CFP: Popular Culture and the Literary (grad) (6/15/05; 10/14/05-10/15/05)

Collisions and Elisions: A Symposium on Popular Culture and the
Literary

On October 14-15 of 2005, the University of Wisconsin-Madison English
Department will host a two-day symposium exploring the relationship
between popular culture and the literary. This year’s symposium aims
to bring together these oft-divided categories to examine questions of
gender, race, politics, and history. We are particularly interested
in papers that examine how popular culture and the literary have
informed each other through both violent collisions and subversive
absorptions. We invite participants who explore these categories to
challenge and reorient the borders drawn between them. The Symposium
Planning Committee welcomes papers from all literary periods (medieval
through the 21st century) and encourages interdisciplinary, cross-
medium approaches in keeping with the objectives outlined above.

The Symposium Planning Committee and University of Wisconsin-Madison
English Department are pleased to welcome Julian Wolfreys as the
keynote speaker. Professor Wolfreys is currently on the faculty at
University of Florida, where he teaches Victorian Literature, Literary
Theory, and Late 20th-Century British Literary and Cultural Studies.
He is the author of Occasional Deconstructions (2004); Writing London
Vol. II: Memory, Materiality, Spectrality (2004); Victorian Hauntings:
Spectrality, Haunting, the Gothic, and the Uncanny in Literature
(2001); and Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory (2000),
among others.

Panels will be organized by thematic similarity, and may include
papers pertaining to diverse locations, literary periods, and genres.
Each panel will include two graduate students and one professor.
Travel assistance for students may be available.

Submission Guidelines: Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length.
Abstracts only (250 words) must be submitted by June 15, 2005. Please
send abstracts to Rachel Miller by e-mail at rsmiller1_at_wisc.edu
with “Popular Culture Conference Proposal” in the subject line, or by
fax at (608) 263-3709 (this is a departmental fax machine; please make
sure your fax is clearly addressed).

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