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Capturing Conflict: Reconciling the Mimetic and the Aesthetic in Multimedia
Representations of the Civil War
40th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
February 26 â€" March 1, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts

Capturing Conflict: Reconciling the Mimetic and the Aesthetic in Multimedia
Representations of the Civil War

Call for Papers: New Orleans Culture
Area Chair: Dr. Christopher Bloss
PCA, national conference
APRIL 8-11, 2009
Conference location: New Orleans MARRIOTT
New Orleans, Louisiana
  
Presentations covering a broad
range of New Orleansâ€"literature, recovery, narrative, film--pieces,
critical approaches, and cultural interpretations are welcome;
presentations should be developed for a 15-minute reading.
  
Any aspect of New Orleans will be appropriate; anything from John Kennedy
Toole to voodoo is acceptable material. Please be creative with the
subject.
  
Please submit a no more than a 250-word abstract to Dr. Christopher

CFP: Beat Generation and Counterculture(s)

The 30th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA

February 24th â€" 28th 2009

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque New Mexico 87102

Proposal/Abstract Deadline: December 1 2008

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20- minute
papers for the 37th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February
19-21, 2009, at the University of Louisville. Recent Cummings studies have increasingly
illuminated the often underestimated poet-painter’s poetic contributions to modernist
experimentalismâ€"radical typography and generic play through the verbal and visual space of
languageâ€"as not mere aesthetic effrontery, but as important cultural signification in its own
right. Considering the complexity of Cummings’ modernist re-imaginings of genre in all of its

UPDATED:
SPECIFIC ENTRIES SOUGHT
SMALL PAYMENT POSSIBLE

(Proposals due AUGUST 15th, 2008)

Call for contributors for Hip Hop Around the World: An Encyclopedia, a
two-volume reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This
collection will consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important hip hop
scenes around the world. I am currently seeking contributors interested in
writing chapters on the following countries and themes:

1.) MEXICO
2.) PUERTO RICO
3.) HAITI
4.) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

5.) FRANCE
6.) ITALY

7.) SENEGAL
8.) ZIMBABWE
9.) NIGERIA

10.) COLOMBIA
11.) ARGENTINA

12.) IRAN

A special issue on Hawthorne's final period of writing is being planned for
the fall, 2009 issue of _The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review_. In quantitative
terms, the literary writings of this period make up a substantial portion
of Hawthorne's oeuvre, filling more than three volumes of the Centenary
edition. Though once much maligned, these late works have begun to attract
the serious attention from scholars they once seemed destined for. When
_Septimius Felton_ was posthumously published in 1872, many critics were
enthusiastic â€" the reviewer of the _London Times_ declared that "it will be
read for its poetry and fancy by many who care but little for fiction in

New Approaches to Phillis Wheatley
NeMLA Board-Sponsored Panel.

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

This panel invites papers on any aspect of the works of Phillis Wheatley.
Especially welcome are those papers that analyze her work in relation to
Boston, but any and all approaches are welcome.

Please send 250- to 500-word abstracts, in the body of an email (no
attachments, please), to Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University
<Jason.Haslam_at_dal.ca>

Deadline: Sept. 15, 2008.

See the full call for papers for the NeMLA convention at our website:
www.nemla.org

Activist Poetry / Poetic Activism
Northeast MLA Conference
Boston 2/26/09-3/1/09

Literatures of Montreal
40th Anniversary Convention,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
February 26â€"March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regencyâ€"Boston, Massachusetts

****DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 8******

We are looking for essays for a special double-issue of GLQ: A Journal of
Lesbian and Gay Studies entitled “Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity:
Rethinking the State at the Intersection of Native American and Queer
Studies.”

Call for Papers

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

CONFERENCE PANEL at NEMLA:
Cribs: A Cultural History of the American Home

Nearly seven years since the terrorist attack on 9/11 and the invasion of
Afghanistan, and over five years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an
initial wave of literature is emerging that explicitly responds to and
reflects on the aftermath of this recent history. Writers as diverse as
Deborah Eisenberg, Jonathan Safran Foer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Sherman
Alexie have published 9/11 stories, essays, and novels. Galway Kinnell’s
recent collection, Strong Is Your Hold, includes his now-famous
meditation on 9/11, “When the Towers Fell.” Many other poets and
essayists have also trained their pens on the experiences of grief, loss,
and violence resulting from 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Packingtown Review, an interdisciplinary literary journal, seeks essays on
the topic of genre and form. PR emphasizes experimental literature,
translation, and literature that crosses boundaries between genres and
forms. We are therefore soliciting submissions of scholarly and critical
essays that explore similar ground. What does it mean when poetry and prose
are indistinguishable? What is lostâ€" or foundâ€"in translation? When
literary form is entirely fluid, what is the relationship between art and
criticism? Between the creative and the scholarly?
While we are particularly seeking essays that explore the relationships
between genre and form in situations where both are indeterminate or

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

Methods of Literary Ecology in American Literature: The Constitution of Place

This session invites studies of American literature of any period that highlight authorial and/or
scholarly methods of doing literary ecology through a focus on place. Papers that consider
means of representing environments and places as inextricable from economic, social, and
cultural factors of human habitation are especially welcomed. Send abstracts to Karen Waldron,
College of the Atlantic at waldron_at_coa.edu.

Deadline: September 15, 2008