Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS Jonathan L. Thorndike invites previously unpublished papers about James Joyce's major works for a New Essays on English Literature Series book to be published by Contemporary Research Press. The editor welcomes a variety of theoretical perspectives on individual works or themes that span several books. Possible approaches include textual, sociological, psychological, historical, aesthetic, biographical, gender-focused, ethnic, structural, and religious. Essays need not align themselves within a specific critical school. Essays should be 10-30 double-spaced pages and follow the conventions of the MLA Style Manual. Send inquiries, vitae, and manuscripts to Jonathan L. Thorndike, Department of English, Lakeland College, P. O. Box 359, Sheboygan, WI 53082-0359, or call 414-565-1285 for more information. The deadline for essays is July 15, 1993. The National Endowment for the Humanities program Study Grants for College and University Teachers offers summer study grants for faculty heavily engaged in undergraduate teaching. Awards provide $3,000 to free teachers from other responsibilities for six consecutive weeks of full-time summer study. The aim is to rekindle, through study of significant texts and topics, the teacher's engagement with the humanities; this in turn will enrich the teacher's undergraduate teaching. Most undergraduate teachers, including those holding adjunct appointments, are eligible. The next deadline , Aug. 16, 1993, is for projects in summer 1994. For application guidelines and samples of successful proposals write: Study Grants, NEH, Room 316, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20506, or telephone (202) 606-8463. The Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS) will be held at the University of California, Berkeley, June 12-18, 1994. For information contact: Irmengard Rauch, 2036 Columbus Parkway #347, Benicia, CA 94510. Fax: 707-746-7480; Voice mail: 707-746-1486; e-mail: irauch@garnet.berkeley.edu. The 21st Wyoming Conference on English will be held at the University of Wyoming on June 22-26, 1993. The conference will feature invited speakers Nancy R. Comley, Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of Composition at Queens College of the City University of New York; Lewis Nkosi, Professor of English at the University of Wyoming and author of The Mating Birds; Lillian S. Robinson, Visiting Scholar at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; and John Trimbur, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Project and Co-Director of the Technical Writing Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. For more information contact Kathy Evertz or Cathy Kunce at (307) 766-6486. The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), a national organization formed to promote scholarship about literature that addresses the relationship between human beings and the natural world, invites new members. ASLE will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Western Literature Association Conference each October in addition to organizing occasional independent conferences. Two publications will be associated with ASLE: The American Nature Writing Newsletter and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. For further information contact: Professor Scott Slovic, President, ASLE, Department of English, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666-4616; or Professor Cheryll Burgess-Glotfelty, Vice President, ASLE, Department of English, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV 89557-0031. ...