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22nd Annual Meeting of the
British Women Writers Conference
June 19-21, 2014
Binghamton University,
State University of New York
REFLECTIONS
For the 22nd annual
meeting of the British Women Writers Conference
For the 22nd annual
meeting of the British Women Writers Conference, we will focus on the theme of “Reflections.”
Cross-disciplinary in scope and implication, we invite papers—as well as panel
and roundtable proposals—to explore “reflections” as broadly as possible,
whether they are physical or metaphysical; individual or cultural; social,
historical or fictional; real or imagined; seen or unseen.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
Reflective Objects and Spaces
Imagery of mirrors in
women’s writing
Cemeteries, memorials,
monuments; museums
Ruins
Shop-windows
Fashion/clothing;
consumption/consumerism; advertising
Women in business/finance
Books (and readers)
Photography/photographs
Private spheres:
homes/decor, women’s rooms, closets
Public spheres: public
gardens, theaters, salons
Liminal spaces
Reflections
of/on the Body
“Beauty”/appearance; body
image
Youth/age
Changes in the female
body: internal and external; psychological or physiological; perspectives and
attitudes regarding adolescence and maturation, menstruation and menopause,
motherhood and childbirth
Health/disease
Disability
Gender and sexuality
Body as reflection of the
unconscious
Reflective Genres
Women’s life writing;
women writing about women; biographical
or autobiographical
reflection
Letters and journals;
epistolary novel; transnational correspondence
Reviews/reception
Ekphrasis; reflections
on/of visual arts (other arts) in literature
Histories/origins; the
historical novel
Detective fiction
Travel writing
Medical writing
Metafiction; fiction about
reading fiction; Romantic poetry
Textual Reflections
Repetition in
form/structure
Doubling, doppelgängers;
the uncanny
Dreams
Textual gaps or silences
Revisions/retellings of
original stories
Creative Work: poetry, fiction,
non-fiction inspired by BWWs
Reflective Moments
Epiphany
Memory/remembrance; Erlebnis
and Erfahrung
Sensory reflection (smell,
taste, sound)
Self and identity,
self-recognition/narcissism
Death and (re)birth
“The mirror stage”
Desire/eroticism
BWWs and travel
Women’s Rights/ Suffrage
Distorted Reflections
Repressed and displaced
language
Translations
Cross-disciplinary
reflections
Abstractions
The Gothic
The grotesque
(Re)imagining the past and
future
“Aura”/mass reproduction
Madness, hysteria
Through the Looking Glass
Reflective Possibilities (Possible
roundtables/special sessions)
British Women &
Health/Medicine
British Women &
American Women
British Women in Pop
Culture/Film
British Women & Travel
British Women & the
History of Women’s Rights
British Women & the
Military
For paper proposals, please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio (in a single attachment) to bwwc2014@gmail.com by January 1, 2014.
For full panel or roundtable/session proposals, please attach all proposals to a single email. Papers and panels must address the theme and apply to long 18th- or 19th-century, Romantic or Victorian women’s literature.
