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Women's Caucus

Description & Officers		Breakfast and Business Meeting		Panel CFP
Events	Essay Award	Florence Howe Award	Childcare	Membership

The NEMLA Women's Caucus welcomes members interested in feminist scholarship, women's studies, and the status of women in the profession. The Caucus organizes panels, promotes publication, and fosters the establishment of networks linking senior and junior faculty. CONCERNS, the quarterly journal of WCML, contains scholarly articles, personal essays, news of conferences, research in progress, and jobs.

The following officers are serving for April 2004-April 2005:

Past President: Noelle Carruggi (French, The New School University) Noelle_carruggi@yahoo.com
President: Maria de Vasconselos, (English, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY) devasconcelos@yahoo.com
Vice President: Oneida Sanchez (Foreign Languages, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY) osanchez@bmcc.cuny.edu
Secretary: Joyce Harte, Borough of Manhattan Community College joyce_harte@yahoo.com
Treasurer: Helene Julien, (French, Colgate University) hmjulien@yahoo.com
Caucus Representative to NEMLA (2005-2008: Ruth Anolik, Bryn Mawr College rranolik@aol.com
Rep to National WCML at MLA (2003-2005): Carinne Mordossian
Alternate Rep: Judith Johnston (English, Rider University)

Advisory Council: Dolores DeLuise, Noelle Carruggi (Past President), Marilyn Rye, Debra Popkin, Leslie Roberts, Michelle Tokarczyk.

Breakfast and Business Meeting

At its annual breakfast meeting held at the NEMLA Convention hotel site, the Women's Caucus conducts elections for new officers and invites suggestions for speakers and topics for future NEMLA Conferences. For the Women's Caucus 2005 Breakfast, please sign up on conference registration.

Women's Caucus Panel

We sponsor a special section devoted to women's studies at the annual convention.

The Women's Caucus Panel Topic for the 2005 Conference in Cambridge PA, will be:

The Female Author/ The Female Character in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Chair: Oneida Sanchez. The study of female characters alone does not necessarily enlighten the study of women authors with relation to class, race, nationality and gender. These papers will illustrate the social relationships between the realities of women authors and the texts that they produce.

Events

We will be planning additional Women’s Caucus events for the 2005 conference. They will be posted on the webpage and in the program.

2005 Women's Caucus Best Essay Award

Deadline extended to January 25, 2005.
Call for Papers: Submissions are requested for 2005 Women’s Caucus Best Essay in Women’s Language and Literature Award, to be given for a 20-25 page essay, based on a paper presented at 2004 NEMLA. The award is open to men and women who presented at last year's conference, and the papers should deal with women's topics. Papers should be documented according to the MLA guidelines.

First prize: $75 Runner-up: $50

The winning essay will be published in Modern Language Studies and announced at the 2005 Women's Caucus Breakfast. The essay may not be submitted to another journal for the duration of the award’s deliberation. The author's name, address and affiliation should appear only on a separate cover sheet. Winner will be announced at NEMLA 2005. Deadline extended to January 25, 2005.

Send paper to: Dr. Maria DeVasconcelos; BMCC/CUNY; Dept. of English N714; 199 Chambers Street; New York, NY 10017; OR 78 Bank Street #23; New York, NY 10014.

Winners of the Women's Caucus Essay Prize, 2004

The Prize awarded at the 2004 Convention in Pittsburgh went to Beth Capo, for "Can This Marriage Be Saved?: Birth Control and Marriage in Modern American Literature"; Elizabeth Abele received the runner-up award for her essay, "The Open Range: Jane Smiley Reclaims the Feminine Western Tradition."

The Florence Howe Award

A Prize of $100 is awarded annually at the MLA Convention for the Best Essay in Feminist Studies.

Childcare

NEMLA and the Women's Caucus share in subsidizing child care for professional, certified baby-sitters up to $50 per person at the NEMLA Convention hotel, contingent upon availability of funds.

Membership

To join the NEMLA Women's Caucus, and the Women’s Caucus of the MLA, send your membership check and information to the address below. Or you may pay at the Women’s Caucus table at the 2005 Convention.

Please fill out the following:

Membership (by calendar year) 200__

Dues (U.S.)         Income
___$25.00           $40,000+
___$20.00           $30,000-40,000
___$15.00           $20,000-30,000
___$10.00           $10,000-20,000
___$ 5.00           $10,000; students, unemployed; retired
___$20.00           Institutions and libraries

Membership includes a subscription to Concerns, the quarterly journal of WCML.

Joint memberships are also available (includes one subscription to Concerns). Add $5.00 to a higher paying members' dues. Membership in NEMLA Women's Caucus comes with a membership in WCML. Please send (dues) a check payable to Women’s Caucus/NEMLA to:

Professor Helene Julien
Treasurer, Women's Caucus of NEMLA
Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures
Colgate University
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
(315) 228-7664

Regular Member___ Joint Membership___ Scholarship Fund___

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