Call for Papers:
SSL Sessions at MLA 2001: New Orleans
December 27-30, 2001

The Society for the Study of Southern Literature invites proposals for papers to be presented at two session during the 2001 Modern Language Association meeting in New Orleans. Please note that all participants must be MLA members by April 1.

Women and the South Land
This session will examine the extent to which female authors have redrawn traditional maps of the South, both geographic and ideological. Papers might focus on a variety of issues, including the conflation of white Southern womanhood with the idea of the South itself, the challenges women writers pose to conventional definitions of Southern literature, the intersection of women writers with the principles of agrarianism, or the application of ecofeminism or postcolonialism to the work of female authors. 
Send 200-word abstract or complete paper of 8-10 pages by March 25 to Kathryn McKee, Department of English, Box 1848, The University of Mississippi,University, Mississippi 38677-1848 or to kmckee@olemiss.edu.

Life Writing in the American South
Papers may focus on autobiography, memoir, biography, diaries, journals, letters, and/or oral histories. Original scholarship on life writing as it pertains to issues of canonicity, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and/or southern regional identity, or critical assessments of scholarship on life writing in the South, are especially welcome.
Send 200-word abstract or complete papers of 8-10 pages by March 25 to James H. Watkins, Box 530, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA 30149 or by attachment to jwatkins@berry.edu.