The next MLA (Modern Language Association) Annual Convention will be
held from 5 to 8 January 2023 in San Francisco. The presidential theme
is Working Conditions.
As always, SHARP (the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) will organise a guaranteed session. We are inviting papers on the theme "Women and Book History."
Nearly
a quarter of a century ago, Leslie Howsam encouraged scholars to "make
use of the powerful theory and flexible methodology of feminist analysis
when we think about and investigate the history of books" (SHARP News,
Vol. 7, number 4, Autumn 1998).
This short article on "women and
book history" still resonates today. We invite papers on (but not
limited to): the theory and methodology of feminist book history; the
study of women in the book trade and women book collectors; the analysis
of women readers. All periods and geographical areas.
Please send your abstract (250 words) and CV (2 pages) by Wednesday 30 March 2022 to l.jaillant@lboro.ac.uk