35th Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference

Call for Papers

The School of International Letters and Cultures in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will host the Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference in October 1-3, 2009, featuring papers on all areas of comparative literature and critical approaches, representing creative traditions around the globe.

Plenary Speaker: Andrei Codrescu

"Sheherezade's Bodies: Notes on Narrative and Extinction"

Andrei Codrescu is MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University, author, most recently, of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (Princeton University Press).

Plenary Roundtable featuring Gabriele Schwab Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and former Director of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California at Irvine.

We welcome proposals for papers and panels on the conference theme:

"Translating and Mapping: Rethinking Literature in the Age of Globalization"

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Global Literatures

- national and transnational narratives in world literature
- varieties of cultural otherness
- instability and hybridity in global literatures
- varieties of modernity and patterns of premodernity
- narrative constructions of cross-cultural identities and ethics
- indigenous literatures and politics of indigeneity

2. Gender and Embodiment

- gender, power, and art
- seduction and the narrative tradition
- embodiment, affect, and value
- cultural politics of emotions

3. Genres and Cultural Translations

- text to film
- text to intertext
- translations across the arts
- marginalized and minor languages and literatures 

To submit a paper or a panel proposal, send an attachment to:
Dr. Ileana Alexandra Orlich (Orlich@asu.edu) by May 1, 2009.

Note: Submission deadline has been extended to June 1, 2009.