Dr. Maeve O'Brien (aka theplathdiaries) has announced a Call For Papers for two-day symposium to celebrate the release of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1 at The MAC and Ulster University Belfast, 10-11th November, 2017.
The symposium title is Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words and Fragments and will be held at Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 10-11 November 2017. This is terrifically exciting. And that is an understatement.
Papers are encouraged but not limited to the following subjects:
- (Re)reading and recuperating Plath
- Published/unpublished Plath
- Plath and her archives
- Plath and her correspondences
- Plath and friendship
- Plath and biography
- Ecocriticism
- Representations of Plath in popular culture
- Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
- Plath, her peers and literary influences
- Feminism and Plath
- Plath and Whiteness
- Queering Plath
- Plath and place
- Plath and voice
Papers from all disciplines are welcome - with full panels and artistic contributions especially encouraged. Please send proposals of no more than 350 words by Monday, 31 July 2017.
Please visit the conference website. You can look for updates on Twitter or Facebook. Maeve can be contacted via email, too.
All links accessed 5 April 2017.
The symposium title is Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words and Fragments and will be held at Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 10-11 November 2017. This is terrifically exciting. And that is an understatement.
Papers are encouraged but not limited to the following subjects:
- (Re)reading and recuperating Plath
- Published/unpublished Plath
- Plath and her archives
- Plath and her correspondences
- Plath and friendship
- Plath and biography
- Ecocriticism
- Representations of Plath in popular culture
- Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
- Plath, her peers and literary influences
- Feminism and Plath
- Plath and Whiteness
- Queering Plath
- Plath and place
- Plath and voice
Papers from all disciplines are welcome - with full panels and artistic contributions especially encouraged. Please send proposals of no more than 350 words by Monday, 31 July 2017.
Please visit the conference website. You can look for updates on Twitter or Facebook. Maeve can be contacted via email, too.
All links accessed 5 April 2017.