graduate conferences

NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) awards an annual prize to the best graduate student paper presented at any of the conventions sections. The winning paper, as determined by a committee of peers, is published in the NEMLA journal Modern Language Studies.

The submission deadline for the 2005 Graduate Student Caucus Paper Prize is December 16, 2004. Graduate Students who presented papers at the 2004 Convention in Pittsburgh are invited to send 20-25 page versions of those essays to Darcie Rives, preferably by email, rivesdd_at_yahoo.com, or by "snail mail" to Darcie Rives, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 331 Andrews Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0333. Please address questions to rivesdd_at_yahoo.com.

Call for Papers

Portals: A Journal of Comparative Literature is a graduate student
journal published by the Comparative Literature Association of San
Francisco State University.

Portals invites original, critical essay submissions that explore
comparative literary topics across cultural, regional, linguistic, and
temporal boundaries.

Papers should be in English. All citations in foreign languages must
be clearly translated in the body of the text and properly cited.
Papers should be no longer than 25 pages in 12 point font, and should
include be properly formatted and documented in MLA style.

Call for Papers

LEON EDEL PRIZE

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry
James by a beginning
scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the
prize-winning essay will be
published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time
academic appointment
for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students
are encouraged to
apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under
submission
elsewhere or previously published.

Send submissions (in duplicate, produced according to current MLA
style, and with return
postage enclosed) to:

PHILAMENT invites contributors for its fifth edition. This upcoming issue is to
circulate around ideas of Ornament.

Deadline: Friday 27th August 2004.

Ornamental ideas, suggestions, texts or otherwise:

Call For Papers: Collection of Essays on Toni Morrison's prose and fiction

Reading Toni Morrison: Students Writing on Race, Culture, and Identity

I am currently soliciting contributions from undergraduate university
students for a collection of essays on the work of Toni Morrison. Essays
may come from a variety of disciplines, including history, American
Studies, English, and Rhetoric.

CFP: "Excess: Rapture and Revolution" antiTHESIS

antiTHESIS is a fully-refereed journal of contemporary theory, criticism and culture, and Australia's longest-running interdisciplinary postgraduate journal. It is produced by postgraduates in the Department of English with Cultural Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.

The antiTHESIS editorial collective are seeking contributions to volume 15, entitled: "Excess: Rapture and Revolution."

Scholars and creative writers are invited to direct their contribution to topics such as:

UPDATE: PRIZE for Journal Article on Topic of your Choice

IN recognition of the 10th Issue, Postgraduate English will be offering a small
prize for the paper deemed 'most deserving' by a committee of the Editorial
Board. This applies to the general papers of 7000 words (see below), and not
to the 500 word pieces for the forum.

The University of Durham's Online Journal
POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH:
A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English in the UK and Europe

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A reminder to all graduate students that the deadline for the Science
Fiction Foundation Essay Prize is coming up on 31st May 2004.
The details of the competition are as follows:

The Science Fiction Foundation seeks entries for its annual graduate
essay prize.
£250 will be awarded for the best unpublished essay in science fiction
criticism.
The winning entry will be published in the journal Foundation.

Skandalon: a graduate journal of theory

Call for Papers

Skandalon is a refereed graduate e-journal edited and published by the students of the Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism, University of Western Ontario.

Within the confines of its biblical and ecclesiastical heritage, the word skandalon signifies a seductive enticement or occasion that incites behaviour that leads one to turn away from God and enter a movement towards ruin. In this very movement of reversal, however, there resides a going astray that points towards the thinking or theorizing of, or on, the scandalized.

CFP: Graduate Journal - Mode

Graduate students in Cornell's Department of English are currently
accepting submissions for a new print journal of interdisciplinary
writing in the humanities. While there are no thematic limitations on
material, we encourage papers that emphasize interdisciplinarity,
genre-crossing, and intertextual thought.

**Details**

Deadline for Submissions:
Friday, April 2

Length:
10-20 pages

Format:
Please email your work as a Microsoft Word attachment (double spaced,
12-point) to pef4_at_cornell.edu.

Or snail mail a hard copy to Patrick Foran at:
Cornell University
English Department
250 Goldwin Smith Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850

Submissions deadline extended to April 10, 2004.

SCHREINER UNIVERSITY IS NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR THE SECOND ISSUE OF
ILLUMINATIONS: AN UNDERGRADUATE LITERARY E-JOURNAL.

Illuminations, a peer-reviewed international literary e-journal, offers
undergraduate students an opportunity to publish works both critical and
creative. Submissions will be refereed by a panel of three undergraduate
students.

New deadline for submissions: April 10, 2004

Submission Categories:
--Scholarly Critical Articles
--Creative Non-Fiction
--Book and Movie Reviews
--Short Fiction
--Poetry

Update: formatting problems corrected

CALL FOR PAPERS

Philament, an international online peer-reviewed journal of postgraduate
scholarship in the fields of cultural studies and the literary arts, now
invites contributors for its fourth edition, UNTITLED. After two consecutive
topic issues, UNTITLED is to be a break from theme, and yet a theme in itself.
Contributors are invited to put forward submissions that are of any nature and
on any subject, however we also hope to encourage the exploration of UNTITLED
as its own specific concept.

seeking innovative scholarship by graduate students
http://criticalsense.berkeley.edu

deadline: 15 January 2004
Critical Sense brings a high level of theoretical sophistication to
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue. It publishes innovative and
serious scholarship by graduate students and helps nurture a new generation of
scholars doing cutting-edge work in the humanities and social sciences.

—Lydia H. Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature & Helmut F. Stern Professor
of Chinese Studies, University of Michigan