CFP: NeMLA 2014 "Fresh Perspectives on Mary Russell Mitford" (9/30/2013; 4/3-6/2014)

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna University

April 3-6, 2014
Deadline: September 30, 2013

Known on both sides of the Atlantic for her poetry, drama, and prose fiction, Mitford enjoyed a long, prolific, and successful literary career that spanned from the 1810s to the 1840s. Papers are welcome on any aspect of Mary Russell Mitford’s work. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, her treatment of gender, her work in multiples genres, and her extensive network of literary friendships and professional rivalries.

Please email 250-500 word abstracts by September 30th to Kellie Donovan-Condron (kdonovancondron@babson.edu).

Please include with your abstract:
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CFP: Mary Russell Mitford: Local and Global (12/12/2012; 4/4-6/2013)

British Women Writers' Conference

April 4-6, 2013, University of New Mexico

Panel Proposal:

Mary Russell Mitford: Local and Global

Papers are welcome on any aspect of Mary Russell Mitford’s long and prolific literary career spanning the 1810s to the 1840s, and including her poetry, drama, and prose fiction. The influential Mitford, her friendships, her popularity in England and America, her wide reading, her correspondence, her unwanted but real rivalry with Lord Byron, her politics, her successful negotiations with editors and theatre managers, her approach to the local and the global and to gender and genre all invite attention to expand our view of this professional woman of letters and of the transitional decades of the 1820s and 30s in nineteenth century literature. One goal of this panel is to bring scholars together interested in a collaborative effort to plan a digital scholarly edition of Mitford's complete works and letters.

Send 250-word paper proposals by Wed. December 12 at 11:59 PM EST to Elisa Beshero-Bondar at ebb8@pitt.edu