[nativestudies-l] CFP: NEASA Conference 11/4-11/6; Proposals due 4/8

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

*Call for Papers*

*New England American Studies Association 2011 Conference*

*Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts, *

*November 4-6, 2011*

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*/American Mythologies: Creating, Recreating, and Resisting National 
Narratives/*

>From 1492 and the First Thanksgiving to Honest Abe and the Great 
Communicator, from the boundless possibilities of the frontier and a 
golden land of opportunity to Wounded Knee and Woody Guthrie, from the 
midnight ride and the Boston Tea Party to Pat Tillman and the Tea Party 
Express, from /Birth of a Nation/to /Malcolm X/, P.T. Barnum to the 
/Jersey Shore/, America has been and still is consistently defined and 
constituted through national myths and narratives. Similarly, American 
Studies as a discipline has long wrestled with the ideas of the myth and 
symbol school, and scholars continue to engage with, resist, and revise 
those seminal analyses of national myths. At the 2011 NEASA Conference, 
held in Plymouth—the city that provided the site for and now recreates 
some of the most foundational such stories—we will discuss, analyze, and 
debate these narratives and methodologies, and, in the process, add our 
voices and versions to the mix.

Myths and narratives are constructed, reconstructed, and resisted not 
only through written texts but in every form of media and within every 
kind of community. As a result, we invite proposals and panels from 
academic disciplines including American Studies, history, literature, 
ethnic studies, native studies, women’s and gender studies, working 
class studies, folklore studies, film, music, the visual arts, 
languages, archaeology, anthropology, political science, and law, as 
well as from artists, public historians, architects, activists, 
archivists, curators, teachers, policy makers, and others.

Proposals should include a one page abstract and title, as well as the 
author’s name, address (including email), and institutional or 
professional affiliation. For panel proposals please include contact 
information for all participants, as well as a brief (no more than two 
page) description of the session topic and format. Submit proposals by 
*April 8th, 2011 to neasaconference11 at gmail.com 
<mailto:neasaconference11 at gmail.com>*. Proposal or queries may also be 
sent to:

Ben Railton, NEASA President

Fitchburg State University, English Department

Fitchburg, MA 01420

(978) 665-4805

brailton at fitchburgstate.edu <mailto:brailton at fitchburgstate.edu>

For more information about the conference and NEASA, including an 
extended Call for Papers, please visit www.neasa.org 
<http://www.neasa.org/>.

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