Grad Student Featured in New Publication from the Newberry

We are pleased to announce the essays that have been chosen for inclusion in this year's online selected conference proceedings publication, Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Vol. 8: Selected Proceedings of the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2014 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.

The authors are working with their editors to revise their papers for publication. We plan to publish the volume by this summer.

Contributors and essays for this year's volume:

Patrick Bonczyk, Music, Michigan State University, “Breastfeeding the Soul: Spiritual Hunger and Baby-Death in Henry Purcell’s ‘With sick and famish’d Eyes,’ Z200”

Caroline Carpenter, English, Claremont Graduate University, “A Trinity of Donne Plus One: Jack, John, Doctor, and Conscience”

Kristie Flannery, History, University of Texas at Austin, “Juegos Prohibidos/Gente Prohibida: Regulating Space, Race, and Gambling in Early-Modern Manila”

Mary Helen Galluch, Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “Amending the Ascetic: Community and Character in the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt”

Jared Halverson, Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University, “Hate and Hermeneutics: Interpretive Authority in Luther’s On the Jews and their Lies”

George Klaeren, History, University of Kansas, “Rational Inquisitors: Medical Discourse, Empiricism, and Catholic Truth in the Century of Light”

Sarah Lube Roe, French, University of Texas at Austin, “Theatre as a Jansenist Tool? The Importance of Perspective and Interpretation in Overcoming the Theatricality of Amour-Propre in Racine’s Phèdre”

Heather Smith, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia, “A Different Picture of Female Piety: The Margaret and Catherine Window at Chartres Cathedral”

Shana Thompson, Art History, University of North Texas, “Land, Water, Woman: Place, Identity, and Coudrette’s Mélusine in Late Medieval Poitou”

Editor-in-chief:

Mary Angelo, who recently completed a PhD in French at the University of Chicago and is research assistant for a current Center for Renaissance Studies project

Contributing editors:

Laura Bland, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
Catherine Conner, English, Claremont Graduate University
Charles Keenan, History, Northwestern University
Danielle Kuntz, Musicology, University of Minnesota
Lance Lubelski, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrea Nichols, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Greta Smith, English, Miami University
David Vaughan, English, Oklahoma State University
Daniel Yingst, Divinity School, University of Chicago

See previous volumes of Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: http://www.newberry.org/center-renaissance-studies-publications#digital.

New C19 Journal Solicits Material

The VIGoR group at the University of Texas at Austin is soliciting submissions for the inaugural issue of its new journal, Contact. Contact is an experimental, interdisciplinary journal devoted to investigating the world of nineteenth century letters and will be published twice a year. The theme for our first issue is “Encounters”.



We are looking for a wide range of interdisciplinary submissions, from longer academic papers (5-8k words) to short essays (1-2k words). Shorter essays might offer reactions to recent conference panels and publications, describe provocative archival finds, or propose fresh critical approaches. Submissions should be sent to contact.submissions@utexas.edu for consideration in the Spring 2014 issue.



Please review the attached CFP and visit http://contact.dwrl.utexas.edu/ for more details.



We look forward to reviewing your submissions,



VIGoR
http://contact.dwrl.utexas.edu/


Lindsey Gay
Departments of English and Rhetoric
The University of Texas at Austin

CFP: Essay Collection on Heroines: Images of Women in Literature & Pop Culture

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Heroines: Images of Women Through Literature and Popular Culture

Bob Batchelor, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Norma Jones are calling for proposals for essays to be included in an anthology focused on heroines.

Portrayals of female heroes are often limited to roles of the sacrificial heroine (sacrificed for a cause or benefit of others) and Heidi Redeemers (overcome great obstacles by being pure and loving).

More recently, articulations of Woman Warriors (as girl power) have become more prevalent in popular culture (Xena, Amazons).

However, heroines may be more complex. In this anthology, the editors hope to further complicate and problematize portrayals of women (as heroines) in popular culture.

Essays should, in some manner, contribute to understandings of how heroines are portrayed, as well as how they might empower and/or constrain. For example, instead of conforming to male heroic norms, how does a heroine re-articulate what it means to be a woman?

The topics below provide general direction for possible chapters, but individual authors may adapt them to fit interests. The editors also welcome proposals for related topics:
-- Heroines across cultures
-- New Fictional Heroines
-- New Women Warriors
-- Comic Book Superheroines
-- Witches and Priestesses

Please email heroine@kent.edu for further information.
Please include:
-- a tentative chapter title
-- brief synopsis/proposal of your approach
-- and your C.V.


The deadline for proposals is
January 15, 2012.

CFP: Re-Gendering Images and Identities (essay collection)

Call for Proposals
Re-Gendering Images and Identities: Photography, Art and the Transgendered Body

Editors: Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, Dr Sara Davidmann
Deadline for abstracts: November 1 2010
Deadline for completed essays: April 2011
Email: photobook@live.co.uk


Stephen Whittle and Sara Davidmann are in the process of completing a book proposal for an exciting edited anthology on the significance of photography and other forms of image making (within the sense of the picture) to issues of self-visualisation, representation and the visibility of trans people.

The book will bring together essays by some of today’s foremost trans academics, activists and authors. We are looking for a broad spectrum of subjects and foci and accordingly this call is being made in order to offer other, possibly lesser-known, academics with a serious interest in the area the opportunity to contribute to the anthology.

The book will make a contribution to different disciplines: photography theory, the fine arts and humanities more broadly, transgender studies, media studies, cultural studies, social sciences, and potentially psychology and medicine.

We are currently at the stage of gathering together abstracts from authors and planning our proposal. We anticipate final chapters to be of approximately 6,000 words. We aim to publish in 2011.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal please forward an abstract of 250-300 words by November 1 2010 to photobook@live.co.uk Please include the title for your essay, key points or arguments to be developed, and an overall outline for the chapter. Please also attach a brief (one - two page) c.v.

Additionally, if your chapter will include images please provide an estimate of the number of images and indicate whether you already have copyright clearance. Please let us know if you would prefer your images to be printed in colour.

We welcome essays from all academic disciplines.
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