CALL FOR PAPERS The Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) is hosting its sixteenth annual conference on February 29 and March 1, 2008. The conference will be held at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. We are soliciting proposals for fifteen- to twenty-minute papers from scholars at all career stages, from beginning graduate students to established and senior scholars. The confirmed keynote speakers for this year's conference are: David Bevington, professor emeritus in the Humanities, English Language and Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, specialist in Shakespeare and in British drama of the early modern period, and Russ Castronovo, professor of English and American Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison, specialist in African American literature, American Studies, and cultural theory and popular culture. MCLLM invites papers on all areas of literary, language, and media studies, ranging from Medieval and Renaissance studies to popular culture and technology studies. This year, we especially welcome proposals for papers that innovatively address topics congruent with the expertise of our speakers: early modern British drama and gender studies, or American literature with an emphasis on African-American studies, globalism, militarism, or trade history. Individual or panel (three to four people) proposals are welcome. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2007. Please include a cover page with your name, affiliation, mailing address, and email address. Accepted contributors will be notified via email by December 10, 2008. Please submit your 250-word (one page) abstracts as an attachment to: [log in to unmask] Additional information can be found at the conference website: http://www.engl.niu.edu/mcllm/. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding the conference. Elizabeth Bowman and Christina Gilleran Co-Chairs, MCLLM 2008 Department of English Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 ---- 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]