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Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company
Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
Series Editors:
Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College and
Henry S. Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(apologies for cross posting)
The following may be of interest to theoreticians working in the broad-based field(s) of
'urban culture' and 'writing the city'. We strongly encourage submissions which comprise
an attempt to re-think urban writing.
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*** Call For Contributors ***
The Journal of Psychogeography
and Urban Research
http://www.psychogeography.co.uk/
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Call for Paper:
Is there anyone out there who has written
on John Adams in film or on The Adams
Chronicles with respect to John Adams
(first 6 episodes of the series)?
We are assembling a collection of essays
on THE PRESIDENCY IN FILM and lack
something on this contentious character
in our history...
Would be delighted to hear from you...
Peter Rollins
Peter C. Rollins
Editor-in-Chief
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and TV Studies
(Web site: www.filmandhistory.org)
RR 3 Box 80
Cleveland, OK 74020
(918)243-7637 and fax 5995
RollinsPC_at_aol.com
BAD SUBJECTS 2001-2002
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CALL FOR ESSAYS
HOW2 , an electronic extension of the 80s journal HOW(ever), focusing on
innovative writing and scholarship by and about contemporary and
modernist women writers, is seeking conference papers given in these
subject areas for the "In Conference" section of the journal. Recent
papers published include work from the MINA LOY: A SYMPOSIUM, papers
delivered at the Institute of English Studies—School of Advanced
studies, University of London, on 11 March 2000 and AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEW
POETRIES, papers delivered at the American Literature Association
Conference, Long Beach, California, Spring 2000. Papers from male and
female scholars welcome. The paper must have been given at a recent
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
for "Form and Persuasion in Women's Informal Letters, 1400-1700," a
collection of essays to be published as a book.
Essays are sought on women's letters from any part of Europe EXCEPT
England, France and Italy, which are already well represented. Essays
on Spain, Germany and Central Europe are particularly needed. Essays on
letters by French or English women may be considered if they come from
mercantile, artisan, or other non-elite backgrounds.
I am looking for 4 or 5 more empirical or theoretical articles to be
included in a book entitled _Studies in Islamic Masculinities_ to be
published by Zed Books (London).
CFP:SCOPE: Conference Reports (e-journal)
Scope, a fully refereed on-line journal of film studies (we're at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film) edited by staff and postgraduate
students within the institute of Film Studies at the University of
Nottingham, is looking for conference reports of about 1000-1500 words to
be included in forthcoming issues. We're seeking contributions on the
events listed below, but we also welcome reports on other relevant
conferences in film, media and cultural studies.
This is an updated Call for Papers for THE JOURNAL OF AYN RAND STUDIES. We
are looking especially for papers that deal with Rand's literary corpus
from diverse and critical perspectives. Of particular interest currently
are any papers investigating the ties between Rand and such thinkers as
Aristotle and Nietzsche.
For information on our current issue (Spring 2001), which features the
first comprehensive scholarly forum for the discussion of Ayn Rand's
aesthetics, go to our website at:
We are indexed by several abstract services, including MLA DIRECTORY OF
PERIODICALS and MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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Announcing a new series
CULTURAL SPACES
Professor Jacob George
Director, Centre for Canadian Studies
& Editor, Journal of Indo-Canadian Studies
Union Christian College,
Alwaye-683 102
Kerala, India.
April 26, 2001
Dear Professor,
Greetings from the Centre for Canadian Studies, Union Christian College,
Alwaye, Kerala, India.
THE ARCHIBALD MACLEISH JOURNAL
Call for Papers and Artwork
THE ARCHIBALD MACLIESH JOURNAL is a new publication dedicated to studies
of the life and work of poet, playwright, and Librarian of Congress,
Archibald MacLeish.
The JOURNAL welcomes submission of scholarly and informal essays, poetry,
fiction, artwork, interviews, memoirs, etc., relating to MacLeish.
Publication is to be once annually.
MLA format, please. Digital submissions are encouraged. Please send to
THE ARCHIBALD MACLEISH JOURNAL
Humanities Division
Greenfield Community College
One College Drive
Greenfield, MA 01301
or contact
Nat Herold, Editor
amj_at_gcc.mass.edu
parallax is seeking papers to be published in its themed issues in
2002-3.
These issues will be edited by Kurt Hirtler, Ola Stahl and Ika Willis.
Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the editors for
discussion.
Email: parallax_at_leeds.ac.uk
25: Having Sex
26: Writing (in) terror(ism)
27: Mourning Revolution
25: Having Sex
How is sex "had"? And what (or who) is to be done?
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PopPolitics.com, an online journal, seeks reviews, review essays, and short
essays on any aspect of television.
Go to http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/popoliticscfr.htm to read about how to
submit.
For more information contact David Lavery, Television Editor, PopPolitics.com
at dlavery_at_mtsu.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
(no deadline)
Apmonia, the new website for Samuel Beckett, seeks papers on all subjects
relating to this author and his works. Papers may be previously published
but please inform us of the specifics. All submissions will be vetted by
at least one editor.
Apmonia is a section of the growing website on twentieth-century
literature, The Modern Word (www.TheModernWord.com). Apmonia can be viewed
at www.TheModernWord.com/beckett
CALL FOR PAPERS for the journal "National Identities".
Scope, a fully refereed on-line journal of film studies edited by
staff and postgraduate students within the Institute of Film Studies
at the University of Nottingham, is looking for film reviews of about
1000/1500 words to be included in forthcoming issues. We are
interested in both recently released movies and retrospective
reviews of older films (especially if these films have just been
released on video, DVD, or they have been the focus of renewed
critical attention).
Call for an Author:
For a major publisher an author is needed for a volume on the popular
culture of the 1950s, one of a series for each period in American
history.The volume is consist of all aspects of the popular culture of the
period suitable for a text for high school students and introductory
college classes. Anyone interested should get in touch with Debby Adams,
dadams_at_greenwood.com or Ray Browne, rbrowne_at_bgnet.bgsu.edu telephone 419
372 7861, fax=A0 8095. Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Oh 43403.
I am editing A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (for Facts on
File, Inc., a publisher that enjoys very wide distribution in libraries,
colleges and high schools, as well as bookstores). I am soliciting essayists
to contribute to the volume.
The volume will be peer reviewed. Payment for essays will be in
presentational offprints and, too, for the large essays, a copy of the book.
All essays will carry the author's name, and a list of contributors will
appear in the back of the book.
Call for Contributions
We are currently planning to re-edit and republish Britishness and =
Cultural Studies: Continuity and Change in Narrating the Nation in =
England after a successful 'debut' in Poland (eds Knauer and Murray, =
Katowice: Slask, 2000). We are looking for more focus on British =
popular culture and media as well as Asian/Indian Culture in Britain, =
esp that what the anthology explores is a dialogic approach to both =
Britishness and to cultural studies.
If you are interested in having your essay included and/or identify =
another 'gap' and wish to contribute, please contact me at =
knauer_at_euphony.net or editor_at_write-on-line.co.uk
Please post the following call for submissions:
Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, published by Haworth Press, seeks
critical essays, interviews with writers, extended book reviews and
bibliographic essays, cultural criticism, and related prose works, aimed at
a general readership of gay men. With an international scope, the journal
publishes work in translation as well as writing by Anglophone authors.
Writers of any sexuality/gender are invited to submit.
Submission guidelines available at:
http://www.tncc.cc.va.us/faculty/longt/HGMFQ/
Send duplicate double-spaced mss. (MLA or Chicago style) with SASE to:
Henry Street:
A Graduate Review of Literary Studies
_Henry Street_, now entering its tenth year of publication, is an
international forum for graduate students of English and related
disciplines. We invite submission of original and scholarly contributions
to current research on literatures in English from all historical periods,
material culture, pedagogy, and critical theory. In addition to welcoming
papers from a broad range of critical perspectives, the journal is
particularly receptive to unconventional or personal approaches that open
new avenues of investigation in literary and cultural criticism.
what a girl wants, what a girl needs
nasty invites critical works (articles, notes, reviews) and creative writing
which address the idea of female desire in writing by women. Possible
approaches include the non -mediated voice of the renaissance women writer,
the 'modern' women and how post-modern approaches expand vocal/textual
possiblities. nasty welcomes studies in pop-culture and enthusiastically
encourages interdisciplinary approaches. Articles should not exceed 2000
words in length and must be accompanied by a short introduction and
biography. Please send all submissions in Word format to
submissions_at_nasty.cx
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Edited Collection:=20
The Politics of Play: Sex, Gender, and Online Gaming
CALL FOR AUTHORS
A few authors are still available for the forthcoming volume of the
Dictionary of Literary Biography dedicated to "Twenty-first Century British
and Irish Novelists." This volume will contain a wide array of authors who
are making their reputations today but will likely write well into the
twenty-first century.
Julie Myerson (6,000 words)
Livi Michael (6,000 words)
Philip Hensher (4,000 words)
Kate O’Riordon (4,000 words)
Emma Donoghue (4,000 words)
Peter Cunningham (6,000 words)
Michael Collins (4,000 words)
James Ryan (4,000 words)
Toby Litt (4,000 words)
Ahdaf Soueif (4,000 words)
With apologies for cross posting --
Announcing a new series from Ashgate-
The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
Series Editors: Betty S. Travitsky and Patrick Cullen
Designed to complement The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile
Library of Essential Works, this series presents both modernized and
old-spelling editions of texts not only by women but also for and about
women. The contents of a volume can range from a single text to an
anthology, and editorial methodology is also flexible, the choice
depending on the subject and audience.
Proposals should take the form of either
Issues in Writing
A semiannual, refereed journal devoted to the study of writing in the Arts
and Humanities, Science and Technology, Government, Education, Business and
Industry, and the professions.