Abstracts are requested for a proposed special session on W. J. Cash and the
idea of progress for the South Atlantic Modern Language Association
conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 10-12, 2006.

Author of The Mind of the South (1940), Cash launched an iconoclastic attack
on the New South's infatuation with progress and economic development. The
papers on this panel will look back on Cash's impact on southern culture and
his influence on the literature of the U.S. South. Topics might include
contemporary representations of the man in the middle, the cult of
gyneolatry since the feminist movement, and the emergence of the Sunbelt.

Updated Call for Papers: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSE special issue on John
Ruskin

NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSE seeks essays on John Ruskin for a special issue
for Fall 2007. Articles of any critical approach are of interest.

Inquiries are welcome. Please send your completed essay of 20-25 pages by
March 31, 2006 to guest editor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman at the address
below. Essays should follow MLA style.

Dr. Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Associate Professor of English
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5001
enwelt_at_lsu.edu
225-578-2857

Call for Papers
South Central Modern Language Association
Fort Worth 2006 - "Cultural Roundup"
 
"Culture in Nineteenth-Century British Literature"
 
The Nineteenth-Century British Literature Division of the SCMLA invites paper proposals for the 2006 meeting to be held October 26-28 in Fort Worth, Texas. In keeping with the conference theme "Cultural Roundup," this panel welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of culture, broadly construed. Topics might include, but are not limited to, literary aspects of "high" culture (art, music, fashion) or "low" culture (music halls, penny dreadfuls, street fairs) or sites of intersection.
 

Here are the Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing topics
for the 2006 MLA Convention. Please send your proposal to the person
chairing the session; you can submit to more than one session, although if
you're selected for both, I assume you'd be asked to choose one.
If your paper is accepted, you will have to become a member of the MLA by
April 1.
Craig Howes

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NOTE: NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
The newly-formed Reception Study Association (RSA) will be sponsoring a
panel at the American Literature Association¹s 17th annual conference at the
Hyatt Regency San Francisco May 25-28, 2006.
³Working With ŒReal Readers¹: Case Studies and Methodological Challenges in
American Literature.² This panel will contemplate the definition of ³real
readers² as we work toward an interdisciplinary understanding of the work of
reception study in the American context. We invite both individual case
studies of reception and discussions of the particular issues confronting
the scholar of historical or contemporary reception of American literature.

The Second Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK) on April 12th and 13th, 2006.
Graduate papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of death and resurrection in the middle ages and the early modern period.
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields such as history of art, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send 250 word abstracts in the body of your email (no attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by March 1 2006.

Suggested themes might include:-

The Second Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK) on April 12th and 13th, 2006.
Graduate papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of death and resurrection in the middle ages and the early modern period.
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields such as history of art, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send 250 word abstracts in the body of your email (no attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by March 1 2006.

Suggested themes might include:-

The Second Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK) on April 12th and 13th, 2006.
Graduate papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of death and resurrection in the middle ages and the early modern period.
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields such as history of art, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send 250 word abstracts in the body of your email (no attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by March 1 2006.

Suggested themes might include:-

CALL FOR PAPERS: EnterText Volume 6 number 2

Wuxia Fictions: Chinese Martial Arts in Film, Literature and Beyond

Guest Editor: Leon Hunt, Film and TV Studies, Brunel University

Submissions for this edition are invited by 1 May 2006. With the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and House of Flying Daggers, the wuxia (Martial Chivalry/Martial Arts) genre has attracted a new wave of critical attention. This issue seeks to examine wuxia fictions in a range of contexts (national, regional, transnational) and across a range of media. Topics might include:

· developments in and aesthetics of fight choreography

· wuxia and authorship in literature and film

The deadline for submissions has changed from 01/15/06 to 01/31/06.

Call for Papers

"A Certain Difficulty of Being" in 2006: Comparing and Translating the
Literatures of Canada and Québec
7th Annual Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Student Conference
in collaboration with
Le Groupe de recherche sur l'édition littéraire au Québec (GRÉLQ)
Le groupe Bibliographie d'études comparées des littératures canadienne,
québécoise et étrangères.

Thursday March 30, 2006
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

The deadline for submissions has changed from 01/15/06 to 01/31/06.

Call for Papers

"A Certain Difficulty of Being" in 2006: Comparing and Translating the
Literatures of Canada and Québec
7th Annual Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Student Conference
in collaboration with
Le Groupe de recherche sur l'édition littéraire au Québec (GRÉLQ)
Le groupe Bibliographie d'études comparées des littératures canadienne,
québécoise et étrangères.

Thursday March 30, 2006
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Konigsberg Review
www.konigsbergreview.com

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia,
December 2006:

Cyphernetics: Signs, Codes, Texts
Organizer: Arielle Saiber
CFP: Papers on any aspect of information technology, digital models,
encoding, decoding, semiotics, new paradigms of expression and
communication. Abstracts by March 15 to Arielle Saiber,
asaiber_at_bowdoin.edu.

CFP: MLA 2006 Special Session: Postmemorable Relationships