---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 12:28:00 CDT From: William Proctor Williams <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PERFORM <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Graduate Conference CALL FOR ABSTRACTS I would like to call your attention to the 1995 Northern Illinois University Graduate Conference on Language and Literature scheduled for Saturday, March 25 and Sunday, March 26, 1995. Organized by graduate students at Northern Illinois University, the objective of this conference is to promote graduate student participation in the academic profession. Susan Gubar, the keynote speaker, will be speaking on the following topics: "Feminist Criticism Revisited: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?" (Saturday) and "White Skin, Black Face: Representation of Racechange in Twentieth-Century Culture" (Sunday). There will also be a special session on Film and Literature. THE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ENDS ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1995. Topics include all periods of American and British literature, creative writing (submit entire work), critical theory, film, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, ethnic studies, gay and lesbian literature, and textual criticism and bibliography. Send abstracts to: Conference Director, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. Fax: (815)753-0606