Deadline Extended: 3/20/06

Original CFP Below:

Commensurate with Experience: Work and the Next
Generation of English Scholars
 
Citing findings from the National Center for
Educational Statistics (NCES), Louis Menand points out
in his 2005 contribution to MLA's _Profession_ that
between 1970 and 2001 the number of English majors has
dropped, roughly, by a third; however "the system is
producing the same number of doctorates in English
that it was producing back in 1970. These Ph.D.s have
trouble getting tenure-track jobs because fewer
students major in English, and therefore the demand
for English literature specialists has declined"
(12-13).

Deadline extended:

In an interview with Amnesty International , Chilean writer and activist Ariel Dorfman explains that, despite efforts to
silence survivors of human rights violations, "Somehow the stories do come out, those voices do come out. I am not their
voice: I make a space for those voices, a bridge." Dorfman's insights raise questions about the role of literature in the
struggle for human rights. How do writers represent often unspeakable crimes against humanity and create a cultural memory
that recognizes the forgotten or marginalized voices from the past? What does it mean to bear witness through literature?

The following is a CFP for a special session proposed for the 2006 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006:

The following is a CFP for a special session proposed for the 2006 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006:

CALL FOR PAPERS

2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, California, October 13-15 2006

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MEATJOURNAL.COM
DEADLINE: ONGOING

In the rush toward digital space, what often gets forgotten is the =20
"meat," the living, breathing, paying-bills bodies who write. =20
MEATJOURNAL.COM (ISSN 1549-4454) is a refereed online journal that, =20
among other things, explores issues of the body in popular culture. =20
We invite a wide array of submissions: scholarly articles, =20
interviews, essays, book reviews, and creative works (both word and =20
image). Past contributions have included an interview with author =20
Erika Lopez (Flaming Iguanas: An All-Girl Road Novel Thing), essays =20
by Will Banks and Barclay Barrios, visual art, music, and a holy host =20=

NOTE: Change of Date for Abstracts

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Imaginary Places: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film=20

(McFarland, 2006)

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Proposals and contributions are being sought for a chapter on dystopian=20

film in a commissioned edited collection of essays on dystopian =
literature=20

and film.

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Abstracts are required for a chapter on film provisionally called=20

'Nightmare Visions and Unaccountable Corporations: The Dystopian Sprawl =
of=20

Cyberpunk Dystopias'.

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If you would like to be considered for this collection send a 250 word=20

abstract to the editor, p.a.wheeler_at_herts.ac.uk by March 31st 2006.=20

2006 M/MLA Annual Convention
November 9-12, The Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois

Conference Theme: High/Low Culture

Proposed Special Session: "Popular Persuasions: The Rhetorics of
Identity in Popular Culture"

I am soliciting abstracts for a planned special session
submission for the 2006 Modern Language Association
convention in Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30.

I am soliciting abstracts for a planned special session
submission for the 2006 Modern Language Association
convention in Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30.

Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2006

Session Title: Christianity and Literature Allied Session
 
South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Dallas, Texas
Oct. 26-28, 2006.

http://www.ou.edu/scmla/

We invite submissions for the allied session on Christianity and
Literature.
The session will be an open topic; papers addressing any and all issues
pertaining to the intersections between literature and Christianity will

be considered. Paper topics may address a variety of issues, ideas
and/or authors from any time period and genre. Each paper should be
approximately 15 minutes' reading time.

CALL FOR PAPERS
(please forward)

2006 is the centenary of the birth of John Betjeman, Poet Laureate from
1972-84. To celebrate this event and to highlight the extensive holdings of
Betjeman's correspondence and manuscripts at the University of Victoria
(Canada), two panels on June 29th are dedicated to Betjeman and his milieu
in the "ON MIRACLE GROUND XIV" conference of the International Lawrence
Durrell Society (25-29 June 2006).

Papers that deal with any aspect of Betjeman's career or his engagement with
his contemporaries are welcome, though those with an archival or comparative
approach are particularly appropriate to the conference's general theme.

CALL FOR PAPERS

2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, California, October 13-15 2006

The deadline for abstracts has been extended until April 1st 2006.

I am seeking proposals for an edited collection tentatively entitled
"Brecht, Broadway, and American Theater" to be submitted to Cambridge
Scholars Press.