category: american

Calvino’s Contexts: The Influences On and The Influences Of Italo Calvino (NeMLA Apr. 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
jackiec159@hotmail.com

In the years since his death, the stature of Italo Calvino has only continued to grow. While his status as an Italian writer was never in doubt, the global range of his work is still being explored.

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice; August 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Central Piedmont Community College
contact email: 
Patricia.Bostian@cpcc.edu

Call for Papers “Interdisciplinary Arts: Retrospectives and Future Visions” March 21-22, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio USA
contact email: 
IartsConference2014@gmail.com

In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Ohio University School of Interdisciplinary will hold an international conference on the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary arts.

Death and Decay (deadline 4th October 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
HARTS & Minds postgraduate journal for the Arts and Humanities
contact email: 
editors@harts-minds.co.uk

This call for papers invites submissions on the subject of ‘Death and Decay’ for the third edition of HARTS & Minds, an online postgraduate journal for students of the Humanities and Arts, which i

[UPDATE] MMLA 2013 Special Session: Irony and Authenticity in Contemporary Artistic Production - Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
Janessa Toro/ University of Missouri/ New Deadline: June 14
contact email: 
jltz85@mail.missouri.edu

Is there room for earnestness and authenticity in contemporary media?

[UPDATE] San Joaquin Valley Journal Submission Deadline Extension -- August 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Andrew Dorsey / San Joaquin Valley Journal
contact email: 
adorsey@csustan.edu

The San Joaquin Valley Journal is seeking articles for its fourth issue.

Modernism and Cuisine: 2014 NeMLA (April 3-6)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
knash@fordham.edu

April 3-6, 2014--Harrisburg, PA

Call for Publication: Essays, Commentary, New Media Art, and Design.

full name / name of organization: 
Digital America
contact email: 
mf4jd@richmond.edu

Digital America is a new online journal venture from the University of Richmond that seeks to publish exceptional student work.

Fifth Annual State of Black Writers Symposium: Activism in the 21st Century, October 24, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Africana Institute/Essex County College, Newark, NJ
contact email: 
profrebwilliams@gmail.com

2013 Call for Papers

Fifth Annual State of Black Writers Symposium
Activism in the 21st Century

Reconstruction: Studies in Contempory Culture (Open Submissions)

full name / name of organization: 
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
contact email: 
reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com

Open Issues

Contact: Reconstruction Submissions Editor

We are continually accepting submissions for upcoming Open Issues, and can promise a prompt reply.

Urbanism and Urbanity

full name / name of organization: 
Nineteenth Century Studies Association
contact email: 
ncsa2014@gmail.com

Urbanism and Urbanity
March 20-22, Chicago IL
deadline: September 30, 2013
to: Maria K. Bachman and Maria Gindhart, Program Co-Chairs, ncsa2014@gmail.com
http://www.ncsaweb.net/

Pastoral Artifice - MMLA/November, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
plmonacell@ccis.edu

NeMLA 2014: The Loud Twentieth Century: Literature Sounds Off

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA
contact email: 
solinger@rutgers.edu

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

[UPDATE] DEADLINE APPROACHING Performing Gender: cultural ideals, expectations, and representations of gender in American

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Conference
contact email: 
cthorndi@kent.edu

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

CFP: Invisible Cities Grad Symposium - Kitchener ON, October 26

full name / name of organization: 
Critical Media Lab (in association with the Canadian Association of American Studies)
contact email: 
invisiblecities13@gmail.com

Call for participants Invisible Cities: Located Knowledge and Digital Design
Graduate Symposium and Expo
October 26, 2013
Critical Medial Lab, University of Waterloo, Kitchener Ontario

Minorities and Americanness in American culture and literature (submission 15/ 10/ 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Salwa Karoui- Elounelli
contact email: 
salwa_elounelli@yahoo.fr

UNIVERSITE DE TUNIS I
L’ÉOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE & AMERICANA

[UPDATE] American Women Writers of Color Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Salisbury University
contact email: 
AWWOC@salisbury.edu

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Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED:
American Women Writers of Color Conference
Nov. 1 – Nov. 3, 2013 Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel,
Ocean City, MD

CFP: "The Nineteenth-Century Unconscious," C19, March 13-16, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Emily Ogden
contact email: 
emily.ogden@virginia.edu

Panel on "The Nineteenth-Century Unconscious," C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Third Biennial Conference, March 13-16, 2014, UNC-Chapel Hill

Understanding Atrocities Conference: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide February 19-21, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Tristan Smyth / Scott W. Murray Mount Royal University
contact email: 
understandingatrocities@mtroyal.ca

We use ‘genocide’ and ‘atrocity’– words that overlap and mix – as we reach for an understanding of the full horror of one people’s attempts to eliminate another.

Beyond the Bedside: Nursing Narratives of World War I and World War II (NeMLA 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Ravenel Richardson
contact email: 
ravenelrichardson@gmail.com

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
Contact: ravenelrichardson@gmail.com

CFP: “Recollecting Vietnam”: Essay Collection

full name / name of organization: 
Editors: Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim, Denison University
contact email: 
recollectingvietnam@gmail.com

Abstract deadline: July 14, 2013

Eco-Ability Call for Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Joe Leeson-Schatz (Institute of Critical Animal Studies)
contact email: 
ecoability@gmail.com

A SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO A NEW FIELD
SCHOLARS & ACTIVISTS: CALL FOR PAPERS, ART, VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, AND NARRATIVES

“Eco-Ability: The Intersection of Earth, Animal, and Dis-Ability”

Ethnicity and Affect in American Literatures

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
rodrigues.laurie@gmail.com

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3 – 6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Coctail Culture: A Conference

full name / name of organization: 
University of Louisville (KY) and Drake University (IA)
contact email: 
cocktailconference@gmail.com

When Roland Barthes suggests that "the ideal drink would be rich in metonymies of all kinds," he might well have been speaking of cocktails and the drinking cultures they have helped to create.

Transatlantic Encounters: Redefining Temporality in the Nineteenth Century

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
jmjewusiak@valdosta.edu; mdrizou@gmail.com

Transatlantic Encounters: Redefining Temporality in the Nineteenth Century

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Object Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Conference (October 4-5, 2013, Berkeley, CA)

full name / name of organization: 
Padma Maitland (UCB Architecture, SSEAS); Christopher P. Miller (UCB English); Marta Figlerowicz (Harvard Society of Fellows)
contact email: 
padmamaitland@berkeley.edu

Object Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Conference (October 4-5, 2013, Berkeley, CA)

Call For Papers by Studies in American Humor for Special Issue on MAD Magazine

full name / name of organization: 
Studies in American Humor
contact email: 
studiesinamericanhumor@ohio.edu

Call for Special Issue on MAD

Representing the Contemporary Youth in Teen Television Drama

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
leviaj@gmail.com

From Beverley Hills 90210 to Gossip Girl and Glee, the genre of the teen drama series has added a unique and multi-faceted dynamic to the American television landscape.

Bodies in Place: Disability and the Environment in American Literature (NEMLA, April 3-6)

full name / name of organization: 
NEMLA
contact email: 
mjcella@ship.edu

Bodies in Place: Disability and the Environment in American Literature

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Advertising/marketing/PR in American Lit.- M/MLA November 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
mschiebe@qcc.cuny.edu

The American Literature II panel (permanent section) seeks papers on representations of advertising, marketing, and/or public relations in American novels, plays, poems, or films from 1870-present.

UPDATE: "The Genre Turn." Literary Criticism permanent section, 2013 M/MLA Convention

full name / name of organization: 
Michael Horton / University of Missouri
contact email: 
mah989@mail.missouri.edu

"The Genre Turn." This session will be devoted to assessing the state of the conversation about the genre turn in contemporary fiction epitomized by works like Colson Whitehead’s zombie novel Zone O

NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory ISSN 2277-3967 (PRINT)

full name / name of organization: 
INTERACTIONS FORUM PUNE, INDIA
contact email: 
newacademia.if@gmail.com

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
INTERACTIONS FORUM’S
NEW ACADEMIA - (ISSN 2277-3967) (PRINT)
AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY
Vol.II Issue III: JULY 2013

Making Art In/About/For Cities in Crisis

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
mickelsonjn@yahoo.com

April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Capturing the Immigrant Experience: Latina/o Identity in Flux

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA-2014
contact email: 
ksanchez@georgian.edu

The negotiation of Latina/o identities requires an understanding of ethnicities, language(s), religion(s), social class, gender, as well as the psychology of one’s own and others’ ideologies.

Ethnicity and Affect in American Literatures

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
rodrigues.laurie@gmail.com

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3 – 6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

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