[ecrea] Reception Studies Society CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS~ UPDATED~ NEW DEADLINE 5/25/15

The Sixth Biannual Conference of the RECEPTION STUDY SOCIETY
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) IN
Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 24-27, 2015

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 (rss2015 /at/ ipfw.edu) by May 25, 2015.

Plenary Speakers will be:

Paul Armstrong
Professor of English, Brown University
Plenary Talk Title: “How Historical is Reading? What Literary Studies 
Can Learn
from Neuroscience (and Vice Versa)”
Armstrong’s most recent book, How Literature Plays with the Brain: The
Neuroscience of Reading and Art, was published by Johns Hopkins 
University Press
in September 2013. He is currently working on a scholarly edition of 
Henry James’s
The Ivory Tower.

George B. Hutchinson
Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture, Cornell University
Plenary Talk Title: “When Literature Mattered”
Hutchinson’s publications include, In Search of Nella Larsen: A 
Biography of the
Color Line, which won the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa, and 
Publishing
Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 (co-edited with John K.
Young). He is currently writing a book on American literature and 
culture in the
1940s.

Jeffrey Sconce
Associate Professor of Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University
Plenary Talk Title: “That Bronte Girl: Intermedial Fantasy and the 
Adolescent
Paracosm”
Sconce’s work focuses on media history and cultural theory. His upcoming 
book
project looks at the history of psychosis and electronic media in the 
19th and 20th
centuries.

Reduced rate rooms will be available from the Holiday Inn adjacent to 
the IPFW
campus (260-482-3800).

Selected conference papers will be solicited for possible publication in 
the RSS
journal, Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, published by 
Penn State
University Press. For information about the RSS, including membership
information, past conferences, and the journal, please visit our website:
http://receptionstudy.org/.

cfp categories:
american
bibliography_and_history_of_the_book
cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches
film_and_television
interdisciplinary




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