cfp.english.upenn.edu

"Institutional Woolf" will address Virginia Woolf’s paradoxical relationship to academic institutions in her fiction, prose, and posthumous status in the canon.

Leo Bersani’s 1976 A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in Literature was, at the time of its publication, a pathbreaking work of literary criticism and theory.

Throughout recorded history – traversing time and space, cultures and nations – the notion of community has fostered both collaboration and conflict.

10th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease

Tuesday 6th September – Thursday 8th September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for papers

CFP: ATHE Performance Studies Focus Group Emerging Scholars Panel
DEADLINE EXTENDED! New deadline: February 15, 2011

CFP: Elizabeth Bowen and Textual Modernity: A Special Issue of Textual Practice
Special Issue Editors: Dr. Pamela Thurschwell and Dr. Siân White
Deadline for Manuscript Submission: September 2011

In The Writing of Fiction, Edith Wharton says that the difficult task of the short story is “to suggest illimitable air within a narrow space.” This is not a strictly formal imperative: i

[Pre]Occupations: Working, Seizing, Dwelling (Saturday, April 16th, 2011)

This is an extended deadline for the book collection, Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature.

Forming Identity, Transforming Space
Ninth Annual Graduate Student Conference
The Department of English and the Division of Languages and Literature
Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain