category: journals and collections of essays

Psychoanalysis, African Americans and Inequality

full name / name of organization: 
Special Issue of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
contact email: 
Annie Stopford and Sheldon George at inequality.pcs@gmail.com

The election and presidency of Barack Obama have urged reconceptualization of the social position held by African Americans in contemporary society.

Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practices

full name / name of organization: 
Siobhan O'Gorman and Charlotte McIvor
contact email: 
siobhanmogorman@gmail.com and charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

This essay collection situates the histories and contemporary practice of devised performance in Irish theatre.

CFP: Upstairs and Downstairs: The British Historical Costume Drama on TV (from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey)

full name / name of organization: 
Julie Anne Taddeo
contact email: 
taddeo@umd.edu

The recent popular success of “Downton Abbey” calls for a renewed examination of such earlier BBC/ITV/Masterpiece Theatre serialized period dramas as “Upstairs Downstairs,” “The Pallisers,

"The Controversy over Attribution of De Doctrina Christiana to Milton." CFP: 25 March 2013; Collection of Essays by 30 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Paul Sellin and Hugh Wilson
contact email: 
psellin@ucla.edu and wilsonh@grambling.edu

Profs. Sellin and Wilson have posted a proposal for a special session at the 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago on the controversy over the attribution of _De Doctrina Christiana_ to John Milton.

The Queer Roald Dahl Collection - Abstracts due May 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Jennifer Mitchell
contact email: 
jennifermitchell6@weber.edu

Roald Dahl has been the recipient of a slew of insults from anti-Semite to misogynist to general misanthrope.

Edited Collection: Levinas and Early Modern Literature (proposals 6/15/13, essays 1/15/14)

full name / name of organization: 
Kent Lehnhof
contact email: 
lehnhof@chapman.edu

Proposals sought for an edited collection to be pitched to an academic press.

The Words Beats and Life: A Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Words Beats and Life
contact email: 
submissions@wblinc.org

Call For Submissions

The Words Beats and Life: A Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture is

Time Travel in the Media

full name / name of organization: 
Joan Ormrod, Manchester Metropolitan University
contact email: 
j.ormrod@mmu.ac.uk

CfP: Time Travel in the Media

Edited Collection: CINEPHILIA AND TEACHING (Abstract due: June 1, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Rashna Wadia Richards (Rhodes College) and David T. Johnson (Salisbury University)
contact email: 
richardsr@rhodes.edu or dtjohnson@salisbury.edu

We invite contributions to CINEPHILIA AND TEACHING, an edited collection of essays clustered around ideas of cinephilia and pedagogy.

CFP for a Special Edition of Women's Writing on Victorian Bestsellers

full name / name of organization: 
Clare Clarke, Trinity College Dublin and Clare Gill, University of Southampton
contact email: 
clarkc11@tcd.ie and C.Gill@Soton.ac.uk

Queens of the Marketplace: nineteenth-century women writers and the rise of the bestseller

Fall Stories Conference — 18th-19th June 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Zohar Hadroi-Allouche / University of Aberdeen
contact email: 
zohar@abdn.ac.uk

A Call For Papers

Fall narratives: an interdisciplinary perspective

18th-19th June 2014, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Journal THE PROBLEMS OF LITERARY GENRES Volume 56 (2013) CALL FOR PAPERS

full name / name of organization: 
Journal THE PROBLEMS OF LITERARY GENRES (Zagadnienia Rodzajow Literackich)
contact email: 
jarrek@uni.lodz.pl; wrooble@wp.pl

CALL FOR PAPERS

[UPDATE] Mapping Identity (PAMLA 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Megan Cannella/PAMLA 2013
contact email: 
megan.cannella@gmail.com

In this session, papers will look at the different ways place can determine one’s identity.

4th International Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences Conference , University of Zadar, Croatia, September 5-7, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences Conference
contact email: 
rhss.conference@gmail.com

4th International Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences Conference is to be held at the University of Zadar, Croatia, September 5-7, 2013.

[UPDATE] What's Material about Vulnerability? MLA, Chicago, Jan 9-12, 2014 (deadline: March 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Joanna Fax and Kimberly Macellaro/Rice University
contact email: 
jmf4@rice.edu; kam5@rice.edu

Seeking new perspectives on the place of materialist theory in the study of vulnerability in American culture, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; racial, economic, sexual vulnerabi

Collection of Essays on Dreams in British Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Jaime Jordan, PhD
contact email: 
dreamsinbritishlit@gmail.com

I am inviting proposals to contribute to a collection of essays on the subject of dreams in British literature.

Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Studies w/ Keynote by Robert N. Watson

full name / name of organization: 
UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association & UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
contact email: 
memsa.ucla@gmail.com

The last two decades have seen radical revisions to curricula at universities and colleges around the world. But have curricular changes been accompanied by pedagogical developments? When it comes to teaching, graduate students often learn by doing. By virtue of their experiments and their proximity to the undergraduate curriculum, they are among the most innovative educators on their campuses. The Medieval and Early Modern Students Association at UCLA and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies invite graduate students to share their experience at a conference on June 7 that deals with teaching Medieval and Early Modern material in the undergraduate classroom.

CFP: Television Series & the Supernatural (DEADLINE July 31, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Supernatural Studies Association Journal
contact email: 
supernatural.studies.editor@gmail.com

Call for Papers: Television Series and the Supernatural (DEADLINE July 31, 2013)

The AnaChronisT journal (5/31/2013) papers, interviews, book reviews

full name / name of organization: 
The AnaChronisT
contact email: 
anachronist@freemail.hu

The AnaChronisT 18 (2013) invites research papers, interviews, and book reviews on literatures in English for its next issue, to be published in Winter 2013/4.

TYCA-NE 48th Annual Conference, October 3-5, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Two-Year College Association - Northeast
contact email: 
Ibucchino@bergen.edu

TYCA-NE of the National Council of Teachers of English is seeking presentation proposals for its October 2013 Conference.

Transnational America(s)

full name / name of organization: 
Irish Association for American Studies
contact email: 
iaas.symposium@gmail.com

IAAS Postgraduate and Early Career Scholar Conference
May 18 2013
Trinity College, Dublin

Transnational America(s)

10th Latin American Robotic Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Universidad Católica de San Pablo - IEEE RAS Society
contact email: 
larslarc2013@gmail.com

LARS'2013 - 10th Latin American Robotic Symposium
October 21-27, 2013 - Arequipa, Perú
http://ucsp.edu.pe/lars2013

* INTRODUCTION

10th Latin American Robotic Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Universidad Católica de San Pablo - IEEE RAS Society
contact email: 
larslarc2013@gmail.com

LARS'2013 - 10th Latin American Robotic Symposium
October 21-27, 2013 - Arequipa, Perú
http://ucsp.edu.pe/lars2013

* INTRODUCTION

CFP Images of Children, March 30, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Red Feather Journal
contact email: 
debbieo@okstate.edu or dolson@uta.edu

CFP: The child image

New Media in India

full name / name of organization: 
Hrishikesh Ingle, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
contact email: 
hrishikesh@efluniversity.ac.in, hrishikeshingle@gmail.com

New media has gained currency in recent years not just as a term that defines media content, forms and products but also as practices that challenges lawmakers as well as policy decisions.

CFP: Masculinities - A Journal of Identity and Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Masculinities - A Journal of Identity and Culture
contact email: 
masculinitiesjournal@gmail.com

MASCULINITIES
a journal of identity and culture

MFS Special Issue - Animal Worlds in Modern Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Fiction Studies
contact email: 
herman.145@gmail.com

Animal Worlds in Modern Fiction
Guest Editor: David Herman
Deadline for Submissions: October 1, 2013

Call for Papers for a volume on 'Slow Cinema'

full name / name of organization: 
Nuno Barradas Jorge (University of Nottingham) / Tiago de Luca (University of Liverpool)
contact email: 
aaxnj1@nottingham.ac.uk

Over the last decade, a cinematic trend characterized by aesthetic minimalism and slow tempo has made its mark on the world cinema map.

CFP - Tarantino's Django vs. Spielberg's Lincoln

full name / name of organization: 
Oliver C Speck / VCU
contact email: 
ocspeck@vcu.edu

"Django Unchained" is well on the way to becoming Quentin Tarantino’s commercially most successful film and is already his most controversial.

Crossing the Bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research

full name / name of organization: 
Keele University & University of Liverpool
contact email: 
j.e.taylor@keele.ac.uk, k.astbury@liverpool.ac.uk

Crossing the bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research (http://humanitiesandpublicengagement.wordpress.com)

FINAL CFP Summer Issue of Luvah

full name / name of organization: 
Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination
contact email: 
f@luvah.org

Deadlines
Abstracts: March 30
Final paper: May 2

CFP: special issue of Comparative Drama: "The Audience as Player: Interactive Theater over the Years" (deadline 9/1/2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Professor Sidney Homan, University of Florida, Guest Editor, Comparative Drama
contact email: 
shakes@ufl.edu

This special issue of Comparative Drama, “The Audience as Player: Interactive Theater Over the Years,” seeks essays that explore plays and productions in which members of the audience are not just

Edited Collection: The Spirit of Adoption

full name / name of organization: 
Collection: Spirit of Adoption--Essays on Adoption, Religion, Faith, and more
contact email: 
martha.diede@northwestu.edu

Call for Submissions
Collection: The Spirit of Adoption: Writers on Religion, Adoption, Faith, and More

Call for Journal Articles: "The Writer's Experience" - Deadline: May 27, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The 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 2012.

Call for Papers - Social Inclusion (Open Access Journal)

full name / name of organization: 
Librello Publishing house
contact email: 
antonio.vieira@librelloph.com

Social Inclusion (http://www.librelloph.com/socialinclusion) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, which provides academics and policy-makers with a forum to discuss and promote a more socially inclus

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