Call for Papers: MLA 2019

Goethe's International Relations: Imagining the Ausland 1770-1832

This panel welcomes papers on all aspects of the national/international, foreign/domestic, heimisch/fremd/unheimlich border in the age of Goethe, for example: representations of migration, wandering, displacement, and exile; comparative literary relations and world literature; the international or trans-regional reputation of and influences on Goethe or other figures of the age; foreignness, abroad or extimate; Orientalism and cosmopolitanism; border crossings and homecomings; translation and rewriting of or by Goethe and others across national and linguistic boundaries in that period.Please send 250-word abstracts to Joseph O’Neil (joseph.oneil@uky.edu) by March 20, 2018.