CFP: Various Topics: UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies London Summer
2007 Research Seminar Series (UK) (variable deadline; 06/13; 06/27;
07/11;07/25; 08/01).

UK Network London Summer 2007 Research Seminar Series Call for Papers

This series is co-convened for UKNMFS by Dr. Alex Murray (University College
London), Martyn Colebrooke (University of Hull), Steven Barfield (University
of Westminster), and Prof. Philip Tew (Brunel University). The UK Network
for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Seminar Series 2007 is to be held at 309
Regent Street, the University of Westminster, London, UK.

CFP: Various Topics: UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies London Summer
2007 Research Seminar Series (UK) (variable deadline; 06/13; 06/27;
07/11;07/25; 08/01).

UK Network London Summer 2007 Research Seminar Series Call for Papers

This series is co-convened for UKNMFS by Dr. Alex Murray (University College
London), Martyn Colebrooke (University of Hull), Steven Barfield (University
of Westminster), and Prof. Philip Tew (Brunel University). The UK Network
for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Seminar Series 2007 is to be held at 309
Regent Street, the University of Westminster, London, UK.

PLEASE NORE ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW ADDITIONAL PLENARY SPEAKERS, AND REVISED
METHOD OF PAYMENT FOR ACCOMMODATION

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Call for papers: the Sixth Biennial Conference in London of Symbiosis: A
Journal of Anglo-American Conference American Literary and Cultural =
Studies

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A Three-Day International Conference on All Areas of Anglo-American =
Literary
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Professor Ian F.A. Bell (Keele University) =91The Poundian Fourth =
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Call for Papers: Connection & Disconnection (Comparative Literature)
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), October 4-6, 2007
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Please submit 200-250 word abstracts
Deadline: March 1
to Yurika Tamura, yurika_at_email.arizona.edu.

We are seeking papers that explore sense of connection, disconnection,
identity and dislocation in literature from interdisciplinary perspective.
Topics suggested (but not limited to):

Transnationalism
Issues such as Gneder, Race and Class
Canonization
Post-colonialism
Forms/genres of literature (Blogs, letters, commercial website, etc.)

Special Topics Session: Beckett in Context

61st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association =

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=E2=80=9CWriting the Caribbean in the U.S.=E2=80=9D: How do writers of Car=
ibbean heritage,=20
who are located in the U.S., reconfigure =E2=80=9CCaribbean=E2=80=9D literat=
ure? Possible=20
topics: diaspora, linguistic crossings, disciplinary boundaries, shifting ra=
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and ethnic identities, responses to U.S. imperialism, native=20
spaces/informants, Caribbean writers and the U.S. academy. 1-page abstract a=
nd cv by 10 Mar.=20
to A. Shemak (aas004_at_shsu.edu)

Call for Papers: Teaching English
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), October 4-6, 2007
Calgary, Alberta, Canada at the Westin Calgary Hotel
Submit 300 word abstracts by March 1 to Breyan Strickler at bstrickler_at_rockford.edu.

We are now particularly seeking papers that address issues related to teaching with technology and how that helps shape a sense of community.

 
Breyan Strickler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Rockford College
113 Scarborough Building
5050 E. State Street
Rockford, IL 61108
E-mail: bstrickler_at_rockford.edu <mailto:bstrickler_at_rockford.edu>
Office Phone: (815) 226-4183
Office Fax: (815) 394-5171

Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Latino Community:

You are invited to submit poems, short stories, and scholarly work on
Latina/o Literature for a special Latina/o Issue of Pembroke Magazine that
will be guest edited by Liliana Wendorff and Richard Vela.

PLEASE ANNOUNCE

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association ~ RMMLA

Annual Convention in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

Calgary, Alberta ~ October 4-6, 2007

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Call for paper proposals!

SESSION: Literature for Children and Young Adults

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300-word abstracts by email to rmmla_at_wsu.edu <mailto:rmmla_at_wsu.edu>=20

March 1 deadline, but later submissions may be considered.

Membership in RMMLA by April 1.

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RMMLA

Recent studies have focused productively on Emerson, Fuller, and other
American Renaissance writers, but what about a truly global Thoreau?
1-page abstracts on TransAtlantic, TransPacific, and Pan-American
perspectives on Thoreau to Laura Dassow Walls, wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu by
March 15.

PLEASE ANNOUNCE

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association ~ RMMLA

Annual Convention in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

Calgary, Alberta ~ October 4-6, 2007

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Call for paper proposals!

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300-word abstracts by email to rmmla_at_wsu.edu <mailto:rmmla_at_wsu.edu>=20

March 1 deadline, but later submissions may be considered.

Membership in RMMLA by April 1.

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RMMLA

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
will sponsor a panel at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007.

Proposals are welcome on topics dealing with ecocriticism,
literature/art, and the environment; those dealing with neglected or
underrepresented authors or topics amd those covering new approaches
to the critical examiniation of literature and the environment are
especially welcome.

Please sumbit 300-word paper abstracts (preferably as MS word
attachment) by March 1 to

Tina Gianquitto (tinagian_at_mines.edu)

If you do not have access to e-mail, please send your proposal to:

This is an UPDATED call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and
Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.

We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and
Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American
women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public
spheres.

Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:

religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family
vocation/profession

This is an UPDATED call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and
Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.

We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and
Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American
women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public
spheres.

Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:

religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family
vocation/profession