The ASSESSING JAMES PURDY Conference will take place October 25, 2003 in
Bartlett Hall of the university of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. All Purdy
enthusiasts are cordially invited, as are all fans of the best late twentieth
century fiction. There will be no registration fee.
    Essays are also solicited for the volume of essays that will follow up
the conference. The editor seeks essays on all aspects of Purdy's work, but is
especially interested in essays on the later stories, the plays and the poetry.
Send proposals for essays to Prof. Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., Department of
English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 or by email to: <
skerrett_at_english.umass.edu>.

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACADEMIC EXCHANGE EXTRA
http://asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/index.html
A MONTHLY PEER-REVIEWED ON-LINE FORUM

Submissions are invited from undergraduates, graduates, and educators for
Academic Exchange Extra (Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Haller). Extra presents
ideas, research methods, and pedagogical theories leading to effective
instruction and learning regardless of level, subject or context. We also
seek cogent essays, poetry and fiction.

Postcolonial Studies welcomes original and challenging contributions
from all over the world, informed by a variety of theoretical
perspectives, including postmodernism, marxism, feminism and queer
theory. Its aim is to generate a productive dialogue and exchange
between theorists and writers in disparate locations. All work submitted
will be refereed by a range of international readers and editors. In
addition to longer 7000 and 9000 word papers, we welcome photographic
essays, review articles and collaborative essays.

Submissions will be accepted by email as an attachment in Word 6.0 or
later program to: Nicola Nixon (pcs_at_netspace.net.au)

Lore: An E-journal for Teachers of Writing
<http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lore/> is seeking submission for its next
issue set to appear December 1, 2003. While the "Being Adjuncts" section
has traditionally focused on highlighting the voices of adjuncts
themselves, this upcoming issue will center on the perspectives of
administrators who supervise the teaching and professionalism of adjuncts
in composition. Institutional contexts often support the exploitation of
adjunct labor, and administrators who work directly with adjuncts often try
to protect adjuncts in various ways. However, what specifically are the

Encyclopedia of Ethnic
American Literature

Editor
Emmanuel S. Nelson
Department of English
SUNY-Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045
Ph: 607-753-2078
Fax: 607-753-5978
E-mail: emmanueln_at_hotmail.com

Advisory Board
Ken Cerniglia (Cornish College
   of the Arts)
Guiyou Huang (Kutztown University)
Arnold Krupat (Sarah Lawrence College)
Paul Lauter (Trinity College)
Ann Shapiro (SUNY-Farmingdale)
Loretta Woodard (Marygrove College)

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

CALL FOR REVIEWS
TRANSFORMATIONS: THE JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIP AND PEDAGOGY

DEADLINE: October 1, 2003

The editors of Transformations are seeking review essays (books, film,
video, performance, art, music, etc.) for our spring 2004 issue. Review
essays should examine resources for teaching a specific subject. The author
should describe the various resources (books, film, video, performance, art,
music) and offer a rationale for the usefulness and application of the
resources. The review may focus on one medium (e.g., movies) or several
(e.g., movies, websites, novels, and paintings).

cfp: Book Reviews for MULTICULTURAL SHAKESPEARE

CFP: MULTICULTURAL SHAKESPEARE (11/30/2003; annual monograph)
Call for book reviews

cfp: Book Reviews for MULTICULTURAL SHAKESPEARE

CFP: MULTICULTURAL SHAKESPEARE (11/30/2003; annual monograph)
Call for book reviews

Hemingway and Faulkner (book collection)

The Sound and Fury of Literary Competition: Essays on William Faulkner and
Ernest Hemingway

Seeking established or independent scholars, as well as advanced
graduate students, to contribute entries to a Feminist Encyclopedia of
African American Literature, presently under contract with Greenwood
Press. The encyclopedia will be published in a 2-volume set and
distributed worldwide.

Preference will be given to individuals who are willing to write more
than one 500 word entry, or who are interested in any of the longer
entries. Completed entries will be due in late spring, 2004.

Please contact me at beaulieea_at_appstate.edu by September 15, 2003 if you
are interested in contributing to this project.

Call for Poetry Submissions
Women, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System
Women's Studies Quarterly
Guest Editor: LaVerne McQuiller Williams

Published annually by graduate students of the University of California
Davis, under the auspices of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas,
_Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos_ is
an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on Latin American literary
studies. This journal seeks to foster a dialogue between established
academics and a new generation of scholars, while including original
essays from a variety of fields such as anthropology, history, art,
music, linguistics, comparative literature, sociology, and native
American studies. With each issue, _Brújula_ intends to highlight a theme
of relevance in current debates and to create a forum that explores

Safundi, The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies,
encourages any scholar or professional to submit a paper for
publication. Papers are being collected for publication in Issue 12
(October 2003).

DUE DATE: September 7, 2003

SUGGESTED TOPICS: Any topic dealing with South African and American
comparative studies: politics, sociology, biology, law, economics, art,
music, letters, history, etc. Essays and personal experience pieces are
also welcomed.

Published annually by graduate students of the University of California
Davis, under the auspices of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas,
_Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos_ is
an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on Latin American literary
studies. This journal seeks to foster a dialogue between established
academics and a new generation of scholars, while including original
essays from a variety of fields such as anthropology, history, art,
music, linguistics, comparative literature, sociology, and native
American studies. With each issue, _Brújula_ intends to highlight a theme
of relevance in current debates and to create a forum that explores