Please note that our deadline for submissions has been extended, and that our
conference date has changed.
READING THE LINES
City University of New York Graduate School and University Center
The English Students' Association
6th Annual Graduate Conference - 2001
March 30, 2001
The theme of the 2001 English Students' Association Graduate Conference is
designed to promote discussion on the notions of boundaries, order, and
transgressions through a variety of critical perspectives.
Literary, dramatic, cinematic, artistic, or musical texts, both in form and
content, can lend themselves to considerations and subsequent discussions of
"lines." Of course, literary studies, more particularly, involves the process
of reading lines of printed text, in an effort, presumably, to read between
the lines. The interpretation and use of the term "lines" (especially as it
pertains to questions of form) are, in part, dictated by the discipline in
which the term occurs. In content, however, discussions of "lines"--of
maintaining, reshaping, or transgressing lines--often transcend the limits of
the given discipline. Conceptually speaking, systems of thought--religious,
legal, political, academic, social, philosophical, etc.--can impose their own
"lines"--their boundaries/limits. Transgressing and/or maintaining such
boundaries is often the project of both the texts we "read," and the
"readings" we offer.
Possible paper topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Reading Between the Lines: Sexuality, Race, and Ethnicity in Texts
- Aesthetics: Against Moral/Political Lines
- Exploding (Natural and Textual) Bodies
- Classroom, Pedagogical, and Professional Boundaries
- The Realms of the Sacred and the Profane
- Ethical, Legal, and Moral Limitations
- Censorship, Blasphemy, and Obscenity
- Transcending Disciplines/Transgressing Genres
- The Musical Phrase/The Poetic Line
- Text/Hypertext and Nonlinearity
- Mapping Out Private and Public Spaces
- Within the Bars: Crime/Detection/Punishment
- Re/defining Postcolonial Discourses
- (Academic) Party Lines
- Lines of Dissent
Please send 300-word abstract and short bio by January 15, 2001 to:
Graduate Conference Committee
Department of English
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
365 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10016
For questions please email Alina Gharabegian at: psstleeg@aol.com or call:
(718) 932-1315, or email Ian Maloney at: ISMaloney@aol.com
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