Acclaimed poet Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award, is the 2009-2010 Gates Ferry Lecturer at Centenary College of New Jersey. He will read on Monday, October 19 at 8 pm and will participate in our Poetics Colloquium on Tuesday, October 20.
We invite poets and scholars from the NJ- NY- PA tri-state area to propose a presentation on a topic related to contemporary poetry. Please send a one-page proposal and brief bio by September 15.
The following panel topics are underway and will consider another panelist:
Ekphrasis
Poetics of Place
Poetic Forms
Translation and/ of Poetics. This panel would especially welcome abstracts from Latin American, African, or Caribbean writers or scholars.

The 2010 Ucl English Graduate Society Conference seeks to address ideas of nightmare, in all their myriad forms. We would like to draw together work from a range of disciplines including but not limited to literature, art history, philosophy, classics, neuroscience, music, history, psychology, architecture and politics, in order to consider perceptions, representations and implications of nightmare throughout the ages.

Keynote speakers to be announced.

"Have you ever noticed that there is never any third act of a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists." (Max Beerbohm)

"The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living." (Karl Marx)

The ideology of American exceptionalism has a long history in the expressive arts, especially after Henry Luce's famous 1941 editorial urging Americans to accommodate themselves "spiritually and practically" to the fact that their nation was the "most powerful and vital in the world." At the beginning of the 21st century, however, pundits across the political spectrum have declared the end of the ideology which had maintained the longstanding narrative of the American Century. What changes will take place in American identity and in the form and content of American literature? How has narrative responded to recent history? What is the future of postmodernity? How is the unavoidable link between politics and aesthetics re-shaping American literature?

UPDATED DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30,2009

The wilderness has long been conceived of as a space of individuation, a testing ground for the independent seeker, and an "outside" to the protection, as well as the surveillance and discipline, of the dominant social order. In the United States, wilderness has also been seen as constitutive of a kind of national exceptionalism and a formative element of a uniquely "American" character. With the twentieth century the established conflation of "the west" with "the wilderness" deepened, and a tendency to conflate both with masculinity grew as well. And yet, a feminine gendering of the wilderness and an association of womanhood with the natural world has a long and complicated history in America.

Society for Philosophy and Literary Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal, and its reviewed "Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry," looks for articles for its Winter 2009 Special Issue on DELEUZE. Submissions on Deleuzian thoughts or analysis of literary texts from Deleuzian approach are welcome.
Submission Guidelines
1. The submissions must be in CMS (we use "Footnotes") documentation style.
2. The length of the essays should preferably be between 4000 to 5000 words (more or less is acceptable).
4. All submissions should be sent at the following email address: philitsociety@gmail.com.
5. The submissions will be sent for peer-review.

University of Hertfordshire, UK 16-18th April 2010