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Northeast Modern Language Association
2003 Convention
March 6-9, 2003
Boston, Massachusetts
Call for Papers
The 2003 NEMLA convention will be held in Boston, MA at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel, March 6-9. All participants in a session must be NEMLA
members and registered for the convention by December 1, 2002;
membership forms (http://www.nemla.org/membership.html) and conference
registration forms (http://www.nemla.org/registration.html) are available.
Chairs are responsible for responding to all inquiries. Members may present
only ONE paper and they may participate in another session in another
capacity (i. e. organize and chair, serve as a respondent on a panel). Chairs
may present a paper on any panel that they chair.
The deadline for submissions to Panel Chairs is September 15, 2002.
Completed Panel Forms (also found at the Web-site) must be submitted to
the Executive Director by October 1, 2002 via email or regular post. Chairs
are responsible for making AV requests with the hotel, as NEMLA will no
longer cover AV costs (see page 1). All panel participants must be NEMLA
members and must be registered for the convention by December 1, 2002 or
they will be removed from the final program.
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Germanic Studies
Orientation Processes in German Literature(s) after Unification
Barbara Mabee; Oakland University; 418 Wilson Hall; Rochester, Michigan
48309
Phone: 248-370-2099; Email: [log in to unmask]
This session invites papers that discuss literary representations or depictions
of orientation processes in post-unification German literature in any genre.
Narratives of the Self: German Travel Literature
Karen M. Eng; Department of German; Hoya Station; Box 571048;
Washington, D.C. 20057
Phone: 703-243-7762; E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Travel literature seems to be most obviously discussing the place or the
people visited, but in defining those “sites of Otherness,” the observer is most
often closely describing the self.
Rereading Eighteenth-Century Germany
Stuart Barnett; 20 Quorn Hunt Rd; West Simsbury, CT 06092
Phone: 860-651-3927; Email: [log in to unmask]
This intentionally non-prescriptive panel seeks to invite papers indicative of
the influx of new perspectives and methodologies (such as Feminism, New
Historicism, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, and Post- Colonial Studies) in
this field.
Thomas Bernhard’s Fiction and Drama
Steve Dowden; Germanic and Slavic Languages; Brandeis University; MS
024; Waltham, MA 02454
Phone: (781) 736-3218; Email: [log in to unmask]
Thomas Bernhard’s fiction and drama are now identifiable as a turning point
in the history of Austria’s postwar literature. Exactly what is Berhard’s legacy
in Austria, Germany and elsewhere?
The Middle East in German Literature
Roland Dollinger; Sarah Lawrence College; 1 Mead Way; Bronxville, NY
10708
Phone: (914) 395-2248; Email: [log in to unmask]
Abstracts should explore the representation of Israelis, Palestinians (and
other Arabs), the Middle-East conflict, Zionism, Anti-Zionism and/or Anti-
Semitism in German literature and culture.
Lost Landscapes: The Historical Coordinates of German-Speaking Countries
in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Jill Twark; 1024 Drake Street, # 2; Madison, WI 53715
Email: [log in to unmask]
I invite papers that explore the imbrications of space and time/landscape and
history in contemporary German (-speaking) literature and culture, e. g.,
spatial metaphors, the locus of memory, the meaning of place(s).
Bodmer/Breitinger, Keller/Meyer and Dürrenmatt/Frisch: Dialogue or
Dichotomy, Cross Influences and Re-Interpretations of Swiss "Paired"
Literary Twins and/or Opposites
Richard R. Ruppel; Department of Foreign Languages; 490 Collins Classroom
Center; University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Stevens Point, WI 54481
Phone: (715) 346-4410 (office); Fax: (715) 346-4215; E-mail:
[log in to unmask]
Abstracts proposing a re-interpretation of the works of these six authors
including their individual or collective influence upon one another, upon other
artists and their work and upon the literary traditions of their own time or
other authors and literary periods would be most welcome.
Detecting Ethnicity in Modern German Detective Novels
Claude P. Desmarais ; P.O. Box 178, Station “P”; 74 Spadina Avenue;
Toronto, ON M5S 2S7
Phone: 416-324-8492; Email: [log in to unmask];
[log in to unmask]
Papers dealing with modern German-language detective novels which depict
the interactions between ethnic-Germans and “minorities” (ethnic non-
Germans) and the possible effects of such texts on ethnic relations in
Germany.
’Bürgerliche Kultur:’ The Nineteenth Century’s Predominant Paradigm Re-
Visited
Thomas L. Buckley; 516 E. Durham St.; Philadelphia, PA 19119
Phone: 215-247-7819; Email: [log in to unmask]
Papers are sought, which illuminate new perspectives on bourgeois culture,
in particular those which shed light on emerging middle-class attitudes
toward science, politics and shifting cultural values.
Migrancy, Immigration and National Identity in Germany
Helga Druxes; Professor of German and Comparative Literature; Williams
College 14 Fairview St; Bennington, VT 05201
Phone 802 -447-7002; Email: [log in to unmask]
Twentieth-century literary, filmic and journalistic responses to immigration
and migrancy in Germany from a historical perspective, in connection or
opposition to notions of Germanness and citizenship.
Conceptions of Nature in Contemporary German Culture
Colin Riordan; 19 Eastcliffe Avenue; Kenton Park; Newcastle upon Tyne;
NE3 4SN; United Kingdom
Phone: 0044 191 242 3766; Email: [log in to unmask]
How is nature represented in German culture today? As a resource, an idyll,
a victim of patriarchal domination? Ecocritical approaches to literature, film,
music etc are encouraged but not required.
Germany and New England, 1770 – Present
Arnd Bohm; Carleton University; English Department; 1125 Colonel By Drive;
Ottawa, ONT K1S 5B6
Phone: (163) 526-3440; Email: [log in to unmask]
All aspects, genres and channels of interaction, including individual American
reception (e.g. Emerson, Longfellow, Santayana, Kerouac), German images
(travel writing, exile literature), translations (Celan’s Dickinson, Thoreau and
the Greens), institutions (universities, academies).
Tourism in German Literature, Culture and Film: Expression of (Post-)
Modernity
Birgit Tautz; Bowdoin College; 7700 College Station; Brunswick, ME 04011-
8477
Phone: (920) 832-6647 or (920) 832-6648 or (207) 725-3357
Email: [log in to unmask] (between June 17 and August 30)
This panel addresses textual and cinematic representations of tourism and
the tourist in modern German culture (1800 – present), with a special
emphasis on the role tourism and the tourist played in the emergence of
cultural/historical modernity and post-modernity.
Comparative German Studies
Neil H. Donahue; Department of Comparative Literature; 322 Calkins Hall;
107 Hofstra University; Hempstead, NY 11549
Email: [log in to unmask]
This panel examines the intertextual relations (or influence or affiliations)
between a German language text and/or author and a non-Western culture,
or vice versa, between a non-Western text and/or author and a Germanic
culture.
Guenter Grass: Assessing a Multitalented Artist and Political Gadfly
Herbert A. Arnold; Department of German Studies; Fisk Hall; 262 High
Street; Middletown, CT 06459-0040
Phone: (860) 685-2308; E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Grass is arguably the most important and prolific German writer of the
second half of the twentieth century, creating major works of poetry, drama,
and prose and providing them with his own illustrations. How do his
productions relate to each other and to the politics of post-war Germany?
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