In Sept. 2014, The Paris Review posted a birthday wish to H.D. which includes the full video of Borderline. Thank you, Paris Review!
In Sept. 2014, The Paris Review posted a birthday wish to H.D. which includes the full video of Borderline. Thank you, Paris Review!
We invite paper proposals for a panel called “H.D. and her Circle: New Directions” at this year’s South Atlantic MLA in Durham, NC, November 13-15, 2015.
Papers may focus on work by H.D. and/or those in her circle (Bryher, Kenneth MacPherson, Marianne Moore, Richard Aldington, John Cournos, Robert Herring, Ezra Pound, Paul and Eslanda Robeson, etc.), and the thematic focus of the panel is open to a range of new approaches. Given SAMLA 2015’s conference theme, “In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts,” papers that address connections to other art forms/media are welcome, although not necessary.
Please send 250-word abstracts, a brief bio, and A-V requests to rawalsh@ncsu.edu by June 10, 2015.
For more information about SAMLA 2015, please visit
https://samla.memberclicks.net/
Marsha Bryant (UF English) and Mary Ann Eaverly (UF Classics) will be co-presenting on H.D., Muriel Rukeyser, and Agnes Nemes Nagy at Poetry By The Sea: A Global Conference (May 26-29, 2015). Their slide talk “Beyond Isis: Women Poets, Ancient Egypt, and Social Crisis” takes place on Tuesday afternoon, May 26.
The Hirslanden Notebooks (ELS 2015), written from 1957-1959, offer autobiographical reflections and dream interpretations from this productive period in H.D.’s career. Copies are now available at Amazon.com.
Rebecca Walsh’s new book, The Geopoetics of Modernism (UPF, 2015), includes an impressive chapter on H.D.’s poetry through the lens of global, spatial theories. Other chapters focus on Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, and Gertrude Stein in relation to both academic and mass geographical perspectives of Humboldt and Somerville, Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, and the National Geographic magazine.
More information about the book is available at https://floridabookshelf.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/the-geopoetics-of-modernism/
The study of H.D., the many other modernist figures in her orbit, and the many modes in which she worked has often focused on aesthetic revolution (language, form, genre) and cultural revolutions (gender/sexuality, and lately national identity). This panel seeks to build on and expand the revolutionary frame by inviting papers that either re-evaluate this existing terrain or shed new light on H.D. and/or her circle by considering transformations in technology, science, media, culture, translation, notions of history or of the everyday, and/or in particular literary movements or genres. Each paper ideally will thus link H.D. and/or those in her circle to at least one other modernist phenomenon. Send brief bios and 500 word abstracts by April 15 to Celena Kusch (ckusch@uscupstate.edu)
The 2015 MSA Conference will be held in Boston, Nov. 19-22, 2015. For more information, see: https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa17/CFP.html
Hear H.D. read Helen in Egypt while scholars and poets close read selections from the poem in the podcast from Poem Talk #84 “The I as Hieroglyph: H.D., Helen in Egypt” with Julia Bloch, Dee Morris, Annette Debo, and host Al Filreis (27 Jan. 2015). This podcast offers excellent background into H.D.’s sources for the poem as well as detailed pathways for interpreting key lines and images within it. It can serve as a valuable teaching resource for classes on the modernist long poem, late modernism, feminist poetry, classics and their adaptations, and, of course, H.D. herself.
“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:
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/
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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.