CFP: The New Criticism (06/15/07; collection)

I welcome abstracts and full essays for a proposed volume on American
"New Criticism." Essays that deal in an original manner with the history
of this movement (including its impact and legacy in higher education,
its connections to Continental formalist movements and authors, etc.)
are especially encouraged, as are essays that address the theoretical
and philosophical implications of New Critical practice. A good general
description of the proposed book's area would be "history of criticism
and theory." I am in talks with Cambridge Scholars Press regarding this
volume, and will submit a formal proposal after I have selected
contributors.

/Eighteenth-Century Fiction/, an international quarterly published in French and
English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative
prose of the period 1660-1832.

Call for Papers

Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference
3-5 April 2008; Chicago

"Renaissance Nothings"

A panel interested in the aesthetic, philosophical, and sexual valence of
"nothing" in the Renaissance. Proposals addressing mathematical zero,
nihil paradoxes, the materialist abyss, and naught/y puns are all welcome.

For consideration, please submit (as Word attachments) a 250 word abstract
and a CV to:
whyman_at_ithaca.edu by April 15, 2007

"Trauma and the American Revolution: Representing Rupture." This panel
will examine literary representations of the American Revolution from
the point of view of trauma and historical rupture. What is the
significance of those representations, which imagine the revolutionary
era in terms of absence, ambiguity, loss, and the crisis of identity?
One of our most famous tales involving the revolution, Washington
Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," for example, figures the war as a central
and productive absence in the text. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Legends of
the Province House contemplates the implications of the war in terms
that often evoke the reader's sympathy for those who under go what

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The First Biennial ASLE-UK Graduate Conference
‘Modern Environments: Contemporary Readings in Green Studies’

7-8 September 2007
The University of Glasgow

Papers are sought for a proposed panel on "The Utopianism of Kim
Stanley Robinson" to be delivered at the 32nd Annual Society for
Utopian Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 4-7, 2007.
Papers on any aspect of utopianism in Robinson's work will be
considered; examinations of his more recent work are particularly
encouraged. For more information about the Society for Utopian
Studies, including programs of past meetings, go to
http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/.

Electronic submissions preferred. Send abstracts or proposals of no
more than 250 words by April 20, 2007 to:

Performance and Spirituality:

The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality

CFP: "Delineating the Field": Submission Deadline, May 15, 2007.

(The Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality is an emerging
research center that operates in association with the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center of The Graduate Center, of the City University of New York.)

CALL FOR PAPERS
MLA Convention 2007 (Chicago)
Discussion Group on Yiddish Literature

Yiddish and Christianity. Yiddish emerged and developed within
Christian Europe. How did this effect the language and its culture?
What attitudes have Christians adopted towards Yiddish? How do
Yiddish literature and other cultural forms portray Christians? How
do modern Yiddish writers depict Jesus?

Abstracts (500 words, maximum) to be sent by March 20 to Beatrice Caplan,
<bcaplan7_at_jhu.edu>

Performance and Spirituality:

The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality

CFP: "Delineating the Field": Submission Deadline, May 15, 2007.

(The Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality is an emerging
research center that operates in association with the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center of The Graduate Center, of the City University of New York.)

Call for Papers:
Proposals for presentations are invited for the Female Cultures session at the
2007 PAMLA Conference in Bellingham, WA on Nov. 2 and 3, 2007.
The session will feature papers concerning societies in which women's power is
celebrated. Presentations may reflect a broad area of interest from cultures
earlier than the Greco-Roman patriarchy to later more contemporary societies.
Submit proposals to Sarah Schuetze at sarahcs2_at_uwm.edu by March 30, 2007.

Call for Papers:
Proposals for presentations are invited for the Female Cultures session at the
2007 PAMLA Conference in Bellingham, WA on Nov. 2 and 3, 2007.
The session will feature papers concerning societies in which women's power is
celebrated. Presentations may reflect a broad area of interest from cultures
earlier than the Greco-Roman patriarchy to later more contemporary societies.
Submit proposals to Sarah Schuetze at sarahcs2_at_uwm.edu by March 30, 2007.

Queering the Fantastic

Proposals are sought for an interdisciplinary and international anthology
focusing on queer/gender theories and the fantastic. Queer readings on any
genre of the fantastic (historic or contemporary) in any media (print,
visual, graphic, electronic, or performative) are welcome.

Deadline: October 1, 2007

Please send 1000-1500 word proposals (w/Working Bibliography) to:

Robin Anne Reid

Department of Literature and Languages

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Commerce TX 75429

Fax: 903.886.5980

Robin_Reid_at_tamu-commerce.edu

Rrede13_at_yahoo.com

Call for Papers: "Geographies of Modernist Periodicals"
Modernist Studies Association Proposed Panel
Annual Meeting, 1-4 November 2007 (Long Beach, CA)

This panel will look to the dynamic early twentieth century print
culture to question received versions of modernism and its relation to
geography. Particular questions could include:

I'm forwarding this CFP for someone else. Please direct all queries to
jls_at_spamex.com

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Journal of Lesbian Studies has reopened its call for submissions for
the upcoming "Lesbians and Body Image" issue with a probable pub
date of 2007-8. Deb Burgard, Ph.D., Guest Editor, is welcoming
one-page abstracts of articles addressing different aspects of the
theme. Articles may raise more questions than they answer, and may
range from research to theory, academic to personal, for example:

* Does loving a woman change your own body image?

* Are athletic lesbians more or less accepting of their bodies than
non-athletic lesbians?