the problem of voice

Today I finally made a post about my experiences at the "Desiring the Text, Touching the Past" conference in July, which also goes some way to explaining why I haven't posted on this journal for such a long time. I think this blog is probably officially on hiatus from this point on, unless I find something else to do with it; I'm working towards my major field exams and blogging about my reading in an informal, fannish way elsewhere, under an ID I'd rather keep quiet for now (but if you're interested, email me); and I'll be posting hopefully again at The Friends of the Text, the Wordpress we set up after the conference.

Come over; there's some great posts there coming out of the conference and moving on to further projects. It's open to everyone, we'd love to hear from you.

Desiring the Text

Very excited about Desiring the Text, Touching the Past: Towards an Erotics of Reception, the conference I'm co-organizing and will be soon attending. Carolyn Dinshaw is the keynote speaker, and we've got papers on love of Plato in 19th century German historiography, portrayal of/engagement with fans in Supernatural, Dr. Who and Merlin, Petrarch's fannishness (that one's mine), Dante's fannishness, Dante and temporality, race and fan empathy, St. Augustine's reading of the gospels, and more.

I've been reading the precirculated papers, and I'm so excited about the discussion they're going to generate. I'm also hoping that I'll resurrect this blog after it! I've just finished the last precirculated paper, and the standard is really high - they're awesome.

The conference is on July 10th; register beforehand for the pre-circulated papers!