CFP: The Role of Cognitive Science in Literary Studies
(9/15; 3/30/2001-3/31/2001)

Northeast Modern Language Association
Hartford, Connecticut
March 30-31, 2001

Papers are sought that address, descriptively or prescriptively, the role of cognitive science in literary studies, teaching and/or research. While some literary scholars, like Mark Turner, have argued that cognitive science is not a "new theory for literature," but an approach dealing with more fundamental matters of thought and language, others, like Joseph Carroll, have turned to similar approaches as a new weapon against post-structuralist approaches to literature. The goal of this session will be to provide possible answers to the question: how can (or should) cognitive science be used in a literary studies context?

Appropriate to this session, then, would be papers that theorize the role of cognitive science in conjunction with other approaches to literary study, as well as papers that are themselves a demonstration of how cognitive science approaches to literature fit within a larger theoretical framework.

250-500 word abstracts by September 15th. Electronic submissions strongly encouraged.

E-mail: JAMESL4242@AOL.COM

Session Chair:

James Luberda
Department of English
University of Connecticut
337 Mansfield Rd, U-25
Storrs, CT 06269-1025