Working Groups: Calls for Papers

Cultural Mobility in Spanish Theater
This group welcomes papers related to practices of translation, adaptation, reinterpretation, approp ... See more
Maria Chouza-Calo, Central Michigan U and Esther Fernández, Rice U
Posted Saturday, 12 January 2019
"Understanding Dostoevski's 'Brothers Karamazov': His battle with God and creating justice in the world."
In the famous scene where Ivan asks Alyosha would you have created the world on the tears of one chi ... See more
Fatemeh Azinfar, Harvard U
Posted Thursday, 17 January 2019
Italian Americans on the Page
Drama, fiction, poetry, migration, diaspora, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, 250-word abstract. ... See more
Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain U and Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Posted Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Embodied Reading
Taking a cue from recent developments in somatic psychology, this working group explores embodied re ... See more
Carli Cutchin, U of California
Posted Wednesday, 6 February 2019
Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQ Culture
This working group welcomes papers approaching twentieth- and twenty-first-century Peninsular LGBTQI ... See more
Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez, U of Miami, Enrique Álvarez, Florida State U and Alfredo Martinez-Exposito, U of Melbourne
Posted Sunday, 10 February 2019
Creolisation of the Spectral Turn: Haunting in the Circum-Caribbean.
This panel considers the use of ghosts in the Circum-Caribbean as aesthetic, ethical, and political ... See more
Robert Sapp, College of Charleston
Posted Monday, 11 February 2019
Rooted Literature
Taking as our model the use of the Cleveland-based Anisfield-Wolf canon in local college classrooms, ... See more
Katharine Trostel, Ursuline College
Posted Tuesday, 19 February 2019
European Petrarchisms
This session explores the ramifications of Petrarch’s thought and poetics in Early Modern European l ... See more
Eleonora Buonocore, U of Calgary and Giulia Cardillo, James Madison U
Posted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Narrative in Play Working Group
Stories are not only told, but are often enacted or explored through play or interactive media.  Thi ... See more
Jonathan Rey Lee, U of Washington
Posted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Narratives of Complicity, Complicities of Narrative
This working group will consider the idea of complicity from a wide range of perspectives, reflectin ... See more
Patrick Fessenbecker, University of Southern Denmark
Posted Thursday, 28 February 2019
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