Call for Papers

GLBTQ STUDIES STILL MARKED AS DEVIANT IN THE BIBLE
BELT:
WHAT CAN BE DONE?

 (Proposed Panel, SEWSA, UT-Chattanooga, March 22-24,
2007)

POETS & POETRY PANEL

L'ENVERS DU DECOR: A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

L'Envers du décor

47th Annual SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur)
Congress

Avignon, France : 11th, 12th and 13th May 2007

Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse.

What takes place centre-stage starts life behind the scenes. The chaotic
become disciplined, the underground overground, expressions of freedom are
constrained. What are we to make, however, of this flipside and of those
that choose to walk on the wild side?

---IASA 2007 CALL FOR PAPERSINTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2007LISBON, September 20-23, 2007*Seminar Title: Interactive Dimensions between Transatlantic andTranspacific American Studies*Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2006*Papers to be Submitted to: tinarita_at_hum.nagoya-cu.ac.jp*Seminar Organizer: Professor Tatsushi Narita, Nagoya City UniversityDescription:¡ÈTranspacific¡É American studies appears to have been marginalized despitean indispensable role it is expected to play. Even the prevalent sphere ofTransatlantic studies would seem needing redirection. This seminar addressesthose issues which underlie both of admirable Transatlantic studies andemerging Transpacific studies.

---IASA 2007 CALL FOR PAPERSINTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2007LISBON, September 20-23, 2007*Seminar Title: Interactive Dimensions between Transatlantic andTranspacific American Studies*Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2006*Papers to be Submitted to: tinarita_at_hum.nagoya-cu.ac.jp*Seminar Organizer: Professor Tatsushi Narita, Nagoya City UniversityDescription:¡ÈTranspacific¡É American studies appears to have been marginalized despitean indispensable role it is expected to play. Even the prevalent sphere ofTransatlantic studies would seem needing redirection. This seminar addressesthose issues which underlie both of admirable Transatlantic studies andemerging Transpacific studies.

CFP: Fact & Fiction: An Anthology of Critical Articles on Australian Literary Studies (25/02/2007, Anthology)

Contributions are invited for an anthology of critical articles on Australian Literature aimed at B.A./M.A./M.Phil students and research scholars in India working in the field of Australian literature. The articles should be of 3000-5000 words and should engage with any one of the areas given below. The articles can be interdisciplinary in nature addressing these themes but keeping in mind that it is a literary anthology.

1. Australian Literary Studies in India
Overview
Challenges
Opportunities

CFP: Fact & Fiction: An Anthology of Critical Articles on Australian Literary Studies (25/02/2007, Anthology)

Contributions are invited for an anthology of critical articles on Australian Literature aimed at B.A./M.A./M.Phil students and research scholars in India working in the field of Australian literature. The articles should be of 3000-5000 words and should engage with any one of the areas given below. The articles can be interdisciplinary in nature addressing these themes but keeping in mind that it is a literary anthology.

1. Australian Literary Studies in India
Overview
Challenges
Opportunities

PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies

Graduate Student Conferece
New York University, 23-24 February 2007

PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies

Graduate Student Conferece
New York University, 23-24 February 2007

CFP: Gertrude Stein, Authority, and the Patriarchy (1/19/07; journal =
issue)=20
=20
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is seeking submissions for =
a special issue on Gertrude Stein, Authority, and the Patriarchy. =
Gertrude Stein's contemptuous disregard for patriarchal order and =
authority has long been a source of productive inquiry for women's =
studies, queer theory, and scholars of literary modernism. Her assertion =
that "there is too much fathering going on" and the recurring critiques =
of hierarchy and convention Stein strategically expresses through poetic =
form, language, and subject matter provide ready fodder for studies of =

CFP: Gertrude Stein, Authority, and the Patriarchy (1/19/07; journal =
issue)=20
=20
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is seeking submissions for =
a special issue on Gertrude Stein, Authority, and the Patriarchy. =
Gertrude Stein's contemptuous disregard for patriarchal order and =
authority has long been a source of productive inquiry for women's =
studies, queer theory, and scholars of literary modernism. Her assertion =
that "there is too much fathering going on" and the recurring critiques =
of hierarchy and convention Stein strategically expresses through poetic =
form, language, and subject matter provide ready fodder for studies of =

The William Carlos Williams Review is actively seeking submissions. We
invite essays of varying length (12-36 pages) on any aspect of the life
and work of William Carlos Williams, and on his relationship to the
artistic, philosophical, social, and political movements of his day.
New theoretical approaches to Williams's work are particularly
encouraged. Authors may submit manuscripts as Word files or in hard
copy to:

  bryce.conrad_at_ttu.edu

cfp:The International Spread of Shakespeare: 01/31/2007; 06/24/2007

The Seventh Triennial Congress of the
Shakespeare Society ofr Southern Africa
June 24 - 27, 2007
wwww.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/shake/conference
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College)
John Gillies (University of Essex)

cfp:The International Spread of Shakespeare: 01/31/2007; 06/24/2007

The Seventh Triennial Congress of the
Shakespeare Society ofr Southern Africa
June 24 - 27, 2007
wwww.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/shake/conference
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College)
John Gillies (University of Essex)

Call for papers: World War I in America: Violence, Crime, Masculinity, Genre
 
I am looking for papers to include on a panel at the ³Space Between²
conference in Annapolis MD, June 7-10, 2007. See conference information at
the bottom of this email.
 
This panel will explore the relationship(s) between two things that are not
usually connected: World War I and the rise of crime, real and imagined, in
America. Papers might consider war's relationship to the actual rise of
violence in America in the 1920s and 30s, or to the burgeoning popularity of
crime fiction, gangster movies, and film noir. Did the war breed
criminality? Why? Are soldiers future ³criminals²? Or do they have a