CALL FOR PAPERS

42nd Annual Comparative Literature Conference,
15-16 March 2007
California State University, Long Beach

“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
• Mothers, daughters, and matriarchy
• Femininity, female sexuality, and cultural anxiety

Please e-mail proposals to:

Prof. Cheryl Goldstein <cgoldst2@csulb.edu> OR
Prof. Nhora Serrano <nserrano@csulb.edu>

Deadline for paper and panel proposals:
December 15, 2006.