Submissions are invited for a proposed book-length collection
of essays on Romantic women and drama. This volume will aim
for a general examination of women's roles in the theatre
during the Romantic Period in Britain (roughly from 1780
through 1830), with specific emphasis on
transatlantic/transnational themes. Essays may address women
as characters in dramatic literature, women as playwrights,
and/or women as actors. Representative figures include
Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, Sophia Lee, Mary Russell
Mitford, Marie Therese DeCamp Kemble, Frances Anne Kemble,
Hannah Cowley, Sarah Siddons, Mary Robinson, and others.
Appropriate topics might include the following:

The Frontenac Review is now accepting graduate student papers for its next
issue entitled "The Deceiver." We invite 15- to 20-page studies of
deceiver figures as they appear as principal or secondary characters in
any work(s) of literature. All approaches are welcome. Papers will be in
English or French and must follow the MLA format.

Call for Submissions

The editorship of "Mystics Quarterly," a peer-reviewed journal, will soon
be changing hands, and the new editors are very eager to receive
submissions on forms of mystical and visionary experience, especially
though not exclusively of the Western Middle Ages.

Call for Papers for new anthology
Due date: February 22, 2005
Page limited: 20-25
Contact: embodiedheroism_at_hotmail.com

Embodied Heroism: Race, Class, Sexuality and the Female Hero

The editors of Phoebe: A Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques seek
essays for a special issue on gender and sexuality in science-fiction
and the fantastic.

Deadline: If interested, please send a 300 word abstract by February 18,
2005 to the guest editor for this issue, Dr. Cherilyn Lacy, at
lacyc_at_hartwick.edu <mailto:lacyc_at_hartwick.edu>. The deadline for
completed essays will be May 6, 2005.

Call for Paper
Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and
Cultural Identity

       The Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion will
hold an International Interdisciplinary Conference in
Calcutta July 27-30, 2006. The Conference theme is
"Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Cultural Identity".

Due Date: February 21, 2005
Page #: 25-30
Contact: wdgc_at_hotmail.com

Women, Development, and Global Capitalism Reader

Editors announced:

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Call for Papers

The Journal of Gender Studies intends to publish a Special Issue entitled

The Future of Fiction: The Future of Feminism

Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company

Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

General Editor: Michele Marrapodi

Advisory Editors: Keir Elam and Rob Henke

Attentively considering the new critical perspectives arising from the =
most
recent trends of literary hermeneutics, this book series analyses early
modern English drama within the context of the European Renaissance and,
specifically, in the light of the impact and influence of both classical =
and
Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions.

Call for Papers (New Shakespeare Journal; 7/31/05 and ongoing)

The editors of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and
Appropriation welcome original scholarship engaging with the
afterlives of Shakespearean texts and their literary, filmic,
multimedia, and critical histories.
Borrowers and Lenders is a new, peer-reviewed, online, multimedia
Shakespeare journal to be launched at the Shakespeare Association of
America Meeting in Bermuda in March 2005. The journal will appear
biannually, with a special issue in the Spring and general issue in
the Fall.

The department of Cinema, Television and Media Studies of IULM
University (Milan, Italy) is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for
a book on film remakes that will be published in mid-2005.

Provisionally titled "Ready Made. Film Remakes in Postmodern Times",
this interdisciplinary critical anthology will explore a range of topics
regarding the aesthetic, cultural, and social significance of remakes of
thriller, horror, and science fiction movies released after 1960. The
volume will be edited by and Matteo Bittanti and Rocco Moccagatta, both
film critics and researchers at the Libera Università di Lingue e
Comunicazione, Milan, Italy.

The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes submissions
for the Spring 2005 special issue on "Performance."

Topics might include:

Dramatic and Theatrical Performances
Stagecraft
Theatre History
Performance Art
Academia as Theatre
Teaching as Performance
Student Performance and Assessment
University Performance from Job-Hunting to Administration

Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2005.

Please send two copies of each essay (one formatted for blind reading) to:

Ann C. Hall, President
Midwest Modern Language Association
302 English-Philosophy Building
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408

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     Nineteenth-Century Prose invites submissions for a special issue on writing
by T. B. Macaulay, scheduled for fall, 2006.

We hope for a wide range of topics and approaches regarding particular essays by
Macaulay, or the Critical and Historical Essays as a corpus, and/or his History
of England. His parliamentary and bureaucratic

texts, such as those concerning India, will also be considered suitable subject
matter.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES REVIEW

Open Issue, Spring 2005

Announcement & Call for Papers