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Dear Colleagues,
I apologize for having sent the information for The Carolina Conference
on Romance Literatures in an attatchment. Here is the information for
the conference.
Best Regards
Matthew Harper
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Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures
March 18-20, 2004
Presented in conjunction with Petrarch Symposium 2004
Keynote Speakers:
David Brookshaw
David Brookshaw is Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University
of Bristol. His main research interests lie in the area of migrant,
colonial and postcolonial literary discourses, and he has published
widely on the literatures of Brazil and Lusophone Africa. His most
recent project, Perceptions of China in Modern Portuguese Literature, is
currently at press. Brookshaw has published two studies on Brazilian
literature: Raça e cor na literatura brasileira (Race and Colour in
Brazilian Literature) and Paradise Betrayed: Brazilian Literature of the
Indian. He has also translated the work of the Mozambican writer, Mia
Couto, into English, and has organized an anthology, entitled Visions of
China: Stories from Macau (Gávea-Brown/Hong Kong University Press).
Kathryn M. Grossman
Kathryn M. Grossman, professor of French at Pennsylvania State
University, combines her specialization in the fiction of Victor Hugo
with interests in the theory of metaphor and utopian studies. Besides
her work on Hugo, she has written on politics and poetics in such
post-Revolutionary writers as Dickens, Orwell, and George Sand. Her
publications include The Early Novels of Victor Hugo: Towards a Poetics
of Harmony (Droz, 1986), Figuring Transcendence in Les Misérables:
Hugo’s Romantic Sublime (Southern Illinois UP, 1994), a volume on Les
Misérables in Twayne’s Masterwork Studies series (Twayne-Macmillan,
1996), and the selected proceedings of the 1998 Nineteenth-Century
French Studies Colloquium, co-edited with Michael Lane, Bénédicte
Monicat, and Willa Silverman (Rodopi, 2001). Her current work focuses on
Hugo’s later novels, as well as on the recycling of literary classics in
other media.
René Prieto
René Prieto is Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University. His
interests include twentieth century Latin American narrative; body, sex,
gender and sexuality; literary theory; and indigenismo. His current
research deals with the ethical and political dimensions of love in
twentieth century and contemporary Latin American literature. He is the
author of Body of Writing: Figuring Desire in Spanish American
Literature (Duke UP, 2000) and Miguel Angel Asturias’s Archeology of
Return (Cambridge UP, 1993) as well as co-author (with Ted Perry) of
Michelangelo Antonioni, a Guide to Reference and Resources (G.K. Hall,
1986). Some of his more recent articles and shorter texts include
“Cortázar’s Closet” (Julio Cortázar: New Readings. Ed. Carlos Alonso.
Cambridge UP, 1998), “The Literature of Indigenismo” (The Cambridge
History of Latin American Literature, II: The Twentieth Century, ed.
Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker) and “La
persistencia del deseo: Colibrí de Severo Sarduy” (Revista
Iberoamericana 57).
Call For Papers
Papers or panels on all aspects of literature in Spanish, French,
Portuguese, Italian, and Comparative Literature will be considered.
Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Deadline for submission of
abstracts is Dec. 1, 2003. Abstracts are limited to 250 words and may
be submitted online only. For abstract submissions and further
information, visit our website at:
http://www.unc.edu/ccrl
For inquiries please contact Isabel Ferreira (Portuguese) at Matthew
Harper (Italian) at [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
Briana Lewis (French) at [log in to unmask], Rebeca Olmedo (Spanish)
at [log in to unmask], or call (919) 962-9767.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
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