WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
Twenty-Ninth Colloquium on Literature and Film
September 30-October 2, 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
Constructing and Deconstructing Motherhood in Literature and Film
The subject for this year's Colloquium was chosen in conjunction with a
celebration of Women and Creativity being sponsored in the fall by the
WVU Center for Women's Studies. Possible subtopics include:
Women and Creativity
Hollywood Versions of Motherhood
"Other Mothering" in the African-American Community
Stepmothers in Fairytale, Fiction, and Film
Reproduction and Writing in Feminist Theory
Praising Motherhood in Poetry and Song
The Trope of Mother Earth
Adoptive Mothers
Mother and Child Relationships
The Electra Complex
Mr. Mom: Fathers as Nurturers
Maternity and Childbirth as Metaphor
Cruel or Unnatural Mothers
Motherland as the Locus of Nationalism
Depictions of the Virgin Mary
Reproduction as Theme or Structural Device in Men's Writing
The Literary Uses of Chodorow
Breast-Feeding in Literature or Film
Motherhood and Career: The State of the Profession
Please submit 300-word proposals for papers and/or panels by May 15,
2004 to
Janice S. Spleth at WVUCOLL@ MAIL.WVU.EDU. The program will allow
twenty minutes for the reading of each paper. Include a cover letter
containing the proposal's title, complete contact information, and
institutional affiliation. Attachments should be in Microsoft Word or
Word Perfect formatted for PCs or html.
A limited number of papers read at the Colloquium and submitted to the
Editorial Board after their delivery will be considered for refereed
publication in the West Virginia Philological Papers. Papers may be
read in English, French, German, or Spanish, but only manuscripts
submitted in English can be considered for publication
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