"Cognitive Approaches to Genre"
Cognitive Approaches to Literature Discussion GroupSession
MLA 2007 (Chicago, December 27-30)
The MLA Discussion Group on Cognitive Approaches toLiterature invites papers bridging topics in cognitivetheory and genre theory for our session at the 2007MLA Convention in Chicago. Send 300-word proposals toMichael Sinding () by March 1.
Improvisation Continuums: theorising practice across disciplines
Date: 12 - 14 April 2007
Hosted by: CardiffSchool of Creative & Cultural Industries, University
of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, South Wales UK
Venue: RoyalWelshCollege of Music and Drama, North Road, Cardiff
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to engage in theory developmenton improvisation. Confirmed Keynotes include Stephen Nachmanovtich ( andAl Wunder.
The inaugural Improvisation Continuums conference recognizes the keyrole that improvisation is playing in debates about creative practiceand theory, and is dedicated to providing a forum for discussion anddebate about the re-emerging place of improvisation in arts practice.
This event aims to facilitate dialogue and examine contemporaryexpressions of improvisation.
There are five elements that are emerging as key frames for debate:
1.Finding edges: Unpacking the ways in which structure canliberate creativity and risk
2.Body|Space|Content: Convergences in the concepts of musician,dancers and actors in performance
3.Image, Sound, Feeling: Documenting improvisedperformance/Documentation as improvisation
4.Listening, seeing and other elements of communicating:audience/performer, audience/audience, performer/performer interactivityand meaning making; and
5.A question of teaching: the improviser as learner
See website for information about early bird rates and abstracts forpanels and workshops or gistrations are now opened.
Dr Rea Dennis
Convenor
Improvisation Continuums Conference
12-14 April 2007
Senior Lecturer, Drama
CardiffSchool of Creative & Cultural Industries
The University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd CF37 1DL
+44 1443 483422
1st Global Conference
Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues
Tuesday 3rd July - Thursday 5th July 2007
MansfieldCollege, Oxford
Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding visual literacy in regard to theory and praxis. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of education, visual arts, fine arts, literature, philosophy, psychology, critical theory and theology. These disciplines are indicative only as papers are welcomed from any area, profession and vocation in which visual literacy plays a part.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes;
* the concept and tools of visual literacy
* pre-school children and visual literacy
* visual literacy and cultural identity
* interpreting elements and examples of visual literacy
* visual literacy as therapy
* the liminal elements and facets of visual literacy
* social and cultural reactions to visual literacy
* visual literacy in literature
* visual literacy in television and film
* visual literacy and the media
* visual literacy as a social semiotic
* teaching visual literacy
* visual literacy as deformed discourse
* theology and visual literacy – use and/or abuse
* teleology and visual literacy
* the history of visual literacy
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 9th March 2007. If selected for presentation, 8 page draft conference papers should be submitted by Friday 8th June 2007.
Papers should be submitted to the Joint Organising Chairs: these should be sent as an email attachment in Word or WordPerfect; abstracts can also be submitted in the body of the email text rather than as an attachment. Papers will be blind peer reviewed.Joint Organising Chairs
Dr Phil Fitzsimmons
Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong
Australia
Email:
Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Email:
All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in a themed hard copy volume. Three themed volumes are in print and/or in press from previous meetings of the project.
The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net as part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
For further details about the project please visit:
For further details about the conference please visit:
The Journal of Literacy and Technology
An Academic Journal
Call for Texts
Beginning in 2005, The Journal of Literacy and Technology uses rollingdeadlines throughout the calendar year rather than publish "issues." Theeditors believe that publishing articles as they come in better reflectsThe Journal of Literacy and Technology's mission as an online-onlyacademic journal.
Submit article manuscripts for consideration at any time. The Journal ofLiteracy and Technology currently publishes research articles and bookreviews.
The JLT is an online academic journal exploring the complex relationshipbetween literacy and technology in educational, workplace, public, andindividual spheres. Articles and scholarly reviews span from thehistorical to the cutting-edge, from critical scholarship to appliedtheory to practice. The Journal of Literacy and Technology provides afree, accessible scholarly forum for all interested parties to exploreand debate issues pertinent to novel literacies and digital culture.With The Journal of Literacy and Technology, we encourage new spheresof academic conversation, with the goal of making ideologies andassumptions apparent and considering possibilities and alternatives.
The JLT considers original research, feature articles, and all articlesshould focus overtly on the relationship between literacy andtechnology. Topics may include, but are not limited to the followingareas of research:
Communication Studies
Rhetoric
Multicultural Literacies & Technology
Media Studies/Media Literacy
Historical/Historicizing Studies
Workplace Literacy
Hypertext Theory
New Theoretical/Philosophical Perspectives
Educational/Instructional Technology
Teaching in Electronic Environments
Distance Learning
Web-Based Research
Library Studies
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology
Technical Writing
Computer Mediated Communication
To Submit:
The JLT accepts manuscripts in electronic form. To submit an article forconsideration, please send URL, manuscript, or electronic copy (.html,.doc, .pdf, or .rtf format) to:
Noemi Marin, Ph.D.
Executive Editor
The Journal of Literacy and Technology
School of Communication
FloridaAtlanticUniversity
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL33431
Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
Call for Papers: Eyewitness Narratives
Eyewitness narratives make up a genre of discourse that is prominently characterized by multifunctionality. The aesthetic function of eyewitness narratives may enter into different relationships with their pragmatic functions, whether annalist, testimonial, consciousness-raising, or other; different functions may become marked at different points of the communal or individual reception.
Partial Answers, a semiannual journal of literature and the history of ideas now published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in cooperation with the School of Literatures of the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, invites papers that present different interdisciplinary approaches to the interrelationship of the artistic merit and the uses (and possible abuses) of eyewitness narratives. The papers can pertain to narratives from and about different times and places and deal with the following issues:
What kinds of relationship can be observed between the aesthetic and the pragmatic functions of eyewitness narratives: competition, mutual support, other?
To what extent can intra-textual semantic continua be independent of or subordinate to the subject of testimony and extra-textual background reference?
How do specific stencils (genre conventions, officially recommended document structures, traditional patterns of thinking) formalize, modify, or subvert factual accuracy?
What are the status and the uses of hearsay information in memoir literature and how do they affect interpretation?
What are the status and the uses of eye-witness narratives that are not confirmed by other sources?
How do eyewitness narratives affect the understanding of archival records?
Articles for possible inclusion in Partial Answers 6/2 must reach the editorial office by December 31, 2007.
The editorial board extends a continuing welcome to papers on other subjects in the interdisciplinary field of literature and the history of ideas, in particular to articles associated with three of the recent rubrics, The Cultural Other, Narrative as a Way of Thinking, and Divided Loyalties (see
Mailing address:
Partial Answers
c/o Department of English
The HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem
Jerusalem91905, Israel
Editorial inquiries:
Call for Papers:
College English Association of Ohio – Spring Conference
When: Friday, April 20, 2007
Where: OhioDominicanUniversity, Division of Literature and Language
Theme: New Boundaries, New Views
The College English Association of Ohio (CEAO) Spring Conference title invites participants to explore the implications the new boundaries and parameters of English Studies has for their teaching, for their research, and—in keeping with this year’s Nancy Dasher Award theme—for their creative writing. Panels, papers, and roundtables might include: articulation, licensure, two- and four- year institutions, cohorts, pedagogy, technology, secondary and post-secondary institutions, composition, upper-division writing, rhetoric, literature, creative writing, collaboration and writing communities, writing centers, or other related topics.
CEAO welcomes proposals from graduate students, adjunct and part-time instructors, full-time faculty, as well as individuals living/working both inside Ohio and outside Ohio. Participants must register for the conference.
The conference will be held on Friday, April 20, 2007 on the campus of OhioDominicanUniversity, Columbus, Ohio, 43219.
Keynote Speaker: Wendell Mayo, Bowling GreenStateUniversity
Watch this website for further details, registration form, driving directions, and hotel information:
Send proposals of 300 words or less and a 1-page C.V. by March 3, 2007, to:
Dirk Remley, , 330/672-1763.
All proposals submitted by the deadline will be considered.
Program Co-Chairs: Lowe McManus (Bowling GreenStateUniversity), Dirk Remley (KentStateUniversity) and Juliette Schaefer (OhioDominican University).
CFP: Shakespeare
Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South Conference
Jacksonville, Florida
September 27-29, 2007
Deadline: May 1, 2007
Proposals are invited for papers on teaching Shakespeare to today'sundergraduates, on Shakespeare and film, on theatrical productions, andon other topics relevant to Shakespeare in popular and/or Americanculture. Send abstracts (100-150 words) by May 1, 2007, to Prof. EmilyMiller, Department of English and Fine Arts, Virginia MilitaryInstitute, Lexington, Virginia24450 or e-mail them to mum reading time for papers: twenty minutes.
CFP: Shakespeare and Related Topics (3/15/07; PAMLA, 11/2/07-11/3/07)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference (PAMLA)
Panel Topic: Shakespeare and Related Topics
November 2-3, 2007
WesternWashingtonUniversity
Bellingham, Washington
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2007
Paper proposals sought for a panel on "Shakespeare and Related Topics."Proposals are encouraged on any topic in Shakespeare studies; possibletopics include:
-Marxist Shakespeare
-queer theory and Shakespeare
-postcolonial Shakespeare
-psychoanalysis and circulations of desire and identification in Shakespeare
-Shakespeare and geography
-Shakespeare and gender
-Shakespeare and the body
-Shakespeare and film
-Other
Please email 500-word abstract (in the body of an email or as anattachment) to Hilda Ma:
See the PAMLA website ( for information regardingmembership and conference registration.
Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association Conference 2007
Cleveland, Ohio November 8-11
Fabricating the Body:
Representations of the Body in Literature and Culture
Panel One: American Literature and Culture
Panel Two: British Literature and Culture
>From the religious to the spectacular, the medicalized to the transsexual, the body is made to signify in American and British literature and culture. Whether this signification occurs because of adornment, surgery, violence, death, tattooing, disease, age, gender, race, pregnancy, imprisonment, or some other physical, spatial, or cultural taxonomy, our double session at the 2007 Midwest MLA conference seeks to interrogate the many fabrications of bodies in American and British literature and culture. For papers on American topics (any era), please submit your 250-word abstract to Cammie Sublette, Department of English, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith, Fort Smith, AR 72913-3649, <mailto:>. For papers on British topics (any era), please submit your 250-word abstract to Beth Torgerson, Department of English, Eastern WashingtonUniversity, Patterson Hall 250, Cheney, WA 99004-2430, <mailto:>. Abstracts due by March 31st. With abstracts, please include a short c.v. (one or two pages). >
Possible topics may include the following:
>Dead body Battered
body Medicalized
body Diseased or Ill body
Gendered or Sexed body Scarred
body Tattooed body Autopsied body
Adorned body Disabled body
Dieting body Sculpted body Religious
body
Monstrous body Obese
body Raced body Surgically altered
body Pregnant body
Aging body Impotent body Docile body Militarized body Political body Colonized body
Transsexual body Theatrical body Cinematic
body Criminal body
and more!
CFP: Narratives of Life: Aging and Identity. Ed. Heike Hartung,
Roberta Maierhofer
The prospect of increasing longevity has turned ageing and old age intoa topic of concern in Western societies. The discourse of age and theproliferation of narrative in contemporary media culture both transgressdisciplinary boundaries. Addressing the 'narratives of life' fromdifferent disciplinary angles this volume aims to explore the scope of anarrative gerontology. Ageing and the stories that are told about it orfrom within are transnational and transcultural phenomena. While ageingis thus a universal process, attention is also drawn to the categoriesof difference that it evokes: Historical, social and culturaldifferences as well as gender differences.
Representations of age in different modes of story telling, history andlife writing will be among the central issues of the volume. Differentcultural attitudes on old age and ageing as well as narrativeconstructions of age throughout history will be addressed. The editorsare looking for papers that focus on a range of questions, including(but not limited to) the following: What meanings are attached to ageand ageing in the narrative process? In what ways do medical andbiological concepts of age merge with those applied to the individuallife course? How do physiological and cultural constructions of ageinteract in life narratives? How does ageing shape identityconstructions? How much does age have in common with other identity
categories and how does it differ?
Please send short abstracts of 300-500 words by May 31, 2007. The finalpapers will be due July 31, 2007. The length of manuscripts should beapproximately 7000 words. For formal requirements, please follow the
recent MLA Manual of Style.
Send abstracts and completed articles to Roberta Maierhofer via e-mailor surface mail:
Roberta Maierhofer
Department of American Studies
University of Graz
Attemsgasse 25
A-8010 Graz / Austria
Europe
Essays on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Papers are being sought for a volume of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow criticism, which will include chapters by prominent American literary scholars, including John Seelye. While the American literary establishment created itself in opposition to his popular "fireside" poetry, scholars have since returned to Longfellow. In recent years, articles on Longfellow written by prominent scholars examine the deterioration of Longfellow's critical standing and its role in the formation of an American canon; they study the steadfast internationalism of his theory of literature; they discover new complexity in his treatment of Native Americans; and they recognize in Longfellow a domestic masculinity that stands in stark counterpoint to the aggressive masculinity that would propel U. S. imperialism. While we are chiefly interested in essays that evaluate Longfellow in the following areas:
The American literary canon
Writing the nation
Performance and Performativity
We will also welcome abstracts for papers in other areas that advance Longfellow studies. Please e-mail abstracts (250-500 words) and a one page CV to Lloyd Willis (lwillis_at_lander.edu) and James McDougall (jmcdoug_at_english.ufl.edu). Abstracts are due March 23, 2007, and essays will be expected July 6, 2007.
Lloyd Willis
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Foreign Languages
LanderUniversity
For MLA 2007, the William Faulkner Society seeks proposals for papers on William Faulkner and his work from scholars who write from beyond the United States. We are especially interested in contributions from those whose perspectives stem from experiences and affiliations in the "southern" regions of the globe, i.e. the Caribbean and Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. Papers may address any aspect of Faulkner's work. Comparative studies; papers on the experience of reading or teaching Faulkner outside the United States; studies of translation, interpretation, and reception outside the United States; examinations of social relevance or political significance (including lack of such) are all welcome.
Please send proposals of at least 250 words by March 10, 2007 to Barbara Ladd, Department of English, EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 or by email to . Advance inquiries welcome.
CFP: William Carlos Williams Review--Call for Book Reviewers (ongoing; journal issue)
The William Carlos Williams Review is currently soliciting authors interested in writing book reviews on new publications on Williams and his contemporaries, at home and abroad, as well as texts addressing Modernism and poetics.
The Williams Review has two special issues scheduled for the near future:
Williams and the Avant-Garde [Futurism, Cubism, Dada] (Spring 2008) and Williams and the Beats (Spring 2009).
If you are interested in being a potential reviewer, please email Todd Giles () with either an attached CV or a brief list of your areas of interest.
Book review guidelines can be found at our website: The Williams Review does not consider unsolicited book reviews, but you are welcome to contact us with prospective titles.
Contact information:
Todd Giles
Associate Editor/Book Review Editor
Proposals are invited for the Eudora Welty Society session at the 2007SCMLA Conference, 11/1/07-11/3/07 in Memphis. Open topic: 20-minutepapers on any aspect of Welty's work, life, or critical reception arewelcome. However, since Welty wrote extensively about the forces oftime and the flow of life throughout the state, including the NatchezTrace, papers related to the theme "Currents" are strongly encouraged. All approaches are welcome. Email 500 word abstracts to Dee Natale atnataleda_at_westminster.edu, or mail to TC 403, WestminsterCollege, NewWilmington, PA16172. Deadline March 16, 2007.