Welcome!

The Graduate Romance Association of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill would like to welcome professors, students, and independent scholars to the Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures (CCRL) website. Over the past seventeen years, our conference has grown tremendously and is now one of the largest conferences in the country that is coordinated entirely by graduate students. Each year, professors and graduate students from all over the globe present papers about literature in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

The title of this year's conference is "Visual Reading: Images, Perspective, and the Text.”  It will be held March 22-24, 2012. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Roberto Dainotto (Italian), Christopher Maurer (Spanish), and Claire Goldstein (French). There will also be an Invited Reading by TBA (French). 

Abstract submissions for the 2012 Carolina Conference are now being accepted. The deadline for submissions is December 21, 2011 and abstracts are accepted online. You may read the call for papers here.

In addition, this year the CCRL will be offering partial travel grants to select visiting graduate students in each language.  The application can be accessed by clicking here. When submitting the application, be sure to include in the subject line of the email your name, university and the language/literature on which you will be presenting.

NOTE: Please use our online application & registration system if you would like to do any of the following:

• Submit an abstract to CCRL after reading the Call for Papers
• Suggest a panel title for the conference
• Check the status of your submission
• Register for the banquet

Please direct any questions to ccrlregistrations@unc.edu