<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 class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">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 class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">Deadline for 250-word abstracts and bios:</span><span class="" 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;"> 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" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;"> </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">CFP: Trespassing on Boundaries with Women’s Archives (MLA 2017)</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;"> </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">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 class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">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 class="" 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;">The Archival Turn in Feminism </span><span class="" 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;">(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 class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">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 class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">Presentations might focus on how explorations in women’s archives:</span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" 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;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blur the boundaries between archivist, researcher, and archives</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" 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;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bust boundaries between the public and private realms</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" 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;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">trespass on national boundaries</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" 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;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cross and subvert gender boundaries</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" 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;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">encourage a different relationship to the archival and research processes</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" 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;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">intersect with feminist theories that push cultural boundaries</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" 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;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blend temporal boundaries, thus bringing the past into the present</span></div></li></ul><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;"> </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">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" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;"> </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" 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;">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 class="" 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;">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 class="" 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;"><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please consider submitting and be in touch</span></font><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> with any questions.</span></font></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheers,</span></font></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Ashley Foster</span></font></span></span></div></body></html>