The Publications Committee of the South Carolina Traditional Arts Network
(SCTAN) is proud to announce the planned publication of an edited volume on
folklore and folklife of South Carolina. The volume will be published by
the University of South Carolina Press.
We have just signed a contract with USC Press and have promised delivery of
all manuscripts by March 2004. All royalties from book sales will be
donated to SCTAN.
The purposes of the volume are to promote South Carolina folk traditions to
a wider audience, to increase community awareness of and pride in local
traditions, and to increase our state's awareness of our own cultural

HOW2 is the leading journal for experimental feminist poetry. Available
online at

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/index.shtm

the journal, founded as HOW(ever) by Kathleen Fraser, is now under the
editorship of poet and scholar Kate Fagan.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien

Dear Colleagues:

We are beginning preparation of the above projected volume in MLA's
Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, and we would like as much
participation as possible.

If you teach O'Brien, we would very much appreciate it if you would respond
to a brief questionnaire. Please email your interest to Alex Vernon(contact
information below), and we will send you an electronic copy of the
questionnaire. Please return the form no later than 15 January 2004.

TRANSLATION AND 'THE CLASSIC': Call for papers for a book to be published in 2005 edited by Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko.

The recent growth of interest in translation studies and classical
reception has led to greater attention being paid to the question of
translation. Yet no work has yet focused on the implications of translation for the definition and evaluation of 'the classic'. In this volume we seek to explore this subject from a number of perspectives by bringing together scholars from classics, translation studies, literary theory and philosophy. To this end we seek contributions addressing the following and other relevant questions:

CALL FOR PAPERS: NORTHERN EXPOSURE: QUIRKY QUALITY TV

Edited by Jimmie Cain and David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State
University, John Zubizarreta, Columbia College

The editors of an in-development collection of essays on the television
series NORTHERN EXPOSURE (1990-1995) seek your proposals.

In TELEVISION'S SECOND GOLDEN AGE: FROM HILL STREET BLUES TO ER, Robert
J. Thompson offers the following capsule account of the CBS Dramedy
NORTHERN EXPOSURE.

Journal of Modern Literature: special issue on Norman Mailer (9/1/04;
journal issue)

_Journal of Modern Literature_ is looking for essays on Norman Mailer's
work, reputation, and cultural significance, focusing especially on the
period since _Executioner's Song_, for the Fall 2005 issue. A number of
essays have been received and there is room for a few more. Essays on
the following topics will be especially welcome:

* When He Was Good: Mailer and the Politics of
Literary Reputation

* Mailer and the American Canon, 1980-2000

* Mailer vs Feminism: a Reconsideration

Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies is currently accepting submissions for
its upcoming issue focused on the topic of "Performing Culture." Although
papers using comparative methodologies are of particular interest, all
methodologies and approaches are welcomed. Possible topics and/or approaches
might include: semiotics, film theory, drama theory and performativity, dance,
visuality, fashion, anthropology and the artifact, queer and gender theory,
psychoanalysis, ethnomusicology, architecture, and body art. All submissions
(two copies of the manuscript and a cover letter with contact information)
must be mailed by March 1, 2004; since FACS follows a "blind reading" policy,

CFP:
Science Studies and Science Fiction
edited by Margret Grebowicz

This collection calls on specialists in science studies, broadly conceived,
to explore the implications of science fiction for their particular areas of
inquiry. Critical essays will explore the actual and potential roles of the
genre of science fiction in academic interrogations of the sciences, from
theoretical, pedagogical, and historical perspectives. I am soliciting
essays which address works of science fiction in any medium from any of the
following vantage points:

CALL FOR PAPERS

GYPSY SCHOLARS, MIGRANT TEACHERS, AND THE GLOBAL ACADEMIC PROLETARIAT:
ADJUNCT LABOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION

We are inviting submissions for an anthology of essays on adjunct and
part-time teaching in global institutions of higher education, tentatively
called Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers, and the Global Academic
Proletariat: Adjunct Labor in Higher Education. Essays are to be 20-25 pages
in length. Abstracts are due by May 31, 2004. For queries or proposals,
contact Rudolphus Teeuwen (jeeuwen_at_mail.nsysu.edu.tw) or Steffen Hantke
(steffenhantke_at_hotmail.com).

CULTURE, THEORY AND CRITIQUE

Call for papers (2 - open issue and special issue on 'Noise') and
contents of 44.1.

Unless specified otherwise, please direct all correspondence regarding
CTC to: ctc_at_nottingham.ac.uk ; apologies for cross-postings.

For full details on _Culture, Theory and Critique_, submission
information, instructions to authors, a free online sample copy and
contents listings from volume 43 on, please visit the journal's website
at:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14735784.htm

Please review the call for papers below and attached and consider
contributing to this proposed collection. Your assistance in
forwarding this to friends and colleagues via e-mail, listservs, or
bulletin boards would also be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Toni Nelson Herrera
Louis Mendoza

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Call for submissions for a proposed volume of multi-generic writings

Yo hablo, yo soy. ?Y que!: New Perspectives from Latinas/os on their Dynamic Language Experiences

***ANNOUNCING A NEW JOURNAL***

The electronic peer-reviewed English Studies Forum will publish its
inaugural issue of critical and creative writing in January 2004. The
editors of ESF plan to publish 30-40 reviews of innovative and exciting
books of fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction, theory and/or
criticism each year.

These reviews will be prominently featured in a section titled "The Forum
Reviews." Books reviewed may (but are not expected to) engage with
current ESF topics.

Current (and future) forum sites will be devoted to the following topics:

Image, Story, and Conversation
The Postmodern Imagination and Beyond
Play
War Stories