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category: general announcementsRocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference Oct 10-12, 2013full name / name of organization: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association--RMMLA contact email: rmmla@rmmla.org Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association - RMMLA
Idle/Stasis: Call for Prose, Poetry, Art--due June 1full name / name of organization: Transverse: A Comparative Studies Journal, Issue 13, University of Toronto contact email: transversejournal@gmail.com The twinned concepts of idle and stasis have recently been brought to the forefront of political conversations in Canada because of the Idle No More grassroots movement, which is one of the many manif
2nd Global Conference: Time, Space and the Body (September 2013: Oxford, United Kingdom)full name / name of organization: Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net contact email: punish3@inter-disciplinary.net 2nd Global Conference Sunday 1st September – Tuesday 3rd September 2013 Call for Presentations
Cracking the Ivory Tower, Abstract deadline: May 1full name / name of organization: University of Pittsburgh contact email: klp68@pitt.edu The editors seek abstracts for essays sharing advice, unique stories or sage wisdom for graduate students at all levels.
CFP: 9/11 Popular Culture (Panels for MPCA,Oct 11-13, 2013); April 30 deadlinefull name / name of organization: Paul Petrovic / Midwest Popular Culture Association contact email: pauldpetrovic@gmail.com The Midwest Popular Association / American Culture Association conference will be held at the St. Louis Union Station in St. Louis, MO, this October 11-13, 2013.
Allegory Studies? (7 November 2013; proposals 31 May)full name / name of organization: University of Warwick contact email: v.brljak@warwick.ac.uk
UPDATE: Call for Journal Articles: "The Writer's Experience" - Deadline: May 27, 2013full name / name of organization: Journal of South Texas English Studies contact email: southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Summer 2013 issue, themed “The Writer’s Experience.” Submission deadline: May 27 2013.
[Reminder] Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2full 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.
Best Practices: Designing the Capstone Course for Undergraduate English Majorsfull name / name of organization: Special Session: South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November 8-10, 2013, Atlanta, GA contact email: tomm@usca.edu This special session will feature presentations that outline practical models for supervising the undergraduate capstone project in English studies; these models should reflect a proven track record o
CFP: Bicycles / Bicycling in Literature and Culture, edited collection (proposals 8/1/13, essays 2/1/14)full name / name of organization: Jeremy Withers and Daniel Shea, Editors of Collection on Bicycles in Literature and Culture contact email: shead@apsu.edu and withers@iastate.edu The American author Charles Morley once said: “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” As Morley’s quote suggests, many people have perceived an in
Exploring the Dynamics of Media and Communication Education & Researchfull name / name of organization: Media Watch communication journal contact email: mediawatchjournal@gmail.com Globally media education and research is in its dynamic flux after the emergence of new/social media. The traditional models/process of communications is redefined.
[UPDATE} FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition [SCMLA New Orleans 10/3/13-10/5/13]full name / name of organization: Thomas W. Reynolds, Jr., Northwestern State University contact email: reynoldst@nsula.edu FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 70th Annual Convention
The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genresfull name / name of organization: Birkbeck & Institute of English Studies / University of London contact email: theweirdconference@gmail.com Friday 8 November 2013 (+ Thursday 7 November: evening event / weird fiction reading: details tbc)
The Gothic Compass: New Directions in Scholarship and Inquiry. Abstracts due on 23 April.full name / name of organization: Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Professor Donna Lee Brien, Editors contact email: lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz The editors warmly seek abstracts for essays exploring ‘new directions’ in Gothic scholarship. Selected essays will appear in a collection to be published by an international academic publisher.
"Dance Studies and Peace Studies" Abstracts due: April 4; Conference: November 14–17, 2013full name / name of organization: Brandon Shaw / Brown University contact email: Brandon_Shaw@brown.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Decentering Dance Studies: Moving In New Global Orders November 14–17, 2013 Special Joint conference with Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)
(Re)Presenting the Archive [Update - Registration OPEN]full name / name of organization: University of Sheffield, UK contact email: archive@sheffield.ac.uk In a Higher Education context where originality in research is increasingly valorised, what place is there for explicitly re-presentational practices such as scholarly editing and curating?
Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposiumfull name / name of organization: Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia contact email: acc@alternative-academia.net 1st International Symposium: Part of the Research Program on: International Network for Alternative Academia
Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self, 1st International Symposiumfull name / name of organization: Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia contact email: acc@alternative-academia.net 1st International Symposium: Part of the Research Program on:
Hope, Betrayal and Trust, 1st International Symposiumfull name / name of organization: Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia contact email: acc@alternative-academia.net 1st International Symposium: Part of the Research Program on: International Network for Alternative Academia
Reinventing Citizenship, 7th International Symposiumfull name / name of organization: Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia contact email: acc@alternative-academia.net 7th International Symposium: Part of the Research Program on: International Network for Alternative Academia
Invitation to CFP - Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense (Submission date - April 10, 2013))full name / name of organization: Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense contact email: editor.jbtbd@omicsonline.org The Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense includes a wide range of fields in its discipline to create a platform for the authors to make their contribution towards the journal and the editorial office
PAMLA 2013 Conference (Nov. 1-3): The Body on the Extreme (deadline April 15)full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) contact email: cruizvelasco@fullerton.edu Literary and cinematic representations of the body and identifying the implications of those representations remain crucial topics of inquiry for feminist, gender, disability, race, class studies.
Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales in Popular Culturefull name / name of organization: Melissa Lenos contact email: melissalenos@gmail.com I invite submissions for an edited collection of essays on contemporary uses of fairy tales in popular culture.
[UPDATE] Is It All About the Text? Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizingfull name / name of organization: Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University contact email: neverowv1@southernct.edu Is It All About the Text? Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizing Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University--Saturday, April 20, 2013
Blending Boundaries: Creative Writing and Rhetoricfull name / name of organization: Jessica Jorgenson---SAMLA Conference contact email: Jessica.R.Jorgenson@my.ndsu.edu The diverse fields within English studies often create boundaries that few cross, but this proposal aims to bridge those established boundaries.
Call for Papers - Hwa Kang English Journal, Vol. 19 (September 2013)full name / name of organization: Hwa Kang English Journal contact email: eng_jour@pccu.edu.tw Call for Papers
PAMLA 2013 (Nov. 1-3)-World Literature in Theory and in Practicefull name / name of organization: William Arighi contact email: warighi@uw.edu Scholarly interest in world literature is on the rise, yet this endeavor has more often taken place in academic writing and colloquia than in teaching.
SAMLA Creative Nonfiction Panel November 8-10, 2013full name / name of organization: South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) contact email: meganoteri@gmail.com SAMLA’s 2013 conference theme, “Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds,” speaks deeply to the mission of creative nonfiction.
Cognitive Poetics -- May 1st 2013full name / name of organization: Enthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature contact email: stefano.ballerio@gmail.com Initiated in English speaking countries, in the last few years studies in cognitive poetics have increased and spread significantly.
[UPDATE] The Sentimental Worlds of Ray Bradbury (MLA, 9-12 January 2014, Chicago), Final extension to 3/23/2013full 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.
CFP: Hotel in 19th-Century Literature and Culture, edited collectionfull name / name of organization: Monika Elbert contact email: elbertm@mail.montclair.edu Hotels and Inns in Britain and in the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century
Humor in the Digital Age -- SAMLA (Atlanta, 11/8-11/10)full name / name of organization: Pete Kunze (Louisiana State University) contact email: pkunze@lsu.edu The American Humor Studies Association seeks papers for a panel, “Humor in the Digital Age,” for the 2013 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference at the Marriott Atlanta from
International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)full name / name of organization: Infonomics Society contact email: info@i-society.eu The i-Society 2013 is Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Toronto Section. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry.
[UPDATE] Excess: Special issue of The Comparatistfull name / name of organization: The Comparatist contact email: zallouz@whitman.edu Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
[UPDATE] Anemoi, Undergraduate Pre-Modern Journal - SUBMISSIONS DUE: MARCH 18full name / name of organization: New College of Florida contact email: info@anemoijournal.com Anemoi is a new peer-reviewed undergraduate journal of pre-modern studies being published by students at New College of Florida in Sarasota. We are looking for submissions and team members.
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