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New from Michigan State University, the Journal for the Study of Radicalism engages in serious, scholarly exploration of the forms, representations, meanings, and historical influences of radical social movements.

The first two volumes focus on radicalism and violence and radicalism and music. The include interviews with Lawrence Robert “Pun” Plamondon and John Sinclair.

Future issues will include themes like the re-conceptualization of “left” and “right,” radical groups typically ignored in academic scholarship, such as deep ecologists, primitivists, and anarchists, the role of science and technology in radical visions, transnational and regional understandings of radicalism, and the relationships of radical movements to land and environment.

From Jason Sanford, editor of storySouth: a journal of literature from the New South

“…our annual Million Writers Award is gearing up for its 2008 run. We are now accepting applications for preliminary judges and are looking for people knowledgeable in each of the different literary genres. These judges will help screen the nominations and select the list of notable stories of the year. To apply, e-mail me your writing and/or editing experience and why you think you’d make a good preliminary judge.”

Ignavia is an online journal that promotes fiction that is transgressive in content and form with a bias for material that is dark, edgy and queer. Ignavia seeks transgressive fiction (under 4000 words) for their second issue scheduled for early 2008.

For information about these and many other quality alternative magazines, click the links or visit The NewPages Guide to Alternative Magazines.

Against the Current
Volume 22 Number 4
November/December 2007
Bimonthly

Feminist Studies
Volume 33 Number 3
Summer 2007
Triannual

Free Inquiry
Volume 28 Number 1
December 2007/January 2008
Bimonthly

Funny Times
December 2007
Monthly

Humor Times
Issue Number 192
December 2007
Monthly

In These Times
“iPower to the People”
Volume 31 Number 12
December 2007
Monthly

Labor Notes
Number 345
December 2007
Monthly

Space and Culture
International Journal of Social Spaces
Volume 10 Number 4
November 2007
Quarterly

Turning the Tide
Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education
Volume 20 Number 5-6
Oct-Dec 2007

Z Magazine
November 2007
Monthly

Dear folks–

I want to ask you to let friends know about the Gay & Lesbian Lit class I am teaching at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago. As you know, word of mouth about classes like these tend to fill their seats, so any publicity you can give the class would be really appreciated. You can forward this message to people who would be interested, post it on your MySpace page or blog, etc.

Let me know if there’s anything I can do that will help promote the course.

Cheers,
Dr. Aldo Alvarez
English Department
Wilbur Wright College

***

Dear Students:

This is just a short note to let you know that we are offering a new literature course for Spring 2008.

Literature 153: Gay & Lesbian Literature offers a survey of novels, plays and graphic novels by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered authors. This course introduces students to a literature based on LGBT themes, to practical approaches to the determination of literary meaning, and to the concerns of literature in general.

This course will be taught by Dr. Aldo Alvarez, an expert in LGBT literature with a Ph. D. in English from SUNY-Binghamton and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University of the City of New York. Dr. Alvarez is the author of INTERESTING MONSTERS (Graywolf Press), a collection of short stories, and the founder of *Blithe House Quarterly: queer fiction lives here*, which for ten years was the preeminent literary magazine for LGBT-themed short fiction by emerging and established authors.

Lit 153 is *fully transferable* as a humanities elective to any four year college. As you may know, humanities electives make you a more appealing candidate for a four year school so this is a great opportunity for you to diversify your student course portfolio. This course can also be taken by students currently attending other schools who want to take advantage of the reasonable tuition per credit hour available at Wilbur Wright College. The only prerequisite is eligibility or completion of English 101 or consent from the English Department chairperson.

This is the information you need to register for this course online at https://my.ccc.edu/.

56541 – Lit 153 – Section E – M/W 11 AM – 12:20 PM — A210 — Alvarez

If you require help, you may register in person on campus.

These are seven texts we will be reading in Lit 153: Gay & Lesbian Literature on Spring 2008:

— FUN HOME: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Graphic Novel) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Home

— A SINGLE MAN by Christopher Isherwood (novel) : http://www.glbtq.com/literature/isherwood_c,3.html

— ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT by Jeanette Winterson (novel) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_are_not_the_only_fruit

— ANGELS IN AMERICA: A Gay fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner (two plays) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_america

— CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG by Maureen McHugh (novel) : http://my.en.com/~mcq/cmz.html

— KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN by Manuel Puig (novel) : http://www.enotes.com/kiss-spider/

— BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA by Dorothy Allison (novel) : http://www.enotes.com/bastard-out/

Lit 153: Gay and Lesbian Literature course will not be offered again for *another four years*. If this course appeals to you, NOW is the time to register for it.

Please contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Dr. Aldo Alvarez
English Department
Wilbur Wright College

Ohio Wesleyan University Department of English invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of English with an August 2008 starting date. Lynette Carpenter, Chair, Department of English.

Loras College, Dubuque, IA. Fiction Writing Specialist FT, tenure-track position in the Division of Language and Literature.

Chester College of New England is searching for a full-time Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and Literature with an emphasis in fiction writing, beginning August 2008. Feb. 1, 2008.

Gettysburg College Emerging Writer Lecturer One-year appointment, beginning August 2008. Prof. Fred Leebron,
Department of English. January 26, 2008.

Helping Out Ten
Ten Things For Impaired/Handicapped Writers

Posted Monday, November 06, 2006, it is a year old, but all of the links are still good. Worth checking out and passing along – especially to campus offices for students with disabilities and to school and local public libraries. From the blog Paperback Writer.

Call for entries: “Diverse & Together” in co-operation with Foundation Diversity Forum, Warsaw/Poland in association with Classic In Black Production & Direction: Fountainhead

“Anti- a new poetry journal set to launch in early 2008, seeks submissions. Anti- is not aesthetically affiliated with Nicanor Parra’s school of antipoetry, though the editor does share his skepticism about the supposed mystical powers of poetry. Anti- is contrarian, a devil’s advocate that primarily stands against the confinement of poetry in too-small boxes. Anti- wants to provide a single arena for a wide range of styles and ideas, so these different kinds of poets and poems can either fight it out or learn to coexist.”

Broken Language
English and its misusage
Mle Davis
Sanaa, Yemen
November 8, 2007
“One of the perks of teaching abroad is getting to witness those serendipitous moments when another’s attempt at English yields something so ludicrous that it could never have been imagined by a native speaker. We go to work every day and we work very hard to teach people the language, but secretly we love when they fail miserably (just for a moment!) and say something totally ridiculous. Did he just say I am a pen? Did she just say that her family went out to Hwang’s Crap House? That his father wore a suitcase to work yesterday? We collect the stories of our students who, in desperation, write Dear Ruler Friend to get around the ban of copying the original text, Dear Pen Friend. But we excuse them as we giggle-after all, they’re just kids… [read the rest on WorldView Magazine]

The November/December issue of Sierra features “Cool Schools” with online articles:

Go Big Green
A new generation looks beyond the Ivies and party schools to colleges that teach how to change the world. Better yet, some are already changing it.

10 That Get It
From tiny Warren Wilson College (850 students) to the University of California (214,000 and counting), here are Sierra’s Big Ten.

Talk of the Quad
Go ahead — steal these great ideas for your own campus.

Hot Jobs for a Warming Planet
Want to save the earth and make a living too? Here’s what it takes.

Michigan State University’s Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Issue 10:2, offers a unique scholarly analysis of the rhetoric that led to U.S. engagement in Iraq and then influenced perceptions as the conflict progressed from occupation to all-out war.

From the Introduction (full-text of which is available online) by Herbert W. Simons:

“It’s no longer terribly controversial that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was a mistake of monumental proportions.(1) Even the war’s continuing defenders acknowledge that it has adversely affected America’s standing in the world and capacity to meet other global threats while also devastating Iraq. Declines in public support for the war leading to Democratic takeovers of both houses of Congress in 2006 evidence the disaster it has been for the Bush administration.(2)

“This special issue takes up the role of rhetoric in the Iraq debacle, beginning with the once ballyhooed crisis rhetoric of the Bush administration in response to the 9/11 attacks.(3) All but one of the essays scrutinize the rhetoric that brought America into war; the lone exception deals with presidential signing statements. The authors’ critical perspectives are reflected in the questions they pose: Why did we Americans enthusiastically support a preemptive invasion of Iraq when the people and governments of most nations did not? What does this support tell us about ourselves as a people? How did the Bush administration make its case? What fig leafs hid its real motives for war as it put forward its since-discredited weapons of mass destruction (WMD) arguments and its spurious hints of linkage between Saddam and Osama bin Laden? How different was the Bush administration’s war hype from that of past administrations? Why did so many leading Democrats go along? Why did the news media, including the opinion columnists and editorialists, lend their support? Should press, politicians, and even the general public have been able to see through the administration’s slipshod case for war? Most intriguing for me: did the initial success of the Bush administration’s hyperbolic crisis rhetoric in response to the 9/11 attacks prefigure its subsequent failures over Iraq? I address this question, among others, in the issue’s context-setting lead essay. This introduction provides a preview of the other essays.”

Read the rest on Rhetoric & Public Affairs.

Assistant Professor, Creative Writing, William Paterson University – Specialization in Creative Writing, especially fiction, creative non-fiction, and multi-genre writing courses. Linda Hamalian, Chairperson,Department of English.

The College of Saint Rose – Albany. The Department of English seeks a qualified candidate for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, starting in August 2008. Catherine Cavanaugh, English Department Chair. January 3, 2008.

The University of California, Los Angeles. The English Department is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in fiction writing. Professor & Chair Rafael P