Call for Essay Proposals for MLA Options Volume on Teaching the African Novel

8/15/04 Deadline. Contributions are invited for a critical anthology
exploring Intersections of Place and Literature. Topics can include, but
are not limited to: cities, landscape, culture, dream, ethnicity, sex,
heritage, meadows, villages, history, mountains, and/or water. While the
anthology will concentrate on new writing, some previously published (or
forthcoming) works are invited if they significantly advance the project's
intellectual investigation. Alternative formats/styles will be considered
if they enhance the project's line of inquiry and help to cast a variant
light the book's more traditional articles. Please send two copies of your

8/15/04 Deadline. Contributions are invited for a critical anthology
exploring Intersections of Place and Literature. Topics can include, but
are not limited to: cities, landscape, culture, dream, ethnicity, sex,
heritage, meadows, villages, history, mountains, and/or water. While the
anthology will concentrate on new writing, some previously published (or
forthcoming) works are invited if they significantly advance the project's
intellectual investigation. Alternative formats/styles will be considered
if they enhance the project's line of inquiry and help to cast a variant
light the book's more traditional articles. Please send two copies of your

Call For Articles: ?Popular Culture and Postmodern Ireland? (edited
collection; 6/30/04)

We invite submissions for a reader of cultural criticism on the theme
of popular culture and postmodern Ireland. We welcome any new critical
readings of emerging cultural practices that reflect and/or intervene
in the diversity of cultural experience in contemporary Ireland. Areas
for exploration include, but are not limited to, the following:

The online journal ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies is
soliciting articles and book reviews for the forthcoming fall
issue. ImageTexT is an academic journal for the study of comics,
including: comic books, comic strips, graphic novels, children's
picture books, works that combine image and text, and animated
cartoons.

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.

Deadline for submission: October 31, 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.

Deadline for submission: October 31, 2004

CFP: All's Well that ends Well (June 30/04; abstracts or proposals for a
volume of essays in major series)

May 14 2004

I am looking for proposals and abstracts (not full papers at this stage) for
consideration for an edited volume on Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends
Well. A session at the 2006 SAA meeting in Philadelphia will also be
proposed. Proposals and Abstracts can be fairly informal but preferable
should be about 500 words and should be sent by June 30, 2004. Deadline for
accepted proposals will be Summer 2005.

CFP: All's Well that ends Well (June 30/04; abstracts or proposals for a
volume of essays in major series)

May 14 2004

I am looking for proposals and abstracts (not full papers at this stage) for
consideration for an edited volume on Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends
Well. A session at the 2006 SAA meeting in Philadelphia will also be
proposed. Proposals and Abstracts can be fairly informal but preferable
should be about 500 words and should be sent by June 30, 2004. Deadline for
accepted proposals will be Summer 2005.

Celebrity Culture
                        Su Holmes and Sean Redmond

Celebrity Culture will represent a significant intervention in the field
on a number of different levels. Essentially, what we are proposing here is
a book which brings together approaches to stardom and celebrity which
range across historical periods, media forms and national contexts - as
well as disciplinary borders and modes of enquiry (film, television, music,
sport, Internet, print media). The book aims to bring together a broad
range of essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and
international landscape of today?s fame culture.

"Beyond Jeopardy: Adapting Collaborative Games for the Writing
Classroom"

Forthcoming Anthology.

Call for Essays on adapting games for the writing classroom, including
college composition, developmental, intro to literature courses, ESL,
and/or 12th grade English. Practical approach preferred over
theoretical -- grounding in theory encouraged, but not required.
Looking for experienced methods that have been tested and ideally
resulted in positive student performance and feedback.

CFP: *Macbeth* (5/23; abstracts for proposed volume of essays in est. series)

11 May 2004

I am seeking abstracts to include in an initial proposal for an edited volume on *Macbeth.* Should my proposal be accepted, the book will constitute part of an established series of critical essays on individual works by Shakespeare, several of which have already been published and enjoy wide distribution. I have the backing of the general editor of the series for this proposal. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 23 May.

CFP: Companion to the American Essay (no deadline; book)

New Series Announcement

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AND CANADIAN WRITERS

Call for Proposals for a new series of academic monographs

Manchester University Press is proud to announce the launch of a new
series dedicated to the critical appraisal of contemporary North American
writers. The series will reflect the breadth and diversity of writing in
America over the last thirty years, and will provide critical evaluations
of established, emerging and critically neglected novelists. This series
offers an exciting opportunity for authors to explore notions of the
contemporary, and to analyze current and developing modes of
representation with a focus on individual writers and their works.