CHICAGO HUMANITIES JOURNAL
           (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/humanities/maphchj/)
           

                      Call for Papers

*Where are the Humanities going?*
CHJ wants papers that challenge traditionally-held notions within the
humanities and that question boundaries between disciplines. . .
papers that critique literature and literary theory, social sciences,
history, musicology, law, philosophy, psychology. . .papers that debate
issues of interdisciplinarity and chart new directions for the humanities.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Descanso Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for upcoming
issues- The American Road, Icons & Iconography.

Descanso's goal is to give voice to up and coming writers and artists on
a variety of topics prevalent in American society.

Descanso accepts short fiction, poetry, one act plays, essays, painting,
photography & sculpture.

For submission guidelines or a copy of our premiere issue - SEX (for
only $7.00), write to:

Descanso Literary Journal
PO Box 20066
Seattle, WA 98102

or email: goyozura_at_earthlink.net

Thank you.

announcing a new e.journal in the humanities: fieldwork

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The REED Newsletter is converting to the status of peer-reviewed journal,
a process that should be complete by 1998. The editorial board at present
includes:

Lawrence Clopper, Indiana University
JoAnna Dutka, Past Editor, Erindale College, Unversity of Toronto
Alexandra Johnston, REED and Victoria College, University of Toronto
Sally-Beth MacLean, REED, University of Toronto
Anne Lancashire, University College, University of Toronto
Robert Tittler, Concordia Unversity
William Streitberger, University of Washington

We will also be switching to annual publication under a new name:

Early Theatre:
A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama.

*****ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS*****

The Linguistic Association Of The Southwest (LASSO) announces a change in
the editorship of its journal, the _Southwest Journal of Linguistics_.
Effective with Volume 16 (1997), the journal will be housed at Texas A&M
University-Commerce, where the new editor, Jon Jonz, is Professor of English
and Linguistics.

Call for contributions:

THE ROBICHEAUX REPORT
A James Lee Burke Newsletter

(check the Call at http://www.db.dk/dbaa/jbs/jlb/rr/cfp.htm - available from
April 21)

For a planned electronic newsletter on mystery author James Lee Burke I am
looking for contributions. I would like to print article and longer reviews,
but the newsletter will also contain a variety of other types of material.
Please let me know if you like to contribute - perhaps you already have
written something or you would like to. Please email me at jbs_at_db.dk.

The Connecticut Review is soliciting articles and essays on literary and
cultural topics with a broad theoretical scope. The Connecticut Review seeks
in particular innnovative scholarly work that might not fit the rubric of the
increasingly preprogrammed theoretical perspective of many traditional and
not-so-traditional journals. Recent contributors have included Andrew
Benjamin, Geoffrey Hartman, Carol Jacobs and Andrew Parker.

Send two copies of essays (formatted in MLA style and no longer than 20 pages)
to Stuart Barnett, English Department, Central Connecticut State University,
New Britain CT, 06050.

CFP-- The Next Generation: Problems and Perspectives

CALL FOR PAPERS

As a result of the current renaissance in literary prosody, a group
of scholars in a wide range of fields has recently banded together
to create an innovative web site called "Versification." Its purpose
is to encourage serious, multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging debate
on all aspects of literary prosody. The site will feature a refereed
journal, book reviews, running bibliographies, information on
developments in the field, links to other sites of interest and a
Colloquium for lively, informal discussions of all matters pertaining
to versification.

To find "Versification," point your browser at:

     Call for Papers

     The International Journal of Cultural Studies is an exciting new
     journal being launched in 1998 to take Cultural Studies into new
     territories and new concerns. The journal will be edited by Professor
     John Hartley from University of Wales College of Cardiff and published
     by SAGE Publications, London.

     The International Journal of Cultural Studies will conduct an
     international colloquy around issues of culture and media in a global
     context and from a post-disciplinary perspective.

_Jouvert: a journal of postcolonial studies_seeks submissions for
forthcoming issues. Jouvert, a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal
published tri-annually on the World Wide Web, offers an international
forum for the interrogation of textual, cultural and political
postcolonialisms. We encourage a wide variety of critical perspectives,
disciplinary approaches and scholarly methods that question the
assumptions, possibilities and limits of the postcolonial.
Postcolonialism is a conflicted ground--historically, culturally,
politically and theoretically. As such, we are especially interested in
innovative scholarship examining these conflicts, be it through the study

Explorations in English Studies would like you to share recent research
with others in a stimulating collegial environment. Please submit a paper to
be considered on any British Literature topic. The only requirement is
papers must include research and the use of outside sources. Please leave a
phone number where you can be reached for publishing rights information.

        Send Your Submissions to:

        Explorations In English Studies
        C/O Susan Yatamoto
        PO Box 778
        Pasadena, CA 91101
Received on Fri Jan 24 1997 - 14:37:38 EST

The _International Review of Modernism_ is a new review-journal that will
publish short articles, reviews, and extended review-essays on new
scholarly and critical books on European modernist literature and culture
situated in historical and national contexts. The coverage will be broad
both temporally (from decadence and fin-de-siecle to the start of the
second World War) and spatially (from Great Britain to Russia). We are
interested in all of the many contending movements in literature and the
other arts (post-impressionism, decadence, favism, cubism, imagism,
vorticism, futurism, dadaism, surrealism, expressionism, etc.).

          Announcement: New Journal in Comparative Literature

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