C A L L A L O O

AFRO-DIASPORIC CINEMA
Callaloo seeks papers for a special issue on "Afro-Diasporic Cinema" to be
published in 2006. In addition to innovative, interdisciplinary, historically
informed, aesthetic analyses of film, television, video and digitial art
throughout the diaspora, Callaloo welcomes the submission of screenplays,
scenarios, interviews and images thatdocument black cinematic practices,
broadly conceived.

CFP: "Gender Roomours": gender and space
(deadline: 9/15/2005, essays and reviews for journal)
Publication: December 2005
Editor: Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier
The online journal "gender forum" (www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de), affiliated
at the University of Cologne, Germany, invites scholars to contribute
target articles and reviews to its upcoming issue on gender and space.
Target articles should conform to the MLA style sheet (Joseph Gibaldi, MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th ed. New York: The Modern
Language Association of America, 1999) and should not exceed 8,000 words.

Colloquy journal is seeking submissions for the general issue in 2005. Deadline for submissions is 15 January 2005.

Colloquy publishes articles and reviews by current postgraduates and recent doctoral graduates working in the areas of literary and cultural studies, continental philosophy and visual culture, performance and translation studies.

All work is refereed by academics working in appropriate fields for assessment to ensure the originality and currency of the journal and to maintain a high standard of critical writing.

>From Tromeo and Juliet to Romeo + Juliet, from Throne of Blood to Chimes at
Midnight, this privately funded collection slated for publication early 2006
is seeking articles of 5-10,000 words on non-traditional screen adaptations
of Shakespeare's plays. Articles that situate a film with regard to
adaptation theory are particularly encouraged, should be according to APA
style and sent to Peter Graham, Editor, Shakey Films. Email;
shakeyfilms_at_hotmail.com

Annulling Gender: The Legacy of Monique Wittig

Call for Papers (Graduate Students)

THE PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGINARY: SEX, VIOLENCE, COMMERCE, CULTURE

Green Letters 7: The Future of Ecocriticism

deadline for submissions: 1 February 2005

Green Letters, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of
Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces
between humans and the natural and built environment. Articles are invited
for our spring 2005 edition focusing on 'ecocriticism'.

NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) awards an annual prize to the best graduate student paper presented at any of the conventions sections. The winning paper, as determined by a committee of peers, is published in the NEMLA journal Modern Language Studies.

The submission deadline for the 2005 Graduate Student Caucus Paper Prize is December 16, 2004. Graduate Students who presented papers at the 2004 Convention in Pittsburgh are invited to send 20-25 page versions of those essays to Darcie Rives, preferably by email, rivesdd_at_yahoo.com, or by "snail mail" to Darcie Rives, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 331 Andrews Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0333. Please address questions to rivesdd_at_yahoo.com.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE

Call for Contributions in Approaches series

For the series Approaches to Teaching World Literature, the MLA
Publications Committee has approved development of

· Bonnie D. Irwin, ed., Approaches to Teaching the One Thousand and
One Nights

If you wish to contribute, please send your name and mailing address to
Jeremy George at the MLA office (jgeorge_at_mla.org; fax: 646-458-0030) or to
Bonnie Irwin at Eastern Illinois University (bdirwin_at_eiu.edu; fax:
217-581-7222) by 15 November 2004.

Science Fiction: one universe?
Edited by Nick Heffernan and Lorna Jowett.

Having received preliminary interest from a publisher, we invite chapter
proposals or already completed essays for a collection focusing on the range
of different media within science fiction (film, television, literature,
comics/ graphic novels, computer games).

Deadline extended:

ATQ
Special Issue
The Woman Question

*Please Note: The deadline for submissions to Hotel for the 2005 issue =
has
been extended to November 15th, 2004.*

Call for Papers

Portals: A Journal of Comparative Literature is a graduate student
journal published by the Comparative Literature Association of San
Francisco State University.

Portals invites original, critical essay submissions that explore
comparative literary topics across cultural, regional, linguistic, and
temporal boundaries.

Papers should be in English. All citations in foreign languages must
be clearly translated in the body of the text and properly cited.
Papers should be no longer than 25 pages in 12 point font, and should
include be properly formatted and documented in MLA style.