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CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributions are invited on a broad range of topics concerning Ford Madox Ford's relation to other writers and cultural movements. The Ford Madox Ford Society will be staging a major conference in 2008, and producing three volumes of International Ford Madox Ford Studies (IFMFS) between 2007 and 2009 (the 2007 volume is out already), all on related aspects of Ford's engagements with specific writers, with periodicals, or with cultural transformations. Together they will provide a substantial and concerted revaluation of Ford's significance in literary and cultural history.

Further details are included in Newsletter no. 14.

'Ford Madox Ford and Editing'
Durham, 2008
Call for Papers

In order to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the English Review this conference will seek to re-examine Ford's impact as editor. The conference will focus specifically on contextualizing Ford's role on the English Review and the transatlantic review in the light of his editorial principles and his collaboration with many important writers of the age. The conference will explore Ford's associations with cosmopolitan and expatriate coteries in the service of building avant-garde networks. The conference particularly encourages re-assessments of Ford's editorial influence on his collaborators: Conrad, Wells, Henry James, Hardy, Bennett, Galsworthy, Pound, Lewis and Lawrence in the English Review and Joyce, Hemingway, Stein, Rhys, Williams and E. E. Cummings in the transatlantic review. The conference also encourages papers examining the cross-cultural dimensions of Ford's editorship, in terms of literary translation (for example, Constance Garnett's Russian translations), modernist internationalism and expatriate communities.

A volume of IFMFS is planned for 2010 on the theme of 'Ford as Editor', or 'Ford and Literary Magazines', to be edited by Jason Harding. For further information or to offer a paper or essay please contact Jason: jasondh90@hotmail.com

Given that Ford was involved with the visual arts throughout his life, discussions of visual culture may be included in the Durham conference, especially where the literary and visual intersect (as in the case, for example, of the coverage of visual arts in the transatlantic). However, scholars wishing to write exclusively on Ford and the visual are advised to contribute to the Genova conference.

The Society is planning conferences in France (2009) and Germany (2010). Information about these will be given in the next Newsletter and posted on the Ford Madox Ford Society website, at: http://www.rialto.com/fordmadoxford_society/