RSS: Reception Study Society
The Reception Study Society (RSS) seeks to promote informal and formal exchanges between scholars in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies, and feminist, black, ethnic, gay, postcolonial, religious, and other studies. Bringing together theorists, scholars, and teachers from all of these areas, this association will promote a much-needed cross-disciplinary dialogue among all areas of reception studies. Over the last twenty-five years, scholarship in these areas has exploded, with important expansions of research and new theoretical and practical studies. Although some associations do examine one or two of these areas, the advances and developments in them have remained largely disconnected. The RSS is the only association to promote dialog and discussion among all the diverse areas and scholars of reception study.
the RSS will provide several benefits to its members:
1)
The RSS will organize a conference every two years. The first conference was
held in September, 2005, at the University of Delaware. The
second, at the
2) The RSS will produce an annual journal which will be posted on its website.
3) The membership fee is $20 ($10 for graduate students and unemployed and retired persons) – please see the membership form.
The
Reception Study Society is governed by an Executive Board, which is chosen at
the convention and which includes the following officers:
Acting
Director: Philip Goldstein,
President: James Machor,
Vice-President: Patsy Schweikart,
Representatives: Barbara Hochman,
Amy Blair,
For more information, please contact Philip
Goldstein at pgold@udel.edu or at the
http://copland.udel.edu/~pgold/webpage/RSSsite/index.html