This CFP is for a proposed collection of essays on the works of the
Sitwells. In New Bearings in English Poetry, F.R. Leavis condemned the
Sitwells to "the history of publicity rather than of poetry." However,
the Sitwells, individually and as a trio, were not only significant
contributors to the fields of poetry, fiction, memoir, belles lettres,
art history, travel writing, and biography, they were also key players in
the popularization of Modernism and in the development of "celebrity"
and "scandal" in cultural production. This volume of essays will
contribute to a renewed interest in the Sitwells' work and their place in
the history of Modernism. The editors particularly welcome proposals that

EBSCO Publishing seeks freelance writers for a new series of literary
criticism that will appear in print as well as in our award winning
Literary Reference Center database. EBSCO databases are widely used by
both academic and public libraries worldwide and are perceived as
excellent and authoritative sources for research materials.

The volumes in the series cover a wide variety of prominent works and
authors, focusing most heavily on American and British literature from
the 19th and 20th centuries. Essays are 5,000 words in length and should
be researched and documented in MLA citation style.

THE NU-ROMANTIC
Revealing the developing artistic milieu in Film, Theatre and Television

   17th of April 2009, University of Reading

CALL FOR PAPERS
 

Romanticism was a cultural landscape characterised by the eternal
oscillation between a ‘modern’ enthusiasm that had failed and a
‘postmodern’ irony that would soon falter. Now, years later, another scene
marked by oscillations is taking shape.

Teaching Native American Women’s Writing

For a conference sponsored by the Society for the Study of American Women
Writers to be held in Philadelphia, Oct. 21-24, 2009, I would like to
propose a panel on Teaching Native American Women’s Writing. Possible
topics include incorporating native women’s material in survey courses,
special topics courses on native women’s writing or on a particular
native woman writer, teaching native material to predominantly non-native
students, methods for teaching particular texts, secondary material
useful for the study of particular writers, etc. Any time period or
genre. Please send proposals to Lynn Domina at dominalm_at_delhi.edu by Dec.
15, 2008.

Johns Hopkins University
2009 English Department Graduate Conference
April 24-25, 2009

“Difficulty, Intransigence, Failure”

Keynote Speaker: Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania

Relics, Resurrections, and Reconstructions: Memory and Remembering(s) in
the Middle Ages
A conference presented by the Columbia University Medieval Guild

The Columbia University Medieval Guild with the support of Columbia
Department of English and Comparative Literature is pleased to announce
that it will be holding its 19th Annual Interdisclipinary Graduate Student
Conference on 24 January, 2009. The topic for this year is memory both
personal and public in all of its abstract and physical represenations and
incarnations in the medieval period. Possible topics include but are not
limited to:

University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
English Graduate Students Society

SENSE AND SUSTAINABLITY: Green approaches to reading (March 13-14, 2009)
http://www.egss-umontreal.org/colloquium/
http://www.egss-umontreal.org/colloquium/poster.html

DATES: Friday March 13- Saturday March 14, 2009
Département d'études anglaises
University of Montreal, Pavilion Jean-Coutu
http://www.umontreal.ca/plancampus/pavillons/pav21.html

CALL FOR PAPERS
Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
April 10-11, 2009

AVATARS: PERSONAE, HETERONYMS, PSEUDONYMS
__________________________________________________________________________

"Every individual human being, one may say, carries within him,
potentially and prescriptively, an ideal man, the archetype of a human
being, and it is his life's task to be, through all his changing
manifestations, in harmony with the unchanging unity of this ideal."
    --Friedrich Schiller, Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795)

In this paper I describe a novel form of writing pedagogy that encourages
students to select their own topics for papers based on course readings
and class discussion. The purpose behind this approach is to facilitate a
process by which students are enabled to engage in a personal way with
their writing, in effect, to "own" their own writing process. Too often,
students write for the professor, responding to prompts or assigned
topics, assuming that what they produce has to be "what the professor
wants to hear." In effect, they become alientated from what they write,
trying to conform to a standard of evaluation that is outside themselves.
Since students will be doing a great deal of writing beyond

Projection: Speculating on Presence, Absence, and Nonsense
March 6, 2009
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
English Students’ Association Annual Conference

Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with.
-- Macbeth (III, iv)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Queer_at_King’s Research Centre presents a one-day conference on queer
autobiography:

TELL IT LIKE IT IS. TELL IT LIKE IT ISN’T â€" QUEER LIVES REMODELLED

Friday June 12th 2009

 
‘Tell It Like It Is. Tell It Like It Isn’t’ continues on from 2004’s
successful ‘Queer Lives’ symposium which examined the ways we chronicle
the varied stories of our multiple queer selves. There are still more
stories to be told.

Title: Writing and Representin’ Hip Hop Culture
Date: April 17-18, 2009
Location: University of California, Berkeley

Title: Writing and Representin’ Hip Hop Culture
Date: April 17-18, 2009
Location: University of California, Berkeley

The New Scene Quarterly, on-line, is currently accepting submissions for
its Jan. 2009 issue. We are looking for submissions in the following
categories.

• NONFICTION:
We are actively looking for non-fiction that revolves around the art and
craft of writing; profiles on interesting writers; and memoirs that capture
the American literary experience. Submissions should be between 1000 and
3500 words.

• POETRY:
The best way to classify what we are looking for would be to call it 21st
Century Americana; that is, poetry that best represents the state of
America in the 21st Century. Please limit submissions to between 3 to 6
poems per entry.