CALL FOR PAPERS
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON ADOPTION AND DISABILITY
Co-editors Emily Hipchen and Marina Fedosik are seeking submissions for a collection of critical essays exploring cultural meanings of adoption through a combined lens of adoption and disability studies.

Please send MLA-formatted full essays with 250-word abstracts to adoptiondisabilitycollection@gmail.com by June 30, 2013. 7500-11000 words with Works Cited included. For more information about the project email Marina Fedosik at mf107@nyu.edu.

Inviting paper proposals for panel on "Poetry & Poetics." This is a general call to present poetry scholarship in a standing session of the PAMLA annual conference.

To propose a paper, please use the online submission process: http://www.pamla.org/2013/
The PAMLA submission requires: a paper title, 500-word proposal, and 50-word abstract.

This call is open to all papers with a focus on poetry and poetics.

Proposals due by April 15.

I warmly invite proposals for a collection of essays exploring the female hero as a distinct character type in modern fantasy, covering works published from the 1950s through the present. Although this study will focus on literature and film adaptations, interdisciplinary approaches are welcome and encouraged.

This collection is under contract with McFarland and Company with publication scheduled for summer 2014.

"Intercontinental Cross-Currents: Women's (Net-)Works across Europe and the Americas (1789-1939)." Dec. 5-7, 2013, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Germany. We invite abstracts from literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives focusing on the literal and metaphorical networks created and navigated by women from the American Revolution to the onset of the Second World War. We are interested in papers on a wide range of transatlantic themes, including the history of ideas, the migration of texts, identity formation, literary production and reception, feminism and emancipation, immigration, and social reform. How and in what forms did ideas, bodies, and texts travel across oceans and continents?

As he flies through all of space and time in his TARDIS, the Doctor—all eleven incarnations of him—has long wrestled with issues of textuality, language, and linguistics. The Doctor has been surrounded by the nuances of language and literature, from the second, tenth, and eleventh Doctors frantically flipping through his 500-year diary to the seventh Doctor's full embrace of the question mark as his calling card,

Of course, the show has spawned a wide series of novelizations, fanzines, magazines, comic books, and adaptations as well. As fans have sought to interact with Doctor Who, they, too, have created a world filled with the intersections of language, literature, and meaning.

Stages Beyond Life: The Undead and Culture

PAMLA Conference, Nov. 1-3, 2013 in San Diego

Call for Presentations/Papers

Defying standard constructions of aging and life, the undead have forcefully risen in popular literature and media. Undead culture targets the pillars of society—identity, family, religion, and government—simultaneously causing them to lose and acquire value. This session investigates the significance of the undead within culture, literature, and philosophy.