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ACLA Conferences and Calls for Papers Listings

The ACLA maintains a listing of conferences and calls for papers, aside from the ACLA's Annual Meeting. Please email the ACLA to post conference information.

The ACLA also has links to other conference lists. This list is not meant to be exhaustive. Please email the ACLA with information and addresses of other websites that list conferences or calls for papers related to comparative literature.

 

 

May 2013


CALL FOR PAPERS “Mapping the Mediterranean: Space, Memory, and the Long Road to Modernity” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
11-12 October 2013

Keynote Panel: “The Present and Future of Mediterranean Studies”
Yasser Ellhariry, Dartmouth College
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Karla Mallette, University of Michigan (chair)

The Mediterranean served as a site of transit, exchange, and interaction for well over two millennia, demonstrating tendencies towards both unification and dispersion. With the onset of modernity, however, linguistic, ethnic, and national boundaries solidified across the region. Language, history, memory, and space itself were literally reshaped by the tools of archaeology, architecture, tourism, mass print, national education, and transportation.

In recent years, scholarship has begun to excavate past connections and exchanges that belie our modern conception of the region, mapping out a diverse – yet united – series of Mediterranean identities centered on the connecting sea.

Mediterranean Topographies, the University of Michigan’s Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mediterranean Studies, is pleased to announce its second conference for graduate students and young faculty. Our symposium attempts to bring this new model – one that is deeply transnational and cross-cultural, yet situated primarily within the ancient, pre- and early-modern periods – into meaningful dialogue with modernity. We will engage the space of the Mediterranean through the cityscape, as seen through the lenses of literature, history, anthropology, cultural studies, architecture, and urban planning. Areas of focus will include (but not be restricted to):
* cartography and spatiality, city planning and historical narrative, architecture and collective memory;
* ideologies of the urban, relationships between city and peripheries (hinterlands, islands, deserts etc.);
* mobility, emigration, immigration, class-stratification, ghettoization, tourism; * material history, consumption, trade, manufacturing, commodification, fashion;
* remembering the city, memoir, nostalgia;
* gendering and queering the city;
* (de)/(re)colonizing the city;
* and, in general, the destruction, re-construction, and re-imagining of the Mediterranean city space after the spread of nationalism.

Using these foci, we will explore the multiple Mediterraneans that have been built up and torn down since the onset of modernity. In short, this symposium will attempt to address the ways in which pre- and early-modern interconnectivities – both real and imagined – were destroyed, kept alive, or modulated over the long passage into modernity. Although our focus will be upon transitions stretching from the early modern to modernity (c. 1500 to today), we nonetheless encourage work that treats these same issues of urban transformation in the ancient world, especially within a diachronic, comparative framework. We also encourage contributions that focus on methodological debates and innovations for mapping and studying Mediterranean cities.

We seek to bring together work in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. We invite abstracts ranging from 200-250 words that relate to or expand upon the topics suggested above. Submissions are especially encouraged from disciplines such as literature, the history of art, history, anthropology, sociology, architecture and urbanism, gender and women’s studies, queer studies, African studies, and religious studies. Along with your abstract please suggest the category or categories to which you feel your submission is best suited. Please provide your institutional affiliation and mailing address, as well as telephone number. Indicate whether a/v equipment will be needed.

The presentation should be in English, twenty minutes in length (i.e., 10 double-spaced pages) and may address a topic from any relevant period(s) or discipline(s). Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2013.

Please direct questions and submissions to the Meditopos symposium co-chairs, Harry Kashdan, Will Stroebel, and Peter Kitlas, at kashdan@umich.edu, stroebel@umich.edu, and pkitlas@umich.edu.

HARTS & Minds: Bristol Journal of Humanities and Arts - Call for Papers
Space and Place in the Humanities and Arts

This call for papers invites submissions for the third edition of HARTS & Minds due to be published online in September 2013. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words in length and articles no longer than 6000 words. Your article may explore but is not limited to the following subjects:
-Aesthetic responses to gallery and non-gallery spaces;
-Significant aspects of space within visual representations;
-Use of concert spaces, both historical and contemporary;
-Topographies;
-Solitude or crowds;
-Performance venues and staging;
-Psychological and figurative space;
-Urban or rural;
-Architecture and its role in other discourse;
-Archaeological spaces;
-Surveillance, panoptical structures;
-Space and place as realms of becoming;
-Queer places and spaces;
-Gendered spaces;
-In language and semiotics;
-Geographies and archaeologies;
- Ethnicity and space;
-Disabled spaces and places;
-Monstrous or haunted spaces;
-War and space, battlefields or memorial gardens,
-Set design, the construction of space and the representation of place in film, television;
-Cyberspace, virtual realities;
-Spaces and places of the future, utopian or dystopian.

Please submit your abstract and draft article along with an academic CV to editors@harts-minds.co.uk by 17th May 2013. Please consider that HARTS & Minds is intended as a truly inter-disciplinary journal and therefore esoteric topics will need to be written about with a general academic readership in mind.

Articles should be previously unpublished works and copyright of published articles will remain with HARTS & Minds. The editors accept no responsibility for copyright infringement of images, graphs, etc used by individuals submitting papers to the journal. You must ensure that you have permission to use any visual or graphic material before submitting your paper. Further information about submission guidelines is available at the journal website, www.harts-minds.co.uk. If you have any pressing questions or concerns please use the aforementioned email address to contact the editorial board.


Call for Papers: 2nd Annual Marginalised Mainstream Conference
Fading and Emerging: Tracing the Mainstream in Literature and Popular Culture
Date: 12 – 13 September 2013 , Senate House, University of London

Keynote speakers include:
Dr Kate Macdonald (Ghent University, Brussels)
Dr Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton, London)

There must be but one detective – that is, but on e protagonist – one deus ex machine. (S.S. Van dine, Rule 9, ‘Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories’, 1928)

[These] novels sense the potential to shift the focus away from the established centre, toward minor characters ... The more dynamic examples of assymetric characterisation do not simply represent these minor characters but represent characters becoming minor within a complex narrative system. ( Alex Woloch, The One vs. the Many, 2003)

‘Fading and Emerging: Tracing the Mainstream in Literature and Popular Culture’ , the second annual Marginalised Mainstream conference , is seeking submissions from postgraduate students, early career academics and established researchers working in the fields of Literature, Cultural Studies and elsewhere in the Humanities. This conference will consider the phenomenon of academic marginalisation of popular culture and the mainstream. Specifically, the conference seeks to explore the issue of fading and emerging in culturally significant forms of popular fiction that have been subject to critical marginalisation. How does the mainstream itself foster fading and emerging? How are fading and emerging dealt with in popular fictions?

We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of the theme of fading and emerging that could in clude, but are not limited to: • Fictional traces • Cross - referentiality/intertextuality • Revelations/concealment • Dawn/twilight • Wallflowers and supporting characters • Appearances and apparitions • Vanishing and waning • Deus ex machin a • Fade - in, fade - out • Styles, trends and movements • Generic inception/genesis • Fads and crazes • Failure and success • The Next Big Thing/15 minutes of fame • The icon – the ‘It’ girl, the ‘It’ film • Popular re - emergence • Disappearance • Re - creation /revisionism • Re - reading (or re - viewing) • Remakes and reboots

It goes without saying that writers, texts or topics need not be canonical . In addition, we actively encourage papers discussing writers, texts and visual media that engage with mainstream cultures from around the world.

Panels will follow the format of three 20 - minute papers followed by questions.

Abstracts of no more than 350 words are invited by Friday 17th May 2013. Acceptances will be sent out by no later than Monday 17th June 2013. Please email abstracts and a cover sheet including your name, university, contact information, plus a brief biographical paragraph about your academic interests or any enquiries to organisers Brittain Bright, Emma Grundy Haigh and Sam Goodman (marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com). Conference website: www.marginalisedmainstream.com

 

CIRLEP Centre International de Recherche sur les Langues et la Pensée
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 17 and 18 May 2013

Literary Texts: The Power and the Possible
What happens when a writer starts experimenting with language? Isn’t there always the temptation of being James Joyce, even in the case of classical writers? What exactly is the invention of a style, that is a personal assemblage of words that creates new relationships with language, the world, and meaning? The conference will focus on the interpretation of literary texts. A text can be read according to a continuum ranging from what Spinoza called potestas (the text tries to control the reader’s body and/or mind, it limits his/her semantic complexity) and potentia (the text helps us discover new possibilities of life, it leads to cognition rather than recognition, it increases our semantic complexity). A similar distinction is provided by the usual French translations of the Nietzschean concept of Macht which can be rendered either as pouvoir or puissance. Papers will provide a theoretical approach based on a critical analysis of one or several literary texts showing how a writer’s experiment with words alters the production of meaning and of its implications. A selection of papers will be published in the journal Imaginaires.

Contact : Dr. Daniel Thomièresdthomieres@wanadoo.fr
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
UFR Lettres et Sciences Humaines
CIRLEP
57 rue Pierre Taittinger
51096 Reims cedex
France

 

Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal on Literary Explorations - Call for Papers

Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from scholars, faculty, researchers, and writers for second issue of Research Scholar – An International Refereed Journal on Literary Explorations (ISSN: 2320-2101). We publish research articles, essays, short story, poetry, book review, interviews, art works etc. We also encourage literary contributions in the form of original as well as translated poetry and fiction. Through this Journal we have been trying to promote new Research Scholars by translating and publishing their works, and to offer graduate and post graduate students opportunities to learn about and participate in literary publishing through a professional internship. Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research articles, essays, short story, poetry, book review, interviews, art works are invited from scholars/ faculty/ researchers/ writers/ professors from all over the world. We hope you enjoy our endeavors and those of our contributors. Publication Fee Structure The minimum publication fee has been set as 500 INR and 15 $ for per manuscript by the editorial board. Editing Requirements All manuscripts must be Font & size: Times New Roman 12 double spaced and submitted only as MS Word 2003, 2007. Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words excluding the title page, abstract, biographical information, and references. All manuscripts should follow the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing and include a works cited and endnotes, not footnotes. Last date of Submission: - 25 May 2013
Mode of Submission: Each contributor is advised to send manuscripts with brief bio-note, declaration and abstract as a single MS-Word, via e-mail as attached documents with membership form to my email addresses: researchscholar2013@gmail.com Please visit: - http://www.researchscholar.co.in/

June 2013


Deadline Extended: Submit abstracts by June 1
Past Tense, Future Tensions
Annual Conference of the SCLA

October 18 19, 2013 Guilford College Greensboro, NC
The tenuous relationship between the past, present, and future complicates the practice of creating as well as translating time in imaginary wo rks. Grammatically, tense marks more than temporality; it also highlights degrees of being that remain unreachable or forever distant. At the 2013 meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts we will examin e what it means to stage the pa st and direct the future in our literary and artistic texts. W hether anachronistic, politicized, or asynchronous , tense marks the uneasy space where recollection and projection meet.

We welcome 250 word paper proposals or 500 word panel proposals on topics including:

Intertextuality
Hauntology, spectres, revenants
Dystopic and utopic visions
Competing historiographies
Posthumanism
Reimagining the past
Apocalyptic visions
Ludic or interactive fiction
Narratology
Postmodernism and simulacra
Presentism
Digital Histories
Trauma and forgetting
Righting/Writing the past
New, old, post Historicism
Hypertext
Queer time and mutability
Periodization and epoch making
Responsibility/ethics in telling history
Graveyards, burial grounds, museums
Epistemologies of “post”
Prologues and epilogues
The future of literature in a digital age
Alterity Memory and memoir
Sci fi and retro futurism

Proposals should be sent to sclaconference@guilford.edu by June 1, 2013 . Graduate students who wish to be considered for an SCLA Travel Scholarship should indicate this in their cover letter and include a short vita (2 pages maximum). We will also hold 2 undergraduate sessions and welcome undergraduate proposals (please specify).

 

Call for Submissions: INVENTORY Nº4 (Princeton University Journal of Translation)
Submission deadline for next issue June 1, 2013

We consider translations of poetry and prose from any language – ancient or modern – into English. We welcome new translations of previously translated work, and we encourage our translators to engage imaginatively with the conventions and possibilities of literary translation. We regret that we are unable to accept translations into languages other than English.

Poetry submissions should include 3-6 poems (no more than five pages), and fiction submissions should not exceed 2000 words. We do accept excerpts, but request that you include a single-paragraph summary of the full work. Please attach a copy of all pieces in their first language.

Inventory is particularly interested in translations of works involving visual and graphic elements. Should the text you are translating comprise a graphic or visual component, we kindly request you include this element with your submission as an attachment not larger than 10 MB.

Submissions should be directed to invent@princeton.edu, indicating in the subject line the genre and first language of the submission, if applicable.We ask that you include in the body of your email a brief paragraph describing the piece's translation history, as well any relevant information about why you have chosen to translate the piece at this time.

Published writers retain copyright of their material and are free to publish again elsewhere. We regret that we can accept unsolicited submissions by email only.

Thank you for your interest, and please contact the editors at invent@princeton.edu with any questions. You may also visit our website for further information.

 

The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal
CALL FOR PAPERS for a SPECIAL ISSUE on Cyberlearning: Transforming Academic Communities with Emerging Technology

Deadline for Paper Submission: June 30, 2013

The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal published semiannually at Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi. This special issue of The Researcher welcomes scholarly research from all disciplines in the area of Cyberlearning. Planned publication date is September 30, 2013.

Universities are being transformed with the current generation of students who generally have extensive access to a wealth of technological resources. This access issues a direct call for immediate action by educators. Such technological exposure, thus, has affected students’ learning styles and created new and exciting opportunities and challenges for educators. Traditional pedagogies, alone, no longer fully engage university students in this technologically advanced age. Hence, to effectively educate today’s student and prepare them for society’s increasing reliance on technological advancements, educators must leverage emerging technological trends to create flexible cyberlearning pedagogies that adapt to and complement the learning styles of today’s students. For academic communities, these challenges entail both incorporating new technologies into traditional classroom settings and providing remote access to instruction and information.

For this special issue, we seek papers that explore the opportunities and challenges that colleges and universities face as new technologies modify existing approaches to education. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Facilitating changes in curriculum for schools using curriculum and teaching models developed for a past industrial age while learners need tools and pedagogy for today’s information-based workforce;
• Enabling cyberlearning through mobile technologies;
• Changing the classroom paradigm from teacher-centered to student-centered, where the teacher becomes a facilitator and actively participates in this new learning community as a contributor of content guidelines;
• Creating strategies for actively engaging faculty in the adoption of cyber-technologies;
• Nurturing the creativity of teachers;
• Exploring the role of social media as an educational tool;
• Utilizing virtual communities in bringing many worlds and/or communities together, including home, school, and work; and
• Customizing learning techniques enabled through technology and/or apps that promote learning of higher-order skills both within and across disciplines.

With the widespread adoption of mobile technologies (such as Jackson State University’s iPad Initiative), we also seek papers which address effective approaches for assessment of the impact of these technologies on learning across students of different subgroups, such as discipline, age, gender, race, ethnicity, classification, and varying socio-economic groups.

Submission requirements: Submissions should be less than forty pages and sent in electronic form as an attachment via email, in Microsoft Word Format in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with two-inch margins. All maps, charts, and graphs must be camera ready. Each article should be accompanied by an abstract and have an introduction. Documentation format should follow a style appropriate to the discipline, such as MLA for humanities and APA for social and behavioral sciences. To facilitate blind review, please include a removable cover page providing the name, institutional affiliations, positions, and highest degrees earned of all authors, as well as a return address, email address and the article title; the article itself must carry only the title of the paper.

Papers will be read by a minimum of two reviewers before a publication decision is made. Reviewers’ comments and suggestions for revisions will be relayed to the author in a timely manner. For further information, please contact: Patsy J. Daniels, Editor, The Researcher, Box 17929, Jackson State University, 1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217; <editor.researcher@jsums.edu>. Please email submissions as an attachment to Patsy J. Daniels, Editor, at editor.researcher@jsums.edu.

 

July 2013

August 2013

September 2013

INFINITE WALLACE/WALLACE INFINI
Paris international conference
September 11, 12, 13, 2014

Submission deadline : September 1st, 2013

The Universities of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle and Paris 7-Paris Diderot are pleased to announce a 3-day conference devoted to the introduction of David Foster Wallace’s œuvre, anticipating the release of Infinite Jest in French (Editions de l’Olivier 2015) almost 20 years after its publication by Little, Brown and Co. The conference will be held in Paris September 11,12,13, 2014. Since David Foster Wallace’s suicide in September 2008, his works have growingly raised critical and academic interest in the United States and in the European countries where Infinite Jest has been translated (Italy and Germany). Although his essays, short stories and even his posthumous novel have been available in France for a number of years now, neither readership nor scholarly interest seem to have significantly broadened in this country.The forthcoming release of Wallace’s Magnum Opus in 2014 at Editions de l’Olivier is the occasion to address a larger audience and survey the various published and presently emerging approaches to the novel as well as to introduce Wallace’s entire œuvre. We welcome papers that focus on well-trod territories of ‘Wallace Studies’ and those exploring new aspects and themes of Wallace’s fiction, novels and short-stories. Papers reconsidering Wallace’s Infinite Jest and offering new theorical perspectives from the angle of ‘such aliens’ (Wallace, ‘Fictional Futures’) as French and Europeans thinkers are encouraged. We also welcome papers examining Wallace’s nonfiction, reports, essays and philosophical writing.

Suggested items and directions include :
- The body : drugs and addiction. Sports (tennis) and play. Depression, suffering, melancholy, medication and suicide. Hideousness. Posthumanism.
- Reading David Foster Wallace. Translating David Foster Wallace
- Contemporary entertainment, the media, TV, movies. Carnival and Jest.
- Narcissicism and empathy. Ethics. Sincerity. Attention. Affirmation. Boredom.
- Wallace’s literary influences. Metafiction, postmodernism, hysterical realism, post-postmodernism. Impact on contemporary fiction.
- Wallace and Co (Franzen, Eggers, Moody, Saunders, DeLillo…)
- Fiction and philosophy. The use of math, logic, science, medecine, psychology, technology. Free will.
- Ecology and the environment. Civilisation and society.
- Wallace’s style. Irony, complexity, difficulty, infinity, excess. Essays, short-stories, novels. Comedy and laughter. Encyclopedic novel. System novel.
- Terrorism and politics. Violence. Catastrophe. Capitalism. Mechandizing. Waste.
- Masculinities and femininities.

Please send us your 300-word proposals by September 1st, 2013 with contact and institutional affiliation. beatrice.pire@gmail.com
pl_patoine@yahoo.fr
mduplay@club-internet.fr

Organizing committee : Mathieu Duplay (Paris 7), Béatrice Pire (Paris 3), Pierre-Louis Patoine (Paris 3).

 

October 2013

November 2013

 

Call for Papers on Collaboration Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture
Deadline: November 4th 2013
Please visit our website for submission guidelines
Email jeffersonjournaluva@gmail.com with inquiries.

The Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation of the University of Virginia. We invite submissions for our fourth issue on the theme of ‘Collaboration’. We also accept general submissions on interdisciplinary topics on an ongoing basis.

Collaborative work has resulted in some of the most famous and infamous advances of the last hundred years, from Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, to the atom bomb, or the United Nations. This issue of the Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture seeks to investigate the nature of collaboration by examining its origins, practice, and results. How can collaborative work solve problems and further knowledge? What are the limits or failures of collaborative work? We welcome submissions from all academic fields, and invite authors to define, analyze and critique collaboration in innovative ways.

Natural Sciences submissions may explore the interplay between observation, experiment, and theory in projects requiring expert knowledge from several distinct fields. Authors may also examine how researchers interact with those developing new technologies or methodologies to collect data and to analyze and visualize results, or the importance, difficulties, and rewards of organizing large projects across several institutions.

Submissions from the Arts and Humanities may include examinations of the creative process and products of collaborating artists in areas such as music, television, film-making, theater or dance. Authors may also investigate the collaborative process of community art in projects led by an individual artist, such as Frank Warren’s Post-Secret or Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir.

Submissions from the Social Sciences may ask how and when researchers should collaborate, or whether we can collaborate with our research subjects. Authors may also investigate the social value and ethics of collaboration, as well as the collaborative nature of topics including education; trade; social groups; nations; or international organizations.

Additional topics may include, but are not limited to:
Market places as collaboration
Failures of collaboration
The creation of political policy as a collaborative process
Collaborations between scientists and artists
International treaties as collaborations
Teaching and learning as collaboration
Open source technologies as collaborations
Healthcare as a collaborative process
Athletic training as collaboration
Crowd-sourcing as collaboration

Please contact jeffersonjournaluva@gmail.com if you have a concept you’d like to discuss

December 2013

GENERAL CALLS FOR PAPERS

The Centre for European Studies at Dalhousie University is pleased to announce the creation of its journal, European Studies: History, Society and Culture / Études européenes: Histoire, société, culture. A peer-reviewed, semi-annual journal published by the Centre, it welcomes submissions of original scholarship in European Studies, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary research.

Essays and book reviews may be in English or French, and from any relevant discipline(s), including, but not limited to, Archaeology, Art History, Cinema, Classics, Cultural Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Law, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Musicology, Sociology, Philosophy, Performing Arts, Politics, Religion, Theatre, Translation Studies, and Visual Studies. The journal is open to scholarship on any era, from antiquity to the present, seeking to contribute to the understanding of Europe in broad historical and multi-disciplinary perspective. Book reviews will stress interdisciplinary scholarship from major academic publishers.

The journal will be published both online (http://ojs.library.dal.ca/europe/ and as a print-ondemand paper journal.

Essays should be between 5000 and 7500 words, including notes. Submissions should not have been previously published, and should not be under consideration anywhere else. Material not in English or French should be accompanied by a translation.

Book reviews, which should be preceded by a written query to the Book Review Editor (Peter O’Brien, Peter.OBrien@Dal.Ca), should not exceed 1500 words. All authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style.

Submissions should be made electronically, and sent initially as a PDF through the journal’s online submissions process: http://ojs.library.dal.ca/europe/information/authors. Accepted articles will need to be provided in MS Word. Queries can be sent to either Jerry White (Jerry.White@Dal.Ca) or Julia M. Wright (Julia.Wright@Dal.Ca), co-directors of Dalhousie’s Centre for European Studies and members of the journal’s Editorial Committee.


Book Series on East-West Cultural Encounters in Literature, The Series seeks scholarly works on intercultural encounters in literature, particularly East-West precolonial, colonial, or postcolonial contacts that expose, problematize, or re-create the sense of locality, historicity, and subjectivity. The Series especially welcomes monographs written in English or other languages translated into English. Collections of essays from conference papers or with multiple authors are not under consideration unless the essays with a thematic focus are written by a single author. We also encourage the submission of revised doctoral dissertations with innovative concepts related to our topics.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following:
•Colonial history and culture in the countries of the Asian Pacific Rim;
•Transpacific or transatlantic cultural or literary route/root;
•New cultural identities in neocolonial and global Asia;
•The relationship between Asia and Oceania;
•The contacts between Asia and Europe or Americas;
•Theoretical paradigms of globality and worlding;
•Convergences and divergences of exile, diaspora, and expatriation;
•Asian diasporic writing in the new millennium;
•Cultural translations between Sinophone, Anglophone, Francophone and/or Hispanophone literatures.

A leading university in the world, National Taiwan University is striving for more international collaborations and scholarly exchanges. NTU Press, playing an important role in disseminating top-notch research and scholarship in the Chinese-speaking academe, is now expanding its scope of publication in English. All submissions will be assessed by the Editor and reviewed by anonymous readers. Once the book project is approved, the author(s) will receive a contract from NTU Press. Please send a book prospectus, the author’s CV, and a sample chapter to the Editor. The manuscript should employ the MLA format and style, and only a completed manuscript is under consideration. Editor-in-chief Dr. Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu (bennettfu@ntu.edu.tw) Associate Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures National Taiwan University.

Intertexts, a journal of comparative and theoretical reflection, publishes articles that employ innovative approaches to explore relations between literary and other texts, be they literary, historical, theoretical, philosophical, or social. In particular, the editors are looking for work which engages issues on a sufficiently theoretical or comparative level to interest people in a variety of disciplines. Hybrid methodologies that combine elements from a range of disciplines are encouraged. For more information and for submission details, please visit the journal's website at http://www.intertexts.org/id2.html.

Symposium, a quarterly journal in modern foreign literatures, welcomes contributions pertinent to modern languages and literatures. Research on authors, themes, periods, genres, works, and theory, often through comparative studies, is regularly featured. For more information and for submission details, please send an email to sym@heldref.org.

Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites essays on topics related to any and all aspects of human values, including aesthetic, moral, political, economic, scientific, or religious values. We welcome essays on a wide variety of topics. Additionally, we are interested in submissions related to plans for two special issues: one on themes related to debt, indebtedness, or more generally, financial difficulties; and another focused on the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of World War I. For these issues, as more generally, we welcome work from a variety of disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary approaches, including the arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, and religion, among others. To submit an essay, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/soundings. Questions may be directed to soundings@admin.fsu.edu 

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