Proposals are sought for essays to be published in an edited collection titled Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition. Please see the description of the proposed collection below. Cambridge Scholars Press has expressed interest in publishing this collection; negotiations for publication will be completed later this year, and completed essays will be due in late 2006.

Description:

CFP: Reference book on American popular fiction (no deadline; book)

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HISTORY COMPASS GRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE!

Submissions are invited for the 2006 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize.

History Compass (www.history-compass.com) publishes peer reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline. Experienced researchers, teaching faculty, and advanced students will all benefit from the accessible, informative articles that provide overviews of current research.

Entries for the 2006 Graduate Essay Prize should contain a strong survey element which ensures the essay remains accessible to the non-specialist. The incorporation of advanced graduate work is strongly encouraged.

HISTORY COMPASS GRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE!

Submissions are invited for the 2006 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize.

History Compass (www.history-compass.com) publishes peer reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline. Experienced researchers, teaching faculty, and advanced students will all benefit from the accessible, informative articles that provide overviews of current research.

Entries for the 2006 Graduate Essay Prize should contain a strong survey element which ensures the essay remains accessible to the non-specialist. The incorporation of advanced graduate work is strongly encouraged.

Proposals are invited for new volume of the online-journal, Romantic=20
Pedagogy Commons, on narrative fiction from 1780-1832 entitled: "Novel=20=

Prospects: Teaching Romantic-era Fiction." Proposals are due November=20
30, 2006, with final essays to follow by March 15, 2007, after=20
selections are made. See details below.

Novel Prospects: Teaching Romantic-era Fiction
Guest Editors: Patricia A. Matthew & Miriam L. Wallace
Call for Papers: Novel Prospects: Teaching Romantic-Era Fiction

The poetry of John Gower has experienced a renaissance of critical interest
in recent years, and scholars are beginning to realise the potential of
subjecting his works to an array of innovative approaches. This session aims
to bring together a panel assessing Gower¹s situation within 21st-century
medieval studies, and it is hoped that we can define more clearly his
position in the contemporary academy and his relation to the London culture
in which he was working, especially the relationship between his poetry and
that of his contemporaries and successors.

Possible topics include:

The poetry of John Gower has experienced a renaissance of critical interest
in recent years, and scholars are beginning to realise the potential of
subjecting his works to an array of innovative approaches. This session aims
to bring together a panel assessing Gower¹s situation within 21st-century
medieval studies, and it is hoped that we can define more clearly his
position in the contemporary academy and his relation to the London culture
in which he was working, especially the relationship between his poetry and
that of his contemporaries and successors.

Possible topics include:

Call for Papers: Victorian Secrets

University of Alabama
Fall 2007: October 26-28

Keynote Speaker:
John Kucich (Rutgers University)

Conference Website:
http://bama.ua.edu/~apionke/VI2007/VI2007welcome.mht

Call for Poetry Papers: Submit Critical Work to Deep South!

Deep South is emerging from hibernation.Our 2006 call for critical
submissions closes on August 1st, 2006. We will publish critical essays in
the Humanities and Arts, extracts from work in progress and reviews,
pertaining to a poetry theme. Submissions from anyone are welcome. Quality
of work will be given priority over graduate or under-graduate status.
With a Spring deadline in mind, we intend to publish Deep South by
September 2006. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by
members of the Deep South editorial team. All submitters will receive
e-mail notification of acceptance or rejection by the end of August.

Call for Poetry Papers: Submit Critical Work to Deep South!

Deep South is emerging from hibernation.Our 2006 call for critical
submissions closes on August 1st, 2006. We will publish critical essays in
the Humanities and Arts, extracts from work in progress and reviews,
pertaining to a poetry theme. Submissions from anyone are welcome. Quality
of work will be given priority over graduate or under-graduate status.
With a Spring deadline in mind, we intend to publish Deep South by
September 2006. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by
members of the Deep South editorial team. All submitters will receive
e-mail notification of acceptance or rejection by the end of August.

Special Issue: Romantic Pedagogy Commons
Sublime Teaching: Teaching as/through sublime (dis)identification
Guest Editor: J. Jennifer Jones

Proposals are invited for a new volume of the Romantic Pedagogy
Commons on the sublime as pedagogical theory:

CFP: A Postcolonial Eighteenth Century? (9/30/06; ASECS, 3/22/07 - 3/25/07)

Writing the Queer Self: Sex, Gender, and the Creation of Space in Queer
Life Writing
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This panel seeks to examine the roles that the inclusion of queer sex and
gender non-conformity in LGBT autobiographies, diaries, and memoirs play in
creating a unique rhetorical space for queer bodies. Additionally, this
panel will look at the ways that specifically queer life writing alters the
landscapes of literary biographies of LGBT authors, and the interpretations
of their works. Possible topics might include a reading of place that quee=
r
sex holds in Joe Orton=B9s diaries, his creation of a hyper-masculine and
hyper-sexual persona, and how that influences John Lahr=B9s biography, and

Call for Papers: Third Annual English Graduate Organization Conference:
"Representations of Indigenous Identity: Constructions of Authenticity"

November 10-11, 2006, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Loudon, Eastern Illinois University.