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Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment.
Beyond the Capitals of Decadence
The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.
Northeast Modern Language Association
March 6-9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism
Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Henry James and the Archive
The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James studies and archives for a special fall 2025 forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.”
Topics could include, for example:
• Using archives for Henry James scholarship
• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive
• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship
“A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data
A Fitzgerald Centennial: The Great Gatsby, New York, and New Perspectives
The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference
Hosted by the New School, New York, NY
June 22-28, 2025
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, we invite scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts to submit proposals for The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in New York City.
ALA Annual Conference (May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA) — Wallace Stevens’s Essays
"The Future of the American Literary Archive" panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites panelists to share archival discoveries in American literature while also engaging in broader methodological reflections on the state of archival research in the humanities. In the context of explaining their own archival work and/or pedagogy, panelists will discuss how archival research has been impacted—for better or for worse—by tectonic shifts in the US humanities landscape including technological developments (AI, digitization), declining undergraduate humanities enrollments, and calls for more public-facing humanities scholarship readable to a general audience.
The Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium
Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America
May 10th and 11th, 2025
Online via Zoom
With keynote addresses by:
Dr Michael P. Bibler
(author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 [University of Virginia Press, 2009])
and
Dr Laura Rattray
We invite abstracts for a proposed edited collection of scholarship on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.
Topics of interest include gender, sexuality, race, regionality, reception, pedagogy, performance, and adaptation.,
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.
The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language
June 26-27, 2025
Ewha Womans University
Keynote Speakers
Call for Papers
CFP for JWLS 2025
Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact
From his uneasy alliance with first-wave feminists to his role as a frontman for state-sponsored attempts to popularise the inter-war avant-garde in 1950s radio, Wyndham Lewis’s collaborative endeavours are as varied as they are surprising.
“An ingenuity too astonishing”: The Poetry of Amy Clampitt
36th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025 (Boston)
We are seeking 15–20-minute paper proposals on the work of Amy Clampitt for a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. We are interested in abstracts that examine Clampitt’s work from a variety of perspectives. As such, we have kept this call fairly capacious. Potential topics may include but are in no way limited to:
This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers. Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences?
This roundtable is part of NeMLA's 56th annual convention, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, March 3-6, 2025. To submit propoosals, follow these steps.
Navigate to nemla.org
Navigate to Convention>Call for Proposals>Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature
The Charles Olson Society and the Jonathan Bayliss Society are pleased to announce a collaborative panel to be held at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. This panel will focus on writers who were inspired by Gloucester, Massachusetts and Cape Ann. The richness of Cape Ann, its history, people, and geography, deeply influenced poets Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini as well as novelist Jonathan Bayliss. How did these figures incorporate Gloucester’s geography, history, population, ecology, or other distinct elements in their work? How does place influence and determine the nature of a poet’s or novelist’s writing?
I'm writing to share the CFPs for the two Eudora Welty Society sessions that will be featured at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference in Boston at the Westin Copley Place (May 21-24, 2025). ******************** 1. Welty’s Sheltered Daring and Furtive FeminismEudora Welty concludes her literary autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings with the self-summation, “[a]s you have seen, I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring comes from within” (104).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions
16th -17th June 2025
The University of Western Australia, Perth
Keynote speakers:
Daniel M. Gross (University of California Irvine)
Robbert Boddice (Tampere University)
HENRY MILLER'S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
From 16-19 October of 2025, Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal and the
Henry Miller MemorialLibrary will host aconference at Asilomar in Pacific Grove,
California, with an excursion to the Henry MillerMemorial Library in Big Sur. We will
examine Miller in light of contemporary thinking, asking the question: Is Henry
Miller relevant today?
Although presentations on any aspect of Miller's writing, artwork, and life are
welcomed, the conference organizers particularlyencourage consideration of the
theme of Miller's place in the 21st Century.
Topics for presentations might include, but are not limited to:
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 21-24. We are interested in abstracts that examine the influence of Charles Olson and/or other Black Mountain Poets on poetic practices and on subsequent generations of poets. A variety of poets took up the innovative ideas of figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Dorn and others associated with Black Mountain. How have the practices of this fundamentally important school of poetics been extended, transformed, and/or resisted by poets from subsequent generations?
Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"
This seminar explores the concept of "future memory" across literature and film. We will examine the impact of memory, trauma, and technology on human cognition. We will analyze texts that challenge traditional notions of temporality and consciousness. We will question how memories shape identity, and how technological advancements might alter our understanding of lived experience.
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 52nd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 20-22, 2025, at the University of Louisville (https://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/conferences/lclc).
A World Unknown: New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)
Deadline for abstract submission: September 15 2024
Call for Papers, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature at CEA 2025
March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ampersand: An American Studies Journal at Boston University invites scholarly and creative contributions for our next issue, Disruption as Resistance: Labor, Noise, and Refusal. This issue seeks to inflect scholarly trends with practical and personal concerns of graduate workers, contingent instructors, and faculty emerging from, amid, or looking ahead to labor organizing, disruptive actions, and noise-as-resistance.
“Of paradise terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms
Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900
The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on the relationship of the profane and the holy in the modernist era.
Potential topics include:
'[...] the seas of literature are distraught with storms and currents, and full of the wrecks of Irish anthologies’. W. B. Yeats A Book of Irish Verse (1895)
Surrealism and Arts-Based Research
Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/07/06/surrealism2024/
Conference Dates: September 30-October 1, 2024
Location: Online
Proposal Deadline: September 7, 2024
Conference fee: 90 GBP
Call for Papers
André Breton, one of the founding figures of Surrealism, emphasizes the transformative and disruptive power of Surrealist art and thought in his famous quote:
Hello! This is a CFP for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, which will take place July 8-11 in College Park, MD. In accordance with the ASLE 2025 theme (“Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality”), I am soliciting proposals for scholarly presentations that consider the ways in which climate engineering, geoengineering, terraforming (and other related processes) disturb the atmosphere. The panel’s overall purpose is to explore how different representations of and engagements with atmospheric disturbances present opportunities for environmental and climate justice while serving as solutions to potential social and ecological issues like climate change.