William Carlos Williams Review: special issue on Williams and Dada (9/1/07; journal issue)
   
  
  The William Carlos Williams Review, a journal devoted to scholarship on Williams and his contemporaries, is actively seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue on Williams and Dada. While essays exploring the ways in which Williams's work responds to and incorporates the creative ferment of Dada are preferred, we also encourage essays on Williams's contemporaries and American Dada in general. New theoretical approaches to Williams's work are particularly encouraged.
   
  Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2007
  (Spring 2008, vol. 28, no. 1)
   

William Carlos Williams Review: special issue on Williams and Dada (9/1/07; journal issue)
   
  
  The William Carlos Williams Review, a journal devoted to scholarship on Williams and his contemporaries, is actively seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue on Williams and Dada. While essays exploring the ways in which Williams's work responds to and incorporates the creative ferment of Dada are preferred, we also encourage essays on Williams's contemporaries and American Dada in general. New theoretical approaches to Williams's work are particularly encouraged.
   
  Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2007
  (Spring 2008, vol. 28, no. 1)
   

?Dividing and waning?: Openness and Incompleteness in the Poetic life
of William Carlos Williams

Call For Papers - Edited Collection

Cylons in America:
Critical Studies of Battlestar Galactica

Edited by C. W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter
(University of British Columbia)

Proposals are invited for an edited collection of original essays that examine BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, an award-winning science fiction television series presently in its third season. Since its debut as a 2003 miniseries, the current incarnation of BSG has created an intellectually challenging and explicitly political engagement with the values and ideologies of contemporary American society.

Call For Papers - Edited Collection

Cylons in America:
Critical Studies of Battlestar Galactica

Edited by C. W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter
(University of British Columbia)

Proposals are invited for an edited collection of original essays that examine BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, an award-winning science fiction television series presently in its third season. Since its debut as a 2003 miniseries, the current incarnation of BSG has created an intellectually challenging and explicitly political engagement with the values and ideologies of contemporary American society.

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CFPS: Narratives of 9/11: The Arab World and its Diasporas (18 March;
MLA 2007)

Narratives of 9/11: The Arab World and its Diasporas

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CFPS: Narratives of 9/11: The Arab World and its Diasporas (18 March;
MLA 2007)

Narratives of 9/11: The Arab World and its Diasporas

Soliciting proposals for presentations at the 2007 Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association Convention in Calgary, Alberta. Submissions in any
area of literary criticism will be considered, but I am particularly
interested in those dealing with old and new critical orthodoxies or
hegemonies. Please send an abstract of 100-300 words to
alanb_at_ext.usu.edu by March 1, 2007.

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Alan Blackstock

Associate Professor of English

Utah State University-Uintah Basin

987 E. Lagoon Street

Roosevelt, Utah

84066

(435) 722-1735

(dis)junctions 2007: malappropriation nation
defining victimhood
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

(dis)junctions 2007: malappropriation nation
defining victimhood
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

We've extended the deadline on a session sponsored by the Flannery =
O'Connor Society at the American Literature Association 2007 Conference =
in Boston, May 24-27, 2007. The panel, titled, "Flannery O'Connor from =
a Global Perspective" seeks papers on topics such as (but not limited =
to):

* O'Connor's perspective toward internationalization in a post-war =
America.
* How O'Connor texts are understood in the non-American classroom=20
* How O'Connor fits within literary traditions in other countries=20
* Pedagogical differences when teaching O'Connor abroad or to =
international students
* O'Connor texts as part of a Global literature curriculum

Extended deadline and new conference dates:

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NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY:
(Re)Locating Borders: Negotiating & Constructing Identities

University of Arizona
March 2-3, 2007 [new date]

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Extended deadline and new conference dates:

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NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY:
(Re)Locating Borders: Negotiating & Constructing Identities

University of Arizona
March 2-3, 2007 [new date]

CALL FOR PAPERS:

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 2007 Conference on John Milton
October 25-27, 2007

Sponsored by the Department of English
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Papers (not to exceed 20 minutes reading time) are invited on any aspect
of Milton studies, from close readings of particular works to broader
investigations of themes and trends.

Send two copies of completed papers by 30 June 2007 to

         Charles W. Durham
         2318 London Avenue
         Murfreesboro, TN 37129

For more information call, write, or e-mail the conference directors: