CALL FOR PAPERS

Ludologica Retro, Volume 1: Vintage Arcade (1971- 1984), edited by Ian
Bogost & Matteo Bittanti

"Ludologica. Videogames d'Autore" is pleased to announce its Call for
Papers for a book on classic video games that will be published in
mid-2005.

Provisionally titled "Ludologica Retro, Volume 1: Vintage Arcade (1971 –
1984)", this interdisciplinary critical anthology will explore a range
of topics regarding the aesthetic, cultural, and social significance of
seminal vintage arcade games. The volume will be edited by Ian Bogost
(Georgia Institute of Technology) and Matteo Bittanti (Libera Università
di Lingue e Comunicazione, IULM).

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Folklore in the Writings of American Authors

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            Recent texts focusing on folklore in literature have
highlighted classic literature. Defining literature broadly, Folklore in
the Writings of American Authors exists to offer discussion of folklore
in the `popular' writing genres: science fiction, detective fiction,
popular novels, short stories, children's literature, and horror.=20

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The deadline for submission of articles is extended to November 30, 2004.

Interdisciplinary Studies, an international journal, invites manuscripts
for its inaugural issue. Articles for the inaugural issue should
preferably address the following:

-- the idea of interdisciplinarity
-- the history and development of pedagogic interdisciplinarity
-- the possibilities/ shortfalls of interdisciplinarity as a
        humanities and social sciences methodological tool.
-- state-of-the art interdisciplinary studies
-- Disciplining Interdisciplinarity

Reviews of relevant and recent books on interdisciplinary studies
are also welcome. The journal will publish special issues from time to
time.

[Apologies for cross-posting]

CALL FOR PAPERS

CARDIFF CORVEY: READING THE ROMANTIC TEXT
(www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey)

ISSUE 13 (WINTER 2005)

remember AIDS?

The deadline for abstracts is 06/01/05 not 09/31/04

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From: Andrew McMurry <amcmurry_at_artsmail.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:00:48 -0400
To: <cfp_at_english.upenn.edu>
Subject: CFP: Multimedia and Early Modern Literary Studies (09/31/05;
journal issue)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of
Creative Writing

seeks submissions for its forthcoming 2005 issue 2.2.

Electronic submissions now welcome at:

submissions_at_multilingual-matters.com

The journal is published, in paper, three times a year.

New Writing publishes creative work alongside interviews with
writers, articles about creative writing teaching methods and
creative writing research, debates in the subject and analysis of
the relationship between creative writing on campus and the relevant
creative industries, theoretical and analytical work relating to
creative writing. . . .

CFP: "Rac(e)ing Questions II" gender and postcolonial/intercultural issues
(Deadline: 3/15/2005, essays and reviews for journal)
Publication: June 2005
Editor: Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier
The online journal "gender forum" (www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de), affiliated
at the University of Cologne, Germany, invites scholars to contribute
target articles and reviews to its upcoming issue on gender and
postcolonial/intercultural issues.
Target articles should conform to the MLA style sheet (Joseph Gibaldi, MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th ed. New York: The Modern

For a special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies, guest editors
Katherine Acheson and Andrew McMurry invite submissions that practise and/or
theorize the use of multimedia in pedagogical and scholarly communication in
early modern studies. Topics to be considered: the perils and opportunities
of new media scholarship; the role of the scholar-designer; the
representation of historicity in multimedia; the transformation of the
rhetoric of scholarly argument in multimedia; the constraints and
affordances of multimodal communication in humanities scholarship, including
those that pertain to the materiality of the technology; any other topic

For a special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies, guest editors
Katherine Acheson and Andrew McMurry invite submissions that practise and/or
theorize the use of multimedia in pedagogical and scholarly communication in
early modern studies. Topics to be considered: the perils and opportunities
of new media scholarship; the role of the scholar-designer; the
representation of historicity in multimedia; the transformation of the
rhetoric of scholarly argument in multimedia; the constraints and
affordances of multimodal communication in humanities scholarship, including
those that pertain to the materiality of the technology; any other topic

CFP: "Gender Disgussed" gender and the abject
(deadline: 6/15/2005, essays and reviews for journal)
Publication: September 2005
Editor: Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier
The online journal "gender forum" (www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de), affiliated
at the University of Cologne, Germany, invites scholars to contribute
target articles and reviews to its upcoming issue on gender and the abject.
Target articles should conform to the MLA style sheet (Joseph Gibaldi, MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th ed. New York: The Modern
Language Association of America, 1999) and should not exceed 8,000 words.

UTAH WRITERS COMPETITION
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Western Humanities Review (WHR), a quarterly literary magazine
published by the University of Utah, has announced a call for entries
to its twelfth annual competition for Utah writers.
Prizes are awarded in poetry and fiction. Each winner will receive
$500 and publication in the Spring 2005 issue of WHR. The entry fee
is $10 and includes a year-long subscription to the magazine. Checks
should be made out the Western Humanities Review.

The fourth issue of Br=FAjula, =93Working Gender: Cultural =
Representations
of Women and Labor=94 aims to bring together research that engages with
and analyzes the condition of women as they participate in work. Studies
of work include but are not limited to paid, unpaid, intellectual,
creative, physical, formal or informal, legal or illegal endeavors. We
will consider papers from a variety of discipl ines that explore and
problematize the changing definitions of women and their labors in Latin
American societies from pre-colonial to contemporary times.=20
Br=FAjula is a peer-reviewed journal that favors anonymity in the =
process

Call for papers:

Proposed Collection of Essays:

Rock-and-Roll and American Fiction

In the same vein as critical works that examine the influence/connections
between jazz/blues/classical music and literature, this collection seeks
essays that concern rock-and-roll and American fiction.

In particular, we are interested in essays that address the following:

1) Is there a shared form between rock and American fiction (short
fiction or novels)?

2) Are there thematic connections between rock and American fiction?