Literary Hostesses at NeMLA (April 7-11, 2010, Montreal)
full name / name of organization:
Meghan Gilbert-Hickey / Texas A&M University
contact email:
This NeMLA panel will address the role of the hostess in literature as a means to consider the gendered roles--social, domestic, political, economic, and otherwise--of women. Topics may include the figure of the hostess in literary works, as well as the writer as hostess. Please submit 250-500 word abstracts about the hostess as a literary figure to Meghan Gilbert-Hickey at mgilbert-hickey@tamu.edu by September 30.