Call for Papers
“Women Producers and the Politics of Form in the
Interwar Period”
40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language
Association (NeMLA)
February 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency, Boston, MA
Continuing to engage Rita Felski’s question, asked
over a decade ago in The Gender of Modernity, of what
happens when gender is the central lens through which
we view modernity, this panel will ask how the
aesthetics of women producersâ€"including novelists,
short story writers, filmmakers, journalists, and
poetsâ€"in the 1920s and 1930s might be conceived as
left-wing, right-wing, or an entirely different kind
of political activism or social vision. How might

SAMLA (November 7-9, 2008)

DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 26, 2008

Modern Drama
The Play’s the Thing: Language Play & Performativity

This panel seeks papers which explore the dynamic relationship between
language play and performance. Presentations might focus on French-
language plays, poetic drama, the role of the avant-garde and language
experiments, or theories of performativity. Other topics also welcomed.

Please submit 300-word abstracts, a brief biography, and contact
information to Barbara Cole (bacole_at_buffalo.edu) by May 26, 2008.
Presenters must be members of SAMLA by the time of the convention.

Call for Papers
“Women Producers and the Politics of Form in the Interwar Period”
40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
February 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency, Boston, MA
This panel will ask how the aesthetics of women producersâ€"including novelists, short story
writers, filmmakers, journalists, and poetsâ€"in the 1920s and 1930s might be conceived as
political activism or social vision. How might gendered discourses of this interwar period of
modernity influence how women producers engaged aesthetics as a cultural politics? Is the
perception of women producers as either disembodied aesthetes or embodied feminists in the

Call for Papers
“Women Producers and the Politics of Form in the Interwar Period”
40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
February 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency, Boston, MA

Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and
libraries, is seeking scholars to edit anthologies of nineteenth- and
early-twentieth-century criticism of the works of Shelley and Byron. The
scholar will introduce and provide context for the critical extracts,
discussing and interpreting how critical reputations are built and change.
In addition, contributing editors will be asked to supply additional
critical extracts and introductory commentary, where needed, to bolster
the publication’s offerings. Respondents should have a PhD, broad
knowledge of the secondary literature on the subject author, an ability to

This one-day conference invites papers from a range of disciplines,
reflecting the scope of contemporary feminist interest in spatial
configurations. The conference will address the issue of “how British
women writers represent space”, considering questions such as, how do
women writers construct literary space? What types of spaces/places are
represented in works by women? How are received notions of space/place
interpreted, accepted, or contested? How do we theorise the textual
spaces in women’s writing?
We welcome papers covering British women’s writing over a period ranging
from the mid-19th century to the present. Topics may include, but are not
limited to:

American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction (October 2-4, 2008 in Savannah,
Georgia)