I am seeking contributors for a volume in the Dictionary of Literary
Biography series with the working title _North American University
Presses_. Entries will range in length from 3000-8000 words, and offer
a chronological overview of the history of each press, discuss the
press's significance, editorial emphases, and current publishing
activities. Contributors receive a small honorarium and a copy of the
volume. The deadline for submission of completed entries is 1 November
2004.

This is to announce "The Alchemy Issue" of Pataphysica, journal
of a certain science. A symbolic science of imaginary
solutions, alchemy is a branch of pataphysics, the "science of
sciences" founded by Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). Jarry's own work
is steeped in alchemical allusions, from (among many other
instances) his 1894 exhortation to "study conjunctions!"
("Visions Present and Future"); to his 1898 "neo-scientific"
novel Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician,
where the evicting locksmith, Mr. Lourdeau, resides at "205 rue
Nicolas Flamel" (Flamel was a legendary 14th century alchemist);
to his 1899 "Automovable Feast" in Père Ubu's Illustrated

Asian Gothic Literature (extended deadline)

I am extending the deadline for the solicitation of abstracts on Asian
Gothic Literature until the last day of February 2004. I would like to
encourage work on Asian literature with strong Gothic flavour outside
Japanese literature as this seems to be predominating at the moment.
Thanks.
Please send all abstracts to: ng.hock.soon_at_engsci.monash.edu.my and
address it to Andrew Ng.

Call for Papers, Special Issue of The Canadian Review of Studies in
Nationalism

THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 30 DECEMBER 2003)

Storytelling, Self, Society:
An Interdisciplinary Conference and Journal of Storytelling Studies

Conference: Friday and Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2004
Kick-off event for South Florida Storytelling Project: Thursday evening,
March 4

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Mester Literary Journal, Vol. XXXIII, 2004

Update: deadline extended

Atenea is a multidisciplinary bilingual journal on the humanities and
social sciences, published twice a year by the University of Puerto Rico
at Mayaguez. It is indexed by MLA and features essays, books reviews, and
some fiction and
poetry. The editorial board invites submissions in either
English or Spanish are welcome (see the guidelines below):

Literary & Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
General Editors: Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College, and Henry Turner,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

CFP: Critical Responses to Brent Hayes Edwards, _The Practice of
Diaspora_ (abstracts by March 15, 2004)

We are writing to solicit several 5000-word responses to Brent Hayes
Edwards's _The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the
Rise of Black Internationalism_, to be published bilingually in the
United States and France in 2005.

CFP: Critical Responses to Brent Hayes Edwards, _The Practice of
Diaspora_ (abstracts by March 15, 2004)

We are writing to solicit several 5000-word responses to Brent Hayes
Edwards's _The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the
Rise of Black Internationalism_, to be published bilingually in the
United States and France in 2005.

Call for Papers and Works:
http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/gradconf.htmlnarr@tive: Digital
Storytellinga UC Graduate Conference in Digital Cultures:Panel Sessions &
eLiterature Readings / New Media Performances @ UCLAKatherine Hayles(UCLA,
English and Design | Media Arts)Rita Raley(UCSB English)Guest
Graduates:Nick MontfortNoah Wardrip-FruinHow is digital culture
transforming the stories we tell and our modes of telling them?Digital
technology is frequently invoked as a trope of both continuity and rupture
in our time. Digital cultures articulate and are articulated, speak and

Material Religion: The Journal of Images, Objects, and Belief
A new journal from Berg Publishers, Oxford

Material Religion seeks to explore how religion happens in material
culture – images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and
sacred space, works of art and mass-produced artifacts. No less
important than these material forms are the many different practices
that put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction,
meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and
interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious
material culture constructs the worlds of belief.

APPROACHES TO BUNYAN

Contributors are sought for a special issue of 1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era that will feature 5-7
essays on John Bunyan. The theme is Approaches to Bunyan, and we hope to
present a broad range of voices, but essays that examine the
International Bunyan (Bunyan's reception throughout the world, Bunyan
and colonialism, Bunyan and reading communities, etc.) will be
especially welcome. Further details follow:

APPROACHES TO BUNYAN

Contributors are sought for a special issue of 1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era that will feature 5-7
essays on John Bunyan. The theme is Approaches to Bunyan, and we hope to
present a broad range of voices, but essays that examine the
International Bunyan (Bunyan's reception throughout the world, Bunyan
and colonialism, Bunyan and reading communities, etc.) will be
especially welcome. Further details follow: