There are still open slots on a panel whose title is "Poetry as Theory,
Theory as Poetry," which will be a part of the annual conference of the New
Jersey College English Association, to be held at Seton Hall University in
South Orange, NJ on March 18, 2006 (see entire conference Call for Papers
here: http://faculty.ucc.edu/english-chewning/cfp.htm). Abstracts for the
"Poetry as Theory, Theory as Poetry" panel should be e-mailed to Burt
Kimmelman at kimmelman_at_njit.edu, by December 1, 2005. To learn more about
the New Jersey College English Association go to: http://njcea.org.

The (se)X Factor in Labor

The (se)X Factor in Labor

CALL FOR PAPERS

Michigan Feminist Studies seeks submissions for its 2005-2006 issue: Bodies:
Physical & Abstract

CFP: The Mysterious Unknown: The Gothic and Its Human Others
ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

The Mysterious Unknown: The Gothic and Its Human Others
Seminar Organizer: Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Villanova University

Conventionally, the Gothic narrative traces the encounter of the human
subject with the mysterious and horrifying supernatural, beyond human
experience. This seminar will address the tendency of the Gothic text
to replace the supernatural figure of horror with the human Other, the
person who is represented as being inhumanly horrifying. The seminar
will be divided into three sections (one for each day of the
conference):

CFP: The Mysterious Unknown: The Gothic and Its Human Others
ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

The Mysterious Unknown: The Gothic and Its Human Others
Seminar Organizer: Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Villanova University

Conventionally, the Gothic narrative traces the encounter of the human
subject with the mysterious and horrifying supernatural, beyond human
experience. This seminar will address the tendency of the Gothic text
to replace the supernatural figure of horror with the human Other, the
person who is represented as being inhumanly horrifying. The seminar
will be divided into three sections (one for each day of the
conference):

Call for Papers: Stowe Society at ALA '06 - Two Panels

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, the Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association's May 2006 conference in San Francisco.

First, for an open session, we invite papers on any topic related to

Stowe.

For a second session, proposals on Stowe and other writers are

requested: any topic examining the influence of other writers on Stowe or Stowe's influence on others, whether her contemporaries or later authors.

Graduate students, independent scholars, and academics are all

encouraged to submit paper proposals.

Call For Papers:

The University of Victoria's 7th Annual English Graduate Students Conference
invites proposals for this year's conference, entitled "Identity Works: Order
and Diversity in Literary Studies," to be held at the University of Victoria
from March 3rd to 4th, 2006.

What does it mean to talk about identity in literature and literary studies?
This year's conference attempts to interrogate constructions, definitions,
categories, and fictions of identity as they are used in literary studies.

MEDIA-N CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

media-N is the invitational and peer-reviewed online journal of the College Arts Association (CAA)New Media Caucus (NMC). The aim of the journal is to reflect the energy and interests of media arts practitioners, educators and theorists.

http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/index.htm

Call for Papers:

Rice University
Humanities Graduate Conference

Face(s) of the Other

Keynote Address by Reda Bensmaia, Brown University

April 6-8, 2006
Rice University, Houston, TX

Global States
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/complit/globalstates

Announcing a conference hosted by the graduate students in the Department
of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, May 5-6, 2006

Featuring a keynote dialogue between Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot
Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, and
Gayatri Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia
University

ATTENTION: CALL FOR PAPERS

In the City and on the Road: Stasis and Mobility in the Twentieth Century
An Interdisciplinary Conference

http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/20thcenturyconference

Saturday, March 25 - Sunday, March 26, 2006
Department of English
University of South Carolina, Columbia (USA)

The conference deadline has been extended to November
17th, 2005. Please see our website for more
information:

http://english.louisiana.edu/gradconf/index.html

Call for papers

Who speaks in Melville's poems?
Herman Melville Society Session
American Literature Association, San Francisco
May 25-28, 2006
Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero