Please forward to potentially interested parties:

Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled
Eco-Cultures: Cultural Studies and the Environment. The purpose of this
book is to explore the cultural significance of nature and the environment
from a variety of scholarly approaches and perspectives. Ideally this
collection will be a comprehensive introductory textbook for the growing
interest in place, nature, and the environment, and will be suitable for
use at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

 Parlor Press announces a new series, "Writing Travel." We seek manuscripts
related to the new field of travel studies. Proposals for any of the
following are welcome:

Call for Papers
Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs
ABSTRACTS DUE JUNE 30, 2003

Ed. by the University of Minnesota Blog Collective
Smiljana Antonijevic, Laura Gurak, Laurie Johnson, Jim Oliver, Clancy
Ratliff, Jessica Reyman, Sathya Yesuraja

TINTA
Research Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

UPDATE: Please, note that the deadline for submissions has been extended =
to MAY 31st.

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Performance and Spectatorship in Film and Literature"

The graduate student research journal of the Department of Spanish and =
Portuguese at UC Santa Barbara is soliciting papers for its forthcoming =
2003 publication. The issue will focus on performance and spectatorship =
in Hispanic and Lusophone film and literature. Interdisciplinary studies =
and approaches are especially welcome.

TINTA
Research Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

UPDATE: Please, note that the deadline for submissions has been extended =
to MAY 31st.

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Performance and Spectatorship in Film and Literature"

The graduate student research journal of the Department of Spanish and =
Portuguese at UC Santa Barbara is soliciting papers for its forthcoming =
2003 publication. The issue will focus on performance and spectatorship =
in Hispanic and Lusophone film and literature. Interdisciplinary studies =
and approaches are especially welcome.

American Literary Geographies: Space and Cultural Production, 1588-1888
(collection)

American Literary Geographies: Space and Cultural Production, 1588-1888
(collection)

The deadlines for the LBR's Salon Culture & Literary Influence Issue
have been extended. The abstract due date has been extended until
July 31, 2003. The paper due date has been extended until September
30, 2003.

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The Left Bank Review will address the influence of salon culture in
the lives of the early Modernists living in Paris-- beginning with
the world of Marcel Proust. The LBR will also explore the
transformation of salon culture as it applies to contemporary writers
living and working in today's metropolitan environments.

Contributions are sought for a collection of essays addressing connections
between oral traditions--including folktales and folklore--and gender in
early modern literature. Send completed papers (no more than 5,000 words)or
abstracts by June 1, 2004 to both Karen Bamford <kbamford_at_mta.ca> and Mary
Ellen Lamb <marylamb_at_siu.edu>.

Karen Bamford
Associate Professor
Dept. of English, Mount Allison University
63D York St., Sackville, NB, Canada, E4L 1G9
phone: 506-364-2550; fax:506-364-2524
e-mail: kbamford_at_mta.ca

Contributions are sought for a collection of essays addressing connections
between oral traditions--including folktales and folklore--and gender in
early modern literature. Send completed papers (no more than 5,000 words)or
abstracts by June 1, 2004 to both Karen Bamford <kbamford_at_mta.ca> and Mary
Ellen Lamb <marylamb_at_siu.edu>.

Karen Bamford
Associate Professor
Dept. of English, Mount Allison University
63D York St., Sackville, NB, Canada, E4L 1G9
phone: 506-364-2550; fax:506-364-2524
e-mail: kbamford_at_mta.ca

UPDATE: Social Awareness and the Writing Classroom deadline extended for
Acaemic Exchange Quarterly!

The peer-reviewed journal, Academic Exchange Quarterly, will devote part of
its Winter 2003 issue to the topic of Social Awareness and the Writing
Classroom. The deadline has been extended to August 2003. See below for a
description of the topic, and visit the AEQ website for information on
submissions, and the formal call for papers.

Call for Papers

The Journal of Caribbean Literatures (JCLs) is the peer reviewed journal of
literature and culture of the entire Caribbean. Subscriptions and sample
issues are available at www.jcls.net.

Aware of the growing importance of the newly expanding field of Caribbean
Studies, JCLs seeks quality submissions for its forthcoming special
pioneering double issue on Caribbean literatures in Dutch and Papiamentu
from the Leeward Islands:

Literatures of Aruba, Bonaire and Cura=E7ao
Guest Editors: Olga Elaine Rojer, American University, and Joseph O.
Aimone, Santa Clara University

Safundi, The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies,
encourages any scholar or professional to submit a paper for publication
on the website, www.safundi.com. Papers are being collected for
publication in Issue 11 (July 2003).
 
DUE DATE: June 1, 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. Research addressing one country specifically will be
considered, research comparing the two countries is preferred.
 

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