Upcoming Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies

Graphic Narratives
Guest Editors: Marianne DeKoven and Hillary L. Chute

Deadline for Submission: 1 March 2006

This special issue seeks essays on book-length works composed in the medium of comics. The emergence of graphic narratives-also called "graphic novels"-combines a sophisticated and experimental awareness of form with a powerful political awareness of comics as a mass medium. The book publication of Art Spiegelman's _Maus: A Survivor's Tale_ brought graphic narratives to the academy; in the two decades since the publication of the first volume of Maus, the field of graphic narratives has expanded significantly.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Louisiana State University English Graduate Student Association (EGSA)
would like to announce its 16th Annual Mardi Gras Conference, February
10--11, 2006 in Baton Rouge, LA:

Text and the Provisionality of Meaning:
Theory into Action

Keynote Speaker: Terry Eagleton, Professor of Cultural Theory and the John
Rylands Fellow, The University of Manchester, England.
Selected Publications: Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983/1996), The
Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001), After Theory (2004)

?There can be no reflexive life without theory,? writes Terry Eagleton.
With this in mind, we are seeking papers that use theory to provide new
ideas and insights into human experience.

Peace Review is looking for Book Reviewers for each of its quarterly
issues. Our book reviews are generally short (usually 2000 words),
although we're also interested in book review essays (of two or more
books), which can run 3500 words. The reviews will appear in our
Recommended Book section, and thus we're looking for positive reviews
(although flaws should obviously also be mentioned, if appropriate).

Peace Review is also looking for books to review, in the general
category of peace and justice studies. If you have published a book,
and are looking for a review, then please send (or have your publisher
send) us a copy of the book.

For either of the above, please send to:

CFP: Science, Literature, and the Western American Imagination
Critical collection, MLA style, 6,000-7,000 words

(January 30th 2006 deadline for proposals; full articles due August 30th
2006)

CFP: Science, Literature, and the Western American Imagination
Critical collection, MLA style, 6,000-7,000 words

(January 30th 2006 deadline for proposals; full articles due August 30th
2006)

CFP: Science, Literature, and the Western American Imagination
Critical collection, MLA style, 6,000-7,000 words

(January 30th 2006 deadline for proposals; full articles due August 30th
2006)

Deadline extended:

NEMLA Convention: 2-5 March in Philadelphia.

I am currently seeking papers for the folowing panel:

Call For Submissions: Teaching Working-Class Studies

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SESSIONS, PANELS, PAPERS

AREA: MEMORY & REPRESENTATION

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS

2006 JOINT CONFERENCE

April 12-15, 2006

Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to:

http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2005

We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme,

special panels and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour

slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.

We invite papers on literature written by and/or about women for the Womens
Connection segment of the College English Association's 37th annual conference
meeting, 6-8 April 2006, San Antonio, Texas. Paper proposals should address
this year's conference theme: Regions (including but not limited to:
geographical regions, temporal regions, imaginary regions, political regions, cultural
regions, pedagogical regions).
 
Proposals should include the following information:
Name
Institutional Affiliation (if applicable)
Mailing Address (including zip code)
Phone number
Email address
Title for the proposed presentation
Abstract of no more than 500 words
A-V needs, if any

CEA invites proposals for presentations on book history, bibliography, textual
criticism, readership, authorship, print culture, and (especially) book history
pedagogy. We're meeting at the historic Saint Anthony's Hotel in San
Antonio, April 6-8, 2006.

Panels in book history and book history pedagogy are sponsored by Terry
Belanger and Rare Book School.

Since 1939, the College English Association has been a vibrant association of
scholar-teachers, committed to excellence in teaching and professional
development with 20 regional affiliates. Last year's conference with over 500
presentations in total, offered 5 panels on book history & textual criticism.

College English Association National Conference
April 6-8, 2006
San Antonio, Texas
We invite papers on "Regions and the Short Story" for the 37th annual
meeting of the CEA. Suggested topics for this panel include local color,
the theory of regionalism, and individual authors, stories, or collections
(American, British, Canadian, Australian, etc.) relevant to regionalism.
        Proposals should include the following information
        Name
        Institutional affiliation
        Mailing address, including zip code
        Phone number
        Email address
        Title for the proposed presentation
        Abstract of no more than 500 words

CFP: Emotional Sin: The Seven Deadly Passions in Medieval Literature (UK)
(9/23/05; Leeds; 7/10-13/06)

Deadline Extended!

Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress 2006, Leeds
Emotional Sin: The Seven Deadly Passions in Medieval Literature
Abstract Submission Deadline: 23 September, 2005

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute papers on the above subject to be
delivered at the Thirteenth International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK,
10-13 July 2006. See www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc2006/imc2006.htm for more
information.

PANEL PROPOSAL for THE NINTH ANNUAL RED RIVER CONFERENCE ON WORLD
LITERATURE

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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APRIL 21, 22, 23 2006

NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA

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Television Nation: Cultural complexities of popular narrative

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