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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