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UPDATE: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness (no deadline noted; 7/2003 e-journal issue)

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Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 6:16pm
Dr. Salwa Ghaly

Call for *book and film reviews* as well as short articles for the
upcoming issue of _Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness_
Open Issue (July 2003)
ISSN: 1471-5597

For further details and information, please visit the journal website
at: http://www.wickedness.net/ejournal or contact Rob Fisher at
theodicist_at_wickedness.net or Salwa Ghaly at sghaly_at_sharjahc.ac.ae

CFP: Teaching North American Environmental Literature (12/1/03; essay collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 6:12pm
Long, Mark

Call for Contributions and Ideas
MLA Volume on Teaching North American Environmental Literature

For the MLA's Options for Teaching series, the Publications Committee has approved development of the volume
Teaching North American Environmental Literature as the first of several planned books devoted to teaching
environmental literature. The book's editor, Fred Waage (with associate editors Laird Christensen, Mark Long, and
Kevin O'Donnell), is seeking contributions and ideas for practical and theoretical essays on teaching literature in the
United States, Canada, and Mexico.

CFP: Essays in Arts and Sciences (10/1/03; journal)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 6:03pm
Marianna Vieira

CFP: ESSAYS IN ARTS AND SCIENCES 10/01/03

EAS

Essays in Arts and Sciences is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scholarly
journal devoted to original examinations of the arts, of the physical and
social sciences, and of historical interpretation. We have published the
work of scholars in a wide variety of discourses and are interested in
submissions from any discipline in the arts, sciences and humanities. We
are pleased to accept the work of junior as well as seasoned scholars,
with the stipulation that chapters of dissertations or papers delivered at
conferences be revised to suit our format.

CFP: Teaching DeLillo's White Noise (9/1/03; accepted collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:48pm
Tim Engles

The MLA Publications Committee has accepted the manuscript _Approaches to
Teaching DeLillo's White Noise_, edited by Tim Engles and John Duvall, but
with the stipulation that we consider adding essays on

1) teaching _White Noise_ in a comparative literature context (along with
works by, e.g., Beckett, Kafka, Mann, and Gide)

2) teaching _White Noise_ in the context of disaster movies and novels
(both older ones like _The China Syndrome_ and _The Day After_ and more
recent examples).

UPDATE: Teaching Environmental Literature (8/?/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:44pm
eng_kat

Update: Please note the deadline for submission has been updated to
represent the correct date. The deadline is August 2003.

CFP: Teaching Environmental Literature (08/03, journal issue)

This message is being cross-posted; please excuse duplication.

The Winter 2003 issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly will be devoted to
teaching environmental literature. This issue is devoted to discussions
of pedagogical strategies for teaching environmental literature and/or
discussions of the environment as a tool for teaching any period or
genre of literature.

CFP: Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (journal)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:20pm
Edvige Giunta

                                                CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

                                                 SPRING 2004 ISSUE

                                                  TRANSFORMATIONS:

                        THE JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIP AND PEDAGOGY

CFP: Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (journal)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:20pm
Edvige Giunta

                                                CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

                                                 SPRING 2004 ISSUE

                                                  TRANSFORMATIONS:

                        THE JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIP AND PEDAGOGY

CFP: Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (journal)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:20pm
Edvige Giunta

                                                CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

                                                 SPRING 2004 ISSUE

                                                  TRANSFORMATIONS:

                        THE JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIP AND PEDAGOGY

CFP: Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (journal)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:20pm
Edvige Giunta

                                                CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

                                                 SPRING 2004 ISSUE

                                                  TRANSFORMATIONS:

                        THE JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIP AND PEDAGOGY

CFP: J. G. Ballard: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945-2000 (ASAP; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:18pm
David Malcolm

A contributor is sought for a volume of the Dictionary of Literary
Biography to write an entry on the short fiction of J.G. Ballard (6000
words).

Potential contributors should contact the editors of the volume, David
Malcolm and Cheryl Alexander Malcolm, as soon as possible at
angmd_at_univ.gda.pl
Contributors should include a brief professional cv and give their
present affiliation.

CFP: J. G. Ballard: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945-2000 (ASAP; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:18pm
David Malcolm

A contributor is sought for a volume of the Dictionary of Literary
Biography to write an entry on the short fiction of J.G. Ballard (6000
words).

Potential contributors should contact the editors of the volume, David
Malcolm and Cheryl Alexander Malcolm, as soon as possible at
angmd_at_univ.gda.pl
Contributors should include a brief professional cv and give their
present affiliation.

CFP: Sylvia Townsend Warner and David Garnett (8/1/03; collections)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:15pm
David Malcolm

SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER'S FICTION. Essays of approximately 5000 words are
invited on any aspect of Sylvia Townsend Warner's fiction. Essays may
consider the relationship of her non-fiction writing to her fiction.
Essays are to be published as a second volume of the Underratings series
on underrated British and Irish novelists. The first volume on Ronald
Firbank's fiction will be published by The Edwin Mellen Press in 2003.
Send 500 word abstracts by 1 August 2003 to the editors: Gill Davies
(daviesg_at_edgehill.ac.uk), David Malcolm (angmd_at_univ.gda.pl), and John
Simons (Simj_at_edgehill.ac.uk). Please include a brief professional cv
with the abstract. The deadline for completed contributions is 31

CFP: Sylvia Townsend Warner and David Garnett (8/1/03; collections)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:15pm
David Malcolm

SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER'S FICTION. Essays of approximately 5000 words are
invited on any aspect of Sylvia Townsend Warner's fiction. Essays may
consider the relationship of her non-fiction writing to her fiction.
Essays are to be published as a second volume of the Underratings series
on underrated British and Irish novelists. The first volume on Ronald
Firbank's fiction will be published by The Edwin Mellen Press in 2003.
Send 500 word abstracts by 1 August 2003 to the editors: Gill Davies
(daviesg_at_edgehill.ac.uk), David Malcolm (angmd_at_univ.gda.pl), and John
Simons (Simj_at_edgehill.ac.uk). Please include a brief professional cv
with the abstract. The deadline for completed contributions is 31

CFP: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945-2000 (ASAP; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:15pm
David Malcolm

Contributors are sought for a volume of the Dictionary of Literary
Biography to write entries on the short fiction of the following authors:

    Dan Jacobson 5000 words
    Julian Maclaren-Ross 3000 words
    Bryan MacMahon 3000 words
    Dilys Rose 3000 words
    Gwyn Thomas 3000 words

Contributions are also sought on the following topics:

    Short Fiction Writers in Irish, 1945-2000 5000 words
    Short Fiction Writers in Welsh, 1945-2000 5000 words
    West Indian, African and Asian British Short Story Writers,
1945-2000 6000 words

CFP: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945-2000 (ASAP; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 5:15pm
David Malcolm

Contributors are sought for a volume of the Dictionary of Literary
Biography to write entries on the short fiction of the following authors:

    Dan Jacobson 5000 words
    Julian Maclaren-Ross 3000 words
    Bryan MacMahon 3000 words
    Dilys Rose 3000 words
    Gwyn Thomas 3000 words

Contributions are also sought on the following topics:

    Short Fiction Writers in Irish, 1945-2000 5000 words
    Short Fiction Writers in Welsh, 1945-2000 5000 words
    West Indian, African and Asian British Short Story Writers,
1945-2000 6000 words

CFP: Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (9/1/03; essay collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:37pm
kmoncrief2_at_washcoll.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

Editors seeking articles for a proposed book-length collection entitled
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Finished articles should be
between 5000-8000 words (detailed proposals will be considered), and should
explore the representation of early modern English maternity and the extent
to which it became a locus of concern socially, culturally, religiously,
poetically, narratively, and dramatically.

CFP: Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (9/1/03; essay collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:37pm
kmoncrief2_at_washcoll.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

Editors seeking articles for a proposed book-length collection entitled
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Finished articles should be
between 5000-8000 words (detailed proposals will be considered), and should
explore the representation of early modern English maternity and the extent
to which it became a locus of concern socially, culturally, religiously,
poetically, narratively, and dramatically.

CFP: Companion to 20th C. British Poetry (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:34pm
Jeff Soloway

CFP: Companion to 20th C. British Poetry (no deadline; book)

Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for high school and
college students, is seeking a scholar to write or edit a one-volume
encyclopedia of twentieth-century British poetry. The ideal author will have
a Ph.D., broad knowledge of the subject, and an ability to write clearly and
succinctly for students. If the book is done with contributors, the editor
should also have extensive experience, good contacts in the field, and
excellent managerial and editorial skills. If interested please send letter
and cv, preferably by e-mail, to

CFP: Companion to 20th C. British Poetry (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:34pm
Jeff Soloway

CFP: Companion to 20th C. British Poetry (no deadline; book)

Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for high school and
college students, is seeking a scholar to write or edit a one-volume
encyclopedia of twentieth-century British poetry. The ideal author will have
a Ph.D., broad knowledge of the subject, and an ability to write clearly and
succinctly for students. If the book is done with contributors, the editor
should also have extensive experience, good contacts in the field, and
excellent managerial and editorial skills. If interested please send letter
and cv, preferably by e-mail, to

CFP: Companion to 20th C. British Poetry (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:34pm
Jeff Soloway

CFP: Companion to 20th C. British Poetry (no deadline; book)

Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for high school and
college students, is seeking a scholar to write or edit a one-volume
encyclopedia of twentieth-century British poetry. The ideal author will have
a Ph.D., broad knowledge of the subject, and an ability to write clearly and
succinctly for students. If the book is done with contributors, the editor
should also have extensive experience, good contacts in the field, and
excellent managerial and editorial skills. If interested please send letter
and cv, preferably by e-mail, to

CFP: Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (10/31/03; journal)

updated: 
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:34pm
socacademicstudymagic

Call For Papers

The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (JSM), a multidisciplinary, =
peer-reviewed print publication, is seeking submissions for its second =
annual edition, to be published in Spring 2004. Scholarly articles of up =
to 8000 words, written in English, plus shorter book reviews (up to 800 =
words) and the like are welcomed. We aim to cover all areas of magic, =
witchcraft, paganism etc; all geographical regions and all historical =
periods, and we encourage articles from postgraduates, tenured academics =
and freelance writers alike, using an academic style.

CFP: Philip Roth (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:17pm
Staszak-Silva, Suzanne (GPG)

Dear Scholars:

As a literary studies editor at Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger
Publishers, I am considering the possibility of putting together an edited
collection of criticism of the entire oeuvre of Philip Roth's works--perhaps
a chapter on each work. I am looking for a volume editor to pull such a
book together, and would like to invite book proposals for such a project.
I've included our submission guidelines below.

CFP: Philip Roth (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:17pm
Staszak-Silva, Suzanne (GPG)

Dear Scholars:

As a literary studies editor at Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger
Publishers, I am considering the possibility of putting together an edited
collection of criticism of the entire oeuvre of Philip Roth's works--perhaps
a chapter on each work. I am looking for a volume editor to pull such a
book together, and would like to invite book proposals for such a project.
I've included our submission guidelines below.

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