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: Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: V4048NPK@UBVMS For further information call Charlie Jones at (716) 883-4215 or Anne McGrail at (716) 884-6609.