cfp.english.upenn.edu

CFP: Revisiting Literary Worlds: Prequels, Sequels, and Spin-offs (grad) (New deadline - 3/11/09; (dis)junctions, 4/3/09-4/4/09)

[UPDATE]: Illustrating Literary Worlds. New submission deadline: 3/11/2009.

The New Exotic? Postcolonialism and Globalization’ Conference

24-26 June, 2009

Organised by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Keynote Speakers: Professor Robert J.C. Young, New York University; Professor Graham Huggan, University of Leeds; Associate Professor Susie O’Brien, McMaster University

Title: Obama-Mania: Critical Essays on Representations of President Barack Obama in Popular Culture

Contact:
ObamaInPopularCulture@gmail.com

Editors: Derrais Carter & Nicholas Yanes

CFP: “Criticism as Method: Mediating Literature and Politics”
A Panel of the Graduate Student Caucus, MLA 2009

darkmatter Journal - http://www.darkmatter101.org/

Special Issue - Call for Papers: Pirates and Piracy in History, Literature and Theory

UPDATE: The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to March 25, 2009.

In recent years, a “transnational” approach to literary history has become popular.

Contact:
ObamaInPopularCulture@gmail.com

Editors: Derrais Carter & Nicholas Yanes
Publisher: McFarland

Deadline for Abstracts: May 25th, 2009

Description of the Book:

UPDATED DUE DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS BOTH CRITICAL AND CREATIVE IS 5:00PM ON MARCH 31, 2009. PLEASE EMAIL SWSWGRADCONFERENCE@GMAIL.COM WITH QUESTIONS!

Open call for papers:

Proposals sought for the African American Literature session of the PAMLA Conference, San Francisco State University, November 6-7, 2009.

Please use the on-line submission process to submit your paper title, 500-word proposal, and 50-word abstract by March 15: http://www.pamla.org/2009/proposals

PAMLA is the Western regional affiliate of the Modern Language
Association: http://www.pamla.org/2009/

Please send any and all inquiries to: badler@uci.edu

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Brian R. Adler
Department of English
435 Humanities Instructional Building
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2650
Program in African American Studies

Haunted Masculinities: Men and Their Ghostly Selves in American Literature Proposal for special session for MLA 2009

For this proposed special session, the panel seeks to understand why the journey to male identity in American literature is so often written as a haunted pursuit. Whether it is Henry James's Spencer Brydon wrestling with his spectral American alter ego in "The Jolly Corner," Jack Kerouac's use of the figure of the Shrouded Traveler throughout On The Road, or John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom describing a catheter tube as a "dark ghost"
penetrating his body, male characters investigating what it means to be a man are beset with terrifying visions of death, spectral presences, and various things that go bump in the night. Why? What is so terrifying about being a man in American literature and culture? Why do American writers frequently turn to ghosts, haunted spaces, and absences in order to explore the particular difficulty with which men come to a sense of self?

Although investigations of ghost stories are expected, the approach to what is a haunted pursuit of male identity or subjectivity is also flexible. Ghosts, haunted houses, preoccupations with death or dead people, absences, spaces, and pauses within the text itself are all manners in which haunting stalks a narrative, and are all welcome approaches to the topic. A focus on 20th and 21st century literature is preferred but all time periods (or comparisons between texts across time periods) will absolutely be considered.

Interested panelists should submit a 250 word abstract and a recent CV via E-mail by March 20, 2009 to Sharon Becker at sharon_becker@redlands.edu.
Queries welcome. Those interested in acting as a respondent for the panel (but who may not want to contribute a paper) are encouraged to contact the organizer of this panel as well.

All panelists chosen for participation must be members of the Modern Language Association by April 7, 2009.

This is a call for submissions to be considered for publication in The St. John's University (Queens, NY) literary journal, The Humanities Review.

The journal has published several notable academics in their
respective fields over the last few years.

The working themes for the Spring edition are:

Relocating the Avant Garde: the relationship between historical facts and a language state. In the wake of President Obama's historic campaign, "Hope" is the avant garde. "Hope" is likewise changing the political landscape; so how is political language changing?

Submission deadline for the journal is the 15th of March 2009.

Please submit all papers electronically to: sjuhumanities@gmail.com

or via snail mail:

The Humanities Review
c/a The Writing Center
8000 Utopia pkwy
Jamaica, NY
11439

African American Literature and Environment MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

Proposals are invited for presentations that examine African American literature as environmental literature. bell hooks claims that "black people were first and foremost a people of the land," but for a variety of historical reasons, African American literature has been excluded from the green canon of typical nature writing. How does African American literature, whether an early slave narrative or a contemporary work of
fiction or poetry, complicate traditional ideas about environmental consciousness (including but not limited to the inclusion of environmental justice issues)? How does the history of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and racial violence, and African American migration to northern cities problematize the pastoral as a genre? Despite this historically vexed relationship to rural land, how has African American literature registered ecocentric experience of the nonhuman world? Paper
topics may address these or other questions related to African AmericanLiterature and Environment.

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 22, 2009 to Scott Knickerbocker at sknickerbocker@collegeofidaho.edu. Questions are welcome.

My name is Melissa Whitney. I am the session chair for the special topics session "Mothers in Literature of Women of Color in the Twentieth Century" at this year's RMMLA conference in Snowbird, Utah.
I am looking for mother-daughter relationships in particular but the session is not limited to that relationship. I am encouraging papers who deal with how mothers mother and the relationship between a mother's mothering and the psychological impact it has on her child, but any subject matter connected to mothers in literature of women of color will be considered. While my particular focus is on African American Women, I also encourage papers and research on literature of Chicana, Latina, Native American women etc.
Graduate as well as undergraduate and independent scholars are encouraged to send their paper proposals to Mayce-girl@hotmail.com or Melissa.Whitney@utsa.edu
The deadline for paper proposals is March 1 by 5 p.m.

CFP: [African-American] CFP - Traumatic Memory and Narrative Memory in Ethnic American Literatures

CFP: [African-American] Callaloo/ETHIOPIA

UPDATE: [African-American] Women of Color Writers and Environmental Justice Literature

CFP: [African-American] Sidney Poitier Conference

CFP: [African-American] Poitier Conference

CFP: [African-American] Poitier Conference

CFP: [African-American] Revisiting Literary Worlds: Prequels, Sequels, and Spin-offs (grad) (2/27/09; (dis)junctions, 4/3/0

CFP: [African-American] The Changing Images of the Businessman through Literature (Collection)

UPDATE: [African-American] New Journal Issue: Sense and Sensation

CFP: [African-American] Reading the African American West MLA 2009; 03/15/09

UPDATE: [African–American] Accepting Submissions––Expanding the "Canon" of African American Literature

CFP: [African-American] Lynching's Literary Legacies (3/1/09; MLA 12/27/09-12/30/09)

CFP: [African-American] Special Session MLA 2009: Black Literary Historiography After Obama

CFP: [African-American] African American Women & Spirit Work-SAMLA 2009

CFP: [African-American] "The Abeng": Maroon Identity, Culture, and History

CFP: [African-American] Call for proposals on "Women and Work in Literature": deadline 3-15-09

CFP: [African-American] African American Literature Panel (3/15/09; PAMLA, 11/6/09-11/7/09)

CFP: [African-American] An Academic Symposium

CFP: [African-American] Got Class?: Elitism, aesthetics, globalization and the future of literature