posted by user: Ml_79 || 3425 views || tracked by 1 users: [display]

MLA 2021 : Where are the Wonder Girls? Heroines and Persistence in Campus Novels

FacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogle

Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper12953.html
 
When Jan 7, 2021 - Jan 10, 2021
Where Toronto, ON
Submission Deadline Mar 15, 2020
Categories    american literature   women's and gender studies   literature
 

Call For Papers

"Where are the Wonder Girls? Heroines and Persistence in Campus Novels"


Call for Papers
Modern Language Association Convention
Toronto, Ontario
January 7-10, 2021


Enormous reading pleasure can be derived from Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys but where are the wonder girls? Where are American (campus) novels about gallivanting women academics and writers based in academia, getting into trouble, having multiple lovers in different countries, shoplifting, dancing naked in the rain (the list is suggestive, not exhaustive)? Yet novels which are comic, feel-good, and sporting happy endings? There is a discernible tendency to cast as protagonists of campus novels and artist novels unhappy and unlucky women, tormented victims rather than fierce individuals with agency.

I’m seeking papers on representations of women academics and writers in contemporary US campus literature depicting women’s efforts to survive as artists. I’m interested in e.g. how an artist heroine navigates the nexus between and the lacunae of intellectuality, creativity, and sexuality, juggling different roles the society has burdened her with, while battling various obstacles, exterior and interior and, if she doesn’t have an inherited income and a house of her own, being torn between the need to create and the need to live, caught in a double-bind between art and life, succeeding and/or failing as a woman or as an artist. I’m primarily interested in portrayals of active women artists who are protagonists not mere characters.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief biography to marta.lysik@uwr.edu.pl by March 15, 2020.

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper12953.html


https://schoolsville.wordpress.com/2020/02/26/cfp-mla-session-where-are-the-wonder-girls-heroines-and-persistence-in-campus-novels-jan-7-102020-deadline-for-abstracts-march-15-2020/?fbclid=IwAR2Rj3EBQ3L0nCEn-_e3YdVQV2yASCwrAIFUl-YEGrtclE1h4ucDWuiBdC4

Related Resources

ProtestLit 2025   Just-In-Time MLA Session:No Progress Without Struggle:Teaching Protest Literature, During Times of Protest
GIFCon 2024   GIFCon 2024: Conjuring Creatures and Worlds
PJSA 2024   We Are All Connected: Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity
Sandeep Kumar Mishra 2025   Edited Volume Call for Papers on Sandeep Kumar Mishra’s Books/stories/writings
Fahrenheit 2025   Fahrenheit 2451: Ideas Worth Saving
LIU 2025   CFP - «Laureatus in Urbe». Seminario annuale di Studi petrarcheschi IX edizione 16-17 giugno 2025
Winter 2026   The Hemingway Review To Feel More than You Understand
LCS 2025   12th International Conference on Language, Communication, and Society 2025
ICLL 2025   2025 9th International Conference on Linguistics and Literature (ICLL 2025)
ARSBN 2025   The Pen, the Place, and the Pact: Literature, Heritage, and Diplomacy in the Baltic and Nordic Regions