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Thursday, January 28, 2004 WRITER: Suzi Wong, 705/542-7103, swong@uga.edu SUSAN GUBAR AND OTHER PREMIER SCHOLARS TO SPEAK AT BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS CONFERENCE HOSTED BY UGA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Registration deadline is Feb. 1 ATHENS, Ga. – Graduate students from the University of Georgia’s Department of English in conjunction with the British Women Writers Association will host the Twelfth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference (BWWC), March 25-28, on the UGA campus. Bringing together renowned scholars and graduate students from the United States. and abroad, this year’s conference focuses on interdisciplinary topics and bears the title “Location, Location, Location: Textual Spaces and Places.” The BWWC Steering Committee said it is pleased to add UGA to the list of prestigious institutions which have hosted this conference. Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Indiana University, is the acclaimed co-author of the ground-breaking The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-Century Literary Imagination, which was a runner-up for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, Gubar spent a year as Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Human Values where she completed Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (Indiana University Press, 2002). She will present a talk titled “A Feminism of Her Own.” Yopie Prins, associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Michigan, and Susan Wolfson, professor of English at Princeton University, will deliver keynote addresses. Prins, a recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships including a Guggenheim, a Mellon and a Fulbright, is the author of Victorian Sappho, which was awarded the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for First Book in Victorian Studies. Wolfson, recipient of the Keats-Shelley Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 2001, is the author of Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 1999) and The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry (Cornell University Press, 1986). Registration for the British Women Writers Conference is open to everyone. Participants who register by Feb. 1 will receive the special “early” rate. To register or for more details, please visit www.english.uga.edu/~bwwc or email bwwc@english.uga.edu.
Kim Cretors, News Bureau Manager |
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