UPDATE: British Women Writers Conference (10/10/06; 4/12/07-4/15/07)
The deadline for abstract submissions for the
British Women Writers Conference has been
extended until 10/10/2006.
Please see the CFP below.
15th Annual
British Women Writers Conference
April 12-15, 2007
The University of Kentucky
Call for Papers
The theme for this year’s conference is
“Speaking with Authority,†which encourages
submissions that reflect on the various
forms of power that women writers wield
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to
the writers of this period, and we are
especially interested in the ways women
writers gain, accept, resist, and complicate
authority and power. We are pleased to
announce that our keynote speakers will be
Deborah Epstein Nord, Sally Mitchell, Teresa
Mangum, Ann Ardis, Laura Rosenthal, and Ellen
Rosenman. We encourage proposals for panels
and individual papers that consider, but are
not limited to, the following issues:
Narrative as Political Tool
Issues of empire and colonization
The politics of representing social class
Nationalism and female agency
Sexuality and the body
Race and subjectivity
Women writing in subgenres
New Woman fiction
The gothic novel
Sensation fiction
The domestic novel or the comedy of manners
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction in all its forms
Representations of and Responses to Women’s Voices
Women’s letters and journals
Representations in popular media
Advice literature
Fictional representations of the woman writer
Issues of backlash
Reading/Writing/Creating Cultural Spaces
Architecture (i.e. the British Museum, Crystal Palace)
Circulating libraries
The publishing industry
Sports and entertainment
Clubs or organizations
The private and public spheres
Please submit brief abstracts for individual
presentations and panel proposals (including
the name of a moderator) by October 10, 2006.
Please do not include any identifying
information on your abstract. Proposals may be
sent through email (include name, phone number,
mailing address, institutional affiliation and
brief biographical paragraph in the body of the
email) to: bwwc07_at_uky.edu.
Abstracts may also be submitted via regular mail
to:
British Women Writers Conference
University of Kentucky
Department of English
1215 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506
Please include a cover sheet with your name,
address, phone number, email address,
institutional affiliation and a brief
biographical paragraph.
Please note that Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, an online, peer-
reviewed journal, plans to devote the 2007 summer issue to
publishing the best papers from the British Women Writers Conference held at the University of Kentucky in April.
NCGS publishes insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The 2006 special summer issue (due out in late July) focuses on the New Woman. For more information, please visit the website at www.ncgsjournal.com.
Katherine Dunagan Osborne
Department of English
University of Kentucky
katherine.osborne_at_uky.edu
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