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Native North American Literature

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association
(NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

This session welcomes submissions on any aspect of Native North American
Studies, including literature, literary separatism, film, culture,
spirituality, language, gender, tribal politics and law, and ethnic
identity. Papers addressing the recent critical works by David Treuer,
Robert Warrior, Craig Womack, Jace Weaver, Thomas King, and Daniel Heath
Justice are especially welcome.
  
Please send 250 word abstracts to: Benjamin D. Carson at
benjamin.carson_at_gmail.com.

Deadline: September 15, 2008

"Stupidity in Early America." The Society of Early Americanists 6th
Biennial Conference March 4-7, 2009, Hamilton, Bermuda

Education
The following is a call for manuscripts for the Peter Lang Publishing
Education and New Literacies list.
One of the premier education publishing groups, Peter Lang Publishing is
looking for works that understand how new literacies and new ways of seeing
education are being invented -- as people from all walks of life, in
diverse sites, wrestle with new technologies, shifting values, changing
institutional forms and processes, and emerging structures characteristic
of postmodernity/New Times/the Global Informational Age. These texts aim to
explore these emerging domains and to create awareness of key trends and
features, translating them into educational consciousness and practice.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first American publication of
Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece, _Lolita._ In celebration of this
milestone, and of the novel's unabated cultural importance, this panel
seeks to offer a selection of contemporary approaches to the novel. Papers
engaging the most tenacious strands of _Lolita_ criticism are certainly
welcome (censorship/obscenity debates, _Lolita_ as a pop fusion of
"highbrow" and "lowbrow," the novel as the "Great American" whatever), but
eclectic and original submissions on any aspect of _Lolita_ are strongly
encouraged. Please send abstracts of 250-500 words to Justin St.Clair,
University of South Alabama <jmstclair_at_jaguar1.usouthal.edu>.

Announcing a New Book Series

Charles K. Wolfe American Music Series, to be published by the University
of Tennessee Press

Ted Olson, Series Editor

Revisiting (Re)Memory: Re-evaluating Trauma, Nostalgia, and Cultural Memory in Contemporary
Multiethnic Literature

40th Anniversary Northeast MLA Convention
Boston, MA
February 26-March 1, 2009

Panel Chair: Dr. Shari Evans
Deadline: September 15, 2008

Call for Papers: Southern Literature and Culture
Area Chair: Dr. Christopher Bloss
PCA, national conference
APRIL 8-11, 2009
Conference location: New Orleans MARRIOTT
New Orleans, Louisiana
  
Contemporary Southern literature remains a growing area for
further/future
discussion(s) and criticism(s) within the context of society. This CFP
seeks contributors offering a wide variety of interpretations and
criticisms of contemporary Southern literature and culture against the
backdrop of popular culture and postmodern society, although other
approaches are also solicited. Presentations covering a broad
range of Southern literature pieces, critical approaches, and cultural

I'm putting together a panel on urban constructions of queer identity for the IDKE.X
(International Drag King Extravaganza) 2008 conference, "Cultural Depots & Queer Destinations,"
to be held October 16-19 in Columbus, OH. Specifically, I am thinking of the ways contemporary
queer writing about the "city" is (in)formed by gender. My own work focuses on how Eileen
Myles's Chelsea Girls works within this context. I'm interested, also, in how for writers like
Michelle Tea and the Sister Spit group, Myles has come (ironically?) to embody a kind of cultural
icon for a new generation of queer femme writers. How do recent and upcoming conferences like

Ninth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association:

Monstrous Media/ Spectral Subjects

21-24 July 2009, Lancaster University, UK

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Elisabeth Bronfen, Tanya Krzywinska, Marina Warner
(Further plenary events to be confirmed.)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers

Sarah Watson and Ann Moseley are co-editing a volume of essays to be
entitled Willa Cather and Aestheticism. We are seeking insightful and
well-written (not previously published) essays that explore connections
between Willa Cather and relevant aspects of aestheticism, especially of
the Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Movement. In making connections to
Cather’s life, career, and art, writers may want to include social,
cultural, and historical elements, but the focus should be clearly
grounded in Cather’s work itself. Possible topics include the following,
but other aspects regarding the relationship between Cather and the
Aesthetic Movement will be considered:

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts

The Writing Cure: Scripting the Self in Trauma Memoir

This panel seeks papers that consider how post-structuralist notions of a
de-centered self intersect with the “re-centering” psychotherapeutic work
of the trauma memoirs so popular today.

Call for contributions

Editors seek full-length contributions for a book intended for the RODOPI series CAEAL (Critical
Approaches to Ethnic American Literature).

Tentative title: Selves in Dialog: An Interethnic Approach to American Self-Writing.
  
Corpus: autobiographical texts written by US authors of different “ethnic/racial” backgrounds.

Topics and theoretical approach: any comparative intra/inter-ethnic study of self/life-writing
from a variety of perspectives, e.g. addressing

Constance Fenimore Woolson Society
Eighth Biennial Conference

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Beyond _Green Gables_