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CFP: American West and Geopolitical Imaginary (March 15; MLA 07)

American West and Geopolitical Imaginary =20
For this proposed MLA Special Session I seek abstracts of about 500 =
words. Papers should consider representations of the American West as =
space of national imaginary dramatizing contemporary issues including =
immigration and security; American empire; U.S. military action; =
terrorism and trauma. Due on or by March 15; Alex Hunt =
(ahunt_at_mail.wtamu.edu).=20

Alex Hunt
Assistant Professor of American Literature
Department of English and Modern Languages
West Texas A&M University
Box 60908
Canyon, TX 79016
806-651-2457
ahunt_at_mail.wtamu.edu

Fourth Annual Conference of the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean
Studies at Louisiana State University

=93Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean.=94

Mar 16-17, 2007

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2007

Invited keynote speakers include:

-Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

-Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American
Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

-Ifeoma Nwanko, Associate Professor of English Vanderbilt University

The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State
University invites proposals for individual presentations at its fourth
annual conference.

Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the North American Frontier

2007 RMMLA Conference, October 4-6 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Howells's Reviews

For a panel in the program of the 2007 American Literature Association
annual convention, the William Dean Howells Society invites paper
proposals that examine the work of William Dean Howells in reviews.
Possible topics may include Howells's own publications as a book
reviewer, other critics' reviews of Howells's work, or Howells's
responses to the work of other reviewers. Please send by January 16,
2007 paper proposals no longer than 500 words and copy of cv to Claudia
Stokes at Claudia.stokes_at_trinity.edu or by post to Claudia Stokes,
Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX
78212

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Dr. Claudia Stokes

Edith Wharton and Illness
MLA 2007, Chicago (12-27-30, 2007) Deadline 3-10-07
This panel, sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society, wants to explore the significant role illness (and health) played in Wharton's life, context, and works. All approaches to this topic are welcome. Please send abstracts (about 500 words) and short CV's by March 10th to Hildegard Hoeller (hilhllr_at_aol.com) or at 29 Gail Court, Staten Island NY 10306.
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                               Southern Writers,

                               Southern Writing

is a University of Mississippi Graduate Student Conference held in
conjunction with the Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.

The Graduate Students in the Departments of English and Southern
Studies invite you to submit abstracts exploring Southern culture.
Accepted submissions will be presented in Oxford , Mississippi, July
19th – 21st, 2007.

Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature. They may include:

¶ Ecocriticism, travel narratives, nature writing, and the Southern landscape

For the 2007 MLA Convention, December 27-30 in Chicago:

*Ending the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1807-2007. * To mark the
bicentennial: tellings of the Middle Passage; stories of resistance;
the U.S. South in the Black Atlantic. In literature of any relevant
period. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jennifer Rae Greeson (greeson_at_princeton.edu).

*Filming the U.S. South. * Silver-screen Souths: race, location,
segregation, and film history; visualizing the plantation; myths and
counter-myths; spectacle and violence. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jennifer
Rae Greeson (greeson_at_princeton.edu).

The James Agee Society invites proposals for papers for a special session at
the American Literature Association conference in Boston (May 24-27, 2006).

We are especially interested in presentations that engage the recent
publications of Agee's manuscripts (including the University of Tennessee
Press' James Agee Rediscovered), as well as papers that address Agee's
poetry, film criticism, screenplays, and journalism. Papers on Agee's place
in the American canon and problems of gender and race in his work are also
welcome.

Please send a brief abstract of presentation by January 28 to

J.A. Crank
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
jacrank_at_gmail.com

Sarah M.B. Piatt

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
the 19th C American poet, Sarah M.B. Piatt. These
papers can examine any aspect of Piatt scholarship.

Possible paper topics may include

a close focus on her poetry
Piatt's life/biographies of the poet
a look at critical texts on the poet
Piatt and politics
Piatt and the literary cannon
reviving Piatt's work in the academy
teaching Piatt

19th C. American Women Poets
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
19th C. American Women Poets. These papers can examine
texts by the authors and/or relevant critical and
biographical works.

Potential topics include:

Updated Call for Papers: The Association for the Study of American Indian LIteratures. American Literature Association Annual Conference, 24-27 May, Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
 

Please note extended deadline: January 15, 2007

Papers (15-20 minutes) are invited for the Interdisciplinary
19th-century studies session of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language
Association (the west coast MLA) conference, meeting Nov 2-3, 2007 at
Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Send a 1-2 page
(double-spaced) proposal to Prof. Victoria Myers by March 1, 2007:
victoria.myers_at_pepperdine.edu. Inquiries are welcome.

Conflict and Community in Early America and the Atlantic World

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference hosted by the
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
University of Pennsylvania
September 27-29, 2007