Thirteenth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
"Women's Texts and Cultural Contexts"
April 14-17, 2005
Hilton Lafayette
Hosted by the Department of English
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Keynote speakers:
Catherine Burroughs (Wells College), Linda Hughes (TCU), and Susan Staves (Brandeis University).

We welcome a wide range of papers on the conference theme and related issues. Topics might include but should not be limited to the following:

· Women Writing Culture
· Performing Culture
· Female Gothic
· Women and Sensation Fiction
· Religion and Women's Writing
· Women and Science
· Women's Professions
· Women in Journalism
· New Women and their impact
· Domestic Ideologies
· Writing for Children
· Images of the Woman Poet
· Subversive Women
· Women's Bodies/ Bodies of Women
· Mothers as Cultural Icons
· Women and Empire
· Women and the Public Sphere

Please submit 1-2 page abstracts for individual presentations and panel proposals (including the name of a moderator) by October 31, 2004. Please include a cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, email address, institutional affiliation and a brief biographical paragraph. Please do not include any identifying information on your abstract. Proposals may be sent via regular mail to:

British Women Writers Conference
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Department of English
PO Box 44691
Lafayette, LA 70504

Abstracts may also be submitted by email (include name, phone number, mailing address, institutional affiliation and brief biographical paragraph) to: devine@louisiana.edu

Additional details about the conference including registration and hotel information can be found at our website: http://www.louisiana.edu/bwwc