“Women, Sexuality, and Early Modern Studies”

The 2007 Conference, hosted by the Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics at Cal State University, Long Beach, invites paper and panel proposals on a full range of topics addressing writings by and about women and the feminine in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Papers with comparative topics and methodologies are especially welcome. Please limit proposals to 150- 300 words.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Medieval and Early Modern female authors and/or figures
Depictions of the feminine in Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern literature
Contemporary invocations of medieval femininity
The medieval woman as cinematic object
Women and hagiography
Religious education and women
Queens
Women and the Arts
Notions of selfhood, beauty and representation of the feminine