Call for Papers Reception Study Society CONFERENCE ON RECEPTION STUDY Sept 12-13, 2009 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Keynote Speakers James Phelan, Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University. Steven Swicker, Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, Washington University. Barbara Klinger, Professor of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. Winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award for best essay from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Suggestions for panels and papers in all areas of English, American, and other literatures, media, and book history are welcome. For a list of possible topics and panels, see the RSS website. The deadline is May 1, 2009. Please submit proposals of 250 words or less to Philip Goldstein at [log in to unmask] or University of Delaware, 333 Shipley St., Wilmington, DE 19801, or visit the website: http://English.udel.edu/RSSsite Selected conference papers will be published in the RSS journal Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, which is an on-line, refereed journal which publishes theoretical and practical analyses in the related fields of the RSS, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States. Submissions are welcome at any time. See the RSS website for vol.1 of Reception. The Reception Study Society promotes informal and formal exchanges between scholars in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception history, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies, and gender, race, ethnic, sexuality, postcolonial, religious, and other studies. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu