SIGNIFICATIONS: The Seventh Annual CSU Humanities Graduate Conference
(California State University Los Angeles, May 4, 2002) has EXTENDED its
submission deadline to March 22, 2002.
This graduate interdisciplinary conference will address a wide variety of
issues including but not limited to English, American and World
Literature, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and Composition/Rhetoric.
Specific topics are open in order to encourage innovative and original
approaches to contemporary issues.
Submission Information Changes: No e-mail submissions will be accepted.
All submissions must be sent via snail mail and MUST BE RECEIVED no later
than March 22, 2002. Eligibility: Papers are welcome from graduate
students attending any one of the 23 CSU campuses. CSU undergraduates are
also encouraged to send submissions. For further event information and
submission guidelines, please visit the Significations website at:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/edeptwp/conference/index.htm or
e-mail questions to Edahrline Salas at significations@yahoo.com.
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We are also pleased to announce our KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor George E.
Haggerty.
Dr. Haggerty is currently Professor and Chair of the English Department at
the University of California, Riverside, where he also chairs Lesbian, Gay
Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersexual (LGBTI) Studies. A specialist in
18th-Century English Literature and Gay Studies, his books include Gothic
Fiction/Gothic Form (Penn State, 1989); Unnatural Affections: Women and
Fiction in the Later 18th Century (Indiana, 1998); and Men in Love;
Masculinity and Sexuality in the 18th Century (for Columbia, 1999). In
addition, he co-edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in
Literature for the Modern Language Association (1995), and was general
editor of Garland's The Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures (2000).
At present he is editing the Blackwell Companion to Lesbian and Gay
Studies with Molly McGarry, chair of the English department at U.C.
Riverside.
Prof. Haggerty will be presenting the following keynote lecture in this
year’s conference: “Male Love and Friendship in the 18th Century”.
"Significations: The 7th Annual CSU Humanities Graduate Conference"
English Department
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032-8110
For details: (323) 343-4172 or significations@yahoo.com
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