The editors of The Pro-Wrestling Book are seeking essays on all aspects of Professional Wrestling. The book's starting point is that wrestling, notwithstanding its 'low' cultural status, is an important topic for analysis both for its intrinsic qualities and for what it tells us about culture and entertainment. The book proposes to deal with wrestling in broad terms, inevitably exploring the powerful WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) organisation, but also looking at other styles and traditions. Accordingly, the book will consider the historical development of wrestling and the role it has played in different cultures.

CFP: Moral Chaucer? Ethical Theory and the Premodern Text (9/15/04;
collection)

A forthcoming collection of essays seeks to (re)engage the question of
"moral Chaucer."

Chaucer's immediate successors credited him with "pleasance" coupled
with "sentence," and some compared him with the great moral
philosophers Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca. For later generations
Chaucer would come to be distinguished for his geniality and ironic
detachment in sharp contrast to the dogmatism and dullness of so many
contemporary moralists. Only recently (notwithstanding the exegetical
criticism of the mid-twentieth-century) have critics begun to
re-examine and describe Chaucer's "ethics."

MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature
APPROACHES TO TEACHING POE'S PROSE AND POETRY
Eds. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Anthony Magistrale

The editors of the MLA Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry seek
1-2 page proposals for possible inclusions. Possible topics include, but
are not limited to:

MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature
APPROACHES TO TEACHING POE'S PROSE AND POETRY
Eds. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Anthony Magistrale

The editors of the MLA Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry seek
1-2 page proposals for possible inclusions. Possible topics include, but
are not limited to:

The H G Wells Society Essay Competition is intended to provide interested
post graduate students with an opportunity to publish their work on H G
Wells in THE WELLSIAN, annual journal of the Wells Society.

CALL FOR PAPERS

TOPIC: Mel Gibson's: The Passion of the Christ

Deadline for submissions: August 27, 2004.

Editors:
Daniel Burston, Ph.D.
Rebecca De Nova
Department of Psychology
Religious Studies
Duquesne University
University of Pittsburgh

Please submit papers that address Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the
Christ from a
historical, theological, political, philosophical, psychological,
literary and/or artistic perspective.

CFP: Visual Culture in the Literature Classroom: Essays in Pedagogy
and Practice

=20

Submissions are sought for a proposed volume of essays presently titled
Visual Culture in the Literature Classroom: Essays in Pedagogy and
Practice.

=20

CFP: Visual Culture in the Literature Classroom: Essays in Pedagogy
and Practice

=20

Submissions are sought for a proposed volume of essays presently titled
Visual Culture in the Literature Classroom: Essays in Pedagogy and
Practice.

=20

UPDATE: Disability (8/15/04; journal issue deadline extended)

Atenea, a multidisciplinary bilingual journal on the humanities and
social sciences, features essays, books reviews, and some fiction and
poetry.
URL: http://www.uprm.edu/atenea

The editorial board invites submissions for publication for a special
edition (June 2005) on disability issues.
Essays may address a wide variety of topics such as the issues of
disability studies as a field;
representations of disability in literature, film, popular culture, the
media;
the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, politics and disability.

CFP: World Wide Eliot (11/30/04)

CFP: World Wide Eliot (11/30/04)

UPDATE: Postcolonial Text
An Invitation to Submit

Postcolonial Text Volume 1 No. 2
http://pkp.ubc.ca/pocol/

Postcolonial Text is a refereed, open access journal that invites articles
and reviews, as well as poetry and fiction, on postcolonial,
transnational, and indigenous themes. It is one of a new generation of
electronic journals committed to publishing critical and creative voices
within and across disciplinary boundaries, edited by a team spanning three
continents and backed by a highly regarded international editorial board
representing the best in postcolonial, cultural and literary studies.

Is Fat Still a Feminist Issue? Gender and the Plus-Size Body

A call for essays for a new collection on "The L Word"

Working Title: Representing Lesbians: Essays on"The L Word"
Edited by Sarah Warn (Editor, AfterEllen.com)

This book will be a collection of essays (2,000 to 4,000 words each)
written about lesbian/bisexual visibility and representation on Showtime's
TV show "The L Word." This book is geared towards a general audience, not
an academic one, but academics as well as journalists and other
non-academic writers are welcome to submit an abstract.

A wide range of topics related to "The L Word" are acceptable, such as: