AMERICAN REGIONAL CULTURES-A Greenwood Reference Series

The Greenwood Publishing Group, an award-winning publisher of reference
books and monographs, is developing a major new reference series that will
provide an invaluable and unprecedented tool in the field of Regional
Studies. The series will be marketed to college, high school, and public
libraries throughout the United States, and will be offered for sale as
individual volumes and as a complete set.

I am seeking contributors for the volume dealing with the New England
region, made up of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island and Vermont, for each of the following topical chapters:

Announcing a New Undergraduate Research Journal. Young Scholars in Writing:
Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric seeks theory-driven and/or
research-based submissions from undergraduates on the following topics:
writing, rhetoric, composition, professional writing, technical writing,
business writing, discourse analysis, writing technologies, peer tutoring
in writing, writing process, writing in the disciplines, and related
topics. Submissions to this refereed journal should be between 8 and 20
pages, in MLA format, and should be accompanied by a professor's note that
the essay was written by the student. Please send three copies of

The Philip Roth Society, a new organization devoted to the study and the
appreciation of the writings of Philip Roth, will soon inaugurate a
newsletter, and it's looking for individuals interested in contributing.
 As this is a literary newsletter, contributions should not be long and
journal-length. Brief writings concerning Roth and his fiction, in any
way and from any approach, are welcome.

The goal of the Philip Roth Society is to encourage the exchange of
ideas and texts concerning this most significant author through
discussions, panel presentations at scholarly conferences, and journal
publications. The newsletter will be a major factor in accomplishing
this.