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Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Legacy Deadline: Completed papers, formatted using MLA style, should be submitted by June 21, 2010. Submissions should focus substantially on periods before 1820 and may be no longer than 10,000 words, including documentation. Send inquires and submissions to Tamara Harvey, Dept. of English, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., MS 3E4, Fairfax, VA 22030 or tharvey2@gmu.edu.
RSAP Book Prize $1,500 book prize for the best single-authored monograph on American periodicals by a pre-tenure, senior, or independent scholar published by an academic press between January 1, 2007 and December 1, 2009. The prize will be awarded at the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in San Francisco, CA, May 27-30, 2010. Books will be judged by a peer review of three scholars chosen by the RSAP Advisory Board. Applicants should submit a registration form (see details, below) and THREE hard copies of their book to Jean Lee Cole, Department of English, Loyola University Maryland, 4501 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD. 21210, by December 1, 2009. The winner and two honorable mentions will be notified by January 15, 2010 and will be recognized at an RSAP-sponsored panel/event at ALA. Applicants to the EBSCOhost-RSAP prize must be current members of RSAP when they submit their books. To join the Research Society for American Periodicals, and to download a copy of the prize registration form, please consult the Society’s web site at: http://home.earthlink.net/~ellengarvey/index1.html
Call for Submissions: ProQuest-RSAP Essay Prize Deadline: December 1, 2009 The Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) is pleased to announce the first ProQuest-Research Society for American Periodicals prize. The ProQuest-RSAP Prize is an annual $1000 award that recognizes the best articles on American periodicals submitted by pre-tenure or independent scholars, and published in peer-reviewed academic journals. Applicants to the ProQuest-RSAP prize must be current members of RSAP when they submit their articles. The article must have been published, or accepted for publication, in a peer-reviewed academic journal between January 1, 2008 and December 2009. The first annual prize will be awarded at the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in San Francisco, CA, May 27-30, 2010. Articles will be judged by a blind peer review of three scholars chosen by the RSAP Advisory Board. Applicants should submit a registration form, and either ONE electronic copy of their articles (.pdf file), or THREE hard copies, with identifying references removed/obscured to Susanna Ashton at sashton@clemson.edu, 810 Strode Tower, Clemson, SC 29634-1503 by December 1, 2009. RSAP encourages submissions not only from individual authors but from journal editors as well. Submissions are not limited to work utilizing electronic databases. The winner and two honorable mentions will be notified by January 15, 2010 and will be featured as panelists on an RSAP-sponsored distinguished papers panel for ALA 2010. Questions about submissions should be directed to prize committee chair, Cynthia Patterson, at cpatterson@poly.usf.edu. To join the Research Society for American Periodicals, and to download a copy of the prize registration form, please consult the society's web site at http://home.earthlink.net/~ellengarvey/index1.html
Call for Papers: Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World at ALA
Call for Proposals: MLA Options for Teaching Series. Teaching American Proletarian Literature For the Options for Teaching series, the Publications Committee of the Modern Language Association has approved development of Teaching American Proletarian Literature, edited by Janet Galligani Casey. Intended to showcase a wide variety of theorizations and perspectives, this volume will probe the meaning of the term proletarianism and suggest ways that it might be imagined capaciously in the context of undergraduate literary studies. Consequently, this volume seeks both to address classic proletarian literature of the Depression era and to move beyond that framework by (1) suggesting alternative temporal and aesthetic parameters for proletarianism; (2) drawing connections between an acknowledged proletarian canon and other literary movements or categories, such as the Harlem Renaissance, high modernism, or middlebrow culture; and (3) reconsidering the definitional boundaries and significations of such terms as communism, radicalism, and class. Especially welcome are proposals on the left's contributions to literatures of race and ethnicity and proposals that establish a transnational context. Also invited are submissions highlighting women writers and/or issues of gender. Two-page abstracts and brief cvs are requested by 15 December 2009, though the editor is happy to discuss potential topics in advance. Please send proposals and all other inquiries to Janet Galligani Casey, Skidmore Coll., 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (jcasey@skidmore.edu).
Call for Papers: Constance Fenimore Woolson Society /21st Annual American Literature Association ( ALA) Conference May 27-30, 2010 San Francisco, CA We welcome papers on any aspect of Constance Fenimore Woolson and her contemporaries. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: -travel narratives Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Melanie Scriptunas at mscript@udel.edu. Deadline for submissions is 18 December.
CALL FOR PAPERS: CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN SOCIETY American Literature Association, May 27-30, 2010, San Francisco, California The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association conference to be held in San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010. Presenters who are not already members of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will need to join prior to the conference. Gilman and Religion . This panel will focus on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s engagement with religion in both her fiction and non-fiction. All papers that deal with Gilman and religion are welcome, but panelists may want to focus on the following topics:--Gilman’s critique of and alternatives to male-centered religion in His Religion and Hers or other works of non-fiction. --Gilman’s portrayal of woman-centered religion and spirituality in her fiction. --Gilman’s unexpected secular appropriations of Protestant Christian theology in her racial regeneration narratives. --How Gilman’s discussions of religion can help us better grapple with and offer more nuanced critiques of the racist and nationalistic implications of her work. Send a 250-word abstract and a one-page CV to Randi Lynn Tanglen at rtanglen@austincollege.edu by December 1, 2009. Presenters who are not already members of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will need to join prior to the conference. Gilman Across the Disciplines The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society invites submissions exploring any aspect of the life and/or work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Proposals may focus on any topic; those representing academic disciplines other than literature are especially welcome. Submit abstracts of one page, and a briefC.V., by December 15th, 2009 to Kami Rogers at kamijorogers@sbcglobal.net. Presenters who are not already members of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will need to join prior to the conference.
Transatlantic Exchanges Conference 14-17 July 2010. International Conference, University of Plymouth, UK 14-17 July 2010 Separateness and Kinship : Transatlantic Exchanges between New England and Britain 1600-1900 Keynote speaker : Lawrence Buell This three day conference will explore issues arising from the relationship between Britain and New England in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the light of recent developments in the reading of transatlantic connections. In the run up to the 400 th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, and in the context of new critical perspectives on transatlantic studies, such as post colonial theory with its emphasis on the whole Atlantic rim, feminism, discussions of displacement and debates about national identity, what does it now mean in the early twenty-first century to revisit with an interdisciplinary perspective the cultural and ideological exchanges between Britain and New England 1600-1900? The conference will include contributions from literary scholars, art historians and specialists in the history of architecture and other material cultures. The conference will be held at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom. Those wishing to reserve a place should register their interest by contacting vivien.minton@plymouth.ac.uk . Details of booking and payment information will appear on the conference website later this year. Call for Papers. Deadline: 1 March 2010. The conference organisers invite submissions of proposals for panels or individual papers. Proposals for entire sessions should include (1) a paragraph describing the session as a whole; (2) a one page abstract of each paper; (3) a one page CV for each participant. The conference prefers four presenters per session, excluding the chair, although submissions for panels of three will be considered. Proposals for individual papers should include a 300 word abstract and a one page cv. All submissions should be sent as Microsoft Word attachments to Project Officer, Vivien Minton ( vivien.minton@plymouth.ac.uk)
HERA 2010 Conference Theme
ESQ call for papers: "Exaltadas: A Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism." A Special Issue of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Margaret Fuller's bicentennial approaches in 2010, and plans for celebration affirm her arrival (or return) as a member of the American transcendentalist "pantheon." But scholarship on the formative and reformative influence of other women on the movement has only recently begun to quicken. Recognizing this new wave of exploration and following a line of inquiry suggested by ESQ's 2003 special issue, "Reexamining the American Renaissance," the editors of the journal and guest editor Phyllis Cole invite submissions for a substantial thematic issue that will broadly conceptualize the role of women in the origin and evolution of transcendentalist thought and action. Taking up Caroline Healey Dall's observation that Fuller caught and concentrated a "rumor" already in the air around her, this issue will invert the field of vision and ask: From what other female thinkers and locations did the rumor come? Then in turn, again echoing Dall, who were the "practical 'Exaltadas'" that arose in response to Fuller? Or did other women contribute strands of thought to the movement quite apart from her mediation? We welcome a range of approaches and are particularly interested in bringing strong feminist argument together with newer methodologies not often applied to studies of transcendentalism. Contributions might focus on cultural contexts and material conditions (book history, archival theory, the literary marketplace, private and public modes of publication) as well as individual women (participants in Fuller's conversation group, the Peabody sisters, Dall, Lydia Maria Child, Mary Moody Emerson, women at Brook Farm, women's rights activists, among many others). They might extend the usually accepted time frame of transcendentalism backward to early nineteenth-century precursors and forward to postbellum inheritors, or its spatial boundaries beyond New England and across national lines. They might expand genre study to diaries, letters, or periodicals as well as poetry, fiction, oration, and essay, or question the categorization of literary movements by focusing on the borders of transcendentalism and sentimentalism or realism. Case study and theory of nineteenth-century American education, domesticity, reform, love and sexuality, religious orthodoxy and heresy might all fall within these suggested frameworks. Deadline for submission of detailed proposals (500 to 800 words): 15 March 2010. Projected length for final papers: 6,000-8,000 words Inquiries are most welcome. Please contact Phyllis Cole (pbc2@psu.edu) or Jana Argersinger (argerj@wsu.edu).
CALL FOR PAPERS: FOOD, DRINK, AND WILLA CATHER’S WRITING Scholars’ Symposium at the 2010 Willa Cather Spring Conference June 3-5, 2010 The Scholars’ Symposium, on June 3, will kick off the annual Spring Conference, this year an exploration of the importance of food and drink in Cather’s writing. This day of scholarly papers and discussion will be followed by two days of events related to the conference theme, including kitchen tours at Cather-related sites, food and wine tastings, talks, panels, and lively discussions of food-and-drink related issues in Cather’s work and life, and a variety of celebratory events in Cather’s Nebraska home town and the surrounding countryside. For possible presentation at the Scholars’ Symposium, please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words for papers related to the conference theme. Presentation time for papers will be 15-20 minutes. The featured texts for this conference will be O Pioneers! and “The Bohemian Girl,” but papers addressing food and/or drink issues in any aspect of Cather’s career will be welcome. A partial list of possible topics: -Food, ethnicity, and place Paper presenters at the Scholars’ Symposium will be invited to submit their papers for possible publication in a special expanded edition of The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Please send your proposals, as well as questions about this event, to Professor Ann Romines, conference co-director, at annrom3@verizon.net. Proposals are due by 15 Feb. 2010.
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