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