Call for papers : William Carlos Williams and the Problems of Embodiment: Disability, Medicine and Trauma Studies

MLA CFP: William Carlos Williams and the Problems of Embodiment:
Disability, Medicine and Trauma Studies

William Carlos Williams Society announcement of CFP for panel entitled William Carlos Williams and the Problems of Embodiment: Disability, Medicine and Trauma Studies.

MLA convention, Philadelphia
27-30 Dec, 2009.

Papers are invited which focus on Williams's view of poetry as diagnostic, restorative, medicinal, or ameliorative. We especially seek papers centering on illness/disease/trauma/disability as embodied states of being as well as social, theoretical, critical, or conceptual figurations in Williams's writings. Please submit an abstract of one page and a short CV to http://webmail.rochester.rr.com/do/mail/message/mailto?to=edith_vasquez%40pitzer.edu before 15 March 2009.

Edith Morris-Vásquez, PhD
Assistant Professor
English and World Literature
Pitzer College
1050 N Mills Avenue
Claremont CA 91711
(909) 607-2633