Kristeva’s Powers of Horror at 45 (NeMLA)
Philadelphia, PA
Organization: NeMLA
Event: NeMLA
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for the panel “Kristeva’s Powers of Horror at 45” being offered at the NeMLA Annual Convention <https://www.nemla.org/convention.html> in Philadelphia, PA March 6-9, 2025. Here is an overview of the session:
Julia Kristeva’s landmark essay, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), will have its 45th publication anniversary in 2025. In that time, its influence has been wide ranging, whether on women and gender studies broadly, on the fields of feminist, psychoanalytic, queer, horror/gothic, and disability theory, as well as on media studies. For this roundtable session we invite proposals that consider any aspect of the influence of Powers of Horror, past and present. These can range from the ways Kristeva’s theories have influenced a specific critical approach, the ways they have expanded our understanding of concepts such as the monstrous feminine, the ways they have been engaged by subsequent thinkers, or their continued significance, as well as their limitations, as a way to think about women and gender.
Proposals of 250-300 words, plus a brief C.V., should be submitted to the NeMLA Calls for Papers website https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21039 (after log in) by Sept. 30, 2024.
Mary Balkun
Professor of English
Seton Hall University
Mary Balkun