News and Events
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Call for Editor
The Wallace Stevens Journal
The Wallace
Stevens Society invites applications for the editorship of The Wallace Stevens Journal. Published regularly since 1977 by the
Wallace Stevens Society, each yearly volume of the journal contains two issues,
spring and fall.
Since the Wallace
Stevens Society is a relatively small organization (approximately 500 members),
the production of the journal rests primarily on the editor’s shoulders. The
editor, therefore, should be not only an expert in Wallace Stevens and the
scholarship on his life and works, but also an expert in the use of computers.
Traditionally, the editor has served as President of the Wallace Stevens
Society.
Responsibilities
include:
·
conferring
with an editorial board of Stevens scholars to evaluate manuscripts;
·
copy
editing and proofreading accepted articles;
·
laying
out the pages and the cover of the journal electronically;
·
keeping
a regular schedule of publication and mailing;
·
arranging
for annual seminars on Stevens at major conferences such as MLA and ALA;
·
publicizing
the journal and events of the Society;
·
initiating
new directions for future scholarship on Stevens;
·
maintaining
membership and financial records;
·
directing
the Wallace Stevens Society.
Candidates should
have a proven record of scholarship on Stevens and have the energy, commitment,
and vision to assume a leadership role. They should be familiar with, or have
an aptitude for, a wide range of computing software, such as InDesign, Access, Word, Photoshop, and Adobe Acrobat. In
addition, they should be well versed in the use of the Internet and Website
design and maintenance.
Institutional
support, in terms of mailing, duplicating, stationery, student help, possible
release time, hardware and software support, is
critical.
The projected
transition date for the editor to assume full responsibility is January 2009.
Send or e-mail a
cover letter and c.v. by May 15, 2008, to:
John N. Serio, Editor
Wallace Stevens Journal
Clarkson University Box
5750
Potsdam, NY 13699
serio@clarkson.edu
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American Literature
Association
19th Annual
Conference
May 22-25, 2008
San
Francisco
Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero
Center
“Wallace Stevens and Ethics”
Chair: Bonnie Costello, Boston University
1. “Wallace Stevens and the Lacanian Ethics
of Desire,” Axel Nesme, University of Lyon
2. “Wallace Stevens and the Ethical
Consequences of Secularization,” Matthew Mutter, Yale University.
3. “Stevens’ Post-war Ethics of the Letter,”
Angus Cleghorn, Trent
University
For further information, contact Bonnie
Costello at boncos@bu.edu or visit www.americanliterature.org.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
“States of the Art: Considering Poetry Today”
October 24-26, 2008
Department of North American Literature & Culture Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Conference Description
The focus of the conference is on
issues related to the status and state(s) of poetry as a contemporary art form.
We wish to investigate current developments in poetics which are on the order
of the paradigmatic changes from Victorian modes of writing to modernist forms.
At that time, a shift in formal and aesthetic conventions was accompanied by
changes in patterns of readership. This shift to a modernist aesthetic,
although it secured advances for poetry as an intellectual form, suffered a
loss in broad audience acceptance. Changes to the accepted codes of composition
implied changes to the codes of reception in both the popular and scholarly
realms.
Concentration will be on English
language poetry, however, proposals treating related
phenomena from other language traditions are welcome. There will also be
readings by poets before, during, and after the conference at various prominent
venues in the province.
Papers should not exceed 20-30
minutes. Abstracts are due 15 April 2008.
Selected papers of quality will be collected and published by a reputable
publisher.
For Further Information, contact Prof. Klaus Martens
martens@mx.uni-saarland.de
http://www.nalk.uni-saarland.de/
