Canadian Review of American Studies 41.2 Now Online
Canadian Review of American Studies – Volume 41, Number 2 / August 2011 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m113h38748l2/. This issue contains:
CAAS Statement of Support for ESQ and Poe Studies
Washington State University recently announced its intent to eliminate funding for the journals ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance and Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation, effective 1 July 2012. In response to this decision, and to the editors’ campaign “not only to preserve funding, but also to take a strong public stand against the notion that one of the… Read more →
CAAS 2011, “Aesthetics of Renewal”: plenaries and new deadline!
We are pleased to announce the plenary speakers for the 2011 conference, “The Aesthetics of Renewal or ‘Everything Old is New Again,’” sponsored by CAAS and Carleton University: they are Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, and Anthony Stewart. We’re very excited and look forward to some terrific conversations! We are also very pleased to announce that some more space has… Read more →
CFP: Country Music Lyricists and the American Literary Canon (Abstract deadline: 15 May 2011)
Revised Call for Proposals Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and the American Literary Canon In an effort to gain broader recognition of country music as a literary genre, we are developing a volume of essays examining country music lyricists’ contributions to the American literary tradition. The book is under contract with Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield). Performers known for… Read more →
Now Available: Canadian Review of American Studies 41.1
Canadian Review of American Studies – Volume 41, Number 1 / March 2011 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m51t00675263/. This issue contains:
CFP: American Literary Tourism (Anthology); Deadline: 30/10/2011
American Literary Tourism (Anthology) Literary tourism has a long history in American culture. From visits to the grave of the fictional eighteenth-century Charlotte Temple, to the restoration of Salem’s House of the Seven Gables as a turn of the century settlement house and tourist attraction, to competing twentieth-century Faulkner Festivals, literary tourism has become ingrained in American culture. Its currency… Read more →
Robert K. Martin book prize: call for submissions
The Canadian Association for American Studies announces the first annual Robert K. Martin Prize for the best monograph written by a current member of the CAAS. This year’s prize will be for books published with a copyright date of 2010. The postmark deadline for submission is 15 March 2011. All current members and those who join in advance of the… Read more →
CAAS 2011, “The Aesthetics of Renewal”; Deadline 15 February 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS The Aesthetics of Renewal or “Everything Old is New Again” 3 – 6 November, 2011 Ottawa, Ontario Carleton University’s Centre for Research in American Studies invites submissions for the annual conference for the Canadian Association of American Studies to be held in Ottawa, Ontario from November 3rd – 6th, 2011. This year’s theme is: “The Aesthetics of… Read more →
Now Available: Canadian Review of American Studies – 40.3 (2010)
Canadian Review of American Studies – Volume 40, Number 3, December 2010 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/j06881438834/. This issue contains:
CFP, “Post-Racial Americas: Cultural Studies in the Age of Barack Obama” (Journal issue; Deadline: 15 March 2011)
Call for Papers ABC Journal, the Journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, invites submissions for a special issue on Post-Racial Americas: Cultural Studies in the Age of Barack Obama, due out in June 2011. The Special issue will examine the changing dynamics of race, cultural economy and identity politics in what has been dubbed the ‘post-ethnic’ Americas. We… Read more →