american

This proposed MLA special session will focus on the body as a site for
negotiating theoretical, narrative and cultural tensions in American and
British fiction between the world wars. Topics might include the role of
the body in considering the relationship between subject and object;
disabled bodies; bodies of war; the body and technology; reproductive
bodies; the relationship between fictional bodies and their counterparts
in advertising, popular culture, painting, photography or film; the body
in pain; the experiential body and the sensory world; the body and space;
nationhood and the body. Send 500-word abstracts and a short c.v. by

Hemingway’s Other Women (3/10/08; 2008 MLA)
MLA in San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008

Mark Twain's Angelfish Club:
Was it a Writing Club?
Or Something else?

2008 is the 100th Anniversary of the official
beginning of this club.

Proposals are invited for the Mark Twain Circle Panel at the 2008 SAMLA
Meeting in Louisville, KY, November 7-9, 2008, Hyatt Regency Louisville.
Presenters may discuss any of Twain's depictions of teaching writing, the
writing club or ?.

Please send 250 â€" word proposals or papers to Ms. Jules A. Hojnowski,
(jah_at_twcny.rr.com), by July 1, 2008

Thank you!
 

We invite proposals for papers, panels or roundtables on the works
(criticism, fiction, poetry, drama) of Robert Penn Warren and/or members
of his "Circle" (his contemporaries, students, those about whom he wrote,
those who wrote about him or were influenced by him) for our annual
meeting to be held on the campus of Austin Peay State University in
Clarksville, TN, March 27 - 30, 2008.

Please send abstract (50-100 words) via email (as an attachment or in the
body of the email) to the programs' chair, Aimee Berger, at
a.berger_at_tcu.edu not later than Friday February 8.

[www.webofbeing.org]

(Re)deeming Hemingway

This is a CFP for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the 15th
annual humanities conference at University of California Riverside on April
11-12, 2008. Harold Bloom has famously dubbed Hemingway “a minor novelist
with a major style.” This sort of characterization, as well as his troubled
relationship with “cutting edge theory” has rendered Hemingway increasingly
unfashionable in academia. Contributors are invited to submit critical
works that examine the ways in which Hemingway’s work can be interpreted in
new light. These papers can analyze any of the Hemingway’s texts and/or any
relevant critical and biographical works.

Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Literature

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on definitions of
masculinity and femininity in Gothic literature. How is the Gothic used to
subvert societal notions of gender and sexuality? What does the Gothic
tell us about gender roles and sexual ideology in the period in which these
works were written?

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to ghoff002_at_ucr.edu by
February 15, 2008.

VIOLENCE NARRATIVES

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on the effects of
violence in narratives. Papers may examine any aspect of violence,
including specific texts and/or critical and cultural frameworks for such
texts. What sort of cultural and individual capacities for violent
events are articulated in our current cultural moment? How do cultural
understandings of violence affect understandings of self? How do
violence narratives influence and change notions of gender, sex, family,
and reproduction?

UPDATE: Deadline has been extended to 1/28.

Call for Papers

The Second Annual Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference

April 2nd â€" 4th 2008
University College Cork
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr; mbsr@ucc.ie

Conference Theme: Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Alistair McCleery, Co-Director of SAPPHIRE, Professor of
Literature and Culture at Napier University, and co-editor of The Book
History Reader

Professor Nora Crook, Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin
University, and co-general editor of the multi-volume Complete Poetry of
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am seeking a third panelist for session proposal “Legal Borderlands,” to
be submitted to the American Studies Association, for the ASA’s annual
conference in Albuquerque, NM, October 16-19, 2008.

OBSCENITY LAW AND CENSORSHIP IN THE (U.S.) SOUTH
MODERN LANGUGE ASSOCIATION, DEC. 27-30, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO

For this MLA 2008 panel, papers sought on the nature and impact of
censorship and/or obscenity law and practice on cultural expression
(public and private speech, writing, film, music, photography, other
performances) in the U.S. South, or in material dealing with the South,
from the colonial period to the present.

American Literature Association, May 2008: Female Sexuality in the Works
of 20th-Century Southern Women Writers

Soliciting abstracts for panel at ALA in San Francisco, related to southern
women writers’ treatment of their female characters’ sexuality and its
effect on the social environment of the texts. Possible topics could
address (but are not limited to) marital structures, sexual awakening, race
and sexuality, sexual stereotypes, the relation of southern sexual mores to
the rest of the US. Considerations of canonical and non-canonical authors
invited. Please submit 1-page abstract and brief c.v. to Tenley Bank
(tdiefenb_at_drew.edu) by Jan. 27th.

Elizabeth Stoddard Society
Call for Papers

American Literature Association
19th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2008
San Francisco, CA

The Elizabeth Stoddard Society is seeking papers that address new
directions in Stoddard scholarship. To coincide with the new edition of Two
Men, edited by Jennifer Putzi, to be published by the University of
Nebraska Press this spring, we would like to invite proposals that address
how both scholars and teachers can revisit and reassess Stoddard's texts,
including but not limited to The Morgesons and Two Men. More specifically,
papers might address questions such as the following:

27-30 December 2008 at MLA in San Francisco, CA

What do we know about Edith Wharton’s politics? Her political
persuasions? Her views on personal and institutional political
responsibility in the modern world? What political concerns did she have?
Was her writing ever meant to put forth any political thought, position,
or agenda that she might feel important? What were her views on war? On
the social problems facing the American public in the 1920s and 1930s?
How applicable are her views to the current American scene? Please send
abstracts (about 500 words) and short CV's by March 15th to Linda
Costanzo Cahir (lcahir_at_kean.edu or Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave.
Willis 103B, Union, NJ 07083).