[nativestudies-l] CFP: American Literature to 1800, MLA 2008

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

Friends,

 

A reminder of the CFP for the panels sponsored by the division of 
American Literature before 1800 for the 2008 MLA convention in San 
Francisco.  The deadline for each is March 15.

 

*Science, *T*echnology, Literature in *E*arly America and the Atlantic. 
*Material and visual culture, genres of scientific writing, 
technolo­gies of the word, experimentalism, perception and detection, 
local and mobile knowledge, un-Reason, pedagogical issues. Abstracts by 
15 Mar.; Scotti Parrish (sparrish at umich.edu <mailto:sparrish at umich.edu>).

 

T*heorizing *E*arly American Literature. *Ap­plications or adaptations 
of new critical inqui­ries, including new formalism, material and visual 
studies, transatlantic studies; cultural geographies; ecocriticism; 
performance; the body; natural sciences; pseudoscience; transla­tion 
studies; etc. Abstracts by 15 Mar.; Martin Brueckner  (mcb at udel.edu 
<mailto:mcb at udel.edu>).

 

T*own and Gown in *E*arly American Studies. *Scholarly collaborations 
with nonacademic communities: goals, outcomes, benefits, prob­lems. How 
do nonacademic communities use literary scholarship, editions, 
pedagogies; how do they contribute to academic work? Abstracts by 15 
Mar.; Kristina Bross (kbross at purdue.edu <mailto:kbross at purdue.edu>).

 

Kristina Bross

Associate Professor

English and American Studies

Purdue University

500 Oval Drive

West Lafayette, IN  47907-2038

765/494-3745

 



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