journals and collections of essays

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to inform you that on 4 April 2000, a new internet-based, peer
reviewed journal will be launched,

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

The URL is http://www.aber.ac.uk/~drawww/journal/

Aims and Scope

The journal provides a forum for new work relating the arts and literature
to the exploration of consciousness currently flourishing in many
disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, psychology,
neuroscience, computer science, and physics.

MAGISTRA: a Journal of Women's Spirituality in History, is always seeking
submissions, both of original work and also of translations of historical
sources, such as treatises, biogrphies,poetry, journals, etc.. Our interest
is in anything by or about women and their spirituality from all eras of
history and all faith traditions. Details regarding submissions to the
refereed journal are on our website
<www.benedictine.edu/mount/magistra.html>. We also sponsor sessions
annually at the International Medieval Studies Congress at Kalamazoo, and
welcome single papers or full session submissions. More information is
available from:

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                   The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism

                     http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~ov
                             ISSN 1094-2254
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*Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal*, which provides a forum
for the presentation of scholarship and criticism about women, invites
submissions from scholars across the disciplines, including literature,
history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, religious
studies, anthropology and the sciences. We also publish poetry as
well as film and book reviews. Send three copies of submissions
(up to 25 pp. in length and conforming to current MLA style) to
Wendy Martin, Editor, Claremont Graduate University, Blaisdell
House, 143 East Tenth Street, Claremont, CA 91711-6163.

Obsidian Is in Its 25th Anniversary Year

Founded in 1975 by Alvin Aubert at SUNY-Purchase,
Obsidian, the academic journal of black creative writing,
is now in its 25th anniversary year.

Each Editor changes the numbering of the journal.
The new editor is Afaa M. Weaver (b.Michael S. Weaver),
the poet and playwright. As the third Editor, after
Alvin Aubert and Jerry Barax, Obsidian is now:
Obsidian III/Literature in the African Diaspora. The
journal is based in Raleigh, North Carolina at
NC State University.

HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT ISSUE

CALL FOR PAPERS
(Un)Sexing the Text: Experimental Fiction by American Women.
We are putting together a collection of essays on experimental fiction by
American Women, and need an essay on Rikki Ducornet and an essay on Kathy
Acker to complete the volume. A university press has expressed interest in
this project. Please email completed essays and vitae, or letters of
interest to:
jdeshel_at_ibm.com <mailto:jdeshel_at_ibm.com> or
elisasheffield_at_hotmail.com <mailto:elisasheffield_at_hotmail.com>

Jeffrey DeShell
Fulbright Lecturer
American Studies Department
Eötvös Loránd University
Budapest, H-1146
Hungary
+36-1-343-8760

CALL FOR PAPERS

Estuary: A journal of Contemporary Art and Literature

Seeks criticism, critical reviews, creative nonfiction, poetry, short
fiction, one-act plays, b/w line art, b/w photography, in experimental or
conventional formats. Critical essays should demonstrate familiarity with
current trends in literary and cultural theory; reviews and articles
focusing on installations, performance art, experimental theater,
experimental writing, and cultural studies especially welcome. Works
by/about African-Americans and other U.S. minority cultures are encouraged.
 Deadline: May 15 for fall, 2000 issue. Submission and brief bio.
including relevant publications to:

Call for Papers
Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short Story Writers since
World War II. 4th Series.

The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) is widely used in libraries
as a reliable source of information about the lives and careers of
authors. The DLB is written to make literature and its creators better
understood and more accessible to students and the reading public, while
satisfying the standards of teachers and scholars. Entries writers will
be compensated.

We seek critical biographies on the following authors:

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Online invites scholarly submissions in current
MLA style on any aspect of Cormac McCarthy's works. Reviews, Notes up to
500 words, and articles up to 5,000 words are welcome.

The Journal is a peer reviewed scholarly journal and a Member of the
Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Submit cover letter (with email address), three printed copies, and an SASE
for return of ms.

For submissions and inquiries contact

Dr. John Wegner, Editor
Department of English
Angelo State University
P.O. Box 10894, ASU Station
San Angelo, TX 76909

<John.Wegner_at_angelo.edu>
Regards,

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The XAVIER REVIEW (established in its present form in 1980) is
undergoing a process of self-reflection and refurbishment in keeping
with the spirit of the new millennium. Our sense is that, in addition
to publishing high quality works on any topic, we still have interests
in creative and critical works on Southern literature, literature and
religion, Latin-Caribbean literature, and African-American literature,
areas which reflect some of the Xavier library's collections.

Antithesis is an interdisciplinary journal of critical theory and creative
cultural production. It is Australia's longest standing postgraduate
journal and is published by University of Melbourne, the leading research
institution

Volume 11, 'SEX 2000' seeks to explore the various terrains through which
'sex' might remain or become both intelligible and possible. This project
can be realised through a consideration of libidinal investments across
visual and discursive practices, corporeal enactments and virtual
identifications. Accordingly, these provisional locations will imply a
constitutive and reflexive negativity or absence, in the form of
banalities, repulsions and failures.

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical
and creative works in the realms of science fiction, fantasy, magical
realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres, is
planning a special issue on gender and technology in science fiction
film. Possible topics, though not limited to these, include:
      *technology and the cultural construction of feminine/masculine roles
      *the technologically produced body
      *technology as a system of representation
      *technology and the construction of social categories of
difference, such as race, gender, sexuality, and class
      *forms of resistance within/through/despite technology
      *cybersexuality

BMa: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review invites submissions on any aspect of
poet Sonia Sanchez's work.

As a poet who emerged during the height of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia
Sanchez produced powerful poetry for nearly three decades.

Published twice yearly, BMa maintains a rolling enrollment. However, among the
issues we'd like to address in 2001 &2002 are:

                Quest themes in Sanchez's work

                Pedagogical issues involved in teaching Sanchez's work

                And close studies of her poetic style.