Call for papers:

Proposed Collection of Essays:

Rock-and-Roll and American Fiction

In the same vein as critical works that examine the influence/connections
between jazz/blues/classical music and literature, this collection seeks
essays that concern rock-and-roll and American fiction.

In particular, we are interested in essays that address the following:

1) Is there a shared form between rock and American fiction (short
fiction or novels)?

2) Are there thematic connections between rock and American fiction?

CALL FOR PAPERS

An International Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion =
(COV&R)

July 6-10, 2005

Koblenz, Germany

=20

MIMETIC THEORY

 AND THE

IMITATION OF THE DIVINE

=20

Call for Reviews - Iraq War Culture
Bad Subjects
Issued: October 25, 2004
Deadline: Open

Bad Subjects is issuing an open call for review essays of 1000-3000 words dealing with the cultural landscape created by the Iraq War. We are interested in essays that examine cultural products (art, film/video, photography, writing, music, theater, dance, software) or public-sphere phenomena (protests, political events, media coverage, educational projects, public reports, law) that respond to the war and its social environment.

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

Deadline extended:

UPDATE: The Storytelling Genius of Elie Weisel
(collection)

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).