UPDATE: [General] Female Academic Superstardom (2008 M/MLA)
We have extended our deadline to April 30th, 2008!
The Women's Caucus for the Midwest Modern Languages Association is
inviting 250-word abstracts for a panel entitled "Female Academic
Superstardom." The 50th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language
Association will take place on November 13-16, 2008 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
This panel will explore female academic superstardom from a variety of
perspectives. Successful abstracts might address one or more of the
following questions:
How does a critic or theorist become an "academostar," a term used to
describe a high-profile academic in a 2001 special issue of The Minnesota
Review devoted to academic superstardom?