Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture is
dedicated to publishing exceptional American Studies scholarship and
American creative writing.

With this second mission in mind, we invite submissions to our literary
publication, Review Americana.

Please visit the review at http://www.americanpopularculture.com to see the
kind of material we are interested in publishing.

If you would like to submit to Review Americana: A Literary Journal, send an
explanatory email that includes your name, contact information, and
pertinent biographical details to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com. Attach
your submission to that email.

Call for Papers: Music and Politics

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA

February 14-17, 2007

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

The SW/TEX PCA/ACA annual conference represents one of the nation's largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars, with a particular interest in critical examinations of non-traditional or cross-disciplinary topics.

The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

Abstracts are now being accepted for a session at the 2007 International
Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan:

Wild Space in Medieval Romance

Investigating the Middlebrow
One-Day Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 23rd June 2007

middlebrow, n. and a.
colloq. Freq. derogatory.

CFP: DoubleTake/Points of Entry call for book reviews on narrative/literary journalism and documentary
 

The recently merged journal DoubleTake/Points of Entry seeks book reviews on an ongoing basis.

Submission guidelines:

Call for Papers

Computers & Composition: An International Journal invites contributions for a
special issue, Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
March 8-11, 2007
Chicago, IL

Complexity Theory and Cultural Artifacts Papers are sought which apply
scholarship from the growing field of Complexity Studies (dealing with
emergence, cultural complexity, protocol, control, information,
technology, network theory) in their analysis of mediated texts. Of
particular interest are papers which address the role of complexity and
cultural artifacts in relation to multiculturalism, nationalism,
transnationalism, postcolonialism, or identity politics, as manifest
withinin (or in relation to) the public sphere.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
March 8-11, 2007
Chicago, IL

Complexity Theory and Cultural Artifacts Papers are sought which apply
scholarship from the growing field of Complexity Studies (dealing with
emergence, cultural complexity, protocol, control, information,
technology, network theory) in their analysis of mediated texts. Of
particular interest are papers which address the role of complexity and
cultural artifacts in relation to multiculturalism, nationalism,
transnationalism, postcolonialism, or identity politics, as manifest
withinin (or in relation to) the public sphere.

        The J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis panel of the Northeast
Modern Language Association addresses all aspects of the works and
lives of both authors. Recent interest in them invites examination
of their impact as men and writers on twentieth-century literature
and thought. Papers are also welcome that take as their subject film
adaptations of their fictions. Please send abstracts of about 200
words e-mail to Bill Mistichelli at wxm3_at_psu.edu

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 28th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
 
Panels are now forming on topics related to Experimental Writing and
Aesthetics in such areas as the aesthetics of experimental writing in
any genre or in multi-genre/multi-media works including digital and
graphic compositions involving language, the poetics of performance of
experimental compositions, critical studies of experimental writers,
etc.
 
Creative writers interested in the selective creative writing readings

CFP: Writing the Midwest (11/20/06; SSML; 5/10/07-5/12-07)
=20
Call for Creative Nonfiction
for special panels at the Symposium of the Society for the Study of =
Midwestern Literature

=20

Announcement and Call for Papers: The editors of Latino Boom: An =
Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature and LatinoStories.com are accepting: =
previously published scholarly essays, books, book reviews, and =
interviews that focus on U.S. Latino literature, to which contributors =
hold rights. The purpose of the project is to revive and keep alive =
scholarly and analytical works that were published in the past but may =
not be so easily accessible (e.g., the work is out of print or it may =
have been originally published for a limited audience). The editors =
will publish these works in LatinoStories.com and thus make these =
resources available to an international audience that includes faculty, =

Announcement and Call for Papers: The editors of Latino Boom: An =
Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature and LatinoStories.com are accepting: =
previously published scholarly essays, books, book reviews, and =
interviews that focus on U.S. Latino literature, to which contributors =
hold rights. The purpose of the project is to revive and keep alive =
scholarly and analytical works that were published in the past but may =
not be so easily accessible (e.g., the work is out of print or it may =
have been originally published for a limited audience). The editors =
will publish these works in LatinoStories.com and thus make these =
resources available to an international audience that includes faculty, =

Please post as follows:
 
CFP: Romanticism and the Child as Liberator (11/17/06; NASSR (UK)7/26/07)
  

This proposed session of the 2007 combined NASSR/BARS Conference at the University of Bristol invites a study of the child in Romantic literature as a liberator or symbol of liberty. How has the child been represented as one to liberate adults, the oppressed, the Other? How has the child been symbolized in this way differently by male and female writers? The theme of the conference is "Emancipation, Liberation, Freedom." Send 300-word abstracts by e-mail to Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd-Mercy College) at: chapin.L_at_gmc.edu by November 17, 2006.