Call For Papers
The Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, is pleased to announce the “International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference,” which will be held on 7-8 May 2015. As a writer who captured (in fact, to a large extent, promoted) the spirit of what he dubbed “the Jazz Age,” Fitzgerald remains a compelling presence in popular culture as well as an enduring subject for study, research, and criticism. The aim of this two-day Conference is, through academic and critical reappraisals of Fitzgerald’s legacy in terms of both his work and life, to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of his death. During the Conference, Fitzgerald and his writings will be addressed and discussed through multiple, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Suggested topics for papers include but are not limited to:
Fitzgerald and Modernism
Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
Fitzgerald and the Great Depression
Fitzgerald the Self-Publicist
Fitzgerald and His Contemporaries
Fitzgerald and the American Novel
Fitzgerald and Flappers
Fitzgerald and the American Expatriates
Fitzgerald and Politics
Race, Class, and Ethnicity in Fitzgerald
Gender and Sexuality in Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald: Sources and Influences
International Reception of Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald on Screen and Stage
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Please send, as e-mail attachments, a 200-word abstract for a 20-minute oral presentation (written in single-space and Times New Roman font 12) and a short biographical note (including institutional affiliation, address, e-mail, fax and telephone numbers) to:
Dr. Berkem Gürenci Sağlam (Conference Secretary)
Department of American Culture and Literature
Faculty of Science and Letters
Başkent University, Bağlıca Campus
06810 Ankara, Turkey
e-mail: bgurenci@baskent.edu.tr
Deadline for Abstracts
15 January 2015
Notification of Acceptance
30 January 2015
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