<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Woolf Community,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please find a CFP that might be of interest listed below:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-18804584-2b14-fdfc-1aca-da6451e7f234" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">J. Ashley Foster (of Haverford College) and Margaret Galvan (of The Graduate Center, CUNY) are proposing a special session on women’s archives at next year's MLA.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Deadline for 250-word abstracts and bios:</span><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> March 15. Send to: <a href="mailto:ashleyfoster@icloud.com" class="">ashleyfoster@icloud.com</a> and <a href="mailto:mgalvan@gradcenter.cuny.edu" class="">mgalvan@gradcenter.cuny.edu</a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CFP: Trespassing on Boundaries with Women’s Archives (MLA 2017)</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Call for Papers for a proposed special session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Jan. 5-8, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Over the past decade and a half, a diverse array of materials related to women and women’s movements have inspired the creation of new archival collections and archives in university, grassroots, and digital spaces—from the founding of the Feminist Theory Collection at Brown University (2003) to the launch of Chicana Por Mi Raza (2009) and Independent Voices (2013) in digital spaces. In </span><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Archival Turn in Feminism </span><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">(2013), Kate Eichhorn explores how the rapid collection of third-wave feminist materials highlights a changing notion of the boundaries and possibilities of archives: “For a younger generation of feminists, the archive is not necessarily either a destination or an impenetrable barrier to be breached, but rather a site and practice integral to knowledge making, cultural production, and activism” (3). How do women’s archives—both long-standing and new—trespass on archival boundaries? What role do archivists and researchers play in this process?</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This MLA special session seeks to consider the multifaceted ways in which scholars blur, bust, expand, or trespass on boundaries while working in and recovering materials from women’s archives. We will open a conversation exploring the numerous modalities of radicalized archival endeavors, theorizing how gender, women’s studies, and feminism play a role in the archival space and the ensuing research. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Presentations might focus on how explorations in women’s archives:</span></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">blur the boundaries between archivist, researcher, and archives</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">bust boundaries between the public and private realms</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">trespass on national boundaries</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">cross and subvert gender boundaries</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">encourage a different relationship to the archival and research processes</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">intersect with feminist theories that push cultural boundaries</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">blend temporal boundaries, thus bringing the past into the present</span></div></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We also welcome papers that interrogate how the digitization process or disciplinary boundaries reinforce or complicate any of these considerations.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Please email your 250-word abstracts and short bios to Ashley Foster at <a href="mailto:ashleyfoster@icloud.com" class="">ashleyfoster@icloud.com</a> and Margaret Galvan at <a href="mailto:mgalvan@gradcenter.cuny.edu" class="">mgalvan@gradcenter.cuny.edu</a> by March 15. Submitters will receive notification of results by no later than April 1.</span></div><br class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">PLEASE NOTE: This CFP is for a proposed, not a guaranteed, session at MLA 2017, meaning it is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee (which will make its decisions after April 1). All prospective presenters must be current MLA members by no later than April 7, 2016.</span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Please consider submitting and be in touch</span></font><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> with any questions.</span></font></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Cheers,</span></font></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ashley Foster</span></font></span></span></div></body></html>