The Future of Literary Studies, 1500-1800

The Future of Literary Studies, 1500-1800

The Early Modern Center’s Tenth annual Winter Conference
Friday – Saturday, March 11 – 12
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

In recent decades, scholars working in the early modern period have been at the vanguard of literary studies. To cite just one example, some of the earliest practitioners of New Historicism, such as Stephen Greenblatt and the late Richard Helgerson, worked in the early modern period. The question we are contemplating this year is simple: where is early modern studies headed? What’s next? Does the future lie in advancing or revisiting existing approaches, such as still newer historicism, or something different altogether? In addition to exploring this question theoretically, we are also interested in new pedagogical and critical practices.
Sponsored by the Early Modern Center, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Arnhold Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, the Dept. of Comparative Literature, the Dept. of Feminist Studies, the Dept. of French and Italian, and the IHC’s Geographies of Place series.

Website: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2010-2011/futureofliterarystudies.asp