William Buehler Seabrook (1884-1945) was an adventurer and best-selling
Lost Generation writer whose influence on U.S. and global popular culture
has been massive but critically neglected. Seabrook was best known for
his sensational anthropological adventures, The Magic Island (1929), a
chronicle of his stay in U.S. occupied-Haiti and participation in voudun;
and Jungle Ways (1930), a record of his immersion among several tribal
peoples in the Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Mali, in his quest to commit
cannibalism in a racially authentic setting. The Magic Island inspired
the first wave of zombie films of the 1930s, most notably White Zombie

William Buehler Seabrook (1884-1945) was an adventurer and best-selling
Lost Generation writer whose influence on U.S. and global popular culture
has been massive but critically neglected. Seabrook was best known for
his sensational anthropological adventures, The Magic Island (1929), a
chronicle of his stay in U.S. occupied-Haiti and participation in voudun;
and Jungle Ways (1930), a record of his immersion among several tribal
peoples in the Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Mali, in his quest to commit
cannibalism in a racially authentic setting. The Magic Island inspired
the first wave of zombie films of the 1930s, most notably White Zombie

MODERNISM AND VISUAL CULTURE
1st-2nd November 2008
Oxford University, UK

Keynote Speakers
David Trotter (Cambridge University)
Laura Marcus (Edinburgh University)
Maggie Humm (University of East London)

“A writer ... has need of a third eye whose function is to help out the
other senses when they flag.” (Virginia Woolf, 1925)

CFP: Miami's English Graduate and Adjunct Association 5th Annual Symposium

CONTESTED HISTORIES

Elizabeth Stoddard Society
Call for Papers

American Literature Association
19th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2008
San Francisco, CA

The Elizabeth Stoddard Society is seeking papers that address new
directions in Stoddard scholarship. To coincide with the new edition of Two
Men, edited by Jennifer Putzi, to be published by the University of
Nebraska Press this spring, we would like to invite proposals that address
how both scholars and teachers can revisit and reassess Stoddard's texts,
including but not limited to The Morgesons and Two Men. More specifically,
papers might address questions such as the following:

Transverse, the graduate literary journal of the Centre for Comparative
Literature at the University of Toronto, invites submissions of essays and
literary reviews for the next issue (Modern/Post-Modern Drama), to be
published in Spring 2008.

Transverse is a paper-based journal with a pdf version available on-line
at www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/journal.htm

Love and Conquest
Graduate Conference
Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain
May 29-30, 2008

>From the dominance of the gods to the exploration of the world, from
memories of desire to representations of obsession, passion has led to
great advances in mapping the body and penetrating the continents. At
the 6th-annual Saint Louis University Madrid graduate conference, we
invite our peers to do some scouting of their own into the territories
of "Love and Conquest." What boundaries are laid and by whom? What
motivations emerge as truly culpable in the lust for power and property?
In what forms do acts of resistance manifest?