For the upcoming essay collection Writing (and) the Digital Generation
(under contract with McFarland), I am soliciting contributions that analyze
the many facets of participatory digital entertainment. The key assumption
of this project is that, contrary to the claim that “no one reads anymore,”
a vast “Digital Generation” actually engages in more rhetorical activity
than perhaps any before. This collection seeks essays that describe and
document these participatory activities and how they are changing how we
see writing, perhaps permanently.

The New York College English Association (NYCEA), regional affiliate of
the College English Association (CEA) continues to solicite papers for
the Daemen College Conference, "The Thread of Narrative: Directions and
Digressions in the Storytelling Process" on Friday, October 12th and
Saturday, October 13th. Papers are invited on any aspect of narrative,
including pedagogy of/and narrative, experimental, literary journalism,
illness narrative, medicine and literature, science narratives,popular
cultural and the new narrative, comic/graphic novels and narrative, film
narratives, oral narratives, narrative theorists, specific authors and
their narrative style, etc. Paper proposals or abstracts of no more than

This is a final call for papers for the Pearl-Poet Society’s sessions at
the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, 8-11 May 2008
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan

The deadline for submissions is September 15.

1. “Clothing, Material Culture and Iconography in the Pearl-Poems”

2. “Landscape, Architecture, and Environment in the Pearl-Poems”

3. “Editing, Editions and Translation in/of the Pearl-Poems”

4. “Biblical Interpretation in/of the Pearl-Poems”

5. “The Pearl-Poet and His Contemporaries: Langland, Gower, etc.”

We invite abstracts from scholars of all levels--from graduate student to
senior academic.

The assumption behind this panel is that a rigorous examination of the
relation between reading and working brings us to the threshold between
“intrinsic” and “extrinsic” criticism. Thematizations of work, for example,
organize our attention within the text even as they direct us outward
toward reference to the leisure that is the precondition for literary
reading itself. Most theories of narrative time depend upon an assumed
homogenization of experience that the reality of work contradicts: social
relations in class society preclude the possibility of phenomenologically
equivalent temporalities across classes, even as “homogeneous, empty time”

Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace

You are invited to contribute to an edited volume entitled “Virginia
Woolf in the Literary Marketplace.” For the first twenty years of her
career, Woolf was primarily a literary journalist who became very
familiar with the world of the literary marketplace. Even after she
became renowned for her fiction, she continued to engage with the
market in its manifold facets: marketing, production, pricing,
copyright issues, technology, readership, reviews, and so on. I am
looking for essays that deal with one or more of these subjects.

The year 2008 marks the 600th anniversary of John Gower's death. To
commemorate this event, the John Gower Society, in conjunction with
Cardiff University, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of
London, and Southwark Cathedral, announce the FIRST INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS OF THE JOHN GOWER SOCIETY, 13-16 JULY 2008.

Since 2007, National Central University Journal of Humanities has been re-
oriented as an “interdisciplinary, intercultural” scholarly journal.
National Central University Journal of Humanities is a published
quarterly and welcomes articles related both to the chosen topic for each
issue and other areas of critical interest. The journal also accepts
review articles of published scholarly works. Manuscripts can be in
Chinese, English, or French.