Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2017
Full name/name of organization: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
Contact email: me.makala@gmail.com.
Papers are invited for the SHARP affiliate session at the 2017 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention. Potential topics include print culture, history of the book, authorship, publishing history, ephemera, illustration, publishers’ archives, production, circulation, and reception. Papers addressing this year’s convention theme,“High Art/Low Art Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture,” are especially welcome. What connections can be made between print culture/book history and the diverse world of popular culture? How has print culture reflected popular taste from the early modern world to the present?
Possible topics include:
Genre fiction
Sensation fiction
Science fiction
Gothic
Ghost stories
Historical fiction/fantasy
Pulp fiction
Detective fiction/thrillers
Adventure fiction
Westerns
Popular magazines
Newspapers
Romance novels (Mills & Boon, etc.)
Reprint libraries
Dime novels
Penny dreadfuls
Ephemera (postcards, pamphlets, broadsides, advertising, etc.)
The evolving study of middlebrow writing
The borderlands of popular print culture (historical, geographical, etc.)
The 89th annual SAMLA Convention will be held November 3-5, 2017 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. Proposers need not be members of SHARP to submit, but panelists must be members of both SAMLA and SHARP in order to present. By June 1, 2017, please send a 350-word abstract and short biography (together in one document) to SHARP at SAMLA liaison Dr. Melissa Edmundson Makala at me.makala@gmail.com.