2018 MMLA Conference Theme

“Consuming Cultures"

Kansas City, MO

November 15-18, 2018

http://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/

Panel: German Women Writers

Topic: Open

We are seeking papers which deal with the literary texts and lives of German-speaking women writers from any period and in any genre. Papers that address the Convention theme of “Consuming Cultures” are especially welcome.

Please submit 250-word abstracts and a 50-word bio as email attachments to Bethany Morgan bethanymorgan@wustl.edu by April 5th, 2018. 

Possible sub-themes of the Convention theme “Consuming Cultures” include: 

• “buying into” womanhood
• gender and consumerism
• consumerism and class
• conspicuous consumption
• consumerized empowerment
• studies in food, agriculture, animals, and plants
• intersections between postcolonialism, imperialism, and capitalism
• the co-opting of culture as a consumable good
• ecocritical readings of consumption
• transcultural identities
• activism
• varying methods of consumption: digital, etc.
• disability studies in culture
• issues of feminism and womanism
• cultures of non-consumption: asceticism
• consumption vs. production