category: eighteenth century

Assimilation & Vice in American Literature, NeMLA Convention, Harrisburg, PA (April 3-6, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
Francisco.Delgado@stonybrook.edu

We typically think and speak of assimilation not only as a process that results in cultural hybridity but as a process accomplished through hard work and sacrifice.

[UPDATE] VI International Gothic Congress ‘Gothic Convergences’, UNAM, Mexico City, April 1, 2 & 3, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
International Gothic Congress, UNAM
contact email: 
antonio.alcala@itesm.mx

During the last years, Gothic Literature has just begun to be accepted as a literary field worth of study among Mexican scholars.

The Arts of Travel; MMLA, Milwaukee, Nov 7-10, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
contact email: 
akastont@emich.edu

One might consider traveling well to be an art in and of itself.

Adoption: Crossing Boundaries, March 27-30 (due July 15); Florida State Univ.

full name / name of organization: 
Eric Walker/ Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
contact email: 
asac2014@fsu.edu or ewalker@fsu.edu

Call for Proposals

The Literary Legacy of Revelations

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
williams@kutztown.edu

The Literary Legacy of Revelations

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

Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: NEMLA 2014, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; April 3-6

full name / name of organization: 
Kathleen Alves/CUNY
contact email: 
kalves@qcc.cuny.edu

Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century

[REMINDER] Allegory Studies? (abstracts deadline 31 May)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Warwick
contact email: 
v.brljak@warwick.ac.uk

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (www.coldnoon.com) Call for Entries (Research Papers/ Poetry), deadline 6th June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics
contact email: 
submissions@coldnoon.com

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics is an International Print and Online Literary Journal published as a quarterly (online, ISSN 2278-9650) and bi-yearly (print, ISSN 2278-9642).

CALL FOR ENTRIES:

New Directions in Reception Study (Reception Study Society at SAMLA 85)

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
paul.dahlgren@gsw.edu

The Reception Study Society (RSS) seeks papers on the 2013 SAMLA conference’s special focus.

International Conference on Romanticism, September 26-29, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Robert Anderson/ ICR
contact email: 
r2anders@oakland.edu

2013 International Conference on Romanticism
"Romantic Relations"
September 26-29, 2013
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

[UPDATE] SAMLA 2013: (Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean (due June 10)

full name / name of organization: 
Kristine A. Wilson
contact email: 
wilson67@purdue.edu



2013 SAMLA CONFERENCE, NOV 8-10, ATLANTA

SPECIAL SESSION: "(Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean"

“Embodiments of Horror: William Blake’s Gothic Sensibility.”

full name / name of organization: 
A Special Issue of _Gothic Studies_
contact email: 
cbundock@gmail.com, eeffinge@uwo.ca

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of Gothic Studies: “Embodiments of Horror: William Blake’s Gothic Sensibility.”

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Apollon: eJournal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
contact email: 
apollonejournal@gmail.com

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

[UPDATE] Irish Gothic Conference 5-6 December, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Università degli Studi di Perugia / Università per Stranieri di Perugia
contact email: 
perugiairishgothic@gmail.com

Confirmed Speakers:

• Professor W. J. McCormack (Former Professor of Literary History at Goldsmiths College, University of London)

SAMLA Special Session on Creating or Expanding a BA Program in English During Uncertain Times (June 20th- Abstract Deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta
contact email: 
SOrtolano@edison.edu

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (deadline September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Alyce von Rothkirch / Swansea University
contact email: 
ijwwe.editor@gmail.com

International Journal for Welsh Writing in English

Call for Papers

NeMLA 2014 Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers, Deadline 9/30/13

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA
contact email: 
almishou@gmail.com

Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers

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

Science and Fiction: Literary Darwinism

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association, November 7-10, 2013
contact email: 
swafford@bradley.edu

The 55th Annual Convention will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center from November 7-10, 2013.

Topic: Literary Darwinism

"The Senses of Humour," submissions due 1 July 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, McMaster University
contact email: 
ecf@mcmaster.ca

This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal will explore the relationships among various meanings of the term "humour" in the long eighteenth century, from humoral theories of the body to

‘Is the Biographer an Artist?’: Tracing Authority within Collected Remembrance--NeMLA 2014 April 3-6

full name / name of organization: 
Amanda Weldy Boyd
contact email: 
weldy@usc.edu

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

Littérature et anachronisme, NeMLA, Harrisburg, PE, April 3-6, 2014 (deadline September 30)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
maxime.philippe@mail.mcgill.ca

Littérature et anachronisme

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

[NeMLA 2014] Critical Feelings: Redefining Cultural Agency in Affect Theory

full name / name of organization: 
Tyler Bradway
contact email: 
tyler.bradway@gmail.com

Conference: Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (2014)
Date: April 3-6, 2014
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

[UPDATE] Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media & Mode - Abstracts due June 20th

full name / name of organization: 
LIM College
contact email: 
proposals@limcollege.edu

Call for Presentations - Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media, and Mode

Proposal due date: June 10, 2013
Conference date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 to Saturday, October 5, 2013

[UPDATE]"Past Tense, Future Tensions" SCLA Conference Oct. 18-19, 2013 (abstract deadline extended)

full name / name of organization: 
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
contact email: 
sclaconference@guilford.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Abstracts due 6/1/13.

VI International Gothic Congress ‘Gothic Convergences’, UNAM, Mexico City, April 1, 2 & 3, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
International Gothic Congress, UNAM
contact email: 
antonio.alcala@itesm.mx

[UPDATE] CFP Four Nations Fiction: Women and the Novel 1780-1830 - Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
contact email: 
e.edwards@wales.ac.uk

In Blackwood’s Magazine in September 1819, John Wilson reflected on the towering fame of three contemporary women poets in the following terms: ‘Scotland has her Baillie – Ireland her Tighe –

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

full name / name of organization: 
University of Sheffield
contact email: 
john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK)

trans* : Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference, Keynote José Muñoz, October 18, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
contact email: 
tuftsgradhumanitiesconference@gmail.com

Call for Papers

3rd Annual Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
Tufts University
October 18, 2013
Keynote: José Muñoz

trans*

Retirement, Reappraisal, and Renewal in the Eighteenth Century, November 7-9, 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
contact email: 
Geoffrey Sill <sill@camden.rutgers.edu>, Peter Briggs <pbriggs@brynmawr.edu>, Doreen Saar <saarda@drexel.edu>

Retirement, often leading to reappraisal and renewal, was an important theme in areas as disparate as philosophy and politics, art history and literature, military affairs and country living.

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
sdyne1@gsu.edu

"Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place"

The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today, Keynote: Charles Altieri, Oct. 11-12, Philadelphia, PA

full name / name of organization: 
Temple University: Graduate English Association
contact email: 
templegeaconf@gmail.com

The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today
October 11th-12th, 2013
Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
Keynote: Charles Altieri (Berkeley)

‘Bibliography in the Digital Age’ conference: Sydney, Australia, 20–22 November 2013 [CFP deadline 26 July]

full name / name of organization: 
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ)
contact email: 
mpatton@sl.nsw.gov.au

The annual conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand will be held at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 20–22 November 2013 on the theme of ‘Bibliography

Satire and Humor -- November 1-3, 2013, San Diego, CA

full name / name of organization: 
Craig Sirles/Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association
contact email: 
csirles@depaul.edu

Satire and Humor

The Shakespearean Performance Research Group of the American Society for Theatre Research, deadline June 3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The Shakespearean Performance Research Group of the American Society for Theatre Research
contact email: 
astr.sprg@gmail.com

Call For Papers, Deadline: Monday, June 3rd, 2013

The Shakespearean Performance Research Group
of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

Call For Ecologically-minded Creative and Scholarly Work

full name / name of organization: 
Kudzu Review
contact email: 
editor@kudzureview.com

Kudzu Review is seeking work for its Winter Solstice Issue 3.1 as well as for its very first themed issue, "Apocalypse & Renewal." We define ecologically-minded very broadly, and our interest is in a

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