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CFP: Bollywood Audiences (7/1/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Sam Jay

Call for Papers

Special Issue of "South Asian Popular Culture"

Bollywood Audiences (Fall/October 2005)

Special Issue Co-editors: Jigna Desai (University of
Minnesota), Rajinder Dudrah (University of
Manchester), and Amit Rai (Florida State University). 

“The sense of belonging that Bollywood films foster -
the sheer sense of security and shared joy, … the
commonality of experience despite the geographical
separation of so many thousands of miles - is second
to none. It works more because Bollywood is one of the
things that bind us together as Indians, never mind
where we live.”

Soumya Bhattacharya (Hindustan Times 1/25/03) 

CFP: Postfeminist Gothic (3/22/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Stephanie Genz {PG}

Call for Papers

Postfeminist Gothic

Papers are invited on the theme of Postfeminist Gothic for a proposed
special edition of the 'Gothic Studies Journal' (Manchester University
Press).

CFP: Postfeminist Gothic (3/22/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Stephanie Genz {PG}

Call for Papers

Postfeminist Gothic

Papers are invited on the theme of Postfeminist Gothic for a proposed
special edition of the 'Gothic Studies Journal' (Manchester University
Press).

CFP: Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity (1/10/04; conference dates not noted)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Penelope Kelsey

Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity

This session will consider the role of Native American writing systems
and recordkeeping before contact and in post-contact literatures.
Especially welcomed are papers that consider how indigenous literacies
are informed by different worldviews than Eurowestern literacies, how
Native writing is conceived of as a socially-constituted act, and how
early tribal writers invoke and deploy these methods of record as unique
rhetorical strategies. Please send an abstract and one-page vita to
pmkgsl_at_rit.edu by January 10.

CFP: Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity (1/10/04; conference dates not noted)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Penelope Kelsey

Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity

This session will consider the role of Native American writing systems
and recordkeeping before contact and in post-contact literatures.
Especially welcomed are papers that consider how indigenous literacies
are informed by different worldviews than Eurowestern literacies, how
Native writing is conceived of as a socially-constituted act, and how
early tribal writers invoke and deploy these methods of record as unique
rhetorical strategies. Please send an abstract and one-page vita to
pmkgsl_at_rit.edu by January 10.

CFP: Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity (1/10/04; conference dates not noted)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Penelope Kelsey

Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity

This session will consider the role of Native American writing systems
and recordkeeping before contact and in post-contact literatures.
Especially welcomed are papers that consider how indigenous literacies
are informed by different worldviews than Eurowestern literacies, how
Native writing is conceived of as a socially-constituted act, and how
early tribal writers invoke and deploy these methods of record as unique
rhetorical strategies. Please send an abstract and one-page vita to
pmkgsl_at_rit.edu by January 10.

CFP: Living Forge 2: Rust Belt, Working Class Lit (4/1/04; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Jonathan William Senchyne

        The editors of Living Forge, the literary and arts journal of the rust
belt, are proud to announce that they are accepting submissions for their
next issue. Living Forge publishes poetry, short fiction, creative
nonfiction, drama, essays, critical works, book reviews, and other artworks
that have life in the rust belt as their focus.

CFP: Living Forge 2: Rust Belt, Working Class Lit (4/1/04; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Jonathan William Senchyne

        The editors of Living Forge, the literary and arts journal of the rust
belt, are proud to announce that they are accepting submissions for their
next issue. Living Forge publishes poetry, short fiction, creative
nonfiction, drama, essays, critical works, book reviews, and other artworks
that have life in the rust belt as their focus.

CFP: M/C Journal: 'turf' and other topics (1/19/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Axel Bruns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 December 2003

                          M/C - Media and Culture
            is calling for contributors to the 'turf' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.

CFP: Book Covers (1/30/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Nicole M

call for papers...

Judging a book by its cover:
fans, publishers, designers and the advertising of books
Edited by Nicole Matthews and Nickianne Moody,
Media and Cultural Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Book covers have long been the sole preserve of collectors and art
historians. This collection will draw a new range of disciplinary
perspectives - cultural studies, business and marketing, the history of the
book and literary studies - to make sense of book covers in the wider
context of publishers' publicity and the marketing of books.

CFP: Book Covers (1/30/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Nicole M

call for papers...

Judging a book by its cover:
fans, publishers, designers and the advertising of books
Edited by Nicole Matthews and Nickianne Moody,
Media and Cultural Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Book covers have long been the sole preserve of collectors and art
historians. This collection will draw a new range of disciplinary
perspectives - cultural studies, business and marketing, the history of the
book and literary studies - to make sense of book covers in the wider
context of publishers' publicity and the marketing of books.

CFP: Feminist Studies: Within Hostile Borders (2/20/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Olivera Jokic

Please find enclosed the call for papers for next year's issue of Michigan
Feminist Studies. The journal welcomes contributions from all disciplines,
and particularly encourages international scholars and graduate students
to submit.

Please note that this year's call also invites submissions for book and
film reviews, as well as visual materials, related to the topic "Within
Hostile Borders."

CALL FOR PAPERS

Michigan Feminist Studies

Seeks submissions for its 2004 issue:

WITHIN HOSTILE BORDERS

CFP: M/C Journal: 'turf' and other topics (1/19/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Axel Bruns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 December 2003

                          M/C - Media and Culture
            is calling for contributors to the 'turf' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.

CFP: Style in the Making (1/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Philippe ROMANSKI

Style in the making
The December 2004 issue of Cercles ( http://www.cercles.com ) proposes
to examine the possible geneses of style in the fields of literature,
art, architecture, music, costume, cinema, criticism and will welcome
interdisciplinary essays.
Style has long been the privileged target of literary analyses dwelling
on the music of prose, the rhythm of cadence, the choice of words, and
any other figures apparently giving identity to the written text. In
these, commentaries abound in qualifiers—like eminent, penetrating,
accurate—which reflect the impact of an author’s style on the reader

CFP: Book/Film Reviews on Disability Studies (no deadline noted; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Kathleen LeBesco

CFP: Book/film reviews on Disability Studies

As the new humanities book and film review editor for the journal
Disability Studies Quarterly, I would appreciate hearing from faculty and
graduate students interested in writing reviews of humanities-themed books
or popular films related to disability issues. Please email the following
information to klebesco_at_mmm.edu:

Name, mailing address, phone, email
Institutional Affiliation/Position
Research/Teaching Interests
Brief List of Publications/Presentations

Thank you.

CFP: Book/Film Reviews on Disability Studies (no deadline noted; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Kathleen LeBesco

CFP: Book/film reviews on Disability Studies

As the new humanities book and film review editor for the journal
Disability Studies Quarterly, I would appreciate hearing from faculty and
graduate students interested in writing reviews of humanities-themed books
or popular films related to disability issues. Please email the following
information to klebesco_at_mmm.edu:

Name, mailing address, phone, email
Institutional Affiliation/Position
Research/Teaching Interests
Brief List of Publications/Presentations

Thank you.

CFP: Stirrings Still: Existential Literature (no deadline; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
egrayso1_at_binghamton.edu

Call For Papers

“Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature”
invites submissions of critical articles on existential literature and
existential themes in postmodern fiction and drama. Articles should be no
more than 30 pages in length and should follow the MLA style sheet.
Stirrings Still also welcomes book reviews on relevant publications.
Submissions and subscription inquiries may be sent to:
Erik Grayson, Editor
Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature
Binghamton University
Department of English
Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Or email: egrayso1_at_binghamton.edu

UPDATE: Perspectives on Evil: Reconciliation and Forgiveness (1/15/04; e-journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Salwa Ghaly

Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness (PEHW) is seeking film and book
reviews on and around the theme of Reconciliation and Forgiveness. The
following list of books is of special interest:

--History and Memory: Passing into History: Nazism and the Holocaust Beyond
Memory. Eds Gulie Ne'Eman Arad, Steven E. Aschheim, Jose Brunner.

--Reconciliation Through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid´s Criminal
Governance. Kader Asmal, Louise Asmal & Ronald Roberts.

--Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: A Handbook.
David Bloomfield, Teresa Barnes, Luc Huyse, Priscilla B. Hayner, Karen Fogg,
Brandon Hamber, Stef Vandeginste.

CFP: Stirrings Still: Existential Literature (no deadline; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
egrayso1_at_binghamton.edu

Call For Papers

“Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature”
invites submissions of critical articles on existential literature and
existential themes in postmodern fiction and drama. Articles should be no
more than 30 pages in length and should follow the MLA style sheet.
Stirrings Still also welcomes book reviews on relevant publications.
Submissions and subscription inquiries may be sent to:
Erik Grayson, Editor
Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature
Binghamton University
Department of English
Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Or email: egrayso1_at_binghamton.edu

CFP: Teaching Appalachian Literature (2/7/04 & 8/7/04; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 12:34am
Pat Gantt

Teaching Appalachian Literature: Collection-Proposal deadline:
February 7, 2004; Final Article due 8/7/04 (Patricia M. Gantt, Utah
State University, editor)

Please send proposals of approximately one page to be considered for an
edited collection on teaching Appalachian literature, a book that will
provide a practical guide for teachers and literary scholars. Completed
chapters must be submitted by August 7, 2004, in Word format. The
collection is already under contract with a major university press.
Proposals may be sent to pgantt_at_aol.com. All inquiries welcome.

CFP: Teaching Appalachian Literature (2/7/04 & 8/7/04; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 12:34am
Pat Gantt

Teaching Appalachian Literature: Collection-Proposal deadline:
February 7, 2004; Final Article due 8/7/04 (Patricia M. Gantt, Utah
State University, editor)

Please send proposals of approximately one page to be considered for an
edited collection on teaching Appalachian literature, a book that will
provide a practical guide for teachers and literary scholars. Completed
chapters must be submitted by August 7, 2004, in Word format. The
collection is already under contract with a major university press.
Proposals may be sent to pgantt_at_aol.com. All inquiries welcome.

CFP: (Dis)Integration (12/31/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 12:34am
Donald Backman

Topic: (Dis)Integration

Portals: A Journal in Comparative Literature is a
graduate student run journal coordinated by the
Comparative Literature Student Association at San
Francisco State University.

CFP: Languages and Changing Contexts: Sociolinguistic Perspectives (5/31/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 12:32am
Priya Narismulu

CFP: Languages and changing contexts: Sociolinguistic perspectives
(05/31/2004 journal issue)

Alternation, a peer-reviewed Sapse-accredited journal for the study of
Southern African literature and languages, invites submissions for a
special issue on Sociolinguistics.

The special issue will focus on:

Languages and changing contexts: Sociolinguistic perspectives

CFP: Translit: Comp. Lit.: Edward Said (2/1/04; journal)

updated: 
Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 12:31am
Seth Jameson

CALL FOR PAPERS
Translit: UCLA Journal of Comparative Literature

TransLit is a new, refereed journal produced by graduate students in
the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of
California at Los Angeles. A meeting place for a wide range of
disciplines and theoretical approaches, the journal publishes
scholarly articles that treat textual, visual, musical or other
media, and which relate broadly to the field of Comparative
Literature. Bringing together a range of critical studies, Translit
serves as a forum for challenging disciplinary boundaries, fostering
innovative connections, and examining the relevance of comparative
literary studies in the contemporary world.

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