One page proposals on the general topic of teaching and especially on
how professors capture and maintain student attention can be sent to
J_horn_at_gdn.edu

Presentations are welcomed from across disciplines and might cover
traditional means of gaining and keeping attention, such as close
reading techniques, analytical study, or observation techniques, or the
technology available for centering student attention on visual or
written texts.

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Jason G. Horn, Ph.D

Professor of English

Humanities, Gordon College

Barnesville, GA 30204

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Corpus Mens Spiritus

Alien/Asian: Enfiguring a Racialized Future

Alien/Asian: Enfiguring a Racialized Future

Postmodern Culture invites submissions for a special issue on "Critical
Theory and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis." We are interested in studies
of the changing aesthetic and political significance of psychoanalytic
thought over the last thirty years. Accepted articles will be due by
June 15, 2007. Direct inquiries to Jan Mieszkowski (mieszkow_at_reed.edu)
or to pmc_at_jefferson.village.virginia.edu.

Call for Papers #2: Roundtable discussion of Langston
Hughes's Politics after 1953

American Literature Association
Memorial Day Weekend 2007
Westin in Copley Square
Boston, Mass.

Call for Papers:
_Watermark_, an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students
in the Department of English at California State University, Long
Beach, is now seeking papers for the inaugural issue. _Watermark_ is
dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers
concerned with literature of all genres and periods, as well as papers
representing current issues in the fields of rhetoric and composition.
As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only
student work will be considered.

College English Association National Conference
April 12-14, 2007
New Orleans

We invite papers on Renaissance Literature for the 38th
annual meeting of the CEA. This year’s theme is “Empathy and
Ethics,” but any paper on early modern studies will be
considered, including those addressing pedagogical
approaches.

Proposals should be submitted via the online database at
http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/conftool/index.php by November 30th.

College English Association National Conference
April 12-14, 2007
New Orleans
 
We invite pedagogical papers on teaching literature, empathy, and/or ethics
for the 38th annual meeting of the CEA. The primary conference theme for
2007 is ³Empathy and Ethics²‹geographical, historical, cultural, ideological
aspects well matched, though not limited to, our conference site. We invite
papers or panels on literature, film, composition, and pedagogy responding
to this conference theme. This CFP is specifically for papers that
emphasize pedagogy.
 
Proposals should be submitted via the online database at

CALL FOR PAPERS

"The "Drama" of James Purdy"

American Literature Association (ALA) Conference
Westin Copley Place
Boston Massachusetts
May 24-27, 2007

The James Purdy Society will sponsor a session at the 18th Annual ALA
conference. Individuals whose proposals are accepted will join some of the
nation's leading James Purdy scholars for 15-20 minute presentations to
explore multiple facets of this major American author's dramatic works.

Call For Papers: CAIS 2007

  Memorial University (St. John's, Newfoundland)

Secrets and Lies

And/or

The Irish in Newfoundland

The 2007 Canadian Association for Irish Studies is holding it annual =20
conference and AGM from June 20-23rd in St. John=92s, Newfoundland, =20
Canada. Conference organizers are calling for 20-minute contributions =20=

on any aspect connected with or suggested by the titles of the =20
conference.

Topics may include but are not limited to: conspiracy and espionage; =20
secret societies within a cultural context; exclusivity and occlusion =20=

Call For Papers: CAIS 2007

  Memorial University (St. John's, Newfoundland)

Secrets and Lies

And/or

The Irish in Newfoundland

The 2007 Canadian Association for Irish Studies is holding it annual =20
conference and AGM from June 20-23rd in St. John=92s, Newfoundland, =20
Canada. Conference organizers are calling for 20-minute contributions =20=

on any aspect connected with or suggested by the titles of the =20
conference.

Topics may include but are not limited to: conspiracy and espionage; =20
secret societies within a cultural context; exclusivity and occlusion =20=

Call for Papers

SEA AT CEA:

Literature of the Sea at the College English Association 38th Annual
Conference

12-14 April 2007

New Orleans, Louisiana

PIRATES! of the Gulf

FROM Captain Singleton to Jack Sparrow, literary pirates have been a cut
above (argh, what a pun!), a breed whose vices seldom succeed in
extinguishing their virtues. In the context of this year's CEA theme of
"Empathy and Ethics," SEA at CEA calls for papers that examine the topos of
the pirate ethic throughout our literary culture.

Call for Papers: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner.

Contributors whose Abstracts on Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African Oral literary Traditions and Aesthetics; History, Progress and Transition; War, Conflicts, and Trauma; Individuality vs Fringe/Marginal Identities; Masculinist/Feminist (Re)Inscriptions; Present-Past/Future-Present Temporality; Contemporary Modernity and Citizenship (Re)Definitions; and Dilemmas of the Post-Colony/ Nation-States, among others, have been approved are, irrespective of December 31st deadline for final submission of materials, requested to turn in their papers for initial reading and assessment as from October 31st 2006. Please note the changes in website address below. New Contributions may also be considered.