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CFP: [American] MSA X-"Modernism and Global Media"

updated: 
Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 9:32pm
Derrick R. Spires

MSA X: Call for Panel and Roundtable Proposals
 
Deadline for Submission of Panel Proposals: May 12, 2008
 
Deadline for Submission of Roundtable Proposals: May 12, 2008
 
The 2008 meeting of the Modernist Studies Association will take place at the
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, November 13-16, 2008. The
organization’s annual conference regularly brings together in excess of 500
scholars from a variety of disciplines and features an engaging mix of
keynote addresses, small seminars, panel presentations, and roundtable
discussions. This year’s event, “Modernism and Global Media,” will be
hosted by Vanderbilt University with generous financial support provided by

CFP: [American] Modernisms and Visual Narrative (5/1/08; MSA 2008, 11/13/08-11/16/08)

updated: 
Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 8:16pm
Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman

Modernisms and Visual Narrative
Techniques and effects in visual narratives that rely partly or wholly on
images: drawings, paintings, markings, diagrams, sketches, maps,
symbols. Any genre.
- Creation
- Transformation
- Realization
- Adaptation
- Publication
- Misappropriation

Please send one-page abstract and brief bio to Elizabeth Lyman at
elyman_at_fas.harvard.edu by May 1.

CFP: [American] Teaching American Literature: Journal

updated: 
Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 2:21pm
Patricia Bostian

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice, an online,
peer-reviewed journal, is accepting articles for its Spring 2008 Issue
themed Teaching Electronically. Submit articles to
Patricia.Bostian_at_cpcc.edu. Details on manuscript style and content at
http://www.teachingamericanlit.com. Deadline is May 31.

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CFP: [American] Circulations: Economies, Currencies, Movements in American Studies

updated: 
Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 2:49am
Shifra Diamond

The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) and the Columbia
Journal of American Studies (CJAS) announce a call for papers for our 2008
annual one-day conference:

Circulations: Economies, Currencies, Movements in American Studies

Saturday, November 8, 2008
9:00am-5:30pm

CFP: [American] American Studies Beyond the Center-Periphery Model (M/MLA)

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 12:01pm
Jason Malikow

Recent work on global circulatory systems has placed a center-periphery
model of global socioeconomic flows under a lot of scrutiny, frequently
asking whether or to what end this model remains relevant. This accepted
M/MLA panel seeks papers addressing what functions the center-periphery
model serves for an understanding of the circulation of texts, bodies,
ideas, especially in relation to the field of American studies.

UPDATE: [American] Ambrose Bierce: Horror Stories, Tall Tales, and Journalism (7/15/08; e-journal)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 8:50pm
Craig A. Warren

The Ambrose Bierce Project (http://www.ambrosebierce.org) is a hypermedia
project and peer-reviewed e-journal hosted by Penn State University. To
prepare for the fourth issue of the journal (fall 2008), we are now seeking
new essays and literary briefs. Submissions will be reviewed by members of
the ABP advisory board, a collection of leading Bierce scholars and
Americanists. Contributions to the issue will be indexed in the MLA
International Bibliography.

CFP: [American] CFP on Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark

updated: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 6:10pm
Debra Cumberland

CFP: Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark

Previously unpublished critical essays are being sought for a new volume in Rodopi Press’s
Dialogue series on Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark. The “Dialogue” series offers emerging
and experienced scholars the opportunity to present alternative (point/counterpoint) readings
and approaches to classic texts that have received canonical acceptance in either American or
Continental literature.

CFP: [American]

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 6:38pm
Craig A. Warren

The Ambrose Bierce Project (http://www.ambrosebierce.org) is a hypermedia
project and peer-reviewed e-journal hosted by Penn State University. To
prepare for the fourth issue of the journal (fall 2008), we are now seeking
new essays and literary briefs. Submissions will be reviewed by members of
the ABP advisory board, a collection of leading Bierce scholars and
Americanists. Contributions to the issue will be indexed in the MLA
International Bibliography.

CFP: [American] Modernist Ecologies (4/30/08; MSA X, 11/13/08-11/16/08)

updated: 
Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 2:32am
Anne Raine

Douglas Mao has argued that modernism is “foundationally ecological” in
its concern with the material object as a “synecdoche of endangered
nature.” In recent years, a number of scholars have begun to examine
modernist writers’ complex engagements with nature, environment, the
animal, or the object-world. Yet modernism’s ecologies, like its
politics, are embedded in the contradictions of its time in complex ways
that have yet to be fully explored; and the importance of ecology in
literary modernism has yet to be fully recognizedâ€"as indicated by the
absence of a chapter on the subject in handbooks like the recent
Cambridge Companion to American Modernism.
 

CFP: [American] American Literature After the "American Century"

updated: 
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 3:18am
Lance Rubin

Co-editors Gioia Woods, Northern Arizona University and Lance Rubin,
Arapahoe Community College

We are extending the deadline for submissions and abstracts for this
collection, as a panel devoted to this subject has recently been accepted
at the American Literature Association conference in May.

CFP: [American] Charles Brockden Brown Society Meeting Oct 9-11, Dresden Germany

updated: 
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 2:26am
Philip Barnard

The Charles Brockden Brown Society invites papers for its 2008 conference
in Dresden:

Empire, Revolution, and New Identities:
Geoculture and Geopolitics in Brown and his Contemporaries.

(6th Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society)

Thursday-Saturday October 9-11, 2008
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, DE

CFP: [American]

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 5:09pm
Susanne Weil

Call for proposals: deadline April 7, 2008

Special Session: Women and Work
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Pomona College, Pomona, California
November 7-8, 2008

Presiding Officers: Christine Mower (Seattle University) and Susanne
Weil (Centralia College)

Please send proposals to Susanne Weil, sweil_at_centralia.edu
Mailing address: Department of English, Centralia College, 600 West
Centralia College Boulevard, Centralia, Washington, 98531
Telephone: (360) 736 9391, ext. 239

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SESSION FORMAT AND FOCUS:

CFP: [American] Proposed Special Session at MLA 2008: Suzan Lori Parksâs 365Days 365 Plays

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 10:28am
Nita N. Kumar

Time to look back at Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Days 365 Plays! Now that the
performances are over, one can begin to try and come to grips with the
work as a whole. If you have any thoughts on how to see this work as a
literary/dramatic whole, please send a proposal (200-300 words) as email
attachment to nitakumar_at_pobobx.com by March 31, 2008.

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UPDATE: [American] Extended Deadline: Flannery O Connor Session, SCMLA 2008

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 11:45pm
Noah Mass

We are extending the deadline for submissions for the Flannery O'Connor
Society session at the 2008 South Central Modern Language Association
Convention to Friday, March 28. Here is the original information:

"Flannery O'Connor: Critical Intersections"

Flannery O'Connor Society, 2008 South Central Modern Language
Association Convention November 6-8, San Antonio, Texas

CFP: [American] Affective Aesthetics: Representations of Emotion

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2008 - 7:53pm
Rice University

Æffective Æsthetics: Representation of Emotion

Rice Graduate Symposium, September 26-27, 2008
Rice University, Houston, Texas

Affective representation in both artistic and lived experience is
frequently explained in terms of competing social, political, and
cultural systems that often nullify one another. Compounding the problem
is the tendency for affect to complicate how we think about
representation; it seems that the two are inextricable. Through
investigating representations of affect within a variety of fields, this
conference proposes to find inroads that will bring the competing claims
of various discourses together into productive dialogue.

UPDATE: [American] History of American Literary Criticism 1900-50âs

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 9:52pm
Alfred J. Drake

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
November 7-8, 2008
Pomona College
Claremont, California

“The History of American Literary Criticism 1900-50’s.”

Paper proposals sought for an approved special-session panel on the history
of American literary criticism from around 1900 through the 1950’s.
Proposals may address the theory, practice, and institutional / pedagogical
impact of any movement or group active during the era specified:
philological and historical critics, New Critics, Marxist critics, Chicago
School, New York Intellectuals, myth critics, etc.

CFP: [American] Writing into the Profession: Enacting and Exploring Roles of the English Scholar (Grad)

updated: 
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 7:42pm
Kimberly Reigle

Since our first two conferences met with such success, The University of
North Carolina -Greensboro’s English Graduate Student Association again
asks, “What you working on?” for its third interdisciplinary conference in
English studies. We are each “Writing into the Profession” as we employ
the theories and practices of effective English scholarship. This is not
your usual CFPâ€"we’re not asking you to bend your interests to suit a
specific theme. Instead, we want you to use our conference as an
opportunity to explore and enact just what it means to be part of the
English profession. Bring whatever you are currently working on and engage

CFP: [American] CFP: Righteous Readers: Race, Reception, and Book Club Mania

updated: 
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 11:05am
Michelle Taylor

History of Critical Reception Permanent Section
Righteous Readers: Race, Reception, and Book Club Mania
Midwest Modern Language Association, November 13-16, 2008, Minneapolis, MN
 
This session invites papers that examine the intersection of race,
reading, and ethnicity. Papers may explore such topics as the
intersection of race and literature in the 19th and 20th centuries; the
explosion of book clubs in communities of color; literacy, books clubs
and domestic nationalism; the explosion of urban literature; and
the ‘Oprah effect.’ Papers that examine race and readership are the focus
of the panel, but papers that explore other aspects of readership are

CFP: [American] Hauntings: Spectres, Spectrality and Spectatorship

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 2:43am
Deirdre Linkiewicz

Philament, the peer-reviewed online journal of the arts and culture
affiliated with the University of Sydney, invites postgraduate scholars
to contribute articles, ficto-criticism, reviews, and opinions for a
special issue produced in conjunction with the convenors of UNSW’s School
of English, Media and Performing Arts Symposium. Revised papers from the
Symposium as well as new submissions are encouraged. Possible themes
include but are not limited to:

CFP: [American] 1950âs and 1960âs American Poetry

updated: 
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 12:41am
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Call for papers: 1950’s and 1960’s American Poetry

This proposed session is for the interdisciplinary conference, “John F.
Kennedy: History, Memory, Legacy” to be held on the University of North
Dakota’s campus September 25-27, 2008.

CFP: [American] Fame/Infamy in the U.S. 1890s (4/15/08; M/MLA 11/13/08-11/16/08)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 10:06pm
(no email)

The general theme of the 2008 Midwest MLA Convention is "Fame/Infamy."
In keeping with that theme, this proposed special session will explore
the ways in which notions of fame and infamy structure our understandings
of U.S. literature of the 1890s, a decade that might be thought of as
having begun with the posthumous publication of Dickinson’s POEMS(and the
editing out of what might have been its most scandalous material) and
ending with Frank Doubleday’s attempts to suppress SISTER CARRIE. In
between were published a number of textsâ€"THE AWAKENING, “The Yellow Wall-
Paper,” MAGGIE, and othersâ€"whose fame now seems, at least in part, a

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