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CFP: Early Modern Academic Drama (3/7/05; collection)

updated: 
Friday, January 28, 2005 - 8:47pm
jawalker_at_pdx.edu

Seeking proposals for a collection of essays provisionally titled _Early Modern
Academic Drama: Text, History, Performance_. The editors are looking for four
critical essays to fill out the roughly ten-essay volume: the other essays are
currently at the revision stage and we anticipate shopping the completed ms. by
August 2005. We would therefore prefer proposals on articles that are either
already drafted or in progress.

CFP: Early Modern Academic Drama (3/7/05; collection)

updated: 
Friday, January 28, 2005 - 8:47pm
jawalker_at_pdx.edu

Seeking proposals for a collection of essays provisionally titled _Early Modern
Academic Drama: Text, History, Performance_. The editors are looking for four
critical essays to fill out the roughly ten-essay volume: the other essays are
currently at the revision stage and we anticipate shopping the completed ms. by
August 2005. We would therefore prefer proposals on articles that are either
already drafted or in progress.

CFP: Fashion as Photograph: A Collection of Critical Essays and Commentaries on Fashion Photography (3/31/05; collection)

updated: 
Friday, January 28, 2005 - 8:47pm
eugenie

Fashion as Photograph ­ call for papers

A collection of critical essays and commentaries on fashion photography.

Critical interest in fashion has grown in recent years, with scholars and
critics in a variety of fields engaging fashion as a culturally and
historically significant phenomenon, examining it in relation to art, mass
culture, spectacle and self-identity, consumption, performance, politics,
and lifestyle.

CFP: Nigerian Poetry (4/30/05; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, January 28, 2005 - 8:46pm
Gloria MT Emezue

NEW NIGERIAN POETRY JOURNAL

Poetry of the Last Two Decades

Following weeks of intensive deliberations and the decision of the IRCALC board to expand the scope and readership of the journal on new Nigerian poetry, the editorial board has approved three broad themes in the upcoming edition of the New Nigerian Poetry journal project.

The project will enjoy the initial sponsorship of Progeny International even as more participants are welcome to join the efforts to sustain the emerging virile national literatures of Africa.

CFP: Nigerian Poetry (4/30/05; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, January 28, 2005 - 8:46pm
Gloria MT Emezue

NEW NIGERIAN POETRY JOURNAL

Poetry of the Last Two Decades

Following weeks of intensive deliberations and the decision of the IRCALC board to expand the scope and readership of the journal on new Nigerian poetry, the editorial board has approved three broad themes in the upcoming edition of the New Nigerian Poetry journal project.

The project will enjoy the initial sponsorship of Progeny International even as more participants are welcome to join the efforts to sustain the emerging virile national literatures of Africa.

CFP: Race, Nation and the Humanities (undergrad) (2/28/05; no conference dates noted)

updated: 
Friday, January 28, 2005 - 8:46pm
Bonnie Roos

Dear All,

Apologies for cross-listing . . . but please forward to relevant =
listserves

CALL FOR PAPERS

Austin College welcomes abstracts from undergraduates in any field, on =
any topic related to Race and/or Nationalism, especially in the =
Humanities. We are also in search of undergraduate artists to present =
and perform their work for this conference.=20

Please contribute your work and join us for this exciting event!

CFP: Race, Nation and the Humanities (undergrad) (2/28/05; no conference dates noted)

updated: 
Friday, January 28, 2005 - 8:46pm
Bonnie Roos

Dear All,

Apologies for cross-listing . . . but please forward to relevant =
listserves

CALL FOR PAPERS

Austin College welcomes abstracts from undergraduates in any field, on =
any topic related to Race and/or Nationalism, especially in the =
Humanities. We are also in search of undergraduate artists to present =
and perform their work for this conference.=20

Please contribute your work and join us for this exciting event!

CFP: Race, Nation and the Humanities (undergrad) (2/28/05; no conference dates noted)

updated: 
Friday, January 28, 2005 - 8:46pm
Bonnie Roos

Dear All,

Apologies for cross-listing . . . but please forward to relevant =
listserves

CALL FOR PAPERS

Austin College welcomes abstracts from undergraduates in any field, on =
any topic related to Race and/or Nationalism, especially in the =
Humanities. We are also in search of undergraduate artists to present =
and perform their work for this conference.=20

Please contribute your work and join us for this exciting event!

CFP: Pacific Coast Philology: History of the Book (3/1/05; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:43am
Clegg, Cyndia

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

SPECIAL ISSUE OF PACIFIC COAST PHILOLOGY:

 

LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK

 

 

PAMLA's journal, Pacific Coast Philology, will publish a special issue on
literature and the history of the book. Papers are invited on literary
relationships to aspects of print and manuscript culture. Topics include,
but are not limited to, reading practices, relations between writers and
publishers, the material book, publishing practices, authorship, censorship,
textual transmission, relationships between oral culture and the cultures of
writing and print, literature in the electronic age.

 

Please send inquiries and submissions to

 

CFP: EAPSU Online: Journal of Critical and Creative Work (4/1/05; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:43am
Kim Martin Long

Call for Submissions

EAPSU ONLINE: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work, published by the =
English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, welcomes =
submissions from any area of English studies: literature, writing, film, =
cultural studies, English education, or any other area of interest. =
These may be critical or pedagogical articles, but they should not have =
been published elsewhere.

Suggested length: 1500-3000 words. Deadline: April 1, 2005

We also welcome submissions of original poetry, fiction, creative =
nonfiction, or other forms of creative work.

CFP: Pedagogy and Issues in the Profession (ongoing; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:43am
Winans, Amy

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language
Association, is currently seeking essays addressing pedagogy and/or current
issues in the profession. Essays may address pedagogical theory, practical
teaching strategies, faculty/student collaboration, curriculum development,
information technology, small college/research university dynamics,
institutional politics, graduate and faculty unionization, part-time
faculty, tenure and promotion, the legal reverberations of affirmation
action, academia and the "two-body" problem, and other related topics.
Essays typically range in length from 1250-7000 words. Through 2-28-05, we

CFP: Pedagogy and Issues in the Profession (ongoing; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:43am
Winans, Amy

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language
Association, is currently seeking essays addressing pedagogy and/or current
issues in the profession. Essays may address pedagogical theory, practical
teaching strategies, faculty/student collaboration, curriculum development,
information technology, small college/research university dynamics,
institutional politics, graduate and faculty unionization, part-time
faculty, tenure and promotion, the legal reverberations of affirmation
action, academia and the "two-body" problem, and other related topics.
Essays typically range in length from 1250-7000 words. Through 2-28-05, we

CFP: Some Machines of Pataphysics (6/20/05; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:43am
cal clements

Pataphysica announces an upcoming third issue on pataphysical
machines. We will print selected critical and artistic works. We
invite the pataphysical writing of scholars in the following
fields: alchemy, Alfred Jarry, Contraptionalism, cybernetics,
dada, Fernando Pessoa, Flann O'Brien, Gilles Deleuze, Jean
Tinguely, machine-produced art, Marcel Duchamp, Oulipo,
puppetry, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, and such. Contemporary
artists and poets may submit textual machines, diagrams, and
descriptions of works in progress. Articles and works must
directly relate to pataphysics for inclusion. Deadline for
submission: June 20, 2005. Send all proposals to Dr. Cal

CFP: Narrative as a Way of Thinking (12/31/05; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:42am
Partial Answers

PARTIAL ANSWERS: JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS,
winner of the CELJ "Best New Journal of 2004" award,
invites papers on the following subject:
Narrative as a Way of Thinking

In current usage the word =93narrative=94 means either a sequence of
events, where =93an event=94 is understood as a change from one state to
another, or as a representation of such a sequence in a visual or verbal
medium. In each of the two meanings, narrative is constructed: the
selection of events and their combination in a sequence is an act of
thought, whether expressive of a conceptual stance or developing and
adjusting one in the process.

CFP: AnaChronisT: All topics (4/4/05, journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:42am
The AnaChronisT

The AnaChronisT,

a peer-reviewed yearbook published by the Department of English Studies,
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary,

invites research papers, interviews, and book reviews on literatures in
English for its next issue, to be published in December 2005. All topics
acceptable. Papers are to be submitted by Monday, 4 April 2005.

The AnaChronisT welcomes submissions by graduate and doctoral students as
well as academics. The requirements of application are as follows:

- the text in Word or RTF document format sent to the following e-mail
address: anachronist_at_freemail.hu (your paper should not exceed 10,000 words,
including footnotes);

CFP: Coldness and Cruelty (3/31/05; e-journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 4:42am
kanex_at_sixgallerypress.com

The new online journal, Critical Mass: Journal of Theory and Fiction, is
inviting abstracts or entire manuscripts of theory, fiction, or hybrids of
the two, on the following two themes: coldness and cruelty. Submissions must
be received no later than 03/31/05 to be considered by the editorial board.
Submissions should not exceed 3000 words, and the subject line should read
"Submission: CM-Coldness" or "Submission: CM-Cruelty". Submissions should
also be accompanied by a brief bio and should not be under consideration
elsewhere. Successful candidates will be notified by about mid April. This
is an open call to students, faculty and writers. If you would like to

CFP: Domestic Needlework in the Italian Diaspora (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 7:48pm
Edvige Giunta

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The editors of "Biancheria: Domestic Needlework in the Italian Diaspora" are
still accepting submissions on the domestic needlework of women from the
Italian diaspora. We are especially looking for creative works and scholarly
proposals from writers/artists and scholars outside the US.

This interdisciplinary anthology [JS1] will include articles by scholars in
the humanities and the social sciences (anthropology, art history, cultural
studies, folkloristics, history) as well as creative work (memoir, poetry,
fiction, photo-essays).

CFP: Domestic Needlework in the Italian Diaspora (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 7:48pm
Edvige Giunta

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The editors of "Biancheria: Domestic Needlework in the Italian Diaspora" are
still accepting submissions on the domestic needlework of women from the
Italian diaspora. We are especially looking for creative works and scholarly
proposals from writers/artists and scholars outside the US.

This interdisciplinary anthology [JS1] will include articles by scholars in
the humanities and the social sciences (anthropology, art history, cultural
studies, folkloristics, history) as well as creative work (memoir, poetry,
fiction, photo-essays).

CFP: The McNeese Review: Humanities Journal (no deadline; journal)

updated: 
Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 7:47pm
BlevinsJake_at_aol.com

The McNeese Review (Humanities Journal)
Call For Papers

As the incoming editor of The McNeese Review, I am inviting scholars in appropriate disciplines to submit articles for upcoming issues of the journal. The McNeese Review has been published since 1948 and serves as a forum for articles and essays in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The editorial policies of The McNeese Review are formulated and supervised by an Advisory Board comprised of faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at McNeese State University.

CFP: Contemporary American Jewish Authors (12/10/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2005 - 1:48am
Avery, Evelyn

          

         CFP: Studies in American Jewish literature Journal(12/10/06; annual issue); General Ed. Daniel Walden
             
         Topic: Contemporary American Jewish Authors and their Response to Judaism.

            With few exceptions Jewish American authors of the 20th Century have generally avoided religious themes
         
         and opted instead to focus on problems of immigrants, assimilation, or ethnicity. However in the last decade or
     
         so, new voices, such as that of Nathan Englander, Myla Goldberg, Naama Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, Dara Horn,

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