The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution is a
reference work about prostitution past and present,
both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United
States to be published by Greenwood Press. With
approximately 600 entries on health, cultural issues,
migration, boom towns, legislation, technology,
literature, movies, and more, this three-volume
encyclopedia promises to be a foremost resource
devoted to this high-interest yet sensitive topic.

Entries related to literature which remain unassigned
include:

African Literature

American Literature

Colette

English Literature

Fallen Woman trope

Fanny Hill

French Literature

Literature

Hotel: Critical Review / Revue Critique, an undergraduate journal of
literary
and cultural studies based at McGill University, is calling for papers for
its
Spring 2005 issue. We are looking for critical writing from undergraduates
on
any subject having to do with literature, culture, and the arts for a
non-specialist readership. We are especially interested in essays that take
interdisciplinary or unusual approaches to cultural issues while using
lively
language and formats. For more information about the journal, and to
download
our most recent issue, please see our website:

CFP: Anne Hébert: Essays On Her Work

Guernica Editions will be publishing a book on Québecois author Anne
Hébert for their Writers Series in 2006. New essays on any aspect of
Hébert's work are being solicited for the publication. Particular
preference will be given to studies that include more than one of
Hébert's works, or that focus on her later publications (Poèmes pour
la main gauche, Aurélien, Clara, Mademoiselle, et le Lieutenant
anglais, Un habit de lumière, Est-ce que je te derange?). All essays
will be published in English, but French submission are welcome, and
if accepted will be translated by the editor.

UPDATE: This call has been expanded to include teaching both novels and
short fiction.

Academic Exchange Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal appearing in print and
electronic format, will include in its Spring 2005 issue a special focus on
Teaching the Novel and Short Fiction. Literature and creative writing
instructors at all levels (universities, community colleges, and high
schools) are invited to submit manuscripts to the journal.

To be considered for the Spring 2005 issue, please submit your manuscript of
2,500 to 3,000 words by November 30, 2004. (Publication in later issues is
also a possibility.) Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review.

Distributed Aesthetics =96 Call for Papers for fibreculture journal,=20
issue to be published May 2005

It has been widely argued by sociologists, cultural and media theorists=20=

such as Manuel Castells, Arjun Appardurai and Geert Lovink that we now=20=

live in a landscape shaped by the flows and traffic of globally=20
networked information. We have become, in Castells words, a =91networked=20=

society=92 and our cultural, social and economic practices must operate=20=

within this global space of flows. The geography of place and history=20
in which association through physical proximity and tradition such as=20
neighbourhood, or through identification based upon race, class or sex,=20=

New deadline:

The online journal Invisible Culture
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html is seeking
papers for an upcoming issue on the theme of nature loving.=20

The online journal Invisible Culture
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html is seeking
papers for an upcoming issue on the theme of nature loving.=20

THE UPSTART CROW: A SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL

Call for Papers: "SHAKESPEARE'S JESTS AND JESTERS"

The Upstart Crow is currently accepting submissions for Volume XXIV
(2004), on "Shakespeare's Jests and Jesters." Diverse critical approaches
to this subject are welcome, especially performance-based, historical, and
theoretical methodologies. Relevant topics might include, but are not
limited to:

•the stage and performance history of jesters in Shakespeare's theater

•early modern actors who played jests and jesters

•modern and contemporary performance history of jests and jesters

•jest books and other sources for Shakespeare

•early modern royal and court jesters

Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance

Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

We seek papers for a special issue of _Tamkang Review: A Quarterly of
Comparative Studies Between Chinese and Foreign Literatures_ on any
aspect of the Qing Dynasty novel Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber
or Story of the Stone).

Essays must be in English, at least 15 pages in length, and should be
formatted according to the MLA Handbook stylesheet. Electronic
submissions are accepted as MS Word attachments. Alternately, two
double-spaced copies of the work and a disk may be submitted to the
address below.

Submissions should be sent by May 15, 2005.

Mark Ferrara, Ph.D.
Department of English
Drake University
Des Moines, IA 50311

I am editing a two-volume work entitled <u>A Feminist Encyclopedia of African
American Literature</u>, under contract with Greenwood Press, and need
to reassign several entries.&nbsp; I am looking for scholars who can write
jargon-free, feminist-focused short pieces.
<p>Contributors must be able to meet the October 31, 2004 deadline.
<p>Please reply via e-mail ASAP if you are interested in taking on one
or more of the following entries.&nbsp; Include your mailing address, as
Greenwood will issue contracts, and each contributor will receive, as compensation,
a copy of the work upon completion.
<p>Thank you!
<p>Betsy Beaulieu

Call for Publication
Collection: Non-Traditional Approaches to Teaching English Studies

This collection addresses a disjunction between the content taught in
English Studies and the theory and practice used to teach this content.
While the canon wars will always rage, non-traditional content based on
race, gender, imperialism, and class has become an expected aspect of the
literatures read and discussed in English classrooms; however while
questions of gender, class, and race have become central aspects of what we
teach, by-and-large how we teach in the English classroom remains firmly
rooted in traditional Western rhetorics and hermeneutics.

Call For Papers

"Postmodern Bluebeard"

Seeking previously unpublished articles for a critical collection of essays on the literary, creative and pedagogical uses of the Bluebeard legend. We invite a wide range of possible approaches, including historical, cultural, feminist, queer, film and literary.

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This door you might not open and you did

So enter now and see for what slight thing

You are betrayed . . . here is no treasure hid

No cauldron, no clear crystal mirroring

The sought for truth, no heads of women slain

For greed like yours, no writings of distress

But only what you see, look yet again.