[ecrea] CFP RSS conference 2013

*CALL FOR PAPERS

*The Fifth Biannual conference of the RECEPTION STUDY SOCIETY

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 26-29 2013


The Reception Study Society promotes informal and formal exchanges 
between scholars in several related fields: reader-response
criticism and pedagogy, reception history, history of reading and the 
book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies, and 
gender, race, ethnic, sexuality, postcolonial, religious, and other 
studies.

*Proposals *for panels and papers in any of these areas are now welcome. 
Please submit proposals of 250 words or less, along with a one-page cv, 
to Amy Blair at (amy.blair /at/ marquette.edu) <mailto:(amy.blair /at/ marquette.edu)> 
by *April 15, 2013.


*Keynote Speakers will be*:

John Carlos Rowe
*Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of 
Southern California
            "The Reader Writes back: Interactivity and the New Dynamics 
of Reception"
His current scholarly projects include /The Rediscovery of America: 
Multicultural Literature/ /and the New Democracy/
and /Blackwell’s Companion to American Studies.

/*Ernest Mathijs
*Associate professor of film studies at the University of British 
Columbia (Vancouver)
            "Between Interpretive and Affective Communities: Cultists, 
the  Aesthetic Experience, and Reception Studies."
He has recently published /The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of 
Blood to Cultural Hero/ (2008); with Xavier
Mendik (eds), T/he Cult Film Reader /(2007); and with Martin Barker 
(eds), /Watching The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien World Audiences /(2007).

*Joan Rubin
*Professor of History, University of Rochester
            "Print Culture and the Cosmopolitan Reader"
She has written /Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America/ 
(2007) and a collaborative /History of the Book in America/ (2000).

Reduced rate rooms will soon be available from the Doubletree Inn in 
downtown Milwaukee (414-273-2950 or 414-727-1575).

Selected conference papers will be solicited for publication in the RSS 
journal */Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History/,* which will be 
published by Penn State University Press as of the fall of 2013.  For 
information about the RSS, including membership information, or the 
journal, please visit our website: http://receptionstudy.org/ .