CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, together with Ashgate
Publishing Company and Siena College's Convivium, is soliciting abstracts by
September 15, 2001 for the International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo 2002, on the following topic: Early Modern Women and Romance:
Romance Writers, Romance Readers, and Romance Protesters.

Abstracts should explore relationships between early modern women and the
genre of romance -- for example, how women were constructed, or constructed
themselves, with or against the genre, as readers or as writers.  To what
extent, or in what ways, was the genre then itself shaped by discourses of
the feminine? Some detailed discussion, with awareness of a wider discursive
framework, is encouraged. Abstracts may deal with England, or with other
countries in the early modern period.

Reading time for papers should be no more than twenty minutes.  According to
rules established by the Congress, those submitting abstracts for one
session may not submit abstracts for other sessions in the same year.
Because Kalamazoo has traditionally encouraged experiment, preliminary
exploration,
and discussion, papers submitted should not have been read elsewhere nor be
scheduled for publication in the near future.  Please include any requests
for A-V equipment, together with an assurance that you will be present at
the conference to read your paper in person. Please include your e-mail,
telephone and fax numbers, and snail mail addresses for your home and office
(or include the yellow "Abstract Cover Sheet" provided in the Kalamazoo Call
for Papers packet if one is available to you).

Please send abstracts to the following contact persons, either by e-mail or
by snail mail.

1) Mary Ellen Lamb, Dept. of English, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503
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2) Erika Gaffney, Ashgate Publishing Co., 131 Main Street, Burlington VT
05401-5600 ([log in to unmask])

3) Margaret Hannay, Dept. of English, Siena College, Loudonville NY
12211-1462
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