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CFP: Finding the OX: Buddhism and American Culture (7/1/04; collection)

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Friday, March 12, 2004 - 6:16am
John Whalen-Bridge

CALL FOR PAPERS: Finding the OX: Buddhism and American Culture (7/1/04)

The editors invite proposals of essays for a book on Buddhism and
American culture. Aimed at a readership across a wide range of
disciplines, Finding the Ox: Buddhism in American Culture will collect
essays that test and play with disciplinary boundaries between Literary
Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
and Queer Theory. The proposed papers engage theoretical problems, offer
close readings of specific texts, or (most fruitfully) ground
speculative debates within the practice of mindful reading. Specific
essays in the volume may consider:

UPDATE: Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology (6/1/04; journal open issue)

updated: 
Friday, March 12, 2004 - 6:16am
anthony crisafi

I apologize for this, but there was a mistake in the last posting. Thank
you.

Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Anthony Crisafi

CALL FOR PAPERS: Inaugural issue

Outside the Frame is a journal dedicated to examining emergent theories
concerning how technology is transforming the way we currently think of or
practice scholarship in the Arts and Sciences. We are specifically
interested in theoretical works that approach texts and technology from an
interdisciplinary perspective.

Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:

CFP: Contemporary Structures of Renunciation (4/10/04; collection)

updated: 
Friday, March 12, 2004 - 6:16am
Dr.Thomas Duschlbauer

Contemporary Structures of Renunciation

The Austrian Group for Applied Texts (Gruppe fuer angewandte Texte – GFAT)
is preparing an essay collection that will focus on structures of
renunciation within our contemporary society.

Accordingly, we welcome contributions from cultural and literary theorists
as well as from psychoanalysts, theologians and from other disciplines.

The short essays can relate to: sacrifice, martyrs, new consumer habits,
certain representations of pain and suffering in media etc. The
contributions will be published in English as well as in German
translation.

UPDATE: Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology (6/1/04; journal open issue)

updated: 
Friday, March 12, 2004 - 6:16am
anthony crisafi

I apologize for this, but there was a mistake in the last posting. Thank
you.

Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Anthony Crisafi

CALL FOR PAPERS: Inaugural issue

Outside the Frame is a journal dedicated to examining emergent theories
concerning how technology is transforming the way we currently think of or
practice scholarship in the Arts and Sciences. We are specifically
interested in theoretical works that approach texts and technology from an
interdisciplinary perspective.

Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:

UPDATE: Derrida's Indian Philosophical Subtext (3/31/04; collection)

updated: 
Friday, March 12, 2004 - 6:16am
Willam Haney

CFP: Derrida's Indian Philosophical Subtext (Collection)

The deadline for submission has been extended to 31 March 2004.

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Papers are invited for a special issue (August 2004) of the online, =
peer-reviewed journal _Consciousness, Literature and the Arts_ on =
Derrida's Indian philosophical subtext:

CFP: Contemporary Structures of Renunciation (4/10/04; collection)

updated: 
Friday, March 12, 2004 - 6:16am
Dr.Thomas Duschlbauer

Contemporary Structures of Renunciation

The Austrian Group for Applied Texts (Gruppe fuer angewandte Texte – GFAT)
is preparing an essay collection that will focus on structures of
renunciation within our contemporary society.

Accordingly, we welcome contributions from cultural and literary theorists
as well as from psychoanalysts, theologians and from other disciplines.

The short essays can relate to: sacrifice, martyrs, new consumer habits,
certain representations of pain and suffering in media etc. The
contributions will be published in English as well as in German
translation.

CFP: Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology (6/1/04; journal open issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
anthony crisafi

Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Anthony Crisafi

CALL FOR PAPERS: Inaugural issue

Outside the Frame is a journal dedicated to examining emergent theories
concerning how technology is transforming the way we currently think of or
practice scholarship in the Arts and Sciences. We are specifically
interested in theoretical works that approach texts and technology from an
interdisciplinary perspective.

Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:

CFP: Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology (6/1/04; journal open issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
anthony crisafi

Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Anthony Crisafi

CALL FOR PAPERS: Inaugural issue

Outside the Frame is a journal dedicated to examining emergent theories
concerning how technology is transforming the way we currently think of or
practice scholarship in the Arts and Sciences. We are specifically
interested in theoretical works that approach texts and technology from an
interdisciplinary perspective.

Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:

CFP: Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology (6/1/04; journal open issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
anthony crisafi

Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Anthony Crisafi

CALL FOR PAPERS: Inaugural issue

Outside the Frame is a journal dedicated to examining emergent theories
concerning how technology is transforming the way we currently think of or
practice scholarship in the Arts and Sciences. We are specifically
interested in theoretical works that approach texts and technology from an
interdisciplinary perspective.

Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:

UPDATE: Women in U. S. Race Riots (3/31/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
Julie Cary Nerad

UPDATE: Call for Papers

Abstracts on women's roles in specific race riots (listed below) are
invited to complete a collection tentatively entitled "Rage, Resistance,
and Representation: Women in U. S. Race Riots."

Springfield, IL (1908); East St. Louis, IL (1917); Chicago, IL (1919);
Detroit, MI (1943)

CFP: John Steinbeck Encyclopedia (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
Jeff Soloway

CFP: John Steinbeck Encyclopedia (no deadline; book)

Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for high school and
college students, is seeking a contributor to write several articles for a
forthcoming encyclopedia on the life and work of John Steinbeck. The ideal
editor will be a Steinbeck scholar with an ability to write clearly for high
school students. If interested please send letter and cv, preferably by
e-mail, to

CFP: John Steinbeck Encyclopedia (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
Jeff Soloway

CFP: John Steinbeck Encyclopedia (no deadline; book)

Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for high school and
college students, is seeking a contributor to write several articles for a
forthcoming encyclopedia on the life and work of John Steinbeck. The ideal
editor will be a Steinbeck scholar with an ability to write clearly for high
school students. If interested please send letter and cv, preferably by
e-mail, to

UPDATE: Women in U. S. Race Riots (3/31/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
Julie Cary Nerad

UPDATE: Call for Papers

Abstracts on women's roles in specific race riots (listed below) are
invited to complete a collection tentatively entitled "Rage, Resistance,
and Representation: Women in U. S. Race Riots."

Springfield, IL (1908); East St. Louis, IL (1917); Chicago, IL (1919);
Detroit, MI (1943)

UPDATE: Women in U. S. Race Riots (3/31/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
Julie Cary Nerad

UPDATE: Call for Papers

Abstracts on women's roles in specific race riots (listed below) are
invited to complete a collection tentatively entitled "Rage, Resistance,
and Representation: Women in U. S. Race Riots."

Springfield, IL (1908); East St. Louis, IL (1917); Chicago, IL (1919);
Detroit, MI (1943)

UPDATE: Women in U. S. Race Riots (3/31/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:42am
Julie Cary Nerad

UPDATE: Call for Papers

Abstracts on women's roles in specific race riots (listed below) are
invited to complete a collection tentatively entitled "Rage, Resistance,
and Representation: Women in U. S. Race Riots."

Springfield, IL (1908); East St. Louis, IL (1917); Chicago, IL (1919);
Detroit, MI (1943)

CFP: Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing (4/5/04; essay collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 5:16am
Lucy Frank

I am seeking contributions for a volume of critical essays on
representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing. The book is
currently under consideration by Ashgate Press. Essays on the following
topics would be especially welcome:

Representations of death/mourning in postbellum African-American writing or
Native American writing.

Representations of the Civil War in literature and popular culture.
(Suggested topics might include photographic representations of the Civil
War; national mourning and public monuments; the memorialisation of
battle-fields; autobiographical accounts of battle; Civil War fiction and
poetry).

CFP: Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing (4/5/04; essay collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 5:16am
Lucy Frank

I am seeking contributions for a volume of critical essays on
representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing. The book is
currently under consideration by Ashgate Press. Essays on the following
topics would be especially welcome:

Representations of death/mourning in postbellum African-American writing or
Native American writing.

Representations of the Civil War in literature and popular culture.
(Suggested topics might include photographic representations of the Civil
War; national mourning and public monuments; the memorialisation of
battle-fields; autobiographical accounts of battle; Civil War fiction and
poetry).

CFP: Stirrings Still: Existential Literature: Call for Reviews (1/6/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 5:16am
Erik Grayson

Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature seeks
review essays (1250-3000 words) and review notices (500-750 words) of books
published since June 2003. Stirrings Still is a forum for the discussion of
the relationship between existential literature & philosophy and postmodern
literature & theory and welcomes reviews of books in fields related to this
thematic ground.

We are particularly interested in reviews of recent scholarship in French
existential philosophy. Contributors of full-length reviews will receive a
copy of Stirrings Still. The deadline for submissions is the 1st of June
2004.

CFP: Harry Potter Fan Fiction (6/15/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 5:16am
Jane Glaubman

EDITED VOLUME: HARRY POTTER FAN FICTION

Contributions are sought for a proposed collection of essays about
Harry Potter fan fiction.

Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts or
completed essays. Essays on young writers, the transnational fandom,
and fan works from outside the English-speaking world are especially
needed, but all submissions are very welcome.

Paper topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

CFP: Harry Potter Fan Fiction (6/15/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 5:16am
Jane Glaubman

EDITED VOLUME: HARRY POTTER FAN FICTION

Contributions are sought for a proposed collection of essays about
Harry Potter fan fiction.

Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts or
completed essays. Essays on young writers, the transnational fandom,
and fan works from outside the English-speaking world are especially
needed, but all submissions are very welcome.

Paper topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

CFP: Harry Potter Fan Fiction (6/15/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 5:16am
Jane Glaubman

EDITED VOLUME: HARRY POTTER FAN FICTION

Contributions are sought for a proposed collection of essays about
Harry Potter fan fiction.

Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts or
completed essays. Essays on young writers, the transnational fandom,
and fan works from outside the English-speaking world are especially
needed, but all submissions are very welcome.

Paper topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

CFP: Reconstructing Poststructuralism (ongoing; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, March 5, 2004 - 6:40am
M Wolf-Meyer

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN 1547-4348) =
<http://www.reconstruction.ws> is an innovative culture studies journal =
dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars =
and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and ability to =
share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work =
in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.

CFP: Reconstructing Poststructuralism (ongoing; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, March 5, 2004 - 6:40am
M Wolf-Meyer

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN 1547-4348) =
<http://www.reconstruction.ws> is an innovative culture studies journal =
dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars =
and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and ability to =
share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work =
in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.

CFP: Reconstructing Poststructuralism (ongoing; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, March 5, 2004 - 6:40am
M Wolf-Meyer

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN 1547-4348) =
<http://www.reconstruction.ws> is an innovative culture studies journal =
dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars =
and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and ability to =
share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work =
in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.

CFP: Peer English: Open Call for Reviews (3/30/04; journal issue)

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Friday, March 5, 2004 - 6:39am
Louttit, C.J.

Due to an expansion of format the editors of Peer English (the University of Leicester's annual refereed English Journal) seek additional review essays (1000-3000 words) and review notices (approx 500 words) of books published in the field of English Studies since Jan 2003. Peer English embraces the full range of literatures published in English; theory; film; composition studies; drama and interdisciplinary approaches to the field of English Studies.

UPDATE: The AnaChronisT: all topics (4/14/04; yearbook)

updated: 
Friday, March 5, 2004 - 6:39am
The AnaChronisT

The AnaChronisT,

a peer-reviewed yearbook published by the Department of English Studies,
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary,

invites research papers, interviews, and book reviews on literatures in
English for its next issue, to be published in December 2004. All topics
acceptable. Papers are to be submitted by Wednesday, 14 April 2004.

The AnaChronisT welcomes submissions by graduate and doctoral students as
well as academics. The requirements of application are as follows:

- the text in Word or RTF document format sent to the following e-mail
address: anachronist_at_freemail.hu (your paper should not exceed 10,000 words,
including footnotes);

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