Sounds fascinating! Miki On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:30 AM Larry Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Forum members-- > > **Last Call -- Deadline April 1, 2020** > > Please note that the Mark Twain Circle is accepting proposals for our > panel at MLA 2021 in Toronto. The panel topic is > > Gender/Power/Twain > > The year 2020 saw the centennials of both woman suffrage in the U.S. and > the canonization of Joan of Arc in the Catholic world. In recognition of > those events, the Mark Twain Circle solicits papers for a session on Mark > Twain and political power, broadly defined as an individual’s ability to > effectively participate in her or his governing structures. How did Twain > see women fitting into the American political structure? How did he portray > Joan’s relationship to the ruling structures in his _Personal Recollections > of Joan of Arc_, by the Sieur Louis de Conte? What were his own > relationships to the various power structures that enmeshed him? And > thinking broadly, how did he envision political power across time and > place? We welcome proposals tackling these and related topics for our 2021 > MLA session in Toronto. > > Proposals (300-500 words, please include a short cv) are due no later than > April 1, 2020. Please send to Susan K. Harris, address: [log in to unmask] > We are especially interested in proposals from emerging scholars and > individuals from underrepresented groups. Graduate students selected to > present may apply for the Louis Budd Travel Grant sponsored by the MTC. > Papers given at MTC sessions are often sought for development and > publication in our journal _Mark Twain Annual_. > > > Thanks, > > --LH > > Larry Howe > Professor of English & Film Studies > Department of Literature and Languages > Roosevelt University > Editor, Studies in American Humor > President, Mark Twain Circle of America > > > > -- Miki Pfeffer, Ph D *A** New Orlean**s Author i**n Mark Twain's Court: * *Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns * (LSU Press, 2019) *Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair *(University Press of Mississippi, 2014)