Call for Papers: Scottish Literature at CEA 2014
March 27-29, 2014 | Baltimore, Maryland

Hyatt Regency
300 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410-528-1234

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Scottish literature for our 45th annual conference.

While we welcome essays pertaining to any area of Scottish literature, we are particularly interested in explorations of "horizons" in Scottish literature and culture, including rhetorical studies, books, films, digital texts, and other media.

Call for Papers: Children's and Adolescent Literature at CEA 2014
March 27-29, 2014 | Baltimore, Maryland

Hyatt Regency
300 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410-528-1234

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on children's and adolescent literature for our 45th annual conference.

While we welcome essays pertaining to any area of children's and adolescent literature, we are particularly interested in explorations of "horizons" in children's and adolescent literature and culture, including rhetorical studies, books, films, digital texts, video games, and other media.

Building Connections: The Changing Face of Romance Studies

The study of Romance literatures faces numerous opportunities and challenges in today's increasingly globalized world. The growing importance of interdisciplinarity invites literary scholars to think about the future of literature in the age of cultural studies. The prominent position of this academic field within Romance Studies departments both enables and requires us to reconsider the relationship between literature and its sociopolitical context.

Call for papers to be delivered at the Southern Studies Conference (Feb. 7-8) at Auburn University at Montgomery on the topic of poetry and Southern identity.

Possible/example topics:

* how poets from the South do or do not see themselves as Southern
* how the work of a contemporary poet responds to the Southern regional identity
* how Southern poetry is (or isn't) represented in current anthologies, magazines, poetry movements, etc.
* how "The Southern" has been constructed in poetry

Other possible topics: Natasha Trethewey, Affrilachian poets, interrogating "Southern" as a useful construction for creating/understanding poetry.

the minnesota review, a journal of creative and critical writing, invites submissions for a Special Issue on "Katrina – A Decade After" to be guest edited by Gaurav Desai (English/African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University). Our aim is to reflect on the hurricane, the measures that could have been taken to prevent the massive devastation caused by it and the immediate and long term response by the government, private industry and civil society. How has Katrina left a permanent mark not only on the Gulf South, but also on our larger national imaginary? What lessons, if any, have we learnt and what actions and policies have we adopted to better mitigate against future disasters?

CFP: Comics and the American Southwest and Borderland
The editors of Comics and the American Southwest and Borderlands seek chapter submissions for this collection. We hope the collection accomplishes for the Southwest and Border region what Costello and Whitted's Comics and the U.S. South achieved for that region and Southern studies via mining, creating, and illuminating the intersections of comics scholarship and academic writing on the Southwestern United States, the U.S-Mexico border, and their literatures, identities, and cultures.
Submissions might consider:
* The impact of comics creators from the Southwest or Border region.

Call for Papers: "Pennsylvania and American Modernist Poetry" 45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA); 3-6 April 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University