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Woolf Studies Annual: Call for Volumes 30 (2024) and 31 (2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 4:38pm
Woolf Studies Annual
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Open Call for WSA Volume 30 (2024)

Deadline: 15 October 2023

Launched in 1995, Woolf Studies Annual will publish its thirtieth volume in the spring of 2024. The editor invites submissions for this important milestone volume. 

Of particular interest would be articles that make use of the WSA Index (see vol. 28 and 29) to return to and expand/revise the insights of the scholarship and archival material published in the journal’s first 15 years. Of particular interest might be 

  • Vara Neverow and Merry M. Pawlowski’s preliminary bibliography to Three Guineas’s notes (vol. 3), 

Mapping Mina Loy Studies in 2023

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 11:23am
Loughborough University / European University Institute / Leipzig University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Intro

In recent years, there has been a flurry of new interest in the work of Mina Loy (1882-1966) resulting in a steady output of monographs, new translations, and republications that present Loy from increasingly diverse perspectives. As Sarah Hayden writes in the introduction to the republication of Insel (2014) ‘there have been many Loys; more are emerging’.

Joseph Conrad Centennial Commemorative Book Project

updated: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 5:08am
Prof. John G. Peters, University Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas and Chandrakant A. Langare, Associate Professor of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, M.S. India. ,
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

 

Dear Conradians/Colleagues/ Scholars/Academics

The Paradox of Emotion in Modern Poetry (MLA 2024)

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 12:43am
Ariana Lyriotakis / Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

How does modern poetry enact a paradox of emotion? This MLA 2024 special session invites proposals exploring ambivalence, co-existence or contradiction of emotive states in modern/late modern/postmodern poetics. Broader interpretations of the theme are certainly welcome. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Joy/Sorrow
  • Emotional valences
  • Mood
  • Somatic/Carnal
  • Intimacy
  • Hope/Loss
  • Pride/Shame
  • Emotion/Logic
  • Trauma
  • Embodied knowledge
  • Perception
  • Temporality
  • Phenomenology of emotions

Kindly submit your abstract (250-350 words) as well as a short bio by Monday, March 20th to:

The Weimar Republic and Anglo-American Modernism

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:36pm
MSA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

This panel will seek to understand the draw of Weimar Germany for the many British and American modernist writers who spent time there.  In keeping with the theme of this year's MSA, papers that consider the attraction of Weimar street life, in all its varieties, are particularly encouraged.

 

Please send a 250 word abstract and short biography by 3/31/2023.

 

 

CFA for MSA Brooklyn: Modernism & Writing Pedagogy Roundtable

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:29pm
Laura Hartmann-Villalta // Johns Hopkins University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

Modernism & Writing Pedagogy Roundtable

Call for Abstracts – 100-150 words

Deadline: May 24, 2023, 11.59 EST, to lhartm13@jhu.edu

Organizer: Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Johns Hopkins University

3-4 slots available

In the spirit of the roundtable organized and chaired by Nissa Ren Cannon in MSA Portland entitled, “Modernism in the Writing Classroom,” this roundtable recognizes the suitability of modernist texts for writing classrooms of all sorts. This roundtable seeks to share pedagogical approaches at the intersection of modernism and writing. The call is purposefully broad.  

Some topics to consider:

Celebrating Virginia Woolf’s Eighteenth Century

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:26pm
Miriam Wallace/ ASECS & MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Celebrating Virginia Woolf's Eighteenth Century

Beyond her call to lay flowers on Aphra Behn’s grave or taking her “Common Reader” from Samuel Johnson, Woolf’s engagement with the eighteenth-century was profound. Proposal might consider aesthetics, visual and literary history, fashion and decor, print culture and/or printing technology, waxworks, politics, etc.
 

ASECS/IVWS joint-session

Modern Language Association MLA 2024, Philadelphia

Miriam Wallace, New C of Florida (mwallace@ncf.edu ) Laura Engel, Duquesne University (engell784@duq.edu )

Contemporary Modernisms

updated: 
Monday, March 13, 2023 - 6:01am
Goethe University Frankfurt / Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED - deadline for submissions: March 24 2023

Contemporary Modernisms - Call for Papers 

Institute of English and American Studies and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform

Goethe University Frankfurt

25th27th May 2023 

Confirmed Speakers:

John Brannigan (University College Dublin)

Julie McCormick Weng (Texas State University)

Václav Paris (City University of New York)

Barry Sheils (Durham University)

MSA 2023: Proposed session on Queer Modernist Travel

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:42pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

MSA 2023 Proposed session on Queer Modernist Travel

Organized by Galen Bunting (Northeastern University) and Laura Tscherry (Indiana University) 

The figure of travel drives modernism: motion, migration, and mobility are enduring markers of modernist writing across genres. Much has been written about the urban flâneur, American émigrés to Paris, and modernist writers’ interest in “primitivism.” This panel seeks to expand the conversation by paying particular attention to queer modernist travels and travelers at the intersection of gender, race, and disability. 

MLA 2024: The Global South and Ireland

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:24pm
MLA Irish Languages, Literatures and Cultures Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

The Irish Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum invites proposals for a guaranteed roundtable at MLA 2024 (4-7 January) in Philadelphia, PA. 

This roundtable considers points of collision, comparison, and friction in the diasporic literary and cultural histories of the Global South and Ireland. How have different legacies of conquest, occupation, and resistance determined understandings of belonging to knowable communities? In turn, how have distinct practices and experiences of diaspora helped to effect specific forms of identity, affiliation, and tendency? And how have literary and cultural works served to articulate these relations into the fraught present? 

"Itinera" 2024: Memory and Poiesis between Aesthetics and Rhetoric

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:21am
Itinera. Journal of Philosophy and Art Theory, University of Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Memory and Poiesis between Aesthetics and Rhetoric

 

Edited by Amalia Salvestrini and Fosca Mariani Zini

 

 

Among the various fields that have historically contributed to the constitution of Aesthetics as an autonomous discipline in the 18th century is rhetoric, from which Aesthetics has taken terms, concepts and problems that it later develops and transforms (Saint Girons; Franzini; etc.). One of the themes with which the relationship between Aesthetics and Rhetoric can be investigated is memory, understood in its poietic dimension that concerns various fields of human productive and artistic activity.

Nabokov Against the Grain

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:16am
MLA 2024 Panel Sponsored by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society invites paper proposals for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, January 4-7) for a panel session on the topic "Nabokov Against the Grain":

T. S. Eliot Unsealed

updated: 
Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 9:03am
International T. S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

MLA 2024: Philadelphia (4-7 January)

T. S. Eliot Unsealed

With more of Eliot’s work and life available to view than ever before—nine volumes of letters as well as the letters to Emily Hale; new biographies of Hale, Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot, and T. S. Eliot himself; all eight volumes of the Prose; and a documentary film—a new era of Eliot studies is underway. What can we expect?

Please send 200-word abstracts and a brief CV to Dr. Megan Quigley at megan.m.quigley@villanova.edu by 20 March.

CALL FOR PAPERS Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature, vol. 4/2023

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:37am
Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 4/2023

 

The editorial board of Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal.

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

Henry James and the Visual Arts

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:23am
University of Reading
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Henry James and the Visual Arts

University of Reading, Thursday 29 June 2023

JOYS AND SORROWS OF ATTACHMENT: DICKENS AND LAWRENCE

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:17am
Robert L. Caserio / Dickens Society and D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Philadelphia, PA (Jan. 4-7, 2024)

 

Proposed Joint Panel of Dickens Society and D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

 

JOYS AND SORROWS OF ATTACHMENT: DICKENS AND LAWRENCE

 

Travel Writing

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:13am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Proposals for presentations on travel writing in English from any period or part of the world. Please submit a 200-word abstract by April 1, 2023. The RMMLA conference will be held in Denver, CO, from Oct. 11-14, 2023. 

Revisiting Realism: History, Memory, the World Second International Conference on Realism(s) in Post-WWII Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 7:18pm
Nanjing University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

    Writers and critics have in recent years hailed for a “return” of realism to the literary arena with revised notions of what constitutes realist representation to take account of the experiences that are unique to our new era, e.g. “speculative realism”, “metonymic realism”, “ecocritical realism”, and “quantum realism”, to name just a few. Indeed, realism has neverbeen away from the academic limelight despite its accused naivety in aspiring to represent reality objectively, unabashed interpellation of readers into dominant ideologies or as a symptom of the waning of affect in late capitalism.

Robert Graves and The ‘60s: “All You Need is Love”? || MLA 2024 Philadelphia

updated: 
Monday, February 20, 2023 - 1:52pm
The Robert Graves Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

CFP: Robert Graves and The ‘60s: “All You Need is Love”?

British writer Robert Graves (1895-1985) associated with multiple counterculture movements, including the modernist vanguard and anti-war poets, made forays into Eastern mysticism, reimagined the Classical period, contemporized ancient myths and rituals, experimented with hallucinogens, and managed to publish over 140 books, including what some might term his magnum opus, The White Goddess, an encyclopedic work he subtitled “A historic grammar of poetic myth.” Above all else, he is remembered as a poet of Love, exploring the subject across his long career in its many iterations: romantic, allegorical, ritualistic, the literary—the coupling of Poet and Muse.

The Lived Experience of James Joyce

updated: 
Friday, February 17, 2023 - 11:48am
Isaac Slone
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

This edited volume collects essays from those writing about the experience of reading, studying, teaching, and interpreting James Joyce. The essays form a picture of how Joyce’s writing serves its reader by reflecting dimensions of human experience.

Women in religion: from spiritual leadership to female empowerment

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 4:43pm
ICSAH
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

It is more than a cliché that gender plays a crucial role in religion, as most religious orders in the world were, and currently are, dominated by men. The role of women in cultic settings is, as a rule, secondary, as is also the authority of female ministers of religion, while the social benefits of those appointed with religious duties are also incomparable with the privileges received by men.  This year, we invite proposals that explore the female share in leadership roles related to religion (saints, prophetesses, priestesses, nuns, preachers, witches, shamans and more), and emphasize how their achievements are reflected in history and art. How prominent female figures have compromised men’s secured positions of power in socioreligious structures?

Melville, Conrad, and Life

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:25pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America and the Melville Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Both Melville and Conrad appeal to the concept of life allied with their artistic activities. Moby Dick is pervaded by appeals to the appeal to life, as in the description of a whale skeleton become a chapel:  "Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories." Conrad, too describes the action of art in fruitful tension with the kinetics of life, as when in his 1897 preface, he connects art with seizing a fragment "from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life." But how exactly do these writers understand and see their relation to "life" -- vegetative, human, physical, spiritual, ethical?

“William Gaddis at his Centenary” Special issue of electronic book review (

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:20pm
https://electronicbookreview.com/about-ebr/
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The year between December 29th 2022 and December 29th 2023 would have been the hundredth of William Gaddis’ life. Between 1955, when he published The Recognitions, and 1998, when he died shortly after completing Agapē Agape, Gaddis was notorious for a disproportion between reputation and readership. Being reflexively labelled “difficult,” with his own novels’ wry figurations of characters writing “for a very small audience,” and with a tendency to be categorized (though not always actually read) alongside the increasingly unfashionable “high postmodernists”… all this might have made it hard to envisage his work surviving into the 2000s.

 

 

MSA 2023: Precarious Modernisms

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:31am
Zoë Henry / MSA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

The Graduate Student Representative for the Modernist Studies Association seeks paper proposals from graduate students and emerging scholars on the topic of “precarious modernisms” for a guaranteed MSA 2023 panel. In a rapidly shifting climate of academic precarity, what can modernism’s own precarities offer in the way of addressing our contemporary crises of the humanities? Panelists might consider, but are certainly not limited to:

Splendid Difficulty: Teaching Conrad

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:31am
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Conrad's works feature linguistic sophistication, narrative complexity, psychological nuance, subtle irony, political contestation, and historical challenge. While some might seek to avoid difficulty, this panel instead embraces difficulty and considers how precisely the most challenging aspects of Conrad's art can empower students and cultivate subtlety, humanistic and historical breadth, and even humility. This panel invites papers that consider how the multivalent difficulty of Conrad’s works — syntactic, psychological, political, or aesthetic — offers pedagogical opportunity.  Comparative approaches are welcome.

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