CALLS FOR PAPERS
Title: Companion to the American Novel
Abby
Werlock is preparing a 2-volume Companion to the American Novel for
Facts on File, sequel to the award-winning The Facts on File Companion
to the American Short Story, and still have openings for essays on
specific American fiction titles. I am particularly interested in an
overview entry on Carson McCullers' Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Member
of the Wedding. Other titles and authors are available as well.
Essays written in a lively,
jargonfree style, should be approximately 1000 words exclusive of
bibliography. Authors are encouraged to include original and intriguing
interpretations of the novels.
The deadline is 20 October
2004. The publisher, Facts on File, plans to include this book in its
forthcoming literature database.
For further information and a
list of other available titles, please contact me via any of the methods
listed below.
Abby H.
P. Werlock
Associate Professor of American Literature Emerita,
St Olaf
College
Fox Run
154 Fox
Run Road
Mainesburg PA 16932
T:
570-549-2104
F:
570-549-2604
werlock@chilitech.net
or abby@werlock. com
Forum Title: Carson McCullers in the 21st Century
Name of Coordinator: Ellen Lansky
Affiliation: Inver Hills Community College
Address (home): 3538 Elliott Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55470
Email: Elansky@inverhills.mnscu.edu
Phone: 651-450-8660 (office)
Forum Description:
Carson McCullers's astonishing first novel The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter was decreed one of the 100 most important novels of the 20th century, and the recent establishment of the Carson McCullers Society has helped spark new and continuing critical and scholarly interest in the author's life and work. The Carson McCullers Society meets and presents a panel at the annual conference of the American Literature Association; this panel aims to bring the new McCullers scholarship to the MMLA. Essays that engage queer theory, feminism, gender studies, biography, genre, disability issues, addiction studies, and/or pedagogy are particularly welcome.
McCullers Society at the American
Literature Association's 2005 Conference
Forum Description:
The Carson McCullers Society will resume its annual session at the 2005
Conference of the American Literature Association. This session will
focus on life writing and problems of biography; papers should attempt
to contextualize one or more of the existing McCullers biographies.
Those who are interested in
participating should send a brief
abstract to Will Brantley at
wbrantle@mtsu.edu.
The 2005
ALA will be held on the East coast. No further details are available at
this time. Please refer periodically to the
ALA’s
website, <http://www.calstatela.edu/
academic/english/ala2/>
for updates.
A business
meeting will also be held at the conference
Conference on
O’Connor and Georgia Writers Planned for 2006
Currently, plans are being
made for a conference focusing on Flannery O’Connor and other Georgia
writers. The event is tentatively planned for the spring of 2006. It
will be co-hosted by the Flannery O’Connor Review and The Center
for Georgia Studies at Georgia College & State University in
Milledgeville.
The
deadline for submitting 500-word abstracts for papers for this
conference will be August 1, 2005. Revised conference papers will be
welcomed as submissions to the Flannery O'Connor Review.
To
send an abstract or receive further information, contact:
Marshall Bruce Gentry, Editor
Flannery O'Connor Review
English, Box 44
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA 31061
(478)445-6928
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