For its 2013 issue, Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism anticipates reserving space for up to four essays which explore issues, objects, or persons which, though originating from the repressed past, continue to make themselves "forcibly felt in the present." To provoke thoughts on this topic, Dr. Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, has provided the following prompt titled "Haunted Subjects." Authors should not attempt to address all of the issues raised by Dr. Lewis; rather, Criterion hopes this prompt will serve as a springboard for creative and well-focused essays on relevant issues and texts.

The English Graduate School Association at UNCC is pleased to announced its 13th Annual EGSA Conference, which will be held at UNC-Charlotte on January 18, 2013. The EGSA Conference will explore the relationship between freedom and constraint by looking at creativity and conventions in scholarly and creative works.

We seek to discuss some of these questions:

1. What conventions exist in your field of study and why do they exist? How do these
conventions define your field and what types of resistance can be found?

This panel will investigate the intersection of two key areas of inquiry. First: in recognizing evolution, human beings perceived ourselves as falling back into animality. Where exactly did we fall? Social Darwinism, for instance, has imagined human beings as exposed to a brutal underlying reality, and that idea has done much to create real brutality. Second, how do ideas of human animality intersect with the high value placed upon recreation, especially since the second industrial revolution? As Anne Norton suggests in her book *Republic of Signs*, with workplaces often marked by limited agency and dull repetition, many turn to spheres outside of work to define themselves.

We are currently looking for guest editors for the summer 2012 issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (www.ncgsjournal.com). This past summer Lizzie Harris McCormick and Cecile Kandl edited the issue "Women Write the Natural World," and the previous summer's issue, edited by Susan Hamilton and Janice Schroeder, focused on "Nineteenth-Century Feminisms: Press & Platform."

If interested, please submit a brief proposal (1-2 pages) to both melissa.purdue@mnsu.edu and sefloyd@stritch.edu by November 9th.

KEYNOTES
-- Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)
-- Carol Taaffe (Author of *Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen & Irish Cultural Debate*)
-- Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp)

The International Flann O'Brien Society is proud to announce that a conference on the Works of Brian O'Nolan will be hosted by the Department of Comparative Literatures, at the Università Roma Tre under the title 'Problems with Authority: The II International Flann O'Brien Conference'.

Queer London Conference: Call for Papers

Saturday 23rd March, 2013
Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Matt Cook (Birkbeck College, University of London)

This one-day conference is dedicated to a consideration of London and its role in creating, housing, reflecting and facilitating queer life. It aims to bring together scholars from a variety of different disciplines and backgrounds to consider representations of queer London and how London itself represents queers.