teaching Social Norms through Dystopian Narratives significations, this panel aims to analyze Latin American colonial How is a society or a community defined? Is it simply in discourses on the basis of their appropriation, subversion, the gathering of two or more individuals working toward and/or re-signification of hegemonic metaphoric fields such mutual recognition, or does it require material tools and as barbarism, paradise, the marvelous, infancy, masculinity, edifices that sustain a network of laws and interrelations? redemption, the monstrous, idolatry, etc.. The panel seeks to These will be some of the overarching issues of the SAMLA explore salient signifiers, tropes, and metaphors underpinning 85 Teaching Languages and Literature panel. It will focus on the struggle for symbolic power in the Latin American colonial the way that dystopian or post-apocalyptic narratives help period where writing was privileged as a mark of cultural us understand the nature of our own society by showing superiority and as a venue for legitimation. This panel admits the success or failure of society when those undergirding proposals in English and Spanish. By May 30, 2013, please institutions and edifices are either transformed or rendered submit abstracts of 250 words to Luz Ainai Morales Pino, impotent. Possible texts for discussion include, but are not University of Miami, at [email protected]. limited to: Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale, Brin’s The Postman, Brooks’s World War Z, and others. Questions to pursue Spanish III – B (19th – Century Spanish American may include these: What are the new norms that guide Literature) the new normal in these different worlds, and what does Re-Reading the 19th Century: Locating the Counter- that say about the social norms we take for granted? Do Hegemonic within Foundational Discourses human relations become more or less agonistic when social As a foundational period for emerging nations, the 19th order is heightened or lessened? How can a classroom of 39 students model some of the communities portrayed in these Women’s Caucus Professional Forum texts? What is the social order of the classroom and how The Challenges and Pleasures of Literature and Feminism does that reflect or resist larger social orders? What social in the Digital Age experiments can be used in the classroom to demonstrate Chair: Monica Young-Zook, Macon State College the way our interactions change when the “rules” change? This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time. Discussions of literary works can be complemented by various theoretical texts about the interrelationship between Women’s Caucus Workshop culture/society and law/order. By June 15, 2013, please Themes pertaining to contemporary Latin American, submit abstracts of 500 words or fewer, including A/V or Spanish, and Latina women writers, particularly related to other material needs, to Kevin Kyzer, University of South the SAMLA 85 Conference’s special focus, are welcomed. By Carolina, at [email protected]. June 1 2013, please send one-page abstracts and brief bios to Débora Maldonado-DeOliveira, Meredith College, at Textual and Bibliographic Studies [email protected]. Bibliography and Textual Criticism Panel The Textual and Bibliographic Studies panel welcomes Women’s Rhetoric 15-minute papers related to textual studies, bibliography, Rhetoric and Meaning: Constructing Identity in the history of the book, authorship, rare books, Networked Worlds paratextuality, publishing history, circulation and reader Proposals should focus on the construction of identity of reception, and the study of archives, books, or texts as female voices, characters, or figures. Special attention should material objects. SAMLA 85’s special focus is particularly be paid to the subject’s position in the networked world, relevant to this standing session, so papers addressing the the influence of rhetoric on the subject, or the manner in focus are especially welcome. By June 1, 2013, please email which the writer rhetorically addresses the matter at hand a 300-word abstract and short biography to Jeffrey Makala, (the construction of identity). Writers both historical and University of South Carolina, at [email protected]. contemporary are welcomed. By June 21, 2013, please send a 350-500 word proposal, including a proposed title, to Kacie Visual Rhetoric Hittel, Belmont University, at [email protected]. The Visual Appeal: Persuading with Images in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds Women’s Studies Panel SAMLA’s special focus this year is “Cultures, Contexts, Images, This panel is seeking a chair. If you have an interest, please Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked contact Diana Eidson, SAMLA Editorial and Production Worlds,” and this call for papers invites submissions that explore Manager, at [email protected]. and examine the ways that images are used to make meaning in print and online. In keeping with the rhetorical focus of this World Poetry in Translation session, we are interested in papers that inquire how visual The special focus for SAMLA 85 is “Cultures, Contexts, artifacts make meaning by persuading, especially papers Images, Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital and focused on one or more of Aristotle’s appeals: ethos, logos, and/ Networked Worlds.” Please send English translations of or pathos. Papers may examine how visuals persuade in print, poetry from any culture or language that will fit within the digital, and networked worlds through moving images such as framework of this special focus. Presentations that relate videos and movies, artwork, static online or printed images, and poetry to electronic publishing, the visual arts, and social video games. The Visual Rhetoric session invites submissions media will receive special consideration. The panel theme that engage with the focus of this year’s conference as well as will be crafted from the submissions received. The number

call for papers call for engaging with other issues and topics that represent the field of of presenters will determine the length of the presentations; visual rhetoric. By May 24, 2013, please send abstracts of 500 however, they are usually 15-20 minutes. By May 15, words or fewer, contact information, audio/visual needs, and 2013, please send proposals and representative selections

85 any other special needs to Shawn Apostel, Bellarmine University, to Gordon E. McNeer, University of North Georgia, at [email protected]. [email protected].

Women Writers of Spain and Latin America, Sessions I and II Special Sessions This session is open topic, genre, and period, and submissions must examine works by female Hispanic Best Practices: Designing the Capstone Course for authors. Preference is given to abstracts relating to the Undergraduate English Majors SAMLA 85 special focus. This panel will be limited to In 1992, the Association of American Colleges and three or four persons, each reading or presenting for no Universities called for the establishment of capstone courses more than twenty minutes. By May 6, 2013, please submit whose principal purpose was the generation of projects that SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA abstracts of 300-400 words to Yosálida C. Rivero-Zaritzky, provide majors with an opportunity to apply what they have Mercer University, at [email protected]. learned during their undergraduate course of study. Since 40 that time, many campuses across the country have answered American nations that were entering the world market th

the AACU call and have begun requiring the completion of economy at the turn of the 20 century. The goal of the SAMLA senior projects that not only enhance student research skills panel is to foster dialogue among scholars engaged in the but also serve to assess program effectiveness. This special study of the movement from a wide variety of perspectives. session will feature presentations that outline practical It will be a space to revisit and reevaluate canonical texts models for supervising the undergraduate capstone and approaches to modernismo, as well as to disseminate project in English studies; these models should reflect a readings of non-canonical authors, texts, and forms of proven track record of faculty success in both design and modernista cultural production such as autobiography, implementation. By May 20, 2013, please submit proposals letters, political essays, diaries, and art criticism. We are of 250-300 words as Word attachments to Tom Mack, especially interested in papers dealing with modernismo’s University of South Carolina Aiken, at [email protected]. cosmopolitanism from an aesthetic, political, and ideological perspective, as well as with the legacy of Beyond Mad Men: Personal and Collective modernism and the echoes of its topics and imagery in 85 Nostalgia in British and American Period Dramas Spanish-American literature and culture from the second In his article “The Forty Year Itch,” Adam Gopnik argues half of the 20th century to the present. By June 10, 2013, call for papers that the past “is not simply a good setting for a good story, please submit a 300-word abstract and a brief bio to but a good setting for you.” While Gopnik’s article focuses Juanita Aristizábal, The Catholic University of America, at on nostalgia as a cyclical product that imagines “whatever [email protected]. happened or [we] thought to have happened” in American culture in the context of the popularity of AMC’s Mad Men, Culture, Texts and Technology the popularity of the BBC’s period drama Downton Abbey Many scholars of the digital humanities, including Landow, complicates Gopnik’s hypothesis. Particularly, Downton Lanham, and O’Gorman, propose that the only way for the Abbey’s WWI-era time period directly contradicts Gopnik’s humanities to survive is through a complete redesign of the argument that nostalgia only focuses on a “decade roughly humanities curriculum, a revision that promotes the digital forty or fifty years past”; in addition, the show’s popularity text and one that erases the boundaries that compartmentalize among an American audience calls into question the sense the various subjects of the humanities. Lanham, in particular, that nostalgia is a product of society’s real or imagined argues that “[d]igital equivalency means that we can no longer sense of a shared cultural history. In short, contemporary pursue literary study by itself: the other arts will form part of period dramas on television transcend the notion that literary study in an essential way” (11). This panel is concerned audiences are nostalgic for a familiar, national past. Keeping with suggesting the benefits or consequences of “digital Gopnik’s argument and Rita Felski’s extended discussion of equivalency.” Also, what are the benefits and consequences to nostalgia in mind, this panel looks to solicit original essays our culture of the way in which products of the humanities that examine British and American period dramas from (texts, art, music, etc.), in the digital realm, exist in potentia the perspective of transatlantic and/or “trans-generational” rather than as artifacts? What are the implications of having nostalgia. What can these works, and their popularity in our cultural artifacts placed in a digital realm where they Britain and/or America, tell us about our collective interest can become “open” versus “closed”; subject to continuous in an “idealized pre-modern” yet anachronistic past? How manipulation and remixing, but on a positive note, converted can we reconcile the treatment of the past in these dramas to products so that their “stylistic levels can be reader- as a source of pre-modern authenticity with the paradoxical selectable” in order to provide a more personalized way of tendency to introduce contemporary notions of class, gender, learning? Is it always beneficial to have the boundaries between nationalism, etc. in their narratives? Essay topics are welcome the creator, critic, and viewer destabilized? Presentations will on, but not limited to, the following shows: Copper, Downton run 15-20 minutes. By June 14, 2013, please submit proposals Abbey, Mad Men, Midwife, etc.. By June 10, 2013, please email of 250-300 words and include the paper title as it will appear in paper abstracts of 500 words or fewer to Anthony Dotterman, the conference program, panelist name, institutional affiliation, Adelphi University, at [email protected]. and A/V requirements to Jasara Hines, University of Central Florida, at [email protected] or [email protected]. Cosmopolitanism Revisited: New Perspectives on Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts in Latin America Spanish-American Modernismo In keeping with the general conference theme, this session This panel focuses onmodernismo , a pan-Hispanic and welcomes proposals for papers that address how cultures, transatlantic movement that flourished between the 1880s images, and texts intersect in a Latin American context. By and the 1920s, a movement that is considered one of the June 15, 2013, please send 250-word abstracts to Rudyard most important foundations for Hispanic literature and Alcocer, Georgia State University, at [email protected]. culture. Inspired by European fin de siècle models such as decadence and symbolism, modernista poets and writers Darwinian Literary Theory renewed Spanish verse and prose and articulated an Literary Darwinism, an emerging field of critical inquiry, autonomous aesthetic response to the changes brought has gained increasing stature during the last decade and upon by modernity to the recently independent Spanish- now appears to be approaching critical mass. Founded 41 on the work of contemporary biologists and evolutionary Chair: Michael Harker, Georgia State University psychologists, it is creating new and exhilarating This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time. opportunities for literary exploration, and it is becoming a significant landmark in the contemporary intellectual ePortfolios: Ideas for Cross-Disciplinary Projects landscape of interdisciplinary study. This forum invites and Effective Development proposals for papers that consider literary works, periods, This roundtable panel is designed to act as an idea factory or authors through the lens of contemporary evolutionary and resource forum for effective use of ePortfolios in cross- theory and that view literature as an extension of the disciplinary curricula. The goal is shared problem-solving in adapted mind. By June 1, 2013, please send one-page the practicum of our profession. Please bring successful and proposals to Charles Duncan, Hillsborough Community unsuccessful experiences with ePortfolios, sample ePortfolio College, at [email protected] and Robert Funk, units, and effective arguments we can use to convince Hillsborough Community College, at [email protected]. colleagues and administrators that portfolios are more than a course-based assessment in one discipline. Please do not Detective Fiction: Great Detectives and Super forget your laptop for sharing curriculum tools, links, and Sleuths from Dupin to Precious Ramotswe resources. By June 1, 2013, please submit ideas and express With Edgar Allen Poe’s creation of C. Auguste Dupin in your interest in a specific area of discussion to Hilary 1841, the detective tale was born. From the great detective Parmentier, Florida Keys Community College, at Hilary. came the hard-boiled thriller, the private eye, the police [email protected] and Lois Wolfe Markham, Florida procedural, and the crime novel. The fascination with Keys Community College, at [email protected]. crime fiction and detection has been consistent since the late 19th century. This panel welcomes presentations that Forms of Reading, Forms of Life examine detective fiction broadly defined. Topics may Ethics of Reading include historical studies, authorship, publication history, Observing a national decline in literary reading, in 2006 adolescent fiction, contemporary film depictions, etc. by the National Endowment for the Arts instituted the Big May 1, 2013, please send abstracts of 250-500 words as Read Program to revivify what it deemed an indispensable, a Word document to Elizabeth Battles, Texas Wesleyan but endangered, civic activity. In 2009, the NEA celebrated University, at [email protected]. new research indicating that, for the first time in twenty- five years, literary reading in the US was on the rise. Dieter Leisegang: Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts Yet what grounds are there for such consternation or This panel seeks presentations that will explore the poetry, celebration? Indeed, why a governmental investment in prose, artwork, or philosophy of Dieter Leisegang (1942- this cultural practice? And, in a digital era, as new forms 1973). This year will mark the 40th anniversary of his death of textual production and consumption proliferate, why by suicide. In the thirty short years of his life, Leisegang the emphasis on traditionally defined literary reading? published several books of poetry and philosophy, and he Taking seriously the NEA’s claim that literary reading created miniature artworks. He also published philosophical has “demonstrable social, economic, cultural, and civic essays on aesthetics, rhetoric, and art. He translated the literary implications,” this panel asks what distinctive forms of life works of W.H. Auden, Hart Crane, and Edvard Kocbek among such reading might nourish. We are particularly interested others into German and wrote cultural programs for German in considering questions such as the following: How do television. Leisegang was twenty-seven years old when he literary texts exert pressure on readers’ behavior? How received his doctorate degree from the Johann-Wolfgang do authors and poets imagine the act of interpretation von Goethe University where he studied German philosophy itself in their creative work? Does digital media entail

call for papers call for under Theodor Adorno and Julius Schaaf, German studies substantively different ethics of reading? How might the under Paul Stoecklein, and Eastern European History under study of literature participate in alleviating social problems, Klaus Zernack. Thereafter, Leisegang taught art and literature, such as poverty, illiteracy, debt, global war, or a diminishing

85 philosophy, art theory, German studies, political science, food supply? We invite papers exploring these and related and sociology at his Alma Mater and at the University of issues in the phenomenology and ethics of reading. Papers Witwatersrand, South Africa, among other institutions. This may address imaginative and/or theoretical texts from panel seeks presentations on any aspects of Dieter Leisegang’s any historical period, national provenance, or (non-)print poetry, philosophy and/or artworks. Presentations should be idiom. All critical orientations are welcome. By June 15, no more than 20 minutes in length. By June 1, 2013, please 2013, please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Katherine to Benjamin Sammons, University of North Carolina at Weiss, East Tennessee State University, at [email protected]. Chapel Hill, at [email protected] and Benjamin Mangrum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at Documenting Stories that Speak to Us: Making [email protected]. Meaning with The Digital Archive of Literary SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA Narratives (DALN) Reconstructing Boundaries: Creative Writing, Featured Session Rhetoric, and Literature 42 Examining Boundaries in Creative Writing/Rhetoric This panel examines the impact of the digital archive

The diverse fields within English studies often create on cultural representations of gender and memory. SAMLA boundaries that few cross, but this proposal aims to bridge Particularly welcome are proposals that consider the ways those established boundaries. The focus of this panel looks that interconnections among gendered bodies, minds, at authorship and how authorship is theorized within and technological archives are portrayed in contemporary English studies. An example of authorship’s function literature, film, or other cultural media. Questions to in English studies occurs in creative writing. Often in consider include the following: In what ways does our creative writing workshops the Platonic view of authorship increased reliance on digital archives challenge the priority becomes a philosophy and focus of the pedagogy, but an of internal, psychic memory over external signs? In what instructor often requires assignments where students mimic ways does the influence of these archives call into question established authors, creating what Gilbert and Gubar have binaries such as inside/outside, mind/body, male/female, termed an “anxiety of authorship.” Another unintended natural/artificial? In what ways does the reproducibility of consequence of the creative writing workshop was termed technological archives align or interfere with, transform 85 by Jonathan Lethem as the “ecstasy of influence,” which or threaten to supplant, sexual reproduction in its fictional is created by the intense pressure to be original while or non-fictional representations? What effects might this call for papers embracing and being influenced by the established, “great” reliance have on portrayals of the nuclear family and the writers. By studying the rhetorical situation through the larger patriarchal structure in which it is situated and whose roles of the author, creative writing students are enabled reproduction it ensures? In what ways are digital archives to write more effectively to their intended audiences. In presented as active, living, perhaps even gendered entities short, this session examines authorship through creative that shape and are shaped by the images, messages, and writing, rhetoric, and/or other fields in English studies. The information that pass into/through them? In what ways panel organizers are especially interested in proposals that do digital archives or media acquire physical, bodily, or seek to examine authorship as a way to bridge two diverse material presence? By June 14, 2013, please send a 300-word fields within English Studies, such as creative writing abstract and brief bio to Kimberly Jackson, Florida Gulf and rhetoric. By May 30, 2013, please send an abstract or Coast University, at [email protected]. proposal as a Word or rtf attachment of no more than 300 words to Jessica Jorgenson, North Dakota State University, Beyond “A Cyborg Manifesto”: Envisioning Identity, at [email protected]. Gender, and Sexuality through Technology Feminist Literature and Theory, Session II The Family Dynamic as Cultural Zeitgeist: When Donna Haraway first published “A Cyborg Comparing the Novels of Jonathan Franzen and Manifesto” in 1985, her theory of the human as cyborg Jeffery Eugenides disrupted binaries of “natural/unnatural” and “organism/ While Jonathan Franzen has “persistently claimed natural machine” in ways that opened feminist theory to new descent from Don Delillo,” readers have continually ontological possibilities. However, at the time she wrote compared Franzen to Jeffery Eugenides on the basis of her theory, the notion of a “cyborg” was decidedly science their mutual exploration of Midwestern and generational fiction. In the nearly thirty years since then, digital, heritage. Indeed, as Evan Hughes points out, Franzen and his networked, and information technologies have evolved contemporaries have been engaged “in a kind of generational dramatically in the material and digital worlds, inspiring struggle to make sense of the post-modern literary legacy … new ways of theorizing identity, gender, and sexuality. especially as a guide to writing about the new, weird America Engaging SAMLA 85’s special focus, the Feminist Literature of the eighties and nineties.” Keeping this idea in mind, this and Theory panel invites paper proposals that address panel welcomes submissions of original essays that examine any aspect of cyborg theory or any study that considers the use of family and place in the novels of Jonathan Franzen scientific or technological advances to “make meaning” of and Jeffery Eugenides. Particularly, how do these writers identity, gender, and/or sexuality. Proposals may include intertwine their descriptions of families living in a particular but are not limited to the following: theoretical extensions time and place with the story of larger American society of Haraway’s work in cyborg theory; studies in literature, and institutions? Or, how do the vices and failings of these film, digital media, etc. that employ Haraway’s theory or families and their value systems mirror the larger failings of contemporary evolutions of cyborg theory; or literary American corporations, social movements, government, etc.? analyses of identity, gender, and/or sexuality within science What do these approaches say about the challenges and/or fiction literature, film, media, etc.. By June 14, 2013, please possibilities facing contemporary writers wishing to engage submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Janet Gabler- in social commentary through their work? By June 10, 2013, Hover, Georgia State University, at [email protected]. please submit abstract of no more than 500 words to Anthony Dotterman, Adelphi University, at [email protected]. Film and Revolutionary Technologies: From the Silents to the Digital Gender, Culture, and Memory in the Digital Archive This session will include papers that consider the Feminist Literature and Theory, Session I technological influences on film making, from the Silents to 43 Sound, from black and white to color, from 2-D to 3-D, from generally around three major trends: 1) problems with CinemaScope to Cinerama, and/or to the digital. Films that using graphic novels in the classroom; 2) best practices for visually present life through a newly realized technological teaching graphic novels for college students; and 3) rewards lens are encouraged. Use of visuals and excerpts from films for using graphic novels in various academic settings. The are encouraged. By May 31, 2013, please submit abstracts to panel encourages essays across multiple disciplines. Paul Trent, Mercy College, at [email protected]. Possible topics consist of the following: Films on Film and/or Communication Technologies Problems: Discussions of various stumbling blocks, or This session will feature papers that examine films whose subject challenges, encountered when using graphic novels in the is film-making, its artists, its technicians, or films involving classroom, i.e., a “teaching moment” where the instructor such technologies as television, radio, newspapers, and/or the tried to adjust and resolve the problem. computer. Use of visuals and excerpts from representative films Strategies: Discussions of best practices when using graphic are encouraged. By May 31, 2013, please submit abstracts to Sean novels in the classroom. Dugan, Mercy College, at [email protected]. Rewards: Discussions on the benefits of using graphic novels, i.e., effective moment(s) in the classroom where a Studies in Film Authorship graphic novel enhanced learning and content. Film Authorship Group Paper proposals are welcome in any area of film authorship Panelists with strong papers will be asked to contribute to an studies, including approaches that concentrate on the edited collection on the same topic. (The chair of this session oeuvre of a single director and those that consider more has secured the firm interest of a publisher.) By June 1, 2013, theoretical questions such as branding and collective please send a 250-300 word abstract with name, institutional authorship. Proposals are also welcome that consider affiliation, and phone number to Matthew Miller, University authorship in its various forms across media, especially of South Carolina Aiken, at [email protected]. as authorship intersects with institutional and production practices and with various forms of textual ontologies such Hispanism and Literary History as adaptation, cycling, remaking, and so forth. We hope This session will explore the conditions, possibilities, to receive enough worthy proposals to constitute a series and challenges of writing literary history in a Hispanic of more narrowly defined sessions for the convention. By setting. Possible topics include the role of literary criticism June 14, 2013, please submit proposals to R. Barton Palmer, and anthologies in processes of nation formation and Clemson University, at [email protected]. regeneration; the reproduction and negotiation of transnational discourses of Hispanism, Eurocentrism, and The First World War in Fiction, Film, and the Arts Orientalism in literary history; the role of literary criticism In anticipation of the centennial of the First World War in as an imperialistic discourse; the relationship between state 2014, this session welcomes papers on any aspect of the and sub-state literary histories; and metacritical reflections representation of the war, in any art form, from any country about the categories of literary history. Comparative and or time period. By June 15, 2013, please send a 300-word transatlantic approaches welcome. By June 10,, 2013, please abstract to Nancy Sloan Goldberg, Middle Tennessee State send 250-word abstract and two-page CV to José Luis University, at Box 79, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 or Nancy. Venegas, Wake Forest University, at [email protected]. [email protected]. The Representation of “Space” in Italian Literature Food: Imaged and Imagined and Cinema

call for papers call for The papers in this panel investigate the ways that writers, Italian Literature and Cinema readers, cooks, and consumers image and imagine food in Both literature and cinema’s representations of “space” fiction, film, memoir, poetry, cookbooks, and blogs. Food can be viewed as a character, itself. Space is a character

85 can both connect and divide individuals, communities, that might express feelings, opinions, memories, dreams, and cultures, and the papers in this panel will explore the and turmoil. For this reason, it is crucial to analyze and interconnectedness of food, text, and image. Presentations in understand the strong relationship between “space” and this session, for example, might examine the material ways that other characters, notably those who live in that “space.” This we represent food in photographs and film or the ways that panel aims to explore the concept of “space,” in general, in food forms and contributes to the public images of individuals both Italian Literature and Italian Cinema. All theoretical and cultures. By June 1, 2013, please email abstracts to Marta and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. By May Hess, Georgia State University, at [email protected]. 30, 2013, please submit abstracts of 250 words to Silvia Tiboni-Craft, Wake Forest University, [email protected] Graphic Novel Pedagogy: Problems, Strategies, and Rewards and Annachiara Mariani, The University of Tennessee, at The Graphic Novel [email protected]. SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA The overall goal of the session is to provide a place to gather ideas about pedagogy using graphic novels, organized 44 Joseph Conrad post-9/11 literature. By June 23, 2013, please send a 250-word

This panel welcomes papers about any aspect of Joseph abstract and short CV to Heather Pope, St. John’s University, at SAMLA Conrad’s life or work. Presenters will have 15-minutes of [email protected]. delivery time. By May 15, 2013, please submit a 250-word abstract to Hunt Hawkins, University of South Florida, at Literature is History: Print and Digital Creative [email protected]. Texts as Art, Fact, and Artifact The special session roundtable brings together scholars in Monsters and the Monstrous in Literature literary studies, history, art history, and the digital humanities Literary Monsters in order to draw attention to recent work that complicates In today’s culture, it is almost impossible to avoid the disciplinary distinctions even as it enriches the possibilities monstrous. Vampires, werewolves, and possibly every of textual and intertextual studies. Prospective panelists may imaginable creature of mythology and legend traipse across our have experience with any of the following areas of inquiry: television screens and the pages of our books. Over centuries engaging literature and or as cultural history; researching print 85 and across cultures, the monstrous has frequently stood in or digital archives of textual material; creating virtual resources place of the “inferior” Other. Whether literal or figurative—the emphasizing images, sound, or other data; writing or analyzing call for papers savage indigenes, the blood-sucking vampires, the disfigured experimental fiction outside of conventional print media; and freaks—monsters and the monstrous heavily populate other approaches that support or meaningfully challenge the literature; one might think of the madness, metaphors, and roundtable topic. Conversation among the panelists and with the extremes that either inhabit the category of “the Other” or audience should illuminate opportunities in textual studies and that contribute disorder to the unhinged mind. Furthermore, demonstrate the necessity for academic institutions to adapt to in recent decades, depictions of monsters and the monstrous changing notions of writing, reading, scholarship, and textuality. have shifted and, in many cases, are portrayed in a more Junior and senior scholars in a variety of disciplines are invited sympathetic light. This panel aims to explore the monstrous to submit topics for the shared roundtable discussion. By May in literature as well as any possible cultural, psychological, 30, 2013, please submit a 150-word abstract with a clear topic and/or theoretical implications. Projects on any aspect of the title and brief (half-page) CV to Peter Caster, University of South monstrous in literature are welcome. By June 20, 2013, please Carolina Upstate, at [email protected]. submit abstracts of about 300 words to Lisa Wenger Bro, Middle Georgia State College, at [email protected]. Madness in 20th- and 21st-Century Peninsular Spanish Literature Literature After 9/11 In this panel, we will focus our attention on novels In twelve years, the cultural and artistic response to 9/11 has by contemporary Spanish writers that show how the been wide-ranging in form and function; these texts have been lack of dream, despair, aging, etc. in Postmodern commemorative and heroic, have worked through collective society encourages the spread of madness. Under these and individual trauma, and recently have become reflexive and circumstances, characters become mentally unbalanced and politicized. In an effort to grasp some of the complexity of the look for a chance to solve their mental situation. Therefore, cultural and artistic response to 9/11, this panel’s intention is to absorption (el ensimismamiento), solitude, character’s move beyond the first reaction stories—what Jeffery Melnick psychology, and other “behaviors of the mind” will be the calls “unity scripts” that were largely nationalistic and heroic focus of analysis in this panel. By June 1, 2013, please send in nature—to include texts that express the real complexity one-page proposals to Alain-Richard Sappi, Wesleyan and conflictedness of 9/11 as an event and disaster. Part of this College, at [email protected] and Jorge Muñoz archive includes proletarian art and photography, graphic novels Ogayar, Auburn University, at [email protected]. (i.e., Combat Zone: The Tales of GIs in Iraq, Johnny Jihad, Shooting War, In the Shadow of No Towers, etc.) artwork, music, literature, Musical and Literary Citation television, movies, and other popular culture venues. This panel Much of medieval literature, music, and art relies heavily on aims to address literary and visual representations produced after borrowing text, melody, and image from other sources. As 9/11, whether they represent the attacks, address America as a in the case of Old French refrains, many lines get recycled changed country, criticize American exceptionalism, or treat the in multiple contexts whose creation is often separated by events of that day as a conspicuous absence. Papers may choose decades or even centuries. This near-constant mobility of to respond to SAMLA 85’s special focus, or they may respond text across genres and time helped create complex networks to other important considerations in post-9/11 literary and that we are still trying to understand today. This panel seeks visual representation, including but not limited to the following: papers on any aspect of citation in medieval literature, changing ideas of space/boundaries in a post-9/11 world, the music, or art. Topics may include but are not limited to ethics involved in representing tragedy, trauma sustained as a the following: literary citation, melodic citation, citation result of the attacks, new frames of American exceptionalism of text and melody as a single unit, citations that occur in a post-9/11 world, ideas of containment/Cold War mentality across multiple genres or centuries, visual citations (e.g. in post-9/11 literature, changed ideas of commemoration/ “citations” of the visual arts such as paintings, illuminations, memorialization, or the problems/uses of theory in relation to or sculpture), or citation-like lines that have no obvious 45 referents. Paper presentations will run 15-20 minutes long. self-expression. However, from Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to By May 20, 2013, please send proposals of no more than the invention of the personal computer, the “quiet ones” 300 words to James Terry, Agnes Scott College, at jterry@ have made immeasurable and invaluable contributions to agnesscott.edu. our society and life as we know it. This panel will discuss the effect of introverts and quiet people on and in our world, and Navigating the Digital Divide: Interfaces of New the philosophies associated with this type of labeling. Analyzed Media in the Reading and Production of 21st- literary works, as well as personal experience papers (i.e., creative Century Literature non-fiction pieces or personal narratives) are welcome. By June 25, 2013, please submit a 250-word abstract to Myrna J. Santos, Chair: Amee Carmines, Hampton University Nova Southeastern University, at 3600 NW 82nd Drive, Coral This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time. Springs, FL 33065, [email protected], or [email protected]. Pedagogies of Multiliteracies: Using 21st-Century The Word Made Text Literacies and Multimodal Composition to Teach Religion and Literature Writing and Critical Thinking This panel explores the ways religious print texts—scriptures, Highlighted Session devotional texts, prayer books, hymnals, etc.—are presented Chair: Mary Hocks, Georgia State University in other literary texts, such as fiction, poetry, or creative non- This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time. fiction. How do authors write about religious texts? How are literary characters (fictional or not) affected by reading religious Performing Gender: Cultural Ideals, Expectations, texts? How do religious texts open or close access to the divine? and Representations of Gender in American How do authors delineate the different effects of textual and oral Literature and Culture religious traditions (sermons, hymns, memorized creeds, etc.)? During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American Does it matter whether the religious text is online instead of writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help in a book? How do authors measure the worth/quality of their those who were moving from the working-class into the middle- own texts alongside that of established religious texts? How do class to “act properly” in society. These conduct books set up they understand the function and/or the potential of literature American ideals in regard to gender roles and housekeeping; as compared to the function and power of religious writing? their influence can be seen in the consumer culture and even in In what ways are religious texts treated as objects—material the design of houses in the 19th century. The conduct and advice objects, literary objects, objects of study, objects of analysis, book genre is alive and well today, and in many respects, so are etc.? Papers on literature from any part of the world and related the same ideals from their 19th century counterparts. This panel to any religious tradition are welcome. By June 1, 2013, please will explore these ideals and gendered expectations over time and submit a one-page abstract along with your school affiliation, explore how insidious these ideals and expectations of gender rank/position, and any A/V requests to J. Stephen Pearson, The can be in American culture. Papers can draw from a variety of University of Tennessee, at [email protected]. texts, including traditional conduct books spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, short stories, plays, movies, and TV shows. Papers Resisting Dictatorships: Literary Writing and discussing how some gender expectations have changed while Publishing by Banned Authors others have stayed the same over time would be of particular The development of the Internet and digital publishing has interest, as well as papers detailing the impact these societal ideals opened up endless opportunities for authors to publish and have on our cultural consciousness. How do cultural images and circulate banned literature. This development stands in texts make meaning in regards to gendered expectations? By June stark contrast to writers of most of the 20th century, when 7, 2013, please send abstracts of no more than 300 words along resisting and dissident authors circulated texts through

call for papers call for with AV requests to Colleen Thorndike, Kent State University, at underground means. This session welcomes papers that [email protected]. address the publishing and circulation of banned literature during the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics include, but are

85 QUIET: “The Power of Introverts in a World that not limited to, transmission of banned literature as well as Can’t Stop Talking” analyses of the content and context of the banned literary We live in a world of people who seemingly cannot stop texts. By May 1, 2013, please send your one-page abstract talking! Oft times it presents a competition of who is able in an email attachment to Kerstin Gaddy, The Catholic to attract the most attention. This session will explore the University of America, at [email protected]. premise of Susan Cain’s book, Quiet. People who prefer reading to partying or listening to speaking are considered Revisiting Remediation introverts. They are innovative and make significant Bolter and Grusin’s book Remediation: Understanding New contributions, but dislike self-promotion. They are often Media appeared in 1999 and influenced conversations in a labeled “quiet” and sometimes this description alludes number of disciplines, particularly rhetoric and composition, to negative connotations. Perhaps their being quiet is a SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA technical communication, and media studies. The term personality characteristic or a product of their environment; remediate has been picked up and used to describe a number perhaps their reserved nature is due to the hesitation of 46 of phenomena such as the use of the proscenium arch in three publications helped shape his own literary aesthetics.

silent film and the use of painting techniques in photographs. American influences are clearly evident in both his poetry and SAMLA Bolter and Grusin frame immediacy and hypermediacy as prose, especially the posthumously published Westwärts 1 & “double logic” principles for describing the history of media 2: Gedichte. In addition to the literary influences, this panel and particularly how new media repurposes older media. will also investigate how American films, rock ‘n’ roll, and New media simultaneously and paradoxically elides and pop art all impacted his writing. The goal of this panel is to foregrounds the technologies of media. After almost fifteen attract not only scholars in German literature, but also those years, is remediation still an operative term? How can we in English and American Studies, Comparative Literature, revisit or extend the concept of remediation in disciplinary Film Studies, and Popular Culture—all in an effort to make conversations and emerging areas like digital humanities? We Brinkmann better known in the United States. This panel welcome papers refuting, deploying, complicating, reminding, seeks presentations on any aspects of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s or clarifying this term for the 21st century, and papers poetry or prose, especially those works reflecting the American incorporating the special focus of SAMLA 85 are especially influences on his work. Presentations should be no more than 85 encouraged. By June 1, 2013, please send 300-word abstracts 20 minutes in length. By June 1, 2013, please submit abstracts and brief bios to Diana Eidson at [email protected]. of no more than 250 words to Gregory Divers, Saint Louis call for papers University, at [email protected]. Composing in Autopilot: Implications of Writing in Web 2.0 Second-Class Scholars?: Outside the Ivory Tower, Rhetoric and Composition Off the Tenure Track This panel supports the special focus of SAMLA 85 by thinking From MLA’s Profession and The Chronicle of Higher Education to about the relationship between digital writing environments Inside Higher Ed and #alt-academy: A Mediacommons Project, and composing. One of the driving forces of Web 2.0 is the decline of tenure-track research positions and the rise of increased access to production and delivery of content. In alternate academic careers has been duly noted, but what are order to open up access, developers, users, and designers the implications for those post-graduates seeking to research separated the practice of designing of texts and systems from and write? A recent issue of The Chronicle (21 January 2013) creating content for/in those texts and systems (Arola, 2010; highlighted the situation of independent scholars and mentioned Wysocki, 2004). But in opening up access, have we automated the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship as a potentially tasks that define composing? Potential panelists are invited viable alternative to a bricks-and-mortar research university. to think about what it means to be a composer, to compose, This roundtable, then, seeks independent scholars and adjunct and to teach in these automated spaces. The questions below faculty interested in sharing their experiences of conducting are not prescriptive. We welcome any proposal addressing research, attending conferences, presenting papers, and the relationship between the mechanics of Web 2.0 and publishing on the margins of academia. Possible topics include composing: What is composing when many of complex these: do you ever feel like a “second-class scholar”? Do you decisions about composing (arrangement, style, memory, and feel that you are met with bias in certain academic situations? Is delivery) are automated by the design of the site, system, or this liminality productive, and if so, how? Do you work entirely application? What do we gain in terms of access and lose in on your own, or have you found supportive communities near terms of control when we compose with web 2.0 applications? you or online, for instance, through blogs or networking sites With widgets? With templates? With generators? In code? How like academia.edu? What kinds of obstacles, if any, have you do SEO search-friendly CMS archives challenge our concept encountered in terms of accessing materials, applying for grants, of rhetorical audience? Of delivery? Of memory and memory and travelling to conferences? Have you faced challenges in palaces (loci)? What is our responsibility to the mechanical getting work published? Are traditional publishing avenues, such aspects of digital environments as users and as teachers (Rice, as the refereed journal, important to you? Have you successfully 2008)? How do those responsibilities change across contexts collaborated on projects with tenured academics or with other and activities? How might we attend to the mechanics of digital independent scholars or adjuncts? How do you see older notions spaces without losing sight of composer and the composer’s of scholarship changing, and do you welcome those changes interactions with other composers? By May 25, 2013, please (or not)? Personal accounts are welcome, as are thoughtful e-mail abstracts of 250-500 words to Jacob W. Craig, Florida variations on the topic. By April 30, 2013, please submit State University, at [email protected]. proposals of 250-300 words along with a brief vita to Marla Harris, Independent Scholar, at [email protected]. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann This panel seeks presentations that will explore the poetry A Space Odyssey: The Effect of New Learning and prose of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975). No Environments on Students and Teachers German writer of his generation demonstrates such a strong Featured Session American connection as Brinkmann. During the late 1960s, Chair: Shawn Apostel, Bellarmine University he edited two anthologies—ACID: Neue amerikanische This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time. Szene and Silverscreen: Neue amerikanische Lyrik—and published a translation of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems; these 47 Teaching Global Shakespeares mundo y a la obra de arte. Buscamos trabajos que contribuyan “Global Shakespeare” is a trendy topic in early modern definir el importante papel que el cine, la fotografía y otras scholarship, but how can we best translate it into effective narrativas -visuales y no visuales- están jugando en la teaching? What do “global” studies of Shakespeare offer a redefinición de una nueva identidad que se aleja cada vez contemporary college student? What challenges does teaching mas de la idea de nacionalismo para hacerse trasatlántica. y si Shakespeare in a global context pose for college educators, and podemos hablar de una nueva identidad trasatlántica, ¿De qué how do we navigate them? This SAMLA special session will manera las narrativas de la imagen han podido contribuir a discuss these and other such questions. Papers might address definir esta nueva identidad? Envíen resúmenes limitados a 300 pedagogy directly, or they might teach a given text (play, film palabras junto con filiación académica antes del 15 de Junio: etc.) or set of texts. Topics might include but are not limited Helena Talaya-Manso, Emory University, at [email protected]. to the following: multicultural Shakespeare, Shakespeare and global citizenship, international adaptations of Shakespeare, Writers Workshop: What Every Writer Needs—a Shakespeare in/as world cinema, Shakespeare and Deadline and an Audience globalization, Shakespeare and world religions, Shakespeare Working Papers on Teaching and Learning, Rhetoric and and climate change, Shakespeare and “universalism,” colonial/ Composition post-colonial Shakespeare, or pedagogical experiences teaching This is a workshop for academics who have papers drafted, global Shakespeares. By May 5, 2013, please send an abstract of synopses in need of development and direction, or content 300 words, attached as a Word document to Ben Hilb, Emory in need of form. We will adapt the Iowa Writer’s Workshop University, at [email protected]. model for use as a fast- paced forum for strategic support and constructive criticism of papers that have been Think Outside the Paper: Creative Alternatives submitted. By June 1, 2013, please submit papers to Lois for Composition Wolfe Markham, Florida Keys Community College, at lois. Chair: Sara Hughes, Georgia State University [email protected]. This panel is complete. No submissions are requested at this time.

Transnationalizing the Digital Digital media has created a counterspace in transnational Visual Representations of Scholarly Work feminism by creating virtual communities where solidarity can Intersections of Text, Image, and Research be forged and resisted. Benedict Anderson argues that a subject’s sense of belonging in an “imagined community” is constitutive SAMLA welcomes proposals of representations of nationalism, defined as national identity. These virtual cyber- of scholarly work that serve to explicate a spaces bring together divergent marginalized voices across the globe by recreating Anderson’s imagined community. For researched topic and expand understanding cyberfeminists, the “imagination” that binds them is the notion through visual design and incorporation of of “home” or the same putative place of origin. As Ananda Mitra visual elements and graphics. Proposals for has pointed out, “since the original home is now inaccessible, the this session should explain how research Internet space is co-opted to find the same companionship that will manifest itself in the presentation. The was available in the original place of residence” (25). This panel seeks to explore, challenge, and affirm ways in which digital presentation may be multi-media or a poster media has opened up possibilities in transnational feminist display. Limited technology may be available discourse. Transnational feminism is no longer considered as for multimedia/multimodal works. While

call for papers call for an alternative space in feminist solidarity, but a much needed this form of presentation is new in the study intervention in globalized economy. This panel particularly of literature, composition/rhetoric, and welcomes papers that look at globalization and labor circulation, linguistics, the Program Committee believes

85 migration and immigrant workers, blogging and activism, feminist websites, social media and women’s issues. By June 1, this method will create new opportunities 2013, please send a 300-word abstract, brief bio, institutional for discussions about literature and language affiliation, and A/V needs to Suchismita Banerjee, University of and expand our understanding of scholarly Wisconsin Milwaukee, at [email protected]. research. Presentations that focus on the special focus of the conference, “Cultures, Contexts, Transatlantic Images and New Perspectives on Culture of the Hispanic Countries Images, Texts: Making Meaning in Print, El flujo constante de personas e ideas es un reto para la Digital, and Networked Worlds” are particularly renegociación de identidades individuales, de nación o incluso encouraged. By June 28, 2013, please submit de continente. Escritores, fotógrafos y cineastas de los países

SAMLA papers 85 call for SAMLA a brief description of the project and visual hispanohablantes investigan alternativas estéticas y vitales design to the SAMLA office [email protected] . a través del “otro trasatlántico” central a su concepción del 48