CFP: Late Medieval Women Saints and Their Audiences (3/15/04; MLA '04)

From: Andreea D. Boboc (andreea_boboc@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 01:03:42 EST


LATE MEDIEVAL WOMEN SAINTS AND THEIR AUDIENCES

A special session for the 2004 MLA Convention in Philadelphia

The panel especially invites comparative approaches to late medieval women
saints (e.g. English women saints v. continental ones), and pertinent
interdisciplinary scholarship. Audiences can be real, imagined, internal,
external, historical, trans-historical, or otherwise. Possible topics
include but are not limited to:

-Competing national discourses about women’s sainthood
-Women’s sainthood and legal discourses
-Female sainthood and collective memory
-Female saints, male hagiographers, and their audience(s)
-Women saints v. male audience(s)

Papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Accepted participants must commit
themselves to attending. Please submit one-page abstracts and brief vitae,
together with any special requests for audio-visual requirements, by March
15th to: Andreea D. Boboc, Department of English, University of Michigan,
3187 Angell Hall, 435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, or e-mail
abstracts and vitae to aboboc@umich.edu (no attachments, please).

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