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ELT 37 : 1 1994 main idea is to keep the typography "invisible" and each page a comfortable place to read. Black ink set in comely type on white acid-free paper, accented with photos and drawings—this remains superior to any current electronic format. And then too like many of you, I still enjoy touching what I read. But you have to wonder. At this very moment is a computer virtuoso engineering a solution to that limitation as well? ♦ Announcements ♦ The Politics and Processes of Scholarly Publishing: 12-14 March 1994, University of South Florida. We hope is to bring together provosts from our nation's major research universities, distinguished scholarly editors, and productive scholars to discuss the role of research in modern universities. We are flexible about workshop ideas but offer the following topics: How Does Scholarly Research Contribute to Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching? How Can Administrators Anticipate How Different Disciplines Are Evolving? How Can Research Institutions Enable Faculty to Fulfill Their Research and Publishing Interests? Contact Joseph M. Moxley, School of Continuing Education, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620-6610. The Time Machine-. Past, Present and Future: 26-29 July 1995, Imperial College, London, England. The H. G. Wells Society and the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies announce a joint international symposium to mark the centenary of Wells's The Time Machine. Proposals for papers are invited in the following areas: The Time Machine as Text; The Time Machine and the Fin de Siècle; The Time Machine and Nineteenth-Century Science; The Time Machine and the International Development of Modern Science Fiction; The Time Machine and Modern Cosmology: The Coming Together of Biology and Physics. Deadline 31 October 1994. Contact Sylvia Hardy, H. G. Wells Society, English Department, Nene College, Moulton Park, Northampton NN2 7AL, England. Fourth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference: 9-12 June 1994, Bard College. The conference theme is "Re:Reading, Re:Writing, Re: Teaching Virginia Woolf," intending particular attention to issues of teaching Woolf. Proposals are welcome, as are interactive workshops and non-traditional scholarship, all extending understanding of familiar or novel aspects of Woolf s work. Proposals should include 5 copies EDITOR'S FENCE of a one-page 250-word abstract for each presenter, as well as one cover page listing name(s), address(es), phone number(s), institutional affiliation (if any) and format and title of each paper or panel. Deadline 1 February 1994. Contact Judi Smith, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson , NY12504. Re-thinking "Family Values": Formations, Transformations, Resistances , Dissolutions": Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS), 8-9 April 1994, College of William and Mary. Contact Richard Lowry or Deborah Morse, English Department, College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. Victorian Worlds of Work: Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 8-9 April 1994, Washington University, St. Louis. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the many worlds of Victorian work. What did work mean to the Victorians? How did new jobs or professions develop during this period? How did others decline or become modified with the onset of industrialization, empire and an administrative and governmental bureaucracy? How and in what numbers did women, odd or otherwise, enter the work force? What of the work of the virtually voiceless working classes? How do authors of the period define work or portray their characters at work? Contact D. J. Trela, Executive Secretary , MVSA, Box 288, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605-1344 Victorian Interiors: Domestic, Metaphorical, Narrative, and Psychological : Northeast Victorian Studies Association, New York University , 15-17 April 1994. Ten copies of a 2-page abstract should be sent to Casey Finch, English Department, New York University, New York, NY, 10003. Proposals reviewed anonymously. Do not put your name on the abstract itself. Call for Papers on Victorian Women Poets: Victorian Poetry will devote the spring 1995 issue to the range, contexts, and significance of Victorian women poets. Essays are particularly invited on less-studied figures, relationships between major and lesser-known poets, reception of women poets, the experience of marginality, and theoretical issues or methods. Send 2 copies of papers by 1 August 1994 to Linda K. Hughes...