CALL FOR PAPERS
National Level YOUNG RESEARCHERS WORKSHOP: New Research in English Studies
Organized by Department of English Literature, EFLU-Hyderabad
25-28 August 2011
EFLU Campus, Tarnaka, Hyderabad - 500605
The Department of English Literature, EFLU- Hyderabad is organizing a national-level Young Researchers’
Workshop from 25th to 28th August, 2011. This workshop will offer research scholars a) an opportunity to
present their work publicly b) receive feedback on their papers from experts who have worked in their
subject areas c) allow participants to engage in discussion on recent trends in English Studies and d)
provide a context for young researchers to debate, with their peers, new directions in English Studies.
Selected papers will be compiled together in a publication of workshop proceedings in due course.
We invite abstracts related to English Studies from research scholars enrolled in MPhil and PhD
programmes in universities in India. Preference will be given to MPhil scholars who are close to
submitting their dissertations and PhD scholars in the second and third years of their programmes. As
the emphasis of the workshop is on emerging paradigms and new explorations we encourage
researchers working on newer themes, orientations and methods to apply. Scholars are invited to
submit abstracts that are based on the themes listed below:
- Digital discourses
- Questions of vulnerability
- Debating embodiment
- Identity: Representation, culture and politics
- Examining visual fields
- Dimensions in theory
- Minority discourses
- Cross-disciplinary ventures
- Fantasy, myth and folklore
- Re-thinking ‘primary’ sources (Food-writing, Sports-writing and so on)
- Oral cultures, performance cultures
- Narrating nature
Abstract details: Kindly submit via e-mail a 250 word abstract, with a title, your name, institutional
affiliation, email address and phone number. The abstract should pertain to the themes mentioned and
indicate one or two suitable themes that your paper can be considered under. The deadline for
abstracts is 14th June 2011 and you will be intimated about selection by 24th June 2011. Full papers
should be submitted by 20th July 2011.
E-mail your abstracts to yrw2011@gmail.com.
Use the following format to submit your abstracts.
Name:
Institutional Affiliation:
Research Programme details:
Email address:
Phone number:
Title of the paper:
Themes: 1) and 2)
Abstract:
Participation details: Travel and accommodation will be provided to out-station participants (presenters
only) which include sleeper-class railway fare, and stay in the hostel or guest-house (depending on
availability). Lunch on the three workshop days is available to all presenters.
Workshop format: Each day of the workshop will have four sessions with a lunch break and two tea
breaks. Each session will have three presentations by research scholars of about 15 minutes each,
followed by the response of the expert/ senior scholar. The expert’s response will be followed by an
open discussion of about 30 minutes when the other participants can raise questions and offer
suggestions to the three paper presenters.
We look forward to your participation. For further questions contact shilpaa@efluniversity.ac.in or
reemshamsudeen@gmail.com or sulfia87@gmail.com
Workshop co-ordinators: Dr. T. Samson and Dr. Shilpaa Anand, Department of English Literature
