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CFP: Women Professing Modernism, Women's Studies Section, 2009 NeMLA Convention (9/15/08; Boston, MA, 2/26/09-3/1/09)
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-09-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-05-28 |
| Announcement ID: |
162575 |
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2009 NEMLA Convention, Women’s Studies Section
CALL FOR PAPERS
40th Anniversary Convention, The Northeast Modern Language
Association (NeMLA)
February 26th-March 1st
Hyatt Regency—Boston, MA
Women Professing Modernism
This panel will consider the pressure on modernist women writers to prove their intellectual and professional validity and the strategies that they employ to live up to, mock, or refuse these (self-)definitions. In "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf famously imagines a Judith Shakespeare, crushed into obscurity (and early death) by her inimical cultural context. But what about the intellectual and aesthetic scene of modernism itself, which according to Ann Douglas in "Terrible Honesty," imagines the destruction of the mother and enshrines the masculine?
Taking a transatlantic perspective on this phenomenon, this panel will address the personae of modernist women writers and their tactics to embrace, thwart, or redefine modernist authority. Please send 250 to 500 word abstracts as Microsoft Word documents to Catherine Keyser, keyserc@mailbox.sc.edu by September 15th
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Catherine Keyser
Department of English
Humanities Office Building
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Email: keyserc@mailbox.sc.edu
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