Contributors sought to write remaining unassigned entries on poets and topics for the forthcoming Companion to Twentieth Century British poetry, a reference book for high school and college students. The book involves about 400 entries, varying in length from 300-2000 words per entry. All entries will carry the author's name. Remaining entries include poems by Eavan Boland, Ted Hughes, and D.H. Lawrence. If you are interested in writing for this book and would like to see the list of available entries, please contact Rob Watson, Associate Professor of English at Grnad Valley State University, at watsonr_at_gvsu.edu.

The Horror area of the Mid Atlantic American/Popular Culture Conference, October 27-29, 2006 in Baltimore MD welcomes proposals for papers dealing with all aspects of horror and the supernatural in various genres, such as literature, film, television, music and as part of popular culture (fashion, artifacts, attitudes, etc.)

If you are interested in proposing a paper, please contact L.M. Miller or A. Schopp at the addresses below. ALL PROPOSALS ARE DUE BY JUNE 15, 2006. Proposals should be 250-300 word abstracts. Please indicate if you are proposing papers to more than one are. MAPACA rules stipulate that you may only present one paper at the conference.

L.M. Miller
118 Third Place
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

May 12, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has extended the
submissions deadline for its seminar on "Pleasures of the Imagination in
Science Fiction," which is part of the 2006 ALSC Conference Program.

The submissions deadline for this seminar has been extended to June30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars

Correspondences: The Theory and Practice of American Letters, 1620-1860=20

=20

Correspondences: The Theory and Practice of American Letters, 1620-1860=20

=20

Deadline extension for submission of abstracts/proposals: 15 July 2006.

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CEA 2007 CFP -- Special Sessions

College English Association National Conference: "Empathy and Ethics,"
New Orleans, LA, March 29-31, 2007

Deadline for all proposals: October 15, 2006

I am coordinating a set of panels on the topic of "Self and Other:
Defining, Constructing, and Representing Relationships through Empathy
and Ethics," for the 2007 National College English Association Annual
Conference. We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that
address the ways in which relationships build on, negotiate, and/or lack
a framework of empathy and ethics between oneself and others.

CEA 2007 CFP -- Special Sessions

College English Association National Conference: "Empathy and Ethics,"
New Orleans, LA, March 29-31, 2007

Deadline for all proposals: October 15, 2006

I am coordinating a set of panels on the topic of "Self and Other:
Defining, Constructing, and Representing Relationships through Empathy
and Ethics," for the 2007 National College English Association Annual
Conference. We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that
address the ways in which relationships build on, negotiate, and/or lack
a framework of empathy and ethics between oneself and others.

Call for Papers

Critical Survey: Special Edition on 'Nineteenth-Century Literary Masculinities'

Submissions are required for a special edition of the journal Critical
Survey on 'Nineteenth-Century Literary Masculinities' to be published
Winter 2007. Contributors many consider any aspect of nineteenth-century
masculinity as it is represented in literary works, including:

Romantic Masculinities
The Byronic hero
Masculinity and industrialisation
The gentleman figure
Education
The dandy figure
Masculinity and war
Masculinity and imperialism
Masculinity and class
Sexuality

Call for Papers

Critical Survey: Special Edition on 'Nineteenth-Century Literary Masculinities'

Submissions are required for a special edition of the journal Critical
Survey on 'Nineteenth-Century Literary Masculinities' to be published
Winter 2007. Contributors many consider any aspect of nineteenth-century
masculinity as it is represented in literary works, including:

Romantic Masculinities
The Byronic hero
Masculinity and industrialisation
The gentleman figure
Education
The dandy figure
Masculinity and war
Masculinity and imperialism
Masculinity and class
Sexuality

The War area of the Mid Atlantic Popular/American Culture Conference, October 27-29, 2006 in Baltimore MD is soliciting paper proposals.
War has been waged throughout history for good reason and for no reason. This area seeks papers that explore the various ways war has impacted upon social, economic, technological, ideological and other aspects of culture.
Special Topic for 2006: Popular Visions of the War on Terror

Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Celtic Nations

Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Celtic Nations

VIII SAAS Conference. La Coruña, Spain March 2007

Call for papers

The 2007 SAAS Conference (Spanish Association for American Studies) will be
held in La Coruña, Spain, in Spring, 28-30 March 2007. Under the theme
"American Secrets: The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in American Culture",
 the Program Committee invites colleagues to submit proposals for individual
papers, on diverse aspects of this topic, within the following proposed
panels: