The <Langston Hughes Review> is now accepting papers for a
special issue, "Langston Hughes: Writer without Borders"
Papers that treat Hughes as part of a global conversation:
Ideology , Aesthetics, Economics, Color, Class, and Sex,
Language and Translation are welcomed.

Please send hardcopy and diskcopy (no email attachments
please) to,

Valerie Babb, Editor
Department of English/Institute of African American Studies
University of Georgia
Park Hall 254
Athens, GA 30602-6205

Include a self-addressed postage-paid postcard if
acknowledgment of receipt is desired.

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New publication

Compendium of Twentieth Century Novelists and Novels

Call for Papers: The Association for the Study of American Indian =
Literatures. American Literature Association Annual Conference, 26-29 =
May 2005, Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA.

The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, a member =
society of the American Literature Association, invites submissions of =
individual papers and pre-formed panels on any topic of American Indian =
Literature. Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes in =
length. Inquiries and/or one page abstracts should be submitted by email =
no later than January 15, 2005 to Stephanie Fitzgerald, Claremont =
Graduate University, Stephanie.Fitzgerald_at_cgu.edu, or =
nehiyo_at_earthlink.net .

Submissions are invited for a proposed book-length collection
of essays on Romantic women and drama. This volume will aim
for a general examination of women's roles in the theatre
during the Romantic Period in Britain (roughly from 1780
through 1830), with specific emphasis on
transatlantic/transnational themes. Essays may address women
as characters in dramatic literature, women as playwrights,
and/or women as actors. Representative figures include
Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, Sophia Lee, Mary Russell
Mitford, Marie Therese DeCamp Kemble, Frances Anne Kemble,
Hannah Cowley, Sarah Siddons, Mary Robinson, and others.
Appropriate topics might include the following:

The Frontenac Review is now accepting graduate student papers for its next
issue entitled "The Deceiver." We invite 15- to 20-page studies of
deceiver figures as they appear as principal or secondary characters in
any work(s) of literature. All approaches are welcome. Papers will be in
English or French and must follow the MLA format.

Call for Submissions

The editorship of "Mystics Quarterly," a peer-reviewed journal, will soon
be changing hands, and the new editors are very eager to receive
submissions on forms of mystical and visionary experience, especially
though not exclusively of the Western Middle Ages.

Call for Papers for new anthology
Due date: February 22, 2005
Page limited: 20-25
Contact: embodiedheroism_at_hotmail.com

Embodied Heroism: Race, Class, Sexuality and the Female Hero

The editors of Phoebe: A Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques seek
essays for a special issue on gender and sexuality in science-fiction
and the fantastic.

Deadline: If interested, please send a 300 word abstract by February 18,
2005 to the guest editor for this issue, Dr. Cherilyn Lacy, at
lacyc_at_hartwick.edu <mailto:lacyc_at_hartwick.edu>. The deadline for
completed essays will be May 6, 2005.

Call for Paper
Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and
Cultural Identity

       The Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion will
hold an International Interdisciplinary Conference in
Calcutta July 27-30, 2006. The Conference theme is
"Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Cultural Identity".

Due Date: February 21, 2005
Page #: 25-30
Contact: wdgc_at_hotmail.com

Women, Development, and Global Capitalism Reader

Editors announced:

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Call for Papers

The Journal of Gender Studies intends to publish a Special Issue entitled

The Future of Fiction: The Future of Feminism

Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company

Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

General Editor: Michele Marrapodi

Advisory Editors: Keir Elam and Rob Henke

Attentively considering the new critical perspectives arising from the =
most
recent trends of literary hermeneutics, this book series analyses early
modern English drama within the context of the European Renaissance and,
specifically, in the light of the impact and influence of both classical =
and
Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions.

Call for Papers (New Shakespeare Journal; 7/31/05 and ongoing)

The editors of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and
Appropriation welcome original scholarship engaging with the
afterlives of Shakespearean texts and their literary, filmic,
multimedia, and critical histories.
Borrowers and Lenders is a new, peer-reviewed, online, multimedia
Shakespeare journal to be launched at the Shakespeare Association of
America Meeting in Bermuda in March 2005. The journal will appear
biannually, with a special issue in the Spring and general issue in
the Fall.

The department of Cinema, Television and Media Studies of IULM
University (Milan, Italy) is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for
a book on film remakes that will be published in mid-2005.

Provisionally titled "Ready Made. Film Remakes in Postmodern Times",
this interdisciplinary critical anthology will explore a range of topics
regarding the aesthetic, cultural, and social significance of remakes of
thriller, horror, and science fiction movies released after 1960. The
volume will be edited by and Matteo Bittanti and Rocco Moccagatta, both
film critics and researchers at the Libera Università di Lingue e
Comunicazione, Milan, Italy.