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UPDATE: Asian Gothic Literature (2/29/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:46am
ng hock soon

I am writing this to clarify some points concerning this proposed
project for a collection of critical writings on Asian Gothic
literature.=20
Firstly, a simplistic application of the Gothic to contemporary Asian
literature is discouraged. Although much Asian writing deals with issues
revolving around taboo, excess and transgression of various kinds, to
deem this as automatically Gothic would be uncritical.
Secondly, it is encouraged that a study of Gothic poetics and the way
they manifest itself in Asian text be undertaken. Some of the familiar
Gothic tropes like the repressed, the uncanny, the numinous, ghosts and
spectres, radical evil etc. can be explored, but again, with careful

CFP: My So-Called Life (3/20/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:46am
Michele Byers

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Dear Angela:" Remembering My So-Called Life

Edited by Michele Byers, Saint Mary's University, and David Lavery, Middle
Tennessee State University.

The editors are currently seeking proposals and contributions for an edited
collection of essays focused on the television series My So-Called Life
(1994 – 95).

CFP: Genders of Naturalism (ASAP; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:46am
Andrew J. Furer

Two replacement essays needed for Duke UP volume on _The Genders of
Naturalism_.

Essays are needed for the following topics:

1. Gender & Naturalism in James Weldon Johnson's _Autobiography of an
Ex-Coloured Man_ (1912/1927)

or

2. Gender & Naturalism in any work or works by Stephen Crane.

Please send abstract and short CV ASAP to the editor, Dr. Andrew J.
Furer, at ajf_at_post.harvard.edu or ajf_at_kingjoe.org . If you already
have suitable *unpublished* manuscripts, please send these as well,
as a Word attachment. Full-length submissions should be between 20
and 30 pp., double-spaced in a standard 12-point font such as Times
New Roman.

CFP: Genders of Naturalism (ASAP; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:46am
Andrew J. Furer

Two replacement essays needed for Duke UP volume on _The Genders of
Naturalism_.

Essays are needed for the following topics:

1. Gender & Naturalism in James Weldon Johnson's _Autobiography of an
Ex-Coloured Man_ (1912/1927)

or

2. Gender & Naturalism in any work or works by Stephen Crane.

Please send abstract and short CV ASAP to the editor, Dr. Andrew J.
Furer, at ajf_at_post.harvard.edu or ajf_at_kingjoe.org . If you already
have suitable *unpublished* manuscripts, please send these as well,
as a Word attachment. Full-length submissions should be between 20
and 30 pp., double-spaced in a standard 12-point font such as Times
New Roman.

CFP: My So-Called Life (3/20/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:46am
Michele Byers

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Dear Angela:" Remembering My So-Called Life

Edited by Michele Byers, Saint Mary's University, and David Lavery, Middle
Tennessee State University.

The editors are currently seeking proposals and contributions for an edited
collection of essays focused on the television series My So-Called Life
(1994 – 95).

CFP: Genders of Naturalism (ASAP; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:46am
Andrew J. Furer

Two replacement essays needed for Duke UP volume on _The Genders of
Naturalism_.

Essays are needed for the following topics:

1. Gender & Naturalism in James Weldon Johnson's _Autobiography of an
Ex-Coloured Man_ (1912/1927)

or

2. Gender & Naturalism in any work or works by Stephen Crane.

Please send abstract and short CV ASAP to the editor, Dr. Andrew J.
Furer, at ajf_at_post.harvard.edu or ajf_at_kingjoe.org . If you already
have suitable *unpublished* manuscripts, please send these as well,
as a Word attachment. Full-length submissions should be between 20
and 30 pp., double-spaced in a standard 12-point font such as Times
New Roman.

UPDATE: Asian Gothic Literature (2/29/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:46am
ng hock soon

I am writing this to clarify some points concerning this proposed
project for a collection of critical writings on Asian Gothic
literature.=20
Firstly, a simplistic application of the Gothic to contemporary Asian
literature is discouraged. Although much Asian writing deals with issues
revolving around taboo, excess and transgression of various kinds, to
deem this as automatically Gothic would be uncritical.
Secondly, it is encouraged that a study of Gothic poetics and the way
they manifest itself in Asian text be undertaken. Some of the familiar
Gothic tropes like the repressed, the uncanny, the numinous, ghosts and
spectres, radical evil etc. can be explored, but again, with careful

CFP: Samuel Beckett's Endgame (12/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:46am
Mark Byron

_Samuel Beckett's Endgame_, ed. Mark S. Byron, Dialogue 1 (Amsterdam and
Atlanta: Rodopi Press). This book of essays is the first volume in a new
series announced by Rodopi Press under the general editorship of Michael
J. Meyer. This volume will offer new and experienced scholars the
opportunity to present alternative readings and approaches to Samuel
Beckett's _Endgame_. The goal of the collection is to establish a
dialogue between essays by younger scholars (MA, ABD, six years or less
from the PhD, Lecturer, Assistant Professor or equivalent) and by
established or expert scholars (Associate Professor, Professor or
equivalent, and who have published monographs and articles in leading

UPDATE: Globalization and Media across the Curriculum (11/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Donna Dunbar-Odom

<html>
Call for Papers - Extended Deadline<br><br>
Citizens of the World: <br>
Using Media to Introduce Globalization across the Curriculum<br><br>
Across the humanities curriculum, from general education to upper <br>
division courses, students are being asked to grapple with issues of
<br>
globalization and its repercussions. Out of these global changes, common
<br>
metaphors are emergingmetaphors such as borderlands and border crossings,
<br>
empire and transnationalism, to name a few. Such complex metaphors can be
<br>
intimidating to many undergraduates. This proposed collection explores
<br>

UPDATE: Globalization and Media across the Curriculum (11/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Donna Dunbar-Odom

<html>
Call for Papers - Extended Deadline<br><br>
Citizens of the World: <br>
Using Media to Introduce Globalization across the Curriculum<br><br>
Across the humanities curriculum, from general education to upper <br>
division courses, students are being asked to grapple with issues of
<br>
globalization and its repercussions. Out of these global changes, common
<br>
metaphors are emergingmetaphors such as borderlands and border crossings,
<br>
empire and transnationalism, to name a few. Such complex metaphors can be
<br>
intimidating to many undergraduates. This proposed collection explores
<br>

CFP: M/C Journal: Media and Culture: &quot;Open&quot; (3/10/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
M/C - Media and Culture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 19 January 2004

                          M/C - Media and Culture
            is calling for contributors to the 'open' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.

UPDATE: Globalization and Media across the Curriculum (11/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Donna Dunbar-Odom

<html>
Call for Papers - Extended Deadline<br><br>
Citizens of the World: <br>
Using Media to Introduce Globalization across the Curriculum<br><br>
Across the humanities curriculum, from general education to upper <br>
division courses, students are being asked to grapple with issues of
<br>
globalization and its repercussions. Out of these global changes, common
<br>
metaphors are emergingmetaphors such as borderlands and border crossings,
<br>
empire and transnationalism, to name a few. Such complex metaphors can be
<br>
intimidating to many undergraduates. This proposed collection explores
<br>

UPDATE: Globalization and Media across the Curriculum (11/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Donna Dunbar-Odom

<html>
Call for Papers - Extended Deadline<br><br>
Citizens of the World: <br>
Using Media to Introduce Globalization across the Curriculum<br><br>
Across the humanities curriculum, from general education to upper <br>
division courses, students are being asked to grapple with issues of
<br>
globalization and its repercussions. Out of these global changes, common
<br>
metaphors are emergingmetaphors such as borderlands and border crossings,
<br>
empire and transnationalism, to name a few. Such complex metaphors can be
<br>
intimidating to many undergraduates. This proposed collection explores
<br>

UPDATE: Queer TV (5/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Razedupsky_at_aol.com

Update:
The Queer TV collection first announced in early December now has a
publisher---McFarland. There is still plenty of time to submit abstracts and essays
for the volume. See information below.

Queer TV
An Edited Collection

CFP: Victorian Studies Bulletin (2/12/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Rachel M. Bright

Please forward this message as necessary:

The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and copy
for the March 2004 issue on the following subjects:

 - Book/journal announcements
 - Brief reviews of past conferences/exhibits
 - CFP's
 - Grant/scholarship/fellowship opportunities and awards
 - Requests for information
 - News/information of interest to Victorianists (upcoming exhibits or
conferences, etc.)
 - Online resources of interest to Victorianists

CFP: Future(s) of Composition (3/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
jrhodes_at_csusb.edu

Call for Papers:

For an edited collection tentatively entitled

The What Next? Generation: Emerging (Re)Visions of Composition Studies

Edited by Jonathan Alexander (University of Cincinnati) and
Jacqueline Rhodes (California State University, San Bernardino)

CFP: Victorian Studies Bulletin (2/12/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Rachel M. Bright

Please forward this message as necessary:

The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and copy
for the March 2004 issue on the following subjects:

 - Book/journal announcements
 - Brief reviews of past conferences/exhibits
 - CFP's
 - Grant/scholarship/fellowship opportunities and awards
 - Requests for information
 - News/information of interest to Victorianists (upcoming exhibits or
conferences, etc.)
 - Online resources of interest to Victorianists

UPDATE: Queer TV (5/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Razedupsky_at_aol.com

Update:
The Queer TV collection first announced in early December now has a
publisher---McFarland. There is still plenty of time to submit abstracts and essays
for the volume. See information below.

Queer TV
An Edited Collection

CFP: New Contemplative Review: Literature and Spirituality (3/10/04; journal)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
editors_at_contemplative-review.com

The New Contemplative Review seeks journal articles and short life-writing
pieces for its first issue, on the subject of spirituality. Treatments of
literature and spirituality are welcome: articles are welcome on any
aspect of the relation between literature and religion, except 'dogma';
but articles of pure theological enquiry are discouraged.

CFP: New Contemplative Review: Literature and Spirituality (3/10/04; journal)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
editors_at_contemplative-review.com

The New Contemplative Review seeks journal articles and short life-writing
pieces for its first issue, on the subject of spirituality. Treatments of
literature and spirituality are welcome: articles are welcome on any
aspect of the relation between literature and religion, except 'dogma';
but articles of pure theological enquiry are discouraged.

CFP: Encyclopedia of African American Literature (2/27/04; encyclopedia)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
J. David Macey, Jr.

The editors of the five-volume *Encyclopedia of African American Literature*
currently under contract with Greenwood press continue to seek authors for a
number of entries on topics in African American literary and cultural history.
 An updated list of unassigned entries is available online at the
*Encyclopedia* wesbite. For further information or to request an entry,
please contact either of the editors, Hans Ostrom (ostrom_at_ups.edu) or David
Macey (dmacey_at_ups.edu).

CFP: Encyclopedia of African American Literature (2/27/04; encyclopedia)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
J. David Macey, Jr.

The editors of the five-volume *Encyclopedia of African American Literature*
currently under contract with Greenwood press continue to seek authors for a
number of entries on topics in African American literary and cultural history.
 An updated list of unassigned entries is available online at the
*Encyclopedia* wesbite. For further information or to request an entry,
please contact either of the editors, Hans Ostrom (ostrom_at_ups.edu) or David
Macey (dmacey_at_ups.edu).

CFP: The Cinema of Tod Browning (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Bernd Herzogenrath

I am currently looking for high-quality contributions to a volume on =
THE
CINEMA OF TOD BROWNING =96 a major press (Wallflower Press) has alrea=
dy
expressed interest in this project.
Tod Browning has up to this day remained a somewhat un(der)-theorized=
 movie
maker. Also having produced successes such as Dracula (with Bela Lugo=
si) and
fulminant financial disasters such as Freaks, the impact of his obses=
sion
with the (representation of the) body, its fragmentation and dismembe=
rment,
on the development on Modern Cinema remains to be analysed. In partic=
ular
with reference to much of today=92s discussion about corporeality and

CFP: The Cinema of Tod Browning (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
Bernd Herzogenrath

I am currently looking for high-quality contributions to a volume on =
THE
CINEMA OF TOD BROWNING =96 a major press (Wallflower Press) has alrea=
dy
expressed interest in this project.
Tod Browning has up to this day remained a somewhat un(der)-theorized=
 movie
maker. Also having produced successes such as Dracula (with Bela Lugo=
si) and
fulminant financial disasters such as Freaks, the impact of his obses=
sion
with the (representation of the) body, its fragmentation and dismembe=
rment,
on the development on Modern Cinema remains to be analysed. In partic=
ular
with reference to much of today=92s discussion about corporeality and

CFP: Writing Macao: Creative Text and Teaching (5/1/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
kitkelen_at_umac.mo

Writing Macao:
creative text and teaching

Submissions are now sought for the second number of Writing Macao:creative
text and teaching, to appear in November of 2004. Contributions are
particularly sought in the area of theory and practice relating to the
teaching of creative writing in English in non-native contexts. The
deadline for papers is 1st May, 2004. Submissions of creative work will
also now be accepted.

CFP: Writing Macao: Creative Text and Teaching (5/1/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
kitkelen_at_umac.mo

Writing Macao:
creative text and teaching

Submissions are now sought for the second number of Writing Macao:creative
text and teaching, to appear in November of 2004. Contributions are
particularly sought in the area of theory and practice relating to the
teaching of creative writing in English in non-native contexts. The
deadline for papers is 1st May, 2004. Submissions of creative work will
also now be accepted.

CFP: Writing Macao: Creative Text and Teaching (5/1/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 1:42am
kitkelen_at_umac.mo

Writing Macao:
creative text and teaching

Submissions are now sought for the second number of Writing Macao:creative
text and teaching, to appear in November of 2004. Contributions are
particularly sought in the area of theory and practice relating to the
teaching of creative writing in English in non-native contexts. The
deadline for papers is 1st May, 2004. Submissions of creative work will
also now be accepted.

CFP: American Periodicals (4/30/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 1:56am
Jared Gardner

CALL FOR PAPERS
The editors of American Periodicals
invite contributions for a special issue planned for 2004 on the "state=20=

of the field" for periodical studies. Topics might include:

=95 theoretical approaches and interventions in periodical studies
=95 new archives, technologies and research methods
=95 visions of the future of the field
=95 periodical studies and book studies
=95 survey of current and recent dissertations in the field

CFP: American Periodicals (4/30/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 1:56am
Jared Gardner

CALL FOR PAPERS
The editors of American Periodicals
invite contributions for a special issue planned for 2004 on the "state=20=

of the field" for periodical studies. Topics might include:

=95 theoretical approaches and interventions in periodical studies
=95 new archives, technologies and research methods
=95 visions of the future of the field
=95 periodical studies and book studies
=95 survey of current and recent dissertations in the field

CFP: American Periodicals (4/30/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 1:56am
Jared Gardner

CALL FOR PAPERS
The editors of American Periodicals
invite contributions for a special issue planned for 2004 on the "state=20=

of the field" for periodical studies. Topics might include:

=95 theoretical approaches and interventions in periodical studies
=95 new archives, technologies and research methods
=95 visions of the future of the field
=95 periodical studies and book studies
=95 survey of current and recent dissertations in the field

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