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Shakespeare Beyond All Limits (Biannual conference in Sydney)

updated: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 6:59pm
Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) & State Library of NSW
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

‘Shakespeare Beyond All Limits’7-9 December 2023At the University of Sydney and the State Library of NSW

The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) is delighted to announce its next conference will be ‘Shakespeare beyond all Limits’ hosted by the University of Sydney from 7-9 December 2023. We are now inviting proposals for scholarly papers and panels.

Our keynote speakers are:

Woolf Studies Annual: Call for Volumes 30 (2024) and 31 (2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 4:38pm
Woolf Studies Annual
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Open Call for WSA Volume 30 (2024)

Deadline: 15 October 2023

Launched in 1995, Woolf Studies Annual will publish its thirtieth volume in the spring of 2024. The editor invites submissions for this important milestone volume. 

Of particular interest would be articles that make use of the WSA Index (see vol. 28 and 29) to return to and expand/revise the insights of the scholarship and archival material published in the journal’s first 15 years. Of particular interest might be 

  • Vara Neverow and Merry M. Pawlowski’s preliminary bibliography to Three Guineas’s notes (vol. 3), 

New Religious Movements in Romantic and Victorian Print Culture

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 6:19pm
Abby Clayton & Colby Townsend, Indiana University Bloomington
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

Call for Abstracts for Edited Volume - New Religious Movements in Romantic and Victorian Print Culture

Type: Call for Papers

Deadline for Submissions: May 1, 2023

Subject Fields: History of the Book / History of Literature and Culture / Print Culture / Religious Studies/ Gender Studies / Transatlanticism / Romanticism / Victorian Studies

New Religious Movements in Romantic and Victorian Print Culture

(Edited by Abby Clayton and Colby Townsend)

CfA On_Culture Issue 16 (Spring 2024): Ways of Reading

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:14am
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

On_Culture Issue 16 (Spring 2024): Ways of Reading

With the sixteenth issue of On_Culture, we want to explore various approaches to reading cultural artifacts and events in an attempt to answer the question: What are the affordances of particular forms of reading and what do they bring forth? While the ability to decipher words and distinguish individual characters is perceived as a key skill and taught from an early age, philosophical traditions introduce us to critical approaches to interpreting broader cultural phenomena. 

Laws and Customs of the Early Modern Sea (Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 21–23 March 2024, Chicago)

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:10am
University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

This panel seeks papers that address any aspect of the laws and customs, broadly defined, of the early modern sea. It aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue about such norms, one that transcends geographical, linguistic, and methodological boundaries. Topics may include (but are in no way limited to) maritime law, naval warfare, piracy, cartography, navigation, international trade, the lex mercatoria, ship building, and the political question of open seas. Papers that consider the literary or artistic conventions governing the depiction of ocean space are welcome too.

This panel will be part of the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting in Chicago (21–23 March 2024).

SUBMISSION WINDOW CLOSED - Time and Its Influences - IUP EGO Spring Conference 2023

updated: 
Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 9:21am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania English Graduate Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

While we sometimes feel like life is moving around us rather than with us, it is essential to take a moment and consider how we got where we are. Over time, attitudes, opinions, and feelings have shifted along with what we choose to carry with us. To avoid leaving important things behind or risk forgetting them altogether, it is time to ask ourselves why we leave certain things behind and what it means when we do.

CFP: Material Pedagogies (MLA 2024 Roundtable)

updated: 
Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 9:49am
Jennifer Rabedeau (Cornell University) and Grace Catherine Greiner (The University of Texas at Austin)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

How can we leverage material texts and archival encounters to reinvigorate the humanities classroom? We invite proposals for a roundtable on such pedagogies and their impact in the classroom and beyond.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to the session organizers via email (see below) by March 17, 2023.

Contact the session organizers via email with any questions: Jennifer Rabedeau (jbr263@cornell.edu) and Grace Catherine Greiner (gcg49@cornell.edu).

RSVP Field Development Grant

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 1:15pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

RSVP Field Development Grant

The RSVP Field Development Grant was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College. The grant is intended to support one or a team of researchers in creating resources that will facilitate the work of other scholars in their studies of 19th-century British newspapers and periodicals.

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 1:10pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, and created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the 19th-century British periodical and newspaper press.

SCSC 2023: Literature of the Sidney Circle (and Orbit)

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:18am
International Sidney Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 10, 2023

INTERNATIONAL SIDNEY SOCIETY at the SIXTEENTH-CENTURY-SOCIETY CONFERENCE

26-29 October 2023

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. (Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel)

 

The International Sidney Society will sponsor three panels at the 2023 Sixteenth-Century-Society Conference and invites paper proposals related to Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert (Countess of Pembroke), Lady Mary Wroth, other members of the Sidney-Herbert-Dudley family, or associates of the broader Sidney circle.  

 

Archival Work in American Literature (RALS)

updated: 
Monday, February 20, 2023 - 2:10pm
RALS (Penn State)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

Resources for American Literary Study (RALS), a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2023 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. 

(extended deadline) Polyglot Pages in Early Modern England (c.1500-1700)

updated: 
Friday, February 17, 2023 - 10:07am
Charlotte Coffin / Université Paris-Est Créteil
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

Polyglot Pages in Early Modern England (c.1500-1700)

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Monday, March 20

 

Editors: Agnès Lafont - Charlotte Coffin

Publisher: Brepols

Series: Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain, https://www.brepols.net/series/peemb

Deadline for submitting chapter proposals (400 words):March 20, 2023

Deadline for essay submission (6000-8000 words): September 15, 2023

 

"Book: Re-imagined and Re-born," EXTENDED (Toronto, Ontario. 29-30 May 2023).

updated: 
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 - 9:26am
Bibliographical and Book Studies in Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

On 29 -30 May 2023, Canada’s bibliographical and book studies community will gather for the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences for our first in-person conference since 2019.

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature: "Radical Print Cultures in the Midwest" (East Lansing, June 1-3, 2023)

updated: 
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 9:47am
Marc Blanc
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

In recent years, print culture scholars have injected unprecedented focus on print production and circulation in Black, working-class, indigenous, and Latinx reading communities in the U.S. Once a field with a reputation for patrician pursuits, book history has expanded to include previously ignored communities and print forms such as newspapers and popular magazines. However, studies of anticapitalist and antiracist print cultures have tended to focus on urban, northeastern publishing capitals such as New York and Boston at the expense of literary scenes from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains. 

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries

updated: 
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 7:01pm
The Defoe Society/Digital Defoe
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries welcomes articles exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries (broadly conceived). In addition to traditional scholarly papers (roughly 4000-7000 words), we welcome essays on fresh pedagogical approaches to the works of Defoe and other writers of his era.

We also encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental non-peer reviewed essays.

Scholarly essays may be eligible for essay prizes awarded by the Defoe Society.

https://www.defoesociety.org/awards/

 

International Conference on Poetry Studies: "Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation"

updated: 
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - 4:56pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 20, 2023

Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.

The Shakespeare First Folio: 1623 to 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 10:04am
De Montfort University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the journal Shakespeare (the organ of the British Shakespeare Association, published by Routledge) on the Topic of "The Shakespeare First Folio: 1623 to 2023"

The guest editors of the journal Shakespeare, Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin) and Gabriel Egan (De Montfort University), invite papers for a special issue on the topic of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio. The special issue will appear in late 2023 to coincide with the book's 400 anniversary. The special issue is open to any study that focusses on the significance, understanding, and reception of this important book in its own time and/or at any time between 1623 and now.

Call for Applications: Colby Book Nominations

updated: 
Sunday, December 11, 2022 - 2:40pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Call for Applications: Colby Book Nominations

The Robert and Vineta Colby Prize is intended to honor original book-length scholarship about Victorian periodicals and newspapers, of the kind that Robert and Vineta Colby themselves produced during their careers. The annual prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press.

See https://rs4vp.org/awards/colby-prize/ for more details. 

Call for Applications: Curran Fellowships

updated: 
Sunday, December 11, 2022 - 2:40pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 15, 2022

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Generally, multiple awards are given each year. The fellowship is made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals.

See https://rs4vp.org/awards/curran-fellowship/ for more details.

Filibusters in Birmingham: a Conference on Wyndham Lewis

updated: 
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 9:54am
University of Birmingham
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 19, 2023

In his travelogue Filibusters in Barbary(1932), the modernist painter and writer Wyndham Lewis evoked the fantasy of being ‘thoroughly unanchored’ from London, from controversy, from recognizability: from his life as he lived it at the time, in effect. The fantasy compels not only because it’s a typically contrarian move made by an unapologetic contrarian, but also because it invites reflection on the very Lewisian problem of autonomy itself.

Publishing Late Modernism

updated: 
Sunday, December 4, 2022 - 7:25pm
John Beck / University of Westminster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

One-day conference, in-person, June 9 2023.

Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW.

Ways of Reading: Literature and literacy

updated: 
Sunday, December 4, 2022 - 7:24pm
English Academy of Southern Africa
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

EASA International Conference 2023

Ways of Reading: Literature and literacy (proposed theme)

7-8 December, 2023, University of the Free State (Bloemfontein)

 

Deadline Extended: New Editor Opening for Reception Journal

updated: 
Sunday, December 4, 2022 - 11:17am
Reception Study Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Deadline Extended: Reception: Texts. Readers, Audiences, History, the peer-reviewed journal of the Reception Study Society, is inviting applications for one of its two general editor positions. Published annually by Penn State University Press, Reception presents a forum for scholarly and critical research-based articles in audience and reception studies in literary criticism, cultural and media studies, and the history of reading and book history. Our new editor will be expected to work with the journal’s continuing co-editor and its book-review editor to continue to develop Reception’s role as a leader in presenting new research in the various fields of audience study.

Call for Book Reviews on Free Speech and Censorship

updated: 
Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 3:01pm
Randy Robertson / Susquehanna University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 4, 2022

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the winter and summer 2023 issues. In recent years, the temperature has risen around free speech debates, and books on censorship and free speech come out with such frequency that it is hard to keep abreast of the new scholarship. I am interested in receiving reviews and review essays on academic books that relate to free speech. The books to be reviewed can center on any historical, geographical, or disciplinary context, and the reviews and review essays can be written from (almost) any theoretical perspective.Keywords: free speech, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, liberty of the press, censorship.

 

Meaning, Memory, and the Making of Culture: Manuscripts and Books, 1350–1550, 11-15 July 2023

updated: 
Thursday, November 3, 2022 - 11:49am
The Early Book Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 1, 2022

The 18th biennial conference of the Early Book Society will be hosted by Carrie Griffin and Eleanor Giraud at the University of Limerick from 11th to 14th July, 2023, with an excursion on 15th July. Confirmed keynote speakers include John Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Queen’s University Belfast, and Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America. Planned activities include an early music concert and hands-on use of the university’s printing press. Please mark your calendars.

Shakespeare's Libraries

updated: 
Monday, October 10, 2022 - 1:03pm
Shakespeare Seminar 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known as the First Folio, published in 1623. It included 36 plays, some of which had not been published before. On the website of The Folger Shakespeare Library readers are invited to “learn more about Shakespeare’s language, life, and the world he knew,” suggesting that we might be able to unlock, or at least better understand, Shakespeare’s works by studying what he and his contemporaries not only read but also saw or heard.

Reading Literary Institutions around 1900

updated: 
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 9:39am
American Comparative Literature Association 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

To confront literary institutions means to confront paradoxes at every level. Institutionalization is the enemy of “real” literature and art, avant-gardists and critical theorists will tell you. Institutions standardize, constrain, and exclude while they assign value and invite critique. Conversely, there is no literature without institutionalization: it is only through institutional frameworks that we can communicate about literature as an observable phenomenon at all. And often, the fiercest critics of institutions are in turn the savviest institution-builders.

Posthumous Publication

updated: 
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 9:36am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Though “posthumousness” takes a variety of forms, the texts within its ambit share a quality that Jean-Christophe Cloutier, in Shadow Archives, calls “a belated form of timeliness.” The editorial apparatus of posthumously published texts, such as Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth or Muriel Rukeyser’s Savage Coast, foregrounds these novels’ prior lostness and subsequent belated arrival in forms and contexts that their authors could not have foreseen.

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