42^nd Annual Con­ven­tion, North­east Mod­ern Lan­guage Asso­ci­a­tion (NeMLA)

April 7 – 10, 2011

New Brunswick, NJ – Hyatt New Brunswick
Host Insti­tu­tion:  Rut­gers Uni­ver­sity
Keynote Speaker:  Junot Diaz

This panel wel­comes papers on any aspect of Persian/Iranian lit­er­a­ture, of any time period, defined to include not only work writ­ten in Iran and works in trans­la­tion, but also work writ­ten in Per­sian by Iran­ian writ­ers in exile, in Eng­lish by Iran­ian Amer­i­can writ­ers, in French (Mar­jane Satrapi) and/or in any other lan­guage in which peo­ple of Iran­ian descent choose to write. Please sub­mit 250 – 300 word pro­pos­als to Richard Jef­frey New­man at richard.​newman@​ncc.​edu

Dead­line:  Sep­tem­ber 30, 2010

Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affil­i­a­tion
Email address
Postal address
Tele­phone num­ber
A/V require­ments (if any; $10 han­dling fee with registration)

The 42^nd Annual Con­ven­tion will fea­ture approx­i­mately 360 ses­sions, as well as pre-conference work­shops, dynamic speak­ers and cul­tural events.  Details and the com­plete Call for Papers for the 2011 Con­ven­tion will be posted in June: www​.nemla​.org.

Inter­ested par­tic­i­pants may sub­mit abstracts to more than one NeMLA ses­sion; how­ever pan­elists can only present one paper (panel or sem­i­nar).  Con­ven­tion par­tic­i­pants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a cre­ative ses­sion or par­tic­i­pate in a round­table.  Do not accept a slot if you may can­cel to present on another ses­sion

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