Call for Papers
March 27-29, 2008

The thirty-sixth annual French Literature Conference will be held at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, SC. Papers are invited to treat any aspect of translation relating to French and/or Francophone Literature and/or Film. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Histories of translation
Interpretation and/as translation
Mistranslations
The politics of translation
Translation and betrayal
Translation and colonization
Translation and culture
Translation and difference
Translation and fidelity
Translation and gender
Translation and globalization
Translation and imitation
Translation and postcoloniality
Translation and originality
Translation and plagiarism
Translation and transnationalism
Translation and transparency
Translation and transposition
Translation and violence

Two anonymous copies of complete papers, in English or in French, must be submitted by November 1, 2007. Submissions may be sent as email attachments, but authors should not refer to themselves in the body of the paper as we do blind refereeing. Submissions should be prepared according to the MLA Handbook and should be held to a twenty-minute presentation time (about 10 typed double-spaced pages). Participants are encouraged to expand their presentations for publication to no more than 18 typed double-spaced pages. Proceedings will be published as volume XXXVI of FLS (French Literature Series) (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi). For more information, please contact:

Jeanne Garane
Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Office phone: (803) 777-2878 or (803) 777-4881
Fax: (803): 777-0454 Email: garanej@sc.edu