modernist studies

The 46th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900

February 22-24, 2018

300 Word Proposals Due October 2, 2018

Contact: Alexandra Gold (agold25@bu.edu) andFrank Capogna (fcapogna@framingham.edu)

Seminar Topic - "Un-Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Texts, Methods, Institutions"

English Literature has been able to reinvent itself along new pathways, from the age of the manuscript to the digital era. In the last decades, the digital technology has changed the paradigms involving both the reading strategies and the analysis of literary texts: among others, the relation between writer and reader; the publication in digital platforms; “distant reading”; the exploration of the image; the abundance of information; the access to the original texts. This enormous change has originated an interdisciplinary reevaluation of many of the previous paths, as well as the launching of new focuses of reflection.

Proposed ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) seminar, Los Angeles, March 29-April 1, 2018Organizer: Keri Walsh, Fordham UniversityMedia Studies is currently embarked upon a period of substantial revision when it comes to understanding the roles women have played in every domain of production and reception. An important wave of this reassessment has focused on film, and on Hollywood film in particular, challenging the notion that women were powerless pawns in silent and classical Hollywood and beyond.

Katherine Mansfield: New Directions

Katherine Mansfield Society Conference

Birkbeck, University of London
28-29 June 2018

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Acclaimed authors
Ali Smith Elleke Boehmer

This panel reflects on the place of confusion in British and American modernism. Confusion has not been traditionally considered a proper scholarly response to textual analysis; critics are supposed to interpret a text rather than allow themselves to experience its uncertainties. What happens when we explore the confusion we feel when reading not as something to be worked through, but as something to be worked with? Building on affect theorists’ work on how our feelings can influence the way we read, such as Eve Sedgwick’s reparative reading and Rita Felski’s reflective and post-critical reading, how can considering confusion change both our experience of reading and our critical practices?