Call for Papers, American Literature Association (ALA), Boston , May
24-27, 2007

"Don DeLillo and his Contemporaries," sponsored by the Don DeLillo
Society (DDS)

Call for papers discussing Don DeLillo in the context of contemporary
literature - his place, his resistance. What implicit conversations
arise between DeLillo's work and that of which other writers? Any
papers that construct a critical dialogue addressing the cultural work
of DeLillo's writing in relation to that of other contemporary writers
welcome. Possible subject areas include:

                DeLillo and Global Anglophone Literature

                DeLillo and Contemporary US Literature

The topic for the Spring 2007 Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is
 Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Submissions are due by February 2, 2007
 to Pamela St. Clair pstclair_at_fastmail.fm or Amanda Golden
 apg3_at_u.washington.edu .

Suggested Topics Include:

Woolf, Plath and

Material Culture
England, America
Marriage
Childhood
Writing, The Creative Process
Life, Death, Suicide
Modernism
Art
Photography
Language, Imagery, Poetry
Reading
Literary Life

Synthetic worlds can now boast tens of millions of members. =46rom =20
game environments such as World of Warcraft to the social environment =20=

CFP: The Meaning of Food: How What We Eat Shapes Cultural,
Environmental, Political, and Literary Paradigms (3/1/07; RMMLA,
10/4/07-106/07)

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The topic for the Spring 2007 Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is
 Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Submissions are due by February 2, 2007
 to Pamela St. Clair pstclair_at_fastmail.fm or Amanda Golden
 apg3_at_u.washington.edu .

Suggested Topics Include:

Woolf, Plath and

Material Culture
England, America
Marriage
Childhood
Writing, The Creative Process
Life, Death, Suicide
Modernism
Art
Photography
Language, Imagery, Poetry
Reading
Literary Life

Synthetic worlds can now boast tens of millions of members. =46rom =20
game environments such as World of Warcraft to the social environment =20=

CFP: The Meaning of Food: How What We Eat Shapes Cultural,
Environmental, Political, and Literary Paradigms (3/1/07; RMMLA,
10/4/07-106/07)

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                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at
                     http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
         or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu
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> > THIRD INTERNATIONAL GEORGE GISSING CONFERENCE
> > "WRITING OTHERNESS:
> > THE PATHWAYS OF GEORGE GISSING'S IMAGINATION"
> > LILLE, FRANCE
> > 27-28 MARCH 2008
> > (Thursday & Friday following the Easter weekend)
> >
> > CALL FOR PAPERS
> >
> > The efforts of scholars in the last half-century have served to confirm

"Graduating Gender: Reading the Work of Queer Graduate Students"

Update: the deadline for the collection of essays by/for queer graduate
students has been extended to May 30, 2007. Please email all submissions to
this new email address: jbattis_at_gmail.com

"Graduating Gender: Reading the Work of Queer Graduate Students"

Update: the deadline for the collection of essays by/for queer graduate
students has been extended to May 30, 2007. Please email all submissions to
this new email address: jbattis_at_gmail.com

For its annual meeting in St. Louis, MO, 9/28-30/07, the T. S. Eliot Society invites 100-word proposals for papers related to Eliot. Papers, about 2500 words long, should take no more than 20 minutes to deliver, to allow enough time for discussion. Send proposals to William Harmon, UNC CH English Dept., CB# 3520, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520; wharmon03_at_mindspring.com.

For its annual meeting in St. Louis, MO, 9/28-30/07, the T. S. Eliot Society invites 100-word proposals for papers related to Eliot. Papers, about 2500 words long, should take no more than 20 minutes to deliver, to allow enough time for discussion. Send proposals to William Harmon, UNC CH English Dept., CB# 3520, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520; wharmon03_at_mindspring.com.

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is a new online,
scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. The first issue is
now available on an open access basis.

Proposed panel for the North American Conference on British Studies
(November 9-11, 2007; San Francisco)

Material Exchanges: Britain and East Asia in the Nineteenth-Century