Upcoming Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies

Graphic Narratives
Guest Editors: Marianne DeKoven and Hillary L. Chute

Deadline for Submission: 1 March 2006

This special issue seeks essays on book-length works composed in the medium of comics. The emergence of graphic narratives-also called "graphic novels"-combines a sophisticated and experimental awareness of form with a powerful political awareness of comics as a mass medium. The book publication of Art Spiegelman's _Maus: A Survivor's Tale_ brought graphic narratives to the academy; in the two decades since the publication of the first volume of Maus, the field of graphic narratives has expanded significantly.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Louisiana State University English Graduate Student Association (EGSA)
would like to announce its 16th Annual Mardi Gras Conference, February
10--11, 2006 in Baton Rouge, LA:

Text and the Provisionality of Meaning:
Theory into Action

Keynote Speaker: Terry Eagleton, Professor of Cultural Theory and the John
Rylands Fellow, The University of Manchester, England.
Selected Publications: Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983/1996), The
Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001), After Theory (2004)

?There can be no reflexive life without theory,? writes Terry Eagleton.
With this in mind, we are seeking papers that use theory to provide new
ideas and insights into human experience.

Working Title-Adolescent Medievalism: The Middle Ages Packaged for Children
and Young Adults

CFP: Science, Literature, and the Western American Imagination
Critical collection, MLA style, 6,000-7,000 words

(January 30th 2006 deadline for proposals; full articles due August 30th
2006)

CFP: Science, Literature, and the Western American Imagination
Critical collection, MLA style, 6,000-7,000 words

(January 30th 2006 deadline for proposals; full articles due August 30th
2006)

CFP: Teacher Education/Pedagogy

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College English Association National Conference

Reading the Regions / Writing the Regions / Teaching the Regions

San Antonio, Texas, April 6-8, 2006

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Deadline for all proposals: October 15, 2005

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We invite papers/panels on Teacher Education and Pedagogy for=20

the 37th Annual meeting of the College English Association. Members of
CEA are a collegial bunch, and we welcome participation by folks outside
English and by graduate students. This year's conference theme is
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Deadline extended:

NEMLA Convention: 2-5 March in Philadelphia.

I am currently seeking papers for the folowing panel:

Call For Submissions: Teaching Working-Class Studies

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SESSIONS, PANELS, PAPERS

AREA: MEMORY & REPRESENTATION

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS

2006 JOINT CONFERENCE

April 12-15, 2006

Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to:

http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2005

We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme,

special panels and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour

slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.

CEA invites proposals for presentations on book history, bibliography, textual
criticism, readership, authorship, print culture, and (especially) book history
pedagogy. We're meeting at the historic Saint Anthony's Hotel in San
Antonio, April 6-8, 2006.

Panels in book history and book history pedagogy are sponsored by Terry
Belanger and Rare Book School.

Since 1939, the College English Association has been a vibrant association of
scholar-teachers, committed to excellence in teaching and professional
development with 20 regional affiliates. Last year's conference with over 500
presentations in total, offered 5 panels on book history & textual criticism.

College English Association National Conference
April 6-8, 2006
San Antonio, Texas
We invite papers on "Regions and the Short Story" for the 37th annual
meeting of the CEA. Suggested topics for this panel include local color,
the theory of regionalism, and individual authors, stories, or collections
(American, British, Canadian, Australian, etc.) relevant to regionalism.
        Proposals should include the following information
        Name
        Institutional affiliation
        Mailing address, including zip code
        Phone number
        Email address
        Title for the proposed presentation
        Abstract of no more than 500 words

CFP: Emotional Sin: The Seven Deadly Passions in Medieval Literature (UK)
(9/23/05; Leeds; 7/10-13/06)

Deadline Extended!

Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress 2006, Leeds
Emotional Sin: The Seven Deadly Passions in Medieval Literature
Abstract Submission Deadline: 23 September, 2005

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute papers on the above subject to be
delivered at the Thirteenth International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK,
10-13 July 2006. See www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc2006/imc2006.htm for more
information.

CFP: Emotional Sin: The Seven Deadly Passions in Medieval Literature (UK)
(9/23/05; Leeds; 7/10-13/06)

Deadline Extended!

Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress 2006, Leeds
Emotional Sin: The Seven Deadly Passions in Medieval Literature
Abstract Submission Deadline: 23 September, 2005

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute papers on the above subject to be
delivered at the Thirteenth International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK,
10-13 July 2006. See www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc2006/imc2006.htm for more
information.

Image (&) Narrative, a refereed online journal based at K.U. Leuven in=20
Belgium, seeks contributions on the topic of =E2=80=9CLiterary illustration=
: pros and cons.
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now seeking to deepen our understanding of the relationships between litera=
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reading, illustration, and the web.=20
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to see a very specific type of illustration, namely online =E2=80=9Cindepen=
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illustrative networks=E2=80=9D that function not as simple =E2=80=9Cillustr=
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