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Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Seeks Submissions for Spring 2024 Special Issue on “Intelligence” [Deadline Extended to 1/15/24]

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 5:42pm
Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

CFP: “Intelligence,” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (JMMLA), Spring 2024

The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for a Spring 2024 special issue on the theme of “Intelligence.”

In 2021, as a consequence of the pandemic, schools and colleges across the country placed a temporary freeze on standardized testing, reinforcing doubts regarding the necessity and efficacy of such tests to assess intellectual potential. Soon thereafter, the November 30th 2022 launch of ChatGPT-3 elicited responses ranging from the apocalyptic (the software is a huge step toward artificial general intelligence) to the skeptical (the software is not and cannot be intelligent).

Postwar Area Literature Group CFPs - American Literature Association 2024 Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 5:23pm
Postwar Area Literature Group
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar and contemporary topics for the 2024 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Chicago, IL from May 23-26, 2024 (information on the annual conference can be found at the American Literature Association website). The Postwar Group has three guaranteed panels this year, two in postwar studies and one in contemporary studies. Please review our calls for papers below, and email nicoledib@suu.edu with any questions.

Dickinson and Ecologies

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 1:43pm
Li-hsin, Hsu / National Chengchi University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Dickinson and Ecologies

Emily Dickinson International Society + Wenshan Conference (Hybrid)

Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan

19-22 June 2025

(1 Day Critical Institute + 3-Day International Conference)

 

Call for Papers 

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 September 2024

 

Call for book reviews | US Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:23pm
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, ISSN: 2695-4168) is an open access interdisciplinary, academic, double blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on the study of the US popular culture manifestations and the representations of the United States in popular culture.

Book reviews must refer to monographs and edited volumes focused on topics fitting with the journal's scope, published in the past three years (or less recent books if put in perspective critically). The length for reviews is ca. 1000–1500 words.

EXTENDED DEADLINE -- CFP Edited Collection on Jon Favreau's films and TV series

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:21pm
Guy Nicolucci
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 7, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection 
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci

This edited volume on the works of Jon Favreau will be the fourth book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on films and television series created or produced by Favreau. Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers, and will be due Summer/Fall 2024.  

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
American Religion and Literature Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL 

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

Religious (In)tolerance and Geopolitics in American Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
American Religion and Literature Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

Religious (In)tolerance and Geopolitics in American Literature

William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
William Dean Howells Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism 

The William Dean Howells Society invites proposals for presentations that examine William Dean Howells’ contribution to American Literary Realism and his enduring influence on subsequent literary and cultural developments.

Potential approaches include but are not limited to:

Howells and American Literary Realism – Authors could examine Howells’ role in shaping and defining American Literary Realism, offering comparative analyses of his works with those of other realist writers.

Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience at ALA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.

Margaret Fuller Society American Literature Association 2024 Conference CFP: “Matters of Belonging” II: Learning and Teaching in Relation—Fuller’s Conversations and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Margaret Fuller Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

 

Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.

 

Margaret Fuller Society American Literature Association 2024 Conference CFP: “Matters of Belonging” I: Relationality and Feeling in Fuller and Other 19C Women Writers and Reformers

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Margaret Fuller Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

 

Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.

 

Carson McCullers and Embodied Difference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Carson McCullers Society (for ALA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

Panel Title: Carson McCullers and Embodied Difference

The Carson McCullers Society, in conjunction with The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University), invites proposals for a panel at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA), May 23-26, 2024, The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603.

Emerson and William James at ALA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society & William James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Emerson Society and the William James Society will co-sponsor a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.

Cather at ALA 2024: Open Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:16pm
The Willa Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Willa Cather Foundation will sponsor 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association’s 35th Annual Conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. Proposals on any topic related to Cather’s life and writing will be considered, including but not limited to:

- New approaches to Cather studies 

- Cather and her contemporaries

- Cather and authorship, circulation, reception, and/or publishing

- Teaching Cather 

- Environmental and ecocritical themes 

- Material culture

- Digital/computational approaches to Cather studies

- Cather's correspondence

Willa Cather and the Readerly Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:16pm
Willa Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Cather and the Readerly Imagination

In her own time as in ours, Willa Cather’s books created vibrant and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid reader with an acute awareness of the reading public. The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference seeks to celebrate and explore both the act of reading Cather and the presence of reading and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters. 

The directors invite papers on a variety of topics related to Cather, readers, and reading, including but not limited to the following areas.

 

  • Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories

 

CFP for African American Literature and Culture Society Papers and Panels at ALA 2024

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:14pm
African American Literature and Culture Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 14, 2024

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than 250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).  

 

Inspired by this year’s conference location, Chicago, we encourage the submission of papers and proposals for panels on the topics of Black literary renaissances, movements, and Black literary radicalism. 

Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

-The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and Black clubwomen

Dis/Trust

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:12pm
Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference

University College Dublin
1-3 May 2024
Conference Theme: “Dis/Trust”

Keynote Speakers: Dr Imaobong Umoren (London School of Economics)
Prof. Johannes Voelz (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:09pm
Valentina Romanzi/University of Turin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 11, 2023

Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World 

International Conference

University of Turin, Italy

Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures 

March 21-22, 2024 

 

"Book Erased: Print Word Censorship and US National Identity" and General Section RSAJournal no. 35

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:09pm
Valentina Romanzi/RSAJournal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Dear all, We would like to share with you the call for contributions to be published in the Special Section and in the General Section of the 35th issue (Sept 2024) of RSAJournal, the Journal of the Italian Association for North American Studies (AISNA). The General Section accepts full contributions on any topic pertaining to American Studies, to be submitted through 

Happiness and Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 11:07pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Call for Papers

Special Topic: Happiness and Culture

National Conference 

of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 

Chicago, IL

March 27-30, 2024

(Please note: the deadline has been extended. Proposals are now due by December 15, 2023) 

call for short articles | The US representation in popular culture and media

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 12:14pm
PopMeC research blog
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 30, 2021

The PopMeC Research Blog (https://popmec.hypotheses.org/, ISSN 2660-8839) is a peer-reviewed academic blog publishing short articles on a rolling basis.

ECRs and PGR students are very welcome to send their papers, as well as scholars at any stage of their career.

 

Full papers (about 3000 words, bibliographic references excluded) on topics related with popular culture, including (but not limited to):

>       the representation of specific ethnic / religious / gender / etc. groups in the US popular media and culture (including mainstream, alternative, and self-representations)

Aestheticizing Politics/Politicizing Aesthetics: St. Louis Symposium on Radicalism in U.S. Arts

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:31pm
Ryan Prewitt, Marc Blanc, and Simone Sparks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 18, 2024

The past seven years have seen a resurgence of the radical right. In this resurgence, art and literature have played a prominent role. Senior advisors to the Trump administration cited novels as specific influences on federal policy; Jordan Peterson has disguised right-wing manifestos as self-help volumes, hoodwinking young men to the tune of millions; the internet has seen an overwhelming explosion of white supremacist digital art. Walter Benjamin’s dictum that fascism seeks to “aestheticize politics” endures. 

Metamodernist Fiction: Literary Manifestations of the Ongoing Cultural Shift

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:26pm
Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

 

 

Metamodernist Fiction: Literary Manifestations

of the Ongoing Cultural Shift

 

edited by Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske

 

 

Charles W. Chesnutt Association panels ALA (Chicago, May 23-26 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
Bill Hardwig, Charles W. Chesnutt Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 20, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
https://chesnuttassociation.org/
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300
words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2024 ALA
conference in Chicago.

August Wilson Society at American Literature Association (ALA), Chicago 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
J. Ken Stuckey / August Wilson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The August Wilson

Author Society

of the

American Literature Association

announces its

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

for the

35th Annual ALA Conference

May 23–26, 2024 

The Palmer House Hilton

17 East Monroe Street

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