At the most recent meeting of the American Comparative Literature =
Association in San Marcos, the outgoing president lamented the fact that =
almost 90% of comparative literature sessions in recent years have been =
devoted to relatively modern texts and issues. What has happened to pre- =
and early modern topics in comparative literature?=20

Call for Submissions
Riot!Magazine
An Arts & Literary Cultural Magazine

Riot! is now seeking submissions of fiction, poetry,
essays, and visual art, including political cartoons,
music, film and book reviews. Email your submissions
to editor_at_riotmagazine.com or sent via post to Riot
Magazine, PO Box 425, Marshfield, MA 02050.

Dear contributors,

I am looking for contribution (within 4000 words) on Shashi Tharoor’s “The
Great Indian Novel” for my book on Indian English Novels (1980-2000).
Please submit a proposal within 500 to 800 words before August 15th 2003.
Sent in a cv along with your proposal.

The proposal will be selected through competitive reviewing.

The other contributors for the book include:

Gayatri chakraborty spivak
Homi bhabha
Simon during
Richard Kearney
Arif Dirlik
Bill Ashcroft
Shashi tharoor
Vikram chandra
Sunetra gupta
Amit Chaudhuri
Sangeeta Ray
Grant Farred & others

Postmodern Culture Call for Reviews: Deadline 10 July 2003
REPLY TO: geyh_at_ymail.yu.edu

_Postmodern Culture_ is looking for reviews of recent books, films, CDs,
plays, TV shows, concerts, sporting events, performances, exhibitions,
conferences and conventions, happenings, and so forth, for the September
2003 issue. Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long and
should follow the journal's format guidelines below.

  Feminist Theory

Special Issue:
Feminist Theory and/of Science

Guest Editor: Susan M. Squier

Update: while submissions in any area are welcome, papers are particularly
welcome that address the biological and medical sciences.

Call for Proposals
Pedagogy, Praxis, Politics and Multiethnic Literatures
Fall 2004 issue of MELUS Journal (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
U.S.)

Teachers and scholars of ethnic American literatures have
traditionally found it useful to articulate the principles behind
their classroom practice. In the current social and political
climate, it is especially important to foster cross-cultural
dialogue on pedagogy in relation to recent educational practices
in the academy.

Call for Proposals
Pedagogy, Praxis, Politics and Multiethnic Literatures
Fall 2004 issue of MELUS Journal (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
U.S.)

Teachers and scholars of ethnic American literatures have
traditionally found it useful to articulate the principles behind
their classroom practice. In the current social and political
climate, it is especially important to foster cross-cultural
dialogue on pedagogy in relation to recent educational practices
in the academy.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Extended Deadline

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Too Smart to be Sentimental:

The Fiction of Contemporary Irish American Women Writers

=20

Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney, Editors

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

Extended Deadline

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Too Smart to be Sentimental:

The Fiction of Contemporary Irish American Women Writers

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Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney, Editors

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UPDATE: Queer as Folk CFP

The submissions deadline for 'Queer as Text,' a collection of essays on
the television series 'Queer as Folk' (both its British and American
incarnations) has been extended to Dec 1/03. Please send abstracts (1-2
pgs), along with a CV to:

Jes Battis
Dept of English, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6

OR email abstracts (plus CV) to: jbattis_at_fastmail.fm (include as .doc
attachment)

Feel free to contact me for more details.

Jes Battis

Presentation date extended.

Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays and Novels of Susan Glaspell

A collection of essays to be edited by Martha Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo.
We are looking for 20-25 page papers that:
1. broaden understanding of what constitutes Susan Glaspell's oeuvre,
bridging her work in different genre, particularly the plays to novels; or
2. contextualize Glaspell within major literary, social or political
movements of her time, or establish her influence on or by major literary
figures.

Papers should explore new territory beyond _Trifles_ and "Jury of Her Peers."

X-posted from FICINO

PLEASE CROSS POST!

Composite volumes are currently being organized for Series III of Ashgate's
THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISHWOMAN: A FACSIMILE LIBRARY OF ESSENTIAL WORKS,
1500-1750 [EMEW]. EMEW has already put over 100 texts by women in print,
many in composite volumes, edited--with introductory essays--by various
hands.
Dozens of additional writings by women are in various stages of production.

Series III (Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women) consists of
texts by and about early modern women. Volume editors will be involved with
the selection of copy for the volume and will write a short introductory
essay (ca. 12,000 words, including a bibliography).

X-posted from FICINO

PLEASE CROSS POST!

Composite volumes are currently being organized for Series III of Ashgate's
THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISHWOMAN: A FACSIMILE LIBRARY OF ESSENTIAL WORKS,
1500-1750 [EMEW]. EMEW has already put over 100 texts by women in print,
many in composite volumes, edited--with introductory essays--by various
hands.
Dozens of additional writings by women are in various stages of production.

Series III (Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women) consists of
texts by and about early modern women. Volume editors will be involved with
the selection of copy for the volume and will write a short introductory
essay (ca. 12,000 words, including a bibliography).

CALL FOR PAPERS

SARGASSO, a Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture
Edited at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Department of English
Deadline: November 22, 2003

SARGASSO is now accepting submissions and book reviews for an upcoming issue
to be entitled "Creolistics and Creole Exceptionalism: Linguistics and
Caribbean Languages."