Call for Essays Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose Brock University Crime Fiction Canada: Essays on Canadian Detective Fiction We are in the early stages of planning an edited academic book on Canadian Detective Fiction. We would like to receive one page proposals, with bibliography, on any of the following: Canadian authors – including, but not limited to: Peter Robinson, Howard Engel, Eric Wright, Gail Bowen, William Bankier, Anthony Bidulka, Mary Jane Maffini, Rick Mofina, The Ladies Killing Circle, William Deverell -- the list is very lengthy and there is very little publication on most popular Canadian authors. See our website, <http://www.brocku.ca/crimefictioncanada>http://www.brocku.ca/crimefictioncanada, for an indication of work done to date on Canadian authors and the scholarly field of “Crime Fiction Canada.” Suggested topics include: Landscape and Canadian Detective fiction A Canadian School of detective fiction? Regional and local identities in Canadian detective fiction Ethnicity in Canadian detective fiction Canadian literary detective fiction Canadian detective film and television Hardboiled/softboiled detective fiction in Canada The amateur sleuth in Canada Canadian Police procedurals Women sleuths in Canada The “Northern” Publishing popular detective fiction in Canada We would be pleased to receive proposals on other aspects of Canadian detective fiction as well. Length of the essays will depend upon the number of proposals received. Proposals should be submitted to Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose by April 30, 2006 at: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] and <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] or Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose Graduate Program in Popular Culture c/o Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film Brock University St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]