Call for Papers

[ammarsh at socrates.berkeley.edu]

Dear All,

This is yet another call for papers for a panel that will be held at
AATSEEL 1998 in San Fransisco.

Call For Papers:

Chairperson: Ann Marsh-Flores, UC-Berkeley
Panel: Nineteenth-Century Russian Women Novelists

The panel's primary focus is Russian women novelists who
wrote or published during the nineteenth-century.  However,
papers discussing their eighteenth-century predecessors (or
lack thereof) are also more than welcome.

The panel takes as its focus an obviously large (and largely unexplored)
topic, Russian women writers and the novel during the nineteenth-century;
hopefully, this lack of a more narrow focus will encourage panelists to
contribute to the field's efforts so far to theorize both about individual
women writers and about their relationships to the development of a
novelistic tradition in Russia as a whole.

Some possible topics for further exploration would include:  when and
under what circumstances did Russian women writers begin to write novels,
and do these circumstances parallel those of their Western sisters?  What
relationships existed or were forged between women writers and their male
colleagues?  What about such writerly "couples" as Avdotia Panaeva and
Nikolai Nekrasov, whose literary partnership was accompanied by their
biography (and a menage a trois)?  What does make women's writing
different from men's?  Is it different?  If gender is a social construct,
then surely we can find examples of women writing as men and vice versa?
Do (some) women react differently to such perenially popular themes in the
Russian novel as adultery and the ball?

Please submit your abstracts to Ann Marsh-Flores and David Birnbaum by
August 1st:

Professor David Birnbaum

Email: djb at clover.slavic.pitt.edu
Backup Email: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1417 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Phone: 412-624-5712
Fax: 412-624-9714

Ann Marsh-Flores
E-mail:  ammarsh at socrates.berkeley.edu

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Dwinelle Hall #2979
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2979

Phone: 510-665-6077