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Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment.
Call for Papers: Modernist Cosmopolitanism
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Conference Date: MSA 2025 Boston October 9-12
Organized by: Adriana Fischetti, CCNY, 2nd year graduate student
Modernism has long been associated with transnational exchanges, migratory identities, and an engagement with global cultures. The modernist period witnessed an unprecedented interplay between local traditions and global influences, as writers, artists, and intellectuals navigated new cultural landscapes shaped by colonialism, war, exile, and technological advancement.
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Reconfigurations 2025 seeks to explore the innovative and dynamic achievements of contemporary arts and to extend the critical discourses on their significance in our time. The central theme of the Conference is the intermedial, that is, the interconnectedness and interaction of different art forms across aesthetic and cultural boundaries, and the invigorating and rich transformations resulting from these crisscrossings.
Modernist literature emerges at the intersection of industrialization and the rapid expansion of fossil fuels—railways, power grids, and oil pipelines—that define the modern city while also exposing its vulnerabilities. This panel explores how modernist works engage with the materiality and aesthetics of infrastructure to critique the systems that sustain modern life and the forms in which modern life is communicated.
International T. S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting
Registration for the Society’s 2025 meeting is now open! We invite you to join us at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, on July 2–5 for the 46th annual gathering of the International T. S. Eliot Society.
This panel explores how fire and fossil fuels shape modernity and modernisms, focusing on literature, art, and culture beyond 1850. Papers may explore intersections of:
Please submit 250-word abstracts to Jennie Sekanics at jennie-sekanics@uiowa.edu or Harry Stecopoulos at harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu.
While revising Between the Acts in 1940, Virginia Woolf edited her drafts to reinforce the disruptive wartime shifts in food culture triggered by the Second World War: the novel notes a particular wariness for rationed beef and mutton, references the interwar freedom of easily obtaining bacon and oil, and suggests the indulgence of sugar consumption. The modernist moment saw a variety of such shifts in the alimentary, from increased industrialization and food processing to a more gastronomic turn to the realities of wartime food rationing that Woolf and others chart.
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.
Call for Papers: Androgyny in Modern Literature
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Conference Date: MSA Boston October 9-12
Organized by: Adriana Fischetti, CCNY, 2nd year graduate student
CALL FOR PAPERS
Beyond Human Divide: Revisiting the Partition of India
International Conference on 8th August 2025 (Friday)
Concept Note
The Harold Pinter Review invites essays that consider the influence and effects that Harold Pinter’s plays have had on modern drama generally, including such aspects as style, staging, subject matter, characterizations, structure, and tone. We also invite essays that consider the stylistic and thematic relations between Pinter’s work and that of another contemporaneous playwright.
CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory (Online ISSN 2347-2073)
Vol. 14 Issue 2 April 2025
New Academia is a peer reviewed and refereed journal published quarterly by Interactions Forum. The Journal strives to publish research work of high quality related to Literature written in English Language across the World, English language and literary theory. The aim of the journal is to give space to scholars and researchers to publish their works.
We are always keen to receive submissions from scholars, academicians and researchers in the form of Research Papers, Articles, Poems, Short Stories, Interviews and Book Reviews.
Global Transmedial Modernism
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN)
CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN
The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.
GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:
Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd
Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings. Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique. Short bio, 250wd proposals.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025
CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN
The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.
GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:
Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd
Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings. Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique. Short bio, 250wd proposals.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025
Literary Infrastructure and the Precarity of Modernist Writers
The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal, has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its June, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.
CFP for Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2025
Deadline for Submissions: essays (6,500 words) due 30/06/25
JWLS 2025 Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact
The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies seeks articles for its 2025 issue.
Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire
Comparative panel considering Conrad’s and Woolf’s female characters as challenging imperial gender norms. Papers might range from Conrad’s often biracial colonial feminine roles to Woolf on threatening sexualities or “New Women.” Short bio, 300wd proposals.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025
Ben Leubner, Montana State University < leubnerb@montana.edu >
Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >
Conrad and the Global South: Networks of Relationality
Panel on Conrad's sharp critique of the imperial logics of individualism and appropriation in the global south, focusing on that author’s anti-colonial depiction of non-Western human entanglements and kinships. 300wd proposals, short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025
Alexia Hannis, University of Toronto < alexia.hannis@utoronto.ca >
Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd
Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings. Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique. Short bio, 250wd proposals.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025
Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >
Call for papers for a collective volume
In 2024, the AGRELITA ERC (The Reception of Ancient Greece) organised several scientific events on the theme of "New lives of Greek deities in Europe from the 14th to the 20th century". An international colloquium was held at the University of Caen-Normandy on 23 and 24 May, followed by a study day at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris on 29 May . Finally, a second international colloquium was held at the École française d'Athènes on 14 and 15 November (see https://agrelita.hypotheses.org).
We invite abstracts for a Special Session (non-guaranteed) at the MLA Convention to be held in Toronto, Canada, from January 8-11, 2026.
CFP Special Issue, Volume 22 (2026) : Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between
Abstract Submission Due Date: April 1, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2025.
Accepted Essays Due Date: January 1, 2026.
CALL FOR PAPERS
MLA 2026 (Guaranteed Session)
Toronto, January 8-11, 2026
Generous Modernisms
“This song is for my foe, / the clean-shaven, gray-suited, gray patron / of Hartford, the emperor of whiteness / blue as a body made of snow.” Those four lines of dedication close “Snow for Wallace Stevens” (2009) by the African American poet Terrance Hayes—an ambivalent ode, blending wintry detachment and “love without / forgiveness,” “lost faith” and faith regained. Hayes is far from the only poet of color, from the United States or elsewhere, to write a poem after or against Stevens.
In keeping with this year’s conference theme, this panel will focus on texts that function as infrastructures or sties of negotiated meaning and which also take as their subject matter real sites of infrastructure around which collective or communal identities or meanings are disrupted, negotiated and crystallized. Obvious examples include Williams's Paterson and Crane's The Bridge, but proposals on novels and plays as well as on film and painting are also welcome. Please send abstracts to Charles.Sumner@usm.edu no later than 3/21/25.
This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.
This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).
This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little Review, The Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer/non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism.