category: american

Short-Term Research Fellowships, NYPL, 2013-2014

full name / name of organization: 
New York Public Library
contact email: 
thomaslannon@nypl.org, elizabethdenlinger@nypl.org

I am glad to be able to announce the NYPL Short-Term Research Fellowships, though sorry that again they are only for people who can legally work in the US.

[UPDATE] CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
University of Glasgow
contact email: 
arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk

CFP DEADLINE APPROACHING, Friday 1st March 2013

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Professor Pierre Joris (SUNY at Albany)

Call for papers from 20th Feb.2013 to end of April 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The Department of English and Literatures of English Expression of the Higher Teacher Training College of the University of Maroua in Cameroon invites papers for the inaugural issue of Springs to be published in June 2013
contact email: 
pangmeshi@gmail.com, arundie@yahoo.com

Springs is an international peer-reviewed journal.

Melville and Matter, MLA, January 9-12, 2014, Chicago

full name / name of organization: 
Timothy Marr/ Melville Society
contact email: 
marr@unc.edu

The Melville Society is seeking paper proposals for its panel at the Modern Language Association conference in Chicago from January 9-12, 2014.

Time and Temporality in European Modernism

full name / name of organization: 
MDRN/KULeuven
contact email: 
time.mdrn@gmail.com

****DEADLINE EXTENDED (15 March 2013)****

Time and Temporality in European Modernism and the Avant-Gardes (1900-1950), 16-18 September 2013
full name / name of organization:
MDRN/KULeuven

Call for Submissions (deadline May 31, 2013): Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art

full name / name of organization: 
Writer's Bloc Literary Magazine
contact email: 
writersbloclitmag@hotmail.com

Submission deadline: May 31, 2013

CFP: Food Panel @ PAMLA 2013 With Pens And Forks: A Frank Look At American Food Writing

full name / name of organization: 
Lyndsey Lefebvre - Pacific And Ancient Modern Language Association
contact email: 
lyndseylefebvre@gmail.com

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association – November 1-3rd at Bahia Resort Hotel, in San Diego, California.

MLA 2014: Asian American Literature Panels

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Asian American Literature Division
contact email: 
tpyu@wisc.edu

The Asian American Literature Division is organizing the following panels for MLA 2014 in Chicago. Send proposals to the emails indicated for each panel.

Asian Americans and the Undead

Comparative American Ethnic Literatures—Special Session, PAMLA – submissions due April 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA—Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
melanieh@u.washington.edu

“FATHER LANDS, MOTHER COUNTRIES, AND WARDS OF THE (NATION) STATE”

Early American Literature Panel for RMMLA (Oct.10-12) DEADLINE: March 1

full name / name of organization: 
Lisa McGunigal
contact email: 
LXM970@psu.edu

The Early American Literature panel for the Rocky Mountain MLA (October 10-12; Vancouver, WA) is seeking papers.

[UPDATE] STILL LOST IN THE COSMOS: Walker Percy and the 21st Century / October 11, 12, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Loyola's Walker Percy Center / New Orleans
contact email: 
wpc@loyno.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: April 1, 2013

WHERE: The campus of Loyola University in uptown New Orleans

WHEN: October 11, 12, 2013

DESCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE:

Fashion Panels at 2013 MPCA/ACA Conference, October 11-13

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association
contact email: 
kobrien1@memphis.edu

Call for Papers:
FASHION
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel, A Doubletree by Hilton

Modernist creativity and contingency: (MSA15, 8/29-9/01)

full name / name of organization: 
Erica McAlpine, Reena Sastri
contact email: 
ericamcalpine@gmail.com, reena.sastri@gmail.com

Modernist creativity and contingency

Panel on Princesses in Popular Culture, 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
michelle.stonis@csulb.edu

Panel -- Once Upon a Time: The Impact of Princess Culture on Girls

And they lived happily ever after, or did they?

CFP: Articles for Laraña 4: Graphic Novel.

full name / name of organization: 
Revista Laraña
contact email: 
laranadesevilla@gmail.com

"A comic book intended for an adult audience which tells a unique story in book format, created by one author (rarely is a choral work) in which some claim to be looking for great literature and predo

[UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space ($125 award for the best essay)

full name / name of organization: 
Southern Methodist University's English Department (Graduate Students)
contact email: 
smugradconference@gmail.com

The Sentimental Worlds of Ray Bradbury (MLA, 9-12 January 2014, Chicago), Deadline 3/8/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Adam Lawrence and Andrea Krafft
contact email: 
BradburyMLA@gmail.com

Ray Bradbury was writing science fiction during the infancy of the genre and gained mainstream popularity during the 1950s.

Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives (deadline for abstracts: May 31st)

full name / name of organization: 
American Studies Center, University of Bucharest
contact email: 
mihaela.precup@americanstudies.ro, dmihailes@yahoo.com

This is a CFP for a volume to be published by Dr. Roxana Oltean, Dr. Mihaela Precup, Dr.

Transitions and Transactions: Literature and Creative Writing Pedagogies in Community Colleges Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Borough of Manhattan Community College, Department of English
contact email: 
mbarrow@bmcc.cuny.edu or msteinkoler@bmcc.cuny.edu

Pedagogy as an essential part of the learning and teaching culture has an ever more important place in community colleges where we continually rethink and revise our practices for our often non-tradit

Children's Literature Panel (PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA, November 1-3, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
laurenbenard@hotmail.com

The academic interest in children's literature has been growing in popularity. Why do these stories interest a young audience as well as adults? Why are new versions of old stories still interesting?

Oceans Apart: In Search of New Wor(l)ds

full name / name of organization: 
International American Studies Association
contact email: 
pawel@jedrzejko.eu

America. America. AmeRICA. The Americas. A mythologized New World, oceans apart from the Old, yet not a day younger.

ATHE Theatre History Focus Group Debut Panel

full name / name of organization: 
American Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Theatre History Focus Group)
contact email: 
charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

ATHE Theatre History Focus Group
Debut Panel 2013

Gypsies in American Cultural Imagination

full name / name of organization: 
David Shane Wallace/American University in Bulgaria
contact email: 
dshanew@gmail.com

This panel seeks essays from any historical period on Literature, Music, Film, and/or Television for a proposed special session at the MLA Convention in Chicago (Jan.

MLA 2014 -- Cognitive Approaches to Literature Division -- Call for Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Julien J. Simon
contact email: 
jjsimon@iue.edu

Call for Papers -- MLA 2014, Chicago
Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature
(Guaranteed sessions)

PANEL 1
Cognitive Approaches to Film

NANO: New American Notes Online, Special Theme: Competition (New Deadline: 26 April 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
NANO: New American Notes Online: An Academic Journal for Big Ideas in a Small World
contact email: 
editor.nanocrit@gmail.com or sscanlan@citytech.cuny.edu

Call for Papers: NANO: New American Notes Online: An Academic Journal for Big Ideas in a Small World

Issue 4

New Deadline: 26 April 2013

Special Theme: Competition

South Asians in North America; Deadline, March 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Amritjit Singh/MLA-Ethnic Studies Division
contact email: 
singha@ohio.edu

South Asians in North America
Division: Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature, MLA

MPCA 11/11-13, Southern Lit. and Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association
contact email: 
anne.canavan@gmail.com

Call for Papers

[UPDATE]: "Deathless Love"

full name / name of organization: 
Association of Carolina Emerging Scholars
contact email: 
cescon@mailbox.sc.edu

*Please note that the abstract deadline has been extended to March 15.*

Critiquing Culture: The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference at George Mason University 9/21/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee
contact email: 
critiquing.culture@gmail.com

The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) at George Mason University invites paper proposals for our 8th annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference.

Essay Collection: Movies in the Age of Obama

full name / name of organization: 
David garrett Izzo
contact email: 
davidizzo@hotmail.com

This collection is inspired by an article in The New York Times, which, in part is quoted below.

The Upside in film:

The Adjunct Verses (Collection/Performance/Multimedia)

full name / name of organization: 
N1Academy
contact email: 
rcbatp@gmail.com

Calling all contingent faculty and allies. . . .

http://migrantintellectual.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/the-adjunct-verses/

Project Title: THE ADJUNCT VERSES

[UPDATE] Sound-Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Jorge Sacido
contact email: 
jorge.sacido@usc.es

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
smacdon8@kent.edu

This panel is designed to examine ideas of childhood based on the life writing of working class people. How is child labor/schooling discussed in life writing from working class individuals?

[UPDATE] Emerging Perspectives graduate conference. May 2-3, 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
UCD English Graduate Society
contact email: 
enggrad@ucdconnect.ie

May 2-3, 2013 at University College Dublin, Rep. of Ireland, in association with the UCD English Graduate Society and Humanities Institute

[UPDATE] DEADLINE EXTENDED “Age, Identity, and Culture in Global Diasporas.” PAMLA Nov 1-3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
contact email: 
weihsin.gui@ucr.edu

*Deadline extended to April 15, 2013*

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