Papers that address ways in which contemporary American women writers are constructing and/or
critiquing masculinities in their work. Such analyses may examine popular women's literature, such
as Chick Lit or its derivatives, or more 'literary' work. Papers should look at how women writers are
representing masculinities and how this may be influencing contemporary American women's
writing, new visions of femininity, understandings of nationalism, etc.

Subtopics may include:

Submission Guidelines

Dash is an annual journal dedicated to publishing the best poetry,
fiction, and criticism that is short, open-ended, and emphatic. In a
world that is focused on the quick and condensed, quality is often
neglected. Our goal at Dash is to seek and nurture authors who can create
a meaningful discourse in a small space. It is our mission to publish
new poetry, fiction and criticism from both established and emerging
writers in the English language.

"Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom" session
RMMLA (Rocky Mountain MLA) Convention in Reno, Nevada
October 9-11, 2008

The session chair seeks paper proposals that address innovations,
problematics, and/or insights about teaching feminism (or about teaching
as a feminist) in literature, language, cultural studies, or composition
classes. Papers that focus on particular strands of feminism and feminist
theory ("third-world feminisms"; queer feminisms; post-structural
feminism; and others) are especially encouraged.

Visible Memories Conference
Syracuse University
Oct. 2-4, 2008
 
Call for Papers
 
Conference Theme: The Visible Memories Conference at Syracuse University
invites papers for competitive selection. The conference will explore the
intersections between visual culture and memory studies with particular
focus on the ways in which memories are manifested and experienced in
visible, material, or spatial form.
 
Examples of especially relevant and desirable research topics include:
local sites of memory; memorials and archives; environmentalism and
representations of nature; regional, national, or global tourism;

RACE AND IDENTITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Contributors are invited to submit critical works that examine issues
surrounding race and identity in any period or genre of American
literature, film, media, etc.

Potential topics include:

National identity, nationalism as race

Conjunctions/disjunctions between race, gender, and socioeconomic status

Constructions/constrictions of racial identity

Notions of race, space, form, and the aesthetic

The non-race: constructing, securing, troubling, and problematizing whiteness

The black-white dyad

Miscegenation: Mestizas, Mulattoes, and other Mixed-"breeds"

Multiculturalism

Facts on File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and
libraries, is seeking authors to write approximately 80,000-word
manuscripts, following established series guidelines, offering strategies
and techniques for writing about a particular author. These are not
critical works but guides for the student, providing interpretive models
and establishing the link between reading classic works then effectively
writing about them. Contributors are sought for the following authors:
Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Langston Hughes, and Gabriel Garcia
Marquez. The ideal author will have a PhD, broad knowledge of the assigned
author’s life and works, and an ability to write clearly, cleanly, and