Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures

14^th Annual

Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures

March 27-29, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

Questioning Textualities: A Transatlantic Approach?

This year's conference endeavors to be a collective query, prompted by textualities that can question and/or be questioned: a convergence of perspectives, discourses, and methodologies emerging physically and textually from a vast geographical space, but still holding a linguistic commonality. With textualities conceived in the broadest of senses so as to accommodate presentations on textual, visual, and/or musical media, this year's conference occasions a dialogue among participants, presenters and observers, to consider work within their own distinct fields and perhaps attend to the larger question of a conference of romance literatures as, however discordant, a transatlantic approach.          

Papers and panels on all aspects of cultural production in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian will be considered. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Abstracts and panel proposals should not exceed 250 words.  Panel proposals should include the theme of the panel, the organizer's name and contact information, and the names and affiliations of the presenters. When possible, all abstracts should be submitted by the panel organizer with the panel proposal. 

Abstracts and panel proposals may be submitted online only at the CCRL website: ccrl.colloquia.com

Deadline for the submission of abstracts and panel proposals is December 15, 2007. 

Exceptional papers by both graduate students and professors will be considered for publication in Romance Notes.  

For inquiries, please contact: 

·Spanish: María del Carmen Caña Jiménez, canajime@email.unc.edu 

·French: Gene Hughes, eehughes@email.unc.edu

·Italian: Lorenzo Borgotallo, lorenzo@email.unc.edu

·Portuguese: Jonathan Risner, jrisner@email.unc.edu

Keynote Speakers and Special Presentations

This year's keynote speakers are Rosa Beltrán and Lise Gauvin. Beltrán is an award-winning writer, journalist, translator, and professor of Comparative Literature at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM). She is the author of a collection of essays, three books of short stories and three novels, including El paraíso que fuimos (1995). In 1995 she received the prestigious Premio Internacional de Novela Planeta/Joaquín Mortiz and in 1997 her book of essays, América sin americanismos was awarded the Florence Fishbaum Award. Lise Gauvin is a member of the Académie des lettres du Québec and the Royal Society of Canada and is a writer, critic and professor of French literatures at the Université de Montréal. She is the author of numerous critical works including L'écrivain francophone à la croisée des langues (1997), Langagement. L'écrivain et la langue au Québec (2000) and La Fabrique de la langue. De François Rabelais à Réjean Ducharme (2004) as well as fictional works, such as Chez Riopelle, Visites d'ateliers (2002) and Un automne à Paris (2005). A spotlight presentation will be given by Santiago Roncagliolo, a Peruvian author who was named "new talent" by FNAC for his collection of short stories Crecer es un oficio triste (2003). His novel, Abril rojo was awarded the distinguished Premio Alfaguara in 2006, and is being translated into more than twelve languages.