CONFERENCE ON WOMEN WRITERS OF LATER MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SPAIN AND COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

CONFERENCE ON WOMEN WRITERS OF LATER MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SPAIN AND COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

October 30-November 1, 1997
at The University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese of the University of Virginia

& The Department of Romance Languages of Washington and Lee University

Suggested topics for the conference include:

comparative perspectives (such as: transoceanic connections; convent culture/the secular world; intraEuropean influence)
anxieties of influence: women and their literary foremothers/forefathers
erotic codes
women writers: questioning the silences of the Middle Ages
illness and gender
woman as biographical subject
women's scientific and political discourse
women writers and the other arts

FOUR copies of a one-page abstract for 20-minute papers, and proposals for special sessions (with particular encouragement for those with transoceanic content) and panels (recovery, editing, publication, teaching of women writers' texts) should be submitted by U.S.mail or Fax by April 1, 1997 to:

Prof. Gwyn E. Campbell
Dept. of Romance Languages
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
FAX: (540)463-8479 email: campbell.g@wlu.edu

This conference has received support from: the College of Arts & Sciences, and Latin American Studies at the University of Virginia; the Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University.