The Literature and Other Arts Panel of the Rocky Mountain MLA invites the submission of papers/presentations for its session at the 61st annual convention, this year held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on October 4-6, 2007.

Paper/Presentation Topic:
Any aspect of literature as it relates to other arts, in practice or in theory.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

The Literature and Other Arts Panel of the Rocky Mountain MLA invites the submission of papers/presentations for its session at the 61st annual convention, this year held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on October 4-6, 2007.

Paper/Presentation Topic:
Any aspect of literature as it relates to other arts, in practice or in theory.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

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As an affiliate-organization of the Modern Language
Association, CEA sponsors two panels at the annual MLA
convention. We are now accepting proposals for panel topics
(not completed panels) for the 2007 MLA conference.
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

By submitting a proposal, panel organizers agree to
advertise their topic nationally through the UPenn CFP list
and at least one other specialized listserv.

CEA members are invited to send a proposed topic in the form
of a cfp to Marina Favila at

favilamc_at_jmu.edu or
FAX 1-540-568-2983

 24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate
 Student Conference
 University of Connecticut
 The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual
 Saturday, February 24, 2007
 
 Abstracts from first year graduate students are now being accepted
 on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle
 Ages. This is a special session for first year graduate students
 only. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines,
 including:
 
 Anthropology – Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies –
 Comparative
 Literature – Disability Studies – Drama – Gerontology – History –
 History of Science

________________
As an affiliate-organization of the Modern Language
Association, CEA sponsors two panels at the annual MLA
convention. We are now accepting proposals for panel topics
(not completed panels) for the 2007 MLA conference.
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

By submitting a proposal, panel organizers agree to
advertise their topic nationally through the UPenn CFP list
and at least one other specialized listserv.

CEA members are invited to send a proposed topic in the form
of a cfp to Marina Favila at

favilamc_at_jmu.edu or
FAX 1-540-568-2983

The Crisis Within: The Challenges of Specializing in African-American Literature in a Traditional
English Department

Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

The Crisis Within: The Challenges of Specializing in African-American Literature in a Traditional
English Department

Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

CFP: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (2/28/07; collection)
From: John J. Han <hanjn_at_mobap.edu>

Previously unpublished critical essays are being sought for a new volume in Rodopi Press's Dialogue series on Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood. The "Dialogue" series offers emerging and experienced scholars the opportunity to present alternative (point/counterpoint) readings and approaches to classic texts that have received canonical acceptance in either American or Continental literature.

Transverse, a graduate literary journal of the Centre for Comparative
Literature at the University of Toronto, invites submissions of
essays, literary reviews, and creative writing (short stories, poetry,
short plays) for the next issue, to be published in Spring 2007.
Transverse is a paper-based journal with a pdf version available
on-line at www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/journal.htm

Intertexuality: Conversations Between the Sheets
English Graduate Student Conference
The University of Tulsa
March 30-31, 2007

Call for papers and panels:

"Conversations Between the Sheets" is concerned with the direct and/or indirect discourse between texts that takes place when authors (whoever an author may be—from a single writer or coauthors to a community of editors, publishers, booksellers, etc.) interact with each other—alluding, referencing, paraphrasing, quoting, borrowing, sharing, stealing, extending, challenging, or opposing each others' ideas. Whether it is in the form of support, abuse, or simply recognition of ideas between writers, texts converse with each other.

Intertexuality: Conversations Between the Sheets
English Graduate Student Conference
The University of Tulsa
March 30-31, 2007

Call for papers and panels:

"Conversations Between the Sheets" is concerned with the direct and/or indirect discourse between texts that takes place when authors (whoever an author may be—from a single writer or coauthors to a community of editors, publishers, booksellers, etc.) interact with each other—alluding, referencing, paraphrasing, quoting, borrowing, sharing, stealing, extending, challenging, or opposing each others' ideas. Whether it is in the form of support, abuse, or simply recognition of ideas between writers, texts converse with each other.

Intertexuality: Conversations Between the Sheets
English Graduate Student Conference
The University of Tulsa
March 30-31, 2007

Call for papers and panels:

"Conversations Between the Sheets" is concerned with the direct and/or indirect discourse between texts that takes place when authors (whoever an author may be—from a single writer or coauthors to a community of editors, publishers, booksellers, etc.) interact with each other—alluding, referencing, paraphrasing, quoting, borrowing, sharing, stealing, extending, challenging, or opposing each others' ideas. Whether it is in the form of support, abuse, or simply recognition of ideas between writers, texts converse with each other.

Trauma Narratives
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
traumatic narratives. Papers may examine any aspect
of trauma narratives, including specific texts and/or
critical and cultural frameworks for such texts. How
are traumatic events articulated in our current
cultural moment? How do cultural understandings of
trauma effect understandings of self? How do trauma
narratives influence and change notions of healing?

Other potential topics include:

Trauma Narratives
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
traumatic narratives. Papers may examine any aspect
of trauma narratives, including specific texts and/or
critical and cultural frameworks for such texts. How
are traumatic events articulated in our current
cultural moment? How do cultural understandings of
trauma effect understandings of self? How do trauma
narratives influence and change notions of healing?

Other potential topics include: