Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Institute of International Education announces its Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program. The FLTA program offers U. S. educational institutions an opportunity to engage a native speaker for their language teaching programs. For further information, please contact Luisa Guerriera, Manager FLTA Program at (212) 984-5494, Institute of International Education, Placement and Special Services, 809 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. The University of San Diego will host On Miracle Ground VIII, The International Lawrence Durrell Conference on June 24-28, 1994. The theme will be "Durrell and His Friends in the Americas." For information contact James R. Nichols, On Miracle Ground VIII Program Committee, Department of English and Philosophy, Georgia Southern University, Landrum Box 8032, Statesboro, GA 30460-8032. Seth R. Katz and Cheryl B. Torsney seek papers for a collection to be titled Teaching Selves: Autobiographical Theory, Gender, and Pedagogy. The editors welcome papers that examine, from an autobiographical perspective, how issues of gender have affected or affect any area of teaching in language and literary study. Papers may also focus on autobiographical, gender -sensitive approaches to teaching individual works, teaching particular assignments or kinds of assignments, teaching particular genres of writing, classroom activities, whole courses, or discipline areas within language and literary studies. Please send two copies ofyour paper by September 1, 1994, to Seth R. Katz, Department of English, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625. Multicultural Literacies will be the theme of the twenty-second Wyoming Conference on English to be held June 21-25, 1994, at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. Guest speakers will include Gail E. Hawisher, Bonnie Lisle, Sandra Mano, Tania Modleski, and Pat Mora. For further information contact Kathy Evertz or Cathy Kunce at (307) 766-6486. The Fourth National American Women Writers of Color Conference will be held October 14-16, 1994, in Ocean City, Maryland. For information contact Connie Richards or Thomas Erskine, Department of English, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD 21801; (410) 543-6445; FAX (410) 543-6068. The First Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature will be held April 20-22, 1995, in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference topic will be "The Creation of the Child." The deadline for the submission ofpapers is November 15, 1994. Please direct enquiries to Tim Wolf (615) 898-5898, or Ellen Donovan (615) 898-2653. ...