CFP: “'I’ve been a woman I-don’t know-how-many-times': A Critical Tribute to
the Work of Octavia E. Butler"
Essay collection, ed. Patricia Melzer

Call For Papers=20

Postcolonial Green

This collection proceeds from our conviction that postcolonial theorists =
and ecocritics have a great deal to gain from one another. At present, =
however, postcolonial theory lacks a dimension of eco-critique despite =
the fact that many postcolonial issues are also issues of environmental =
crisis. Ecocriticism still retains a local and regional focus on place =
at the expense of a global vision that recognizes international =
interdependence, and has privileged =93first world=94 blind spots in its =
assumptions about how best to value nature.=20

Call For Papers=20

Postcolonial Green

This collection proceeds from our conviction that postcolonial theorists =
and ecocritics have a great deal to gain from one another. At present, =
however, postcolonial theory lacks a dimension of eco-critique despite =
the fact that many postcolonial issues are also issues of environmental =
crisis. Ecocriticism still retains a local and regional focus on place =
at the expense of a global vision that recognizes international =
interdependence, and has privileged =93first world=94 blind spots in its =
assumptions about how best to value nature.=20

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Call for papers

"West of One's Roots: Ethno-cultural Spaces in John Fante' Works and His
Reception between Italy and the US"

Quaderni del '900 is soliciting papers written by young scholars on John
Fante's life and works to be published in a special issue devoted to this
American author of Italian origins, alternatively described as "my god"
(Charles Bukowski), "a writer as American as Huckleberry Finn" (Carey
McWilliams), "the Italian American Hemingway" (Fred Gardaphé), "inspired by
Verga, D'Annunzio, and Pirandello" (Emilio Cecchi).

Essays sought for an edited collection on twentieth-century Faust texts, =
films, adaptations, etc. in Europe, Americas, and elsewhere.
=20
Completed essays will be 6,000-7,000 words in length and due
in March 2007. The collection will come out of Cambridge Publishers =
Press in 2008.

Please send 1-2 page proposals and a short biography by December 18, =
2006 to the editor, vanwesen_at_fredonia.edu

Call for submissions for the Flannery O'Connor session at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007. Theme: "Flannery O'Connor's Influence North of the 49th." General papers on O'Connor are welcome, but in particular those that explore O'Connor's (acknowledged) influence on Canadian authors Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, W.P. Kinsella, Jack Hodgins, Hugh Hood, and others. Please send proposals or finished papers to Dr. Irwin Streight at _streight-i_at_rmc.ca_ or to Department of English, Royal Military College of Canada, PO Box 17000, Stn Forces, Kingston, ON Canada K7K 7B4.

Deadline for submissions: *March 1, 2007*

New: UPDATE: Deadline Extension for Proposals to December 1, 2006.

New: Early Registration Discount now in effect.

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 27th Annual Conference
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca

CFP: Creative Writing Pedagogy
  (please forward to interested colleagues and graduate students)
                      
Topics of Interest: Pedagogy related to campus literary magazines, classroom approaches and special issues of concern for the teaching of creative writing in all genres, and interdisciplinary approaches to creative writing. See below for more interest areas.