All Literature Areas (see below for individual categories and contact
information)
Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 2001
Abstracts/Proposals (250 words) to individuals listed below
E-mail submissions are strongly encouraged; please put "GES Conference
Proposal" in the subject line for all electronic submissions.
The 7th Annual GES Conference will be held February 22-23, 2002 at Texas
Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The theme of this year's conference,
"Past and Future Perspectives: Negotiating our Changing Field,"
addresses our changing field from the graduate scholar's perspective.
The palindrome of the year suggests examination of ways our past can
help us deal with our future regarding issues arising from new theories,
cultural shifts, evolving technologies, and recent discoveries.
Each sub-category of the Literature Area is listed below with individual
chair contact information. Each individual category lists some possible
suggestions for topics, but all abstracts that deal with any literature
area will be considered.
Texas Tech Postal Mail address for all literature areas (each sub-chair
lists individual telephone and e-mail contact information):
Texas Tech University
Department of English
P. O. Box 43091
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
General Literature Area Chair
You may contact this Chair for general information for the literature
area, or to submit an abstract that does not seem to fit into any of the
individual categories listed below. The General Chair will forward the
abstract to the proper sub-category chair.
Diana Dominguez
806.742.2501 ext. 284
e-mail: gypsyscholar@hotmail.com
Medieval Literature: 1) Gender issues in medieval literature --
negotiating gender identification, norms, and analysis in medieval
texts. 2) Issues of Enclosure and Space in medieval texts --
negotiating "spheres" of influence; is being "inside" (buildings,
family, church, restrictive norms) always a symbol of imprisonment? Is
being "outside" always a symbol of power and freedom? 3) New directions
and approaches to Medieval research and analysis -- using contemporary
theoretical approaches to analyzing "old" texts; deciphering "speech"
and "gender" in old texts; the dilemma of "non-authorial" research.
Contact: Diana Dominguez 806.742.2501 ext. 284 e-mail:
gypsyscholar@hotmail.com
British 18th- and 19th-century Literature: 1) Gender, Sexuality, and
the Novel—analyzing gender and sexuality in 18th- and 19th-century
novels. (Abstracts will be reviewed for poetry, drama, and other forms
of literature as well.) 2) Cultural Contexts: Law, Medicine/Science,
and Religion—evaluating the discourses of public/social knowledge and
who controls the language of classification as it applies to the
individual and appears in literary texts. 3) Exploring and Expanding
the Canon—re-evaluating 18th- and 19th-century texts and a look at the
changing landscape of criticism and critical approaches for the 21st
century.
Contact: Kara Marler 806.742.2501 e-mail: kmarler@ttacs.ttu.edu
Écriture Feminine and Geography: Women's Writing Spaces and Places: 1)
Women's writing spaces and places -- what is a female writing space and
how is it represented in literature? In what places do women write? Do
women's writing places evolve over history? What are the relationships
between women's writing places and genre? How do women use 'spaces' to
express themselves? 2) Women's writing in exile -- how does a shift in
geographical location create an opportunity for women to claim a voice
and/or sexual desires of their own? In what ways do women represent
cross-cultural experiences in literature? What narrative strategies do
women use to resist or react to acculturation in their writing? 3) The
interplay of feminist thoughts and theories across global, social class,
and sexual geographies - how are geography and feminism related? How
will twenty-first century feminism empower women from all social classes
around the world and from different sexual orientations? How is the
concept of global feminism represented in literature?
Contact: Amy Lynn, postal address: 6604A Elmwood, Lubbock, TX 79424,
tel: (806) 794-4238 e-mail: alynn@cleanweb.net
Modern and Contemporary Drama: Irish and British and Drama: Synge,
O’Casey, etc.; European and Continental Drama: Strindberg, Ibsene,
Pirandello, Hauptmann, Sartre, etc.; American Drama: Eugene O’Neil,
Tenessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, etc. These areas are
only general in nature and for specific authors. All essays that fall
in the general category of Contemporary and Modern Drama are welcomed.
Essays that discuss minority issues, gender, and gay issues are also
encouraged.
Contact: Ibrahim Alhiyari 806.742-2501 e-mail:
ibalhiya@ttacs.ttu.edu
Contemporary American Literature: 1) Narrative and Language Theory:
Trends and Perspectives; 2) Cybernetic and Experimental Fiction: The
Future is Now; 3) Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Social, Multi-Cultural Literature:
Negotiating Issues of Social and Cultural Identity
Contact: Delores Duboise 806.742.2501 ext. 284 e-mail:
delores.duboise@ttu.edu
Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1) Redefining or expanding
gender roles in contemporary science fiction and fantasy; 2) Adaptation
of Classical myth in contemporary science fiction and fantasy, 3)
general topics/abstracts in contemporary science fiction and fantasy
Contact: Ian Desrosiers 806.742.2501 ext. 284 e-mail:
iandesrosiers@hotmail.com
Renaissance and Shakespeare: Abstracts on all aspects of this
literature are welcome.
Contact: Amanda Hulin 806.742-2501 e-mail: ahulin@hotmail.com
19th Century American Literature: Abstracts on all aspects of this
literature are welcome.
Contact: James Poe 806.742.2501 e-mail: jason.poe@ttu.edu
Once again, please note that abstracts that do not seem to fit into any
of the individual categories listed above are welcome. In addition,
while each individual category lists some possible suggestions for
topics, all abstracts that deal with any literature area will be
considered.
Participants may present no more than two papers or be on no more than
two panels.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Please visit the GES Conference Website at:
http://english.ttu.eud/GESConference
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