*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;

* Spanish Ministry Session with Andr=E9s Ib=E1=F1ez , one of the best-know=
n literary
critics in Spain.

Over 200 panels and roundtables are still accepting abstracts, representing
current scholarship and issues in Italian, French, Spanish and German
Literatures and Languages, as well as in American and British Literature,
Comparative Literature, Popular Culture, Film, Women's Studies and
Gay/Lesbian Studies:

Read the full Call for Papers at
*http://www.nemla.org/convention/cfp.html*<http://www.nemla.org/convention/=
cfp.html>and
submit your abstract by
*September 15, 2006*. Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any)

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel;
however panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants may
present at a paper session panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. Join us in Baltimore!

*Questions? *Contact Elizabeth Abele, Executive Director, at
Northeast.MLA_at_gmail.com

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*Northeast Modern Language Association*

*www.nemla.org*

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Elizabeth Abele

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