theatre

An Invitation to Students and Scholars of the British Theatre

from Kerry Moore, Editorial Advisor

Grolier is planning the publication of the Encyclopedia of Modern Drama,
edited by Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn of Vassar College. This
four-volume set will offer a total of one million words on a variety of
topics ranging from Ibsen to the present, and the target audience consists
of college students, high school students and general readers. Following
is an elaboration from the general editors:

TINTA
Research Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Performance and Spectatorship in Film and Literature”

The graduate student research journal of the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at UC Santa Barbara is soliciting papers for its forthcoming 2003
publication. The issue will focus on performance and spectatorship in Hispanic
and Lusophone film and literature. Interdisciplinary studies and approaches are
especially welcome.

Essays on Canadian Writing invites submissions of manuscripts for a =
special issue on textualizing orature and orality--the transformation of =
spoken, chanted, or sung vocalizations into printed or virtual text--and =
the ethical, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical issues raised by such =
textualizations. Some topics that might be addressed include:

  a.. textualized orature: works composed and passed on orally until =
transcribed or otherwise mediated (e.g. the work of anthropologists such =
as Marius Barbeau and Wendy Wickwire or poets like Robert Bringhurst);

CFP: egotistics: Open and Special Issues

egotistics is the online journal of EGO, the English Graduate Organization at
The University of Alabama. This peer-reviewed journal has been established to
offer graduate students and new professors the opportunity to publish their
critical writing on any topic regarding literature and critical theory. All
submissions will be reviewed by an editor and at least two assistant editors.
Rejected submissions will be returned with reader's suggestions. As always,
egotistics welcomes submissions for our open issues. Beginning spring 2003,
 we will publish one or two special topics issues per year.

Special Issue 1: Ecocriticism

X-posted from SHAKSPER

Call for Papers

SHAKESPEARE AND THE LOW COUNTRIES
Edited by Ton Hoenselaars and Holger Klein

The 2004 issue of the Shakespeare Yearbook will be devoted to
"Shakespeare and the Low Countries." The editors invite papers that
address Anglo-Dutch relations in the widest sense of the term insofar as
these manifestations of cultural exchange have a bearing on Shakespeare,
his fellow playwrights, and English Renaissance drama as a whole. Papers
on Shakespeare and Dutch culture may address topics including:

X-posted from PERFORM

Dear Colleagues

EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL DRAMA

I am writing (i) to inform you about major changes in the administration
and academic activities of the journal European Medieval Drama (EMD);
(ii) to invite all scholars who work on medieval drama to consider
publishing their work in EMD; and (iii) to urge you and your University
Library to take out a subscription to EMD.

(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.

The Tennessee Williams Annual Review publishes essays on Williams's work
as well as original, previously unpublished works by Tennessee Williams.
To submit or subscribe, please contact
Dr. Robert Bray
Editor
TWAR
website: www.middleenglish.org

CALL FOR PAPERS
(no deadline)

Apmonia, the new website for Samuel Beckett, seeks papers on all subjects
relating to this author and his works. Papers may be previously published
but please inform us of the specifics. All submissions will be vetted by
at least one editor.

Apmonia is a section of the growing website on twentieth-century
literature, The Modern Word (www.TheModernWord.com). Apmonia can be viewed
at www.TheModernWord.com/beckett

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.

Dr. Philip C. Kolin, Professor of English at the Univ. of Southern
Mississippi and the General Editor of the Garland Shakespeare Criticism
Series, is soliciting one-page proposals for 25 page essays on Othello
for a future collection on the play. He wants proposals on papers that
deal directly and theoretically with race, representation, gender and
genre as well as performance. Send just a one-page proposal to him via
fax at 601-266-5757.