SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) will be sponsoring two panels at the American Literature Association annual 16th annual conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 26-29, 2005 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). I am seeking submissions on the following topics:
Literary Anthologies/Anthologizing: History of the Book approaches to American literary anthologies, including studies of the editing of anthologies, the fate of particular authors in anthologies, the marketing of anthologies, etc.
Cross-Gender Transactions in American Book History: Men editing women, women editing men, women reading male-authored texts, men reading female-authored texts, men mentoring women, women mentoring men, and other transactions and mediations between men and women in the production, circulation, and consumption of American literary texts. New case studies or new approaches to old examples.
Send abstracts or completed papers and a brief c.v. by December 1, 2004 to:
Melissa J. Homestead
Assistant Professor of English
mjhomestead@ou.edu
760 Van Vleet Oval, Room 113
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
e-mail submission of documents as Word attachments preferred
