[Englecturers] FW: Poetic Form and Disability (3/1/07; MLA '07)

[Steven Axelrod]

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Subject: CFP: Poetic Form and Disability (3/1/07; MLA '07)


A Special Session for the MLA 2007 conference in Chicago:

"Poetic Form and Disability"

We welcome proposals that address intersections, opportunities, 
aesthetic challenges and disjunctures between poetics and disability 
studies. The emphasis is on formal approaches: we are less interested 
in poetry that narrates disability, or whose authors happen to be 
disabled, but rather in approaches to poetry and poetry criticism that 
locate disability in, through, and with formal elements. We understand 
disability here as a social formation, playing across embodiment and 
cultural embedment: but what shape this political understanding of 
disability takes might very well be part of the investigation.

The panel will be proposed by the April 1 deadline. MLA announces 
acceptance in mid-summer. Proposed panelists must join MLA by April 7.  
  For more information: www.mla.org.

Send 1 page abstract and short cv by 1 March; Jim Ferris 
(jvferris at wisc.edu), Petra Kuppers (petra at umich.edu)


-- 
Petra Kuppers
Associate Professor
English, Theatre, Women's Studies
3216 Angell Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
MI 48109-1003
office: 734-647-7672
email: petra at umich.edu
homepage: www.umich.edu/~petra

New Books forthcoming: January: Community Performance: An Introduction, 
and Community Performance: A Reader (Routledge)
February: The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary 
Art (Minnesota), http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/kuppers_scar.html

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