Here is a list of calls for papers for conferences that we believe appeal to our academic community at Saint Rose. This list was developed with the help from the University of Pennsylvania site, http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/. This site offers numerous postings of calls for papers from a wide variety of categories. Check back for future listings of calls for papers and please note that a couple listings have deadlines for the end of September.
NeMLA 2013 March 21-14, Boston, MA
full name / name of organization:
Obsessive Attention: Fandom and Scholarship, a Roundtable Discussion
contact email:
Emily.hegarty@ncc.edu, margarette.connor@gmail.com
Is all scholarship fandom? A roundtable exploring the intersection
between fandom and the obsessions of a scholar. Even as the academy is
questioned and devalued by those outside it, our very objects of study
are undergoing a millennial shift. In a multicultural, multimedia age,
how do we as scholars know which knowledge to value? Fandom and its
scholars confront the questions about what is knowledge and whose
credential count. In many ways, the debate about fandom and scholarship
echo larger questions about the value of scholarship in today’s
“Google-able” world. This panel welcomes papers from both fan and
scholarly perspectives. Possible topics are scholars as fans and/or fans
as scholars; depictions of scholars in fandom and its sources (such as to
Hogwarts professors, The Xavier Institute, Dr. Rush of SGU, Jedi,
Gallifreyans, especially the Doctor, Starfleet Academy, Sherlocks); does
scholarship ruin fandom? Do entities such as the Organization for
Transformative Works or this very panel destroy or enhance the joy of
fandom? Is fandom an appropriate topic for scholarly investigation?
Proposals of 200-250 words by Sept 30th to Emily Hegarty
Emily.hegarty@ncc.edu or Margarette Connor at margarette.connor@gmail.com
James Joyce and His Cold Mad Feary Fathers (or Mothers): Anxieties of Influence NeMLA Boston Mass April 21-24, 2013
full name / name of organization:
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email:
jmcquail@tntech.edu
Gertrude Stein would not talk about Joyce, wrote Hemingway: If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back (A Moveable Feast). Joyce felt threatened by Stein (as did Hemingway). Joyce hardly admitted being influenced by anyone, yet every writer has a complex relation to her or his predecessors and contemporaries. Abstracts of 250 words exploring Joyce’s anxious reactions to writers like Stein and Yeats, or extreme praise accorded to Italo Svevo (or daughter Lucia) to jmcquail@tntech.edu or J. McQuail, Box 5053, Dept. of English and Communications, TTU, Cookeville TN 38505. Deadline for abstracts or completed papers is SEPT. 30, 2012 (please include contact info including address,affiliation, e-mail, and phone number).
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