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The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 10:25pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1, 2023 ***

The response to our earlier CFP was so strong that we are expanding our edited volume into The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction, and we welcome additional chapters examining science fiction novels, short stories, YA literature, graphic novels, comics, films, television, games, material culture, and other media. 

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no later than October 1, 2023.

ACLA 2024: The Plasticity of Plasticity

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 4:18pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

As the concept of plasticity has travelled across feminist science studies and new materialisms to Black, queer, and trans studies, its meaning has itself become unstable—or plastic. Jules Gill-Peterson and Kyla Schuller offer an appropriately plastic definition: “plasticity refers to the capacity of a given body or system to generate new form” (1). Many feminist and queer theorists have sung the praises of plasticity, which promises to destabilize fixed forms of power relations, across the registers of gender/sex, race, and (neuro)biology (from Catherine Malabou to Karen Barad to Judith Butler).

18th Century Conference: The Book and the City

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:57pm
South Central Society for 18th Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

This year, the Annual Meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies will be held in one of the most thought-provoking cities in contemporary America: Portland, Oregon. The meeting will be held on Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, 2024. While papers on all aspects of the long eighteenth century are welcome, the theme of the conference will be "The Book and the City."

Caribbean Literature and Media: U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:57pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel invites submissions on literature and media from the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Papers can respond to a wide range of questions, including (but not limited to):

Call for Papers for Open Issue of The Apollonian

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:57pm
The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Volume 1, Issue 2

[The Apollonian is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that is published bi-annually.]

The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies seeks submissions for its sophomore issue (since its revival). The journal welcomes Academic Essays (within 5000 words), Short Essays (within 1500 words) and Book Reviews (within 2000 words). For the forthcoming issue, the submissions can be interdisciplinary, but must fall within the broader definition of humanities (and this also includes areas such as STEM and medical humanities, new media, visual cultures etc).

Book Reviews: 

Music, Domesticity, and British Identity

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:56pm
Dr Roger Hansford, guest editor, Ninteenth-Century Music Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2023

‘Music, Domesticity, and British Identity’ – Call for Articles (deadline 20 October 2023), Nineteenth-Century Music Review

 

Dear all,

 

I am delighted to announce the call for articles for ‘Music, Domesticity, and British Identity’, a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nineteenth-century-music-review> (General Editor: Prof. Bennett Zon).

 

The call is available here: <https://musicdomesticbritain19.hcommons.org/sample-page/>

 

Beyond the Capitals of Decadence - Seminar @ ACLA 2024

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:56pm
Florian Zappe
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

"Beyond the Capitals of Decadence" - Seminar @ ACLA 2024 

Organizers: Florian Zappe &James Dowthwaite

Call for Book Chapters: Lights On: Staging Post-Millennial Cultural Aspects in American Women Drama (with reference Pulitzer Prize winning plays) * working title

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:55pm
Dr. SUBHASSHRI. R
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

The proposed book looks for chapters exploring the contemporary Pulitzer Prize winning American women-authored plays and their engagement with post-millennial cultural dynamics. This volume / book wants to showcase women playwrights’ responses to and shaping the cultural landscape of American society of the 21st century. By examining themes, characters, narratives, and dramatic techniques, the chapters want to address a nuanced understanding of how American women drama reflects and challenges the complexities of changing times of the society.

Chapters proposals invited on the following plays and themes:

CFP ACLA2024: Seminar "Interactive Storytelling"

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:55pm
ACLA Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

CFP ACLA2024: Seminar "The Evolution of Interactivity in Storytelling"

American Comparative Literature Association

Montreal, Canada, March 14-17, 2024

Abstract deadline: September 30, 2023

The ongoing evolution of interactivity in novels, films, games, and digital media forms a continual dialogue between human creativity and technological innovation.  Interactivity has long been a cornerstone in storytelling, engendering a dynamic relationship between creators, writers, readers, players, and interactors.

Abolition || New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) Summer Institute

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:55pm
New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) invites applications for a week-long summer institute June 24-27, 2024, exploring the multiple manifestations of abolition and abolitionism in the United States.  

Higher education faculty at all levels (including adjuncts and contingent faculty), graduate students, K-12 teachers, independent scholars, artists, activists and community organizers, journalists, librarians, archivists, and other cultural workers are highly encouraged to apply. 

 

Literary Theory CEA 3/21-3/23/2024

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Literary Theory at CEA 2024

deadline for submissions: 

November 1, 2023

full name / name of organization: 

College English Association (CEA)

contact email: 

conaway@usi.edu

Call for Papers, Literary Theory at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Literary Theory for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

CFP: ACLA Panel: "Unruly Women in Contemporary Pop Culture"

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
Lisa Timmermann
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Recently, we have seen a growing number of unconventional female characters in literature, film, and on TV – characters that do not conform to patriarchal and capitalist constructions of femininity, that defy our expectations and refuse to follow the (written and/or unwritten) rules. In her monograph The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter (1995), Kathleen Rowe focused on the representation of “unruly women” in comedy. According to Rowe, the romantic comedy genre has “provided one of the few outlets for representations of female unruliness in Hollywood film” (Rowe 19).

Symposium Selfing and Shelving: Zines, Zine Media, and Zintivism

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
Sabina Fazli / Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Zines are extremely versatile and shapeshift across various historical and cultural contexts. The term covers a wide range of objects with different aesthetic and material qualities as well as contexts of production and reception: Zines accommodate the collective concerns of fans and activists (zintivism) and the personal voice of the diarist and letter writer. Since the rise of digital media, zines and their aesthetics have become portable: Digitised and digital zines exist alongside blogs, social media, podcasts, and substacks, which seem to exhibit zine-y tendencies, while digital infrastructures have changed the ways that print zines are produced, distributed, and archived.

Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:40pm
Dr Kelly Kar Yue Chan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Call for Papers

Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries

We are inviting chapter proposals for the edited book The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries. It is a collection of academic essays that scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and heroines in different folkloric traditions and narratives and in the context of Asia. Contributors can explore relevant notions in the topics of mythologies, folktales, literature, theatre performance and any other forms of arts/genres etc.

CFP: Irish Women’s Genre Fiction

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:40pm
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 3, 2023

CFP: Irish Women’s Genre Fiction / Special Issue of _LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory_

Deadline for abstract submissions: Nov 3, 2023

Deadline for paper submissions: May 15, 2024

Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from the Global South (Online)

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:40pm
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Memory and Trauma Studies have emerged as a key paradigm in the field of humanities, social and cultural studies, especially towards the end of the 20th century. The intersections and interactions between these two fields have been employed by contemporary scholars to study human histories of war, atrocities, genocides, partition, displacement and discrimination. Building upon this enriched understanding of the intricate relationship between memory and trauma, scholars have extended their inquiries to explore the mechanisms through which societies and individuals navigate the aftermath of traumatic experiences.

Writing Faith and Place in Early Modern Britain

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:30pm
University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

Writing Faith and Place in Early Modern Britain

17th–19th April, University of Exeter

 

4th International e-Conference "On Exploring Crisis in Literary and Cultural Studies" to be organized by New Literaria Journal in collaboration with the Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan (CURaj), India

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 12:54pm
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

4th International e-Conference

On

 

Exploring Crisis in Literary and Cultural Studies

Date: 19th & 20th October, 2023

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

in collaboration with

Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan (CURaj), India

 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 Mode: Online

Humour across Victoriana

updated: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 8:08am
Mou-Lan Wong / National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Humour across Victoriana

To be published as part of the series, Humour in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2023-2025).

This volume will attempt to explore the prevalence and function of humour across all levels of Victorian society by focusing on how humour is expressed, encountered, and experienced in all forms of media and expression.

NEW REMINDER: Il Parlaggio - new issue January 2024

updated: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 2:25am
Edizioni Sinestesie (Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

IL PARLAGGIO

ISSN 2280-6849

 

This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.

“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.

CFP: How We Do Asian American Studies: AAPI Narratives of Shared Vulnerability and Care Communities

updated: 
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 10:11am
Seol Ha & Surbhi Malik / Creighton University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Call for Papers

 

2024 AAAS Annual Conference

April 25-27, 2024

Seattle, WA

 

Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities

 

 

Panel Title

How We Do Asian American Studies: AAPI Narratives of Shared Vulnerability and Care Communities

 

Type: Paper Presentation (3-4 presenters)

 

“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 3:18pm
Université Paris Nanterre (CREA EA 370) - Université Clermont Auvergne (IHRIM-UMR 5317)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

                                               Call for papers 

“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”

(Scroll down for the French version, scientific committee and selected bibliography)

A one-day preparatory seminar will take place on April, 5th 2024 (as a hybrid event) to enable scholars to present their research. The conference will then take place at Université Paris Nanterre on April 3-4, 2025

Caribbean Carnival Space and New Media

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 11:40am
Hanna Klien-Thomas, Alison McLetchie, Natalie Wall
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL SPACE AND NEW MEDIA

Studies in Theatre and Performance Special Issue Call for Papers

BCPS Conference - February 12-13, 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:50am
British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCECALL FOR PAPERS  BACK IN-PERSON AGAIN!     FEBRUARY 12-13 2024     DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA

After three years of virtual conferences, we're excited to welcome you back to Savannah. As we reboot our in-person conference, we're also bringing back one of our most popular Keynote speakers. Please join us at the DeSoto Hotel in the beautiful Historic District this coming February for the critical engagement, friendly community, and vibrant network that the BCPS Conference has been known for for over three decades.

NeMLA 2024 - The Slow Cancellation of Futurism: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Imagined City

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:46am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Influenced by Le Corbusier’s ‘Radiant City’, the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis were a
modernist, utopian vision of urban renewal. However, they quickly slid into disrepair and in 1972 were
partially demolished in a nationwide, televised spectacle. The failure of Pruitt-Igoe shows us that the
dystopia is always necessarily contained within the utopia: despite the intentions of its architect Minoru
Yamasaki, in planning the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, it was always destined to be a vision of 'functional'
racial segregation by its federal ideators. Although the edict of racial segregation was thrown out by the

Call for Papers for the Journal of Contemporary Poetics

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:44am
International Islamic University, Islamabad
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The Journal of Contemporary Poetics is a biannual, open access peer-reviewed journal. Focused on Literature, Linguistics & ELT, it solicits papers that are global and interdisciplinary in scope. It brings together perspectives on a diverse array of issues through well-research papers that engage with pressing contemporary issues that are framing recent debates in the Humanities. We do not seek an application of theory but an engagement with multiple cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary philosophical paradigms that are shaping the contemporary debates in Literature, Linguistics and ELT. We publish articles that touch upon a vast array of topics including

Flash Call for Papers: Dystopias

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:44am
ContactZone - Journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Science Fiction and the Fantastic
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

ContactZone, Journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Science Fiction and the Fantastic (AISFF), is accepting abstract submissions for a special issue dedicated to dystopias.

The opposite of utopia, dystopia presents a negative vision of the future, often apocalyptic. This special issue wants to juxtapose different dystopian horizons, tackling the construction of the future from different perspectives along the trajectories of gender, class, ecology, religion and so forth.

Contributions can feature any literature (including graphic novels) or media production (film, TV series, games) from any nation or culture.

Abstract submission:

Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in the Post-9/11 World

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:43am
O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi- NCR, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 16, 2023

 

This is a call for papers for a virtual conference hosted by O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi-NCR, India

 Title of the Conference: Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in a Post-9/11 World

Conference dates: 3rd and 4th of February, 2024

Conference Organizers: Priyadarshini Gupta (priyadarshini@jgu.edu.in) and Mosarrap Hossain Khan (mhkhan@jgu.edu.in)

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