CFP: M/MLA Special Session “Bernard Shaw and Debt” (6/1/2012; 11/8-11/2012)

Final call for papers for the special session on "Bernard Shaw and Debt" to be held at the 54th Annual M/MLA Convention will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio from November 8-11, 2012 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza.

Sponsored by the International Shaw Society, this session seeks papers focused on borrowers and lenders in Bernard Shaw's plays, debts Shaw and/or his plays owe to other thinkers, writers, and political figures, or Shavian debts accrued by contemporary plays, playwrights, or theorists.

Please submit 300-400-word abstracts by June 1 to session chair Dr. Christopher Wixson, Eastern Illinois University, cmwixson@eiu.edu.

The call is posted at http://www.luc.edu/mmla/callforpapers.html#ss. For all the details on the conference, scroll to the top of the address above or go directly to http://www.luc.edu/mmla/callforpapers.html.

CFP: 2012 M/MLA: Permanent Section: English Literature 1800-1900 (6/1/2012; 11/8-11/2012)

The English Literature 1800-1900 panel seeks papers for the 2012 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, November 8-11, 2012. Cincinnati, Ohio.

In keeping with the informal theme of “debt” for the M/MLA 2012 convention, the English II: English Literature 1800-1900 panel seeks to present discussions of works and writers that deal in some fashion with that nineteenth-century juggernaut, debt.

Possible themes include indebtedness and influence, borrowers and lenders, bonds and contracts, economics of lack, states of debt, oaths and promises, gift-giving, cultures of expenditure, occupy literature, trans-cultural capital, deferring, symbolic economics, ecological materialism, rethinking civic missions/practices, forgiveness, gratitude, literature of demand, emotional obligation, debts of affect, and student loans.

Papers on any form or genre of British literature between 1800 and 1900 are welcome. Proposals of 200 to 400 words should be sent by June 1st to Nancee Reeves, Purdue University, nreeves@purdue.edu. Selected presenters will be informed by June 15th, 2012 and must register for the conference by July 1, 2012.

CFP: M/MLA Travel Panel "The Debts of Travel" (4/15/2012; 11/8-11/2012)

M/MLA, November 8-11, Cincinnati, OH

Travel Writing/Writing Travel
Topic: The Debts of Travel

Travel is liable to produce financial debt, as travelers incur expenses far beyond those of their ordinary lives. But what of the less literal indebtedness that is inherent in the process of traveling? This panel seeks to explore the ways that travel leaves traveling subjects variously indebted. For example, they may be emotionally indebted to traveling companions or to individuals they encounter who help them along their way. They may return home ideologically changed, forever indebted to new cultural experiences and the sense of difference that is endemic of travel. Travelers may leave something of themselves behind and experience travel debts as a kind of loss; or they may experience the process of becoming indebted as freeing themselves from previous restrictions. Proposals may consider any aspects of how travel is predicated upon or results in various forms of indebtedness, whether in travelers or in the people/cultures they encounter. Proposals for perspectives on travel from any historical/literary period welcome, and those from Victorian studies are encouraged. If you, or a particularly promising graduate student of yours, are working on relevant Victorian material, please apply! Inquiries are welcome.

Please send 300-word abstracts by April 15 to Andrea Kaston Tange, Eastern Michigan University, akastont@emich.edu.

For more information on the conference itself, please see: http://www.luc.edu/mmla/annualconvention.html 

Reminder: 2012 M/MLA: Permanent Section: English Literature 1800-1900 (5/7/2012; 11/8-11/2012)

The English Literature 1800-1900 panel seeks papers for the 2012 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. November 8-11, 2012. Cincinnati, Ohio.

In keeping with the informal theme of “debt” for the M/MLA 2012 convention, the English II: English Literature 1800-1900 panel seeks to present discussions of works and writers that deal in some fashion with that nineteenth-century juggernaut, debt. Possible themes include:

• indebtedness and influence 
• borrowers and lenders 
• bonds and contracts 
• economics of lack 
• states of debt
• oaths and promises
• gift-giving, cultures of expenditure 
• occupy literature 
• trans-cultural capital 
• deferring, 
• symbolic economics 
• ecological materialism 
• rethinking civic missions/practices 
• forgiveness, gratitude 
• literature of demand 
• emotional obligation 
• debts of affect
• student loans 

Papers on any form or genre of British literature between 1800 and 1900 are welcome. Proposals of 200 to 400 words should be sent by May 7th to Nancee Reeves, Purdue University, nreeves@purdue.edu. Selected presenters will be informed by June 1st, 2012 and must register for the conference by July 1, 2012.

CFP: 2012 M/MLA: Permanent Section: English Literature 1800-1900 (5/7/2012; 11/8-11/2012)

The English Literature 1800-1900 panel seeks papers for the 2012 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention to be held on November 8-11, 2012 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In keeping with the informal theme of “debt” for the M/MLA 2012 convention, the English II: English Literature 1800-1900 panel seeks to present discussions of works and writers that deal in some fashion with that nineteenth-century juggernaut, debt. Possible themes include  indebtedness and influence, borrowers and lenders, bonds and contracts, economics of lack, states of debt, oaths and promises, gift-giving, cultures of expenditure, occupy literature, trans-cultural capital, deferring, symbolic economics, ecological materialism, rethinking civic missions/practices, forgiveness, gratitude, literature of demand, emotional obligation, debts of affect, and student loans. Papers on any form or genre of British literature between 1800 and 1900 are welcome. Proposals of 200 to 400 words should be sent by May 7th to Nancee Reeves, Purdue University, nreeves@purdue.edu. Selected presenters will be informed by June 1st, 2012 and must register for the conference by July 1, 2012.