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game environments such as World of Warcraft to the social environment =20=

CFP: The Meaning of Food: How What We Eat Shapes Cultural,
Environmental, Political, and Literary Paradigms (3/1/07; RMMLA,
10/4/07-106/07)

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Synthetic worlds can now boast tens of millions of members. =46rom =20
game environments such as World of Warcraft to the social environment =20=

The topic for the Spring 2007 Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is
 Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Submissions are due by February 2, 2007
 to Pamela St. Clair pstclair_at_fastmail.fm or Amanda Golden
 apg3_at_u.washington.edu .

Suggested Topics Include:

Woolf, Plath and

Material Culture
England, America
Marriage
Childhood
Writing, The Creative Process
Life, Death, Suicide
Modernism
Art
Photography
Language, Imagery, Poetry
Reading
Literary Life

Conspiracy Theories in American Literature (Finland) (5/24/07-5/26/07)

Papers are invited for a "Conspiracy Theories in American Literature"
workshop taking place at the 20th Biennial Nordic Association for
American Studies (NAAS)
Conference at the University of Tampere, Finland between May 24-26,
2007. The conference theme this year is "American Bodies, American
Violence".

> > THIRD INTERNATIONAL GEORGE GISSING CONFERENCE
> > "WRITING OTHERNESS:
> > THE PATHWAYS OF GEORGE GISSING'S IMAGINATION"
> > LILLE, FRANCE
> > 27-28 MARCH 2008
> > (Thursday & Friday following the Easter weekend)
> >
> > CALL FOR PAPERS
> >
> > The efforts of scholars in the last half-century have served to confirm

"Graduating Gender: Reading the Work of Queer Graduate Students"

Update: the deadline for the collection of essays by/for queer graduate
students has been extended to May 30, 2007. Please email all submissions to
this new email address: jbattis_at_gmail.com

"Graduating Gender: Reading the Work of Queer Graduate Students"

Update: the deadline for the collection of essays by/for queer graduate
students has been extended to May 30, 2007. Please email all submissions to
this new email address: jbattis_at_gmail.com

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is a new online,
scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. The first issue is
now available on an open access basis.

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

Alternative Gothic (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel asks how we might consider the Gothic in forms other
than the novel.

For its annual meeting in St. Louis, MO, 9/28-30/07, the T. S. Eliot Society invites 100-word proposals for papers related to Eliot. Papers, about 2500 words long, should take no more than 20 minutes to deliver, to allow enough time for discussion. Send proposals to William Harmon, UNC CH English Dept., CB# 3520, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520; wharmon03_at_mindspring.com.

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

19th-Century British Masculinities (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions,
4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore the various and often conflicting
configurations of British masculinity that appeared during the nineteenth
century. Papers from all historical and theoretical perspectives are
welcome.

Suggested topics in masculinity include

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

19th-Century British Masculinities (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions,
4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore the various and often conflicting
configurations of British masculinity that appeared during the nineteenth
century. Papers from all historical and theoretical perspectives are
welcome.

Suggested topics in masculinity include

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

19th-Century British Masculinities (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions,
4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore the various and often conflicting
configurations of British masculinity that appeared during the nineteenth
century. Papers from all historical and theoretical perspectives are
welcome.

Suggested topics in masculinity include