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Apologies--the correct website is www-english.tamu.edu/bwwc18

The 18th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

"Journeys"
April 8-11, 2010

Keynote Speakers: Kate Flint and Felicity Nussbaum
Plenary Panel Speakers: Mary Fissell, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, and Erika Rappaport

Call for Papers

This year's conference will explore the abundant varieties of journeys found
in 18th- and 19th-century British women's writing. We encourage
interdisciplinary considerations of topics such as migration, travel, exile,
exploration, tourism, border crossing, religion, travel writing, art,
fantasy, children's literature and more.

Proposals for panels and individual papers might consider, but are not
limited to, the following issues:

-Travel writing/art
-Biographical narratives
-Marriage/Honeymoon
-Continental tours
-Motherhood
-Childhood
-Colonialism and Empire
-Philosophical investigations
-Scientific inquiry
-Religious explorations
-Spiritual awakenings
-Transatlantic movement of persons, ideas, and/or goods
-Immigration/Emigration
-Memory as travel
-Dreams
-Re-envisioning the past/future
-Mapping the body
-Rites of passage
-Crossing class boundaries
-Movement between private and public spheres
-Exile (Social, Political, Familial)
-Women and work
-Education
-Intertextuality

Individual proposals should be two pages: a cover sheet including name,
presentation title, university affiliation, address, email address, phone
number, and brief biographical paragraph; and a 500-word abstract. Please do
not include any identifying information on the abstract.

Panel proposals should include a coversheet--containing panel title,
presenters' names, presentation titles, university affiliations, addresses,
email addresses, phone numbers, brief biographical paragraphs, and the name
of the moderator--followed by separate abstracts (500-word) that describe
the significance of the panel topic and each presentation. Please do not
include any identifying information on the abstracts.

Proposals must be submitted electronically as an attachment in .doc or .rtf
format by October 15, 2009 to the conference email address BWWC18@tamu.edu

For more information and updates, please visit our conference website
http://www-english.tamu.edu/bwwc18