The 14th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
March 23-26, 2006
The University of Florida
Call for Papers
This year's theme, "(Re)Collecting British Women Writers," encourages interdisciplinary approaches to writers of the period, with a special interest in issues related to archival scholarship and memory and how those issues manifest themselves in collections, exhibitions, and canons.
We are very pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Talia Schaffer (CUNY-Queens College), Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick), and Lynne Vallone (Texas A&M University).
We encourage proposals focusing on but not limited to:
Collections and Archives:
Politics of display and archiving
Textual and physical collections
Intersections of written and visual arts
Collecting in the (pseudo)sciences
Exhibiting the empire
The family: children's culture
Collections and archives in the classroom
(Re)envisioning the Canon:
Recovering women's writing
Intersections between canonical and non-canonical writers
Intersections between male and female writers
De-marginalizing and de-centering groups, texts, crafts
Theatrical adaptations of canonical and non-canonical texts
Women’s access to words: female literacies and publishing
Children’s literature in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries
Transatlantic links in children's culture
Influence and Textual Memory:
Colony and the empire
Nation, nationality, and the body
Life writing: journals and letters
Travel narratives
Gendered intertexualities
Subjectivity, agency, and authorship
Family as a microcosm or metaphor
The politics of historical representation
Please submit 1-2 page abstracts for individual presentations and panel proposals (including the name of a moderator) by September 30, 2005. Please do not include any identifying information in your abstract.
Proposals may be submitted via an online form at:
http://www.english.ufl.edu/bwwc/cfp_submission.shtml after July 1, 2005.
Proposals may also be sent via regular mail (include a cover sheet with your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, and institutional affiliation) to:
British Women Writers Conference
University of Florida
Department of English
P.O. Box 117310
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7310
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