journals and collections of essays

(This announcement updates a prior announcement; 80+ authors still
available.)

Biographical Entries Sought: Black Diaspora Drama

Alexander Street Press seeks short biographical entries for inclusion in its
BLACK DRAMA database.

Alexander Street Press--an electronic publishing firm noted for its Civil
War Letters and Diaries and for North American Women’s Letters and
Diaries--is publishing a full-text searchable database titled BLACK DRAMA.
Integrating rare, hard-to-find plays and popular, widely-produced plays by
Blacks and about Blacks, BLACK DRAMA encompasses the work of playwrights
from the U.K., the Caribbean, the U.S. and Canada, and Anglophone Africa.

Early Theatre 4 (2001) is now printed and being mailed out to
subscribers. Subsequent volumes of this journal will appear in two
issues, spring and fall. We invite the submission of note-length or
article length essays for the coming issues.

Professor Jacob George
Director,
Centre for Canadian Studies
&
Editor, Journal of Indo-Canadian Studies
Union Christian College, Alwaye-683 102
Kerala, India.

September 26, 2001

Dear Professor,

Greetings from the Centre for Canadian Studies, Union Christian College,
Alwaye, Kerala, India.

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----Please note the following new URL for SIGNATURES refereed onlinehumanities journal:http://www.ucc.ac.uk/signaturesDuncan Salkeld =============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP_at_english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin_at_english.upenn.edu ===============================================Received on Sat Sep 22 2001 - 12:38:22 EDT

Biographical Entries Sought: Black Diaspora Drama

Alexander Street Press seeks short biographical entries for inclusion in its
BLACK DRAMA database.

Alexander Street Press—an electronic publishing firm noted for its Civil War
Letters and Diaries and for North American Women’s Letters and Diaries—is
publishing a full-text searchable database titled BLACK DRAMA. Integrating
rare, hard-to-find plays and popular, widely-produced plays by Blacks and
about Blacks, BLACK DRAMA encompasses the work of playwrights from the U.K.,
the Caribbean, the U.S. and Canada, and Anglophone Africa.

>_Asian American Short Story Writers_. Qualified contributors are sought to
>write
>for _Asian American Short Story Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical
>Sourcebook_, an original reference book to be published by Greenwood Press.
>Each contribution will include a biography, a discussion of major works and
>themes, a review of the critical response to the short story writer's works,
>and bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. For details, please

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
(1900-present) is dedicated to the art of semiotic analysis and is
comprised of two major divisions. The first division is a website at
americanpopularculture.com featuring articles written by fellows in our
Think Tank for a mainstream audience. The second division, and the one
for which we are publishing this call for papers, is a peer-reviewed
academic journal targeted to an academic audience; it will be published
as a link on americanpopularculture.com.

The editorship of _Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture,
1660-1700_ is passing from the capable hands of Jack Armistead
at Tennessee Tech to J. Douglas Canfield at the University of Arizona
beginning with vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring 2002).

SCOPE: Conference Reports ( no deadline; e-journal)

Scope, a fully refereed on-line journal of film studies (we're at http//
www. nottingham.ac.uk/ film) edited by staff and postgraduate students
within the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham, is
looking for conference reports of about 1000-1500 words to be included in
forthcoming issues. We're seeking contributions on the events listed
below, but we also welcome reports on other relevant conferences in film,
media and cultural studies.

Reports, queries and expressions of interest should be sent to Jeongmee
Kim, Conference Reports Editor, arxjk_at_nottingham.ac.uk.

Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory

CALL FOR PAPERS

Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory is a
multi-disciplinary journal published annually by graduate students in
the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Students either currently enrolled in a post-graduate program or having
recently graduated from one are invited to submit articles for
consideration. Interdisciplinary papers and essays responding to issues
of current debate within academia are especially encouraged.

Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company

Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

Series Editors:
Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College and
Henry S. Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Call for Paper:

Is there anyone out there who has written
on John Adams in film or on The Adams
Chronicles with respect to John Adams
(first 6 episodes of the series)?

We are assembling a collection of essays
on THE PRESIDENCY IN FILM and lack
something on this contentious character
in our history...

Would be delighted to hear from you...

Peter Rollins

Peter C. Rollins
Editor-in-Chief
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and TV Studies
(Web site: www.filmandhistory.org)
RR 3 Box 80
Cleveland, OK 74020
(918)243-7637 and fax 5995
RollinsPC_at_aol.com

HOW2 , an electronic extension of the 80s journal HOW(ever), focusing on
innovative writing and scholarship by and about contemporary and
modernist women writers, is seeking conference papers given in these
subject areas for the "In Conference" section of the journal. Recent
papers published include work from the MINA LOY: A SYMPOSIUM, papers
delivered at the Institute of English Studies—School of Advanced
studies, University of London, on 11 March 2000 and AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEW
POETRIES, papers delivered at the American Literature Association
Conference, Long Beach, California, Spring 2000. Papers from male and
female scholars welcome. The paper must have been given at a recent

I am looking for 4 or 5 more empirical or theoretical articles to be
included in a book entitled _Studies in Islamic Masculinities_ to be
published by Zed Books (London).