Dear CFP members,
Hello! The CFP list has seen many positive changes this year, including a
new search engine on the web archive, improvements to the web archive
software, and--best of all--the addition of over a thousand new members.
Our total list subscription is now 6652 members from all over the world,
with many more accessing postings directly on the web.
For those of you who are new to the list or who need to refresh your
memories, I've included below updated information about subscribing and
unsubscribing from the list, posting announcements, and other
administrative details.
The CFP list will be offline from Dec. 22 until Jan. 8. You can continue
to send messages to cfp@english.upenn.edu, but they may not be posted
until after the 8th.
Happy Holidays to everyone and best wishes for the New Year!
Erika Lin, CFP list editor
elin@english.upenn.edu
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cfp@english.upenn.edu
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Calls for Papers in
English & American Literature
The English Department at the University of Pennsylvania hosts an
electronic mailing list (cfp@english.upenn.edu) and website
(http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/) for calls for papers on English and
American Literature and Culture. We encourage conference or panel
organizers and volume editors to find the largest possible audience for
their announcements by posting them on this list and web archive.
Announcements can include upcoming conferences, panels, essay collections,
and special journal issues related to English and American literature, and
can include calls for completed papers, abstracts, and proposals. The
boundaries are flexible: all English-language literatures, cultural
studies, literary theory, bibliography, humanities computing, and
comparative literature (even when not concerned specifically with English
or American literature) are within the pale. Conferences or panels
devoted exclusively to literature not in English, to music or art, to
history, etc., are excluded unless they are relevant to students of
English and American literature, as are lecture series, regular meetings
of small local societies, fellowship opportunities, etc. Essay
competitions and prizes are excluded unless they will result directly in
publication or presentation of a paper. Calls for creative writing are
also excluded. Due to the volume of postings and the fact that each
posting must be approved and edited by hand, the CFP list and web archive
is only for calls for papers, not for general conference announcements.
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SUBSCRIBING/UNSUBSCRIBING
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To subscribe to the list, address a message to
listserv@english.upenn.edu
Do NOT send subscription messages to cfp@english.upenn.edu. The subject
line can be anything, but the body of the message should read
subscribe cfp
There should be nothing else: no name, no e-mail address. You should
receive a confirmation message after a few minutes. If you have any
questions, contact the editor at the address below.
To unsubscribe, address a message to
listserv@english.upenn.edu
(not cfp@english.upenn.edu!) reading just "unsubscribe cfp" (don't include
your name or address).
To change your address on the CFP list, send an unsubscribe message from
your current account, and then login to your new account and resubscribe
from that.
The Majordomo software on which the CFP list is run, I'm afraid, has no
facility for digests and no "nomail" option. Also, we cannot send
announcements only in a given field or fields of interest within English
and American Literature. Those who find the volume of mail too high should
rely on the Web archive; those who wish to stop receiving mail for a short
while should simply unsubscribe and resubscribe later.
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WEB ARCHIVE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Those interested in the calls for papers need not subscribe to the list
directly. The announcements will be archived and available on the Web at
http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
There they'll be grouped under rubrics (such as Renaissance, American,
Theory, Gender Studies) to make browsing easier. Postings will remain in
this archive until the conference has taken place. The website also
includes a search engine and a monthly archive, which lists calls for
papers chronologically as they are posted.
Messages are sorted into their respective period- or topic-centered
folders within about a week after their posting, but the "Archive by
Month" is automatically updated with each new message.
Please check to see whether announcements have been posted already before
sending additional copies.
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POSTING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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All panel organizers and volume editors are encouraged to make their calls
for papers or proposals by sending their announcements to:
After they are posted to the list, messages will automatically be archived
on our website:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
Please send postings as "plain text" (aka. ASCII text) in the body of the
message rather than as an attachment.
Calls can take any format in the body of the message. The subject line,
though, should be as informative as possible (to enable browsers to find
relevant announcements quickly), and should take the following form:
CFP: Topic of Conference/Panel (deadline; conference date)
Messages that don't conform to this standard may be rejected.
The subject line should briefly and clearly describe the topic of the
conference. Some tips:
* Rather than a cryptic panel title like "Imagined
Encounters," use a descriptive entry like "New World in
16th c."
* Put dates in numerals, in American notation (month/day/year).
Include both the deadline for submissions and the date of the
conference.
* In the case of major conferences where the name of the
conference will be useful (e.g. ALA, ASECS, NASSR, Kalamazoo),
specify the name in addition to the dates. In the case of MLA,
specify the year (e.g. MLA '01).
* If the conference takes place outside North America, or
if it's a graduate student conference, note that as well.
Some examples:
CFP: Teaching Beowulf in Translation (12/15/00; 3/23/01-3/24/01)
CFP: (Post)Colonial Derrida (3/3/00; MLA '00)
CFP: American Novel into Film (3/1/01; RMMLA, 10/11/01-10/13/01)
CFP: Composition and Rhetoric (grad) (12/1/00; 2/23/01-2/24/01)
CFP: Joseph Conrad (Poland) (1/15/01; 5/29/01-6/1/01)
CFP: Romanticism & the Woman Reader (grad) (UK) (7/15/00; 9/6/00)
CFP: Queer Theory and Disability Studies (8/1/00; journal issue)
CFP: Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (4/30/01; collection)
Note that with several thousand subscribers, some addresses on the list
are no longer correct, as people change addresses without unsubscribing,
or as hosts change names. The editor tries to keep the list current, but
you may receive error messages from some of these bad addresses when you
send a call for papers. You can safely ignore them. If you want to know
whether a call for papers successfully made it to the bulk of the
subscribers, you can either check the archive on the Web or contact the
editor.
If a call for papers must be updated -- to reflect a change in the
location or date of the conference or the deadlines -- please replace the
"CFP:" in the subject line with "UPDATE:" and be explicit about exactly
what has changed in the body of the message. Please send only actual
updates to the list: refrain from merely reiterating past calls for
papers. Also, while I can post updates to the information in a call for
papers, I cannot post general updates about the conference itself when the
deadline for a call has already passed (e.g. registration info, finalized
program, etc.)
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OFF-TOPIC MESSAGES
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The CFP list is meant strictly for announcements of calls for papers, not
for discussion of conferences and certainly not for discussion of anything
else, including social issues, chain letters, virus warnings, and so on.
Please refrain from posting such messages to the list. Advertisements of
commercial products or services not directly related to the purpose of the
list are forbidden.
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HISTORY
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In 1995 the English at the University of Pennsylvania established the
cfp@english.upenn.edu mailing list to facilitate the exchange of
information on upcoming conferences and publication opportunities, and
archives of the postings were later made available on the Web. Since that
time, the CFP mailing list has grown to over 6,500 subscribers from all
over the world.
The CFP list and web archive were founded by Jack Lynch. The current
CFP editor is Erika Lin.
If you have any questions, please contact Erika Lin at:
elin@english.upenn.edu
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