Future MELUS Conference Sites Needed
MELUS seeks volunteers to host future MELUS conferences. If you are interested, please contact Fred Gardaphe.

PROPOSED CHANGES
TO THE MELUS CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS
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(posted 7/2008)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Transnational Asian American Studies. The American Studies Program and the Department of English at Wesleyan University invite applications for a joint, tenure-track assistant professorship in Transnational Asian American Studies, beginning July 1, 2009.
Applications received by October 1 will be given full consideration; preliminary interviews will be at the ASA annual meeting in Albuquerque, NM, October 16-19.
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(posted 7/2008)

40th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA)
Session: "Julia Alvarez and Junot Diaz: Contemporary Dominican-American Writers"
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline: September 15, 2008
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(posted 7/2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS
American Literature after the “American Century”
Please send abstracts of 250-500 words by August 31 to
Gioia.Woods@nau.edu and Lance.Rubin@arapahoe.edu
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(posted 7/2008)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
ESSAYS OR BOOK CHAPTERS ON
Women of Color in Popular Culture
JR. FACULTY PUBLICATION WORKSHOP
Thurs. Sept. 18-Sat. Sept. 20, 2008
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
The CENTER FOR ETHNIC STUDIES AND THE ARTS (CESA), University of Iowa, seeks proposals for participating in a two and a half day workshop for junior tenure-track faculty on their research-in-progress on “Women of Color in Popular Culture.” Workshop participants are also CESA Junior Fellows for Fall Semester 2008 and are part of a collaborative network of scholars. DEADLINE: JULY 1, 2008.
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(posted 6/2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Southern American Studies Association Biennial Conference, "Beginnings and Renewals: Locating American Studies"
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
February 12-14, 2009
Keynote Speakers: Philip Deloria, Lucy Maddox
Deadline for proposals 15 October 2008.
Inquiries: Eric Gary Anderson, eandersd@gmu.edu
More Information: http://sasa.gmu.edu
(posted 5/2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS
NAHA-NORWAY 2009
Cultural Inventions, Transplantations and Transnationalisms in Norwegian America
The Norwegian Emigrant Museum
Ottestad, Norway
June 26-28, 2009
Proposals due by November 1, 2008
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CALL FOR PAPERS
American Italian Historical Association
41st Annual Conference, New Haven, Connecticut
“Small Towns, Big Cities:
The Urban Experience of Italian Americans”
6-8 November 2008
Deadline for proposals extended to June 1st
www.aihaweb.org
(posted 5/2008)

AVAILABLE POSITION
The Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico, College of Fine Arts, invites applications for an assistant professorship in film history, criticism, and theory, with expertise in the history of silent and sound cinema, and in comparative foreign film.
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(posted 4/2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for American Music Conference: Denver, Colorado
18-22 March 2009
Proposals due by June 15, 2008
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(posted 4/2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Guest Edited Issue of MELUS
Guest Editor: Carol E. Henderson
(Re)presenting the Black Female Body: Fleshing Out the Contours of Black Sexual Politics and Ideology
If you are interested contributing to this special issue, please forward an abstract by April 15, 2008. Entire papers will be due by October 1, 2008. You can send your abstract to:
ceh@udel.edu
or to:
Dr. Carol E. Henderson
Associate Professor of English and Black American Studies
212 Memorial Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716.
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(posted 2/2008)

CONFERENCE
Richard Wright: The Centenary Celebration, 19-20 June 2008 at The American University of Paris and at the Musée des années trente (Museum of the Nineteen Thirties), in Boulogne-Billancourt, Deadline January 15, 2008.
(posted /2007)