Midwestern Conference on Film, Language & Literature
at Northern Illinois University
April 5-7, 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joseph Carroll is a professor of English at the
University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of
The_Cultural_Theory_of_Matthew_Arnold, Wallace_Stevens'_Supreme_Fiction,
and Evolution_and_Literary_Theory. His presentation will critique the
poststructuralist paradigm, offering in its place a theory of literature
that situates literary criticism within the matrix of Darwinian
evolutionary theory.
Film Speaker:
Dr. Tom Gunning is a professor in the Department of Art History at the
University of Chicago. He is specifically interested in the evolution of
narrative, issues of film as culture, and the complex relationship
between cinema and technology. His two most recent books include The
Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity and D.W.
Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years.
Cyber Speaker:
Dr. Steve Jones is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Communication at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His areas of
expertise include communication technology, the social history of the
Internet, and popular music studies. He has written and edited several
books, including CyberSociety, Virtual Culture, Rock Formation, and
Doing Internet Research.
Please submit one page abstracts for 10-page papers (each presentation
should be approximately 20 minutes) by January 14, 2002.
Abstracts on any topic in film, language & literary studies are
welcome, including:
British & American Literature (any period)
Film Studies
Ethnic & Cultural Studies
Gender Studies
Evolution & Literary Theory
Science and Literature
Critical Studies
Genre Writing
Rhetoric & Composition
Linguistics
Stylistics & Discourse Analysis
Cognitive Studies
Popular Culture
Creative Writing
Technical Rhetoric
Composition & Computers
Cyberstudies
In addition, MCFLL 2002 welcomes abstracts submitted as potential panels.
If you and your colleagues share an interest in a topic, please submit it
as a panel. Please note that these submissions will be treated as a single
unit, and all abstracts must be submitted together and clearly marked for
panel consideration.
Abstracts Deadline: Postmarked or e-mailed by January 14, 2002
Guidelines for abstracts:
- 1 page (including a title but no author)
- a cover letter that includes: (1) paper title, (2) your name and
address, (3) your phone number, (4) e-mail address, and (5) school
affiliation
Mail / E-mail abstracts to:
MCFLL Director
c/o Department of English
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
For updates, special session calls for papers, & the registration form,
visit http://www.engl.niu.edu/mcfll
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