PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS CALL FOR PAPERS WIDELY!!!
4 SESSIONS sponsored by the MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION DIVISION on GERMAN LITERATURE to 1700:
1) “Inventing Lives (800-1700)”
Considering the MLA theme "Narrating Lives," we invite proposals on the production of biography and autobiography in literature and art. Narration strategies; genre; literary history; the new "Verfasserlexikon 1520-1620."
Send 250-word abstracts by 10 March 2010 to Elio Brancaforte ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
2) “Lives across Borders (800-1400)”
Papers on cultural mobility, legendary figures and places, monstrous and imaginary creatures, sacred and secular sites, pilgrimage, Far East and West, utopias, reliability of maps and travel narratives.
Send 250-word abstracts by 10 March 2010 to Elio Brancaforte ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
3) [Joint session with Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature]
“Lives across Borders (1400-1700)”
Papers examining the narratives and selves constructed by individuals who crossed national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries through travel, exploration, piracy, captivity, slavery, etc
Send 250-word abstracts and vitae by 10 March 2010 to Elio Brancaforte ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Lisa Voigt ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
4) OPEN SESSION
Papers on any topic in medieval or early modern German studies.
Send 250-word abstracts by 10 March 2010 to Elio Brancaforte ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MLA HAS CHANGED ITS MEETING TIME AND THE NEXT ANNUAL CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD 6–9 JANUARY 2010 IN LOS ANGELES, CA.
Elio Brancaforte
Associate Professor
Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Studies
305 Newcomb Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
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Fax: (504) 865-5277
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