From: Carrion, Maria Mercedes [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 14:12
To: Lauer, A Robert
Subject: CFP for Comedia and Comedia-GEMELA sessions at 2016 MLA in Austin, TX

Dear Prof. Lauer,

Saludos.  Below you can find the CFP for all three Comedia sessions for the 2016 MLA Convention at Austin, TX.  If you could please post it in the Comedia listserve, we will be very grateful.

Thank you, Prof. Carrión.

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The MLA Forum on 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama invites proposals for papers to be considered for inclusion in one of its three sessions.  Current members of MLA; those submitting abstracts for the third session must be members of GEMELA as well.

1.  Primal Scenes of the Comedia.  [Guaranteed Forum session] How does knowing and/or understanding primal scenes contribute to the writing and reading in- and of the Comedia?  Papers analyzing, interpreting, illustrating, or commenting dreams of fathers; repression of women/mothers; terrible mothers; abjection; production and reproduction; queerness; mise en abîme; rape; and/or sexual violence will be taken into consideration.  250-word abstract and brief CV by 1 March.  Marimer Carrión ([log in to unmask]).

2.  Comedic Desires.  [Guaranteed Forum session] What correspondences between desire and comedy contribute to the texture of the Comedia?  This session will bring together papers with a critical focus on comic eroticism; mysterious theatrical architecture; desire by proxemics, gesturing, and movement; propping desire; drag and divas on- and offstage.  250-word abstract and brief CV by 1 March.  Marimer Carrión ([log in to unmask]).

3.  Women and Performance in the Comedia.  [Arranged in collaboration with GEMELA.  Non-guaranteed session] How did women contribute to performance in the Comedia, and how did performance and the Comedia contribute to women?  Papers analyzing actresses; female court players; women and the corrales; scenes of (play)writing; women and queerness; eschewing marriage; changing rooms and costuming.  250-word abstract and brief CV by 1 March.  Marimer Carrión ([log in to unmask]).
Prof. A. Robert Lauer
The University of Oklahoma
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall, Room 206
Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032, USA
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