Archive of Calls for Papers

 

The Stephen Crane Society invites papers and proposals for two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA, May 27-30, 2010.

All topics are welcome, but proposals on the following topics are particularly encouraged:

  • Crane and war
  • Crane and the arts (painting, photography, music, etc.)
  • Crane’s depiction of the city
  • Race and ethnicity in Crane’s work
  • Issues of gender in Crane’s work
  • Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

    Please email proposals (approximately 300 words) by January 8, 2010 to

    John Dudley

    Department of English

    University of South Dakota

    Vermillion, SD 57069
    John.Dudley@usd.edu

    Conference details may be found at the American Literature Association web site:
    http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/index.html

    ALA 2008 in San Francisco
    22-25 May 2008
    Proposal Deadline: 1 January 2008

    The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American LIterature Association Conference at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco, 22-25 May 2008.

    Session I: "The Monster"
    Session II: Any aspect of Crane's works of life will be considered.

    Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Please e-mail abstracts or papers of no more than 10 double-spaced pages by 1 January 2008 to the program chair, Patrick K. Dooley, pdooley@sbu.edu.

    Call for Papers

    The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference,

    Imperial College/Conway Hall
    London, 28-29 September 2007
    Submission deadline: June 11, 2007

    Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited
    for this year’s H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference will
    be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September) and by
    Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London (on the 29 September). The first day
    of the event will include a plenary lecture by the science fiction writer,
    Stephen Baxter.

    The conference will focus on ‘Wells, Science and Philosophy’. Proposals may
    centre on either Wells and science or Wells and philosophy exclusively, or
    might examine the intersection of both science and philosophy in the
    author’s work. Proposals might focus on, but are not limited to: Wells and
    evolutionary biology; Wells and Physics; Wells and Darwin/Huxley; Wells and
    Astronomy; Wells and Plato; Wells and Liberalism.

    Proposals of 300 words should be submitted via email
    attachment, no late than June 11 2007. Please include a brief biographical
    note, and send proposals with ‘Wells, Science and Philosophy’ as the
    subject, to Dr Steven McLean, at the following address: stevemclean_7@hotmail.com.

    From Dr. Philip Tew:

    Submission deadline: Sunday 8 th April, 2007

    I am contacting you in my capacity as the new joint managing editor of Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary & Cultural Studies. Our website is at <http://www.symbiosisonline.org.uk/>

    We are organizing our sixth biennial conference at Brunel University in July 2007 in which you may be interested. Additionally, I wondered whether you might be prepared to circulate or advertise this event among members of the Stephen Crane Society or any other relevant contacts. [Please visit the web site for the CFP.-- D. Campbell]

    Additionally we are interested in academic submissions for the journal from members of the Stephen Crane Society, faculty members, or postgraduate PhD students, especially if any might happen to be interested currently.

    CFP: Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction

    The fall 2007 issue of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction will focus on the short stories of Steophen Crane. We are especially seeking articles that are pedagogical, but we also welcome articles on theory or analysis that would be helfpul in teaching Crane's stories. The deadline for submission is September 15, 2007. Please send articles via e-mail attachment to llogsdon@eureka.edu or mail hard copy to the following address:

    Loren Logsdon, Editor
    Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction
    Humanities Division
    Eureka College
    Eureka, IL

    Call for Papers

    ALA 2007

    The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American LIterature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 24-27, 2007.

    1. Stephen Crane's Western Tales

    2. Open. Any aspect of Crane's work or life will be considered.

    Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

    Please e-mail abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages by 1 January 2007 to the program chair:

    Patrick K. Dooley, pdooley@sbu.edu

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    ALA 2006
    The Stephen Crane Society invites papers and proposals for two panels at the 2006 American Literature Association convention on May 25-28, 2006, in San Francisco.

    The first session will be devoted to "ethnic" characters in the broadest sense, his representation of people of African-American, Mexican, Cuban, Irish, Swedish, and Jewish descent, to name only a few of the groups he writes about.  His fiction indicates much about the diversity and complexity of American society at the turn of the century. 

    The second panel will be open to all topics, including his verse. 

    Please send all proposals via email by December 1, 2005 to Jim Nagel at jnagel at uga.edu. For details about registration and hotel reservations, please go to americanliterature.org and click on conferences.

    Dr. James Nagel
    J. O. Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature
    University of Georgia
    Athens, GA 30602

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    If you are still planning on submitting a paper or proposal for one
    of the two panels at the 2005 American Literature Association
    convention (Boston, 26-29 May 2005, Westin Copley Place Hotel), would you please do so by 31 December 2004? The first session will be devoted to Crane's interrelated stories, especially the Whilomville
    stories, the Sullivan County Sketches, and the stories of the Bowery.
    The second panel will be open to all topics. Please send your paper
    or proposal via email to
    1. Jim Nagel, jnagel at uga.edu
    AND
    2. Paul Sorrentino, psorrent at vt.edu
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    Stephen Crane Sessions at ALA 2005

    CALL FOR PAPERS ALA 2005
    The Stephen Crane Society invites papers and proposals for two panels at the 2005 American Literature Association convention in Boston, 26-29 May 2005, at the Westin Copley Place Hotel. 

    The first session will be devoted to Crane's interrelated stories, especially the Whilomville stories, the Sullivan County Sketches, and the stories of the Bowery. The second panel will be open to all topics.

    Please send all materials via email to Jim Nagel at the University of Georgia, jnagel at uga.edu.

    Dr. James Nagel
    J. O. Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature
    University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602

     

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