CALL FOR PAPERS

                       What's Eating You?

          The State University of New York at Buffalo's
                Department of English Announces
          Its Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
                          March 19, 1994
                  Featuring This Year's Topic Of

                           CONSUMPTION


        Suggested areas of exploration include the following:

BODY:  Figures of Consumption, Addicts, The Blob, Cannibals, Epicures,
Gluttons (for Punishment), Gourmets, Gourmands, Leeches, Mouths, Parasites,
Predators, Prey, Prostitutes, Suckers, Sycophants, Ulcers, Vampires,
Worrywarts, Consumptive Bodies . . . FOOD:  Appetite (for Destruction),
Bodily Consumption Bistros, Cooking, Feasting, Sales, Soul Food, Canned
Goods,
Canon Goods, Food for Thought, Food for (Book) Worms, Food Fads, Bread
Lines,
Cafe Culture . . . MONEY:  Acts of Consumptions, Advertising, Buying,
Bohemia,
Conspicuous Consumption, Good Taste, Bad Taste, Acquired Taste, Fashion
Trends,
Wasting Time, Wasted Money, Mass Marketing, Consuming Capital, Consuming
Fiction . . . TEXT:  Cookbooks, Crockery, Half-Baked Ideas, Consumer's
Digest,
Consumer Reports, Media Consumption, Figuring Consumption, Disfiguring
Consumption, Eating Your Words, Eating Your Heart Out, Consuming Passion . .
.
DISEASE:  AIDS, TB, Eating Disorders, Indulgence, Excess, Exposure . . .

To Participate, please submit a 500-word abstract or ten-page paper with
abstract no later than November 15, 1993, to:

                           Charlie Jones
                       Department of English
                          302 Clemens Hall
                            SUNY Buffalo
                         Buffalo, NY  14260

or, by e-mail to:

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For further information call Charlie Jones at (716) 883-4215 or Anne
McGrail at (716) 884-6609.