“H.D. and Feminist Poetics” Conference: Call for Papers and Panels

Department of English, Lehigh University in Bethelem, PA, September 17-19, 2015

To commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of Lehigh University, the Department of English will host a conference that celebrates the life, works, and legacies of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania’s own Hilda Doolittle. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels that explore a wide range of approaches to the conference’s theme, “H.D. and Feminist Poetics.” In addition to proposals that examine the emergence, evolution, and nature of a feminist poetics in H.D.’s works, we also welcome papers or panels that address feminist poetics more broadly, whether by focusing on the poetry of H.D.’s contemporaries or by considering the legacies of H.D.’s feminist and poetic influence.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) feminist poetics and:

• Gender and sexuality
• Modernism/Imagism
• Queer poetics
• Religion/mysticism/spirituality
• Psychoanalysis
• War/violence
• Literary salons/print culture/female literary communities

The conference will also feature an “H.D. and Biography” roundtable that showcases new and emerging biographical projects focusing on H.D. herself or on individuals who were significant in her life. We welcome proposals to participate in this roundtable discussion. Additionally, we invite proposals for fully formed roundtable sessions on other topics as well.

 Submission Details:

 For individual papers, please send a 250-word proposal and a brief scholarly biography.

For panels of three or four, please send – in one document – a proposed panel title and a 250-word abstract for each paper, along with a brief scholarly biography for each presenter.

For the biography roundtable, please send a 250-word description of the biographical project along with a brief scholarly biography. To propose a roundtable session on another topic, please send – in one document – a 500-word description of the roundtable along with a brief scholarly biography for each participant.

Send proposals to Jenny Hyest at jehc@lehigh.edu. For the e-mail subject line, please use: “H.D. Conference Proposal.”

Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2015

The  H.D. International Society will again be sponsoring a panel at the American Literature Association conference, May 21-24, 2015, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. The call for paper proposals is open ended, although projects working with some aspect of biography would be particularly welcome given the recent publications of H.D. editions and their scholarly framings as well as new interest in critical biography. Please send a brief paper proposal (250 words) along with a biography/CV to Rebecca Walsh, rawalsh@ncsu.edu, no later than January 26, 2015.

Here is a link to the ALA site for more information about the upcoming Boston, MA convention:
http://americanliteratureassociation.org/calls/annual-conference/

FROM THE WEB SITE:

The 25th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, sponsored by Bloomsburg University, will take place in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, June 4-7, 2015. The topic, Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries, seeks to contextualize Virginia Woolf’s writing alongside the work of her contemporaries. This unprecedented number of women writers — experimentalists, middlebrow authors, journalists, poets, and editors — was simultaneously contributing to, as well as complicating, modernist literature. In what ways did these burgeoning communities and enclaves of women writers intersect with (or coexist alongside) Virginia Woolf?

Conference organizers welcome proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and visual art exhibits from literary and interdisciplinary scholars, creative and performing artists, common readers, undergraduates, students, and teachers at all levels. Submissions should relate to Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries and may emphasize either the development of enclaves or specific female subcultures or individual writers who were contemporaneous with Virginia Woolf. Deadline: Jan. 24, 2015

Note: To reach Bloomburg University of Pennsylvania, conference participants should fly to Newark, where a conference shuttle will bring participants to Bloomsburg, and affordable housing will be available in a newly renovated residence hall.