UPDATE: SWSW submissions deadline extended to JUNE 1. Please note that the
deadline is for abstracts to be received, and not a postmark deadline.
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The graduate students in the departments of English and Southern Studies
at the University of Mississippi invite you to submit abstracts on or
about the South for a graduate-level conference to be held in Oxford on
the 21st and 22nd of July, 2000. Graduate students who attend the
Southern Writers, Southern Writing Conference will be offered a special
rate for the 2000 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, to be held the
following week in Oxford.
We welcome both critical and creative submissions. Critical topics are
not restricted to literature; we also welcome submissions from other
disciplines, and we are particularly interested in interdisciplinary
perspectives. Possible topics may include:
Southern literature
Southern politics or economics
teaching the South
(re)writing Southern history
ethnographic research
constructions of identity in the South
Please send one- to two-page abstracts of critical work or entire creative
works to:
Southern Writers, Southern Writing
Department of English
307 Bishop Hall
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
Reading limit is twenty minutes; please include your summer address with
your submission. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2000. There will
be two monetary awards granted for critical essays presented.
Inquiries or ideas for panels may be emailed to swsw@olemiss.edu. Do not
email abstracts or other submissions, please. You may examine the most
current information at <http://www.olemiss.edu/conf/swsw>.
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