Call for Papers: The Gothic Imaginary
Hunter Museum of American Art
Undergraduate Student Symposium
The Hunter Museum of American Art is pleased to announce its second Undergraduate Student Symposium on Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 1 p.m. We invite students throughout the region studying the arts and humanities, including art history, history, literature, communications, cultural studies, philosophy, theatre, and music, to present research and create a dialogue related to the theme of the Gothic Imaginary.
The Hunter welcomes interdisciplinary topics on visual, literary, or performing art from the United States and its territories that have engaged the Gothic to mine cultural anxieties, human psychology, technological shifts, and/or social tensions and change. This symposium is in coordination with the museum’s early spring exhibition, The Photographs of Eudora Welty, on view March 20 through July 12, 2015.
Sample topics might address:
- The supernatural
- The grotesque
- The macabre
- Shape shifting
- Criminality
- Antisocialism
- Decay
- Funerary imagery and spaces
- Gothic terrains
Students should create an abstract of no more than 500 words and include their contact information, university affiliation, major, and year in school. Each document should be saved with last name and first name (i.e. “Hunter, George _ Gothic Imaginary”)
Abstracts are due by March 1, 2015.
Selected participants will be notified by March 15 and asked to send a preliminary draft, no more than 9 pages, by April 1 for review. Final presentations at the symposium will be limited to 20 minutes, followed by a moderated question and answer session with Dr. Verbie Prevost, Connor Professor of American Literature at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
For more information, please contact Rachel White, Assistant Curator of Education, at 423-752-2043 or [log in to unmask]
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