Call for Papers
17th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference
               Conference Theme: Literature and Senses

Host: Taiwan’s English and American Literature Association,
Department of English, Soochow University
Venue: Soochow University (Waishuanghsi Campus), Taipei, Taiwan
Date: November 14, 2009
 

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on Victorian gender culture. Topics may include:

Manliness vs. Masculinities
Domestication of gender
Cultural gender representations and class
Empire and gender

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be e-mailed rory.moore_at_email.ucr.edu by February 27, 2009
(text in the body of the message; please no attachments).

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Call for Papers

Transnational Identities in David Greig's Theatre (provisional)
proposed collection of essays, to be edited by Clare Wallace (Charles
University Prague) and Anja Müller (University of Bamberg)

Dates for the symposium on Resistance: The Literature of Social Protest
have been changed to April 8-9 in observance of Good Friday, April 9.

Resistance: The Literature of Social Protest
And Struggle: Classical to Contemporary
Eleventh Annual Interdisciplinary McCleary Symposium
April 8-9, 2009

Vitalpoetics: A Journal of Critical Literary Theory is now seeking final submissions for Vol.2 No.1,
2009. Vitalpoetics is a journal of critical literary theory. Our objective is to promote key ideas in the
field through close analysis, always holding that literature and its theory are connected to the social,
cultural and political contexts that give rise to it.

All submissions must be in English. Articles are between 3000-5000 words. Please submit an
abstract before 25th Feb., 2009. Visit http://www.vitalpoetics.com/submit for details.

CFP: English Nineteenth-Century Literature Panel at the Rocky Mountain
MLA Conference in Snowbird, Utah (3/1/2009; 10/8/2009-10/10/2009).

250-word abstracts dealing with any aspect of English Nineteenth-Century
Literature are welcome. Please also include a brief CV or equivalent
biographical statement. Graduate students are especially encouraged to
submit proposals. The deadline for submission is 3/1/2009, and the
conference dates are October 8-10, 2009.

One of the intellectual preoccupations of the early modern world was the construction of identity in
all of its disparate forms: religious, racial, sexual, and political. At the same time, however, early
modern Europeans were expanding beyond their continental borders on both mercantile and
colonial missions. Such forays necessitated the creation of discursive practices that made the "new"
and "foreign" knowable and sought to analyze that difference in connection with their own identity
concerns. In this proposes special session for the 2009 MLA, we seek papers that explore the
theme of translation in the various contexts identified by MLA President Catherine Porter, which

Appel à contribution

CFP: MLA, Philadelphia 2009: British graphic novels and comics.

Proposals are invited on British graphic novels and comics.

According to the New York Times, Britain finally “embrace(d) the graphic novel” in 2007,
supposedly many years behind the rest of the reading world. The British graphic novel industry is
perceived to be dwarfed by its American and continental counterparts, despite the success of
Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, publishing houses like Jonathan Cape and the patronage of Posy
Simmonds by The Guardian. In what ways is it appropriate to talk about a distinctly British
tradition of sequential art?

CFP: MLA, Philadelphia 2009: British graphic novels and comics.

Proposals are invited on British graphic novels and comics.

According to the New York Times, Britain finally “embrace(d) the graphic novel” in 2007,
supposedly many years behind the rest of the reading world. The British graphic novel industry is
perceived to be dwarfed by its American and continental counterparts, despite the success of
Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, publishing houses like Jonathan Cape and the patronage of Posy
Simmonds by The Guardian. In what ways is it appropriate to talk about a distinctly British
tradition of sequential art?

CFP: MLA, Philadelphia 2009: British graphic novels and comics.

Proposals are invited on British graphic novels and comics.

According to the New York Times, Britain finally “embrace(d) the graphic novel” in 2007,
supposedly many years behind the rest of the reading world. The British graphic novel industry is
perceived to be dwarfed by its American and continental counterparts, despite the success of
Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, publishing houses like Jonathan Cape and the patronage of Posy
Simmonds by The Guardian. In what ways is it appropriate to talk about a distinctly British
tradition of sequential art?

A full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, the
Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe is eligible for the Booker Prize. The
reputation of the prize is sure to transform the fortunes of the author,
who receives it. This prestigious prize has been won by four Indiansâ€"
Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children, 1981), Arundhati Roy (The God of
Small Things, 1997), Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss, 2006) and
Arvinda Adiga (The White Tiger, 2008). Since the award of this prize to
Indians, IWE has become a force to reckon with. The present anthology of
critical essays on the Booker Prize winners, hailing from India proposes
to analyze the works of these masters. The book will include the papers

A full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, the
Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe is eligible for the Booker Prize. The
reputation of the prize is sure to transform the fortunes of the author,
who receives it. This prestigious prize has been won by four Indiansâ€"
Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children, 1981), Arundhati Roy (The God of
Small Things, 1997), Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss, 2006) and
Arvinda Adiga (The White Tiger, 2008). Since the award of this prize to
Indians, IWE has become a force to reckon with. The present anthology of
critical essays on the Booker Prize winners, hailing from India proposes
to analyze the works of these masters. The book will include the papers

The Meaning of Food: Culinary Choices as Expressions of Cultural Values
2009 Rocky Mountain MLA Convention, Snowbird, Utah, October 8-10

As increasing numbers of artists and scholars turn their attention to the
ways that our food choices convey and contest personal and cultural
values, this panel seeks papers that analyze representations of food, food
production, and/or food ritual. What are the cultural implications of our
food choices? How does what we eat shape our environment? How have
individual and cultural sustenance patterns influenced us politically?
Historically? And what do representations of food choices demonstrate in
arts and literature?