<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From Emily Francomano <Emily.Francomano@georgetown.edu> <br>Date: 02/27/2015 7:28 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To "list@gemela.org" <List@gemela.org> <br>Subject [GEMELA] CFP for GEMELA'S MLA Sessions (another gentle reminder) <br> <br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">GEMELA invites proposals
for papers to be included in its guaranteed session and in a proposed
session in collaboration with the MLA Forum on 16th-
and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama</span></div>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><br></b></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>1. Returning to the Archives </b>[Guaranteed Session]<br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font> Seeking
papers on women who left their marks and testimonies
in the archives, reconsidering the impact of those voices on audiences
past and
present. In this session we aim to continue the fruitful discussion
inspired by the presenters at our session at the MLA in Vancouver<b> </b>about
the importance of returning to the archives in
new ways in order to write the women who left ample evidence of their agency
back into academic sites of memory. 250-word abstract and CV to Emily Francomano (<a href="mailto:ecf5@georgetown.edu" target="_blank">ecf5@georgetown.edu</a>) by March 13.</font></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>2. Women and Performance in the Comedia</b>.
[Arranged in collaboration the MLA Forum on 16th-
and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama. Non-guaranteed session] How
did women contribute to performance
in the Comedia, and how did performance and the Comedia contribute to
women? Papers analyzing actresses; female court players; women and the <i>corrales</i>; scenes of (play)writing; women
and queerness; eschewing marriage; changing rooms and costuming. 250-word abstract and brief CV by <span><span>1 March</span></span>. Marimer Carrión (<a href="mailto:mcarrio@emory.edu" target="_blank"><span>mcarrio@emory.edu</span></a>).</span></p></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font>Emily C. Francomano, PhD<br><br>Associate Professor<br>Department of Spanish and Portuguese<br>Georgetown University<br>37th and O Sts. NW<br>Washington DC 20057<br><br></font></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font>Associate Editor, <i>La corónica</i><i><span style="font-weight:normal"><span>: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures & Cultures <br></span></span></i></font></span></div><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span><a href="http://lacoronica.org/" target="_blank">http://lacoronica.org/</a></span></span></span><i><span style="font-weight:normal"><span><br></span></span></i></font></div></div>
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