UPDATE: Imagining the Salem Witchcraft Trials (9/20/03; NEMLA, 3/3/04-3/7/04)

I've extended the due date for proposals to September 20.

Call for Papers: Northeast Modern Language Association Annual
Conference
March 3-7, 2004
Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA

Panel Title: Imagining the Salem Witchcraft Trials

>From Cotton Mather in the seventeenth century to Mary Wilkins Freeman in
the nineteenth, and Arthur Miller in the twentieth, American writers and
audiences seem haunted by the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. But why
does this event retain such a prominent place in our national
imagination? What political purposes does the narratives serve? Why are
some representations of the trials more privileged than others? Whose
interests do these privileged narratives serve and how?

This panel seeks papers that examine representations of the Salem
witchcraft trials of 1692, particularly studies foregrounding race,
class, and/or gender and therefore exploring the political functions
performed by one of the many literary, historiographical, or popular
reenactments of this infamous event.

One page abstracts are due by September 20, 2003. Please e-mail to
lmv2_at_lehigh.edu or send to

Lisa Vetere
Department of English
#35 Drown Hall
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Please note that all participants must be members of NEMLA by October
15, 2003.

For more information on NEMLA and the conference, visit their website at
http://www.nemla.org.

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