Writing the Queer Self: Sex, Gender, and the Creation of Space in Queer
Life Writing
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This panel seeks to examine the roles that the inclusion of queer sex and
gender non-conformity in LGBT autobiographies, diaries, and memoirs play in
creating a unique rhetorical space for queer bodies. Additionally, this
panel will look at the ways that specifically queer life writing alters the
landscapes of literary biographies of LGBT authors, and the interpretations
of their works. Possible topics might include a reading of place that quee=
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sex holds in Joe Orton=B9s diaries, his creation of a hyper-masculine and
hyper-sexual persona, and how that influences John Lahr=B9s biography, and

Call for Papers: Third Annual English Graduate Organization Conference:
"Representations of Indigenous Identity: Constructions of Authenticity"

November 10-11, 2006, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Loudon, Eastern Illinois University.

Call for Papers: Third Annual English Graduate Organization Conference:
"Representations of Indigenous Identity: Constructions of Authenticity"

November 10-11, 2006, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Loudon, Eastern Illinois University.

UPDATE: The deadline for abstracts, which was omitted from the original =
call, is Sept. 15, 2006.

Call for Papers
38th Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

UPDATE: The deadline for abstracts, which was omitted from the original =
call, is Sept. 15, 2006.

Call for Papers
38th Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

CFP: Robinson Jeffers and the Visual Arts--Special Issue of Jeffers Studies
(9/1/06)

CFP: Robinson Jeffers and the Visual Arts--Special Issue of Jeffers Studies
(9/1/06)

        
eSharp: electronic social sciences, humanities
and arts review for postgraduates

CALL FOR PAPERS

eSharp is the online journal for social sciences, arts and humanities postgraduates based at the University of Glasgow. It is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide a critical but supportive entry into the world of academic publishing.

The first seven issues are currently online at www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk and we are now looking for submissions for the eighth edition to be launched in November 2006. We welcome papers from postgraduates working in all areas.

The theme of the eighth edition is:

Un/Worldly Bodies

February 22-24, 2007. Questioning Colonialism. The Sixteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Miami invites abstracts for papers on topics dealing with colonization and its aftermath in the Americas, Africa, the Mideast, and the Far East. Topics may include indigenous cultures and their reaction to colonization; navigation; cartography; visual and literary representations of the colonized and the colonizing; the transformation of European world views; and the effects of empire in North and South America. We welcome a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches.

February 22-24, 2007. Questioning Colonialism. The Sixteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Miami invites abstracts for papers on topics dealing with colonization and its aftermath in the Americas, Africa, the Mideast, and the Far East. Topics may include indigenous cultures and their reaction to colonization; navigation; cartography; visual and literary representations of the colonized and the colonizing; the transformation of European world views; and the effects of empire in North and South America. We welcome a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches.

*First International Conference "Body and Textuality"
Telling Bodies: Practices, Discourses, Looks
*Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
26-30 March, 2007

I am under contract with Greenwood Press to edit a three-volume, 600,000 word encyclopedia entitled 'LGBTQ America Today.' If you think you might be interested in contributing an entry or entries, please contact me and I will forward to you the full description, including the lengthy proposed table of contents that indicates the words allotted to each entry. I am setting a somewhat arbitrary deadline of Halloween for delivery of first drafts, principally as a sure-fire jog to the memory. Contributors are encouraged to finish well before that (on the other hand, a bit more time may be available if one's workload has become oppressive).

I am under contract with Greenwood Press to edit a three-volume, 600,000 word encyclopedia entitled 'LGBTQ America Today.' If you think you might be interested in contributing an entry or entries, please contact me and I will forward to you the full description, including the lengthy proposed table of contents that indicates the words allotted to each entry. I am setting a somewhat arbitrary deadline of Halloween for delivery of first drafts, principally as a sure-fire jog to the memory. Contributors are encouraged to finish well before that (on the other hand, a bit more time may be available if one's workload has become oppressive).

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

Call for Submissions

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.