CALL FOR PAPERS
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
University of Washington, Seattle: August 16-19, 2001
ROMANTIC SUBJECTS
The ninth annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism will take place on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Aug. 16-19, 2001. We invite submission of papers to be presented at the conference. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2001. Submissions should be either 500-word proposals or papers not longer than 2500 words. To facilitate handling, we would greatly appreciate electronic rather than mail submissions.
The conference topic is "Romantic Subjects." This topic is intended to encourage a non-exclusive focus on three areas: subjectivity, ideas and ideologies, and subject positions. A list of special sessions appears on the reverse; full descriptions and e-mail addresses can be found at the NASSR 2001 Web site: http://depts.washington.edu/nassr01/ . Proposals for these sessions should be sent directly to the session organizer. All other proposals for conference papers should be sent to the conference organizers at:
nassr01@u.washington.edu
If you submit to more than one special session, please inform both session leaders. Do not submit simultaneously to the special sessions and to the Seattle organizing committee; session organizers have an earlier decision date and have been asked to forward to us any proposals they cannot use.
Special opportunity:
We have reserved a block of 50 tickets at $176 per set for the Seattle Opera Production of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," August 13, 14, 16, and 18. All three cycles of the Ring are currently sold out. If you wish to order a ticket in connection with the NASSR meeting, please consult the information on the NASSR 2001 Web site. THESE TICKETS MUST BE ORDERED AND PAID FOR (ALONG WITH CONFERENCE REGISTRATION) BY NOVEMBER 15.
Conference Organizers:
Marshall Brown, Department of English (mbrown@u.washington.edu)
Gary Handwerk, Dept. of Comparative Literature (handwerk@u.washington.edu)
Jane Brown, Department of Germanics (jkbrown@u.washington.edu)
Richard Will, School of Music (rjwill@u.washington.edu)
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NASSR 2001 Special Session Topics
Rethinking Failure
Christine Cooper, Univ, of Massachusetts, Amherst
Mary Robinson and the Subject of Politics
Adriana Craciun, University of Nottingham
Romantic Disease
Don Creighton, University of California, SF
Romantic Anatomy
Peter Kitson, University of Dundee
Romanticism and the Culture of Business
Rob Anderson, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Operatic Subjects
Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Victoria University, Toronto
Theatrical Subjects in the Romantic Period
Colin Harris & Jonathan Mulrooney, Boston Univ.
Le Sujet d'amour
Charles Mahoney, University of Connecticut
Other Selves/Selves as Other
Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania
Zionism and British Romanticism
Sheila Spector, Marietta, GA
Monstrous Subjects
Denise Gigante, Stanford University
Gothic Subjectivities
Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University
Copyright and Readers' Rights in the Romantic Century, 1750-1850
Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Portraiture and the Romantic Subject
Elizabeth Fay, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Christopher Rovee, Princeton University
The Subject of Education
Gary Handwerk, University of Washington, Seattle
Music and Literature
Cyrus Hamlin, Yale University
Libidinal Subjects
Richard Sha, American University
Subjectivities Against Themselves
Karen Weisman, University of Toronto
Romanticism and Buddhism
Mark Lussier, Arizona State University
Community Subjects
Jan Plug, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Romanticism's Most Wanted: Criminals, Forgers, Fakes, Frauds, Imposters, and Embezzlers
Debbie Lee, Washington State University, Pullman
Subjects, Citizens, Exiles, Icons: Experiences of National Identity in Romantic-Period Travel
Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
British Emigration and America: 1770-1820
Tilar Mazzeo, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Subjectivity and Chaos
Chris Clason, Oakland Univ., Rochester, MI
Rationality, Affect and Ethics in Romantic Literature
Nancy Yousef, Baruch College