General Resources - Calls for Papers

Academic Exchange Quarterly: Teaching and Pedagogy (Summer '03; journal): We need article submissions on any topic focusing on teaching and pedagogical issues, especially those dealing with writing and literature.
Australian and New Zealand Cinema (6/1/03; journal issue): The issue seeks to establish new approaches to film production and film culture in each country, with proposals welcome on any period of cinema.
Comparative American Studies (journal): Comparative American Studies: An International Journal is an exciting new journal that will extend scholarly debates about American Studies beyond the geographical boundaries of the United States, repositioning discussions about American culture explicitly within an international, comparative framework.
Celebrating Heritage: Appalachia from the Inside: This panel is open to graduate students from Appalachia or directly descended from out-migrants whose papers focus on the literary use of some aspect of regional heritage in which the panelist takes pride.
Contemporary Irish-American Women Writers (7/1/03; collection): We are soliciting essays which introduce the works of Irish-American women novelists for an edited collection tentatively titled Contemporary Irish-American Women Writers.
Critical Essays, Interviews, Reviews on Gay Fiction (journal): Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly seeks unpublished critical essays, interviews with writers, extended book reviews, bibliographic essays, prose memoir, cultural criticism, and related prose works, aimed for a general readership of gay men.
Cultural Theory: Book reviewers sought (ASAP; e-journal)
Delirium: An Interdisciplinary Webzine of Culture and Criticism: Delirium, a new webzine, seeks submissions in any genre or form, and from any disciplinary perspective, on any issue related to disability culture.
D. S. Izevbaye: A Festschrift: African and Black Lit. (4/30/03; collection): Contributions are solicited for inclusion in a book of essays being planned in honour of Professor Izevbaye.
Early American Theology, History, and Culture (journal): Studies in Puritan American Spirituality is an interdisciplinary annual that focuses on the history and theology of Puritan America; the form that spirituality was given by the writers, artists, artisans, and composers of Puritan America; and the influence of Puritan America on later generations. We invite you to submit your article for publication in Studies.
Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography (ASAP; encyclopedia): Scholars are invited to contribute entries for a forthcoming two-volume reference set titled Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography to be published by Greenwood Press in 2005.
European Cultural Theorists (10/31/02; collection): Looking for a contributor to the second series of Twentieth Century European Cultural Theorists.
European Journal of American Culture (journal): We want articles that are credible in terms of the research assessment exercise but we also want to build a journal that undergraduates, postgraduates and academics from a range of disciplines find truly useful and interesting.
FEMSPEC: Speculative Black Women (7/30/03; journal issue): FEMSPEC an "interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical and creative works in the realms of SF, fantasy, magical realism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres" is now accepting submissions for a special issue on Black women's speculative fiction.
Identity and Cultural Exchange 600-1600: Contact, Travel and Trade, 5-7 April 2002: This conference at the University of Birmingham will examine the ways in which cultural interaction affects constructions of identity, with particular reference to the significance of personal mobility and economic transaction.
In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage (12/1/02; 10/?/04): The symposium will consider the Godzilla films and how they were shaped by (and in turn shaped) postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese popular culture icons in the wake of the Godzilla phenomenon.
Intercultural Education: "Intercultural Education is a global forum for the analysis of issues dealing with education in plural societies."
Irish Studies (no deadline; book series): *Ireland in Theory*
Literary Aesthetics and Theory in Asian American Writing (12/15/02 & 5/1/03; collection): This collection of essays addresses the place of literary aesthetics and literary theory in Asian American writing and criticism.
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory (no deadline; journal): "LIT publishes critical essays that offer rigorous textual analysis from a variety of theoretical approaches including, but not limited to: cultural and social criticism, political criticism, formalism, structuralism, semiotics, and hermeneutics. The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for sometimes competing theoretical views."
The Many Faces of Information Competence (5/?/03; journal issue): You are invited to submit proposed articles for a special issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly entitled "The Many Faces of Information Competence."
M/C: Media and Culture: "loop" (7/1/02; e-journal): M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, is an initiative of the Media and Cultural Studies Centre at The University of Queensland in Australia.
M/C: Media and Culture Conference Reviews (e-journal): The 'events' section of M/C Reviews (an online Reviews journal) invites your contributions for 500-1000 word reviews and responses to conferences, seminars and idea fests that you've attended over this year.
Men and Masculinities (no deadline noted; encyclopedia): We intend to edit what will be, at least for its time, the definitive encyclopedia on the subject, at least for North American and English-speaking readers.
Michigan Feminist Studies: Gender and Globalism (1/10/03; journal issue): Michigan Feminist Studies is an annual publication edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Mothering, Law, Politics and Public Policy (11/1/03; journal issue): The journal will explore the topic of mothering, law, politics and public policy from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.
Nations, Traditions and Cross-Cultural Identities (Naples, Italy) (4/1/03; 6/27/03-6/28/03): proposals for fifteen-minute papers to be delivered at the conference. A selection of essays based on papers delivered at the conference is due to be published as part of a series of five volumes.
Part-Time College Instruction (ongoing; journal): The Academic Exchange Quarterly includes articles on Part-Time College Instruction on an ongoing basis.
Political Modernity and Discourses of Authority: Participants are invited to investigate how the work of inter-war modernist and avant-garde writers relates to political representation in the modern public sphere and to the representation and performativity of (their own) authority.
Queer Cinema in Europe (10/1/02 & 7/1/03; collection): Contributions are sought for 'Queer Cinema in Europe', an edited anthology of critical essays to be published by Intellect Books in 2004.
The Red Critique: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary (no deadline; e-journal): We invite classical Marxist critiques of the contemporary for our next issue.
Scope: Film Reviews (e-journal): Scope, a fully refereed on-line journal of film studies edited by staff and postgraduate students within the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham, is looking for film reviews of current or upcoming films of about 1000/1500 words to be included in forthcoming issues.
Sexualities, Technologies, and Writing (3/1/03; journal issue): We invite proposals for a special issue of Computers and Composition, entitled "Sexualities, Technologies, and the Teaching of Writing," which will explore the many varied and productive ways in which issues of sexuality are discussed, debated, constructed, and critiqued in computer-assisted writing courses.
Sonia Sanchez (8/9/03; collection): Call for Papers for Sonia Sanchez Anthology.
The Stuff of the Spirit: Essays, Memoirs, and Scholarly Explorations of the Numinous, the Human, and the Machine: "Seeks to envision technology as an interwoven set of virtual and physical spaces in which humans seek, with varying degrees of success, to form communities, heal wounds, love each other, seek the divine, and experience spirituality in a myriad of manifestations using the various tools, instruments and machines that shape us, and by which we, in turn, are shaped."
*Style* General Issue (6/15/03; journal): For this general issue, Style invites submissions that address questions of style, stylistics, and poetics, including research and theory in discourse analysis, literary and nonliterary genres, narrative, figuration, metrics, rhetorical analysis, and the pedagogy of style.
The Substance of African and Middle Eastern Literatures (3/23/03; MLA Special Session, Winter '03): Seeking papers that creatively engage the intersections between the natural resources of Africa and the Middle East and the literature of the regions.
Suitcase Journal: Suitcase invites you to submit your work for publication.
Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory (ongoing; book series): Technologies is a new series of books from Continuum dedicated to publishing innovative and provocative work on both 'new' and 'established' technologies: their history, contemporary issues and future frontiers.
Telling Tales of Trauma (9/1/02; journal issue)
TEXT Technology (journal): TEXT Technology is an eclectic journal for academics and professionals around the world, supplying articles devoted to any use of computers to acquire, analyze, create, edit, or translate texts.
Thinking Classroom (journal): The journal Thinking Classroom (also published in Russian as Peremena) serves as an international forum of exchange among teachers, teacher educators and others interested in promoting democratic teaching practices. We invite potential authors to submit papers that encourage professional development, research and reflection. Thinking Classroom features articles that foster learner-centered teaching strategies including critical and creative thinking, active and cooperative learning, and problem solving.
Undercurrent: Call for Submissions: Undercurrent is seeking article submissions or queries with abstracts providing an analysis of the present in terms of discourses, events, representations, classes, or cultures.
The Unsex'd Men of the Eighteenth Century (9/14/01; ASECS,4/3/02-4/7/02): Call for papers for a panel that proposes to explore the ways in which the eighteenth-century novel constructs masculinity.
Virtually Third World Literature (4/1/03; Southern Comparative Literature Association, 19-21 September 2003): Proposals are sought for papers that deal with, in one way or another, the impact of internet technologies on the nature, character, definition, dissemination, or meanings of third world literatures.
Women's Studies Quarterly: Women and Health, and Women and Literacy (no deadline noted; journal issues): The Women's Studies Quarterly is seeking poetry for two special issues, one on Women and Health and one on Women and Literacy.
Special Session: Doing Women: Recent Transformations of "Woman" and/as Embodiment.: Calling for papers that consider women and girls' changing embodiments, in terms of physicality, performance, and transformation.
(Re)Production of Urban Space: Late 20th Century Literature After The City: Abstracts are invited for the Marxist Literary Group panel at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention November 14-16 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.
Intellectual Property in the Classroom: This one-day symposium will address intellectual property in the classroom. Do intellectual property and copyright regulations restrict or enable learning and teaching practice? Who owns what?
Biblical Tropes: Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Qur'an as Literary Works: The "Biblical Tropes: Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Qur'an as Literary Works" panel presumes that the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur'an continue to configure subjectivity and culture. This panel seeks polymorphus and comparatist discourses to examine these works and unearth fresh readings.
In Wilde's Wake: Controlling Sex and Literature in Edwardian England: Looking for papers that seek to explore the intersections of literary production and the social control of sexuality during the often overlooked Edwardian years.
Stein after Stonewall: Beyond the Repressive Hypothesis: This panel aims to consider the sexuality of Stein's writing in as broad of terms as possible.
Writing Of(f) the Hyphen: Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora: Looking for essays covering a wide range of topics, genres and authors that collectively would offer a broad sense of the literature's development and presence.
Intersections of Native American Studies and Queer Studies (3/25/03; MLA '03): Looking for papers that explore ways that these two fields can complement, critique, and/or complicate each other.
Genres of Queerness: We invite proposals for a panel on forms of cultural representation and their relationships to queer content.
"Re-Worlding the 'Third' World": Papers are sought for the Association of Third World Studies Conference. The papers/proposals may focus on topics ranging from history to multiculturalism and rhetoric.
Alternative Modernities, Alternative Modernisms?: This panel seeks papers that interrogate and explore the salience of recent critiques of the concept of modernity to the understanding of modernism.
"Solutions/Fixations" (Reconstruction 3.3) [06/18/03; 07/23/03]: Seeking papers that reflect upon the past year and a half from any perspective. (ie: geography, history, cultural studies, etc.)
The Ethics of Advocacy in U. S. Culture (MLA San Diego, 2003): This panel aims to revisit the complexes of black-white cooperation in United States culture in all of their political suspiciousness and aesthetic productivity.
History and Memory in the Black Atlantic: Calling for papers that question the existence and aspects of a trans-historical consciousness in the literatures of the Black Atlantic?
College Literature: Call for Critical or Theoretical Comparative Essays on the Fiction and Nonfiction of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison for a Special Issue of COLLEGE LITERATURE
Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism: Looking for papers on any topic related to contemporary film.
"Diversity in African American Poetry": CFP for a conference that seeks to explore the complex variety of experiences, expressions, experiments, and influences represented in "African American poetry."
"Rethinking Renaissance Sexualities": Seeking papers that address the issue of sexuality in the Renaissance.
Disability and/in Prose: Seeking historical, theoretical, critical work around disability and/in prose.
Burden, Benefit, Trace?: This conference will consider benevolence, and representations of benevolence, in a wide variety of forms.
An Encyclopedia of African American Literature: The editors of "An Encyclopedia of African American Literature," seek authors for entries on all aspects of African American literature.
National Association for Ethnic Studies: The NAES invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, business, social sciences, humanities, science and education. The NAES is holding its 32nd Annual National Conference on April 1-3, 2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Biography of 20th Century American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers: Seeking contributors for a Biography of 20th Century American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers.
Conference on the Caribbean (Peru): The Association of Caribbean Studies welcomes papers on cross-disciplinary topics for their 25th anniversary conference.
Polish-Jewish Relations: Contributions are sought to a collection of essays on the subject of Polish-Jewish relations in the aftermath of the Shoah.
Americana: Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites submissions for the fall 2003 edition of its peer reviewed e-journal.
Irish Women Writers: Now accepting proposals for a panel on Irish women writers at the 13th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature.
Midwest Modern Language Association, 2003 Convention: Seeking papers on Contemporary Asian American, South Asian American, or Southeast Asian American Fiction and Poetry for a panel of four.
Postcolonial Literature: Papers are sought on the trope of exile in postcolonial literatures.
Documentary Film, Television, and Video: Seeking papers, abstracts, and panel proposals in documentary film, television, and video for the 2003 Midwest Popular Culture Association conference.
Citizens of the World: Using Media to Introduce Globalization across the Curriculum: Papers are invited on any aspect of the use of various media (film, music, television, video, internet sites and communication, etc.) to introduce students to globalization across the college humanities curriculum.
Dickens and Sex: Papers are sought for the annual Institute of English Studies, University of London conference that deals with Charles Dickens and sex.
Nation or Notion?: Nation or Notion? is an international conference examining ideas of national identity, nationalism and nationhood, and covering all areas of performance and theatre studies -- 'critical' research as well as discussions/examples of research-through-practice.
qui parle: literature, philosophy, visual arts, history: "qui parle" is seeking provocative interdisciplinary articles covering a range of new outstanding theoretical and critical work in the humanities.