CALL FOR PAPERS ON MARK TWAIN/LEO TOLSTOY
THE EDITORIAL INSTITUTE AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY SCHOLARS, CRITICS AND WRITERS
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
AUGUST 20-22, 2010

The Editorial Institute at Boston University--in coordination with
the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers--invites
academic faculty, independent researchers, editors, conservators, and
graduate students working on Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy to submit
abstracts for a conference analyzing the parallel lives and legacies
of both authors on the centennial of their passing.

The following themes are to be considered for panel topics.
Submissions can concentrate on one or both of the authors, and on any
of their works:

The International National Epic
The Veneration of Location (in Print or in Mortar)
Between the Lines: Libraries and Marginalia
Editing Literary Executorship
Twain, Tolstoy, and the Testaments
Imperial Rejection, Political Reception
Lost in Translation: Tolstoy in English, Twain in Russian
Censorship Uncensored
Twain and Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century

For questions, please contact Alex Effgen at the Editorial Institute
([log in to unmask]). To contribute, please send a short curriculum
vitae and 300-word abstract to the above email by Friday, 5 March
2010.
--
Mr. Alex B. Effgen, M.A.
Administrative Assistant
The Editorial Institute at
Boston University
143 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617-353-6631
Fax: 617-353-6917
http://www.bu.edu/editinst/