Call for Papers: Louisiana Conference

The Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language and Culture--now in its 9th year, this conference attracts academics and writers from across the country and around the globe.

The conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Lafayette on March 5-6, 2010. Our keynote speakers for 2010 are Dr. Dale Bauer and Dr. Gordon Hutner. Both Bauer and Hutner are well-known literary scholars who teach at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, and both have new books out this year from the University of North Carolina Press. In addition, Dr. Hutner is the founding editor of American Literary History, published by Oxford University Press, a top journal in the field of American literary studies. Other plenary sessions on publishing will include our new Writer-in-Residence, novelist Kate Bernheimer, who is also editor of The Fair Tale Review. And there will be a special presentation by award-winning novelist Rikki Ducornet.

There will, of course, be plenty of Cajun food and music, and maybe even some dancing!

Hope to see you there.

--Christine DeVine
The Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language and Culture
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
http://english.louisiana.edu/laconference