2010 Shakespeare and Popular Music Conference and Colloquium
School of English and Theatre Studies
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
September 6, 2010

"If music be the food of love, play on" – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (I.i.1)

"See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare,
Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here" – Eminem, "Renegade"

The Burney Society is seeking papers to illuminate Burney in the Gothic context for its biennial conference at the Hilton Hotel in Portland, Oregon in October 2010. Papers may explore the ways Burney influenced (and was influenced by) Gothic writers; Burney's responses to the Gothic; or Burney as a subject of commentary and critique by Gothic writers. Papers may focus on the Gothic and gender; Gothic violence, transgression and authority; or Gothic motifs (incest, trauma, horror, etc.) as they relate to Burney.

Our plenary speaker is Cynthia Wall, Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

The editors of Packingtown Review, a journal of the University of Illinois at Chicago, published by the University of Illinois Press, invite submissions for its third issue to be released in 2011.

The journal publishes creative work in genres: drama, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary translation.

We seek submission of scholarly papers including: literary criticism, interdisciplinary scholarship, comparative literature,
critical theory, rhetorical studies, cultural studies, and political theory.

We also accept for consideration: interviews, critical reviews of books, films and the arts in general, genre-bending work that explores or challenges form, and graphic art and photographs.

While cinema, television, and literature have regularly imagined fictional presidents, the act of fictionalizing the lives of American presidents—that is, giving fictional account of nonfictional presidents—is an imaginative endeavor with greater entailments: it configures the actual and the virtual, the real and the fictional, as a function of our contemporary incapacity to think historically about our present. Real U.S. presidents appear in a number of recent films—Dick (1999) and Frost/Nixon (2008) tell Nixon's tale, while both Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) and W. (2008) feature a sitting president.

How does travel, in literal or figurative terms, impact the racial identification of the traveler, or their sense of the racial identification of those among whom they travel? Papers sensitive to the intersections between race and other forms of identification, such as sex, gender, and class, are of considerable interest to this Travel and Literature standing session panel, as are papers that reflect travel among others in asymmetric relations of position or power to the traveler.
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Directions for PAMLA Submissions

PAMLA will host its 108th Annual Conference on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawai'i: Please visit pamla.org to find out more!

Any subject matter connected to mothers in literature of women of color will be considered such as othermothers, community mothers, mothers in war, mother from different social-economic backgrounds, etc. I encourage papers and research on literature of African-American, Chicana, Latina, Native American, and all other women of color.
Send 250-300 word abstracts to Adriane Niedorf-Pierson at oxn847@my.utsa.edu. The deadline for abstracts is May 14 by 5 p.m. Acceptance notifications will be sent out via e-mail by midnight on May 17.