Call for Papers

“Comparative Literature and World Literature:
Textual, Visual, Aural Interconnections and Interfaces”

Co-Organizers

Donald R. Wehrs, Department of English
Robert Weigel, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Sponsored by

The Department of English
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Dean of Liberal Arts
The Office for Diversity and Multiculturalism
Auburn University

 

Deadline Extended: June 1

Auburn University will host the Southern Comparative Literature Association conference October 2-4, 2008, featuring papers on all areas of comparative literature and critical approaches, representing creative traditions around the globe.

Plenary Speaker: Patrick Colm Hogan, Professor, Department of English, Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and Program in Cognitive Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Professor Hogan, author of thirteen books, writes on subjects ranging from Joyce and Lacan to critical theory, postcolonial literature, cognitive science, Shakespeare, and Indian cinema.

Plenary Roundtable featuring Michael Palencia-Roth, former chair of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana

We welcome proposals for papers and panels on the conference theme, “Comparative Literature and World Literature� Possible topics: text to film, text to intertext; human/machine interconnections/ infiltrations; seduction and the narrative tradition; narrative constructions of identity; vengeance in world literature; varieties of cultural otherness; embodiment, affect, and value; cross-cultural identity and ethics; varieties of modernity; instability and hybridity; the emotions in culture; patterns of pre-modernity; gender, power, and art.

To submit a paper proposal, send an attachment to wehrsdr@auburn.edu before June 1, 2008. For conference information, go to http://media.cla.auburn.edu/scla/

Auburn is located in southeast Alabama, on I-85, 100 miles east of Atlanta, 50 miles west of Montgomery. Between Atlanta and Montgomery one may find such attractions as the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, the Martin Luther King Jr. historical district, FDR’s “little White House,� Callaway Gardens, the first confederate White House, the Montgomery Civil Rights Memorial, the Rosa Parks Museum, the George Washington Carver Museum at the Tuskegee Institute, and the Blount Shakespeare Theatre.