fanthropology CFP

[rm]

I want to draw everyone's attention to this CFP.

Not just because shit, I've got to come up with something, and so should a great many people I know, but because of the following quote, emphasis mine:

Love, desire, fannish obsession and emotional identification as modes of engaging with texts, characters and authors are often framed as illegitimate and transgressive: excessive, subjective, lacking in scholarly rigour. Yet such modes of relating to texts and pasts persist, across widely different historical periods and cultural contexts. Many classical and medieval authors recount embodied and highly emotional encounters with religious, fictional or historical characters, while modern and postmodern practices of reception and reading - from high art to the subcultural practices of media fandom - are characterized by desire in all its ambivalent complexity.

Today I feel like I exist in the world.

That said, someone needs to pitch something about Snapes on an Astral Plane:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1015949.html
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1022112.html
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1127219.html


I, myself, have another plan entirely.

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*does fangirl squee for numerous reasons*

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

I had the privilege of taking several classes from Carolyn Dinshaw (their keynote speaker) when I was at Berkeley. In fact, it's totally her fault that I ended up specializing in Chaucer. It was the way she read him out loud in class.

Embarrassing associated memory; I had just come out, and she was my first serious professor-crush.. went to office hours to get an explanation on Gawain and the castration theory she'd been lecturing about in class (undergrad in grad seminar is confused by Freudian analysis of texts), and don't remember a thing of what she told me. Suspect sat there and stared at her like besotted mooncalf.

Anyway, it surprises me not at all that Carolyn would a) be the keynote speaker and b) be interested in modern updates on text and desire; her discussions and provided readings on medieval women and the holy body (and images of Christ as mother) are among the most interesting classes I took as an undergrad. I'm really tempted to revisit some of that...