Call for abstracts for a proposed panel on "Recovering Beat Women
Writers" for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Conference to be held in Philadelphia on November 8-11, 2006.
Proposals are requested for a panel on women writers affiliated with the
Beat Generation focusing on individual authors, feminist/cultural
studies considerations of women in this mid-20th-century bohemian
milieu, or issues in the ongoing recovery project. Send brief abstracts
(1-3 pages) by October 10, 2005, to Dr. Jennie Skerl, 1502 Weatherstone
Dr., Paoli, PA 19301. Note: This panel has not yet been approved by
the conference committee; however, SSAWW says that pre-organized

CFP: The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion (CSSR) Bulletin

Title: Rebecca Rush and Her Contemporaries
Proposed Panel for the SSAWW (Society of the Study of American Women Writers) Conference
Abstract deadline: October 10, 2005
Conference: November 8-11, 2006 in Philadelphia

This proposed session for the 2006 SSAWW conference will focus on the
novels of Rebecca Rush (KELROY, 1812) and her contemporaries (Hannah
Webster Foster, Susanna Rowson, Tabitha Tenney, and others). Scholars from
various disciplines are invited to submit 250-500 word abstracts and
brief CVs. Please send email submissions to Ann Beebe at the University
of Texas at Tyler. (abeebe_at_mail.uttyl.edu)

Call for Contributors: Dictionary of Literary Biography
AMERICAN ROMANCE WRITERS

Draft deadline December 1, 2005

Contributors are needed to write an objective, clear, comprehensive account
of the life, career, and literary reputation of the romance writers listed
below.

Those interested in contributing please e-mail the volume’s editor:
Pamela Regis, Professor of English
McDaniel College
2 College Hill
Westminster, MD 21157
pregis_at_mcdaniel.edu

Call for Submissions to Proposed Volume: "Thrift, Horatio": Critical and
Literary Responses to Thrift, the Secondhand, and the Recycled.

Articles and creative works are solicited for a proposed collection focusing
on "thrift" in literary texts, theories of the recycled and the secondhand,
critical appraisal of the images of recycling and consignment,
interdisciplinary papers relating to these issues, and creative responses
(fiction/nonfiction) to thrift and the art of "thrifting."

Send two-page abstracts or proposals by September 1 to: Dr. Kathleen
Anderson (Kathleen_Anderson_at_pba.edu) and Dr. Susan Jones
(Susan_Jones_at_pba.edu).

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Susan Sontag: Cinema and Photography"
Special Issue of Post Script: Essays in Film and the
Humanities
Guest Edited by Dudley Andrew and Colin Burnett