Special Topics Session: Beckett in Context

61st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association =

October 4-6, 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada=20

=E2=80=9CWriting the Caribbean in the U.S.=E2=80=9D: How do writers of Car=
ibbean heritage,=20
who are located in the U.S., reconfigure =E2=80=9CCaribbean=E2=80=9D literat=
ure? Possible=20
topics: diaspora, linguistic crossings, disciplinary boundaries, shifting ra=
cial=20
and ethnic identities, responses to U.S. imperialism, native=20
spaces/informants, Caribbean writers and the U.S. academy. 1-page abstract a=
nd cv by 10 Mar.=20
to A. Shemak (aas004_at_shsu.edu)

=E2=80=9CWriting the Caribbean in the U.S.=E2=80=9D: How do writers of Car=
ibbean heritage,=20
who are located in the U.S., reconfigure =E2=80=9CCaribbean=E2=80=9D literat=
ure? Possible=20
topics: diaspora, linguistic crossings, disciplinary boundaries, shifting ra=
cial=20
and ethnic identities, responses to U.S. imperialism, native=20
spaces/informants, Caribbean writers and the U.S. academy. 1-page abstract a=
nd cv by 10 Mar.=20
to A. Shemak (aas004_at_shsu.edu)

Call for Papers
MLA 2007, Chicago
Part-Time Discussion Group

The New Majority Faculty: A Kinetic Workforce

This panel focuses on recent trends assessing the facts and figures,
realities and myths within the part-time, academic workforce.

One page abstracts by 1 Mar to klombart_at_earthlink.net or
lombart1_at_canisius.edu.

Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Latino Community:

You are invited to submit poems, short stories, and scholarly work on
Latina/o Literature for a special Latina/o Issue of Pembroke Magazine that
will be guest edited by Liliana Wendorff and Richard Vela.

PLEASE ANNOUNCE

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association ~ RMMLA

Annual Convention in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

Calgary, Alberta ~ October 4-6, 2007

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Call for paper proposals!

SESSION: Literature for Children and Young Adults

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300-word abstracts by email to rmmla_at_wsu.edu <mailto:rmmla_at_wsu.edu>=20

March 1 deadline, but later submissions may be considered.

Membership in RMMLA by April 1.

Convention Registration Fee also applies. =20

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See www.rmmla.org <http://www.rmmla.org/>=20

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RMMLA

PLEASE ANNOUNCE

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association ~ RMMLA

Annual Convention in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

Calgary, Alberta ~ October 4-6, 2007

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Call for paper proposals!

SESSION: Canadian Literature and Film (Open Topic)=20

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300-word abstracts by email to rmmla_at_wsu.edu <mailto:rmmla_at_wsu.edu>=20

March 1 deadline, but later submissions may be considered.

Membership in RMMLA by April 1.

Convention Registration Fee also applies. =20

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See www.rmmla.org <http://www.rmmla.org/>=20

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RMMLA

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
will sponsor a panel at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007.

Proposals are welcome on topics dealing with ecocriticism,
literature/art, and the environment; those dealing with neglected or
underrepresented authors or topics amd those covering new approaches
to the critical examiniation of literature and the environment are
especially welcome.

Please sumbit 300-word paper abstracts (preferably as MS word
attachment) by March 1 to

Tina Gianquitto (tinagian_at_mines.edu)

If you do not have access to e-mail, please send your proposal to:

This is an UPDATED call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and
Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.

We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and
Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American
women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public
spheres.

Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:

religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family
vocation/profession

PLEASE ANNOUNCE

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association ~ RMMLA

Annual Convention in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

Calgary, Alberta ~ October 4-6, 2007

=20

Call for paper proposals!

SESSION: Italian-American Writers

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300-word abstracts by email to rmmla_at_wsu.edu <mailto:rmmla_at_wsu.edu>=20

March 1 deadline, but later submissions may be considered.

Membership in RMMLA by April 1.

Convention Registration Fee also applies. =20

=20

See www.rmmla.org <http://www.rmmla.org/>=20

=20

RMMLA

This is an UPDATED call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and
Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.

We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and
Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American
women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public
spheres.

Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:

religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family
vocation/profession

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
will sponsor a panel at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007.

Proposals are welcome on topics dealing with ecocriticism,
literature/art, and the environment; those dealing with neglected or
underrepresented authors or topics amd those covering new approaches
to the critical examiniation of literature and the environment are
especially welcome.

Please sumbit 300-word paper abstracts (preferably as MS word
attachment) by March 1 to

Tina Gianquitto (tinagian_at_mines.edu)

If you do not have access to e-mail, please send your proposal to:

CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
  November 8-11, 2007
  The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
  Cleveland, OH
   
  AMERICAN LITERATURE I: The Politics of Recovery: 19th-Century African American Women Novelists
   

CFP: Chris Ware (3/15/07; MLA, 12/27/07-12/30/07)

Call for papers for a proposed special session
MLA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2007

Papers for this proposed special session will consider the work of
Chicago-based contemporary graphic novelist/comic book artist/cartoonist
Chris Ware, author of _Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth_ (2000,
winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Award), _Quimby the Mouse_ (2003),
and _The Acme Novelty Library_ (2005). Among the questions that proposals
could address are:

-- What is Ware's relationship to the literary canon (both in terms of
graphic and conventional literature) and how does he re-imagine our
relationship to the idea of literariness?