american

Fame/Infamy and late 19th-/early 20th-century U.S. literature. This
session will explore the ways in which notions of fame and infamy
structure our understandings of U.S. literature of the late 19th and
early 20th centuries, a period that saw the publication of such once (and
perhaps still) scandalous texts as Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Chopin’s The
Awakening, Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Dickinson’s Poems,
Sinclair’s The Jungle, Dixon’s Reconstruction trilogy, and others. How
do texts from this period represent issues of fame and infamy? How do
the famous/infamous reputations of these texts shape the ways we read and

In After Southern Modernism (2000), Matthew Guinn notes that southern writers of the last thirty
years have made a decisive break with the traditions and politics of 1930s Southern Renascence
modernism. They are best understood, he argues, through their discontinuity rather than
continuity with the region and cultures labeled as the South. This description suggests that there
is no transitional moment between Renascence modernism and southern postmodernism. But
what of the intervening postwar generation of Southern writers and intellectuals? Of them, Guinn
says they exhibit “attenuated modernist techniques” that “tenuously” maintain the traditions of
the Renascence.

>From Global to Glocal: The Future of American Studies
The 43rd Annual International Conference of the American Studies
Association of Korea
October 24-25, 2008
Seoul, Korea

>From Global to Glocal: The Future of American Studies

We have extended our deadline to April 30th, 2008!

The Women's Caucus for the Midwest Modern Languages Association is
inviting 250-word abstracts for a panel entitled "Female Academic
Superstardom." The 50th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language
Association will take place on November 13-16, 2008 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.

This panel will explore female academic superstardom from a variety of
perspectives. Successful abstracts might address one or more of the
following questions:

How does a critic or theorist become an "academostar," a term used to
describe a high-profile academic in a 2001 special issue of The Minnesota
Review devoted to academic superstardom?

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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.

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