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Leon Edel Prize (November 1, 2013)

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Monday, August 26, 2013 - 12:52pm
Henry James Review

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.

Send submissions (4 copies, produced according to current MLA style) to:

Susan M. Griffin, Editor
The Henry James Review
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292

CFP Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies

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Monday, August 26, 2013 - 12:50pm
Department of English, Dibrugarh University

Since its inception in 1976-77, the Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (ISSN 0975- 5659) has been providing a space for analysis, intervention and research across a wide range of areas related to English Studies. It is an annual peer-reviewed journal which publishes full-length articles on all aspects of English Studies, both theoretical and practical. The journal invites relevant contributions in areas such as- Literature in English as well as English translations, literary criticism and theory, issues related to research and research methodology, linguistics, ELT, etc. The journal also publishes reviews of texts, reference books and scholarly work related to the discipline.

[UPDATE] CFP for the Journal of Cross-cultural Studies

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Monday, August 26, 2013 - 11:37am
Center for Cross-cultural Studies of National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Cross-cultural Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal published by Center for Cross-cultural Studies of National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, and has been indexed in the THCI (Taiwan Humanities Citation Index). It is published biannually and covers Chinese and English publications. The journal has been devoted to offering inter-disciplinary perspectives on cultural/cross-cultural issues and engaging in academic discussions since 2008. For more information about the journal, please visit the website as follows:

Edited collection - Hard Times: Austerity and Popular Culture

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Monday, August 26, 2013 - 11:32am
Helen Davies and Claire O'Callaghan

HARD TIMES: AUSTERITY AND POPULAR CULTURE

Edited by Helen Davies and Claire O'Callaghan

"I said pretend you've got no money, she just laughed and said oh you're so funny. I said yeah? Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here." ("Common People", Pulp)

"I decree today that life
Is simply taking and not giving
England is mine - it owes me a living" ("Still Ill", The Smiths)

"Folks don't laugh so loud when you've a grand in your back pocket." (The Full Monty)

American Studies and American History

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Monday, August 26, 2013 - 11:13am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association

Call for Papers: American Studies and American History
35th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference (SWPACA)
Popular and American Culture Studies: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

February 19-22, 2014, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center
330 Tijeras NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
Toll Free: 888-421-1442
http://southwestpca.org/

Articles required on any and all literary subjects for new online magazine.

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Monday, August 26, 2013 - 9:08am
The New Union

The New Union, a new online literary magazine launching in autumn 2013, requires guest articles for online publication.

We welcome articles on any and all literary subjects and genres, and from any period in history.

Articles should be approximately 1,000 words in length (although this is not set in stone).

The only stipulation is that every article must find an interesting angle from which to look at a text, author, or subject. No dull, academically formal articles required!

We particularly welcome articles that are able to combine literary topics with modern news and issues, and other subjects such as film, theatre, etc.

We would also like to publish a section of articles on unknown writers, poets, and texts.

[Update] Representing the Contemporary Youth in Teen Television Drama

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Monday, August 26, 2013 - 5:31am
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) , Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

From Beverley Hills 90210 to Gossip Girl and Glee, the genre of the teen drama series has added a unique and multi-faceted dynamic to the American television landscape. The popularity of this genre stems from the way in which it challenges and dramatizes the realities of its young viewers, presenting them with a fantastical reality which is defined by melodrama, materialism and excess. This quality of the genre often causes adult viewers to dismiss the teen drama series as a product of guilty pleasure television.

Atlantic World Foodways: The Carolina Lowcountry, Africa, Italy, and Spain

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 9:27pm
Atlantic World Research Network and Quaintance-Weaver

The Atlantic World Research Network, in partnership with Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels and The Fresh Market, presents a unique feast of ideas and food—an international and interdisciplinary conference exploring four great transatlantic foodways: Carolina Lowcountry, African, Italian, and Spanish/Latin American. Featuring famed food scholars and leading chefs, our conference will bring together inquiring minds and discerning palates as we ask how transatlantic contact combined and transformed old foodways, and how those foodways have transformed us all.

[UPDATE} Comically Queer: NeMLA 2014

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 8:56pm
Northeast Modern Language Association

Two decades ago, Judith Butler's "Critically Queer" asked what it might mean to make "queer" an object of critical inquiry and, equally, what it might mean for the queer to become critical of her identification as queer. "Comically Queer" echoes Butler's formulation in order to ask how the comic might be deployed to do queer work and how the queer can be located in relation to the comic. This panel welcomes papers that draw from queer theory as well as disability, post-colonial, and critical race studies in order to query normative regimes that determine what it means to be (and which bodies are) taken seriously.

World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2013)

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 8:07pm
Infonomics Society

The World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2013) is a multidisciplinary congress, bridging efforts across the natural, social and engineering sciences, the environment and development of communities. The congress covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to sustainability, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. It also encourages sharing new knowledge in the field
of sustainable technologies and the environmental impacts.

Editorial Board Members and Peer Reviewers Needed

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 4:36pm
International Society for Heresy Studies -The Journal of Heresy Studies

The recently founded International Society for Heresy Studies is starting a new online journal tentatively titled The Journal of Heresy Studies. The journal will focus on interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic papers on the subjects of heresy, blasphemy and non-belief in contexts of literature, art, and culture. Current academic discussions of religion and faith often pass over these subjects or give them a confessional turn, a critical blind spot that this new publication aims to illuminate.

Postcolonial Ecopoetics of Disaster, NEMLA 2014, submissions due 9/30/13

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 4:31pm
Liam O'Loughlin and Molly Nichols

Session Title: Postcolonial Ecopoetics of Disaster

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Description:
This session will discuss the intersections between ecocriticism and postcolonial literatures of disaster. Imperialism and neoliberal globalization have led to disproportionate social and environmental devastation in the Global South. We build from Anthony Carrigan's assertion that understanding cultural representations of postcolonial disaster is integral to social and environmental reconstruction.

(UPDATE) THE VICTORIA--CFP: NOVEMBER EDITION

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 3:39pm
THE VICTORIAN

http://journals.sfu.ca/vict/index.php/vict/index

Invitation for Contributions II

I am immensely proud that we were able to get the first edition of The Victorian published in a timely fashion. However, we do not intend to rest on our laurels and the planning of our second edition begins right now. We request well-written contributions in the following areas:

1. Articles of any length (but preferably of at least 10 pages) on all aspects of the Victorian period.

2. Unpublished conference papers pertaining to the Victorian age.

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