42nd Annual Convention
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, New Jersey
The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2010
The Loudest Voice: Jewish American Women’s Literature
Is there a common, traceable voice in the writing of Jewish American women writers? This panel seeks papers that explore Jewish American women’s writing from the early 20th century to now and may include poets, fiction and non-fiction authors, and comic writers/artists. Papers can address individual authors, comparisons of works by several women, or comparisons across generations. What does this writing tell us about how Jewish identity has been conceived over the past century? Send 250-500 word abstracts to Tahneer Oksman, toksman@hotmail.com.
New Media and the Asian Diaspora
This panel will examine representations of Asian American and Asian diasporic communities in new media such as blogs, internet forums, social network sites, video games, etc. How do these representations deal with the heterogeneity of the Asian diaspora? How do online spaces develop, interrupt, or redefine transnational spaces? What do these representations tell us about the future of Asian American and Asian diasporic studies? Please submit 250-500 word abstracts to Swan Kim at SwanKim@virginia.edu.
Arab Francophone Writers and the Arabo-Islamic Traditions
This panel seeks to explore Francophone literary works (poetry and prose) from the Arab world within the context of their engagement with the Arabo-Islamic traditions. Possible questions to address are: the influence of the Arabic literary tradition, Islamic intertextuality (presence of Koranic excerpts or hadiths), etc. Papers can be in either English or French. Please send 250-word abstracts to Hanan Elsayed at hanan@rci.rutgers.edu
Post/Colonial Nostalgia in South Asian Literature
The panel examines how South Asian authors, residing in the Indian subcontinent and / or in the diaspora, writing in the late 19th-21st century in Anglophone or regional languages, grappled with the post/colonial legacy of past empires, and how they made sense of present-day dilemmas in light of those legacies. How did early authors, writing in the late 19th-early 20th century, envision their colonial pasts, and did their nostalgia differ from the nostalgia articulated by subsequent authors? Send proposals to Suha Kudsieh (kudsieh@gmail.com)
Gender, Sexuality and New Perspectives in Asian American Literature and Cinema
This panel explores all aspects of gender and sexuality in Asian American literature and film. Topics can include but are not limited to: women, femininity and family; racialization and minority experience; intimacy and heteronormativity; disability and belonging; diasporas and global migrations of ideas, people, objects; representations of cities, the land and environment; queer Asian America; inter-Asian relations in a globalized world; masculinity and citizenship. Please email 300 word abstract and bio to kdaiya@gwu.edu
No Longer Silent: Trauma in Contemporary Asian American (Korean) Literature
This panel seeks to theorize trauma and American identity specifically in the works of Keller, Rae-Lee, and Choi, Korean American authors of the post-1965 Immigration Act generation. Topics or critical paradigms can include, but are not limited to: the abject, silence, subjectivity, transnationalism, femininity, masculinity, memory, politics, rape, torture, trauma theory, psychoanalytic theory, and reader-response. Send 1-page abstract and brief bio as Word attachment to Jina Lee at jlbmetro@aol.com, with “NEMLA” in subject line.
(More information HERE.)
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, New Jersey
The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2010
The Loudest Voice: Jewish American Women’s Literature
Is there a common, traceable voice in the writing of Jewish American women writers? This panel seeks papers that explore Jewish American women’s writing from the early 20th century to now and may include poets, fiction and non-fiction authors, and comic writers/artists. Papers can address individual authors, comparisons of works by several women, or comparisons across generations. What does this writing tell us about how Jewish identity has been conceived over the past century? Send 250-500 word abstracts to Tahneer Oksman, toksman@hotmail.com.
New Media and the Asian Diaspora
This panel will examine representations of Asian American and Asian diasporic communities in new media such as blogs, internet forums, social network sites, video games, etc. How do these representations deal with the heterogeneity of the Asian diaspora? How do online spaces develop, interrupt, or redefine transnational spaces? What do these representations tell us about the future of Asian American and Asian diasporic studies? Please submit 250-500 word abstracts to Swan Kim at SwanKim@virginia.edu.
Arab Francophone Writers and the Arabo-Islamic Traditions
This panel seeks to explore Francophone literary works (poetry and prose) from the Arab world within the context of their engagement with the Arabo-Islamic traditions. Possible questions to address are: the influence of the Arabic literary tradition, Islamic intertextuality (presence of Koranic excerpts or hadiths), etc. Papers can be in either English or French. Please send 250-word abstracts to Hanan Elsayed at hanan@rci.rutgers.edu
Post/Colonial Nostalgia in South Asian Literature
The panel examines how South Asian authors, residing in the Indian subcontinent and / or in the diaspora, writing in the late 19th-21st century in Anglophone or regional languages, grappled with the post/colonial legacy of past empires, and how they made sense of present-day dilemmas in light of those legacies. How did early authors, writing in the late 19th-early 20th century, envision their colonial pasts, and did their nostalgia differ from the nostalgia articulated by subsequent authors? Send proposals to Suha Kudsieh (kudsieh@gmail.com)
Gender, Sexuality and New Perspectives in Asian American Literature and Cinema
This panel explores all aspects of gender and sexuality in Asian American literature and film. Topics can include but are not limited to: women, femininity and family; racialization and minority experience; intimacy and heteronormativity; disability and belonging; diasporas and global migrations of ideas, people, objects; representations of cities, the land and environment; queer Asian America; inter-Asian relations in a globalized world; masculinity and citizenship. Please email 300 word abstract and bio to kdaiya@gwu.edu
No Longer Silent: Trauma in Contemporary Asian American (Korean) Literature
This panel seeks to theorize trauma and American identity specifically in the works of Keller, Rae-Lee, and Choi, Korean American authors of the post-1965 Immigration Act generation. Topics or critical paradigms can include, but are not limited to: the abject, silence, subjectivity, transnationalism, femininity, masculinity, memory, politics, rape, torture, trauma theory, psychoanalytic theory, and reader-response. Send 1-page abstract and brief bio as Word attachment to Jina Lee at jlbmetro@aol.com, with “NEMLA” in subject line.
(More information HERE.)
