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Lifelines Upcoming Events, Calls for Papers, and News from the Field West Virginia Summar Seminar. "Getting a Life." The 1998 West Virginia University Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies, June 4-7, 1998, will be "Getting a Life: Autobiographical Genders, Bodies, Borders," led by Sidonie Smith, Head of Women's Studies and Professor of English, University of Michigan, and Julia Watson, Director, Comparative Literature Program, Ohio State University This four-day seminar will focus on theorizing autobiographical acts, with emphasis on the intersections of identity, experience, memory, and gendered subjectivity; the politics of crossing cultural and generic borders; and the multiplicity of verbal and visual modes for embodying seU-representation. The seminar is limited to 50 participants. To reserve a place, please send a $25 deposit by Friday, April 17. For more information, please contact Timothy Dow Adams, by email at tadams@wvu.edu; at the Department of EngUsh, West Virginia University , P.O. Box 6296, Morgantown, WV 26506-6296; or at the seminar web site: http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/summer_seminar. NEH Summer Seminar. "Literary Biography. " The City University of New York will host a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, a six-week engagement with Uterary biography. Critical approaches will include fictionality (just how fictional are biographies?), presence (to what degree is a biography a self-portrait of the biographer?), and speculation (how much should biographers speculate about their material?). Participants will receive a stipend of $3,700. Application deadline: March 1,1998. Notification date is April 1,1998. For information and applications, please contact N. John Hall, Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate School, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036; phone: (212) 642-2210; fax: (212) 642-2205; njhall@emaU.gc.cuny.edu. Online Journal. History Reviews on-Line is looking to expand its base of reviewers. One of the first on-line history journals, the review covers all areas of history. Since the journal takes advantage of the assets of the Internet, reviewers are aUowed to write longer reviews than in the average print journals, and works are reviewed more expeditiously than usually occurs with the print media. History Reviews is online at http://www.depauw.edu/~dtrinkle/hrol.html. The journal is supported by DePauw University, and edited by Dennis Trinkle. For further information, and a list of books available for review, contact the editor at dtrinkle@depauw.edu, or at the Department of History, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana 46135; or the associate editor, Scott A. Merriman, at samerr0@pop.uky.edu. 150 Biography 21.1 (Winter 1998) Essay Collection. Contributors are sought for a Greenwood Press reference volume titled Contemporary African-American Novelists: A Biobibliographical Critical Sourcebook. For further information, contact Emmanuel S. Nelson at nelsone@snycorva.cortland.edu. Essay Collection. Submissions are invited for Women Writing in Latin (Garland's Women Writers of the World series), a 600-page anthology of primary texts, translations, and essays that represent women writing in Latin from antiquity to the present. For further information, contact Laurie J. ChurchiU, Humanities-Classics Department, Sturges Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 43015 (ljchurch® cc.owu.edu). Essay Collection. Julia M. Wright and Joel Faflak invite submissions for a volume of essays they are editing on the "Victorianization" of Romantic authors and texts, and the construction of "Romanticism" by Romantic and Victorian writers and editors. Send papers of about 25 pages, by May 31,1998, to Professor Julia M. Wright, Department of English, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3Gl, Canada. For further information, contact her at jmwright@watarts. uwaterloo.ca or Joel Faflak at jfaflak@juüan.uwo.ca. Special Issue. Victorian Poetry is preparing a special issue on "Women Poets 1895-1918." Manuscripts should follow the form specified in the journal's Guidelines for Authors, and should be accompanied by a return envelope and return postage. Deadline: August 1,1998. For further information, contact Bonnie J. Robinson, Guest Editor; Department of Language and Literature; North Georgia College and State University; Dahlonega, Georgia 30597; (706) 864-1427; BRobinson @nugget.ngc.peachnet.edu. Conference. "Crossing the Boundary, Crossing the Line—Oral History on the Border," a conference of the Oral...