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Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention
Toronto, Ontario - April 30-May 3, 2015
NeMLA's Women's and Gender Studies Caucus seeks abstracts for the approved panels below – panel descriptions, submission guidelines and the full cfp are available at:
www.nemla.org/convention/2015.html
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014
Activist, Professor, or Scholar? Best Practices in Gender Scholarship - Chair: Lisa Day
Alice Munro and the Body - Chair: Alison Arant
Beyond 'Green Gables': L. M. Montgomery's Darker Side - Chair: Laura Robinson
Beyond 'the Wounded Surgeon': Nurses' Construction and Recovery of the Wound - Chairs: Emma Burris-Janssen, Elizabeth Sheckler
Coming-of-Age Novels by Contemporary Latina Authors – Chair: Maria Esther Quintana Millamoto
Contemporary Representations of Mother-Daughter Relationships - Chair: Lisa Bernstein
Feminist Pedagogies - Chairs: Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Amanda Blair Runyan
Flying Home: Contemporary Women Writers, Migration, and Identity - Chair: Jane Wood
'Geographies of Home' in Ethnic American Women's Literature - Chair: Jami Carlacio
Latin American and Caribbean Women Playwrights: From Crisis to Harmony – Chair: Margarita Vargas
Locating the Androgyne: The Status of In-Betweenness in Gender Studies - Chair: Geoffrey Bender
'Mail and Female': New Approaches to Women's Letters - Chair: Elizabeth Foley O'Connor
Maternal Hauntings in Asian American Literature and Popular Culture - Chair: Jina Lee
Queer Theory After Mad for Foucault - Chair: Meridith Kruse
Queer/Geek: Theorizing the Convergence of Fandom, Camp, and Other Deviances - Chairs: Balaka Basu, Alec Magnet
Sex Outdoors - Chairs: Laura Fisher, Travis Foster
Teaching 19th-Century American Women's Literature: New Texts, New Approaches – Chair: Paula Kot
The Various Utilizations of Life Writing - Chair: Sarah MacDonald
The Versatile Genius: Renaissance Women Artists and the Canon - Chair: Elisa Modolo
Women Poets Writing the City - Chair: Michelle Tokarczyk
Women Writing the Holocaust - Chair: Ravenel Richardson
Women's Narrative as Social Construction: Writing Memory, Self, Identity, Power - Chair: Nilgun Okur
Women's War Images: Through the Female Gaze - Chair: Andrea McKenzie
Wonder Tales in A. S. Byatt's Fiction - Chair: Alexandra Cheira
Submit an Abstract
This year, NeMLA has implemented a user-based system to accept and track abstract submissions. In order to submit an abstract using the button for a CFP entry, you must sign up with NeMLA and log in. Using this new system, you can manage your personal information and review and update your abstract following submission. Signing up is free, and you only have to do it once.
If you have questions about signing up, or if you encounter difficulties using the site, email websupport@nemla.org for assistance.