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Call for Papers and Presentations
Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures â€" Past and Present,
Local and Global
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
27-30 August 2008
Facts on File, Inc is putting together an ambitious, three volume
reference work entitled General Themes in Literature. Contributors are
sought for a variety of themes and works of literature. All information
may be found at
http://staff.kings.edu/jamcclin/general.htm
For information, you may contact Jennifer McClinton-Temple at
jamcclin_at_kings.edu.
CFP for a panel to he held at the 2008 International Conference on Romanticism at Oakland
University in Rochester, Mich.
The Labor of Lyric
While often professing to be a form in which a seamlessness or an ease
between language and speaker is capturedâ€"a form of so-called
“self-expression,†that isâ€"Romantic lyricism in fact often precisely
bears the marks of its own preoccupations with craft, work, effort, and
labor. This panel welcomes proposals that seek to frame the various
practices of Romantic lyricism as forms of work or labor.
The 14th Annual Southern Writers, Southern Writing is a University of
Mississippi Graduate Student Conference held in conjunction with the
Annual
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.
The Graduate Students in the Departments of English and Southern Studies
invite you to submit abstracts exploring Southern culture. Accepted
submissions will be presented in Oxford, Mississippi, July 17th-19th,
2008.
The keynote speaker will be John T. Edge, director of the Southern
Foodways Alliance and author of numerous books on Southern cuisine,
including Fried Chicken: An American Story.
Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature. They may
include:
CFP: “Potentiality and the Unfinished States of Literatureâ€
A Panel of the MLA Graduate Student Caucus, MLA 2008
The Graduate Student Caucus, an affiliate organization of the MLA, is pleased to invite current
graduate students to submit proposals for twenty-minute papers for a panel discussion titled
“Potentiality and the Unfinished States of Literature†at the 2008 MLA annual meeting, 12/27-
12/30 in San Francisco. This panel will investigate “potentiality†as a means of thinking the
conditions of possibility of literature in all of its habits and guises.
Submissions are invited on any topic relating to Romanticism to
the panel chair, Chris Valeo, at cvaleo_at_mail.ewu.edu by March 1,
2008. These submissions should be 300-word electronic abstracts,
formatted as a standard Word document or RTF.
Everyone submitting an abstract will be notified about acceptance by
March 15, 2008.
RMMLA membership is not required to submit an abstract. However, those
selected to be presenters must become RMMLA members (or renew
membership) by April 1, 2008.
Convention information and submission and presentation guidelines can be
found on the RMMLA website at http://www.rmmla.org
This session welcomes proposals on any aspect of work in nineteenth-
century literature. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the
following: legal work, the medical profession, housework, needlework,
prostitution, writing, factory work, arts and crafts, teaching,
governesses, companions, chimney sweeps, London Labour and the London
Poor, nursing, the military, the clergy, government service, gambling,
Marxism, imperialism, maid work, prison labor, coal mining, and child
labor. How did literature shape and define nineteenth-century notions of
work? How can we understand the varied issues of work through the
literature of the period?
Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-
1850 (London, 18-20 June 2009)
Description:
This conference explores the fluid and unfamiliar contours of
predisciplinarity/adisciplinarity in an expansive Romantic Century, 1750-
1850. We envision this conference as an opportunity to defamiliarize
foundational moments, master narratives, and key figures of the Romantic
century, by opening them up to predisciplinary and eccentric objects,
encounters, and texts.
Borders of Genre: Travel Writing and Autobiography. When and why does
travel writing become autobiographical, if ever? 250-300 word abstracts for
papers investigating these questions, with attention to theoretical issues
and/or specific texts, due March 10 to Tom Smith at trs8_at_psu.edu. Inquiries
welcome.
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Call for Papers:
Textuality, Visuality and their Convergence
Submissions are invited for this Special Topic Session at the October 9-
11, 2008 Rocky Mountain MLA Convention in Reno, Nevada. Papers may
address but are not limited to the following topics:
Writing the visual
Seeing or not seeing texts
Cultural and/or theoretical approaches to textuality and visuality
The role of visual studies in literary scholarship
The role of literary studies in visual studies scholarship
Particular readings that blend these two approaches
Please send a 300-word abstract and a brief CV in .doc or .pdf format to
Susan Cook, susan.elizabeth.cook_at_gmail.com.
19th Annual UCLA Southland Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers
Conference Title: Genre Matters
Conference Date: Friday, May 16, 2008
Keynote Speakers: Lowell Gallagher and Yogita Goyal, UCLA Department of
English
The 14th Annual Southern Writers, Southern Writing is a University of
Mississippi Graduate Student Conference held in conjunction with the Annual
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.
The Graduate Students in the Departments of English and Southern Studies
invite you to submit abstracts exploring Southern culture. Accepted
submissions will be presented in Oxford, Mississippi, July 17th-19th, 2008.
The keynote speaker will be John T. Edge, director of the Southern
Foodways Alliance and author of numerous books on Southern cuisine,
including Fried Chicken: An American Story.
Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature. They may include:
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.
Science and Literature in the 19th century
Contributors are invited to submit critical works on the interaction
between scientific writing and literature in the 19th century. How did
scientific discoveries, theories and assumptions (for example, in medicine
and psychology, but not limited to these) influence contemporaneous fiction?
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to ghoff002_at_ucr.edu by
February 15, 2008.
2008 MLA (San Francisco): Special Session Call For Papers
What is an Explorer?
How have different dimensions of authorship (authorization, individualization,
print and manuscript circulation, institutional domains, material production)
intersected with and informed those of exploration and voyaging (whether
commercial, scientific, enslaving, imperial) in the 18th and 19th centuries?
Email 250-word abstracts by March 10 to Adriana Craciun (a.craciun_at_bbk.ac.uk).
Dr. Adriana Craciun
Reader in Literature and Theory
School of English and Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
Companion to Literary Romanticism (reference work)
Contributors - teachers or graduate students - are sought for the above
reference book published by Facts on File (New York). The book is due for
publication in 2009) which aims to cover British and European works from
the period 1780-1850 and which are typically given the label "Romantic."
Subjects include:
Author biographies and bibliographies (Blake, Wordsworth Byron etc, as
well as lesser-known male and female writers)
Analyses of individual poems, plays, novels and non-fiction prose.
Literary themes and terms
Historical events and personalities relevant to an understanding of the
Romantic period.
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
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Modern Language Association (MLA) / (American Conference for Irish
Studies) ACIS panels, 2008, San Francisco.
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IRISH SPECTACLE
Papers should explore the role of spectacle in Irish literature and
culture. Possible topics might include the role of spectacle in Irish
modernism, spectacular representations of gender and sexuality, spectacle
and the Irish stage, Irish political spectacle, spectacle and
representations of the Irish landscape.
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Please send 200-word abstracts to Ellen Crowell by March 21, 2008. All
panelists must be ACIS and MLA members by July 1, 2008.
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Ellen Crowell, Literature Representative, ACIS 2008-10
Call for Papers
Eighteenth International George Sand Conference
The University of California, at Santa Barbara
September 25-27, 2008
Writing, Performance and Theatricality in George Sand's Works
We invite proposals for papers (in French or English) on aspects of the
conference theme,including, but not limited to:
CALL FOR PAPERS
NINETEENTH-CENTURY GENDER STUDIES
SUMMER 2008
SUBMISSION DATE: March 1, 2008
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal
committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender
studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The
journal is a collaborative effort that brings together advanced graduate
students and scholars from a variety of universities to create a unique
voice in the field. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and
welcome submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction
with race, class, place and nationality.
2008 SCMLA 19th Century Literature Panel - Border Crossings
In conjunction with the theme of the South Central Modern Language
Association’s 2008 Annual Conference â€" “Border’s â€" the 19th Century
British Literature Panel welcomes paper proposals that address the theme
of “Border Crossings in 19th Century British Literature.†The concept
of “border†can be interpreted liberally and may include such topics as:
• Navigating domestic and public space
• The colonies and empire
• Literature from border areas within Britain
• The (re)crossing of rural and urban space
• Transgression / identity of rank and class
• Challenging constructions of gender and sexuality
CFP: Proposed essay collection, “Romantic Pleasureâ€
19th Annual UCLA Southland Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers
Conference Title: Genre Matters
Conference Date: Friday, May 16, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Lowell Gallagher, UCLA Department of English
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN, a hardcover serial publication from AMS Press,
seeks original, well researched submissions in the fields of literary,
biographical, bibliographical, social, and cultural history.
It focuses on women in Great Britain, Europe, the Americas, and the rest
of the world during the "long" eighteenth century, extending roughly from
the restoration of the English monarchy (1660) to the death of Jane
Austen (1817).
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH â€" extended deadline 22/01/08
A workshop exploring how life is managed, commodified and objectified
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Munk Centre at the University of Toronto.
CALL FOR PAPERS
George Herbert’s Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
9-11 October, 2008
We are pleased to announce that the conference will now be extended into
the evening of Thursday, October 9, and will be opened by a shared reading
by two distinguished American poets:
--Carl Phillips of Washington University, Chancellor of the American
Academy of Poets
--Mark Strand of Columbia University, former U. S. Poet Laureate and Winner
of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize
PLACE, WRITING AND VOICE
5-6 September 2008, University of Plymouth
CFPâ€"Mary Shelley and the Post Modern
63rd Annual RMMLA Convention
Reno, NV (October 9-11, 2008)
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS MARCH 1, 2008
Abstracts for 15-20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of Mary Shelley
(broadly defined to include both her literary and familial circles as well
as her legacy) and the Post Modern. Selected essays will be read at the
Annual RMMLA Convention to be held in Reno, Nevada, October 9-11, and will
also be considered for inclusion in an essay collection currently in
development. Proposals are due by March 1, 2008, and may be sent either
electronically or by regular post to
Dr. Erin Webster-Garrett
Radford University
CALL FOR PAPERS
George Herbert’s Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
9-11 October, 2008
We are pleased to announce that the conference will now be extended into
the evening of Thursday, October 9, and will be opened by a shared reading
by two distinguished American poets:
--Carl Phillips of Washington University, Chancellor of the American
Academy of Poets
--Mark Strand of Columbia University, former U. S. Poet Laureate and Winner
of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize
The English Graduate Organization at the University of New Hampshire
would like to announce that it has extended the deadline for proposal
submissions to its 2008 Graduate Conference entitled “Challenging Faith:
Intersections of Belief and Doubt in Literature, Composition, and the
Profession†to be held March 7-8. The new deadline will be December 22,
2007. Papers on both religious and non-religious topics are encouraged.
We intend the conference to cover all matters of “faith,†understood in
its broadest sense and look forward to a rewarding conference experience
for all. Speakers at this year’s conference will be Patricia Bizzell,