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Literary Listservs

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ANSAXNET. For scholars of the culture and history of England before 1100 C.E.
To subscribe, contact the Moderator, Patrick W. Conner, at

U47C2@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU.

AUSTLIT. Austrian Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe austlit Your Name] to:

listserv@vm1.nodak.edu.

AXE-List Quebecoise Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe AXE-list Your Name] to: balzac-l-request@cc.montreal.ca.

INFO BOOKWOMAN. Bookwoman.
For information, send a message to:

mailtomajordomo@vector.casti.com.
In the body of the message, write "info bookwoman".

BMCR-L. Bryn Mawr Classical Book Review.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe bmcr-l Your Name] to:

bmcr-l@brynmawr.edu.

CANLIT-L. Canadian Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe canlit-l Your Name] to:

canlit-l@ulc-bnc.ca.

C18-L. 18th Century Discussion.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe C18-L Your Name] to:

listserv@psuvm.psu.edu.

CHPOEM-L. Chinese Poetry.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe chpoem-l Your Name] to:

listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

CHICLE. Chicano literature discussion list.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe chicle Your Name] to:

listserv@unmvma.unm.edu.

CHILDLIT. Children's Literature: Criticism and Theory.
To subscribe, send a message to:

majordomo@email.rutgers.edu
with "subscribe child_lit [your email address] [your name]" in the body. On a second line of the body, type "end".

CHRISTLIT. Christianity and Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe christlit Your Name] to:

listserv@bethel.edu.

COMICW-L. COMIC Writers Workshop.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe comicw-l Your Name] to:

listserv@unlvm.unl.edu.

COMPARATIVE-LITERATURE. Comparative Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe comparative-literature Your Name] to:

mailbase-admin@mailbase.ac.uk .

CONTEX-L. Cross-disciplinary analysis of ancient texts.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe contex-l Your Name] to:

listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.edu .

CREWRT-L. Creative Writing in Education for Teachers and Students.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe crewrt-l Your Name] to:

listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu .

CTHEORY.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe ctheory Your Name] to:

listserv@vm1.mcgill.ca.

CDG-CNL. Curriculum Development Group - Composition & Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe cdg-cnl Your Name] to:

listserv@miamiu.muohio.edu.

CWC94-L. MU's 94 Computers and Writing Conference.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe cwc94-l Your Name] to:

listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu .

DARGON-L. Dargon Project Writers Forum.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe dargon-l Your Name] to:

listserv@brownvm.brown.edu.

DOROTHYL. Mystery Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe dorothyl Your Name] to:

listserv@kentvm.edu.

ECW. Essays on Canadian Writing.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe ecw Your Name] to:

mailto:listserv@listserv.net.

E-GRAD. For graduate students in English and other modern languages. Sponsored by the Graduate Student Caucus in the Modern Language Association.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe e-grad Your Name] to:

listserv@RUTVM1.RUTGERS.EDU.

ELECTRONIC COLLEGE OF THEORYL. Literary Theory.
To subscribe, send an e-mail message to:

xx124@po.cwru.edu.
Asking to join the Society for Critical Exchange and to participate in the college.

ELENCHUS. Elenchus Christian Thought and Literature in Late Antiquity.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe elenchus Your Name] to:

listserv@acadvm1.uottowa.ca.

ENG213. Technical Writing.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe eng213 Your Name] to:

listserv@umslvma.umsl.edu.

ENGL8156. Creative writing.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe engl8156 Your Name] to:

listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu .

E-POETRY. Poetry in Electronic Journals.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe e-poetry Your Name] to:

listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu .

EQUEST-L. ELFQUEST Comic Book.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe equest-l Your Name] to:

listserv@psuvm.psu.edu.

EUROFILE. Electronic Reviews of French & Italian Literary Essays.
To subscribe, send e-mail to the moderators at:

eurofile@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu.

EXLIBRIS. Rare Books and Special Collections Forum.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe exlibris Your Name] to:

listserv@rutvm1.rutgers.edu .

FANTASY. Fantasy Fiction.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe fantasy Your Name] to:

listproc@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu.

FEM-BIBLIO. For the discussion of books relating to women and/or spirituality.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe fem-biblio Your Name] to:

listserv@listserv.aol.com.

FICTION. Fiction Writers Workshop.
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listserv@psuvm.psu.edu.

FICTION OF PHILOSOPHY. Philosophical Fiction.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe fiction-of-philosophy Your Name] to:

majordomo@world.std.com.

GOTHIC LITERATURE. Aspects of the Gothic or the Grotesque.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe gothic literature Your Name] to:

janet%mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk .

MEDART-L. History of Medieval Art (about 100 CE to 1500 CE).
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe MEDART-L Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@UTORONTO.BITNET.

HIT. Imaginative Tech and Science Fiction.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe hit Your Name] to:

hit@ufrj.bitnet.net.

HORROR. Horror Films and Fiction.
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listserv@pacevm.bitnet.net.

H-RHETOR. History of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe h-rhetor Your Name] to:

listserv@uicvm.uic.edu.

HUMANIST. For computing Humanists and for those who support the application of computers to scholarship in the humanities.
To subscribe, send a subscription message ["subscribe HUMANIST Your Name"] to:

LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU.

HUMGRAD. For all postgraduate students in humanities subjects, especially connected to the use of computers.
To subscribe, send a subscription message ["subscribe HUMGRAD Your Name"] to:

humgrad-request@mailbase.ac.uk

HUMSPC-L. Humanist Special E-conference for the Special Humanist Mailings.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE HUMSPC-L Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU.

IAFA-L. Scholarly discussion of Fantastic Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe iafa-l Your Name] to:

listserv@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu.

ICONOL-L. Electronic Poetry Discussion.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe iconol-l Your Name] to:

listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu.

ICWAW. Intercampus Committee on Writing and Assessment Members.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe icwaw Your Name] to:

listserv@indycms.iupui.edu.

INSC-L. International Narrative Society Conference. COMSERVE@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU.

K-16LINK. Technology and Writing.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe k-16link Your Name] to:

listserv@listserv.net.

KIDLIT-L. Children and Youth Literature List.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe kidlit-l Your Name] to:

listserv@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu.

LT-ANTIQ. Late Antiquity is an unmoderated list that provides a discussion forum for topics relating to Late Antiquity (c. AD 260-640); includes the Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Early Medieval, and Early Islamic periods. Geographical coverage extends from western Europe to the Middle East, and from the Sahara to Russia. Cross-disciplinary interaction is particularly encouraged.
To subscribe, send a generic subscription message [Subscribe lt-antiq Your Name] to

LISTSERV@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU.

LITERA-L. For exchanging ideas about literature and related topics, like linguistics, semantics, philology, etc.; also allows users to share their literary creations for a critique. Also Spanish literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE LITERA-L Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX.

LITERARY. Discussions about literature
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe literary Your Name] to:

listserv@bitnic.educom.edu.

LITERARY. For any lover of literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE LITERARY Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@UCF1VM.CC.UCF.EDU.

LITMAST. Literacy Masters Program.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe litmat Your Name] to:

listserv@msu.edu

LITSCI-L Society for Literature and Science - philos., tech., cyber discussion.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe litsci-l Your Name] to:

listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.

LLCS. Language, Literacy, & Cultural Studies Program - UNM, COE.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe llcs Your Name] to:

listserv@unmvma.unm.edu

MAGEWINDS. Open to all speculative fields, from hard science fiction to fantasy.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe magewinds Your Name] to:

magewinds-request@cs.bu.edu

MEDEVLIT. Medieval literature discussion list.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe medevlit Your Name] to:

listserv%siucvmb.bitnet@listserv.net.

CHAUCER Medieval English Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message ["SUBSCRIBE CHAUCER Your Name"] to:

LISTSERV@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU

PERFORM Medieval Performing Arts.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE PERFORM Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU

MEDIEV-L. For scholars and students of the Middle Ages (the period A.D. 283-1500).
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE MEDIEV-L Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU.

MEDTEXTL. Medieval Text-Philology, Codicology, and Text Analysis.
To subscribe, send a subscription message ("SUBSCRIBE MEDTEXTL Your Name") to:

LISTSERV@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU.

MENDELE. Yiddish Literature and Language.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe mendele Your Name] to:

listserv@yalevm.cis.yale.edu.

MODBRITS. Modern British and Irish Literature: 1895-1955.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe modbrits Your Name] to:

listserv@kentvm.kent.edu.

NASSR-L. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe nassr-l Your Name] to:

listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

NATIVE-LIT-L. Native American Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe native-lit-l Your Name] to:

listserv@cornell.edu

NEDER-L. Dutch (Nederlandse) language and literature. The language of this list is Dutch.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe neder-l Your Name] to:

listserv@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl .

Nesfad Science Fiction Literature in the Nordic Area.
To subscribe, send e-mail to:

ahrvid@stacken.kth.se
or
listserv@vm.its.rpi.edu

NEW-YORKER. Discussion of literature in the New Yorker.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe new-yorker Your Name] to:

new-yorker@listporc.stfx.ca

NFICTION. Non-Fiction Writers Workshop.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe nfiction Your Name] to:

listserv@psuvm.psu.edu.

NOVELIST."Librarians' Forum on Literature in English".
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe novelist Your Name] to:

listserv@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu.

NOVELS-L. Novel Writers Workshop.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe novels-l Your Name] to:

listserv@psuvm.psu.edu.

NWU-CHAT. National Writers Union List.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe nwu-chat Your Name] to:

listserv@netcom.com.

PERSIA-L. Jewish Literature and History in the Persian Period.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe persia-l Your Name] to:

listserv@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu

PHIL-LIT. An Electronic Symposium on Philosophy and Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe phil-lit Your Name] to:

listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu

PMC-LIST. Discussion group which accompanies Postmodern culture, a juried interdisciplinary electronic journal of contemporary literature, theory and culture.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe pmc-list Your Name] to:

listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu.

PMC-TALK. Discussion group which accompanies Postmodern Culture.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe pmc-talk Your Name] to:

listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu.

POET. Workshop for Poetry.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe poet Your Name] to:

listserv@listserv.net.

POSTCOLONIAL. Post Colonial Literature and Theory.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe postcolonial Your Name] to:

postcolonial@lists.village.edu .

PROSODYDiscussion List.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [Subscribe prosody Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@MSU.EDU.

PURTOPOI. Rhetoric, Language, Professional Writing.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe purtopoi Your Name] to:

listserv@vm.cc.purdue.edu.

QUANTA-ASCII. Science Fiction and Fantasy.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe quanta-ascii Your Name] to:

majordomo@netcom.com.

RARE-SF. Discussion of rare Science Fiction and Fantasy.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe rare-sf Your Name] to:

rare-sf-request@ucsb.edu.

RCWPMSU. Red Cedar Writing Project.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe rcwpmsu Your Name] to:

listserv@msu.edu.

REED-L. Records of Early English Drama Discussion.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE REED-L Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@VM.UTCC.UTORONTO.CA .

RENAIS-L. A forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of the Renaissance.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE RENAIS-L Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU .

ORFEO. Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic poetry.
To subscribe: Send a subscription message [subscribe orfeo Your Name] to:

listproc@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu .

FICINO. Discussion of the Renaissance and Reformation.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE FICINO Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@VM.UTCC.UTORONTO.CA .

RHETAREA. Rhetoric and Composition.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe rhetarea Your Name] to:

listserv@umdd.umd.edu.

RHETNT-L. CyberJournal for Rhetoric and Writing.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe rhetnl-l Your Name] to:

listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu .

RHETORIC. Rhetoric.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe rhetoric Your Name] to:

comserve@vm.its.vpi.edu

SBRHYM-L. SUNY/Stony Brook Literary Underground.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe sbrhym-l Your Name] to:

listserv@ccvm.sunysb.edu.

SCHOLAR. Concerned with all aspects of natural language processing, including the editing of historical texts.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [SUBSCRIBE SCHOLAR Your Name] to:

LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.

SCRNWRIT. Screen Writing.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe scrnwrit Your Name] to:

listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu.

SEELANGS. Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe seelangs Your Name] to:

listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu.

SERCITES. Citations for Serial Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe secrites Your Name] to:

listserv@mitvma.mit.edu.

SHADOWTK. Interactive ShadowRun Fiction.
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listserv@listserv.net.

SF-LIST. Science Fiction.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe sf-list Your Name] to:

listproc@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu .

SF-LOVERS. Science Fiction.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe sf-lovers Your Name] to:

sf-lovers-request@rutvm1.rutgers.edu.

STWTTF-L. Gender Issues in Science Fiction.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe stwttf-l Your Name] to:

listserv@listserv.net.

SUPERGUY. Science Fiction Literature.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe superguy Your Name] to:

listserv@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu.

T-AMLIT.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe t-amlit Your Name] to:

listserv@bitnic.educom.edu.

TECHWR-L. Technical Writers List; for all Technical Communication issues.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe techwr-l Your Name] to:

listserv@vm1.ucc.okstate.edu .

TESLIT-L. Adult Education and Literacy TESL-L sublist.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe teslit-l Your Name] to:

listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu.

TESLMW-L. Materials Writers Sub-list of TESL-L.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe teslmw-l Your Name] to:

listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu.

TOC-READ. UIC Literacy Tables of Contents Service.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe toc-read Your Name] to:

listserv@uicvm.uic.edu.

UK-SF. Science Fiction and Fantasy in the United Kingdom.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe uk-sf Your Name] to:

listserv@uel.ack.uk.

UK-SF-BOOKS. Science Fiction and Fantasy in the United Kingdom.
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listserv@uel.ack.uk.

UTOPIA-L Topics related to utopianism and dystopianism.
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LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU .

VAMPYRES. Vampire Lore, Fact, and Fiction.
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listserv@guvm.bitnet.net.

WAC-L. Writing Across the Curriculum.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe wac-l Your Name] to:

listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.

WIG-L. Issues of interest to the members of Women in Germany (WIG), an organization devoted to the feminist study of German literature, culture, and language. (You do not need to be a WIG member to join.)
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe wig-l Your Name] to:

listserv@listserv.net.

WORKS-L. Writers List Works Archives.
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listserv@vm1.nodak.edu.

WRITERS. Writers.
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listserv@vm1.nodak.edu.

WRITING. Fiction Writers Workshop Writing Discussion List.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe writing Your Name] to:

listserv@psuvm.psu.edu.

WWP-L. Brown University Women Writers Project.
To subscribe, send a subscription message [subscribe wwp-l Your Name] to:

listserv@brownvm.brown.edu.

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