Working Up the Political: Women's Everyday Rebellions in
Eighteenth-Century Culture

CFP: Asian Gothic Literature (31 Dec. 2003, Collection)
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I am soliciting for ABSTRACTS at this stage for a monograph of scholarly
essays on Asian Gothic Literature. Despite its Anglo-centric literary
heritage, I believe that the Gothic, in its ambivalence and
susceptibility to polyvalent interpretations and theorising, is a
helpful way of reading and understanding the vast output of powerful
Asian texts that carry strong strains of the forbidden, the
extraordinary, the fantastic, the supernatural and the uncanny (amongst
other =91Gothic=92 concerns). Furthermore, a vast majority of =
contemporary
Asian writers have been exposed to turn-of-the-century Western

    CALL FOR PAPERS:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Recent African Poetry

Recent appraisals of African writing have not paid adequate attention to
poetry as a genre. This creates a space for an urgent critical
intervention. Essays intended for an international audience are therefore
solicited for inclusion in a collection of essays tentatively entitled
Reading Contemporary African Poetry .The book is to bring together
innovative but readable explorations of recent African poetry of English
expression.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Recent African Poetry

Recent appraisals of African writing have not paid adequate attention to
poetry as a genre. This creates a space for an urgent critical
intervention. Essays intended for an international audience are therefore
solicited for inclusion in a collection of essays tentatively entitled
Reading Contemporary African Poetry .The book is to bring together
innovative but readable explorations of recent African poetry of English
expression.

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                            New Cinemas:
                    Journal of Contemporary Film
           Volume 2 (2004) edited by World Cinema Group,
                         University of Leeds
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
New Cinemas is a refereed academic journal devoted to the
study of contemporary film around the world. Recent
developments have brought about a renewal of film industries in the
Far and Middle East, Europe, Africa and America. However, there
is a marked tendency to focus exclusively upon issues of ‘otherness’
and ‘marginality’, ignoring the specificities of these films. New

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to increase the pool of book reviewers for the peer reviewed
web journal I founded in 2000, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (See
http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal). Anyone interested please respond to me
at dam_at_aber.ac.uk, with indication of title(s) from the list below of books
currently available that you would like to review, or indication of general
interest of receiving lists of books available for review two to three times
a year, together with a brief biographical note.

Many thanks

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Christian Weisser and Christopher Keller invite proposals for a collection
entitled _The Locations of Composition_ that examines how, why, and to what
extent composition studies is enmeshed in space- and place-centered
pedagogies, theories, and epistemologies. The editors are interested in essays
that explore how greater attention to space and place might inform or
complicate important theoretical and pedagogical issues in composition
studies; how composition studies's current uses of spatialized discourses and
metaphors are productive and/or limiting; how compositionists might envision
and embrace new models of space and place; how composition, rhetoric, and

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The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and
copy for the December 2003 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, new websites, etc.)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Contemporary Theatre Review: Theatre and Globalization We are inviting
submission proposals for a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review
(February 2005) on 'Theatre and Globalization'.

Globalization is transforming our world: compressing time and space,
challenging the power of the nation-state, juxtaposing and erasing
cultural differences, replacing geographical boundaries with the
weightless flows of global capital, giving new life to ancient forms of
cultural rivalry, bringing all areas of personal, social, and cultural
life within its awesome reach.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Contemporary Theatre Review: Theatre and Globalization We are inviting
submission proposals for a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review
(February 2005) on 'Theatre and Globalization'.

Globalization is transforming our world: compressing time and space,
challenging the power of the nation-state, juxtaposing and erasing
cultural differences, replacing geographical boundaries with the
weightless flows of global capital, giving new life to ancient forms of
cultural rivalry, bringing all areas of personal, social, and cultural
life within its awesome reach.

CFP: Dalit Feminism

Please note deadline change.

Call for Contributors for a forthcoming text entitled:
‘Scandalosissima Scoundrelia:’ A Collection of Critical Essays on Mary
Delarivier Manley

Edited by Joni Goddard, Mills College, Oakland CA

Supplemental entries to Encyclopedia

Jo Malin
SUNY-Binghamton
jmalin_at_binghamton.edu

Victoria Boynton
SUNY-Cortland

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

         The editors of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Women's
Autobiography, to be published by Greenwood Press in 2005, are expanding
their list of entries with the addition of more entries on Women's
Autobiography from specific geographic regions and countries. Scholars are
invited to contribute one or more entries from the following list, which is
arranged in alphabetical order: