A session at the Women in French 2016 conference:
Fluid Identities: Margins and Centers in French and Francophone Women’s Literature, Cinema, and Art.
Gettysburg College, June 9-11, 2016
Early Modern Women Writers: Gender and Identity Fluidity
This session seeks to examine the role of gender and identity fluidity in the lives and works of early modern French women writers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Publishing: anonymity, pseudonymity, gender-only (“Mme de ***”), married name.
- Gender bender literary characters.
- Identity quests by orphans.
- Gender boundary transgression: writing the male voice.
- Masked identity and/or gender.
- Identity and/or gender metamorphosis.
- Identity and/or gender revelation.
- (Mis)identification.
- Identity transition: adolescence, marriage, motherhood, widowhood.
Please submit your 250-word paper proposal electronically to marijn.kaplan@unt.edu by September 15.
Marijn S. Kaplan
Professor of French
University of North Texas
Notifications of acceptance will be sent after October 31, 2015. WIF encourages all individuals presenting papers to pay membership dues for the calendar year of the conference (http://www.womeninfrench.org/espace-membre/cotisation/). Membership dues are separate from conference registration fees.
WIF supports graduate students who are selected to present at the WIF conference. Limited funding is available for Graduate Students whose papers have been accepted at the biennial Women in French Conference. There will be ten awards of $200. The awards will be based both on demonstrated need and the quality of the proposal. Priority will be given to applicants who have not previously received funding from Women in French. Applicants must be members of Women in French. For more information, contact Cecilia Beach (fbeach@alfred.edu)