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Canadian Reviewof American Studies 185 Announcements In accordance with the Constitution of the Canadian Association for American Studies, the Canadian Review of American Studies is due for its periodic review, to determine the journal's location and editorial arrangements for the next five years. Persons or groups interested in proposing to edit and manage the journal should make preliminary contact with Robert K. Martin, Chair of the Review Committee, by 1 May 1996. At that time, Professor Martin's committee will provide further details about the process. Contact: Professor Robert K. Martin, Department d'etudes anglaises, Faculte des artes at des sciences, Universite de Montreal, C. P. 6128, Succ. A, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3]7; Tel. (514) 343-7926; fax: (514) 343-6443; email : martin@ere.umontreal.ca The Modern Language Association will be awarding twelve prizes in 1996, including the MLA Prize for a First Book, as well as the biennial prizes in the fields of Italian literary studies and Germanic languages or literatures. No book may compete for more than one MLA prize. Only books published in 1995 may compete for this year's annual prizes; for biennial prizes, books published in the two preceding years are eligible. Publishers should send four (in designated cases, five or six) copies of each book and a cover letter to: MLA Prizes, 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003; telephone (212) 614-6406; fax (212)533-0680. Books in any field of English or another modern language or literature: 1995 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PRIZE [6 copies required] 1995 MLA PRIZE FOR A FIRST BOOK [6 copies required] 1995 MLA PRIZE FOR INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS [6 copies required] Translations of literary works or works of literary criticism, history, theory: 1994-95 SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR LITERARYTRANSLATION [5 copies] Scholarly editions of letters or of other literary works: 1995-96 MLA PRIZE FOR A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARLY EDITION (awarded in 1997] 1995-96 MORTON N. COHEN AWARD FOR AN EDITION OF LETTERS [awarded in 1997] 186 Canadian Review of American Studies Comparative literature: 1995 SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES French/Francophone studies: 1995 SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES Germanic languages and literatures: 1994-95 SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR GERMANIC STUDIES [will be awarded in 1996] Italian literature or comparative literature involving Italian: 1994-95 HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE [will be awarded in 1996] Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures: 1995 KATHERINE SINGER KOVACS PRIZE [6 copies required] Slavic languages and literatures: 1995-96 SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR SLAVIC STUDIES [will be awarded in 1997] Research on the teaching of English or foreign languages: 1995 KENNETH W. MILDENBERGER PRIZE {foreign languages) 1995 MINA P. SHAUGHNESSY PRIZE (English) The International Forum for U. S. Studies is a Rockefeller Humanities Residency Site for Fellowships during 1997-99. The program seeks to promote scholarship by non-U. S. scholars on social and cultural issues shaping or affecting the United States. Conceptualized jointly by faculty members from The University of Iowa's Center for International and Comparative Studies and the American Studies Program, the Forum takes contemporary U. S. discussions of cultural diversity, a new world order, and multiculturalism one step further by promoting culturally and nationally diverse research and writing on the United States. The fellowships are specifically for non-U. S. scholars, in an effort to promote serious international social and cultural scholarship on the United States, even within the context of the United States. Applicants must hold a PhD or comparable terminal degree in their field at the time of application. As its overarching theme, the forum will focus on selective claims to difference (s) and sameness(es) and the values, effects, and material consequences attached to each. Specific themes for the three-year period will be (1) the public production of "American" culture (through institutions, practices , cultural policies, and events), (2) American "sameness-es" (both shared aspects and presumptions of sameness that are made, claimed, denied, or Canadian Review of Amencan Studies 187 unnamed), and (3) critical discourses on American "exceptionalisms" as seen both from within and without. Five non-U. S. scholars outside the United States will be selected each year for concurrent 3 month residencies each spring semester (1 February through 30 April). All...