“Economies”
The Inaugural American Literature Graduate
Conference at
The University of South Carolina, Columbia
The English Department at the University of South Carolina is pleased to
announce its inaugural Graduate American Literature Conference on the theme of
“Economies.” We are currently accepting
individual paper and panel proposals addressing all aspects of economies: What
is an economy? What kinds of economies exist? How do economies impose
themselves on literature, and vice versa? How do economies affect genre?
In addition, we will hold a Roundtable with USC English Faculty on the
future of American Studies. USC
Americanist faculty includes Kate Adams, Bob Brinkmeyer, Mark Cooper, Susan Courtney, David Cowart, Cynthia
Davis, Alao Folashade, Greg Forter, Brian Glavey, David Greven, Leon Jackson, Catherine Keyser, Marvin McAlister, Tara
Powell, Sara Schwebel, David Shields, Scott Trafton, Susan Vandenborg, Qiana Whitted, and Gretchen
Woertendyke. Plenary and Keynote
speakers TBA.
The Special Collections of the Thomas Cooper
library houses the complete archive of William Gilmore Simms and substantive
collections on the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman
Mailer, Joseph Heller, Kaye Gibbons, and James Ellroy, among many others and
welcomes visiting scholars.
Single paper abstracts should be 250-500 words. Panel proposals should
include an abstract for each paper as well as a description of the panel's
objective not to exceed 550 words.
Please also include, with all proposals and applicants, full name and
contact information, as well as institutional affiliation and a CV.
The deadline for proposal
submissions is Dec 9th, 2013.
Notification of acceptance will occur
no later than Jan 9th, 2014.
Interpretations of the theme may include but are not restricted to:
-- Financial, moral, emotional, racial, ethnic, cultural, consumerist,
historical, modern, fictional, speculative, geographical, agricultural,
industrial, post-industrial, urban, rural, trade, public, private, gender,
feminist, sexual, queer, social, domestic, interpersonal, educational,
academic, regional, national, international, transglobal, transatlantic,
imaginary, physical, literary, print, media, information, capitalist, imperial,
oligarchic, feudal, mercantile, military, wartime, maritime, economies of vice,
business, transport, climatological, economic hubs (financial centers, ports,
etc.), economies of scale, micro, macro
-- Marxist, Keynesian, Utopian,
Dystopian, Jeffersonian, Agrarian, Libertarian, Conservative, (Neo-)Liberal
-- Economic causes/effects in
literature: moments of crisis, recovery, downturn, depression, development,
gentrification, oppression, ghettoization, revolution
Please send proposals as well as any questions to,
Sincerely,
The Graduate
American Literature Colloquium
Department of
English
