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_The Looking Glass_ invites scholarly submissions for the following
special topic to be highlighted in "Alice's Academy", its scholarly
refereed section:
Central and South American Children's Literature
Deadline for Submissions: 1 September 2006
Publication Date: January 2007
_The Looking Glass_ invites scholarly submissions for the following
special topic to be highlighted in "Alice's Academy", its scholarly
refereed section:
Magic Realism in Children's Literature
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2005
Publication Date: January 2006
Articles are welcome on any critical or theoretical aspect of magic
realism in children's literature. Please see
http://www.the-looking-glass.net/contribute.html for submission
guidelines and editorial policies.
Call for Papers (July issue deadline: May 1, 2005)
The International Journal of Motorcycle Studies (IJMS) is dedicated to the
study and discussion of motorcycling culture in all its forms and from all
over the world-including moped/scooter, street and racetrack, and
off-road/dirt bikes as well as every aspect of motorcycle culture past,
present and future. We hope the journal provides further opportunities to
explore these issues. The inaugural issue was published online in March,
2005: ijms.nova.edu.
We welcome submissions on all areas related to the cultural phenomenon of
motorcycling from not only academics but all members of the motorcycling
community or those interested in motorcycling.
CFP: Narratives in English by Women Explorers and Travellers 1700-1940
(France) (9/15/05; 2/3/06-2/4/06)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 3-4, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF SAINT-ETIENNE (FRANCE)
While 18th and 19th century women were usually confined to the domestic
and national spheres some women indulged their dreams and travelled to
unexplored territories: their journeys to the Orient (Lady Montagu, Lady
Blunt, Gertrude Bell, Amelia Edwards, Freya Stark), to India (Emily Eden,
Fanny Parks), to America (Isabella Bird, Clara Bromley, France Trollope), to
Africa (Mary Kingsley) or to Australia (Daisy Bates) gave rise to
narratives.
Suitable for the Boudoir and the Circulating Library:
Marie Corelli and Popular Women Novelists 1880-1910
30th March – 1st April 2006
Hosted by
University of Birmingham, Liverpool John Moores University
Association for Research in Popular Fictions
To be held at Mason Croft, Shakespeare Institute
Stratford Upon Avon, England
Call for Papers – Deadline July 1st
Éire-Ireland Special Issue: Amongst Empires
Due to the dates of Spring Break, the deadline for submissions for M E S T
ER 2005 Call for Papers has been extended to April 15, 2005.
M E S T E R
2005 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming general
issue to be published in June 2005.
Call for Papers: Theorizing Fan Fiction (edited volume)
New deadline: May 15, 2005
Overview
Creating a Critical Conversation on Mark Strand
Mark Strand is one of America's best poets, yet little critical work
has been published on Strand's poetry. This panel invites papers that
address any aspect of Strand's poetry from a critical perspective. The
deadline for abstract submissions is April 25, 2005. The AWP conference
will be held in Austin, TX in March 2006.
Please send abstracts (200-500 words), either by email, or snail mail
to:
Dr. Julianna Gray
Haley Center 9030
English Department
Auburn University
Auburn University, AL 36849
vicejul_at_auburn.edu
Call for Papers for Modern Fiction Studies
Toni Morrison * Summer 2006
Deadline for Submission: 1 Sept. 2005
NOTE: Deadline for Proposals Extended to April 30, 2005
Call for Submissions
Special Issue of Literature and Medicine
Health and Human Rights
Volume 25, Number 1
Issue Editor: Priscilla Wald
Revision and Revelation in Contemporary British
Fiction
THE EDINBURGH COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH LITERATURE
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Abusing the Muse: Inspiration and Exploitation in 19th and 20th
Century Literature and Culture"
Edited by Alex Gil Fuentes, Sandy Alexandre and A.C. Geoghan
Abstracts are invited for a new collection that explores the various
ways in which authors exploit their sources of artistic or intellectual
inspiration whether it be for profit, fame or other such unseemly
motivations.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
Call for Journal Submissions
RiLUNe - Revue of Literatures of the European Union
Radical History Review invites submissions of abstracts for a forthcoming thematic issue exploring the subject of religion and its historical relations to politics, culture and society. We especially encourage proposals for articles with interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives.
CFP. Anglophone Arab Literature. 05/ 15/2005 (collection)
Contributions are invited for a collection of scholarly articles on Anglophone Arab literature (Literature written in English by writers of Arab origin, no translations) which address various aspects of Anglo-Arab writing. Questions pertaining to (though not limited to) issues of identity, ethnicity, hybridity, gender, reception, etc. are encouraged. Creative writing by Anglophone authors (short stories, excerpts from novels, poems, scenes or acts from plays, autobiography) are also most welcome.
Editor: Layla Al Maleh, Associate Professor of English Literature.
visiting scholar, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA
Email address: lalmaleh_at_yahoo.com
Call for Papers
War Without Limits:
Spain 1936-1939 and Beyond
Group for War and Culture Studies
University of Bristol,
17th-19th July 2006
CFP: Neurology and Literature at the Fin de Siècle (6/17/05; collection)
Submissions are invited for a collection of critical essays on
intersections between British, European, and North American literature
and neurology between 1870 and 1920. We are willing to consider essays on
literature examined in its scientific context, as well as essays
performing literary analyses of scientific texts. Submissions by emergent
as well as established scholars are welcome. A series editor at one of
Britain's leading academic presses has shown strong preliminary interest
in the project.
Call for Articles: British Black and Asian Theatre (book)
Critics are invited to write articles on any of the following topics in the
field of British Black and Asian Theatre. (By Asian is meant broadly the
Indian subcontinent).
Close textual and performative readings of:
=B7 The plays of Sol B River
=B7 Dona Daley
=B7 Debbie Tucker Green
=B7 Or any British Black dramatist
=B7 Any British-Asian male dramatist (women writers have been covered)
AMERICAN@ is a peer reviewed e-journal dedicated to American Cultural and
Literary Studies. It hopes to provide an intellectual canvas where the
cultural spaces and experiences of American Studies are theorized and
rigorously explored within both global and local contingencies of the present
and the past. A
MERICAN@ is accepting paper submissions for its Spring issue 2005. This issue
will have a special focus on Latino/a Cultural and Literary Sudies.
Papers are expected to deal with recent works by authors of Chicano, Puerto
Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latin American descent as they contribute to
the development of Latino/a literature in the twenty-first century.
"Scottish Literary Journalism in the Twenty-First Century"
____________________
I am looking for someone to contribute a chapter on "literary journalism" to THE EDINBURGH
COMPANION TO 21ST-CENTURY LITERATURE. The COMPANION already comprises 45 essays on post-devolution
Scottish writing and related concerns, and is heading for publication by Edinburgh University Press
in 2007. The submission deadline for your 5,000-word essay would be the end of January 2006.
For further information on what exactly is needed, as well as the project as a whole, please
contact me BEFORE 11 April 2005.
Many thanks
********
Professor Berthold Schoene
The original CFP contained a factual error regarding Lillian Smith's
novel. The text below is correct.
Call For Papers: Lillian Smith
Proposed panel -- O'Connor and Other Georgia Writers: A Scholarly
Conference
Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA
Deadline for 500-word abstracts: April 15, 2005
Conference Dates: March 30- April 1, 2006
THE EAST EUROPEAN MONOGRAPHS - MARIA CURIE-
SKLODOWSKA UNIVERSITY - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
CONRAD PROJECT
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONRAD'S POLISH-UKRAINIAN FOOTPRINTS.
IV INTERNATIONAL JOSEPH CONRAD CONFERENCE
AT MARIA CURIE-SKLODOWSKA UNIVERSITY, LUBLIN, POLAND
CFP: 20th-Century World Poetry (4-12-05; 9-12-05 collection)
The Fall 2005 issue of Currents in Electronic Literacy
will publish article-length submissions related to the
theme below. Currents is also seeking reviews of
recent texts. For a list of suggested titles, see
<http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall04/reviewcfp.html>.
Theme: "Beyond the Digital Divide? Investigations of
Internet Access and Agency in a Mobile Era"
The original CFP for this collection had the wrong word count for submissions. The corrected CFP follows:
Shelves and shelves have been filled with scholarly attention to baseball in American history, culture, literature, politics, etc.; likewise, shelves and shelves have been devoted to the study of humor (in American history, culture, literature, politics, etc.). Yet, surprisingly little has been said about the relationship between the two.
Proposed is a collection of new essays on the relationship between humor and baseball (in American history, culture, literature, politics, etc.). Topics might include, but certainly are not limited to:
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Deadline extended to March 13, 2005.
At this point we welcome proposals A GENERAL ISSUE.
M E S T E R
2005 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming general
issue to be published in June 2005.
Call For Papers: Lillian Smith
Proposed panel -- O'Connor and Other Georgia Writers: A Scholarly Conference
Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA
Deadline for 500-word abstracts: April 15, 2005
Conference Dates: March 30- April 1, 2006