cfp.english.upenn.edu

I am searching for anyone who is interested in contributing to, as well as editing, a collection of essays that spans Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing career.

CFP: “Aesthetic Narration in Nineteenth-Century America”

CFP - Negotiating (Jewish) American Ethnic Crossroads

CFP - Theorizing Jewish American Life Writing

GENDER & DIFFERENCE, 20-23 May 2010
Call for Papers

Central to an understanding of the global financial crisis 2007-2009 are both economic and epistemic forms of credit.

Textual girls

Narrating Lives behind Bars

Special Session at MLA 2011
in Los Angeles January 6-9, 2011.

The topic is open to any pre-1900 American discourse, but discussions which include “New Frontiers,” the theme of the conference, are encouraged.

SANE journal is now seeking submissions for works of research, practitioner-based articles, reviews, and rationales regarding its first two themed issues.

The Washington Irving Society invites proposals on any Irving topic. Please send a shortened CV and 200-word abstract to tracy_hoffman@baylor.edu by February 14, 2010.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Naomi Morgenstern, University of Toronto.
"The University in Crisis: Teaching, Transference and Tenure in David Mamet's Oleanna."

Call For Papers—Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond
October 14-16, 2010
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Please submit 200-word abstracts addressing the narrative conflict between foreseers and other characters in film, television, and contemporary literature for a special session to be held at the MLA 2

5th June 2010

Death in Early Modern Europe

We seek papers about Asian/American art photography that explore the documentary function, which has all but defined photography from its inception, and interrogate the photograph’s long-established

I am putting together a panel exploring relations between England and the U.S.

This special session will explore the role of ghosts and haunting in American literature and how they reveal, challenge, and remake narratives of the nation.

ImageTexT is still accepting submissions for an upcoming special issue on the work of Alan Moore and adaptation.

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions until March 5 for its second issue, themed “Bridges and Borders: Exploring the Confluence of Languages, Disciplines, and Cultu

**INAUGURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON SEMIOTICS**

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The PhD in Humanities Program (http://louisville.edu/humanities) and the Association of Humanities Academics (http://ahalouisville.com) at the University of Louisville announces the annual University

Changing Lives Through Literature is an alternative sentencing program founded in 1991 on the power of literature to transform lives.

“Carried Across: Translations, Temporalities, and Trajectories”
A Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of English at University of Rhode Island

UPDATED CFP for the New England Women’s Studies Conference

Filmmaker and Activist Rory Kennedy (keynote speaker)

Representations of Health and Well-Being in 19th- and Early-20th-Century American Women's Writing.

THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES: 3rd Biennial International,
Multidisciplinary Conference: "EROS 2010"
May 21-22, 2010
Nipissing University Muskoka Campus, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada

CFP: “Representation and the Problem of Democracy”
A Panel of the Graduate Student Caucus, MLA 2011

The journal “Jura Gentium Cinema” (www.jgcinema.com) is seeking articles (between 4000 and 5000 words) for a special dossier on recent animated films.

This panel will discuss the cultural and intellectual legacy of 'The Wire,' organized around its critique of neoliberal institutions and its place in the social-realist tradition.

Please forward to anyone with an interest in Fat Studies. Thank You.

2 CFPs from the Fat Studies Interest Group; NWSA Conference Nov. 11-14, 2010 in Denver (Proposal Due Feb 20)

The term “birth control” typically refers to the various technological and behavioral mechanisms intimate couples use to prevent or limit progeny.

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions until March 5 for its second issue, themed “Bridges and Borders: Exploring the Confluence of Languages, Disciplines, and Cultu