Call for Papers

The eighth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will convene at the Waycross Campus of South Georgia State College on the South Georgia Parkway (U.S. Highway 82) in Waycross, Georgia, on Friday, May 17, 2013. 

We invite proposals for session topics, panel discussion topics, and scholarly papers in English on any subjects relating to American, British, French, Hispanic, Russian, German, or Slavic literature or language, as well as linguistics, speech/oral communication, drama, fine arts, film, rhetoric, composition, philosophy, history, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy. 

Reading times for individual paper presentations will be strictly limited to 15 minutes (approximately eight double-spaced typed pages).  Although convention presentations are limited to 15 minutes, presenters may submit longer or more complete versions (8,000 words maximum) to be considered for publication in the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association.  Panel discussions (3-5 members) shall be for 45-minute sessions.

Specific session times, content areas, and sites will be determined as soon as we have received and evaluated all submissions.  All presenters must be members of the Georgia Philological Association.  

Please submit 100-word abstracts in English for session topics, panel discussion topics, and scholarly papers by Monday, April 1, 2013, to Elaine Stephens, 2001 South Georgia Parkway, Waycross, GA 31503; or by electronic mail to Elaine.Stephens@sgsc.edu.