Call for Papers for the Annual Conference of the John Donne Society 2016

The John Donne Society's 31st Annual Conference will be held 18–20 February 2016 at the Lod and Carole Cook Conference Center on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. The conference features a single-stream format, which guarantees fulsome discussion, involving Donne scholars at all stages of career. Each year the conference gives two awards, the John R. Roberts Award for Best Essay by a Graduate Student and the Kate Gartner Frost Award for Best Essay by an Early Career Scholar. Individual papers and panels on any aspect of Donne’s life and work are welcome. Full papers and substantial abstracts must be received by Professor Sean H. McDowell (mcdowell@seattleu.edu) by 15 September 2015. See the full call for papers here: http://johndonnesociety.tamu.edu/files/2016CFP.pdf.