OUT OF BOUNDS: SPACE, PLAY, AND BORDERS
University of Virginia's
Fourteenth Annual English Department Graduate Conference
April 22-23, 2005
UPDATE: Deadline extended to APRIL 1, 2005.

Keynote Speaker:

SUSAN STANFORD FRIEDMAN
Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies
University of Wisconsin - Madison

How do literary criticism and theory think beyond boundaries, be they methodological, disciplinary, cultural, spatial or textual? How do literary texts engage in border-crossing and play? This conference will examine a range of issues pertaining to literal and figurative boundaries, including cross-cultural encounters,
performativity, hybridity, and other forms of transgressive play. We encourage proposals addressing but not limited to:

- positionality and situatedness
- methodological and theoretical crossings (e.g.
postcolonialism and feminism)
- intercultural exchange and hybridity
- "home," travel and migration
- narratives of encounter
- roots/routes
- identity construction and Otherness

Please send abstracts of up to 300 words to
ams4rf@virginia.edu with "Conference Proposal" in the
subject line (no attachments please!).
Deadline: April 1, 2005