CALL FOR PAPERS (please note the revised submission deadline):
The 1980s in Literature and Culture
A Graduate Student Conference hosted by the students of the
graduate English program at the University of Cincinnati
Date: Nov. 6-7, 2004
Keynote Speakers:
Bonnie Dow, Associate Professor of Speech Communication at
University of Georgia;
Andrew Ross, Professor of Comparative Literature in NYU's
American Studies Program.
Just as established scholars have long been writing about the
decades of the 1960s and '70s, graduate students-many of whom
came of age in the 1980s-now have the opportunity to make
critical inquiries into this formative decade. To take
advantage of that opportunity, this conference is designed
for graduate students to explore the influences and legacies
of literature and culture of the 1980s from a variety of
disciplinary approaches. The conference invites historicized
readings of literary and cultural texts which examine the
cultural influence of the '80s. Hopefully, this conference
will initiate scholarly investigations of the fascinating and
barely explored cultural texts of this decade.
We invite papers that are related but not limited to the
following possible topics and themes:
Writers who debuted in the '80s
1980s postmodernism
Modernist manifestations in the '80s
Language poetry
Literary and cultural theory in the '80s
Queer Theory
Literature and AIDS
Feminism and Womanism of the 1980s
The Working Woman in the '80s
"Race" in the '80s and American Ethnic literature in the '80s
The explosion of African American women's fiction
Music in the '80s: MTV, Madonna, Punk Rock, the rise of rap
and hip-hop culture, etc.
'80s television: sitcoms, The Cosby Show, the rise of talk
shows, etc.
'80s clothing, hairstyles, and fashion
Film in the '80s
Literature into film in the '80s
Technological advances of the '80s
Birth of the personal computer
The Cold War
The War on drugs and "Just Say No"
Reaganomics in literature and culture
The '80s and nostalgia in 2004
Creative submissions with strong ties to the culture of
the '80s will also be welcome.
Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length. Abstracts
should be no longer than 250 words. Please include with your
abstract your name, program and university affiliation,
mailing address, email address, and phone number. Please
send abstracts (via email or snail mail) to the address below
by JULY 7.
Steve Criniti
University of Cincinnati
Department of English and Comparative Literature
PO Box 210069
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069
crinitsf@email.uc.edu
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