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Update: Deadline for Proposals Extended to Feb. 21

Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination

A symposium sponsored by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society

Perversions of Paper
28 June 2014
Keynes Library, Birkbeck College, University of London

Dear Colleagues,

This MLA 2015 (to be held in Vancouver, 8-11 January, 2015)Special Session intends to explore how ordinary everyday life is conceptualized in Muslim women’s memoir; their depiction of the public and

Editor seeks one 20-25 page essay on Edgar Allan Poe and slavery to complete a collection of essays that will be a part of new series at Lehigh University Press (Roman & Littlefield).

SFMS CFP for MLA 2015: Gender and Medieval Affect

Abstract deadline: March 31, 2014

Textual Overtures is currently accepting submissions for its 2014 issue under the theme of “Bodies”.

Roundtable will discuss tactics for using summers to make academic and professional progress: researching, teaching, and/or gaining alt-ac experience.

Although the notion of Ethos is not traditionally associated with that of Eros, the various rationalizations of love in Renaissance

This proposed special session explores innovative pedagogies that use poetry to challenge and engage developing college writers.

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE MARCH 7, 2014

Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature

A special issue on Narration and Reflection

guest edited by:

While the literature of disability has recently become the focus of intense scholarly scrutiny in the interdisciplinary field of disability studies, links between disability and lyric have yet to be f

Best friends forever; been that way forever; nothing lasts forever; forever young. ‘Forever’ is ubiquitous in our cultural imagination.

MLA Folklore and Literature Discussion Group
2015 MLA Convention (Vancouver, British Columbia)

“Storytelling in the Past and Present: Global Perspectives on Folklore and Literature”

Since the publication of Lawrence Buell’s The Environmental Literature, there has been increasing awareness that the environment has played a significant role in the shaping of American literature s

We are now accepting 150-word abstracts for the firth annual New Critics: Undergraduate Literature and Composition Conference.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal is launching a Multidisciplinary Research Program on the social, economic and technological shifts that took place in Britain in the period 1945–1975

We encourage papers across all disciplines. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Collecting/Collections and commodity culture
Connoisseurship, expertise, and elites

Environmentalism must consider loss while also looking forward: we mourn the environmental changes and losses that have already occurred, mitigate those that are upon us, and work to prevent those in

Chaucer at Galway II: Chaucer and Realism
International two-day conference at the National University of Ireland, Galway
25th-26th June, 2014

45th ISAGA (International Simulation and Gaming Association) conference in Dornbirn, Austria
July 7 – 11, 2014

Panel: Cross-Dressing and The Expression of Desire in Literature and Culture

Cross-Dressing and the Expression of Desire in Literature and Culture

[UPDATE] CFP: ENGLISH STUDIES AS ARCHIVE AND AS PROSPECTING
(80 Years of English Studies in Zagreb)
International Conference
Zagreb, Croatia, 18-21 September 2014

Dear Colleagues!

“Life, in Theory” refers to the ways in which the principle of life is assumed and articulated by highly specialized disciplinary knowledge, is entangled with media technologies, and is constantl

Although David Foster Wallace’s early works enjoyed widespread critical acclaim and were subject to scholarly treatments such as Steven J.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPENSER AND “THE HUMAN”

SPECIAL ISSUE OF SPENSER STUDIES

Guest Editors
Melissa E. Sanchez & Ayesha Ramachandran

Dash, Cal State Fullerton's annual literary journal, seeks submissions for its 2014 issue.

The Way Things Work: Art as Science, Science as Art

The Third Annual Undergraduate Student Conference
Art History Department, College of Visual and Performing Arts

Reading, Writing, and Interpreting the (Dys)Functional South

The Robert Frost Review is planning a special issue to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of both A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914).

The ninth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will convene at the Waycross Campus of South Georgia State College on the South Georgia Parkway (U.S.

Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature seeks scholarly articles examining testimonial literatures that document environmental injustice from throughout the Spanish-speaking and Franc