We invite submissions featuring innovative transmedial or intermedial approaches to American literature of the first half of the long nineteenth century, including but not limited to the histories and practices of literature as a mixed media environment; medial transposition; media combination; intermedial references; remediation; genealogical intermediality; intertextuality; illustration; image/text; acoustic and visible; sensory and semiotic, etc. Proposals from across the disciplines (literary studies, visual studies, sociology, history, film studies, media studies, and art history) are welcomed as the panel seeks to bring together scholars whose work places visual and media studiesinto conversation with literary/textual studies. Applicants need not be SEA members, but are encouraged to join the society by the time of the conference.

Please send 300-word proposals and a brief cv by September 12, 2011 to Christopher J. Lukasik, Department of English, Purdue University, clukasik@purdue.edu.