O'Connor Conferences, Meetings, Workshops, Etc.

Call for Papers

Organizers welcome an eclectic mix of O'Connor topics and are especially interested in papers on iconography, de Certeau's "practice of everyday life," and notions of the posthuman and cyberfiction as they touch O'Connor Studies. Send 500-word proposals by email attachment to: jacqueline.zubeck@gmail.com or avis.hewitt@gmail.com.
Deadline for the proposals is Friday, 12 September 2008.

Contemporary Southern literature remains a growing area for further/future discussion(s) and criticism(s) within the context of society. This CFP seeks contributors offering a wide variety of interpretations and criticisms of contemporary Southern literature and culture against the backdrop of popular culture and postmodern society, although other approaches are also solicited. Presentations covering a broad range of Southern literature pieces, critical approaches, and cultural interpretations are welcome; presentations should be developed for a 15-minute reading.

Please submit a no more than a 250-word abstract to Dr. Christopher Bloss, Area Chair, by November 30, 2007. Contributors will be notified by email within two days of submission. The conference takes place April 8-11. Please submit an email abstract (Word or RTF only) to: chris.bloss@gmail.com. (Please provide title of paper, school affiliation (if any), email address, and phone number. These will only be used in case we absolutely need to contact you.)

Graduate students are encouraged to apply. This is not simply a forum for seasoned professionals, although they are also welcome, but a place to experience the art of presentation in a comfortable environment. Information about hotel reservations and conference registration may be found at the conference web-site. Check the conference web-site as the time grows closer at http://pcaaca.org/conference/national.php

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Call for Papers

The annual meeting of the American Literature Association will be held in the Boston Back Bay Westin Copley May 21-24, 2009.The Flannery O'Connor Society will again sponsor two sessions:

Please submit proposals on military aggression and soldiering in O'Connor's fiction - from Hazel Motes, the Greeleaf twins, Tom T. Shiflett, and Chauncey Shortley, to her use of Holocaust images in "The Displaced Person." Biographical inquiries might address her friendships with John Sullivan and Robie Macauley, her cartoons regarding the WAVES housed on the campus of GSCW during her years there, as well as her father's zealous interest in his WWI experience and leadership of a veterans' group. Analyses of "A Late Encounter With the Enemy" will be particularly welcomed.

Send 500-word proposals to Robert Donahoo by Monday, January 19, 2009.

If you should have information regarding upcoming conferences, meetings, workshops, etc. in which O'Connor is a topic, please let us know.