The Upstart Crow: a Shakespeare Journal

THE UPSTART CROW: A SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL

Call for Papers: “SHAKESPEARE AND TOURISM”

The Upstart Crow is currently accepting submissions for a theme-based issue
on “Shakespeare and Tourism.” We are interested in receiving manuscripts
that consider tourism and travel as themes in Shakespeare’s work;
Shakespeare as an icon of modern cultural tourism; or historical
perspectives on Shakespeare and tourism.

Submissions that address any aspect of Shakespeare’s work, and performance
reviews of Shakespeare theater productions and festivals, will also be
considered.

Deadline for priority reading of submissions: February 15, 2008.

Submissions should follow Chicago Manual guidelines, with notes instead of
Works Cited. Author’s name, address, phone and fax numbers, and email
address should appear on a separate sheet, not on the manuscript itself.
Submissions should not exceed twenty-five typed pages, including notes. The
entire manuscript, including quotations and notes, should be double-spaced.
Photocopies of illustrations are acceptable for submission purposes. Send
submissions to:

The Editor, The Upstart Crow
Department of English
Strode Tower, Box 340523
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0523

For all other inquiries, including subscription information, visit
or email .

THE UPSTART CROW: A SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL, now in its twenty-seventh year, is
a peer-reviewed journal published annually under the auspices of the Center
for Electronic and Digital Publishing for Clemson University Digital Press.
THE UPSTART CROW is dedicated to publishing research that makes a
substantial contribution to the fields of Shakespeare and early modern
studies. Each issue includes critical essays, performance reviews, book
reviews, and poetry.

"Disability Issues in Children's and Young Adult Literature"
Children's Literature Association Sponsored Session
2008 MLA Convention
San Francisco, December 2008
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2008

English studies is increasingly concerned with the representation of
disabilities and of individuals with differing abilities; literature for
children and adolescents are especially vibrant locations for a variety
of conversations, for a variety of purposes, about such concerns as
blindness and visual acuity; Deafness and Deaf culture; HIV and other
disease related illnesses; congenital illnesses; cognitive differences
including learning disabilities; mobility and access issues; fatness,
anorexia, bulimia and body image distortions; and psychiatric concerns
such as depression, anxiety and SIB.

The chairs of this panel seek submissions that offer readings of
representations of differing abilities and disabilities in Children's or
Adolescent Literature. We welcome a variety of critical and theoretical
approaches or methodologies.

Email a 500 word abstract or eight-page paper and brief CV or inquiries
and questions to:

Jennifer Miskec: jennifer.miskec_at_cnu.edu
or
Keith Dorwick: kdorwick_at_louisiana.edu

CfP Visual Representations of Native Americans: Transnational Contexts and
Perspectives: We are seeking articles for a forthcoming book on the
transnational dimensions of the production and reception of visual
representations of Native Americans from the colonial times to the 21st
century. The Indian as image, stereotype, icon, and metaphor was fabricated
in a transnational context and needs to be read within the respective
cultural, historical, and political contexts. The perspective can include
the cultural function and usage of both American visuals in Europe and
visuals produced in Europe for European and/or American audiences. For more
information, e-mail the editors. Please send a short 250-word abstract and
a brief CV by Feb. 1, 2008 to Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz
(karsten.fitz_at_uni-passau.de) and Katharina Erhard
(kerhard_at_mail.uni-mannheim.de)

American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
April 24-27, 2008
Long Beach, CA
Deadline: December 3rd, 2007

Ambiguities of Presence: The Online Avatar as Rhetorical Performance of
Identity

Any representation of the self is not just for the self — it is designed to
provoke or invoke a response from others. As such, the online avatar
performs the self in the post-geographic community. The avatar bears the
trace of presence, an identity-establishing performativity encoding the
longings and delusions of its creator into an easily recognizable form.
Carrying the connotations of incarnation into the twenty-first century, the
avatar conveys authorship/agency within the uncertain borders of the online
community.

The intent of this panel is to examine, analyze and explore the avatar
through a variety of lenses, disciplines, and frameworks. What theoretical
constructs can we use to understand the avatar? What is the nature of the
avatar as representation — sign, symbol, logo, brand, etc.? How does the
avatar act according to societal dictates and online-specific modes of
conduct? How might the avatar’s construction be socially or culturally
determined? What are the ethical implications of the use of avatars? How
does membership in online communities signify arrival and/or departure?
Also, how might the avatar, a symbolic representation, be a departure from
the traditional conception of presence based on bodily reality?

The deadline for submissions is Dec.3rd, 2007. Please submit paper
proposals through the ACLA website:

CALL FOR PAPERS:
ELN 46.2, Fall/Winter 2008
Graphia: Literary Criticism and the Graphic Novel

The comic book pamphlet developed as an independent literary form in the
1930s and early 1940s and has become a favorite of adolescent readers and
cult devotees ever since. Recently, it has entered into a process of
transformation, moving from a species of pulp fiction on the margins of
children’s literature to a subsection of mainstream writing, one the late
Will Eisner famously termed the graphic novel. This transformation has
been noted in such literary venues as the New York Times and the New
Yorker, as well as in an increasing number of university classrooms and
bookstore aisles. Nevertheless, criticism on the graphic novel remains
insular and diffuse. The interpretive response to the graphic novel
remains to be written.

This special issue of ELN (volume 46.2, Fall/Winter 2008) seeks to
integrate the graphic novel into literary studies. We call for papers on
any form of sequential narrative fiction—comics strips, serialized
literature, freestanding books. Topics may include but are not limited to
source study and literary history, genre and critical theory, canonization
and authorship, and media studies and book history. Thus, questions of
interest range across the critical field:
•Does the term “graphic novel” represent or misrepresent this mode of
literature? Might literary theory provide a better term?
•Does sequential fiction constitute an invention of form, of medium, or of
generic category?
•How does recent sequential literature extend modern or postmodern themes?
What influences resonate most powerfully? Which prose novelists seem most
influential?
•What does sequential fiction teach us about the category of authorship?
•What matter physical presentation? That is, how do physical (or virtual)
containers—the pamphlet, webpage, TPB, hardcover, or slipcase
edition—inflect their contents?
•What formal protocols might we imagine for reading sequential fiction?
How does reading such fiction redound upon our reading of more traditional
forms?
•How is cultural capital currently vested in the field?
•In what ways does marketing, especially the positions of Marvel and DC,
shape the literary experiment? Is this shaping force fundamentally
different from the marketing of prose and poetry?
•What is the relationship between comics and other media (film, TV, novels)?

Submissions should be no longer than twenty manuscript pages, and we invite
shorter notes (individually and in clusters), as well as illustrations, and
topical book reviews. Please send double-spaced, 12-point font
contributions and/or proposals in hard copy and on CD-ROM to the address below:

Special Issue Editor, “Graphia: Literary Criticism and the Graphic Novel”
English Language Notes
University of Colorado at Boulder
226 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0226

Specific inquiries regarding issue 46.2 may be addressed to the issue
editor, William Kuskin: (William.Kuskin_at_colorado.edu).
The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2008.

Call For Papers: “Passenger Flight in Postwar U.S. Literature” (ALA;
5/22-5/25/08)

American Literature Association annual conference
San Francisco, CA
May 22-25, 2008

Paper proposals are invited on any work of postwar U.S. literature
concerned with the experience and representation of passenger flight.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:

- Tourism
- Globalization
- Internal Migration
- Immigration
- Exile
- Long-distance commuting
- Media/mediation on-board
- In-flight food studies
- First class/coach/business class, etc.
- Landscape meditation
- Aerial perception
- Terrorism

Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words and a current C.V. to Marit
MacArthur at mmacarthur_at_csub.edu and Chris Schaberg at
csschaberg_at_ucdavis.edu by January 15th, 2008.

The call for papers for the new, international, peer-reviewed online
journal "Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture" is now open.
Submissions are expected to be in English and to include full papers plus
abstracts. Please note that we can only consider papers which have not been
previously published and which are not under consideration for another
journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
For further specificiation of submission guidelines please consult


The next issue is due to appear in February 2008. Submissions can be made
throughout the year, however, articles for the February edition must be
submitted by Dec. 15th 2007. Submissions that reach us after that date will
be considered for the summer issue.
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SAMLA 2008
Children's Literature Discussion Circle
Deadline for abstracts: March 11, 2008

Everyone Poops: Children's Literature and the Bathroom

This panel seeks scholarship on the various uses of bathroom imagery in
Children's and Adolescent Literature. Whether it involves action that
takes place within the bathroom setting or bathroom humor that takes
place outside, we seek submissions that examine a wide range of topics
such as ribald humor on bodily functions, discussions of bodily science,
the dangers of the bathroom/locker room, or simply toilet training
manuals. Any critical/theoretical approach is welcome.

Please email one-page abstracts or eight-page papers or any questions to
Jennifer M. Miskec at jennifer.miskec_at_cnu.edu