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CFP: Historicizing Narrative Theory (7/15/11; journal issue)

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Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 8:20pm
Sue J. Kim / Priyamvada Gopal

The Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT) seeks submissions for an upcoming special issue, "Historicizing Narrative Theory."

Essays (max. 10,000 words) should address themselves to the relationship(s) of contemporary narrative theory to ethnic and/or postcolonial studies, and may examine both literary and cultural texts (visual and digital mediums, music, ethnographies, tourism guides, etc).

Modernism and Totalitarianism 5/4/11 -- 6-9/8/11

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Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 3:17pm
Patricia Rae/Modernist Studies Association (MSA)

"In our age, the idea of intellectual liberty is under attack from two directions. On the one hand are its theoretical enemies, the apologists of totalitarianism, and on the other its immediate, practical enemies, monopoly and bureaucracy. Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution."

George Orwell, "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

Proposals are invited for a possible MSA session on the subject of modernism and totalitarianism.

HAIKU AESTHETICS; 31 July 2011

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Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 10:36am
Anthology

Scholarly essays are invited for an anthology of critical essays on Aesthetics of Haiku Poetry to be published by a reputed publisher from India. The essays may include the traditional as well as contemporary trends in Haiku poetry with special focus on evolution and development of Haiku in English language across the world. For further details, please write to Editor of the anthology at editorial.2008@indiatimes.com.

DEADLINE for ABSTRACTS: 31 MAY 2011.
DEADLINE for FULL PAPER: 31 JULY 2011.

The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Vol. II, eds. Paul Cefalu, Gary Kuchar, and Bryan Reynolds

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Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 9:28am
Paul Cefalu, English Department, Lafayette College

We invite abstracts that bring together theory and early modern English literature and culture. Relevant categories/topics might include historical phenomenology/post-phenomenology; affect theory; species/animal theory/posthumanism; genre theory; ecocriticism; and communication/network theory. Selected essays will be published in a collection entitled the *The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies,* Volume II, eds. Paul Cefalu, Gary Kuchar, and Bryan Reynolds, a companion volume to the recently published collection, *The Return of Theory: Tarrying with the Subjunctive,* eds. Paul Cefalu and Bryan Reynolds (Palgrave, 2011). Please send copies of abstracts to Paul Cefalu (cefalup@ Lafayette.edu).

CFP: Film and Video Production MPCA/ACA 2011

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Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 12:33am
Alexandra Hidalgo, Purdue University

2011 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference

Friday-Sunday, October 14 - 16, 2011
Milwaukee, WI
http://mpcaaca.org

Deadline: April 30, 2011

The Film and Video Production area of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for our upcoming 2011 Conference.

[UPDATE] Deadline Extension: "Shakespeare and the Material World" (April 1, 2011)

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Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 11:45pm
Early English Studies Journal

Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.

Call for Papers 2011

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Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 8:45pm
Canadian Journal of Poverty Law

The Canadian Journal of Poverty Law (www.povertylaw.ca) is seeking scholarly manuscripts in relation to poverty law. The Journal publishes articles, case comments and book reviews on social justice, landlord/tenant law, human rights, the intersection of law and policy, and other related areas of interest to scholars and legal practitioners.

The Journal welcomes topics of international, Canadian, provincial and local interest. No submission is guaranteed publication, including those that have been revised and resubmitted.

The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature

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Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 1:30pm
Univeristy of New Haven

The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature
publishes short fiction, poetry, essays, drama, art and book reviews.
Writers at all stages of their careers are invited to submit.
Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit, as each
issue will feature undergraduate writing and art. If you are interested
in submitting your work for consideration, please refer to the
guidelines below.

Anthology on Nature's World - fiction - Deadline 1 September 2011

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Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 11:22am
Editions Bibliotekos

We are ready to do another anthology, which would be our fourth. The theme is "nature's world." (The book has not yet been titled). The full Call and additional Guidelines can be found by clicking on the Guidelines button on the right-hand side of this page: if you are interested in submitting, please refer to the Guidelines and Call.

Textus: Gothic Frontiers. Abstracts by 1 June, 2011

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Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 3:51am
Francesca Saggini and Glennis Byron

Textus: English Studies in Italy No. 3 – 2012: Gothic Frontiers
Editors: Francesca Saggini (Università della Tuscia) and Glennis Byron (University of Stirling)

This issue of Textus aims to showcase and provide further space for debate and discussion to researchers engaged in exploring, testing and redrawing the expansive frontiers of gothic and its multiple, evolving discourses.

UPDATE: EXTENDED DEADLINES: APRIL 3, for abstracts

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Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 1:17am
Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western US (VISAWUS)

16th ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the VICTORIAN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES (VISAWUS)

"The Vulgar and the Proper: Victorian Manners and Mores"
October 13-15, 2011 Houston, Tx

Victorian Sport (journal)

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Friday, March 18, 2011 - 9:56am
Andrew Maunder/University of Hertfordshire

Sporting Victorians
The journal `Critical Survey' invites proposals for 4,000-6,000 word articles analysing some of the cultural and social dimensions of sport in Britain in the years 1800-1914. The nineteenth century saw the rise of professionalism in sport and the emergence of women as participants. Sport also engaged a wide range of novelists, poets, dramatists, painters and journalists – both as commentators and participants – from Byron's swimming to J.M. Barrie's cricket team.

Subjects might include but are not limited to the following:

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Composing Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 5/13/11

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Friday, March 18, 2011 - 9:25am
University of Cincinnati, Department of English & Comparative Literature

Friday, May 13, 2011
*DEADLINE EXTENDED to FRIDAY, MARCH 25
*KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Adrian Parr, dual appointment in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the School of Architecture and Interior Design, author of the book "Hijacking Sustainability"
*WEBSITE: http://www.artsci.uc.edu/collegedepts/english/events/ComposingSpaces.asp...

[UPDATE] Emergent Critical Environments: Where Next for Ecology and the Humanities? 9 and 10 September 2011

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Friday, March 18, 2011 - 6:29am
ASLE UKI Postgraduate Conference

ASLE UK POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
9th and 10th September 2011
EMERGENT CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS: WHERE NEXT FOR
ECOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES?
ASLE UK (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK) www.asle.org.uk ) invites proposals for its Postgraduate Conference to be held from 9 to 10 September 2011 at the Centre for Creative Collaboration (www.creativecollaboration.org.uk, London WC1), on the theme of 'Emergent critical environments': Where next for ecology and the humanities?'
Keynote speakers include:
Kate Soper
Robert McKay

MLA Special Session: Media study approach to Literature in transculturation

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 10:07pm
Modern Language Association

MLA Special Session: Media study approach to Literature in transculturation, Seattle 2012

aesthetics, modes of perception, forms and history of mediation and reading in modern literature, especially in transculturation

Deadline for submission: March 27, 2011

PERFORMING SOUTH ASIA AT HOME & ABROAD

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 5:35pm
SALA (South Asian Literary Association)

South Asian Literary Association (SALA)/ MLA Annual Conference
Seattle 2012

Performing South Asia at Home and Abroad

Formal poetry workshop exercises for textbook

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 4:29pm
Robin Kemp / Georgia State University

FORMALISTA poets who teach! Send me your very best creative-writing exercises. I'm working on a slender, student-friendly, form-friendly textbook. All contributors whose submissions are selected will receive credit.

PREMISE: The book will demonstrate how traditional forms spark, rather than stifle, creativity.

Submissions should be in standard 12-point Times New Roman and include:

Special Topic--The Christian Dimension of Contemporary Fiction

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 3:44pm
Integrite: A Journal of Faith and Learning

Intégrité: A Journal of Faith and Learning welcomes essays for a special issue (spring 2012) on "The Christian Dimension of Contemporary Fiction." Essays may explore any aspect of Christianity--faith, belief, theology, spirituality, tradition, worship, or practice--as reflected in contemporary novels or short stories. The focus may be on a single work, a single writer, or may trace a particular theme in relation to several writers or works. While we invite treatments of both well-known and lesser-known fiction, we are especially looking for analyses of fiction that has generated interest beyond a narrowly Christian audience.

UPDATE: SCMLA Technical Writing

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 2:43pm
South Central Modern Language Association

Deadline: March 28, 2011

The conference co-ordinators have agreed to allow a second session, so additional abstracts are very welcome.

The topic is open. We are, however, particularly interested in presentations that address the integration of new media into the technical writing classroom.

Submissions from newer scholars are welcome.

Please email 500-word abstracts to Dr. Suanna H. Davis at suanna.davis@hccs.edu before March 28, 2011.

The 2011 SCMLA conference will take place in Hot Springs, Arkansas October 27-29, 2011.

[UPDATE] Revised Southern Writers/Southern Writing Deadline - 21 April

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 2:08pm
2011 Southern Writers/Southern Writing graduate conference

Southern Writers/Southern Writing
Graduate Conference
2011 Call for Papers

The 17th Annual Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference is a University of Mississippi Graduate Student event held in conjunction with the university's Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Participants are encouraged to remain in Oxford after the SWSW Conference to attend the Faulkner Conference. More information about the 2011 Faulkner Conference will be available at www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner/.

SPECIAL TOPIC SESSION: Analyzing, Rethinking and Promoting Innovative Foreign Language Undergraduate Curricula

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 12:34pm
Alexander Ganz / Rocky Mountain MLA

CFP RMMLA 2011

New special topic and­ extended deadline!

Panel: Analyzing, Rethinking and Promoting Innovative Foreign Language Undergraduate Curricula

CFP: NEW SPECIAL TOPIC SESSION: Analyzing, Rethinking and Promoting Innovative Foreign Language Undergraduate Curricula
RMMLA, Scottsdale, AZ; October 6-8, 2011

This session invites submissions on any aspect of marketing, promotion, major/minor development and the creation of new interdisciplinary undergraduate programs/courses as well as research studies pertaining those fields.

Suggested proposal topics include:

Treatment of Medieval Poetry in the Modern World (SAMLA Nov. 4-6, 2011)

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 11:50am
Carola Mattord / Kennesaw State University

In the wake of Peter Ackroyd's prose translation of The Canterbury Tales, Dante's Inferno video game, and Baba Brinkman's The Rap Canterbury Tales, this session will explore the various treatments of medieval poetry in the modern world and/or the value (or cause for concern) that these treatments, whether visual, textual, audio, etc., bring to producing access for a wider modern audience. Perspectives or reflections on various treatments of medieval poetry in the university classroom setting are also welcome. Please send 250-word proposal by May 30, 2011.

Ecological Inequalities and Interventions: Contemporary Environmental Practices (September 23, 2011; George Mason University)

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 10:00am
Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee

Ecological Inequalities and Interventions:
Contemporary Environmental Practices

The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) of George Mason University invites paper proposals for our fifth annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference. The Conference will take place on Friday, September 23, 2011 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Call for Papers

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