CFP by Alani Hicks-Bartlett
This panel welcomes contributions devoted to the long genealogy of literary, visual, and historic... more This panel welcomes contributions devoted to the long genealogy of literary, visual, and historical representations of the disabled or "defective" body, particularly those also attentive to the concept of "disability gain." Coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, "disability gain," allows Renaissance scholars to reconsider and reimagine the disabled body (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019). Through this framework, based on H-Dirksen Bauman and Joseph Murray's concept of "Deaf gain," which approaches Deafness as a benefit that expands social, cultural, intellectual, and creative fields, we may reconsider interpretations and depictions of the disabled body as a cipher for defect, for loss, vice, or sin (2014). While this concept has yet to be applied broadly to Renaissance disability, the lens of "disability gain" may allow the modern scholar to reframe and reconceptualize the premodern body and its various temporal, sociocultural, political, and linguistic proliferations. To this end, we ask scholars to question the designation of disabled bodies as lacking and instead posit the affordances open to premodern studies of the body when disability is reread or reimagined. We invite papers that engage with conceptions of disability as gain, rather than a lack or failure of signification. We are open to transhistorical, transnational and translingual, and comparative approaches, as well as to interdisciplinary work that dialogues with material understandings of the body, humanistic approaches, contemporary critical theory, and recent critical interventions in disability studies.
This panel invites innovative approaches to Petrarch's oeuvre that consider the global reach and ... more This panel invites innovative approaches to Petrarch's oeuvre that consider the global reach and expanse of Petrarch and/or Petrarchism as reflected in: Petrarch's work itself; his intertextual engagement with other literary and linguistic traditions; and Petrarchan critique and intertextual responses to his work. Interrogating longstanding perceptions of an "insular" Petrarch, this panel offers an important (re)orientation, considering the sociopolitical, transhistorical, comparative, intertextual, interlinguistic, and plurilinguistic frameworks that help lend to an understanding of a more capacious Petrarch-a Petrarch who can be understood "globally," in his Latin, vernacular writings, and beyond. Critical approaches engaging with contemporary theory and papers considering non-western texts/frameworks are especially welcome.
This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing fro... more This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of "disability gain," coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss, or as a resource. The concept is based on H-Dirksen Bauman and Joseph Murray's concept of "Deaf gain," which approaches Deafness as a benefit that expands social, cultural, intellectual, and creative fields (2014). While this concept has yet to be applied to premodern disability, reading disability in premodern texts through the lens of "disability gain" may allow the modern scholar to reframe and discuss the premodern body outside of ethnocentric systems. In particular, while surfeit may be considered as that which is leftover or unwanted, we ask scholars to question the designation of premodern disabled bodies as surfeit and instead posit the possibilities open to scholarship when the body is read in terms of surplus. As such, we welcome contributions devoted to the long genealogy of literary and historical representations of the body to apply a material understanding to the premodern disabled body. We invite papers that dialogue with contemporary critical theory and recent interventions in disability studies, and also invite interdisciplinary work that engages with conceptions of disability as excess, surfeit, and surplus.
This panel invites papers considering the global reach and expanse of Petrarch and Petrarchan con... more This panel invites papers considering the global reach and expanse of Petrarch and Petrarchan concepts, as reflected in: 1.) the poet's work itself, 2.) his engagement with other literary and linguistic traditions, and 3.) intertextual responses to his work. Countering longstanding perceptions of an "insular" Petrarch who primarily gazes inward while losing sight of other perspectives and horizons, this panel considers the sociopolitical, transhistorical, comparative, intertextual, interlinguistic, and plurilinguistic frameworks that permit an understanding of a more capacious Petrarch-a Petrarch who can be understood "globally," so to speak, in both his Latin and vernacular writings. Indeed, from the historical, intertextual, and geographical "terrain" he covers in the Africa, to his numerous complaints about religion, empire, military arts and expansion in his letters; and from his deep investment in classical and troubadour commonplaces, to the polyvocality and varying descriptions of sociopolitical identity of the Trionfi and the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a Petrarch with explicitly global concerns and investments can and should be charted. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and transhistorical approaches, as well as papers examining the polyphonic nature of Petrarch's work and his plurilinguistic borrowings are heartily encouraged. Papers offering critical interventions engaging with contemporary theory and considering Petrarch's work alongside and against non-Western languages and literatures are also very welcome.
This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disabil... more This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of care; the various ways bodily ability are articulated in different spaces within the early Francophone world. We especially welcome papers engaging with these topics from global and/or intersectional perspectives, as well as those considering diachronic and transtemporal approaches.
This panel considers Petrarch and Petrarchan landscapes-that is, the toponyms, cartographies, and... more This panel considers Petrarch and Petrarchan landscapes-that is, the toponyms, cartographies, and geographies charted in and through Petrarch's oeuvre, broadly understood. From his detailed figuration of Vaucluse to elaborate chartings of the Tiber, Arno, and Po; from comparisons of "foreign" soil to descriptions of olive trees and the hills and springs near Capranica; and from classical loci to troubadouric commonplaces, Petrarch gives great attention to the natural environment in all of his work. As Petrarch's representation of the natural world often has intertextual or exemplary dimensions, we invite papers addressing Petrarchan 'imitators,' Petrarch's own literary borrowings, and other comparative approaches.
Papers by Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Bulletin of the Comediantes, 2022
Methuen Drama eBooks, 2022
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past, May 24, 2023
Modern Language Notes, 2019
Hispanic Review, 2019
From the abuse of legal bonds to broken promises and contractual relationships destined for failu... more From the abuse of legal bonds to broken promises and contractual relationships destined for failure in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, the highly problematic way in which Miguel de Cervantes's "pobre caballero encantado" attempts to make vows and exact promises from others reveals a complexity that has often been neglected by critics. More than simply tracing the flawed system of vows and questioning the meaning of faith through his obsessive examination of the meaning of promises and j 411
French Studies Bulletin, 2022
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CFP by Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Papers by Alani Hicks-Bartlett