Thursday, April 01, 2004
Calls for papers
Susanne was talking tonight about how there is only one month left in the semester. I am not currently in school, but I found myself feeling gross--residual effects, no doubt, of having many (though not too many) years of only having one month left in a semester and far too much to do in that amount of time.
Even out of school, though, I'm still somehow involved in it--I find myself right now waiting again for decisions for graduate programs (for the third time in four years), and my own personal deadline looms later today with a paper submission for an award at the first annual Cultural/Literary Studies Conference at Emporia State University. I've never been to present at a conference before, so I'm glad I won't be going all the way down to Emporia myself for that--one of Susanne's classmates is presenting there, as well, and actually is the person who tipped me off to the conference to begin with.
As I looked for the address for the conference I found a super cool literary nerd dream blog--one that seems to focus completely on calls for paper submissions for different conferences and things. The dates on some of these are far past due, but it gives you a fairly accurate slice of the breadth and depth of the incredibly diverse scholarship going on in our field right now. There's something for everyone somewhere on this list. I could spent hours looking through all the calls for papers and comparing it to papers I've done--in just two minutes I already saw something for Flannery O'Connor for which I could have submitted. Jeez. Next I'll find myself stopping on Book TV as I flip through the cable channels.
Oh wait...I did that once. In fact, that's how I found out that Arundhati Roy (about whom I wrote on March 5) now has short hair, which was obviously startling after I got used to seeing her portrait in The God of Small Things with such long hair.
Yeah, other obviously startling fact: My transformation into a total nerd is now complete, and utterly irreversible.
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