[UPDATE] Collection: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile (abstracts, 9/1/09)

full name / name of organization: 
Karen Elizabeth Bishop (Harvard University)
contact email: 

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THE CARTOGRAPHICAL NECESSITY OF EXILE

Derek Walcott identified a cartographical necessity of exile in his 1984 collection of poetry, Midsummer, when he wrote:

So, however far you have travelled, your
steps make more holes and the mesh is multiplied –
… exiles must make their own maps

This collection will seek to understand this cartographical imperative. What is the relationship between exile – understood broadly in its most modern, splintered sense to include external and internal exile, diaspora, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, expatriation, migrants, refugees, nomads, the disappeared and the ex-disappeared – and map-making? Mapping is a certain science that enables emplacement and facilitates movement. Yet it can also be an aesthetic project that draws on a heightened awareness of space and place, memory, and historical imaginary. So what kinds of maps do exiles make? Are they private maps or maps that can be shared? How are they conceived of and how are they read? How do they provide for new ways of thinking about the experience of exile? How do authors writing in or about exile represent the doubly ontological and epistemological exercise of map-making? And how, finally, might a cartographical necessity of exile challenge how we conceive of mapping, its history and future, its function, tools, and media?

I am interested in essays that respond to this inquiry from any disciplinary perspective, working in any language, historical period, literary tradition or medium. I anticipate placing the collection with a university press prepared to welcome the inclusion of visual media. Please submit abstracts of 300-500 words and a current CV to kebishop@fas.harvard.edu by 1 September 2009. Final essays of 5,000-8,000 will be due by 1 December 2009. Please note that an invitation to submit completed essays will not necessarily guarantee inclusion in the collection; all final decisions will be made on the merit of the final article. Please also direct any questions or requests for further information to the above email.

33024Dostoevsky in the 21st Century - ALSC Conference, Oct. 9-11, 2009Association of Literary Scholars and Criticsalsc@bu.edu1242830396ethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsvictorianfull name / name of organization: Association of Literary Scholars and Criticscontact email: alsc@bu.edu

Convener: Susan McReynolds (Northwestern University)
Dostoevsky's novels are paradoxical texts: they are deeply rooted in Dostoevsky's Russia, yet have also become classics of world literature. Dostoevsky claimed that he was writing for Russians of his own time, and expressed disbelief that real Russian art, such as his novels, could be understood by Western Europeans. What are the challenges, potential pitfalls, and possible advantages to teaching Dostoevsky as world literature, in English (or other non-Slavic) departments, or in courses on the novel? This session seeks to gather perspectives from scholars teaching this text in a variety of settings. What strategies do we have for making a text embedded in nineteenth-century Russian culture accessible to our twenty-first century students? Our goal is to present a variety of pedagogical strategies and engage in dialog about the nature of cross-cultural education in different institutional environments. Please send proposals to Susan McReynolds at s-mcreynolds@northwestern.edu, with a CC to alsc@bu.edu.

Submission form and deadline. Submissions must reach the convener of the session by July 3. They should be sent to both (1) the convener of the panel or seminar and (2) the Association's office at alsc@bu.edu. On your e-mail's "subject" line, please give your name and other information in the following form: "ALSC 2009, [Name of Session] abstract by [First Name, Last Name]." For details regarding submission length, please refer to the individual instructions for each session.

If you do not send copies to both the convener and the ALSC, we cannot guarantee that you will receive an e-mail notice acknowledging receipt of your proposal.

cfp categories: ethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsvictorian 33025Who Reads What Where? The Western Canon in New Contexts - ALSC Conference, Oct. 9-11, 2009Association of Literary Scholars and Criticsalsc@bu.edu1242830536general_announcementsfull name / name of organization: Association of Literary Scholars and Criticscontact email: alsc@bu.edu

The culture and theory wars may have died down on college campuses, but the way that works of literature are transmitted from generation to generation and place to place remains a perennial question, especially given the advent of increasingly powerful electronic communication. The recent success in English of a wide range of imaginative works from around the world suggests both continuity and change in how the western canon of literature is understood. This panel will examine this question and the prospects for the future of the literary past. Please send proposals to alsc@bu.edu.

Submission form and deadline. Submissions must reach the convener of the session by July 3. They should be sent to both (1) the convener of the panel or seminar and (2) the Association's office at alsc@bu.edu. On your e-mail's "subject" line, please give your name and other information in the following form: "ALSC 2009, [Name of Session] abstract by [First Name, Last Name]." For details regarding submission length, please refer to the individual instructions for each session.

If you do not send copies to both the convener and the ALSC, we cannot guarantee that you will receive an e-mail notice acknowledging receipt of your proposal.

cfp categories: general_announcements 33026Great Books II - ALSC Conference, Oct. 9-11, 2009Association of Literary Scholars and Criticsalsc@bu.edu1242830761general_announcementsfull name / name of organization: Association of Literary Scholars and Criticscontact email: alsc@bu.edu

The 2009 Conference in Denver will continue the tradition established in 2004 of offering seminars designed to increase participation of the membership in the conference and giving them another excellent reason to attend. Modeled on what has worked successfully for such organizations as the Shakespeare Association of America and the Modernist Studies Association, these four seminars will each be led by a distinguished member of the Association.

Each seminar will have fifteen (15) guaranteed places, and each person accepted for a seminar will receive an official letter of invitation to the conference and will be listed in its program. Seminar participants will write brief position papers (2-4 pages maximum, double-spaced), and will circulate their papers to the other participants and read all the papers prior to the conference. The listing of the titles in the conference program should help participants obtain travel funding for the conference from their home colleges and universities. Senior scholars are eligible to apply for these seminars, but graduate students and junior faculty especially are encouraged to do so; we hope that senior scholars and others will spread the word and encourage their graduate students and junior colleagues to apply.

Seminar One: Great Books II
Convener: TBA
Brief papers, 2-4 pages long, are requested that focus on the deployment of Great Books—and particular Great Books authors—in the classroom, either in elective courses or as part of a core curriculum. What approaches might be taken to teaching such courses and what goals can be achieved? Among possible topics one might include such classic authors' focus on the universal and perennial as objects of study and writing, the role of history in studying their work, and the relation of such courses to more narrowly disciplinary courses in reading and writing, including courses with a far smaller literary component. Other topics might be the role of Great Books in the remediation of cultural illiteracy and critical thinking skills among minority and underserved students, and the role of Great Books in faculty professional development. Abstracts, proposals, or the papers themselves should be sent to alsc@bu.edu.

Submission form and deadline. Submissions must reach the convener of the session by July 3. They should be sent to both (1) the convener of the panel or seminar and (2) the Association's office at alsc@bu.edu. On your e-mail's "subject" line, please give your name and other information in the following form: "ALSC 2009, [Name of Session] abstract by [First Name, Last Name]." For details regarding submission length, please refer to the individual instructions for each session.

If you do not send copies to both the convener and the ALSC, we cannot guarantee that you will receive an e-mail notice acknowledging receipt of your proposal.

cfp categories: general_announcements 33027Poetry and the Web - ALSC Conference, Oct. 9-11, 2009Association of Literary Scholars and Criticsalsc@bu.edu1242830887humanities_computing_and_the_internetpoetryfull name / name of organization: Association of Literary Scholars and Criticscontact email: alsc@bu.edu

The 2009 Conference in Denver will continue the tradition established in 2004 of offering seminars designed to increase participation of the membership in the conference and giving them another excellent reason to attend. Modeled on what has worked successfully for such organizations as the Shakespeare Association of America and the Modernist Studies Association, these four seminars will each be led by a distinguished member of the Association.

Each seminar will have fifteen (15) guaranteed places, and each person accepted for a seminar will receive an official letter of invitation to the conference and will be listed in its program. Seminar participants will write brief position papers (2-4 pages maximum, double-spaced), and will circulate their papers to the other participants and read all the papers prior to the conference. The listing of the titles in the conference program should help participants obtain travel funding for the conference from their home colleges and universities. Senior scholars are eligible to apply for these seminars, but graduate students and junior faculty especially are encouraged to do so; we hope that senior scholars and others will spread the word and encourage their graduate students and junior colleagues to apply.

Seminar Two: Poetry and the Web
Convener: Susan Harris (Words Without Borders)
As more journals and literary magazines move to partial or complete online publication, and Websites such as Poets.org post classic and contemporary poems free of charge, poetry is more available than it has ever been. What are the implications of this expanded accessibility? How has the Internet altered approaches to reading, publishing, and writing poetry? To what particular uses can Internet publication be put? Publishers, poets, critics, and scholars will discuss issues including reception, dissemination, copyright protection, and how the shift from print to online has affected traditional markets. Abstracts, proposals, or the papers themselves should be sent to susaneharris@earthlink.net, with a CC to alsc@bu.edu.

Submission form and deadline. Submissions must reach the convener of the session by July 3. They should be sent to both (1) the convener of the panel or seminar and (2) the Association's office at alsc@bu.edu. On your e-mail's "subject" line, please give your name and other information in the following form: "ALSC 2009, [Name of Session] abstract by [First Name, Last Name]." For details regarding submission length, please refer to the individual instructions for each session.

If you do not send copies to both the convener and the ALSC, we cannot guarantee that you will receive an e-mail notice acknowledging receipt of your proposal.

cfp categories: humanities_computing_and_the_internetpoetry 33028HistoricismsAssociation of Literary Scholars and Criticsalsc@bu.edu1242831023cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfull name / name of organization: Association of Literary Scholars and Criticscontact email: alsc@bu.edu

The 2009 Conference in Denver will continue the tradition established in 2004 of offering seminars designed to increase participation of the membership in the conference and giving them another excellent reason to attend. Modeled on what has worked successfully for such organizations as the Shakespeare Association of America and the Modernist Studies Association, these four seminars will each be led by a distinguished member of the Association.

Each seminar will have fifteen (15) guaranteed places, and each person accepted for a seminar will receive an official letter of invitation to the conference and will be listed in its program. Seminar participants will write brief position papers (2-4 pages maximum, double-spaced), and will circulate their papers to the other participants and read all the papers prior to the conference. The listing of the titles in the conference program should help participants obtain travel funding for the conference from their home colleges and universities. Senior scholars are eligible to apply for these seminars, but graduate students and junior faculty especially are encouraged to do so; we hope that senior scholars and others will spread the word and encourage their graduate students and junior colleagues to apply.

Seminar Three: Historicisms
Convener: Susan Wolfson and Ron Levao (Princeton University)
In literary studies, historicism is a term with meanings as varied as its deployments. In critical and classroom practice, social, political, economic, and intellectual contexts may illuminate as well as marginalize formalist and aesthetic concerns, expanding possibilities and focusing attentive reading, or purging supposed anachronism and chastising undesirable interests and indulgences. This seminar encourages fresh investigations into relations between literary and historical scholarship, and is directed especially toward critics, teachers, and scholars with a devotion to both, and to the lively intersections. How does literary work exploit the tensions of its historical contexts? In what way are authors determined by their contexts, and in what ways do authors bend and trope their contexts? Is the case for a reciprocal relation between texts and contexts even necessary? All historical periods and perspectives welcome—for both literary cases to consider, and for various kinds of historicisms.

Please send short papers (up to 5 pages), focusing on practical instances and/or taking wider views, to Professors Susan Wolfson and Ronald Levao, 64 Stoney Brook Lane, Princeton New Jersey 08540-7512, and also by e-mail attachment to wolfson@princeton.edu, with a CC to alsc@bu.edu.

Submission form and deadline. Submissions must reach the convener of the session by July 3. They should be sent to both (1) the convener of the panel or seminar and (2) the Association's office at alsc@bu.edu. On your e-mail's "subject" line, please give your name and other information in the following form: "ALSC 2009, [Name of Session] abstract by [First Name, Last Name]." For details regarding submission length, please refer to the individual instructions for each session.

If you do not send copies to both the convener and the ALSC, we cannot guarantee that you will receive an e-mail notice acknowledging receipt of your proposal.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches 33029[UPDATE] Howard Barker international conference, 10-12 July 2009Department of Theatre, Film and TV Studies; Aberystwyth University, Wales, UKkgg@aber.ac.uk1242835687international_conferencestheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Department of Theatre, Film and TV Studies; Aberystwyth University, Wales, UKcontact email: kgg@aber.ac.uk

HOWARD BARKER'S ART OF THE THEATRE

International Conference, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK, 10-12 July 2009

Registration now open at http://www.aber.ac.uk/visitors/en/diary.html

Howard Barker is widely acknowledged as a major British dramatist (who has now had staged, broadcast or published over a hundred plays), director, theorist, scenographer and visual artist. In recent years, his reputation has extended to a position of international eminence. Our principal objective is to bring together as many Barker scholars and practitioners as possible from their different countries, to explore and analyse the full range of his remarkable body of work. It has become apparent that there is a wide interest in Barker's work, principally in France and America where productions of his work are burgeoning (a four-play season at Paris Odéon in Spring 2009, alongside a fifth and sixth concurrent Paris productions, and new productions of two early works this year in New York). Barker's own theatre company, The Wrestling School, which has recently become financially independent, is now in its third decade and has increased its annual work from one production a year to two. It is a timely juncture to review Barker's art of the theatre and both widen and intensify scholarly attention to the unique expanse of his work in the context of international theatre. The conference will include a rehearsed reading of Barker's play A Wounded Knife, unperformed outside of Denmark, and an exhibition of his paintings.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Howard Barker: 'Pity and Pretending: Tragedy's Rebuke to the Pseudo-Ethical'

Prof Elisabeth Angel-Perez (University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, editor of Howard Barker et le Theatre de la Catastrophe and translator of Barker's essays): 'Reinventing Grand Narratives: Barker's Challenge to Postmodernism'

Dr Charles Lamb (University of Winchester, author of The Theatre of Howard Barker): 'Barker's Pictorial Landscapes'

To book a place on the conference, please follow the link below

http://www.aber.ac.uk/visitors/en/diary.html

For information contact Dr Karoline Gritzner kgg@aber.ac.uk

cfp categories: international_conferencestheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33031Immoderation in literature, University of Tours, France, 11/27-28/2009, deadline 08/31/2009Université François-Rabelais de Tours, GRAAT, FranceEric Athenot (eric.athenot@orange.fr) AND Sébastien Salbayre (sebastien.salbayre@univ-tours.fr)1242837350general_announcementsinternational_conferencesrhetoric_and_compositionfull name / name of organization: Université François-Rabelais de Tours, GRAAT, Francecontact email: Eric Athenot (eric.athenot@orange.fr) AND Sébastien Salbayre (sebastien.salbayre@univ-tours.fr)

Reading great philosophical texts too hastily might induce one to consider moderation to be an ideal of life—while Protagoras maintains that "man is the measure of all things," Epictetus stresses that "once beyond the measure there is no limit," and in his Thoughts Pascal asserts that "to leave the mean is to abandon humanity." Yet, as early as Kant, the excess inherent in immoderation became the necessary condition of beauty—"That is sublime which even to be able to think of demonstrates a faculty of the mind that surpasses every measure of the senses." The imagination thus overtakes the sense, which might partly explain why literature is drawn to immoderation. Could one not consider that this is specifically the very basis of all literary consideration of the world and what precisely makes literature a site of subjectivity? If measure is equivalent to objectivity, immoderation represents what enables the literary text to exceed mere discursiveness and formalist conventions by opening up the real to hesitation, affect and inconclusiveness.
One may assess that literary writing finds its reason and its raison d'être in its perpetually going beyond models and, more simply, its own means of implementation. "A novel is a novel so long as it shows an intention of being more than a novel, to such an extent that it exhausts the reader," Tiphaine Samoyault maintains. One may thus inquire into the way writers, through whatever textual infringement they generate, can be led to reconcile excess, disproportion, deformity and disharmony. In this context, form is to be considered an "instrument of knowledge" (Samoyault) by which each writer may wonder "how a formless form can be formalised" (Samoyault). The answer may be found halfway between philosophy and literature, in the Camusian paradox according to which "[t]he real madness of excess dies or creates its own moderation."
Taking the immoderate into consideration offers an opportunity to think about the relationship between quantity and quality. Why is "surplus [in literature] […] not numerical" (Derrida)? Literary excess is a phenomenon that also implies that the role of temporality in the text should be taken into account. How does the text integrate in its poetic economy continuity, incompletion, digression, transition and suspension? How does the literary text inevitably go beyond the formal, generic, representational and/or thematic territory already mapped out by its predecessors? What are the signifiers, syntactic markers and figures of speech proper to the immoderate? All the answers to these non-restrictive questions should enable one to question, or perhaps even go beyond, Calvino's maxim according to which "literature cannot live unless it is set an excessive, even unattainable, goal."

Please submit proposals of approximately 200 words to both Éric Athenot (eric.athenot@orange.fr) and Sébastien Salbayre (sebastien.salbayre@univ-tours.fr) by August 31, 2009.

Groupe de recherche anglo-américaine de Tours (GRAAT)
http://www.graat.fr/cfp.htm

cfp categories: general_announcementsinternational_conferencesrhetoric_and_composition 33032Sidney at Kalamazoo (9/15/2009; Kalamazoo, 5/13-16/2010)Joel Davis, The Sidney Societyjbdavis@stetson.edu1242844021cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinternational_conferencespoetryreligionrenaissancetravel_writingfull name / name of organization: Joel Davis, The Sidney Societycontact email: jbdavis@stetson.edu

The Sidney Society will sponsor three open sessions on Philip Sidney and his Circle at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan). The conference website is here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

May 13-16, 2010

Abstracts are invited on any subject dealing with Philip Sidney and his circle. As ever, we encourage proposals from newcomers as well as established scholars.

Papers should be limited to twenty minutes in reading time. Please do not submit an abstract to two different sessions of the conference in the same year.

Abstracts (500 words) should be submitted electronically and should indicate clearly your mailing address and phone number. If you need special equipment for the talk (digital projector, etc.), let us know when you submit your abstract, rather than later, please.

Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2007.

Please send your abstracts (email preferably) to:
Joel Davis
jbdavis@stetson.edu

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinternational_conferencespoetryreligionrenaissancetravel_writing 33033Journal of Transnational American Studies--Special ForumsJournal of Transnational American Studies--Special ForumsJTAS.special.forum@gmail.com1242851468african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Journal of Transnational American Studies--Special Forumscontact email: JTAS.special.forum@gmail.com

The Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) invites proposals for Special Forums in upcoming issues. Each Special Forum will be a cluster of articles that speaks to a critical issue in transnational American Studies; we are particularly interested in innovative scholarship that is presented by coalitions of scholars from around the globe and which interrogates the geographical, topical, and ideological parameters of American Studies.

The Editorial Board will consider Special Forum proposals on a rolling basis. Proposals should be submitted in a Word document to Yanoula Athanassakis, the Associate Managing Editor for Special Forums, at: jtas.special.forum@gmail.com.

Each proposal should include:
(1) a cover note that briefly explains the significance of the special focus and introduces the prospective guest editors and
(2) a draft of the call for papers for the Special Forum (250-word limit).

If the Special Forum proposal is accepted, the forum's guest editors will send out the CFP, field all submission queries and follow JTAS' procedures for a peer review process.

For more on JTAS, please visit:
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33034Dragon*Con 2nd Annual Comics & Popular Arts Conference (due: June/July 1 2009)Matthew J. Brownmattbrown@ucsd.edu1242860285popular_culturefull name / name of organization: Matthew J. Browncontact email: mattbrown@ucsd.edu

Call for Participation

Institute for Comics Studies
Comic Book Convention Conference Series

DRAGON*CON 2nd ANNUAL COMICS & POPULAR ARTS CONFERENCE

Atlanta, Georgia September 4-7, 2009

The Institute for Comic Studies and Dragon*Con present their second annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts to take place at Dragon*Con, the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US. For more info on Dragon*Con, visit http://dragoncon.org/

Please submit a proposal for a 15/20-minute presentation that engages in substantial scholarly examinations of comic books, manga, graphic novels, anime, sf, fantasy, and popular culture. A broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives is being sought, including literary and art criticism, philosophy, linguistics, history, and communication. Proposals may range from discussions of the nature of the comics medium, analyses of particular works and authors, discussions of the visual language of comics, comics pedagogy, cross-cultural and cross-medium comparisons, and more. This year, we're especially interested in proposals dealing with anime/manga, sf/fantasy literature, and Star Trek, though presentations on any of the above topics will be considered.

This conference of Dragon*Con represents the Institute for Comics Studies' mission to promote the study, understanding, and cultural legitimacy of comics and to support the discussion and dissemination of this study and understanding via public venues.

100 to 200 word proposals due: July 1, 2009

STAR TREK PROPOSALS due JUNE 1, 2009!

Please submit your proposal at the following address:
http://www.hsu.edu/form.aspx?ekfrm=43888

Prospective participants are encouraged to submit a guest application in advance at the following address: http://dragoncon.org/dc_guest_app.php

Matt Brown
Dragon*Con Academics Chair
thehangedman@gmail.com
www.instituteforcomicsstudies.org

cfp categories: popular_culture 33035[UPDATE] 2009 Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference: Registration Announcement2009 Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference/Michigan State Universityrivaitje@msu.edu1242912707rhetoric_and_compositionfull name / name of organization: 2009 Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference/Michigan State Universitycontact email: rivaitje@msu.edu

This message is for presenters and possible attendees of the 2009 Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference (i.e., FemRhet 2009).

The registration system for the 2009 Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference is live and available on our website: http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/registration.html. Also, all presenters have to register by June 15 to be on the FemRhet 2009 program; there's a late fee for registrations after that date. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns regarding registration.

Jessica Rivait
FemRhet 2009 Planning Committee Member

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Jessica Rivait
Doctoral Student in Rhetoric and Writing
283 Bessey Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48823

cfp categories: rhetoric_and_composition 33036Doctoral and Masters Level Dissertation & Unpublished Scholarly WorksROMAN Booksresponse@romanbooks.co.in1242929703african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: ROMAN Bookscontact email: response@romanbooks.co.in

ROMAN Books, a new Indian publisher of fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, literary-criticism and academic books related to literature is interested to publish doctoral or masters level dissertations on any topic related to literature. Unpublished scholarly works, not previously submitted as a dissertation, are also welcome.

ROMAN Books is presently one of the leading publishers of India having its supply chains all over the world including UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Each title published by ROMAN Books is carefully selected and, after publication, is sent for review to a number of newspapers and journals including The Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books. Academic books are purchased by major academic libraries of international repute. Utilizing these strong pillars of international connections, ROMAN Books now endeavours to present the academic world the vast and unfathomable storehouse of new contributions to literary knowledge, a majority of which has only been discovered by a confined territory.

All submissions must be in hardcopy – electronically typed and printed on one side of an A4 sized paper with 1.5 line spacing, 12 pt Palatino Linotype font and a minimum of 1" margin on each side. The publisher's house style is based on MHRA Style format. A Style Manual can be downloaded free of charge here: http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml. The issues where the house style is differed from MHRA style are mentioned point-wise—everything else should strictly follow the MHRA Style: (1) Direct quotes should be with double-quotation marks and quote-within-quote should be within single quotation marks. (2) Please use endnotes and NOT footnotes at the end of each chapter. (3) Use a list of bibliography (which will include works cited and other useful references) at the end of the work.

Dissertation can only be accepted for review if a degree has been conferred against it and no portion of it has been published before. All submissions should be accompanied by:

(1) A covering letter.

(2) A certificate on the headed paper of the concerned University or department stating that the University does not hold any right related to the manuscript and it does not have any objection if the manuscript is published. Please contact ROMAN Books if you need any assistance.

(3) A confidential reference (on an official paper) in about 350 words from your supervisor on the quality and uniqueness of the dissertation.

(4) An abstract in about 500 – 800 words.

(5) Author's short biography in 300 words.

(6) Author's full contact information including e-mail.

(7) A CV (if possible).

(8) Details of the author's present institutional affiliation (if any).

(9) The manuscript in MS Word format (any version) in a CD.

Unfortunately, the publisher cannot return the submission in any circumstances.

All submissions should be sent to:

The Executive Editor
ROMAN Books
2nd Floor,
38/3, Andul Road,
Howrah 711109.
West Bengal
India.

Any query is welcome. Please send an E-mail to response@romanbooks.co.in.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33037"Communal Modernisms" Panel at 2010 NeMLAEmily M. Hinnov, Assistant Professor of English, BGSU Firelandsehinnov@bgsu.edu1242933747african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencespopular_culturereligionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Emily M. Hinnov, Assistant Professor of English, BGSU Firelandscontact email: ehinnov@bgsu.edu

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

"Communal Modernisms"

This panel will explore the relationship between modernist aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the production of modernist media concerned with the idea(l) of community. Papers might consider how reading and teaching communal modernism(s) can serve as a counter to the predominant idea that the early twentieth-century valued, and therefore we should value art as a means of individual self-expression over art as a way of envisioning more inclusive and interconnected communities. Please email (as Word attachments) a 250 word abstract and a short c.v. to Dr. Emily M. Hinnov at: ehinnov@bgsu.edu by 30 September 2009.

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencespopular_culturereligionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33038Birds of a Feather Gathering: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age, Deadline June 1, 2009INKE 2009: Implementing New Knowledge Environments:inke.conference@gmail.com1242936224bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approacheshumanities_computing_and_the_internettwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: INKE 2009: Implementing New Knowledge Environments:contact email: inke.conference@gmail.com

23 and 24 October 2009, University of Victoria (http://www.uvic.ca)
Proposals by 1 June 2009 to inke.conference@gmail.com

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artifacts--electronic books, being just one type of many--that must sustain those practices now and into the future.

This conference explores research foundations pertinent to understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, and [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area.

We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area to INKE 2009, to be held at the University of Victoria, 23-24 October 2009. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal.

Some funding is available to assist in graduate student travel to this event; if you wish to apply for this, please indicate this when submitting your proposal.

Please send your proposals before 1 June 2009 to inke.conference@gmail.com. Proposals will be reviewed and participants contacted by 1 July 2009, and papers for publication in the conference volume will be due 15 August 2009. Conference details will be posted as they are available to http://www.inke.ca/inke2009, beginning 1 May 2009.

Programme Committee: Ray Siemens (U Victoria), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Alan Galey (U Toronto), Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Claire Warwick (U C London), Tassie Gniady (U Victoria, Coordinator).

cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approacheshumanities_computing_and_the_internettwentieth_century_and_beyond 33039Cather Studies 9: Cather, Chicago, and Modernism (submissions 15 Oct 2009)Melissa J Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincolnmhomestead2@unl.edu1242938325americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essaystwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Melissa J Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincolncontact email: mhomestead2@unl.edu

Submissions are invited for volume 9 of Cather Studies, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. The theme for the volume will be "Cather, Chicago and Modernism." Essays may address Willa Cather's relationship to broader formations of cultural and literary modernism, as well as to the city of Chicago. How, and in what ways, is Cather a modernist (if at all)? Cather described Death Comes for the Archbishop as a 'narrative': does this kind of description point to a radical, experimental fiction-making? To what extent did she also resist and reject the 'modern'? The editors of Cather Studies seek submissions that address a wide range of intersections and connections between the full range of Cather's work and modernism/modernity. The editors also encourage submissions that counterpoint Cather and Chicago within turn of the century culture, including essays analyzing the musical, visual, architectural and urban cultures of Chicago and other modern cities, and their representation in Cather's work (for instance, in Lucy Gayheart). Diverse critical and theoretical perspectives are encouraged. The volume is keyed to the theme of the International Cather Seminar to take place in Chicago in June 2009, but consideration is not limited to those who present their work at the seminar. Please submit essays of no more than 7,500 words (including notes and works cited), using the MLA system of citation by October 15, 2009. The authors of accepted contributions who wish to use illustrations will be responsible for obtaining reproductions and securing necessary permissions for publication. The editors may limit the number of illustrations due to space restrictions. Co-editors of Cather Studies 10 are Guy Reynolds and Melissa J. Homestead of the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Submissions should be directed to the attention of Homestead, 202 Andrews Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0333. Electronic submissions via e-mail (to mhomestead2@unl.edu) are encouraged.

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essaystwentieth_century_and_beyond 33040NCSA Call For PapersNineteenth Century Studies Associationncsa2010@earthlink.net1242943230african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingvictorianfull name / name of organization: Nineteenth Century Studies Associationcontact email: ncsa2010@earthlink.net

CALL FOR PAPERS

31st Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
The University of Tampa, March 11-13, 2010, Tampa, Florida

Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century

Dramatic expression and self-conscious performances marked almost every aspect of nineteenth century life and artistic culture, as theatrical turns and performative mindsets introduced in the 17th-18th centuries expanded in the 1780s through the beginning of World War One. We invite paper and panel proposals that explore these themes and subjects in the long Nineteenth Century (1780-1914). Papers might address the theatrical shows—whether serious drama, circus displays, vaudeville, operas, or Shakespearean revivals—that appeared in cities and towns on both sides of the Atlantic (as well as in more distant lands). Or they might investigate how politics, social events, military engagements, domestic affairs, public trials, crime reports, religious rituals, architectural spaces, sculptural moments, exhibition halls, artistic and musical compositions, and the early moving pictures of the cinema, assumed a theatrical sensibility. Welcome also are proposals for papers and panels that bring scholarly and theoretical interests in performativity to bear on concepts of identity, individuality, and audience in the given era.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 500 words along with a brief (one page) c.v. to the Program Co-Chairs, Janice Simon (U of Georgia) and Regina Hewitt (U of South Florida) at the conference address ncsa2010@earthlink.net by Sept. 15, 2009. Speakers will be notified by or before Dec. 15.

Any graduate student whose proposal is accepted may at that point submit a full-length version of the paper in competition for a travel grant to help cover transportation and lodging expenses.

Conference sessions will be held at the University of Tampa, a campus with both the historic late-19th century Plant Hall (formerly the Tampa Bay Hotel) and a state-of-the-art conference center. Accommodations will be available at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Tampa, a short walk from campus. For further information—available in midsummer—please visit the NCSA website http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/ or contact Elizabeth Winston, Local Arrangements Director (U of Tampa), at the conference address ncsa2010@earthlink.net.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingvictorian 330413rd Global Conference: Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity (November 2009: Salzburg, Austria)Dr Rob Fisher/Inter-Disciplinary.Netic3@inter-disciplinary.net1242986625african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Dr Rob Fisher/Inter-Disciplinary.Netcontact email: ic3@inter-disciplinary.net

3rd Global Conference
Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity

Tuesday 10th November - Thursday 12th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria

Call for Papers
The relaunch of this multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of meaning and identity, as well as the implications for social political membership in contemporary societies. In particular the project will assess the larger context of major world transformations, for example, new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact and contribution of globalisation on tensions, conflicts and the sense of rootedness and belonging. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge identities in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts.

Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following themes:

1. Contemporary Rediscoveries and Redefinitions of Culture
~ Multiple, polyvalent and contradictory conceptions of culture
~ Infinite source of meaning and identity, of membership and exclusion, of privileging and stigmatising, of worth and misery, of place and history, of violence and destruction
~ Cultural remaking of self and other; recasting of links, bonds and relations
~ The contradictory forces of culture: diversity versus homogeneity, multiplicity versus sameness, alterity versus normality, recognition versus misrecognition
~ Textures of cultures: fixed, fluid, porous, hermetic, rigid and flexible

2. Cultural Boundaries, Peoples and Nations
~ Dislocation and decoupling of culture and nation, of culture and place, of culture and history
~ Resurgence of the local, the diminishing importance of the national and the forces of the global
~ What does it mean, today, to be part of a culture, to be part of multiple cultures?
~ Massive and new forms of global migration and the new hybridity of cultures
~ Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other forms of 'forcing' cultures on migrants

3. Cultural Formations
~ What are the dynamics and processes that define the central tenets of a culture?
~ How are cultures defined and redefined? Who participates in the social and political task of defining and redefining culture?
~ What is shared from cultures? How are cultures shared? Who has access to the sharing of cultures?
~ Symbols and significations that connect people to cultures other than 'their own'
~ Culture and the construction of identities: destiny, happenstance, choice and politics

4. Politicising Culture
~ Political battles over the principles and core values of a culture, of many cultures
~ The dynamics of cultural recognition and misrecognition
~ What is the place of cultural claims in today's forms of social and political membership?
~ Trans-cultural connections that escape institutional and political control
~ Cultural claims and human rights

5. Art and Cultural Representations
~ Media and the construction of cultures and identities
~ Production and reproduction of cultural recognition and misrecognition
~ The contested space of representing meaning and identity, culture and belonging
~ Art, media and how to challenge the rigid and impenetrable constructions of culture
~ Living, being and belonging through art; life imitating art and fiction

6. Crossing Cultural Boundaries
~ Interpenetration, overlapping, crossovers, interlacing, hybridisation and interdependence
~ Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of bridging the 'invisible' divide of cultures
~ Conceptualisations that foster the breaking down of rigid cultural boundaries
~ Equalising cultures; recognition and respect across cultures
~ How to revamp historically old concepts like tolerance, acceptance and hospitality?
~ An ethics for cultural relations

Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 19th June 2009. If your paper is accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft paper should be submitted by Friday 9th October 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Joint Organising Chairs:

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Research Director,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
E-Mail: acc@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-Mail: ic3@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Diversity and Recognition' research projects, which in turn belong to the 'At the Interface' programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.

For further information about the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition...

For further information about the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition...

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 33042[UPDATE] Edited Collection – "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Friday Night Lights" Jonathan Lupo / Colorado State Universityjonlupo@lamar.colostate.edu1243009175film_and_televisionjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturefull name / name of organization: Jonathan Lupo / Colorado State Universitycontact email: jonlupo@lamar.colostate.edu

FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION

Proposals are invited for an edited collection on the television series FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS with a deadline of June 15, 2009. The editor is interested in essays that discuss and analyze the program from multiple critical, cultural, theoretical, and industrial perspectives and fills particular gaps among already-submitted proposals.

One of the most critically-acclaimed series of recent years, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS has earned a passionate following despite its low ratings. Winner of the Peabody Award and based on a successful nonfiction book and hit movie, Friday Night Lights follows the citizens of a struggling Texas town as they pin their hopes on the high school football team. In addition to the pressures placed on the team and its coach, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS has tackled social issues such as drug abuse, physical disability, racism, infidelity, and mental illness. Shot on location in Austin, the show employs a verité visual style which features multiple-cameras and uses mostly available lighting; this verisimilitude is matched by the naturalistic dialogue and performances.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS also serves as an effective case study of the promotional and programming challenges of broadcast television in the post-network era. Notwithstanding its print and filmic forerunners and the near-universal critical acclaim of its first season, the show struggled to find a broad audience on NBC. Initially framed as a sports drama, the show pivoted toward a focus on relationships in a bid to appeal to a female audience, downplaying football. After a critically lukewarm and strike-shortened second season, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS was renewed in a unique deal with DirecTV in which the satellite provider received exclusive first-run episodes (to be shown months later on broadcast television). The first-year success of this unique arrangement has led to a two-year renewal under the same circumstances.

The volume has a set of proposals on disability, the sports genre, the Garrity and Taylor families, as well as formal and extra-textual issues and is seeking essays on the following issues in particular and others from multiple disciplinary approaches:

• Depiction of religion
• Small-town life
• Teenage sexuality
• Regionalism
• Marriage
• Homosociality
• Representations of race & ethnicity
• Use of music

These above topics may also be considered apart from but also in relation to such major characters as Matt Saracen, Smash Williams, and Tyra Collette. Furthermore, essays that consider FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS' second and third season are also encouraged.

Abstracts should be 350-500 words and include a short biography. Final essays will be 5,000-7,000 words. Please send proposal and bio by June 15 via Word attachment to Jonathan Lupo or through post.

Dr. Jonathan Lupo
213B Eddy Building
Department of Communication Studies
1783 Campus Delivery
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1783

cfp categories: film_and_televisionjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culture 33043Considering the Reading of Films, NEMLA 4/7-4/11 2010Northeast Modern Language Association, 41st Anniversary Conference, Montrealnovakpp@lemoyne.edu1243011305film_and_televisionfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association, 41st Anniversary Conference, Montrealcontact email: novakpp@lemoyne.edu

Call for Papers

Session Title: Considering the Reading of Films

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

Session Description: Interpretation has been presented as an exhausted endeavor almost from the advent of film studies as an academic discipline. Auteurist-oriented criticism was as much a journalistic as an academic enterprise; and while auteurist-oriented critics are often said to have been devoted to close reading, the readings they produced were often little more than plot summaries. Fewer sustained analyses of movies got offered during the period of auteurism's ascendancy, in other words, than one is regularly led to believe. Theory, during its heyday, did generate many readings of individual films, but it didn't accept what it was doing as interpretation. Explicitly, theorists condemned interpretation as naïve, or as riddled with bad faith, or as inherently conservative, if not reactionary, since the activity was perceived to be associated with canon formation. In the post-theory world dominated by historical analysis, reading movies still functions as the other of legitimate academic work. Thus, despite the dearth of credible and compelling discussions of many historically significant movies, contemporary critics continue to characterize the act of interpretation as historically redundant. The aim of this panel is to explore the place of interpretation in contemporary film studies. The central question that the panel will address: what is the value of the work we do when we read movies?

We seek papers that respond directly to that question. We also welcome; readings of individual films that, in the process of their unfolding, make a case for the value of interpretation—or that discuss and/or demonstrate the importance of reading well.

Send 250-500 word abstracts to Phillip Novak at novakpp@lemoyne.edu

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

cfp categories: film_and_television 33044Queer Ecocriticism and Literature, 41st Anniversary Convention, NeMLA, April 7-11, 2010Northeast Modern Language Associationqueereco@gmail.com1243012764ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitytheoryfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: queereco@gmail.com

Call for Papers: Queer Ecocriticism and Literature

41st Anniversary Convention
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

In her 2008 article "Queering Ecocultural Studies," Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands appeals for "a critical practice of ecocultural analysis that challenges […] the ways in which natural and ecological relations have been read and organized to normalize and naturalize power." Queer ecology, at its core, challenges the binary of natural/unnatural, which has sought to diminish both queerness and the more-than-human world. This panel, in the spirit of promoting and continuing the discourse from the NEMLA 2009 Queer Ecocriticism and Theory panel, will examine the state of the academic field of queer ecocriticism and the modes of inquiry prompted by the blending of sexuality studies, queer theory, and ecocriticism. Specifically, the panel will further explore Robert Azzarello's ideas of "the productive conjunction between queer theory and ecocriticism" and the "radical reunification of "the sexual" with other forms of discourse." Papers may address sexuality, queer theory, and ecocriticism from interdisciplinary perspectives, the ecocritical queering of the "other," the human form, and non-human form, the "repercussions of naturalizing a heteronormative nature," literary representations of the discontents of reproduction from the non-heteronormative perspective, and other queer ecocriticism topics.

Questions to consider:
• How do GLBTQ authors and/or characters engage with the natural world?
• How do representations of queered nature scrutinize power relations?
• Do any particular literatures seem to lend themselves to a queer ecological reading?
• What role does activism play within literary representations of the natural/queer worldview?
• Do other narratives of naturalization "replace" those that queer ecology seek to disrupt? Are new binaries introduced into the queer ecocritical paradigm?
• How does literary criticism at large benefit (or impair) from the combination of queer theory and ecocriticism?
• How do the restoration of erotics, the politics of reproductive futurity, the naturalization of queerness, and the trope of rampant population growth play into the queer ecological perspective?

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and brief bio to queereco@gmail.com by September 30, 2009. Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

cfp categories: ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitytheory 33045April 16-18, 2010THE RED RIVER CONFERENCE ON WORLD LITERATURE, NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYCarlos.Hawley@ndsu.edu1243017983african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinternational_conferencesmedievalpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: THE RED RIVER CONFERENCE ON WORLD LITERATURE, NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYcontact email: Carlos.Hawley@ndsu.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL RED RIVER CONFERENCE ON WORLD LITERATURE
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
TRANSLATION:
PASSAGE TO WORLD LITERATURE
April 16-18, 2010
The Red River Conference on World Literature has a tradition of high-quality papers informed by contemporary literary theory and criticism and we welcome the voices of scholars from across the globe. We invite papers and panel proposals on topics that investigate world literatures from antiquity to the present. While we are particularly interested in proposals that focus on the conference theme, papers and panels on all aspects of world literature will be considered. In considering possible topics for 2010 you should include, but are not limited to, the exploration of the dynamics of translation: its uses and effects. Translation is an especially appropriate topic for any group interested in learning, teaching, researching, or simply having access to the literatures of the world and the ages. Facets of the topic worthy of your attention include the following:
Translation/Interpretation Theory
Tools for Translation/Translation as a tool
Translation/Interpretation in a Cybernetic age
Author, Translator, Reader/Public
Authorship/Ownership
Culture/culture
Language/Languages
Accuracy, Freedom, Perspective
Translation and Censorship
Translating old into new
Power and Privilege
Colonialism
Revolution, Justice
Translation as Resistance
The Canon, Texts, Genres
Objectivism/Subjectivism/Fundamentalism
Pedagogy, Teaching Translation/Interpretation,
Teaching the Translation
Performance
Translating Antiquity/Middle Ages/Modernity

Individual presenters should submit a 250-word abstract; include your name, professional title, complete mailing address, and e-mail address. Proposals for panels must include an abstract for each presenter, as well as names, professional titles, addresses, and e-mail addresses of all participants. Abstracts submitted as e-mail attachments in Word or Word Perfect are preferred but hard copies will also be accepted. Additional information can be found at: http://www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/rrcwl/
Submissions must be received by JANUARY 15, 2010
Address all submissions or inquiries to: Carlos.Hawley@ndsu.edu
Carlos Hawley, Coordinator
Red River Conference on World Literature
Department of Modern Languages
NDSU, Dept 2345
P. O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050

cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinternational_conferencesmedievalpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33046[UPDATE - CFP SLIGHTLY EXTENDED] Consider David Foster Wallace: A Conference – 29/30th July 2009University Of LiverpoolD.Hering@liv.ac.uk1243021101americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongraduate_conferencesinternational_conferencespopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: University Of Liverpoolcontact email: D.Hering@liv.ac.uk

Consider David Foster Wallace: A Conference – University Of Liverpool
29/30th July 2009

UPDATE: I have had a lot of late interest from people concerned that they cannot make the 22 May abstract deadline. If you feel you cannot make the abstract deadline but are interested in attending, or if you are a non-scholar, then you should also contact me ASAP with any enquiries, or to register your interest. I cannot extend the CFP much longer because I have to organise for numbers but it is possible to put your name down in advance if you are interested.

The passing of the writer David Foster Wallace in September 2008
presents not only a tragic and significant loss to the literary world, but also an important opportunity to consider the impact and magnitude of the remarkable body of work he leaves us. From the irreverency and piercing social commentary of his journalism in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider The Lobster to the monumental, sprawling majesty of his gargantuan novel Infinite Jest, Wallace's writing is increasingly considered to be one of the most significant literary canons of the second half of the twentieth century.

On 29-30th July, The University Of Liverpool is hosting an
international conference devoted to discussion and scholarly appraisal of Wallace's work. Papers of 20 minutes duration are welcome on any aspect of Wallace's fiction or non-fiction. Depending on response, there may also be places available for non-scholars who wish to attend the conference (although it is likely at this stage that only scholars will be permitted to give papers).

Confirmed Keynote Speaker:

Greg Carlisle (Morehead State University, Kentucky) – Greg Carlisle is the author of Elegant Complexity, the most extensive and detailed published study of Wallace's novel Infinite Jest available.

Abstracts of approx. 250 words and any enquiries about the conference should be sent to David Hering at the University of Liverpool at the following email address: D.Hering@liverpool.ac.uk by Friday 22nd May 2009. (22 May is initial deadline but see update above).

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongraduate_conferencesinternational_conferencespopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33047Accepting submissions for "H.D. and the Image" feature (creative and critical work)Kristina Marie Darlingkristinamariedarling@yahoo.com1243038516americanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Kristina Marie Darlingcontact email: kristinamariedarling@yahoo.com

Submissions are currently being accepted for a feature, "H.D. and the Image," which is tentatively scheduled for publication in Jacket. The feature will focus on the relevance of Imagist technique to contemporary poetry, particularly the ways that poets today continue to draw from the Imagist tradition that Hilda Doolittle represented. Doolittle remains a unique figure in 20th century women's poetry, particularly because she continually revised her own definition of Imagist technique in transitioning from early works like Sea Garden to later book such as Helen in Egypt. With these ideas in mind, the feature would focus on Doolittle's presentation of a constantly shifting vision of Imagism, in which the use of such techniques rise to meet the cultural moment that the poet inhabits. Although particular emphasis will be placed on women poets who continue to use Imagist strategies like Doolittle's, the feature will also address broader questions about the persisting legacy of Imagism in contemporary poetry.
Creative and critical work will be considered. Creative work should address the Imagist tradition through style and/or subject matter, although there are no other restrictions on form or content. Reviews, essays, and interviews with contemporary poets are also welcome. Critical writings must address Imagist poetry or the continued presence of this tradition in contemporary poetry.
Deadline for submissions: August 1. Please send to: Kristina Marie Darling, kristinamariedarling@yahoo.com

cfp categories: americanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33048African-American Experience in the SouthFlorida Conference of Historian, Special Interest Section on Media Arts and Cultureerussell@rollins.edu1243095903african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencespopular_culturereligiontheorytravel_writingvictorianfull name / name of organization: Florida Conference of Historian, Special Interest Section on Media Arts and Culturecontact email: erussell@rollins.edu

The Florida Conference of Historian Special Interest Section on Media Arts and Culture wishes to encourage scholarship aimed at African-American experience in the United States. The FCH-Media Arts and Culture SIS wishes to encourage scholars examining African-American agency and autonomy since Reconstruction in the South. Key to our concerns are scholars investigating community, family, and organizations that sought to further African-American inclusion in U.S. society. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions on or concerning African-American history, culture, literature, theory, and media to the FCH annual meeting. The Media Arts and Culture SIS encourages graduate students, undergraduates, and independent scholars who wish to participate. All conference invitees are eligible for review for inclusion in the FCH refereed published proceedings.
1. Paper title and abstract/proposal (300-500 words)
2. Brief vita or biography (one page max)
3. Complete personal information: name, department, academic affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.
Worthwhile topics include (but are not limited to):
African-Americans and Gender since Reconstruction
African-Americans and Nationalism since Reconstruction
Religion and the African-American Experience since Reconstruction
African-Americans and the Media since Reconstruction
African-American Townships in Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Georgia since Reconstruction
African-American Literature since Reconstruction
African-American and Frontier Myth
Abstracts and panel proposal should be sent to
Emily Russell:erussell@rollins.edu

Deadline for submission is December 18th

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencespopular_culturereligiontheorytravel_writingvictorian 33049Shirley JacksonMatthew B. Prickett, Longwood Universityprickettmb@longwood.edu1243100495americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_cultureromantictwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Matthew B. Prickett, Longwood Universitycontact email: prickettmb@longwood.edu

Call for Papers: Shirley Jackson

Proposed Collection: Beyond "The Lottery": Critical Approaches to Shirley Jackson

Editor: Matthew B. Prickett, Longwood University

Beyond "The Lottery" will be the first peer-reviewed collection of critical materials examining the life and works of American author Shirley Jackson. The collection will be an opportunity for scholars to draw attention to lesser-known works of Jackson's, and expand on current scholarship in regards to more widely-known works. Ultimately, the collection will provide the author, and her works, with the critical attention that she has been denied until recently.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

-The past place, present status and future importance of Jackson's works in American Literature
-Jackson's work and (de)construction of gender and gender politics.
-Jackson's place in the canon of domestic fiction
-Jackson as a feminist writer
-Jackson's influence on contemporary writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, and Neil Gaiman
-Cinematic, theatrical and television adaptations of Jackson'
-"The Lottery" in popular culture.
-Jackson's place in the evolution of horror literature
-Jackson as author and icon
-The Haunting of Hill House and the canon of ghost fiction
-Female friendship in Jackson as both homosocial and possibly homoerotic/queer
-Jackson and public controversy / censorship
-Critical attention to currently out-of-print novels such as Hangsaman, The Road Through the Wall, and The Bird's Nest

Proposals should be at least 2 pages in length. Please send proposals and CVs for this collection electronically as Microsoft Word attachments to Matthew B. Prickett at prickettmb@longwood.edu.

The author's name, email and postal address should appear in the message that accompanies the submission.

Deadline: September 30, 2009

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_cultureromantictwentieth_century_and_beyond 33050Collection on Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers (Proposals due 7/15/09; Essays due 11/15/09)Mary Wearn / Macon State Collegemarywearn@gmail.com1243108705african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essaysreligionfull name / name of organization: Mary Wearn / Macon State Collegecontact email: marywearn@gmail.com

Call for Submissions
In response to a newly charged and religiously inflected global, political landscape, Stanley Fish provocatively argued in 2005 that religion would likely "succeed high theory and race, gender, and class as the center of intellectual energy in academe." Despite Fish's predictions, secular critics have been slow to embrace religion as a focus of critical inquiry. This scholarly elision has left a particularly unfortunate gap in our understanding of the life and literature of nineteenth-century American women. Women's culture of the era was, in fact, immersed in religious doctrine and practice, most often within Christian contexts, and many female authors of the period deployed representations of faith and faith communities to various cultural ends. Yet nineteenth-century scholars—and feminist scholars in particular—have been reticent to employ the rubric of religion in their literary analysis. The critical void has led to a narrow view of religion and nineteenth-century American women—a false sense that feminine religious experience of the era was homogeneous and bounded by a largely unexamined faith in a repressive, mainstream Protestantism.

Embracing the complexities of religion in nineteenth-century women's culture—both its repressive and revolutionary potentiality—this edited collection seeks to articulate how female authors deployed, revised, challenged, and, in some cases, rejected conventional theologies and doctrines. Exploring the greatly diverse expressions of, reactions to, and uses for religion in women's texts of the era, this volume will explore how female authors repurposed religious sentiments for their own spiritual, cultural, or political ends. Without neglecting repressive elements of institutionalized religion, this text will emphasize the subversive and sometimes empowering treatment of religion in the work of nineteenth-century American women writers.

Essays are sought on all aspects of religion and nineteenth-century American women writers. Topics may include but are not limited to:

•Feminine heterodoxy and heresy
•Uses of conventional Christianity for radical political ends
•Representations of non-Christian faiths
•African American resistance to (and/or through) mainstream Christianity
•Feminine spiritual struggles
•Religion and social reform
•Conversion experiences and narratives
•Intersection of feminist and religious thought
•Piety and female cultural power
•Religion and motherhood
•Female preachers
•Women and the Bible
•Women and religious reform
•Evangelicalism, Spiritualism, Pentecostalism, or revivalism.

Project Requirements and Timeline:

July 15, 2009—1 page proposals and 1 page CVs due (send in .rtf, .doc, .docx, or .pdf format).

August 15, 2009—Responses to proposals will be emailed.

November 15, 2009—Completed essays of not more than 25 pages due (send in .rtf, .doc, .docx, or .pdf format).

Send all queries, proposals, and essays to: marywearn@gmail.com. While email is the preferred means of communication, hard copies may also be sent to:

Mary Wearn
Macon State College
Department of Humanities
100 College Station Drive
Macon, GA 31206

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essaysreligion 33051Playing Web 2.0: Intertextuality, Narrative and Identity in New Media (Sept 30)Northeast Modern Language Associationcleblanc@plymouth.edu1243116634cultural_studies_and_historical_approachespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: cleblanc@plymouth.edu

Playing Web 2.0: Intertextuality, Narrative and Identity in New Media

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

April 7-11, 2010

Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

A recent Facebook spoof of Hamlet by Sarah Schmelling illustrates the current proliferation of experiments in narrative form and intertextuality found in new media. Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs and social networking sites, allow the average web user to actively participate in online life. Given our societal bent toward postmodernism, it is not surprising that much of this online participation is characterized by a proclivity to challenge and play with traditional conventions. This panel will examine play, defined in the broadest sense by Salen and Zimmerman as "free movement within a more rigid structure", using Web 2.0 tools and new media. Some questions of interest to the panel include: Are there particular attributes of new media technologies that encourage play? How is new media play different from/similar to play found elsewhere? What impact do new media technologies have on our notions of play? What are the motivations of those who engage in play via new media technologies? Some example topics for the panel include: experimentation with new literary forms using social networking conventions (such as the 140-character status update); creation of online identities using text-based tools such as blogs; development of fictional worlds by fans of popular culture narratives using wikis and blogging tools; the use of casual online games to influence attitudes and behaviors concerning issues of social importance.

Submit 250-word abstracts to cleblanc@plymouth.edu.

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation

Email address

Postal address

Telephone number

A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: http://nemla.org/.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 33052Material Cultures 2010University of Edinburghb.bell@ed.ac.uk1243161262bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approacheshumanities_computing_and_the_internetfull name / name of organization: University of Edinburghcontact email: b.bell@ed.ac.uk

MATERIAL CULTURES 2010

A three-day conference
at The UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH
July 16-18, 2010

ROGER CHARTIER
JEROME McGANN
PETER STALLYBRASS

Following the Material Cultures conferences which took place at The University of Edinburgh in 2000 and 2005, the third in the series is scheduled to take place in July 2010. The key theme of the conference is 'Technology, Textuality, and Transmission', though proposals relating to all aspects of Bibliography and the History of the Book are
welcome.

MATERIALITY AND TEXTUALITY
ELECTRONIC TEXT
THE CULTURES OF PRINT
CENSORSHIP AND REGULATION
COLLECTIONS AND THEIR PRESERVATION
READERS AND READING PRACTICES
TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSMISSION
THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION
GEOGRAPHIES OF THE BOOK

Proposals of 200-300 words are invited on these or any other topic related to the history of the book, to be sent no later than NOVEMBER 30, 2009, to Material Cultures, Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh, 22a Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
or by email to materialcultures@ed.ac.uk

Organised by
The CENTRE for the HISTORY of the BOOK
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb

cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approacheshumanities_computing_and_the_internet 33053Neo-Victorian Studies Neo-Victorian Studies e-journal, published by Swansea University, Wales, UKneovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk1243170239african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Neo-Victorian Studies e-journal, published by Swansea University, Wales, UKcontact email: neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk

Neo-Victorian Studies (www.neovictorianstudies.com), an inter-disciplinary, fully peer-reviewed e-journal, invites scholarly and/or creative submissions on any topic related to the re-visioning of the nineteenth century from twentieth/twenty-first century critical perspectives. The journal aims to explore continuities and ruptures between the Victorian and later (post)modern periods, and analyse the nineteenth century's cultural legacies and reverberations – aesthetic and ideological, material and residual/spectral – within literature, the arts and humanities, and present-day political, legal, and medical discourse. Contributions on the period's afterlife in non-British contexts, e.g. Asian, African, Australian, North and South American frameworks, are equally welcome.

The editors especially invite comparative studies of North American and British aesthetic/ethical approaches to the period, e.g. work contrasting neo-slave narratives or narratives of Native American traumas with those of colonial suffering. We also welcome explorations of the cultural background to the twentieth-century rise of historical fiction specifically dedicated to the nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly where these attempt to complicate the post-Victorian to neo-Victorian transition in one or more national literatures. Submissions probing the connections and synergies between post-colonial and neo-Victorian theory and practice are likewise of special interest.

Other possible topics include: theorising the neo-Victorian novel; the heritage industry; biographical fiction; adaptations of nineteenth-century classics and/or lesser known works; sexual politics; 'queering' recovered histories; re-conceptualising families and childhood; and problematic legacies of environmental impact.

Neo-Victorian Studies accepts submissions throughout the year. The deadline for submissions for the next general issue, to be published spring 2010, is October 15, 2009. Please consult the journal website for submission guidelines. Please address direct enquiries and/or electronic submissions to the General Editor at neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33054Cfp: Essay collection, "Cinematic Strategies in XXth Century Narratives" (deadline: 15/07/09)Dr Teresa Prudente and Dr Federico Sabatini, University of Turin, Italyteresa.prudente@unito.it ; federico.sabatini@yahoo.com1243181015general_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essaystheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Dr Teresa Prudente and Dr Federico Sabatini, University of Turin, Italycontact email: teresa.prudente@unito.it ; federico.sabatini@yahoo.com

Cfp: Essay collection, "Cinematic Strategies in XXth Century Narratives"

This collection of essays will examine the cinematic elements which characterise the XXth century novel in its aspects of style and narrative, so as to enlighten the less explored implications between literary and visual recreations of images. Russian director Eisenstein, for instance, pointed at the cinematic aspect of Joyce's writing by affirming that "what Joyce does in literature is quite near to what we do and even closer to what we have intentions of doing with the new cinematography". Starting from early modernism, writers have famously been influenced by the new visual media of cinema, due to the innovative and revolutionary possibility to capture and reproduce movement. Such a recreation of movement and of realistic detail was enacted in several modernist novels and short-stories through the literary employment of cinematic techniques, such as spatial montage, panning, close-up and time-shifts. The collection will offer a multiple perspective on authors who have shown a direct interest in the art of cinema and especially on those who less overtly proved to have been influenced by cinematic techniques. We will welcome submissions from scholars from any field of literary studies, as the collection also aims at tracing an innovative comparative overview of literatures and of literary currents of the XXth century, as well as at providing a wide perspective on different methodological, critical and philosophical approaches.

Authors of particular interest include (but are not limited to):
Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Bowen, William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Vladimir Nabokov Nadine Gordimer, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Proust, André Gide, Albert Camus, Jean Genet, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Günter Grass, Robert Musil, Ingeborg Bachmann, Alfred Döblin, Hermann Broch, Italo Svevo, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Carlo Cassola, Luigi Meneghello, Umberto Saba, Cesare Pavese, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Related topics include (but are not limited to):
- Cinematic recreations of movement, sensory impressions, physical descriptions, spatial settings,landscapes and urban scenes in narrative.
- Juxtaposition/interpenetration of literary and cinematic devices.
- analogical montage and narrative techniques.
- realism vs. metaphorical language.
- recreations of visual imagination in terms of cinema devices.
- magnified descriptions through the use of close-up.
- space and place recreations through the use of cinematic panning.
- subjective and objective point of view.
- cinema and stream of consciousness.
- simultaneity and time-space shifts.

Please send a 500-word abstract as a word-attachment, together with a brief bio-bibliographical note, by 15 July 2009, to Dr Teresa Prudente and Dr Federico Sabatini, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Turin, Via San Ottavio, 10123, Turin, Italy. Email: teresa.prudente@unito.it ; federico.sabatini@yahoo.com.
Completed essays, of no more than 6000 words, must be submitted before 30 October, in order for publication to take place in early 2010. Please note that acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee selection of the final essay.

cfp categories: general_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essaystheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond