journals and collections of essays

Journal of Professional Studies

Announcement and Call for Papers

The Journal of Professional Studies (JPS) is a new scholarly, peer-reviewed
journal published by St. John's University in New York and devoted to the
pedagogic needs and research interests of those working within career-oriented
disciplines. The journal therefore welcomes articles from a wide range of
professional disciplines, including but not limited to, such fields as
Criminal Justice, Health Services, Hospitality Management, Computer Science,
Sports Administration, Television and Film, Legal Studies, Administration and
Economics, and Journalism.

Revised call: Oprah Anthology

We are soliciting papers for an academic anthology on the phenomenon of
Oprah. It is undeniable that Oprah Winfrey has transcended the iconic
cult of celebrity to become a Western cultural force of the late-twentieth
and early twenty-first centuries. As her show nears its much anticipated
end — though its endless reproduction in syndication seems inevitable — it
seems appropriate to produce an anthology that evaluates the multifaceted
influences and implications of Oprah.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Personal essays, critical articles, and creative work about the late
poet Everette Maddox (1944-1989) are being sought for a book-length
collection of critical and creative responses to Maddox being edited by
Grace Bauer and Julie Kane. Send completed work or proposals via e-mail
to kanej_at_nsula.edu or via surface mail to:

Dr. Julie Kane
Language and Communication Department
Northwestern State University
318 Kyser Hall
Natchitoches, LA 71497

Proposals describing existing or planned works about Maddox are desired
as soon as possible, while completed works will by due by February 28,
2004.

X-posted from SHAKSPER

Call for Papers

Special issue of Current Writing on Paul Gilroy and 'The Black Atlantic:
Modernity and double consciousness'

The publication of Paul Gilroy's 'The Black Atlantic: Modernity and double
consciousness' ten years ago made a major contribution to the reconfiguration
of the study of black literatures and cultures. Since then several scholars
have engaged with the ways in which the Atlantic divides and connects Africa,
Europe, and the Americas; with notions of black modernity; and with the
intricacies of double consciousness.

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Gramma (Journal) CFP Update

GRAMMA

Journal of Theory and Criticism

Issue Number 13, 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

Comparative Literature and Global Studies: Histories and Trajectories

Call for papers:

CineAction #63, edited by Richard Lippe & Florence Jacobowitz

"1950s Aesthetics: Film in Transition; Minelli Centenary"

The 1950's was a significant decade in the history of the cinema; it marked the
end of classical Hollywood and the beginning of a cinema that addressed the
contemporary culture and post-war social changes. The decade saw important changes
occurring in the European cinema and a worldwide crossover of influences. Within
this context, we are celebrating the cinema of Vincente MInnelli who, working within
the tradtions of classical Hollywood, brought a modernist aesthetic and cosmopolitan
sensibility to his films.

Submission deadline: November 15, 2003.

CALL FOR PAPERS

JANUS HEAD 6.2

Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature,
Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology and the Arts
http://www.janushead.org

OPEN ISSUE

Guidelines for Submissions

Janus Head follows APA guidelines for its review process (peer
review).

In general, Janus Head editors and reviewers look for works which
speak to the Janus Head attitude of "respect and openness to the
various manifestations of truth in human experience and the
fostering of understanding through meditative thinking, narrative
structure, and poetic imagination."

Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2003.

The deadline has been extended to 14 August 2003 for:

Hollywood to Bollywood: Reviewing the Culture of Musicals

An M/C Reviews feature

http://reviews.media-culture.org.au

Edited by Emma Nelms and Kate Douglas

M/C Reviews would like to invite contributions for a reviews feature on
the theatrical, cinematic and televisual significance of musicals.

We will publish a collection of short critiques or thought-pieces (each
submission should be 1000 words or less) on the subject of musicals
(whether film, theatre or television), as well as reviews of particular
musicals.

Possible topics include (but should not be limited to):

The electronic English Studies Forum publishes innovative critical and creative writing. ESF currently seeks submissions for sites on the following topics:

* "Image, Story, and Conversation" explores the idea that we imagine our world in archtypal patterns, three of which are image, story, and conversation.
* "The Postmodern Imagination and Beyond" asks "what are we imagining, and how?" This site investigates the postmodern imagination and the postmodern understanding of the nature/role of imagination in contemporary literature and culture. This site will also consider what post-postmodernism might look like.
* "PostColonial Literatures" examines postcolonial literatures and the postcolonial imagination.

Call for Papers: pacific REVIEW, a West Coast Arts Review
Annual

submission deadline: 12/05/03

From: Camille Tèrese Tallon (pacificreview_sdsu_at_yahoo.com)
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society seeks submissions for a
special issue titled "Gender beyond 'Sexual Difference': Rethinking
Feminisms and Visual Culture," slated for publication in spring 2006. The
editors of this special issue seek manuscripts that offer new feminist
strategies for examining visual culture, convincing critiques of earlier
approaches to feminist visual analysis, and/or new models of feminist
visual theory that accommodate the multivalence of women's identities and
experiences. We are interested in essays that revise binary models of
sexual difference by considering the coextensivity of gender and the myriad

CFP: Comparing Literatures through Translation: Theoretical and Practical
Challenges (12/31/03; Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism)

Contributions from the following areas are welcome: current translation
theories; comparative literary theory; cultural studies; post-colonial
theory; stylistics; discourse analysis; pragmatics; aesthetics.

Papers should not exceed the length of 5000 words (including footnotes and
bibliography). They should follow the MLA Handbook (5th edition).
Contributions can be submitted in either English or Greek. Papers should be
submitted in double-spaced format (two hard copies and a disk) to the editor
of the issue, Nikos Kontos: