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.

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

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)
 

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

Due to a greater-than-expected response, the deadline for the submission of papers on the _Perspectives on African American Literature_ project has been extended from July 31, 2004 to September 30, 2004.

Call For Papers: Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films (Essay Collection)

Deadline for Proposals: 31st August 2004

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.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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.

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.

Apologies for cross-posting

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Call for Papers: A special issue of Feminist Media Studies

The Media Gendering of War and Conflict

Guest Editor: Dafna Lemish, Tel Aviv University

The editors of *An Encyclopedia of African American Literature,* currently
nearing completion, seek contributors to write short entries on
approximately seventy as-yet unassigned topics. A list of unassigned
entries is available online at

http://www.ups.edu/faculty/ostrom/New_Folder/Unassigned%20Entries.html

Individuals interested in contributing to the *Encyclopedia* should contact
David Macey (jdavidmacey_at_msn.com) or Hans Ostrom (ostrom_at_ups.edu) no later
than August 1, 2004.

The editors of *An Encyclopedia of African American Literature,* currently
nearing completion, seek contributors to write short entries on
approximately seventy as-yet unassigned topics. A list of unassigned
entries is available online at

http://www.ups.edu/faculty/ostrom/New_Folder/Unassigned%20Entries.html

Individuals interested in contributing to the *Encyclopedia* should contact
David Macey (jdavidmacey_at_msn.com) or Hans Ostrom (ostrom_at_ups.edu) no later
than August 1, 2004.

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.