Call for papers 2007 MLA Convention

[Benjamin Sutcliffe]

Dear Colleagues:
On behalf of the Slavic Executive MLA Committee, I am forwarding the call
for papers below. Please contact the individual panel organizers--most
panel organizers have a deadline of March 15 for submitting abstracts.
--Ben Sutcliffe
-- 
Benjamin M. Sutcliffe
Assistant Professor of Russian
Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages
148 Irvin Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-1822
FAX: 513-529-1807

Dreaming the Life of the Nation: The Monumental Vision of Stanislaw
Wyspianski (1869-1907)

Poet, painter, graphic artist, dramatist, and theater reformer, Stanislaw
Wyspianski was the chief Polish artist of his day and one of the most
dynamic figures in early European modernism. Through the synthesis of
history, myth, and local folk culture, Wyspianski's art and especially his
theater possessed an originality and significance that is still felt
today. Much as James Joyce used Dublin as the backdrop for the reinvention
of the modern novel, Wyspianski drew upon the real and mythical elements
of his native Krakow to create an artistic vision for modern drama and
stagecraft that was well before Appia, Gordon Craig, Meyerhold, and other
European theater reformers.
Please submit paper abstracts by March 15 to: Dr. Jessie Labov,
jlabov at stanford.edu

Contemporary Slavic Women's Writing

In light of recent women winners of the Russian Booker and the
phenomenal success of women's mystery novels, this panel addresses
how "elite" and "popular" women authors are reshaping Slavic
literatures.

Please submit paper abstracts to: Dr. Ben Sutcliffe
(sutclibm at muohio.edu) by MARCH 20, 2007.

Contested Identities: Slavic Literatures as a Transnational Phenomenon.

Panel devoted to translingual Slavic writers using a language different
from their native tongue, explores the imagined geography of ethnically
and linguistically unified Slavic literatures. Paper abstracts by Mar 15,
2007 to:
Adrian J. Wanner (ajw3@ psu .edu).

Retaking Slavic Classics in the 21st Century.

Panel examines contemporary “retakes” of classic works of Slavic
literature in the new millennium. New writings of literary texts, retakes
on film and in performance are
considered.
Paper abstracts by 15 Mar.; Thomas J. Garza (tjgarza@ mail .utexas .edu).

Slavic Identities and Symbolic Geographies.

Postmodern literature hasraised ontology to a dominant position, inviting
reconsideration of Kant’s location of consciousness. Examining the
relation between geographical
metaphor and identity in Slavic literatures. Paper abstracts
by 15 Mar.; Edith W. Clowes (eclowes@ ku .edu).

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