English III: English Literature After 1900 (MMLA 2017 Permanent Section)

deadline for submissions: 
April 5, 2017
full name / name of organization: 
Leanna Lostoski, University of New Hampshire
contact email: 

2017 MMLA Convention

Permanent Section Call for Papers: English III: English Literature After 1900 

In keeping with the conference’s theme “Artists and Activists,” this permanent section panel seeks to explore how authors have responded to the turbulences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether authors were writing in response to modernization, globalization, or even more recent digitization, I welcome papers in this panel that address how English literature has provided a means for social commentary and critique in a rapidly changing world.

 

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: modernization; responses and critiques of WWI, WWII, and other major conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; decolonization; civil rights movements; globalization; and the digital age. Particular attention will be paid to papers discussing environmental concerns and activism of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

 

Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to Leanna Lostoski at ljl1006@wildcats.unh.edu by April 5th.