CFP

Sun Feb 23 20:54:22 UTC 2014

Panel on new scholarship in German and Russian (or Slavic) folk-tale studies
This panel is designed to bring the new directions and voices working on German and Russian (Slavic) folk tales to the American Folklore Society’s 2014 conference held November 5-8 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The topics for the panel are open, but should bring what is new in Russian (or Slavic) and German folk-tale scholarship to the conference.  Some examples of topics are new analyses of the work of the Grimms or Afanas’ev and other 18th-19th-century German or Russian (or Slavic) tale writers and editors, literary fairy tales, fairy-tale films, the rise in the study of memorats/fabulates, etc.
Proposals are due by March 10th.  A long (500 word) proposal along with a short (100-word) abstract, affiliation and preferred email address is to be sent to:
Prof. Linda Kraus Worley, University of Kentucky  (German Studies) (lworley at uky.edu<mailto:lworley at uky.edu>)
Or  Prof. Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby (Russian and Slavic Studies) (j. rouhier at uky.edu<mailto:rouhier at uky.edu>)
Notifications will be sent by March 15th. Upon acceptance of the paper, the presenter must register for the conference by March 31st.

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Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Professor of Russian, Folklore and Linguistics
Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Division of Russian and Eastern Studies
1055 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY  40506
(859) 257-1756
Fax: (859) 257-3743
j.rouhier at uky.edu<mailto:j.rouhier at uky.edu>
www.uky.edu/~jrouhie
Skype contact name: Jeanmarie Rouhier, j.rouhier

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