Dear colleagues: The following announcement may be of interest to those of you who study Virginia's nineteenth-century literary history. Best wishes, --Jurretta Heckscher From: HESTER BLUM <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:59 PM Call for Papers C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists The Penn State Center for American Literary Studies will host a state-of-the-field conference for a new academic society, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, the first academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century American literary studies. The conference will be held from May 20 to 23, 2010, at Penn State University, State College, PA. The theme of the conference is "Imagining: A New Century." Session proposals and individual abstracts are due by September 30, 2009. Please see the website below for full information. http://www.c19americanists.org/conference Hester Blum Penn State University [log in to unmask] ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html