[Aphra_behn_society] CFP for Aphra Behn Society panels at ASECS 2012

[Karen B Gevirtz]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830
Panels for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, March 22-25, 2012.

All panelists must be members of the Aphra Behn Society by March 21, 2012. To become a member or renew your membership, please go to http://www.aphrabehn.org/. Please observe the ASECS guidelines for submitting abstracts as outlined: submit to one panel, or notify chairs that you are submitting to more than one.


"Espionage: Love and War."
Spies, allegations of spying, voyeurism, double agents, and the buying, trading, and coveting of intelligence abounds in the work of the former royal spy, Aphra Behn. Both morally dubious and exceptionally effective, spies are deployed, in disguise or in the person of a bosom friend, as a means to win battles of love and war. The Aphra Behn Society invites paper proposals on espionage, in all its permutations, in women's literature and art, 1660-1830. How do the women of this period investigate and participate in various forms of espionage? How do their texts explore the uses of espionage, and anxieties over the potential infiltration of the spy into private spaces, and the communication of intelligence to external or hostile parties? How do guile, disguise, deception and the bartering and withholding of information-all of the methods of the spy-- translate across forms, genres and styles and inform techniques?  Send 500 word abstracts for 20-minute papers to Nicole Garret, Stony Brook University, English Department, Humanities Hall, Stony Brook, NY 11794, or Nbgarret at gmail.com<mailto:Nbgarret at gmail.com>, by September 20, 2011.



"Intersections of Eco-feminist Criticism and Place Theory in Female-Authored Texts of the Long Eighteenth Century." Cassie Childs, University of South Florida, Department of English, 4202 E. Fowler Ave. CPR 107, Tampa, FL 33620. E-mail: cassiechilds at mail.usf.edu
This panel seeks to explore the connections between science, place, and literature in female authored texts of the long eighteenth century.  In particular, this panel seeks papers that address texts other than novels - periodicals, dramas, and/or poetry. Papers might consider such questions as: What intersections appear between scientific and female-authored texts?  How are familiar texts reimagined from an eco-feminist standpoint?  What are the significances of authorial place/location in female-authored texts?  The preference is for papers to address issues of an interdisciplinary nature or from an interdisciplinary frame.
If you are interested, please send a 250 word proposal by September 20th, 2011 to me at cassiechilds at mail.usf.edu<mailto:cassiechilds at mail.usf.edu>.

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