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Top paper award from our ArtPolitical conference announced
The Margaret Atwood Society co-hosted “ArtPolitical: Margaret Atwood’s Aesthetics” October 14 through 16, 2021 at the University of Göttingen, Germany. We were pleased to award $250USD prize to the top paper, which was awarded to Manuel Sousa Oliveira (Porto) for his outstanding paper “Both Fox and Cat: The Politics of Ambiguity in The Handmaid’s Tale […]
Register for ArtPolitical: Margaret Atwood’s Aesthetics
Registration for ArtPolitical: Margaret Atwood’s Aesthetics is open now! All conference panels are available via Zoom. Register online. We look forward to seeing you there at this international conference. 14-16 Oct 2021, hosted by University of Göttingen, Germany Conveners: Dr. Dunja Mohr (Erfurt) and Dr. Kirsten Sandrock (Göttingen) About the conference: For Margaret Atwood, politics […]
Register now for “Artpolitical”–Preconference Symposium, 12 March 2021
For the International Conference,14th-16th October 2021,at the University of Göttingen, Germany ‘ARTPOLITICAL’ – MARGARET ATWOOD’S AESTHETICSWe will hold a Pre-conference Symposium [Online] The online event will take place on Friday, 12 March, 16-19:30h Central European Time (via Zoom). Please register with your full name via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artpolitical-margaret-atwoods-aesthetics-pre-conference-online-event-tickets-138221812161 Also, please note: The deadline for the Margaret Atwood Society Best Paper Award for […]
CFP for new MLA Approaches to Teaching Atwood Book
The MLA Press published Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works in 1996. Now the press is seeking contributions for a new volume to explore both the teaching of Atwood’s publications since that time and 21st-century approaches to her earlier works, such as strategies for teaching The Handmaid’s Tale that draw on the Hulu TV series, the graphic […]
Margaret Atwood Society to co-sponsor first-ever ALL Margaret Atwood Conference
The Margaret Atwood Society is thrilled to announce what we hope is the first of many conferences completely dedicated to the works of Margaret Atwood, this multidisciplinary conference, to be titled “‘Artpolitical’ – Margaret Atwood’s Aesthetics,” will be hosted by University of Göttingen, Germany and will be held October 14, 15, and 16, 2021. The […]
Atwood Society panel at MMLA 2019
The Midwest Modern Language Association 61st annual convention will be held in Chicago November 14-17, 2019. The Margaret Atwood Society-sponsored panel will be Saturday the 16th at 1:00. The title is Duality & Doubles in the Novels of Margaret Atwood. The Treasurer of the Society, Denise Du Vernay, is chairing the panel, and Society President Karma Waltonen is […]
MLA 2017 Panel
Humor as Social Critique in Margaret Atwood’s Novels, Short Stories, and Poetry Friday, 6 January 5:15–6:30 p.m., 110B, Pennsylvania Convention Center Presiding: Eleonora Rao, Univ. of Salerno “The Place You Would Rather Not Know About: Bearing Witness through Humor,” Lauren Rule Maxwell, The Citadel “Satirical Freudianism in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman,” Kate Marantz, Univ. […]
Seeking Reviewers for Hagseed and Catbird Vol 1
Hi, all! Karma here–editor of the journal. I’d like to include some very brief reviews of Atwood’s last two projects (Catbird Vol. 1 and Hagseed) in our issue coming out next month. Anyone up for writing one? Send me a message: kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu.
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