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CFP: [American] Decadence at the Transatlantic Fin de Siècle

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 7:45pm
Jack Shear

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:

CFP: [American] Mythologial Transformations

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 7:38pm
Samantha Roy

CALL FOR PAPERS

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:
Mythological Transformations

CFP: [American] Transatlantic Literary Influences

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 7:32pm
Susan Ray

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:

Transatlantic Literary Influences: American and British Literature
from the Long Nineteenth Century

CFP: [American] Transatlantic Womanhood in 19th Century

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 7:18pm
Kendall McClellan

CALL FOR PAPERS

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic: Transatlantic Womanhood in the 19th Century

CFP: [American] Queer Positionality in Nineteenth Century

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 7:12pm
Edward Kozaczka

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel: Queer Positionality and Knowledge in Transatlantic
Nineteenth-Century Literature

CFP: [American] Disabled Body in 19th Century

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 7:05pm
Thomas Jordan

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel: The Disabled Body in 19th Century Transatlantic Literatures

CFP: [American] Poetics of Gender

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 6:58pm
Carolyn Fargnoli

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:

CFP: [American] Imperial Manhood

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 6:50pm
Matthew Brophy

CALL FOR PAPERS

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Title: Imperial Manhood

CFP: [American] Geopolitical Ecofeminisms

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 6:43pm
Christine Battista

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:
Transatlantic Geopolitical Ecofeminisms

CFP: [American] Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders Graduate Conference

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 6:30pm
Christine Battista

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

We welcome paper proposals for any of the following panels:

UPDATE: [American] MSAX: Modernism, Border Crossing and Border Dwellers

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 6:10pm
Daniel R. Bell

This panel seeks to address Modernisms attention on and intention with
borders. Borders here are problematically being thought of in broad
terms ranging from spacial, geographical, and national borders, but also
in various identitarian contexts like race, sex, gender, and class. Of
particular interest to this panel is how the 1990s moment, with the rise
of academic cultural studies and publications such as Judith Butler’s
Gender Trouble, David Hollinger’s Post Ethnic America, and Michael
Awkwards, Negotiation Difference, places attention on borders in a
variety of context and exemplifies through discursive practice the
usefulness and subversiveness of “border crossing”.

CFP: [American] submissions

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 10:11pm
Barbara Szubinska

StoryTelling is seeking submission for its fall edition. StoryTelling is
dedicated to analyses of popular narrative in the widest sense of the
phrase and as evidenced in the media and all aspects of culture.
Manuscripts should: see the narrative as a reflection of culture; use
theory to analyze the work, not work to illustrate theory; employ
scholarship; and be written for the general audience. The editors are
especially interested in visual accompaniments, bibliographies, and
interviews with creators of popular narratives. No limits on period or
country covered. No creative writing.

All articles are peer-reviewed
StoryTelling is indexed in the MLA database

CFP: [American] Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 7:00pm
David B Sachsman

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
the Civil War, and Free Expression
November 13 - November 15, 2008
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
 
The steering committee of the sixteenth annual Symposium on the 19th
Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression solicits papers dealing
with U.S. mass media of the 19th century, the Civil War in fiction and
history, images of race and gender in the 19th century press, presidents
and the 19th century press, and sensationalism and crime in 19th century
newspapers. Selected papers will be presented during the three-day
conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,

CFP: [American] The Green Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 5:29pm
Christine Roth

Call for Papers
THE GREEN NINETEENTH CENTURY

30th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Milwaukee, Wisconsin March 26-28, 2009

UPDATE: [American] ALA: Female Sexuality in 20th-c. Southern Women Writers (5/12/08)

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 1:45am
Tenley Gwen Bank

Soliciting abstracts for accepted panel at ALA in San Francisco (May
22-25), related to southern women writers’ treatment of their female
characters’ sexuality and its effect on the social environment of the
texts. Possible topics could address (but are not limited to) marital
structures, sexual awakening, race and sexuality, sexual stereotypes, the
relation of southern sexual mores to the rest of the US. Considerations of
canonical and non-canonical authors invited. Please submit 1-page abstract
and brief c.v. to Tenley Bank (tenleygwen_at_yahoo.com) as soon as possible,
as this cfp is to replace a panelist who had to withdraw his submission.

CFP: [American] Photography, Modernism, Feminism 5/7/08; MSA X 11/13-11/16/08

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 2:21pm
Kimberly Lamm

Photography, Modernism, Feminism
 In her essay "From Clementina to Kasebier: The Photographic Attainment of
the ’Lady Amateur,’” art historian Carol Armstrong argues that
photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lady Hawarden Clementina, and
Gertrude Kasebier took astute advantage of photography's low place on art's
hierarchical scales to assert themselves as artists. The work of these
women, therefore, indirectly calls attention to the relationship between
photography and the emergence of feminism in the U.S. and Britain in the
nineteenth- and early twentieth- centuries. This panel seeks to bring
modernist literature composed by women into the relationship between

CFP: [American] 5/7/08; MSA X 11/13/08-11/16/08

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Monday, April 28, 2008 - 1:14am
Kimberly Lamm

Photography, Modernism, Feminism
 In her essay "From Clementina to Kasebier: The Photographic Attainment of
the ’Lady Amateur,’” art historian Carol Armstrong argues that
photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lady Hawarden Clementina, and
Gertrude Kasebier took astute advantage of photography's low place on art's
hierarchical scales to assert themselves as artists. The work of these
women, therefore, indirectly calls attention to the relationship between
photography and the emergence of feminism in the U.S. and Britain in the
nineteenth- and early twentieth- centuries. This panel seeks to bring
modernist literature composed by women into the relationship between

CFP: [American] Mystery, Thriller and Crime Fiction, MPCA

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 5:16pm
Kathryn Edney

Reminder that the Mystery, Thriller and Crime Fiction area of the Midwest
Popular Culture Association is accepting proposals in any and all aspects
of mystery, thriller and crimefiction by April 30. Please send 100-200
word abstracts and contact information to Kathryn Edney:
tremperk_at_msu.edu.

The conference will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday-Sunday, October 3-
5, 2008. More information regarding the conference can be found at
www.mpcaaca.org.

UPDATE: [American] MSAX panel: Modernism and the Network Narrative

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Monday, April 21, 2008 - 9:50pm
Wesley Beal

Over the last quarter-century, the fields of critical theory have converged
on a common buzzword, connectivity, which has acted as the linking
mechanism for a constellation of divergent fields converging onto a common
objective. Corresponding to this surge of “connectivity theory” we also
see arise a distinctive “network narrative”â€" a subgenre that represents
human connectedness and its accompanying group formations. Together with
the boom in connectivity theory, these narratives mark a “connectivity
turn” that has defined the theoretical and literary production of the late
1900s and 2000s, with the network narrative exemplified in works like Don

CFP: [American] Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)

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Friday, April 18, 2008 - 2:54am
Leslie Kreiner Wilson

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites
submissions for the spring 2008 edition. Attach essays on any aspect of
twenty or twenty-first century American Studies (literature, film,
television, music, sports etc.) and email them to
editor_at_americanpopularculture.com. Please visit the journal at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal.htm for guidelines and past
issues.

CFP: [American] SLSA 2008 panel: Steampunk and Reiteration

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Monday, April 14, 2008 - 6:23pm
Brian Croxall

As a lifestyle and a literary movement, steampunk can be both the act of
modding your laptop to look like and function as a Victorian artifact and
an act of imagining what London might have looked like had Charles
Babbage’s analytical engine been realized. Steampunk is the application of
nineteenth-century aesthetics to contemporary objects; it is the
speculative extension of technologies that actually existed; it is the
anachronistic importation of contemporary technologies into the
fictionalized past. In all cases, steampunk blurs boundaries: between
centuries, between technologies, and between origin and repetition.

CFP: [American] To Kill a Mocking Bird

updated: 
Monday, April 14, 2008 - 3:06pm
Jon Mitchell

Proposals are sought for an edited collection of essays on Harper Lee's
novel "To Kill a Mocking Bird"

This influencial novel, though taught in many institutions, has received
very little critical attention.

This collection hopes to remedy this by collecting together essays that
explore the novel from a number of diverse perspectives.

Please send proposals to:

Dr Jon Mitchell
School of English, Media, and Theatre Studies
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Co.Kildare
Ireland

jon.mitchell_at_nuim.ie

UPDATE: [American] Fame/Infamy and late 19th-/early 20th-century U.S. literature (4/25/08; MMLA 11/13/08-11/16/08)

updated: 
Monday, April 14, 2008 - 1:48pm
Jeremy Wells

Fame/Infamy and late 19th-/early 20th-century U.S. literature. This
session will explore the ways in which notions of fame and infamy
structure our understandings of U.S. literature of the late 19th and
early 20th centuries, a period that saw the publication of such once (and
perhaps still) scandalous texts as Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Chopin’s The
Awakening, Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Dickinson’s Poems,
Sinclair’s The Jungle, Dixon’s Reconstruction trilogy, and others. How
do texts from this period represent issues of fame and infamy? How do
the famous/infamous reputations of these texts shape the ways we read and

CFP: [American] MSAX Panel: Modernism and the Postwar South

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Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 2:16pm
Jordan Dominy

In After Southern Modernism (2000), Matthew Guinn notes that southern writers of the last thirty
years have made a decisive break with the traditions and politics of 1930s Southern Renascence
modernism. They are best understood, he argues, through their discontinuity rather than
continuity with the region and cultures labeled as the South. This description suggests that there
is no transitional moment between Renascence modernism and southern postmodernism. But
what of the intervening postwar generation of Southern writers and intellectuals? Of them, Guinn
says they exhibit “attenuated modernist techniques” that “tenuously” maintain the traditions of
the Renascence.

CFP: [American]

updated: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 12:42pm
Eun-Gwi Chung

>From Global to Glocal: The Future of American Studies
The 43rd Annual International Conference of the American Studies
Association of Korea
October 24-25, 2008
Seoul, Korea

>From Global to Glocal: The Future of American Studies

CFP: [American] Short Moving Images

updated: 
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 11:30pm
Nicole Richter

IN SHORT JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS

The University of Miami is currently accepting submissions for its new peer
reviewed online journal devoted to the study of short moving images. The
journal has been created to construct a scholarly response to recent media
developments in viral videos and forms of “remote controlled viewing.” The
inaugural issue will be coming out on May 15th. Editors and associates of
the journal include Dr. William Rothman, Dr. Christina Lane, and Dr. Sam
Grogg.

We seek submissions on the following topics:

Short films
Music Videos
Commercials
Video Art
You-tube/Online Videos
T.V. episodes
Readings of a single scene from a longer film.

UPDATE: [American] Female Academic Superstardom (2008 M/MLA)

updated: 
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 3:32pm
(no email)

We have extended our deadline to April 30th, 2008!

The Women's Caucus for the Midwest Modern Languages Association is
inviting 250-word abstracts for a panel entitled "Female Academic
Superstardom." The 50th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language
Association will take place on November 13-16, 2008 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.

This panel will explore female academic superstardom from a variety of
perspectives. Successful abstracts might address one or more of the
following questions:

How does a critic or theorist become an "academostar," a term used to
describe a high-profile academic in a 2001 special issue of The Minnesota
Review devoted to academic superstardom?

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