CALL FOR PAPERS

The Shakespeare on Film and Television Area of the National Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association is calling for papers for its annual conference. This year the PCA/ACA will meet in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday March 27 through Saturday March 30, 2013 at the Wardman Park Marriott, 2660 Woodley Road NW, 20008 Washington. For further information, contact the conference website www.pcaaca.org

We have previously had panels on the following topics and invite new ideas all the time.

Trans-Scripts – an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine – invites graduate students to submit their work for publication. The theme of the third volume is "Thinking Activism."

Rupert Thomson: a critical symposium

14th June 2013

International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester

Keynote Speakers: John McAuliffe (Manchester) and Rupert Thomson

An academic conference supported by the University of Manchester @artsmethods and Gylphi's Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays series

Proposals are invited for papers for the first academic symposium focusing on contemporary writer Rupert Thomson, whose work includes eight novels (with Secrecy, his ninth, due in March 2013) and a celebrated memoir (This Party's Got to Stop, 2010). Despite widespread critical acclaim, there has as yet been no sustained academic engagement with Thomson's writing.

The University of Northern Colorado is the new home of The CEA Critic, the journal of the College English Association. The University is located in Greeley, Colorado, a city named for famed journalist Horace Greeley, who popularized (although was not the first to utter) the injunction, "Go West, young man!" For Greeley, and for so many others before and after him, the West has been a location both literal and figurative. For this issue, the new editors solicit essays that investigate, reflect on, seek to define, or look to challenge the notion of the West as it is addressed in any mode or genre of text.

Call for Papers: Anthology on the Work of Michael Chabon, edited by Bob Batchelor and Jesse Kavadlo

Update: The editors are still accepting submissions. We are particularly interested in adding essays that discuss Michael Chabon's short fiction, create connections to one or more themes in American literature, and/or situate Chabon's work within the concept of the American Experience, whatever you take that to mean in the context of your essay. Please send 250-500 word abstracts and brief CV/biography to both Bob Batchelor (rpbatche@kent.edu) and Jesse Kavadlo (jkavadlo@maryville.edu) by January 1, 2013.

The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society invites proposals for a session at the annual conference of the American Literature Association to be held May 23-26, 2013 in Boston, MA. For further information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. We are interested in proposals that touch on any aspect of Woolson's work and especially welcome proposals that draw attention to her lesser-known texts. For information about the society, please visit our website: http://blogs.bgsu.edu/cfwoolson/.

Deadline: January 15, 2013

The deadline for submission of panel and paper proposals has been extended to 15 February.