A List of Literary Academic Discussion Groups

LITERARY ACADEMIC DISCUSSION GROUPS

Here is a listing of some literary discussion groups you may want to join along with the addresses of the listservers that carry them. If you can't find what you're looking for in the list below, try Stephanie da Silva's literature page from her Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, or try searching Liszt.

Once you have subscribed to one of these networks, remember that when you want to post a message directly to the other members, you do not send the message to the listserv address for the network but to the network itself. Thus, if you want to post a message to the members of Ansax-l, you would address it to ansax-l@wvnvm.wvnet.edu, not to listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu; to the members of Chaucernet, you would send your message to chaucer@uic.edu, and so on.


NETWORK:       LISTSERVER ADDRESS:           SUBJECT AREA: 

A.RICE         listserv@hampvms.bitnet       Anne Rice

AMLIT-L        listserv@umcvmb.bitnet        American Literature
               listserv@umcvmb.missouri.edu  

ANSAX-L        listserv@wvnvm.bitnet         Anglo-Saxon Studies
               listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu      

AUSTEN-L       listserv@mcgill1.bitnet       Jane Austen (also F. Burney,
               listserv@vm1.mcgill.ca        Mary Wollstonecraft, etc.) 

ARTHURNET      listserver@morgan.ucs.mun.ca  Arthurian Studies

BMMR-L         listserv@cc.brynmawr.edu      Medieval Book Reviews

CHAUCER        listserv@listserv.uic.edu     Chaucer and Medieval
                                                  Literature

CREWRT-L       listserv@umcvmb.missouri.edu  Creative Writing
                                                  Pedagogy

DERRIDA        listserv@cfrvm.bitnet         Jacques Derrida and
                                                Deconstruction

DOROTHYL       listserv@kentvm.bitnet        Dorothy Sayers and
               listserv@kentvm.kent.edu         the Mystery Genre

FICINO         listserv@utoronto.bitnet      Renaissance Studies
               listserv@epas.utoronto.ca

FWAKE-L        listserv@irlearn.bitnet       Finnegan's Wake and
               listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie       James Joyce Studies

HESSE-L        listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet        Hermann Hesse

HEL-L          listproc@ebbs.english.vt.edu  History of the English
                                                  Language

LITERA-L       listserv@tecmtyvm.bitnet      Literature
               listserv@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx

LITERARY       listserv@ucf1vm.bitnet        Literature
               listserv@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu

JACK-LONDON    Send e-mail message to:       Jack London
               jack-london-request@sonoma.edu

MILTON-L       Send e-mail message to:       John Milton
               milton-request@urvax.bitnet
               milton-request@urvax.urich.edu

MEDTEXTL       listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet       Medieval Languages &
               listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu         Literature

MODBRITS       listserv@kentvm.bitnet        Modern British and
               listserv@kentvm.kent.edu        Irish Literature

NABOKV-L       listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet        Vladimir Nabokov

NASSR-L        listserv@wvnvm.bitnet         No. Amer. Society for
               listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu      Study of Romanticism          
                            
NATIVE-LIT-L   listserv@cornell.edu          Native American Lit.

PROSODY        listserv@msu.bitnet           Prosody                       
               listserv@msu.edu

PURTOPOI       listserv@purccvm.bitnet       Issues in Rhetoric
               listserv@mace.cc.purdue.edu     and Composition

PYNCHON        Send e-mail message to Jody   Thomas Pynchon
               Gilbert 

RRA-L          listserv@kentvm.bitnet        Romance Readers
               listserv@kentvm.kent.edu         Anonymous

SF-LOVERS      listserv@rutvm1.bitnet        Science Fiction
               listserv@rutgers.edu

SHAKSPER       listserv@utoronto.bitnet      William Shakespeare
               listserv@epas.utoronto.ca

TOLKIEN        listserv@jhuvm.bitnet         J.R.R. Tolkien
               
TROLLOPE       majordomo@world.std.com       Anthony Trollope

TWAIN-L        listserv@yorkvm1.bitnet       Mark Twain
               listserv@vm1.yorku.ca

WRITERS        listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet       Professional Writing
               listserv@vm1.nodak.edu           and Writers