[NIS_GS:] CFP: Clothing as Boundary in the Works of Virginia Woolf (UK) (12/10/05; 6/22/06-6/25/06)

16th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
Call for Panel Submissions: "Clothing as Boundary"

We are accepting proposals to complete a panel on Virginia Woolf and clothing currently titled "Clothing as Boundary in the Works of Virginia Woolf." Of special interest to us is how clothing thematizes limits/boundaries or examines the intersection of clothing/boundary in terms of barriers and limits both IN and OF Woolf's work.

We invite papers involving Woolf's own exploration of clothing not only in terms of symbol and substance (or matter and metaphor), but also clothing as physical, psychological and ideological boundary between individuals or groups that can be-or fail to be-negotiated. In keeping with this year's conference themes, we invite paper proposals that analyze Woolf's use of "clothing as boundary" in relation to: a) the present and the past, b) genders and sexualities, c) modernity and tradition, d) the metropolis and the region, e) nationhood and patriotism, f) war and colonialism, g) social class and race, h) the elite and the common, i) urban and rural, j) insiders and outsiders, k) industrialization and work, l) women and men, or, m) any intersection[s] of the above.

Please email one copy of a 250 word proposal and a short bio paragraph to Randi Synnove Koppen [Randi.Koppen@eng.uib.no]and Catherine R.
Mintler [cmintler@unr.edu] by December 10th. The deadline for panel
proposals to be submitted is January 4th, 2006.
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