Reception Studies Conference

The Bible is missing from the list below, but the work many of us do would be just right for this conference, I think.

Call For Papers

Suggestions for panels and papers in all areas of English, American, and other literatures, media, and book history are welcome. Here are some possible panels and topics:

1. The Reception of Brokeback Mountain, including internet activity

2. The reception of serialized fiction in periodicals.

3. Marxism and reception study

4. Rereading Huckleberry Finn

5. The Reception of Toni Morrison’s fiction

6. Reading Torture Or Human Rights in Literature

7. Rereading Stanley Fish’s Is there a Text in this Class?

8. Reception and nineteenth-century (American) women's fiction

9. Trans-Atlantic receptions of British and American fiction

10. American fiction and reception as (re)construction

11. Feminist theories of reception

12. Reception and/of children's literature(s)

Proposals are due by May 1. To suggest papers or panels or for more information, please contact the organizers:

Philip Goldstein, University of Delaware, 333 Shipley St., Wilmington, DE 19801 pgold@udel.edu

Tom Poe, Department of Media Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 202 Haag Hall, 5120 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 ThomPoe@aol.com