Yes, the deadline is March 5, but I suspect it can be fudged just a
bit in case you want to do this but need a couple more days. If Scott
is over the deadline just a smidge I'll put on my presidential hat
and, I would guess, get the VP to show mercy. DO come to the SCSC--
we need more English profs and grad students there. Anne.
On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Beth Quitslund wrote:
> Yet once more at the request of Scott Lucas:
>
> Dear Spenserians,
>
> For the past ten years, the Spenser Roundtable has been a popular
> fixture at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
>
> Each year, the Spenser Roundtable brings together four or five
> Spenserians to present brief (10 minute) papers handling some
> aspect of
> a topic selected in advance by past Roundtable participants. After
> their presentations, the speakers then join with each other and
> with the
> audience as a whole in a free-flowing discussion of both the papers
> presented and of the current state of critical thinking about the
> topic
> at hand. The Roundtable usually aims to bring together for the panel
> both established scholars and new, up-and-coming students of Spenser.
>
> The topic of this year's Spenser Roundtable is "Spenser and Genre,"
> and
> we are interpreting the topic broadly to include any consideration of
> Spenser's use of classical, medieval, and/or early modern genres in
> his
> writings; Spenser's creation and employment of new literary forms; or
> Spenser's influence upon the writing and generic thinking of his own
> contemporaries or of later authors. The Roundtable will take
> place, as
> always, at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, which will
> convene
> this year in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 23-26, 2008.
>
> The organizer of the Spenser Roundtable, Scott Lucas, welcomes brief
> (about 100 words or so) abstracts of papers touching on some aspect of
> the topic Spenser and Genre. You can send your abstract as an email
> attachment to me at [log in to unmask], by fax to
> 843-953-1881, or
> by traditional mail to the address printed below. If you would like
> further information, please feel free to drop me a line at the email
> address above. The deadline for abstracts is March 5, 2008.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>
> Scott Lucas
> Associate Professor
> Department of English
> The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
> Charleston, South Carolina 29409
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
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>
> Beth Quitslund
> Assistant Professor of English
>
> Department of English
> Ohio University
> Athens, OH 45701
> phone: (740) 593-2829
> FAX: (740) 593-2818
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