Proposals are invited for contributions to an edited collection on cult film stars. The term 'cult film star' has been employed, and used as a common-sense term, in publicity and popular journalistic writing for at least the last twenty-five years (for instance, in Danny Peary's 1991 reference book, Cult Movie Stars). However, what makes cult film stars or actors distinct or different from other film stars has rarely been addressed, with the cult star label often being attributed to particular stars or actors in a rather arbitrary or random way.

Automatic Writing / Automated Reading: Technology and Transmission in the Modernist Period

Papers are invited for two panels at the 'Material Cultures: Technology, Textuality, and Transmission' Conference at the University of Edinburgh, UK, 16-18 July, 2010. The panels will be chaired by Prof. Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English, University of Oxford and Dr. Eric White, Department of English, Oxford Brookes University.

The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World will host two sessions at the annual conference of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 27-30, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency (Embarcadero Center) in San Francisco, California. For further information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org.