12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
McGill University, Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and
Selfhood, the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which
will take place March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.

"Drugs and Selfhood"

Call for Papers from Graduate Students

"(En)compass(ing) Language: Interplay Within English Studies"

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

March 31st through April 1st

Sponsored by: Texas Tech University's Graduate English Society

Co-Chairs: Brandon Hernsberger and Elizabeth Porter

Address: GES Conference

                                    Texas Tech University

                                    Department of English, Box 43091

                                    Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091

Call for Papers from Graduate Students

"(En)compass(ing) Language: Interplay Within English Studies"

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

March 31st through April 1st

Sponsored by: Texas Tech University's Graduate English Society

Co-Chairs: Brandon Hernsberger and Elizabeth Porter

Address: GES Conference

                                    Texas Tech University

                                    Department of English, Box 43091

                                    Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091

Call for Papers:

Theatricality, History, Theory

The seminar will be part of the American Comparative Literature Association Conference at Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, March 23-26, 2006.

Seminar Organizers: Martin Harries, New York University; Andrew Parker, Amherst College

Call for Papers:

Theatricality, History, Theory

The seminar will be part of the American Comparative Literature Association Conference at Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, March 23-26, 2006.

Seminar Organizers: Martin Harries, New York University; Andrew Parker, Amherst College

****CALL FOR PAPERS****
MELUS Special Issue - Multi-Ethnic American Graphic Narrative
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/melus.htm
  
In his book REINVENTING COMICS, Scott McCloud explores some of the problems
concerning ethnicity and comics. Not only does he argue for an increased
awareness of ethnic and gender representation in contemporary comics, but he
also highlights many of the ethnoracial concerns underlying the history of
comics in the United States. Using McCloud's arguments as a springboard,
MELUS plans on publishing a special issue devoted to multi-ethnic American

Contributions are sought for a book in English on the theme of Belonging in the Age of (what I call) "Troubled Globalization". The issue of identity can be addressed critically, reflectively, and creatively from interdisciplinary perspectives. Arab creative writers, critics/scholars, artists and journalists are requested to write around 15-20-page narrative/reflective/non-fictional/critical essays (in the I-mode) about how they map their own identities in our ever-changing cultural and political formations. Contributors are requested to reflect in their narratives on how self-expression in the age of "Troubled Globalization" has affected/influenced their modes of artistic expressions.

For book outline and more information, please contact:

Princeton, NJ, March 23-26, 2006

American Contemporary Literature Association Annual Meeting: The Human and
Its Others

Seminar Title: Neurology and Literature, 1800-present

Seminar Organizer(s): Anne Stiles, UCLA; Maria Farland, Fordham University

Princeton, NJ, March 23-26, 2006

American Contemporary Literature Association Annual Meeting: The Human and
Its Others

Seminar Title: Neurology and Literature, 1800-present

Seminar Organizer(s): Anne Stiles, UCLA; Maria Farland, Fordham University

Princeton, NJ, March 23-26, 2006

American Contemporary Literature Association Annual Meeting: The Human and
Its Others

Seminar Title: Neurology and Literature, 1800-present

Seminar Organizer(s): Anne Stiles, UCLA; Maria Farland, Fordham University

Contributions are sought for a book in English on the theme of Belonging in the Age of (what I call) "Troubled Globalization". The issue of identity can be addressed critically, reflectively, and creatively from interdisciplinary perspectives. Arab creative writers, critics/scholars, artists and journalists are requested to write around 15-20-page narrative/reflective/non-fictional/critical essays (in the I-mode) about how they map their own identities in our ever-changing cultural and political formations. Contributors are requested to reflect in their narratives on how self-expression in the age of "Troubled Globalization" has affected/influenced their modes of artistic expressions.

For book outline and more information, please contact:

Call for Papers: Echoes from a Wild and Lonely Place: Marcia Muller =
and American Literature (Anthology)

=20

Editors: Christine Jackson, Ph.D. and Alexander Howe, Ph.D.

=20

Feminisms: A one-day postgraduate conference on feminism(s) in the humanities,
Sheffield Hallam University, 9th June 2006.

Feminisms: A one-day postgraduate conference on feminism(s) in the humanities,
Sheffield Hallam University, 9th June 2006.