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New Directions in Frost Studies will introduce the ideas and research of a new generation of Frost critics to a wider audience, and map out possible futures for the field. Both Frost specialists and general scholars of twentieth-century poetry are encouraged to attend.
In recent years critical interest in Frost’s poetry and politics has, on both sides of the Atlantic, become stronger and livelier. The consideration of Frost in an international context, sparked in large part by the impact of his œuvre on poets such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Joseph Brodsky and Paul Muldoon, has been particularly exciting to witness. Frost is also widely admired by many major American poets (from Jorie Graham to Robert Pinsky), and his poetry is, of course, read and taught in most schools and colleges. Yet at the same time there is a perception amongst some in the academy that Frost is not a legitimate subject for serious study. New Directions in Frost Studies will provide scholars — especially graduate and post-doctoral students — with a much-needed opportunity to meet and engage with one another, and to discuss their work.
We anticipate that most of the participants and presenters will be graduate students or scholars beginning their careers, although all those interested in Frost are encouraged to attend, whether or not they present a paper.
If you are interested in attending, but will not present a paper, please be sure to contact Rachel Buxton. There is no registration fee for the symposium, but we do need to have an idea of numbers. Thanks very much.
July 10th-12th, 2003
NB: We will begin on the afternoon of July 10th, but most sessions, and the main speakers, will be scheduled for the 11th. There will be time on the morning of 12th for participants to view items in the extensive Frost Collection in the Rauner Library, and we are planning a trip to the Frost Place in Franconia for that afternoon. Some participants may also want to arrange to stay at Dartmouth for a few days after the symposium, to do research in the Frost Collection.
There is no registration fee. Meals and accommodations will not be covered, but there may be a small fund available to help scholars coming from a great distance with travel costs.
We can arrange cheap single-room dorm accommodation, at $30/night, for participants. (We will, however, need to have definite numbers for room reservations as soon as possible.) Those wishing to stay in the Hanover Inn (on campus) the Norwich Inn (2 miles from campus), the Chieftain Motor Inn (2.75 miles from campus) or the Trumbull House B&B (4 miles from campus) should book their own accommodation. We recommend that delegates intending to stay in any of these places book as soon as possible because accommodation in and around Hanover fills up quickly, especially for July.
Information on how to get to Dartmouth can be found here.
The Call for Papers has now closed.
Please contact one of us if you have any questions.
| Marit MacArthur | Rachel Buxton |
| Ph.D. candidate University of California, Davis |
Junior Research Fellow New College, Oxford |
We would like to thank Dartmouth College, especially the English Department, the Leslie Humanities Center, and the Baker-Berry Library, for their funding of and support for the symposium.
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