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The Joseph Conrad Society and The William Faulkner Society invite proposals for a planned collaborative session at MLA 2012 in Seattle, "Conrad and Faulkner: Revisiting the Modern." We seek comparative approaches to the two writers' texts or contexts exploring any aspect of modernity and/or modernism. 300-500-word abstracts or 20-minute papers by 1 March 2011 to Jay Watson (jwatson@olemiss.edu) and Debra Romanick Baldwin (dbaldwin@udallas.edu).