_WEST WING_ ANTHOLOGY PLANNED IN CONNECTION
    WITH PRESIDENCY CONFERENCE, November, 2001
        AT RONALD REAGAN PRES. LIBRARY

Peter Rollins (current Editor of Film & History) and John E. O'Connor
(founder of Film & History) are negotiating a contract for a book on
the soon-to-be-award-winning series WEST WING. (The series
has received 18 Emmy nominations.) The book will be published by a major
university press with special interest in television
and film studies.

********Women Writers********
Seeking Book Reviews & Critical Essays on/about women authors and Fiction &
Poetry *by* women writers for Women Writers: A Zine (an E-Journal).

Women Writers has been "live" for one year, and in that time has received
critical acclaim, and is rated one of the top 100 sites by and for women on
the Internet, as well as receiving over 26,000 visitors, from both U.S. and
international circles. We feature critical debate about women authors, and
provide a forum for publication for new contemporary women writers.

> >>Call for Contributions to _Asian American Poets_, ed. Guiyou Huang
> >
> >This is a call for qualified contributors to write for _Asian American
> >Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook_ to be published by
> >Greenwood Press. I have compiled a list of 120 names of Asian American
> >poets from which interested contributors may choose from. For details,
> >please email me at hguiyou_at_hotmail.com or huang_at_kutztown.edu and I will

> >>Call for Contributions to _Asian American Poets_, ed. Guiyou Huang
> >
> >This is a call for qualified contributors to write for _Asian American
> >Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook_ to be published by
> >Greenwood Press. I have compiled a list of 120 names of Asian American
> >poets from which interested contributors may choose from. For details,
> >please email me at hguiyou_at_hotmail.com or huang_at_kutztown.edu and I will

Seeking contributors for Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, an
ongoing print reference series recently acquired by the Gale Group that
offers analytical essays on the popular works of more than four hundred
authors, including John Grisham, Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, Poul
Anderson, John Updike, and Andre Norton.

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nasty is currently on the lookout for English language conference-length
papers from academics in all realms of the humanities. We are
particularly interested in sociopolitical and literary papers, with a
focus on the modern/post-modern period.

  "SOUND AND THE MOVING IMAGE: VOICE, MUSIC, EFFECTS"

A three year international research and development project, which will
produce a comprehensive text on the use and history of music, voice and
sound in film, TV, multi-media etc has recently commenced.

This is an alert call for all persons with an interest in suggesting topic
areas, who might be interested in writing on specific subjects, and/or who
have a strong research and/or practice based interest in this field. You
are invited to email the soundmovingimage_at_netscape.net site to register
your interests.

This CFP, almost identical to one sent earlier, is has been slightly
edited to make it more user-friendly for US scholars. The changes occur in
the final sentence under category 1 below and in the penultinmate
paragraph overall.

CALL FOR PAPERS

*scrutiny2: issues in english studies in southern africa* wishes to invite
papers on the following topics for its forthcoming issues:

1. The end of theory?

This CFP, almost identical to one sent earlier, is has been slightly
edited to make it more user-friendly for US scholars. The changes occur in
the final sentence under category 1 below and in the penultinmate
paragraph overall.

CALL FOR PAPERS

*scrutiny2: issues in english studies in southern africa* wishes to invite
papers on the following topics for its forthcoming issues:

1. The end of theory?

Call for papers

scrutiny2: issues in english studies in southern africa wishes to invite
papers on the following topics for its forthcoming issues:

1. The end of theory?

The editors invite contributions which address the seeming exhaustion with
successive waves of theory to legitimate and strengthen the practices of
literary and cultural criticism. We are more than happy here to consider
contemporary contexts other than southern Africa.

2. The semiotics of sports narratives

Call for papers

scrutiny2: issues in english studies in southern africa wishes to invite
papers on the following topics for its forthcoming issues:

1. The end of theory?

The editors invite contributions which address the seeming exhaustion with
successive waves of theory to legitimate and strengthen the practices of
literary and cultural criticism. We are more than happy here to consider
contemporary contexts other than southern Africa.

2. The semiotics of sports narratives

Chapters and appropriate chapter suggestions are sought for:

"Signs of Life: Medicine and the Cinema"

"Signs of Life: Medicine and the Cinema" will consider how medicine,
the medical profession and medical science have been presented in
the cinema. The book will offer an historical, cultural and textual
study of the filmic representation of medicine and will appeal to both the
film studies and a wider film readership.

This book development project already includes a foreword by a major name in
medicine and the medical humanities and is receiving extremely enthusiastic
responses internationally. We intend for this to be an exceptional book.

The book is divided into three sections:

Chapters and appropriate chapter suggestions are sought for:

"Signs of Life: Medicine and the Cinema"

"Signs of Life: Medicine and the Cinema" will consider how medicine,
the medical profession and medical science have been presented in
the cinema. The book will offer an historical, cultural and textual
study of the filmic representation of medicine and will appeal to both the
film studies and a wider film readership.

This book development project already includes a foreword by a major name in
medicine and the medical humanities and is receiving extremely enthusiastic
responses internationally. We intend for this to be an exceptional book.

The book is divided into three sections:

Fields of Knowledge, publisher of the Infography
(http://www.infography.com), is seeking accomplished scholars in all areas
of the humanities to submit citations to recommended research sources about
their subject specialties. In return, scholars receive royalties and other
benefits, if their submissions are accepted for publication.

Scholars must cite exactly "six superlative sources" of information, from
any type of media, and may optionally cite any number of "other excellent
sources." College professors can easily submit citations from course syllabi
or citations chosen from the bibliographies of books or articles they have
written.