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"The sense of uncertainty must be very similar — the soldiers' hearts in Iraq must be similar to the soldiers' hearts in Vietnam." ~ Tim O'Brien, 2005 to an audience in Valparaiso, Indiana
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 1ST!
MTSU EGSO CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
The English Graduate Student Organization at Middle Tennessee State University is requesting submissions for its 3rd MTSU EGSO Conference. The theme of this year's conference is "Common Threads: A Crazy-Quilt of Literary Inquiry." Presentations of scholarly research in all areas of literature and literary studies are welcome. Some suggested topics include:
•Children's Literature
•American Literature
•British Literature
•Popular Culture, Folklore, Graphic Novels and Film Studies
•Composition, Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Critical Theory
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Florida Gulf Coast University's Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, and Departments of Language & Literature and Communication & Philosophy are currently accepting individual abstracts and panel proposals for FGCU's 2nd International Humanities and Sustainability Conference, to be held in Fort Myers, Florida, October 7-9, 2010. Our goal is to encourage interdisciplinary conversations about the role of the humanities in fostering sustainability, however defined, and about the sustainability of the humanities as we move into the second decade of the 21st Century.
DEFINING THE NEW: EXPERIMENTS AND INNOVATIONS IN ENGLISH STUDIES
A Conference sponsored by the Ohio University English Department and Quarter After Eight
October 22-23 / Ohio University / Athens, Ohio
Keynote Address by: Anne Francis Wysocki
Special Reading by: Imad Rahman
"Literature is news that stays news."
-Ezra Pound
Western Performances
Western Literature Association's 45th Annual Conference
October 20th – October 23rd, 2010, Prescott, Arizona
The Western Literature Association invites proposals on any aspect of Western American literature. To recognize Western American theatrical literature, the literature of performance, AND the variety of ways we perform our identity as westerners on the global stage, WLA 2010 especially welcomes proposals for individual papers or panels on the following topics and themes:
Georgia State New Voices Conference 2010, October 7-9:
What makes us laugh? Why is humor such an important cross-cultural phenomenon and universal human trait? What are the genres of humor and comedy? Can postmodernism and critical theory be funny? How can we teach humor? What are the theories of laughter? How do we research and write about humor, comedy, laughter, wit, satire, and jokes across disciplines? How global is humor? What is the place of humor in academia and in popular culture?
We are especially interested in papers that pertain to the following topic:
The Popularity of the End Times
A series of recent films, like 2010, and texts, like The World without Us, offer audiences fantasies of the end of human society. This panel seeks papers that compare and contrast these popular visions to stories from religious traditions that also describe the End Times (for example, the Biblical Revelations). Papers can also explore the ideological purposes of these popular visions of Armageddon or the reasons why audiences remain fascinated with The End.
The Eudora Welty Review, formerly the Eudora Welty Newsletter, is an annual journal published each spring that encourages research
and scholarship on Welty and wider reading and teaching of her work. The Review publishes scholarly essays, announces new books, and continues regular features including news and notes, textual analyses, and checklists with appropriate illustrative materials.
We are accepting submissions for EWR 3 until August 1, 2010.
To contact the editor, Pearl A. McHaney, write to ewn@langate.gsu.edu or
Eudora Welty Review
English Dept., GSU
P. O. Box 3970
Atlanta GA 30302-3970
Feel free to visit us online at www2.gsu.edu/~wwwewn.
The Life and Work of Peter Whitehead
for a special double issue of Framework
to be published Spring 2011
Issue editors: Paul Cronin and Drake Stutesman
Addressing questions raised by the 2009 MLA roundtable "Does the English Department Have a Jewish Problem?," this special issue of MELUS will survey the current state of Jewish American literary scholarship and explore new directions for the future of the field. Guest edited by Lori Harrison-Kahan and Josh Lambert, the issue aims to highlight innovative approaches that will reinvigorate and redefine the study of Jews and Jewishness in American literature and to examine challenges posed by Jewish literature to the disciplinary and theoretical paradigms of American and ethnic literature. We invite a broad range of contributions, but topics of particular interest include:
ESC: English Studies in Canada invites proposals for a Special Issue on "Traffic," guest edited by Cecily Devereux and Mark Simpson, University of Alberta.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Native American Literature
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference
2010
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
Film by, for, and with Native Americans
Intersections, Tensions, and New Dimensions:
Encounters in the Contact Zone in English Studies
October 8-9, 2010
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
This graduate conference will explore the relevance of contact and contact zones for English Studies. As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, English Studies continues to see increasing discursive overlap. Understandings of identity and subjectivity have relied increasingly on syncretism and hybridity at the expense of rigid national, cultural, and periodic categories. As boundaries and concepts become more permeable, Mary Louise Pratt's definition of "Contact Zones" gains increasing relevance and currency.