RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Internet consumers=20

This research in progress is aimed at being disseminated in the form of a=20
book. Gender studies scholars, scholars
studying the changing nature of sexualities, scholars of masculinities, gay=20
studies,
queer theory are invited to contribute.
Contributory chapters are invited.=20

Abstract

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on the contemporary
extreme. The volume will deal with novels whose styles or themes engage a
hyper real, often apocalyptic, world progressively invaded by popular culture,
permeated with technology, and dominated by destruction. In this world,
violence – often the only stable element – operates as ethos. Entries may
include, but are by no means limited to, novelists such as Cathy Acker, Nelly
Arcan, Frédéric Beigbeder, Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, Marie Darrieussecq, Don
DeLillo, Virginie Despentes, Bret Easton Ellis, Lucía Etxebarría, Alberto
Fuguet, Michel Houllebecq, Orly Kastel-Bloom, Patrícia Melo, Mian Mian,

Forum on "Senses of the Past"

Submissions are invited for a Fall 2004 Forum on "Senses of the Past."
Contributions may address any aspect of the topic, including:

Spectres, ghosts, graveyards, graves, monuments, memorials, ruins
Relics, fragments, traces
Memory, nostalgia
Repetition, Time-travel
Age, aging; childhood
History
The past; Excavating the past
Historical events
Fiction as history, fiction vs. history, historical fiction
Theories, uses of history in James
James as an historical figure
History of James criticism
History of James's writings, texts
Literary history
Historical influences on James
James as historical influence
James family legacies

CFP: Proposed volume on Barry Hannah (2nd CFP)

UPDATE: My computer had a slight meltdown over the weekend and unfortunately
all of my saved email has been irretrievably lost. If you sent information
for submission to the March VSB prior to February 1, please resend your
information (deadline Feb. 12). I'm including the original CFP below.

Thank you!
Rachel Bright
Co-editor, VSB
rbright_at_temple.edu

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The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and copy
for the March 2004 issue on the following subjects:

This is a call for papers to be submitted to Fast Capitalism, a new
electronic journal publishing refereed scholarship on the impact of
information and communication technologies on self, society and culture in
the 21st century. Bridging the humanities and social sciences, the journal
welcomes disciplinary and interdisciplinary work. The first number of the
journal will appear in late summer or fall 2004. Please direct submissions
to Ben Agger, agger@uta.edu. The journal's URL is http://www.uta.edu/fastcap .

This is a call for papers to be submitted to Fast Capitalism, a new
electronic journal publishing refereed scholarship on the impact of
information and communication technologies on self, society and culture in
the 21st century. Bridging the humanities and social sciences, the journal
welcomes disciplinary and interdisciplinary work. The first number of the
journal will appear in late summer or fall 2004. Please direct submissions
to Ben Agger, agger@uta.edu. The journal's URL is http://www.uta.edu/fastcap .

We invite you to submit academic and critical essays to a new
student-led online literary journal, _Clarion: A Women's Critical
Journal_. _Clarion_ is an undergraduate and graduate student-led,
annual online journal whose purpose is to provide a forum for
publication of critical papers with the central theme involving
women's writing, literary women writers, and women's issues in
literature.

The editors of the electronic peer-reviewed English Studies Forum <http://www.bsu.edu/shapps/english/cwp/index.htm> (www.bsu.edu/web/esf) seek critical and creative submissions for a forum on parody. Submissions to this forum might address all forms of parody (from Chaucer to This is Spinal Tap and The Onion) and/or parody as literary/socio-cultural/political critique (from Aristophanes to The Daily Show). We are interested in manuscripts that theorize parody, as well as those that are themselves parodies.

(Update: the previous version of this announcement had formatting
problems. Below is the corrected version.)

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies is currently soliciting submissions
for an upcoming special issue on:

NOSTALGIA

Guest Editors: Tom Lutz and Sean Scanlan

The AnaChronisT,

a peer-reviewed yearbook published by the Department
of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest,
Hungary,

invites research papers, interviews, and book reviews on
literatures in English for its next issue, to be published in
December 2004. All topics acceptable. Papers are to be
submitted by Monday, 5 April 2004.

The AnaChronisT welcomes submissions by graduate and
doctoral students as well as academics. The requirements
of application are as follows:

- the text in Word or RTF document format sent to the
following e-mail address: anachronist_at_freemail.hu (your
paper should not exceed 10,000 words, including
footnotes);

Academic Job Search--Snags, Successes, and Materials

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We are looking for email conversations about recent personal

experiences on the job market for the second edition of Job Search=20

in Academe. The revised edition will be updated to include advice,=20

scenarios, successes, and snags from Master's level and PhD=20

candidates about academic and corporate job searches. The authors=20

will build contributions in collaboration with contributors. You can=20

be anonymous or named and titled. You may contribute a good quote or=20

a case study. Your only time commitment is your email correspondence=20

with us, but your contributions make the book.

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MESTER LITERARY JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS

Please notice extended deadline: March 15th, 2004

Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its Special Issue to b=
e
published in June 2004, which will be devoted to:

Transformations: Re-imagining Identity

The centennial celebrations of Alejo Carpentier and Pablo Neruda, whose
works contributed to new representations of Latin American identity, serv=
e
to highlight how this concept has been re-imagined over the years. In thi=
s
Special Issue we seek to explore the topic of identity from a wide range =
of
scholarly points of view.