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UPDATE: Freedom and Rock 'n Roll (grad) (9/10/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 5:41pm
adam beardsworth

update: Freedom & Rock 'n Roll deadline extension (grad journal issue;
9/10/04)

New Deadline: September 10, 2004. postscript: a peer-reviewed journal of
graduate criticism and theory published annually by graduate students in the
Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland has extended
the deadline for its forthcoming issue on freedom and rock 'n roll until
September 10th, 2004. Graduate students are encouraged to submit critical
works that engage the following cfp:

CFP: Staging Renaissance Drama (ongoing; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 5:16pm
sbeditor

Shakespeare Bulletin, the journal of performance criticism and scholarship, is
seeking articles for its Hands On Shakespeare slot. Essays should be written
from the perspective of someone materially involved in some aspect of the
stage or film production of Renaissance drama, and while they should be
intellectually rigorous, and both critically and theoretically informed, the
articles should be rooted expressly in the concrete conditions of performance,
be it acting, directing, dramaturgy, design, voice work etc.

CFP: Staging Renaissance Drama (ongoing; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 5:16pm
sbeditor

Shakespeare Bulletin, the journal of performance criticism and scholarship, is
seeking articles for its Hands On Shakespeare slot. Essays should be written
from the perspective of someone materially involved in some aspect of the
stage or film production of Renaissance drama, and while they should be
intellectually rigorous, and both critically and theoretically informed, the
articles should be rooted expressly in the concrete conditions of performance,
be it acting, directing, dramaturgy, design, voice work etc.

CFP: Staging Renaissance Drama (ongoing; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 5:16pm
sbeditor

Shakespeare Bulletin, the journal of performance criticism and scholarship, is
seeking articles for its Hands On Shakespeare slot. Essays should be written
from the perspective of someone materially involved in some aspect of the
stage or film production of Renaissance drama, and while they should be
intellectually rigorous, and both critically and theoretically informed, the
articles should be rooted expressly in the concrete conditions of performance,
be it acting, directing, dramaturgy, design, voice work etc.

CFP: Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond (10/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, August 5, 2004 - 6:49am
Stan Beeler

Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond: Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson, eds.
 
We have secured a contract offer with a publisher and are now soliciting
essays for a forthcoming collection focusing on Stargate SG-1 and its
spin-off series, Atlantis.

Essay abstracts of 500 words should be forwarded by October 1 2004 to
Stan Beeler, stan_at_unbc.ca or
Lisa Dickson, dicksonl_at_unbc.ca

CFP: Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond (10/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, August 5, 2004 - 6:49am
Stan Beeler

Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond: Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson, eds.
 
We have secured a contract offer with a publisher and are now soliciting
essays for a forthcoming collection focusing on Stargate SG-1 and its
spin-off series, Atlantis.

Essay abstracts of 500 words should be forwarded by October 1 2004 to
Stan Beeler, stan_at_unbc.ca or
Lisa Dickson, dicksonl_at_unbc.ca

CFP: Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond (10/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, August 5, 2004 - 6:49am
Stan Beeler

Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond: Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson, eds.
 
We have secured a contract offer with a publisher and are now soliciting
essays for a forthcoming collection focusing on Stargate SG-1 and its
spin-off series, Atlantis.

Essay abstracts of 500 words should be forwarded by October 1 2004 to
Stan Beeler, stan_at_unbc.ca or
Lisa Dickson, dicksonl_at_unbc.ca

CFP: Fictions of Catholicism (9/30/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 7:37pm
Kerry Kidd

The New Contemplative Review, a journal formed to promote scholarship on the interface between culture and spirituality, seeks articles for its second issue, on Catholicism, due to appear in January 2005. It is hoped that this issue will explore themes relating to the histories, spiritualities, ideologies and material constructions of Catholicism in both past and contemporary cultures: subjectivity and meaning, as well as ideology, faith and questioning, bodies and the Church, medieval and medievalist accounts of Catholicism: issues of power and relationship between Catholics and non-Catholics: the Catholic Church in fiction and life-writing: the public presence of the Church in past and present.

CFP: Fictions of Catholicism (9/30/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 7:37pm
Kerry Kidd

The New Contemplative Review, a journal formed to promote scholarship on the interface between culture and spirituality, seeks articles for its second issue, on Catholicism, due to appear in January 2005. It is hoped that this issue will explore themes relating to the histories, spiritualities, ideologies and material constructions of Catholicism in both past and contemporary cultures: subjectivity and meaning, as well as ideology, faith and questioning, bodies and the Church, medieval and medievalist accounts of Catholicism: issues of power and relationship between Catholics and non-Catholics: the Catholic Church in fiction and life-writing: the public presence of the Church in past and present.

CFP: Fictions of Catholicism (9/30/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 7:37pm
Kerry Kidd

The New Contemplative Review, a journal formed to promote scholarship on the interface between culture and spirituality, seeks articles for its second issue, on Catholicism, due to appear in January 2005. It is hoped that this issue will explore themes relating to the histories, spiritualities, ideologies and material constructions of Catholicism in both past and contemporary cultures: subjectivity and meaning, as well as ideology, faith and questioning, bodies and the Church, medieval and medievalist accounts of Catholicism: issues of power and relationship between Catholics and non-Catholics: the Catholic Church in fiction and life-writing: the public presence of the Church in past and present.

CFP: New Critical Studies in Raymond Carver (9/15/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 7:24pm
Robert Miltner

CALL FOR PAPERS

TOPIC: The Poetry and Fiction of Raymond Carver (collection)

Deadline for submissions: Abstracts or papers by 30 September
2004

Editors:
Sandra Kleppe, Ph.D.
Humanities Faculty
University of Tramsoe, Norway

Robert Miltner, Ph.D.
Department of English
Kent State University Stark

CFP: Academic Writing and the Essay (3/1/05; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 7:14pm
Gina Barreca

Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory publishes
critical essays which interpret texts from an
engaging, coherent theoretical perspective and which
provide original, close readings of texts. Because
Lit addresses a general literate audience, we
encourage essays unburdened by excessive theoretical
jargon. We do not restrict the journal's scope to
specific periods, genres, or critical paradigms.
Submissions must use MLA citation style. Please send
essays in triplicate (if outside the US or Canada, one
copy will do), along with a 100 word abstract, to
Regina Barreca, Editor, Lit: Literature Interpretation
Theory, Department of English, 215 Glenbrook Rd., Box

CFP: DLB: American Nature Writers before 1900 (11/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 6:39pm
Patterson, Jerry Danny

DLB: American Nature Writers before 1900: Prose, editor Daniel Patterson
 
This volume of the DLB is expanding and replacements for lost contributors are being recruited.
 
DLB-style articles of approximately 4,000 words are needed for the following authors by November 15, 2004:
 
Lucy Isabella Bird (1831-1904)
William Byrd (1764-1744)
Neltje Blanchan Doubleday (1865-1918)
John Lawson (died 1711)
Graceanna Lewis (1821-1912)
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884)
Mary Townsend (sister of John Kirk Townsend)
Louis Hennepin (1640-1701)
Francis Higginson (1586-1630)
Peter Kalm (1716-79)
 

CFP: DLB: American Nature Writers before 1900 (11/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 6:39pm
Patterson, Jerry Danny

DLB: American Nature Writers before 1900: Prose, editor Daniel Patterson
 
This volume of the DLB is expanding and replacements for lost contributors are being recruited.
 
DLB-style articles of approximately 4,000 words are needed for the following authors by November 15, 2004:
 
Lucy Isabella Bird (1831-1904)
William Byrd (1764-1744)
Neltje Blanchan Doubleday (1865-1918)
John Lawson (died 1711)
Graceanna Lewis (1821-1912)
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884)
Mary Townsend (sister of John Kirk Townsend)
Louis Hennepin (1640-1701)
Francis Higginson (1586-1630)
Peter Kalm (1716-79)
 

CFP: Film Criticism: Book Reviews (ongoing; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 6:36pm
Richard Heppner, Jr.

FILM CRITICISM, a quarterly journal devoted to scholarly investigations
of film, is seeking reviews of recent scholarly and academic books
about film. FILM CRITICISM publishes two to three book reviews per
issue, devoted to informative and insightful critiques and analyses of
current books on all aspects of U.S. and World Cinema.

Please send inquiries and/or submissions of 2000 to 2500 words as an
email attachment to richard.heppner_at_sru.edu or by conventional mail to

Film Criticism, Box D,
Allegheny College,
Meadville, PA 16335

CFP: Film Criticism: Book Reviews (ongoing; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 6:36pm
Richard Heppner, Jr.

FILM CRITICISM, a quarterly journal devoted to scholarly investigations
of film, is seeking reviews of recent scholarly and academic books
about film. FILM CRITICISM publishes two to three book reviews per
issue, devoted to informative and insightful critiques and analyses of
current books on all aspects of U.S. and World Cinema.

Please send inquiries and/or submissions of 2000 to 2500 words as an
email attachment to richard.heppner_at_sru.edu or by conventional mail to

Film Criticism, Box D,
Allegheny College,
Meadville, PA 16335

CFP: Americana: Journal for American Popular Culture (10/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 3, 2004 - 2:11pm
Editor_at_AmericanPopularCulture

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites
submissions for the fall 2004 edition.

We publish analytical work in the fields of American studies, cultural
studies, history, film and television studies, literary studies (of popular
or bestselling fiction), sports, politics, music, in other words, all
aspects of popular American culture of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries.

Submitters are invited to visit the journal at
www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/index.htm
to review the content and style of work we have published in the past.

CFP: Toni Morrison's prose and fiction (undergrad) (11/30/04; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 6:20pm
Jami Carlacio

Call For Papers: Collection of Essays on Toni Morrison's prose and fiction

Reading Toni Morrison: Students Writing on Race, Culture, and Identity

I am currently soliciting contributions from undergraduate university
students for a collection of essays on the work of Toni Morrison. Essays
may come from a variety of disciplines, including history, American
Studies, English, and Rhetoric.

CFP: Toni Morrison's prose and fiction (undergrad) (11/30/04; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 6:20pm
Jami Carlacio

Call For Papers: Collection of Essays on Toni Morrison's prose and fiction

Reading Toni Morrison: Students Writing on Race, Culture, and Identity

I am currently soliciting contributions from undergraduate university
students for a collection of essays on the work of Toni Morrison. Essays
may come from a variety of disciplines, including history, American
Studies, English, and Rhetoric.

CFP: Toni Morrison's prose and fiction (undergrad) (11/30/04; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 6:20pm
Jami Carlacio

Call For Papers: Collection of Essays on Toni Morrison's prose and fiction

Reading Toni Morrison: Students Writing on Race, Culture, and Identity

I am currently soliciting contributions from undergraduate university
students for a collection of essays on the work of Toni Morrison. Essays
may come from a variety of disciplines, including history, American
Studies, English, and Rhetoric.

CFP: Creative Writing: Creative & Critical (9/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 5:52pm
Graeme Harper

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of
Creative Writing

seeks submissions for its forthcoming 2005 issue 2.1.

New Writing publishes creative work alongside interviews with
writers, articles about creative writing teaching methods and
creative writing research, debates in the subject and analysis of
the relationship between creative writing on campus and the relevant
creative industries, theoretical and analytical work relating to
creative writing. . . .

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