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CFP: [American] Atlantic History and Literary History" (SEA March 2009 in Bermuda)

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Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 12:16am
David A. Brewer

I hereby invite proposals for a session I'm organizing on "Atlantic History and Literary History"
for the Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists to be held in Hamilton, Bermuda,
4-7 March 2009. This session aims to build upon the similarly titled (and, I've been told, highly
successful) session I organized at the Montreal ASECS of 2006.

Here's what I'm seeking:

"Atlantic History and Literary History"

CFP: [American] Capturing Conflict: Reconciling the Mimetic and the Aesthetic in Multimedia Representations of the C

updated: 
Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:24pm
Michael Cadwallader

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

CFP: [American] CFP New Orleans Culture National PCA 2009

updated: 
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 5:21pm
Dr. Christopher Bloss

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: [American] National PCA Southern Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 6:55pm
Christopher Bloss

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

CFP: [American] Queer Writing & Place

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Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 7:11pm
Michelle Morgan

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

CFP: [American] Genre Issues: Rereading E. E. Cummings and Modernism (9/20/08; Louisville, 2/19/09-2/21/09)

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Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:27am
Gillian Huang-Tiller

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

UPDATE: [American] Hip-Hop Around the World (Collection, 8/15)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 6:01pm
George Ciccariello-Maher

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

CFP: [American] Willa Cather and Aestheticism, a Volume of Essays

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 7:28pm
Sarah Cheney Watson

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:

CFP: [American] Hawthorne's Later Writings, Special Journal issue

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Monday, July 14, 2008 - 6:06pm
Monika Elbert

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

CFP: [American] The Writing Cure: Scripting the Self in Trauma Memoir (NeMLA 2009)

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Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 8:50pm
Paul Rosa

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.

CFP: [American] CFP: Phillis Wheatley (9/15/08; NeMLA, 2/26/09-3/1/09)

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 6:52pm
Jason Haslam

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

CFP: [American] An Interethnic Approach to American Self-WritinG

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Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 11:45am
Bego Simal

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

CFP: [American] Literatures of Montreal

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2008 - 1:15am
Kelly MacPhail

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

CFP: [American] Eudora Welty Society Centennial Conference (4/16-19/08 Jackson Ms)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 2:29pm
Harriet Pollack

Planning for the Eudora Welty Society Centennial Conference in Jackson Mississippi, 2009 is now
underway.

Please send your statements of intent now and 500-word proposals for papers by September 1,
2008 to Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University at pollack_at_bucknell.edu. Acceptances will be
announced late in October.

CFP: [American] American Domestic Space

updated: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 12:11am
Sarah C. Holmes

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

UPDATE: [American] The Literature of 9/11 (NeMLA 2009, Boston, 2/26-3/1)

updated: 
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 3:40pm
Justine Dymond

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.

CFP: [American] The Literature of 9/11

updated: 
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 3:34pm
Justine Dymond

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.

CFP: [American] Phobia: Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

updated: 
Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:45pm
Vike Martina Plock

Phobia: Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

An international conference hosted by the Glamorgan Research Centre for
Literature, Arts and Science

8-9 May, 2009

The ATRiuM Campus, Cardiff

Keynote Speakers: Laura Otis (Emory University) and Andrew Thacker (De
Montfort University)

CFP: [American] Journal issue: genre and form

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 5:11pm
Madeleine Monson-Rosen

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

CFP: [American] Journal issue: genre and form

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 5:06pm
Madeleine Monson-Rosen

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

CFP: [American] NEMLA 2009 American Literature/Ecocritical Session

updated: 
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 4:38pm
Karen E. Waldron

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

CFP: [American] NeMLA

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2008 - 7:33pm
Ryan Wepler

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

Our cultural discourse on humor is filled with metaphors--dying with
laughter, punch lines, a joke that "kills"--that link laugher and
violence. The history of American humor has repeatedly literalized these
metaphors in a variety of forms, from slapstick to comic gore. This
panel seeks submissions that interrogate the links between violence and
laughter in American literature and culture in order to assess what the
combination of these two seemingly opposed discourses suggests about
American national identity.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

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