Call for Papers Archive Call for Papers: Wharton Sessions at MLA 2008 27-30 December 2008 at MLA in San Francisco, CA 1. WWWD? What Would Wharton Do? Edith Wharton and Politics 2. Edith Wharton and the ‘Other Half’ This panel seeks to explore all aspects of Edith Wharton’s relationship to urban poverty. All approaches are welcome, as are papers connecting Wharton to other figures. Please send abstracts of 250-300 words and 1 page cvs to Hildegard Hoeller at hilhllr@aol.com by March 10th. This panel is organized by the Edith Wharton Society.
Edith Wharton Sessions at MLA 2007 Saturday, 29 December 513. Beyond Pro- or Anti-: Toward the Politics of Race in Edith Wharton’s Fiction 1:45–3:00 p.m., Grand Suite 2, Hyatt Regency Program arranged by the Edith Wharton Society Presiding: Meredith Lynn Goldsmith, Ursinus Coll. 1. “Reading the ‘Sojourn in Exotic Lands’: Edith Wharton’s ‘Xingu,’” Laura Anne Lomas, Rutgers Univ., Newark 2. “‘Constitutional Restlessness’: The Ambiguity of Race in The Custom of the Country,” John Bruni, Colorado School of Mines 3. “The Age of Innocence and Reconstruction-Postreconstruction Contexts,” Jonathan Hayes, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Sunday, 30 December 745. Edith Wharton and Illness, Followed by Business Meeting 1:45–3:00 p.m., San Francisco, Hyatt Regency Program arranged by the Edith Wharton Society Presiding: Hildegard Maria Hoeller, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York 1. “Standing Tall or Lying Still: The Impact of Spinal Impairment on Individual Subjectivity in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome and The Fruit of the Tree,” Cyndy Hall, Univ. of California, Riverside 2. “Circulatory Disorders in The Custom of the Country,” Caroline Guény, Université de Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3. “Wandering Women and the Dangers of Contagion in Edith Wharton’s The Old Maid and ‘Roman Fever,’” Lisa L. Tyler, Sinclair Community Coll., OH Respondent: Hildegard Maria Hoeller
Edith Wharton Collection Research AwardDeadline: March 15, 2008 Each year the Edith Wharton Society offers a Edith Wharton Collection Research Award of $1500 to enable a scholar to conduct research on the Edith Wharton Collection of materials at the Beinecke Library at Yale University.Prospective fellows for the 2008-2009 award are asked to submit a research proposal (maximum length 5 single-spaced pages) and a resume by March 15, 2008 to Hildegard Hoeller at hilhllr@aim.com or at 395 South End Ave, #24L, New York NY 10280.The research proposal should detail the overall research project, its particular contribution to Wharton scholarship, the preparation the candidate brings to the project, and the specific relevance that materials at the Beinecke collection have for its completion. The funds need to be used for transportation, lodging, and other expenses related to a stay at the library.Notification of the award will take place by April 15th and the award can be used from May 1, 2008 till May 1, 2009. A final report will be due June 1, 2009.CFP, American Literature Association, May 20081. Edith Wharton and the Culture of Celebrity.Wharton’s treatment of literary, musical, and theatrical celebrity; fans, obsessive and otherwise; the meanings of stardom and fame in Wharton’s fiction; being in and out of the spotlight. All approaches welcome; papers on Wharton’s lesser-known works would be especially appreciated. Please send 1-page abstracts and brief c.v.’s to Meredith Goldsmith (mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu) by 2. Representations of Wharton in the Mass MediaHow has Wharton been represented, both during and after her lifetime, in the mass media (including, but not limited to, reviews, visual images, advertisements, obituaries, fictional texts, architectural and design texts, newspapers, magazines, film, radio, television, tourist and historical site brochures, internet sites, and so forth). What aspects of Wharton’s life, identity, or career are privileged or omitted in these texts and for what purpose? What is the relationship between the persona constructed in these texts and the private and public persona that Wharton herself constructed? What is the relationship between Wharton’s mass media representation and her fiction? All approaches are welcome. Please send a 1-page abstract and brief c.v. to Gary Totten (gary.totten@ndsu.edu) by
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Edith Wharton and the Material Cultures of the Book.
CFP: Edith Wharton and the Material Cultures of the Book edited collection: deadlines extended
(abstracts, 1 July 2006; contributions, 31 December 2006).
Contributors are encouraged to interpret the idea of the material culture of the book as widely as they wish, drawing upon research from sociology, economic and social history, literary theory, bibliography, book history, philosophy and anthropology. I would particularly welcome contributors seeking to examine Wharton’s publication, production, dissemination and place in book history and material culture outside of an American context. Some topics that you might wish to discuss include:
Call for Papers MLA 2006 (Philadelphia)
The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor two panels at the 2006 MLA Convention in Philadelphia.
1. Nation, Race, and Citizenship in Edith Wharton’s Works. Issues addressed might include but are not limited to cosmopolitanism; biological, political, and anthropological constructions of citizenship, race, and nation; exile and conceptions of “home”; national and transnational identities; and related topics. Proposals on Wharton’s fiction, travel literature, poetry, and work during World War I are welcome.
Please send 1-2 page abstracts (500 words) by March 15, 2006 to Donna Campbell (Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020) at campbelld@wsu.edu ; no attachments, please.
2. Narcissism in Edith Wharton’s Works. Please send 1-2 page abstracts (500 words) by March 15 March 25, 2006 to Margaret Murray (Department of English, Western Connecticut State University) at drmpm@snet.net or murraym@wcsu.edu. Note: the e-mail address given in the MLA Newsletter is incorrect.
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Edith Wharton Sessions at ALA 2006
Deadline: January 5, 2006
The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference on May 25-28, 2006, in San Francisco.
1. Terror and Evil in Edith Wharton's Works
Please send 300-400 word abstracts by January 5, 2006 to:
Dr. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros
Associate Dean
VE-114A
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083
ckoros@kean.edu
2.. Physicality in Edith Wharton's Writing and Life
Papers on all aspects of physicality (eroticism, food, pain, pleasure, addiction, smell, temperature etc.) are welcome.
Please send 300-400 word abstracts by January 5, 2006 to:
Prof. Hildegard Hoeller
Associate Professor of English
College of Staten Island--City University of New York
e-mail: hilhllr@aol.com
mail: 29 Gail Court, Staten Island NY 10306
Edith Wharton's Dialog with the Women's Movement
Deadline: November 26, 2005 Extended Deadline: December 19, 2005
The Edith Wharton Society will host a session at the Society for the
Study of American Women Writers Conference (Philadelphia, November 8 -
11, 2006).
The early twentieth century was shaped, in part, by the struggle for
suffrage and greater educational and professional opportunities for
women. Many of Edith Wharton's writings contribute to the public
awareness of women's repression, yet her role in the fight for women's
rights has been the subject of debate. While Wharton's opportunities as
a professional writer emerge, in part, out of the rich heritage of
nineteenth-century domestic and sentimental novelists, she explicitly
distances herself from many of her foremothers. While her work
demonstrates the destructiveness of political, economic, and social
oppression, she also questions the need for suffrage and defends the
values of the domestic sphere. Wharton's public and private writings
enact a complex stance toward other women writers and the women's
movement. What new insights are emerging out of our increasingly nuanced
understanding of Wharton, her relationship with other writers, the
women's movement in America and abroad, and the radical political and
cultural transformations emerging during her lifetime?
SSAWW explains that it "is committed to diversity in the study of
American women writers --racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual
orientation, region, and era -- as well as of scholars participating in
the Society." Membership in SSAWW is required in order to participate in
the conference.
To submit a proposal, please provide a one-page abstract and one-page
c.v. on or before December 19 , 2005. You may send your work either
electronically (pasted into an email or as a Microsoft Word attachment)
to mcarney@mail.maconstate.edu or via postal mail to:
Mary Carney
Macon State College
Humanities Division
100 College Station Road
Macon, GA 31206-5145
Call for Papers on Teaching Edith Wharton
For publication in a special issue of the Edith Wharton Review. Please submit manuscripts by October 28, 2005.
Use the MLA 6th ed. style, with endnotes, not footnotes. Submit in triplicate to:
Prof. Linda Costanzo-Cahir
W 109-I
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083
Beginning in the fall of 2005, the Edith Wharton Essay Prize will be awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on Edith Wharton by a beginning scholar. Graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty members who have not held a tenure-track or full-time appointment for more than four years are eligible to submit their work.
The winning essay will be published in The Edith Wharton Review, a peer-reviewed journal, and the writer will receive an award of $250.
All entries will be considered for publication in The Edith Wharton Review as well as for the Edith Wharton Essay Prize. Submissions should be 15-25 pages in length and should follow the new 6 th edition MLA style, using endnotes, not footnotes.
Applicants should not identify themselves on the manuscript but should provide a separate cover page that includes their names, academic status, e-mail address, postal addresses, and the notation “The Edith Wharton Essay Prize.”
To submit an essay for the prize, send three copies by August 31, 2005, to either of the editors of The Edith Wharton Review:
Prof. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros
Associate Dean
VE-114A
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083
Prof. Linda Costanzo-Cahir
W 109-I
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083
CALL FOR EDITH WHARTON BIBLIOGRAPHY
Did your article, book chapter, or book on Wharton appear in 2004 ?
If so, please send a copy to Carol Singley. She is preparing the 2004 bibliographic essay on Wharton for American Literary Scholarship and would like to consider your work for inclusion.
Send items to Carol Singley, 312 Maple Ave. , Swarthmore , PA 19081 by July 1, 2005 .
Email questions to singley@camden.rutgers.edu
Update: Call for Selected Conference Papers for The House of Mirth Conference
Selected conference papers will be published in a 2006 issue of THE
HUDSON
RIVER VALLEY REVIEW. Papers that include consideration of the landscape,
culture, or history of the Mid-Hudson region are especially welcome.
Revised papers (approximately 2,000--4,000 words) with complete
documentation, MLA style, should be submitted by September 20, 2005 to
the
guest editors: Professors Donald Anderson and Judith Saunders, Department
of English, Marist College, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 1260l.
Call for Papers: Wharton Sessions at MLA 2005
Wharton, Science, and Technology . Papers on Wharton's interest in science or technology (astronomy, physics, airplanes, electricity, etc.) and/or its role in her work. 1-2 page abstracts by March 15; Laura Saltz ( lsaltz@colby.edu ).
Edith Wharton and France. Papers on Wharton and France, including Wharton's works set in France, World War I, translations, and French influences and relationships. 1-2 page abstracts by March 15; Donna Campbell (campbelld@wsu.edu).
Call for Papers
Edith Wharton Sessions at ALA 2005
The Edith Wharton will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 26-29, 2005.
1. Seeking proposals or papers analyzing the critical
writings of Edith Wharton and her contemporaries. Papers may
focus on any aspect of Wharton as critic or Wharton as subject of criticism
by her fellow writers. Papers may consider informal criticism
found in Wharton correspondence as well as published articles and reviews.
New deadline date: 20 January 2005.
Please submit email proposals of 500 words or complete papers by
20 January 2005 to
Carol Sapora
Professor of Language and Literature
Villa Julie College
1525 Greenspring Valley Road
Stevenson, MD 21153
f-sapora@mail.vjc.edu
2. Edith Wharton and Money
Papers addressing all aspects of that topic welcome.
Deadline : January 1, 2005
send proposals to Hildegard Hoeller at hilhllr@aol.com or at 29 Gail Court,
Staten Island NY 10306.
1000-word Essays on Wharton Novels
and Other American Novels,Classic and Contemporary
I am preparing a 2-volume Companion to the American Novel for Facts on File, sequel to The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story, and still have openings for essays on specific Wharton titles, along with other American fiction titles.
Essays written in a lively, jargonfree style, should be approximately 1000 words exclusive of bibliography, and authors are encouraged to include original and intriguing interpretations of the novels.
The deadline is 15 June 2004.
For further information and a list of available titles please contact me via any of the methods listed below.
Abby H. P. Werlock
Associate Professor of American Literature Emerita, St Olaf College
Fox Run
154 Fox Run Road
Mainesburg PA 16932
T: 570-549-2104
F: 570-549-2604
werlock@chilitech.net or werlock@stolaf.edu
Call for Papers
Edith Wharton Sessions at MLA 2004
The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor two sessions at the December 27-30, 2004, MLA in Philadelphia.
1. Edith Wharton and Secrets
Motifs of concealment and covertness in Wharton's writing; ethical, social, discursive, marital, and/or gender-oriented implications of the clandestine or the withheld; the phenomenon of secrecy in relation to matters of form or technique.
Please send abstracts and brief vitae by 15 March to:
Frederick Wegener
Department of English
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-2403
(fwegener@csulb.edu)
2. Edith Wharton and the Arts.
Fine arts and performing arts (such as opera and theater) in Wharton's life and work; theater and opera adaptations of Wharton's works. Proposals (approx. 250 words) to Julie Olin-Ammentorp (olinamme@lemoyne.edu) by March 10, 2004.
American Literature Association Conference
Deadline for Proposals: January 5, 2004
The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Society Conference in San Francisco, May 27-30, 2004.
1. Wharton in Context: The 20s
Papers examining Wharton's fiction 1920-1930 in relationship to short
stories, novellas, novels published by other American writers in that
same decade (e.g., comparisons/contrasts treating specific writers and
works: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Anderson, Cather, and others). 250-word
proposals to Judith Saunders by Jan. 5, 2004: Marist College, North
Rd.,
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 or judith.saunders@marist.edu
2. Edith Wharton's Short Fiction
Papers on any aspect of Wharton's short stories or novellas:
Call for Papers
Deadline November 1, 2003
The Spring 2004 issue of the Edith Wharton Review will be dedicated
to the memory of Daniel Scott Marshall, who died on October 14, 2002.
Scott's association with both the Edith Wharton Society
and Edith Wharton Restoration at The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts,
began in 1983. Scott served as the Restoration’s first intern
in 1985, and, after receiving an M.S. in historic preservation from
the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at
Columbia University in 1986, he went on to become Archivist, Historian,
Assistant Director, Deputy Director, and Senior Vice President at The
Mount. Anyone lucky enough to participate in one of Scott’s walking
tours, “Edith Wharton’s Old New York,” remembers
the animation and joy Scott brought to his scholarship about Wharton
and the New York City she lived in. He brought that same energetic
joy to his restoration work at The Mount . One of his many accomplishments
while there was to research and write the historical section of The
Mount’s Historic Structure Report, the document upon which all
restoration and interpretation of the house rests. The Report was published
in 1997 as The Mount: Home of Edith Wharton, now in its third
printing.
Scott’s scholarship also included work on Edith Wharton and film, about which he organized sessions for the Wharton conference in Paris in 1991 and the conference at Yale in 1995, both sponsored by The Edith Wharton Society. His article “Edith Wharton and Kate Spencer” appears in the Norton Critical Edition of Ethan Frome, and his essay “A History of Edith Wharton on Film” was published in Japan in Edith Wharton’s Two Worlds: America and Europe. Scott also published several articles in the Edith Wharton Review and was working on an edition of Wharton's poetry when he died.
Submissions for the Scott Marshall commemorative issue of EWR may address any of the subjects dear to Scott: Wharton and film, The Mount, Wharton and New York City, Wharton and Lenox, Wharton's poetry, Wharton and architecture/decoration.
We are also seeking short (250-300 words) anecdotes about Scott's interaction with members of the Wharton Society. Submissions, due November 1, 2003, should be 15-20 pages and should use MLA 5th edition style with endnotes as needed.
To publish in the Review one must be a member of the Wharton Society; we will gladly provide membership information. Please send copies to both Kathy Fedorko and Irene Goldman-Price:
Kathy Fedorko
117 W. Prospect St.
Hopewell, NJ 08525
k.fedorko@verizon.net
Irene Goldman-Price
8 Sidehill Trail
Sugarloaf, PA 18249
icgp@epix.net
Call for Papers
We are preparing a contextual companion volume to Edith Wharton's 1907 industrial
novel, The Fruit of the Tree. Papers, particularly interdisciplinary
studies, addressing the following topics will be especially welcome:
• The rise of the professional engineer and scientific manager
• The emergence of nursing as a career for women and the treatment of nursing
in literature
• The labor and industrial reform movements that shaped the Progressive
Era
• The relationship between The Fruit of the Tree and other "industrial
novels"
• The issue of drug addiction among physicians and the professional and
ethical response during the era
• The nature of industrial accidents and the impact they had on workers'
lives and families
• The issue of divorce particularly as it relates to social class and leisure
• How The Fruit of the Tree fits in with Wharton's other work.
Please query one of the editors before submitting a paper:
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Donna Campbell |
Irene
Goldman-Price 8 Sidehill Trail Sugarloaf, PA 18249 iicgp@epix.net |
Melissa
Pennell Department of English UMass Lowell 61 Wilder Street Lowell, MA 01854 Melissa_Pennell@uml.edu |
The Edith Wharton Review invites scholars to submit essays for a special issue, Edith Wharton and the Provocations of Philosophy. Essays should focus on considerations of Wharton’s extensive engagement with Western philosophy and with various forms of philosophical writing; on treatments of her writing in relation to the work of classical, French, or German philosophers known to have been of interest to her; on her work’s relationship to pragmatism; on Wharton and the question of women and/in philosophy; or on similar issues. A fuller acknowledgment or presentation of Wharton as an intellectually and speculatively animated novelist will be one of the chief objectives of this special issue.
Please send essays by 15 October 2003 (New Deadline) to
Frederick Wegener, Department of English, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-2403, or via email attachment to fwegener@csulb.edu; submissions should be up to approximately twenty double-spaced pages in length and follow MLA style.
The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor two sessions at MLA 2003 in San Diego.
1. Title: Edith Wharton, the Novel, and History
Examinations of Wharton's historical novels, of her use or depiction of history in novels; alternately, analyses of her understanding of the history of the novel and/or her influence on the novel's development.
Please send 100-200 word abstracts by March 10, 2003 to
Julie Olin-Ammentorp
English Dept., Le Moyne College
1419 Salt Springs Rd.
Syracuse, NY 13214-1399
inquiries: olinamme@lemoyne.edu
2. "The Business of Being Edith Wharton/The Edith Wharton Business"
Papers on Edith Wharton's business ventures--from authorship to real
estate and investment; work on marketing Edith Wharton --from dust
jackets to films; as a marketing lure to sell fabrics, interior
design. plants, etc.
Email 1-2 pg abstracts by 10 March to rohrbach@fas.harvard.edu.
Edith Wharton Sessions at the American Literature Association Conference
Cambridge, Massachusetts
May 22-25, 2003
The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor two sessions at ALA 2003.
1. Edith Wharton and FilmSeeking proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's engagement with film for a panel sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society. Papers might consider film adaptation of her works from any perspective, evolution of Wharton films over time, the use of visual tropes in the texts/film, cultural pressures at work on her adaptations in their specific historical context, relationship of film adaptations to other visual representations of her work (theater, illustration, etc), reception, Wharton as a filmic commodity, the relationship of changing technologies to the film adaptations, etc.
Send or email proposals of approximately 500 words plus a 1-2 page cv to Edie Thornton by December 31, 2002, at ediepage@charter.net or 2325 Oakridge Avenue, Madison, WI 53704.
Edie Thornton
Assistant Professor of English
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
800 West Main Street
Whitewater, WI 53190-1790
phone: 608-242-0167; fax: 262-472-1037 2.
2. Edith Wharton and WorkProposals or papers requested on any aspect of Edith Wharton and work: possibilities might include the following:
Please send proposals of 500 words or completed papers by January 5, 2003 to the program chair:
Donna Campbell, Associate Professor of English
Box AD 31, Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Avenue
Spokane, WA 99258
campbell@gonzaga.edu
Fax: 509.323.5718 E-mail proposals are welcome, but please do not send your proposal as an attachment.
Edith Wharton and Material Culture.
Submissions are invited for a collection
of essays exploring the significance of material culture in all aspects
of Wharton's life and work. Contributors may also consider
the question of what we gain and/or lose in Wharton criticism by
emphasizing material culture.
Note new deadline: Send completed essays (20-25 pages in length) by 6 June 2002 to
Gary Totten
Department of English
Concordia College
901 8th St. S.
Moorhead, MN 56562.
E-mail queries and questions are welcome:
totten@cord.edu.
12TH ANNUAL CENTRAL NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
CORTLAND COLLEGE OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
27-29 OCTOBER 2002
Deadline: July 15, 2002
EDITH WHARTON: Adaptations of Wharton's Works. Analyses
of any of the
adaptations of her works for film, plays, opera, and other media.
Chair: Julie Olin-Ammentorp
4491 Swissvale Drive
Manlius, NY 13104-9561
email: Olinamme@lemoyne.edu
MLA 2002: Deadline 22 March 2002
1. Edith Wharton and the Provocations
of Philosophy
Considerations of Wharton's extensive
interest in Western philosophy; treatments of her writing in relation
to the work of classical, French, or German philosophers; to pragmatism;
or to the question of women and/in philosophy.
Please send 1-2 page abstracts by March
22 to
Frederick Wegener
Department of English
California State University, Long Beach,
1250 Bellflower Blvd.,
Long Beach, CA 90840-2403
or to fwegener@csulb.edu (fax
562-985-2369).
2. Ambivalence of Place: The New Yorks
of Edith Wharton.
New York City as idea as well as site. 1-2
page proposals by March 22 to
Annette Zilversmit
140 Riverside Dr.
Apt. 16H
New York, NY 10024
email: AZilver@aol.com (no
attachments)
Call for Papers
American Literature Association
Long Beach, California
May 28-June 2, 2002
1. "Edith Wharton and U.S. Literary Modernism"
Deadline: 12-30-01
Please send proposals of about 500 words to Hildegard Hoeller at hilhllr@aol.com or
29 Gail Court, Staten Island, NY 10306.
2. CALL FOR PAPERS
Seeking proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's engagement with visual
culture for a panel sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society at the ALA in
Long Beach, CA, May 30-June 2, 2002. Papers might consider Wharton's
use
of visual tropes, the influence of photography or theater on her work, the
role of celebrity/publicity in her career, the construction of
spectatorship or voyeurism within her texts, the role of visual
technologies in her fiction, etc.
Send or email proposals of approximately 500 words plus a 1-page cv
to
Laura Saltz by Dec. 31 at: lsaltz@colby.edu or
1264 Cambridge Street #2,
Cambridge, MA, 02139.
CNYPLL
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: 7/15/01
11TH ANNUAL CENTRAL NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE
AND LITERATURE
CORTLAND COLLEGE OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
26-29
OCTOBER 2001
MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS: EDITH WHARTON
Edith Wharton: Comparative Readings of New York Satire (e.g., Wharton
and W. D. Howells, Dawn Powell, etc.)
Chair: Margaret Murray
Western Connecticut State University
139 Village Pond Road, Guilford, CT 06437
email: murraymp@wcsu.ctstateu.edu or GFRANCIS@GATEWAY.NET
Edith Wharton at MLA 2001
1. Edith Wharton Goes Goth!"...being Goth is seeing beauty, and its coming destruction, at the same time." --Beatgrrl. Abstracts that consider Wharton's work as it relates to this somewhat idiosyncratic definition or more traditional notions of the gothic by March 13.
Augusta Rohrbach
President, Edith Wharton Society
c/o Bunting Fellowship Program
34 Concord Avenue
Cambridge MA 021138
rohrbach@radcliffe.edu
2. War Writing by Wharton and Other War Writers. Comparison of Wharton's war writing with other writers', especially to men's writing, e.g., Hemingway. 1-2 page proposals by 1 March to Harriet Gold,hgold@total.net
European Studies Research Institute, University
of Salford
Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan
University
The Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris
CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
THE MONA BISMARCK FOUNDATION,
AVENUE DE NEW YORK, PARIS 23rd-25th JULY 2001
AMERICANS IN PARIS:
PARIS IN AMERICANS
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be sent by 16th February 2001 to:
Louise Graham, ESRI Conference Administrator,
European Studies Research Institute,
University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, Greater Manchester, England.
Telephone: +44 (0) 161 295 5614 E-mail:l.j.graham@salford.ac.uk
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1. EDITH WHARTON IN CONTEXT. We are looking for papers that position Edith Wharton within the larger context of American Literature. Papers that examine her place within the pantheon of American writers; papers that historicize her contribution to significant genres such as regionalism, realism, modernism; papers that consider her in dialogue (or argument) with other figures in American letters.
Please send 1-2 page proposals by January 5th, 2001 to:
2. MARKETS, NATIONS, AND RACES IN EDITH WHARTON'S WORK.Augusta Rohrbach
Vice President
Edith Wharton Society
c/o The Bunting Fellowship Program
34 Concord Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138Or email proposals to:
rohrbach@radcliffe.edu
Please send 1-2 page proposals by December 30, 2000 to:
Hildegard Hoeller
Arts and Humanities
Babson College
Babson Park, MA 02457
hoeller@babson.edu
Issue
of Q/W/E/R/T/Y (Journal; Deadline 9/1/00)
Society
for the Study of American Women Authors (SSAWW) (San Antonio; Deadline
8/15/00; 2/15/01)
Society for
the Study of American Women Writers
First International Conference
Dates: February 14-18, 2001
Location: St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio,
Texas
Conference Director: Susan Belasco, University
of Nebraska
Deadline for Proposals: August 15, 2000
The program committee welcomes submissions of panels
organized by individuals and sessions sponsored by author societies
affiliated with the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
We are especially interested in panels and sessions that provide substantial
time for discussion and exchange. We also encourage individuals
with ideas for single presentations or papers to contact the conference
director. Although traditional conference papers of no more than
fifteen minutes in length are welcome, we are especially
interested in proposals adaptable to a variety of formats. Formats
may include exhibits,
roundtables, performances, workshops, readings, group
presentations, and discussion sessions of papers distributed online
prior to the conference. Topics may include (but are not limited
to) examinations of the individual works of women writers; theoretical
considerations of race, disability, genre studies, ethnicity,
gender, and class; pedagogical issues and implications;
lesbian studies; international dimensions of American women writers,
women writers and the reconstruction of American literature, the place
of feminist scholarship in contemporary society and in the academy;
and women writers and the development of periodical literature in American
culture.
The SSAWW is committed to a conference program that reflects the diversity of its membership.
Inquiries and proposals should be sent to Susan Belasco, Conference Director, SSAWW, by e-mail to sbelasco@unl.edu
Proposal should include the name, e-mail address, and
institutional affiliation of a contact person or session chair; names,
e-mail addresses, and institutional affiliations of all persons involved
in the panel or session; the title or topic and a brief description
of the panel or session; the proposed format; and
equipment requests. Program participants must
be current members of the SSAWW.
The Officers and Advisory Board of the SSAWW invite
all interested persons to access the SSAWW website <http://www.unl.edu/legacy/SSAWW1.html> for
membership information about the Society and the conference. Author
societies affiliated with the American Literature Association and the
Modern Language Association are also encouraged to affiliate with the
SSAWW and to sponsor a panel or session at the conference.
The next issue of Q/W/E/R/T/Y
(October 2000) will devote a large section
(at least 6 to 8 articles) to Edith Wharton's The
Custom of the Country.
Should you be willing to contribute or should you happen to know colleagues likely to contribute to this section or to one of the other sections (see below), do let me know. I will be happy to answer your questions concerning the journal.
Sincerely,
Bertrand Rougé
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Q/W/E/R/T/Y
(subtitled "Arts, Litteratures ∓ Civilisations
des Pays Anglophones") is a French journal of English and American
studies published by the University of Pau. It is indexed in the MLA
Bibliography, the World Shakespeare Bibliography, the Annotated Bibliography
for English Studies, American Literary Scholarship (Duke University),
and several others.
The next issue (October 2000) will include articles on:
- William Shakespeare. Antony
and Cleopatra (1623).
- Henry Fielding. Joseph
Andrews (1742).
- Edith Wharton. The
Custom of the Country (1913).
- James Joyce. Dubliners
(1914).
- William Gaddis. Carpenter's
Gothic (1985).
- Landscapes and Gardens in 18th-century Great Britain.
- Poverty and Inequality in Great Britain, 1942-1990.
Papers may be written in French or English. Disks (Word 5 for Macintosh or RTF) and hardcopies (MLA Style). Deadline: Sept. 1.
Scholars interested in contributing or wishing to suggest
likely contributors should get in touch with bertrand.rouge@univ-pau.fr and
send a
summary of the projected article and a resume as soon
as possible. Submissions should be original and scholarly, they should
aim at a genuine
renewal of interpretations. All submissions will be
reviewed by the editorial committee.
Bertrand Rougé
Université de Pau
France
