The J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis panel of the Northeast
Modern Language Association addresses all aspects of the works and
lives of both authors. Recent interest in them invites examination
of their impact as men and writers on twentieth-century literature
and thought. Papers are also welcome that take as their subject film
adaptations of their fictions. Please send abstracts of about 200
words e-mail to Bill Mistichelli at wxm3_at_psu.edu

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 28th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
 
Panels are now forming on topics related to Experimental Writing and
Aesthetics in such areas as the aesthetics of experimental writing in
any genre or in multi-genre/multi-media works including digital and
graphic compositions involving language, the poetics of performance of
experimental compositions, critical studies of experimental writers,
etc.
 
Creative writers interested in the selective creative writing readings

CFP: Writing the Midwest (11/20/06; SSML; 5/10/07-5/12-07)
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Call for Creative Nonfiction
for special panels at the Symposium of the Society for the Study of =
Midwestern Literature

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Announcement and Call for Papers: The editors of Latino Boom: An =
Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature and LatinoStories.com are accepting: =
previously published scholarly essays, books, book reviews, and =
interviews that focus on U.S. Latino literature, to which contributors =
hold rights. The purpose of the project is to revive and keep alive =
scholarly and analytical works that were published in the past but may =
not be so easily accessible (e.g., the work is out of print or it may =
have been originally published for a limited audience). The editors =
will publish these works in LatinoStories.com and thus make these =
resources available to an international audience that includes faculty, =

Announcement and Call for Papers: The editors of Latino Boom: An =
Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature and LatinoStories.com are accepting: =
previously published scholarly essays, books, book reviews, and =
interviews that focus on U.S. Latino literature, to which contributors =
hold rights. The purpose of the project is to revive and keep alive =
scholarly and analytical works that were published in the past but may =
not be so easily accessible (e.g., the work is out of print or it may =
have been originally published for a limited audience). The editors =
will publish these works in LatinoStories.com and thus make these =
resources available to an international audience that includes faculty, =

Please post as follows:
 
CFP: Romanticism and the Child as Liberator (11/17/06; NASSR (UK)7/26/07)
  

This proposed session of the 2007 combined NASSR/BARS Conference at the University of Bristol invites a study of the child in Romantic literature as a liberator or symbol of liberty. How has the child been represented as one to liberate adults, the oppressed, the Other? How has the child been symbolized in this way differently by male and female writers? The theme of the conference is "Emancipation, Liberation, Freedom." Send 300-word abstracts by e-mail to Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd-Mercy College) at: chapin.L_at_gmc.edu by November 17, 2006.

Society of Early Americanists and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference
June 7, 2007-June 10, 2007, Williamsburg, Virginia

Panel: Signatures and the Self: Material Marks of Identity

Call for Papers

Composition and Rhetoric Area

Popular Culture Assocation/American Culture Association Conference

The Boston Marriott Copley Place
Boston, MA
April 4-7, 2007

The Composition and Rhetoric Area of the PCA/ACA seeks papers/projects
addressing the intersection of Popular Culture with Composition studies
and/or Rhetoric, as each of these terms can be most broadly construed.
We are interested in popular representations of writing, rhetoric, and
instruction in both, as well as the composed or rhetorical nature of
culture as expressed in popular artifacts. Topics include, but are not
limited to:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Winter 2007 Issue=20

Theme: The Courage to Teach Language Arts=20

Submission deadline for the winter issue: December 1, 2006

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UPDATE: China Abroad: Travels, Spaces, Subjects (collection)

UPDATE: China Abroad: Travels, Spaces, Subjects (collection)

Winthrop University, in Rock Hill, SC, will host the Southern Regional
Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies March 8-10,
2007. The theme of the interdisciplinary conference will be "A Piece of
the Irish Dream," although the committee welcomes papers proposals on
all aspects of Irish Studies.

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Please submit a one-page paper proposal by October 9, 2006 to:

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Marguerite Quintelli-Neary (nearym_at_winthrop.edu), or send hard copy to
her at:

English Dept., 250 Bancroft Hall, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
29733.

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Winthrop University, in Rock Hill, SC, will host the Southern Regional
Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies March 8-10,
2007. The theme of the interdisciplinary conference will be "A Piece of
the Irish Dream," although the committee welcomes papers proposals on
all aspects of Irish Studies.

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Please submit a one-page paper proposal by October 9, 2006 to:

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Marguerite Quintelli-Neary (nearym_at_winthrop.edu), or send hard copy to
her at:

English Dept., 250 Bancroft Hall, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
29733.

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The City in the Text: Setting as Signifier