CFP: [20th] The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/6/06; National PCA/ACA Conference,
3/19/08-3/22/08)
 
NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE
 
March 19-22, 2008
San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco, CA

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 6, 2008

 We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film, literature, or other
forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome.
 
You can propose an individual paper or a session of three or four presenters. Graduate students
are especially encouraged to submit papers or panels.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Performing Pedagogy: Gender and Instruction in Early Modern England

Editors seek articles of 5000-7000 words, including notes, for a proposed
book-length collection entitled Performing Pedagogy: Gender and
Instruction in Early Modern England.

We seek essays discussing models of childhood (particularly girlhood)
educability as they were applied in domestic, religious and school
settings and as they were rehearsed in the dramas of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries.

Sponsored by: Art History Graduate Student Union at Binghamton University,
Binghamton, NY
Conference Dates: March 14-15, 2008
Just as we assign meaning to spaces - sacred, pedagogical, domestic,
industrial - the spaces we inhabit shape our individual and cultural
identities.
This interdisciplinary conference, featuring keynote speakers Professor
Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester) and Professor Aruna D’Souza
(Binghamton University), seeks to explore transgressions and
transformations of space though appropriations, reclamations, and other
interventionist activities.
We invite papers from all areas of study engaging topics that include but
are not limited to:

CFP: Race and Literary Appropriation in Southern Fiction

A Panel for the Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA
April 18-20, 2008

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
FOR ISSUE 1 - deadline November 15
                                 
 
"Fairy stories make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one
wild moment, that they run with water."
 
-- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

That’s what Dante’s Heart is looking for: stories, poetry, and art that
surprise and demand that the reader see the world as if for the first time.

The editors of Dante's Heart: A Journal of Myth, Fairytale, Folklore and
Fantasy invite submissions for their first issue, to launch in December
2007. Deadline for submissions is November 15.

CFP: Mississippi Philological Association

The Mississippi Philological Association invites submissions of poetry,
fiction, and literary or pedagogical essays for this year’s literary
conference of the Mississippi Philological Association to be held at
Mississippi College in Clinton (a few miles west of Jackson) on January
25-6th, 2008. MPA welcomes scholars not only from Mississippi’s
universities but also from the region. Literary essays should be in MLA
format and should anticipate reading times of 18-20 minutes. Submissions
are due by November 1. Abstracts are acceptable from professors, full
drafts are necessary for graduate students.

CONFERENCE DATES: April 18-19, 2008 at Baylor University, Waco, TX

Literary scholars, philosophers, artists, and theologians from all faith
traditions have long investigated the capacity of both sacred and secular
literature and art to reveal meaning. We welcome individual papers and
panel proposals from graduate students that deal with various traditions
and such topics as how meaning is revealed, what is the content of the
revelation, and what are the origins of meaning.

Possible paper topics may include but are not limited to:

• Potential tension between creation of meaning and discovery of revelation