CFP: Campus Novels (2/17/03; MMLA, 11/7/03-11/9/03)

Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA)
2003 Conference
"The University"
Chicago, IL
November 7-9, 2003
Special Session
"The Campus Novel and Student Life"
 
In line with the general theme for this year's MMLA conference, "The
University," I am accepting abstracts for a special session on the
campus novel. Possible topics include:
 
* Reassessing the "classic campus novel" (Stover at Yale, This Side of Paradise, The Plastic Age)
* The contemporary campus novel (Joe College, The Cheese Monkeys, Moo, The Secret History)
* The graduate student campus novel (Cantor's Dilemma, Possession, The Biographer's Tale)
* The undergraduate memoir
* The university in non-academic novels
* The campus novel and the "idea of a university"
* "Scenes of Instruction" in the campus novel
* Historicizing the campus novel
* Student types in the campus novel
 
Send abstract and c.v. by Feburary 17th to:
Eric Leuschner
107 Tate
Department of English
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65201
 
or email: edl6c6_at_mizzou.edu
Queries welcomed

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