UPDATE: NEMLA Conference (9/15/06; 3/1/07-3/4/07)
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association
March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland
Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University
*Special events in the works:*
* Welcome Reception, featuring readings by novelist Madison Smartt Bell
and poet Elizabeth Spires;
* Keynote Speaker Professor Amanda Anderson, Caroline Donovan Professor
of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University,
author of *The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory*;
* Plenary Speaker Professor Sante Matteo, on the influence of Marco Polo
and the Silk Road;