general announcements

Call for Papers

7th Annual Louisiana Conference on Language and Literature
February 21-23, 2008
Hilton Garden Inn Lafayette, Louisiana

Keynote Speakers:

Elizabeth Nuñez, Award-winning novelist; co-editor of Stories from Blue
Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad and Black Writers in
the 90s; and literary critic.

Jeanne Moskal, Author of Studies of Blake and Shelley, Editor of
Keats-Shelley Journal; Founding President of the International Society for
Travel Writing, and Editor of the series Writing Travel

http://english.louisiana.edu/laconference

&Now: A Festival of Literature and Art

April 15-17, 2008

Chapman University, Orange, CA

http://www.andnowfestival.com/

Submit proposals for papers by November 1st, 2007 to
submissions_at_andnowfestival.com.

Anyone can submit a proposal. You do not need to be associated with an
academic or any other institution. Graduate Students may apply as
individuals or as students of an institution.

You can propose:

* To do a reading or performance from your own innovative or conceptual
fiction, poetry, or other creative work.

Call for Papers for a NYCEA sponsored CEA Special Topics Panel on
"Literature and the Healing Arts / Literature and Medicine" at the 39th
College English Association (CEA) Conference St. Louisâ€"27-29 March 2008

We welcome submissions of both past NYCEA papers previously presented at
the NYCEA Conference on this theme, OR new submissions on the topic of this
special session: "Literature and the Healing Arts / Literature and Medicine.”

We also welcome full panel proposals fitting the above panel topic.

Call for Papers for a NYCEA sponsored CEA Special Topics Panel on
"Literature and Criminal Justice" at the 39th College English Association
(CEA) Conference St. Louisâ€"27-29 March 2008

We welcome submissions of both past NYCEA papers previously presented at
the NYCEA Conference on this theme, OR new submissions on the topic of this
special session: "Literature and Criminal Justice."

We also welcome full panel proposals fitting the above panel topic.

It is our desire to be able to field at the CEA conference a number of
panels on this theme with the intent of creating a subset of scholarly
communities, originally arising out of the NYCEA affiliate, within the
larger CEA conference community.

Call for Papers for a NYCEA sponsored CEA Special Topics Panel on "Anatomy
of Violence in Literature" at the 39th College English Association (CEA)
Conference St. Louisâ€"27-29 March 2008

We welcome submissions of both past NYCEA papers previously presented at
the NYCEA Conference on this theme, OR new submissions on the topic of this
special session: "Anatomy of Violence in Literature."

We also welcome full panel proposals fitting the above panel topic.