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CFP: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (grad & jr faculty) (2/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Sullivan, Blair

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published
annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate
students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and renaissance
studies. Double-spaced manuscripts should not exceed thirty-five pages
in length, and all references should be in footnotes. We prefer
submissions in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format; paper
submissions are also accepted. Please include an e-mail address.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 37 (2006): 1 FEBRUARY 2006.

CFP: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (grad & jr faculty) (2/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Sullivan, Blair

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published
annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate
students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and renaissance
studies. Double-spaced manuscripts should not exceed thirty-five pages
in length, and all references should be in footnotes. We prefer
submissions in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format; paper
submissions are also accepted. Please include an e-mail address.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 37 (2006): 1 FEBRUARY 2006.

CFP: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (9/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Robin Reid

CFP: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (9-1-2006)

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

 

Greenwood Press

Planned Completion Date: January 2007

 

The 2-volume, illustrated Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An
Encyclopedia is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2007. The
Editor is seeking contributors for unassigned entries.

 

The focus will be primarily but not exclusively on work in English from the
19th century to the present, covering fiction, nonfiction, film, television,
art, comics, graphic novels, music and poetry.

 

CFP: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (9/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Robin Reid

CFP: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (9-1-2006)

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

 

Greenwood Press

Planned Completion Date: January 2007

 

The 2-volume, illustrated Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An
Encyclopedia is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2007. The
Editor is seeking contributors for unassigned entries.

 

The focus will be primarily but not exclusively on work in English from the
19th century to the present, covering fiction, nonfiction, film, television,
art, comics, graphic novels, music and poetry.

 

CFP: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (9/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Robin Reid

CFP: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (9-1-2006)

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

 

Greenwood Press

Planned Completion Date: January 2007

 

The 2-volume, illustrated Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An
Encyclopedia is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2007. The
Editor is seeking contributors for unassigned entries.

 

The focus will be primarily but not exclusively on work in English from the
19th century to the present, covering fiction, nonfiction, film, television,
art, comics, graphic novels, music and poetry.

 

CFP: Thirties Genres: Genre, Writing and Culture in Britain in the 1930s (UK) (3/24/06; 7/1/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Hopkins, Chris

Thirties Genres: Genre, Writing and Culture in Britain in the 1930s

'He picked up the newspaper from beside him; it was open at the women's and children's page. Jane may have had it, reading the All
Made with Remnants article . . . or John may have been enjoying the Washing Day Adventures of Some Tiny Animals. . . He turned
over . . . the Radio Programme . . . Next page. A short story . . . No he wouldn't read it. A block of advertisements filled up
the bottom half of the page. He read them with more care than he gave the news'. (Walter Brierley, Means Test Man, 1935)

CFP: Thirties Genres: Genre, Writing and Culture in Britain in the 1930s (UK) (3/24/06; 7/1/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Hopkins, Chris

Thirties Genres: Genre, Writing and Culture in Britain in the 1930s

'He picked up the newspaper from beside him; it was open at the women's and children's page. Jane may have had it, reading the All
Made with Remnants article . . . or John may have been enjoying the Washing Day Adventures of Some Tiny Animals. . . He turned
over . . . the Radio Programme . . . Next page. A short story . . . No he wouldn't read it. A block of advertisements filled up
the bottom half of the page. He read them with more care than he gave the news'. (Walter Brierley, Means Test Man, 1935)

CFP: Thirties Genres: Genre, Writing and Culture in Britain in the 1930s (UK) (3/24/06; 7/1/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Hopkins, Chris

Thirties Genres: Genre, Writing and Culture in Britain in the 1930s

'He picked up the newspaper from beside him; it was open at the women's and children's page. Jane may have had it, reading the All
Made with Remnants article . . . or John may have been enjoying the Washing Day Adventures of Some Tiny Animals. . . He turned
over . . . the Radio Programme . . . Next page. A short story . . . No he wouldn't read it. A block of advertisements filled up
the bottom half of the page. He read them with more care than he gave the news'. (Walter Brierley, Means Test Man, 1935)

CFP: Posthuman, All Too Posthuman (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
cbelling_at_notes.cc.sunysb.edu

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia,
December 2006:

Posthuman, All Too Posthuman
Organizer: Henry Turner
Papers on the “posthuman” in literature and science: networks, systems, and
assemblages; embodiment and prostheses; animals, nature, and environment;
posthuman futures, pasts, and presents; posthumanities scholarship.
Abstracts by March 15 to Henry Turner, hsturner_at_wisc.edu.
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Catherine Belling, PhD

CFP: Posthuman, All Too Posthuman (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
cbelling_at_notes.cc.sunysb.edu

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia,
December 2006:

Posthuman, All Too Posthuman
Organizer: Henry Turner
Papers on the “posthuman” in literature and science: networks, systems, and
assemblages; embodiment and prostheses; animals, nature, and environment;
posthuman futures, pasts, and presents; posthumanities scholarship.
Abstracts by March 15 to Henry Turner, hsturner_at_wisc.edu.
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Catherine Belling, PhD

CFP: Posthuman, All Too Posthuman (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
cbelling_at_notes.cc.sunysb.edu

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia,
December 2006:

Posthuman, All Too Posthuman
Organizer: Henry Turner
Papers on the “posthuman” in literature and science: networks, systems, and
assemblages; embodiment and prostheses; animals, nature, and environment;
posthuman futures, pasts, and presents; posthumanities scholarship.
Abstracts by March 15 to Henry Turner, hsturner_at_wisc.edu.
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Catherine Belling, PhD

CFP: Posthuman, All Too Posthuman (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
cbelling_at_notes.cc.sunysb.edu

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia,
December 2006:

Posthuman, All Too Posthuman
Organizer: Henry Turner
Papers on the “posthuman” in literature and science: networks, systems, and
assemblages; embodiment and prostheses; animals, nature, and environment;
posthuman futures, pasts, and presents; posthumanities scholarship.
Abstracts by March 15 to Henry Turner, hsturner_at_wisc.edu.
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Catherine Belling, PhD

CFP: W. J. Cash and the Idea of Progress (3/10/06; SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
David A. Davis

Abstracts are requested for a proposed special session on W. J. Cash and the
idea of progress for the South Atlantic Modern Language Association
conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 10-12, 2006.

Author of The Mind of the South (1940), Cash launched an iconoclastic attack
on the New South's infatuation with progress and economic development. The
papers on this panel will look back on Cash's impact on southern culture and
his influence on the literature of the U.S. South. Topics might include
contemporary representations of the man in the middle, the cult of
gyneolatry since the feminist movement, and the emergence of the Sunbelt.

CFP: John Ruskin (3/31/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Sharon A Weltman

Updated Call for Papers: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSE special issue on John
Ruskin

NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSE seeks essays on John Ruskin for a special issue
for Fall 2007. Articles of any critical approach are of interest.

Inquiries are welcome. Please send your completed essay of 20-25 pages by
March 31, 2006 to guest editor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman at the address
below. Essays should follow MLA style.

Dr. Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Associate Professor of English
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5001
enwelt_at_lsu.edu
225-578-2857

CFP: John Ruskin (3/31/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Sharon A Weltman

Updated Call for Papers: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSE special issue on John
Ruskin

NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSE seeks essays on John Ruskin for a special issue
for Fall 2007. Articles of any critical approach are of interest.

Inquiries are welcome. Please send your completed essay of 20-25 pages by
March 31, 2006 to guest editor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman at the address
below. Essays should follow MLA style.

Dr. Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Associate Professor of English
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5001
enwelt_at_lsu.edu
225-578-2857

CFP: Culture in 19th C British Literature (3/15/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
mjhellen_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
South Central Modern Language Association
Fort Worth 2006 - "Cultural Roundup"
 
"Culture in Nineteenth-Century British Literature"
 
The Nineteenth-Century British Literature Division of the SCMLA invites paper proposals for the 2006 meeting to be held October 26-28 in Fort Worth, Texas. In keeping with the conference theme "Cultural Roundup," this panel welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of culture, broadly construed. Topics might include, but are not limited to, literary aspects of "high" culture (art, music, fashion) or "low" culture (music halls, penny dreadfuls, street fairs) or sites of intersection.
 

CFP: Culture in 19th C British Literature (3/15/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
mjhellen_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
South Central Modern Language Association
Fort Worth 2006 - "Cultural Roundup"
 
"Culture in Nineteenth-Century British Literature"
 
The Nineteenth-Century British Literature Division of the SCMLA invites paper proposals for the 2006 meeting to be held October 26-28 in Fort Worth, Texas. In keeping with the conference theme "Cultural Roundup," this panel welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of culture, broadly construed. Topics might include, but are not limited to, literary aspects of "high" culture (art, music, fashion) or "low" culture (music halls, penny dreadfuls, street fairs) or sites of intersection.
 

CFP: Culture in 19th C British Literature (3/15/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
mjhellen_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
South Central Modern Language Association
Fort Worth 2006 - "Cultural Roundup"
 
"Culture in Nineteenth-Century British Literature"
 
The Nineteenth-Century British Literature Division of the SCMLA invites paper proposals for the 2006 meeting to be held October 26-28 in Fort Worth, Texas. In keeping with the conference theme "Cultural Roundup," this panel welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of culture, broadly construed. Topics might include, but are not limited to, literary aspects of "high" culture (art, music, fashion) or "low" culture (music halls, penny dreadfuls, street fairs) or sites of intersection.
 

UPDATE: Working with 'Real Readers' (1/15/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Amy Blair

NOTE: NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
The newly-formed Reception Study Association (RSA) will be sponsoring a
panel at the American Literature Association¹s 17th annual conference at the
Hyatt Regency San Francisco May 25-28, 2006.
³Working With ŒReal Readers¹: Case Studies and Methodological Challenges in
American Literature.² This panel will contemplate the definition of ³real
readers² as we work toward an interdisciplinary understanding of the work of
reception study in the American context. We invite both individual case
studies of reception and discussions of the particular issues confronting
the scholar of historical or contemporary reception of American literature.

CFP: Division on Autobiography and Life Writing (3/10/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
William Craig Howes

Here are the Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing topics
for the 2006 MLA Convention. Please send your proposal to the person
chairing the session; you can submit to more than one session, although if
you're selected for both, I assume you'd be asked to choose one.
If your paper is accepted, you will have to become a member of the MLA by
April 1.
Craig Howes

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CFP: Division on Autobiography and Life Writing (3/10/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
William Craig Howes

Here are the Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing topics
for the 2006 MLA Convention. Please send your proposal to the person
chairing the session; you can submit to more than one session, although if
you're selected for both, I assume you'd be asked to choose one.
If your paper is accepted, you will have to become a member of the MLA by
April 1.
Craig Howes

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UPDATE: Working with 'Real Readers' (1/15/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:33pm
Amy Blair

NOTE: NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
The newly-formed Reception Study Association (RSA) will be sponsoring a
panel at the American Literature Association¹s 17th annual conference at the
Hyatt Regency San Francisco May 25-28, 2006.
³Working With ŒReal Readers¹: Case Studies and Methodological Challenges in
American Literature.² This panel will contemplate the definition of ³real
readers² as we work toward an interdisciplinary understanding of the work of
reception study in the American context. We invite both individual case
studies of reception and discussions of the particular issues confronting
the scholar of historical or contemporary reception of American literature.

CFP: Death & Resurrection: Aspects & Approaches (grad) (UK) (3/1/06; 4/12/06-4/13/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:32pm
Kenneth Clarke

The Second Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK) on April 12th and 13th, 2006.
Graduate papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of death and resurrection in the middle ages and the early modern period.
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields such as history of art, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send 250 word abstracts in the body of your email (no attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by March 1 2006.

Suggested themes might include:-

CFP: Death & Resurrection: Aspects & Approaches (grad) (UK) (3/1/06; 4/12/06-4/13/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:32pm
Kenneth Clarke

The Second Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK) on April 12th and 13th, 2006.
Graduate papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of death and resurrection in the middle ages and the early modern period.
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields such as history of art, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send 250 word abstracts in the body of your email (no attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by March 1 2006.

Suggested themes might include:-

CFP: Death & Resurrection: Aspects & Approaches (grad) (UK) (3/1/06; 4/12/06-4/13/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:32pm
Kenneth Clarke

The Second Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK) on April 12th and 13th, 2006.
Graduate papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of death and resurrection in the middle ages and the early modern period.
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields such as history of art, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send 250 word abstracts in the body of your email (no attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by March 1 2006.

Suggested themes might include:-

CFP: Death & Resurrection: Aspects & Approaches (grad) (UK) (3/1/06; 4/12/06-4/13/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:32pm
Kenneth Clarke

The Second Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK) on April 12th and 13th, 2006.
Graduate papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of death and resurrection in the middle ages and the early modern period.
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields such as history of art, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send 250 word abstracts in the body of your email (no attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by March 1 2006.

Suggested themes might include:-

CFP: Death & Resurrection: Aspects & Approaches (grad) (UK) (3/1/06; 4/12/06-4/13/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:32pm
Kenneth Clarke

The Second Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference will be held at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK) on April 12th and 13th, 2006.
Graduate papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of death and resurrection in the middle ages and the early modern period.
Contributions are welcome from diverse fields such as history of art, history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send 250 word abstracts in the body of your email (no attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by March 1 2006.

Suggested themes might include:-

CFP: EnterText: Chinese Martial Arts in Film, Literature and Beyond (5/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:32pm
Leon Hunt

CALL FOR PAPERS: EnterText Volume 6 number 2

 

Wuxia Fictions: Chinese Martial Arts in Film, Literature and Beyond

 

Guest Editor: Leon Hunt, Film and TV Studies, Brunel University

 

Submissions for this edition are invited by 1 May 2006. With the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and House of Flying Daggers, the wuxia (Martial Chivalry/Martial Arts) genre has attracted a new wave of critical attention. This issue seeks to examine wuxia fictions in a range of contexts (national, regional, transnational) and across a range of media. Topics might include:

 

· developments in and aesthetics of fight choreography

· wuxia and authorship in literature and film

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