RMMLA Chinese Lit and Film Since 1900–cfp

RMMLA Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 — Call for Papers
October 4-6, 2018, Cheyenne, Wyoming

Theme: Reinventing Traditions: Media, Text, and Publics
We welcome paper proposals that address a range of critical issues related to the broad theme of “Reinventing Traditions: Media, Text, and Publics” in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and culture at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Annual Convention.
Topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Cultural tradition and modernity
  • Digital technologies and cultures
  • Legacy media
  • Sinophone literature and cinema
  • Author, readership, audience, and publics
  • Audios and sound studies
  • Utopias, dystopias, sci-fi, and the uncanny in literature
  • Cross-media adaptation and genres
  • Gender, class, and ethnicity
  • Home, travel, time and space
  • Violence, trauma, memory, and forgetting
  • Cosmopolitanism, youth culture, and cultural identitiesPlease submit an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a short biography to rmmla2018@gmail.com by March 31, 2018.

Chairs:
Peijie Mao, University of North Georgia, maopeijie@hotmail.com
Shannon Cannella, Hamline University, scannella01@hamline.edu
Shaohua Guo, Carleton College, sguo@carleton.edu

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