The South Central College English Association welcomes proposals for 20-minute presentations to be delivered at the 2010 SCMLA Convention (October 28-30) in Fort Worth, TX. Our session is entitled "Teaching the Tough Texts," and we are especially interested in presenters who will share strategies for introducing structurally complex or controversial writings to undergraduates. For example, some panelists might offer guidance on leading students through the labyrinthine prose of Henry James or Homi Bhabha. Others might discuss how to teach novels such as Twain's HUCKLEBERRY FINN or Ellis's AMERICAN PSYCHO, books that many readers have, for various reasons, deemed offensive.

The Journal of Literary Theory (JLT) invites contributions for Vol. 5, No. 1, 2011

Standards & Norms of Literary Studies

Call For Papers
WOMEN'S STUDIES

Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, & Letters

2010 Annual Meeting
March 26, 2010
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, Michigan

15 to 20 MINUTE PAPERS
ON ANY ASPECT OF WOMEN'S STUDIES
Rhetoric, Media Studies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Literature, Sociology,
Psychology, Communication, Law, Political Science, Art, History, Education

"TURNING POINTS": SHOCK AND INTROSPECTION

4th Annual Graduate Conference
Friday April 30-Saturday May1, 2010
Department of Comparative Literature
Stanford University

Call for Papers

"Me from Myself, to vanish
had I art,
Impregnable my fortress,
of all heart
And since myself attacked me,
how have I peace,
except by subjugation consciousness,
And since we are mutual monarch,
how this be,
except by abdication,
me to me"

-Emily Dickinson

This call invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2010 American Literature Association conference in San Francisco, CA, May 27-30.

In The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud explains that "the border-line between the nervous, normal, and abnormal states is indistinct." Consequently, while phenomena such as forgetting, slips of the tongue, and other "mistakes" are generally seen by society as normal, one could argue that they are in fact the foundation for more menacing psychopathologies like paranoia, schizophrenia, personality disorders, or even homicidal behavior.

Now accepting proposals for Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 14-16, 2010.

This is a fun panel for sharing tips, best practices, etc. for teaching literature (American, British, world, other) in the college/university classroom. Leave the theory at home and tell us what's working in your classroom.

Proposals should be submitted to Bethany Blankenship at b_blankenship@umwestern.edu by March 1, 2010. Email submissions within the text of the email. No attachments, please.

The 21st annual conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) will be hosted 2010 by the English department of the University of Bayreuth from 13.-16. May 2010. The conference is titled "Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination" and aims at exploring the concept of community in postcolonial contexts in the academic fields of linguistics, literary and cultural studies.