category: journals and collections of essays

Modern Language Studies - Reviews

full name / name of organization: 
Randy Robertson / Susquehanna University
contact email: 
robertson@susqu.edu

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the summer 2013 issue.

The Indian River Review CFP deadline January 15, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Tammy Powley/Indian River State College
contact email: 
tpowley@irsc.edu

The Indian River Review is currently soliciting submissions for its third issue scheduled for publication in late spring/summer 2014.

CFP: cityscape as discursive node or character

full name / name of organization: 
Reena Dube (Editor), Studies in the Humanities
contact email: 
reena.dube@iup.edu, dubereena@gmail.com

Call for Papers
Studies in the Humanities

"Post-colonial Creativity: Language, Politics and Aesthetics", Special ISSUE, Anglistica, abstracts by 15 April 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Bill Ahscroft (UNSW) and Katherine E. Russo (Unior)
contact email: 
kerusso@unior.it

"Post-colonial Creativity: Language, Politics and Aesthetics", Special ISSUE, Anglistica: An Interdisciplinary Journal, www.anglistica.unior.it, Ranking: A

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

NeMLA Italian Studies - 2014 Special Issue: The Jewish Experience in Contemporary Italy

full name / name of organization: 
Philip Balma / University of Connecticut
contact email: 
philip.balma@uconn.edu

Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales in Popular Culture

full 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, Theorizing

full 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

Edith Wharton at MLA 2014 (9-12 January)--Deadline Extended!

full name / name of organization: 
Edith Wharton Society
contact email: 
mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu

Queer Wharton. A panel organized by the Edith Wharton Society at the 2014 MLA (9-12 January).

Edith Wharton Essay Prize-- Deadline Extended!

full name / name of organization: 
Edith Wharton Society
contact email: 
mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu

Instituted in the fall of 2005, the Edith Wharton Essay Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on Edith Wharton by a beginning scholar.

[UPDATE] Deadline extended for WSQ CFP: DEBT Issue

full name / name of organization: 
WSQ at the Feminist Press
contact email: 
wsqeditorial@gmail.com

ISSUE OF WSQ , SPRING 2014 – DEBT
Guest Editors – Meena Alexander and Rosalind Petchesky

CALL FOR PAPERS

Firefly

full name / name of organization: 
Scarecrow Press
contact email: 
mgoodr@essex.ac.uk

Call for Papers: Joss Whedon’s Firefly
Michael Goodrum (Essex) and Philip Smith (Loughborough)

Baptism of Fire: The Birth of Modern British Fantasy in World War I; abstracts by 1 Sept 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Mythopoeic Press
contact email: 
Mythlore@mythsoc.org

Baptism of Fire: The Birth of Modern British Fantasy in World War I
edited by Janet Brennan Croft (Mythlore@mythsoc.org)

Women in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien: abstracts by 30 May 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Mythopoeic Press
contact email: 
Mythlore@mythsoc.org

Women in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
edited by Janet Brennan Croft (Mythlore@mythsoc.org) and Leslie Donovan (press@mythsoc.org)

CFP: "Literature and American Exceptionalism" Special Issue, September 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
contact email: 
litjourn@yahoo.com

In what ways does literature reinforce, contest, and amend the discourse of American exceptionalism?

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

Cognitive Poetics -- May 1st 2013

full 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.

CFP: Hotel in 19th-Century Literature and Culture, edited collection

full 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

CFP: "Acts of Scholarship are Acts of Friendship" -- A Special Issue of Argumentation & Advocacy on the Works of Jim Aune

full name / name of organization: 
David Gore and David Beard, Editors of Special Issue of Argumentation and Advocacy, a publication of the American Forensic Association
contact email: 
dgore@d.umn.edu

CFP: "Acts of Scholarship are Acts of Friendship" -- A Special Issue of Argumentation & Advocacy on the Works of Jim Aune

[UPDATE] Excess: Special issue of The Comparatist

full name / name of organization: 
The Comparatist
contact email: 
zallouz@whitman.edu

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Excess
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

Revue Trans- N° 16 issue "Literature, Landscape and Ecology"

full name / name of organization: 
Ivan Salinas - Revue Trans-
contact email: 
lgcrevue@gmail.Com

If we consider the statement of Anne Cauquelin in “The Invention of the Landscape” (1989), our perception of the landscape is a construct, a cultural fact.

[UPDATE] Anemoi, Undergraduate Pre-Modern Journal - SUBMISSIONS DUE: MARCH 18

full 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.

[Deadline Extended] Literature, Space and Geography

full name / name of organization: 
Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature
contact email: 
inquire@ualberta.ca

3.2 ‘Neither Here Nor There: The (Non-)Geographical Futures of Comparative Literature’

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

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