DEADLINE UPDATE

New Directions in Critical Theory is an annual interdisciplinary graduate
student conference at the University of Arizona; the 2008 conference will
focus on a self-conscious examination of the ways we do work at the
university. While interdiscplinarity questions the boundaries that mark
off everything from university departments to methods of inquiry, the
space between disciplines is not a neutral zone. When we shuffle prefixes
and suffixes in an attempt to announce new disciplines and identities, we
work in a liminal space that we participate in creating. This endeavor
must be undertaken cautiously; remapping disciplines and identities is
never an innocent game.

Call for Papers for one of two panels at the 2008 MLA, sponsored by the Dickens Project in
partnership with the Dickens Society.

Dickens and Science
Significance of science in the novels; essays on science in /Household
Words /and /All The Year Round/; Dickens and Darwinism; Dickens and
Technology; Dickens and Medicine/Sanitation/Health.

Abstract and brief c.v. by 1 March to Sally Ledger (s.ledger_at_bbk.ac.uk).

Teaching Hemingway’s Posthumous Novels (3/10/08; 2008 MLA)
MLA in San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008

Hemingway’s Other Women (3/10/08; 2008 MLA)
MLA in San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008

The Future of Sound Studies (special issue of the journal Music, Sound, and
the Moving Image)

Editors: Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda

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.