The Literature and Religion panel for the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature at Cortland College of the State University of New York (October 28-30) seeks papers on representations of religious conversion. Particularly welcome are arguments concerning:
- conversion narrative as a genre,
- depictions of characters who undergo moral and/or religious transformations in literary works,
- metaphors and tropes associated with religious conversion,
- narratives describing the conversion of nations and/or groups of people,
- texts that attempt to convert their readers.
Please send one-page abstracts postmarked by 15 June 2001 to:
Erin E. Kelly
Department of English
Susquehanna Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
USA
or via e-mail dated no later than 15 June to:
ekelly@wam.umd.edu
Those selected to participate on the panel will be expected to send a complete draft of the conference paper (8 to 10 papges in length) by 21 July, 2001.