Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing at the Modern Language Association Conference, 2012

Print has been feared as a transmission vector for dangerous ideas since the incunabula era, and the printing press (and its later equivalents) has been one of the most effective weapons of political and cultural radicals for centuries. For its Affiliate Organization panel at the 2012 MLA Conference, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) seeks papers that will provide historical studies of and theoretical insights into the use of print and printing (or other reproduction technologies such as mimeographs or photocopies) by radical political or social movements.

Proposals (250 words) and short CV by 15 March to:
Greg Barnhisel
Dept of English, Duquesne University
Pittsburgh PA 15282
barnhiselg@duq.edu

All panelists must be members of MLA by 7 April and of SHARP by 1 July.
Membership information at http://www.mla.org/membership and http://www.sharpweb.org/membership.html