Chapters are sought for a Special Issue of the scholarly journal a/b:
Auto/Biography (Fall 2008) on the topic of new or contemporary directions
in scholarly and or popular biography. Possible areas to consider
include, but are not limited to, the following:
- the rise of celebrity biographies
-tabloids, celebrity, and or glossy magazines as sites of biography
- biography on TV and online
-"biopic" movies
-graphic biographies
- intersections of biography and fiction in various forms/media
-interviews and or documentaries as sites of biographical production
- "biography" or “people” sections in mega bookstores
-scholarly journals, academic programs, and research centres devoted to

Emerson Society Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $750 to support travel to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the
American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2008) or the Thoreau Society Annual
Gathering (July 2008).
Submit a 250-word paper abstract by Dec. 15, 2007 to Joe Thomas, JThomas_at_caldwell.edu

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Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts is soliciting micro-essays (from
300-1000 words) for a special symposium issue on the line in contemporary
poetry. Approaches to the line could include theory, craft, or pedagogical
strategies. Both poets and critics are welcome to submit.

Please send your submissions as an MS Word attachment to:
emilyrosko_at_mizzou.edu, or by regular mail to: Center: A Journal of the
Literary Arts, Attn: Emily Rosko, Managing Editor, 202 Tate Hall,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211-1500.

Please be sure to include your postal address, email address, and telephone
number with your submission.

CFP: Film Adaptation for PCA/ACA conference 11/30/07 (3/19-22/07)
 
Film Adaptation is the movie medium that reshapes myth, medicine,
monsters, music, magic, mummies, Marvel comics, and much, much more!
Alliteration aside (sorry), film adaptation is any movie adapted to
screen to portray everything from history and politics to Frank Miller's
Sin City and 300. There's whole sets of Shakespearean adaptations. Even
DC and Marvel comics! Heck, we could write an entire book on film
adaptation--hey, wait...we did!
 
>From Camera Lens to Critical Lens was published with Cambridge SP in
2006, using papers on everything from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless

CFP: Visions of Tomorrow: Science and Utopia in German Culture

Workshop to be held at the 11th International Conference of ISSEI, the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, from 28 July â€" 2
August 2008 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Conference theme:
Language and the Scientific Imagination.

“Terror at the edge”: Don DeLillo’s Passages, Transitions, and Liminal
Spaces
Proposed Panel for the 39th Annual College English Association
Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 27-29, 2008, sponsored by the Don
DeLillo Society.

The <I>Journal of Surrealism and the Americas</I> focuses on the subject of
modern European and American intellectuals’ obsession with the “New World.”
The editors are pleased to announce the debut of the journal with the first
issue in December 2007, on general topics relating to surrealism, visual
culture and literature of the Americas.

Call For Papers -Issue 2 - Special Number on Ethnography
Amy Winter, Guest Editor