Call for Papers
43rd Annual Convention
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York
The 43rd Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. 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.
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2011
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
A/V requirements ($10 handling fee with registration per person; two person per panel minimum for Media Projector)
Masculinity in Superhero Comic Books and Films (listed under "Women's and Gender Studies)
With comic books becoming more mainstream thanks to numerous summer blockbuster film adaptations, this session welcomes all papers looking at ongoing portrayals of masculinity in works focused on male superheroes. Possible topics include but are not limited to adherence or subversion of masculine archetypes in superhero comic books graphic novels, and films, and the gender-bending of women taking on the names and costumes of previously male superheroes. Submit 250- to 500-word proposals to Derek McGrath (derek.mcgrath@stonybrook.edu).
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