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“Imagining Deleuze’s Romanticism”
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2025 Virtual CFP
Robert Lowell session, American Literature Association, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston
The Robert Lowell Society welcomes proposals for one session at the American Literature Association's annual conference (Boston, MA, 21–24 May 2025).
We are especially interested in proposals that consider Lowell's work in light of today's "death studies." For example: Lowell’s own elegies, his memories of and reconstructions of predecessors and peers, his cemetery poems, his care poems, his commemorative publishing projects, his imitations of elegies by others, his prose about others. Panelists might also consider poems about Lowell, including but not limited to elegies.
The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions. We are particularly interested translations of contemporary international writers into English and submissions that discuss the process and practical challenges of translating.
We would also be happy to consider and interviews with translators, manuscripts that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts (intersemiotic or multimodal translations), as well as submissions that address issues of machine translation, AI translations, and translation in the digital age in general. Proposals for special issues are also welcome.
Dickinson and Ecologies deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Li-hsin, Hsu / National Chengchi University contact email: johsu@mail2.nccu.tw
Dickinson and Ecologies
Emily Dickinson International Society + Wenshan Conference (Hybrid)
Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan
19-22 June 2025
(1 Day Critical Institute + 3-Day International Conference)
Call for Papers
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024
The literature of early medieval England, both Old English and Anglo-Latin, is often characterized either by a derivative devotion to an authoritative past, or by unorthodox innovation. While this dichotomy between tradition and innovation has much merit, many textual examples defy this categorization. In some cases, innovative texts and authors actually conform closely to their discursive models, while other texts that seem to adhere to tradition in fact create significant developments and variations. Untangling the complex relationships between texts and their sources reveals much about composition, genre, form, and language – the very foundations of textual practice.
Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language
Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language invites researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their original manuscripts for consideration in our upcoming issues. We welcome contributions that explore the intersection of creative arts and the English language from a diverse range of perspectives and disciplines.
We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:
The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Women who Create: the Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/women-who-create-2025/
March 29-31, 2025
Where:
March 29-30: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 31: Fully online
Call for Papers
Cost: 185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline January 10, 2025
Whitman’s Legacies
NEW DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS!!!!--11/10/2024
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.”
Subject: Call for Papers: Byron Society of America at CEA 2025
Call for Papers, Byron and Freedom at CEA 2025
March 27–29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar–teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Byron and Freedom for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.
Poems Invited for DEC 2024 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 45th Issue
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge / Taylor and Francis) seeks articles and creative work for publication in Volume 22 (4 Issues, 2025). Any length. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmnw20/about-this-journal#aims-and-scope Submissions are internationally peer reviewed and the journal is widely published, and made available in both paper and online versions. 4 issu
Chiasmi
The 16th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies
Harvard University, April 4-5, 2025
Elementi: Transformations and Metamorphoses
International conference "‘ Change life ", 100 years later: Surrealism from the origins till now" (December 9 and 10, 2024)
This year marks the centenary of the publication of the surrealist manifesto. The surrealist movement, itself derived from Dada, has since experienced internationalization and rebirths. In recent years, the movement has benefited from new insights while literary and artistic criticisms have sought to highlight figures and aspects hitherto neglected: the essential place of women in movement, its international dimension, its Relations with negritude and the criticism of colonialism, its intermediality, the multiplicity of its artistic practices.
The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.
Call for Papers
The 32nd Annual Midwest Conference on Literature, Language and Media (MCLLM)
April 5th & 6th 2025
Theme: “Trouble” - Confronting Bigotry in Higher Education and Academic Scholarship
Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2025 issue (Volume 15)!
The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 12 January 2025. Please follow our submission guidelines below.
Submission Guidelines:
READING NOTHING ACROSS LITERATURES: A HANDBOOK
“No friend is He who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing.” (Rig Veda CXVII)
“Did you rise to the crisis? Not a word, you and your birds, your gods – nothing.” (Oedipus the King)
“Nothing will come of Nothing. Speak again.” (King Lear 1.1)
CALL FOR PAPERS
British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) PGR & ECR Conference
ROMANTIC (UN)CONSCIOUSNESS
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge: 4th-5th September 2025
Online: 12th September 2025
Keynote Speakers Include:
Dr Rowan Rose Boyson (King's College London)
Canon Factory Project (Emergence programme; research teams VALE and REIGENN-Sorbonne Université)
« Taking a shot at the canon” Symposium, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. June 19th - June 21st, 2025
College LiteratureSpecial Issue: Infrastructural Poetics
Co-editors: Marty Cain, Claire Farley, and Michael Martin Shea
Call for Papers:
A ghost, Avery Gordon writes, “has a real presence and demands its due, your attention” (2008, Ghostly Matters). To answer this demand, our seminar invites submissions that turn their attention to literary and artistic ghosts. After all, ghosts are profoundly literary figures; like poetics, they are defined by their repetitions and returns, and constantly referring to something else, though failing to fully represent it. However, ghosts are not any literary figures. They are haunting, and although they have a strong presence they come into life in place of something absent. Moreover, in their haunting presence, they are signalling “repressed or unresolved social violence” (Gordon, 2008).
The family can be a place of hidden and haunted spaces, and in these spaces they bring to mind the uncanny, often moving deftly from the ordinary to the extraordinary or supernatural. Families are also notorious receptacles for trauma and are frequently explored in writing from Isabel Allende’s La casa de los espíritus/House of the Spirits to Tara Westover’s Educated.
30th Anniversary International Conference on Welsh Studies
University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH
16-18 July 2025
Call for Papers
Next summer, NAASWCH (North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History) will celebrate 30 years since our inaugural meeting, and our return to action after the disruptions of the COVID pandemic. The 2025 conference returns us to where it all began, at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH.
UPDATED DEADLINE! OCTOBER 15, 2024
This creative session seeks writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction who address Philadelphia’s past, present, and future creative evolution, revolution, and devolution in their work.
ABSTRACT
As one of America’s oldest cities, Philadelphia has experienced drastic changes many times over, often celebrated or maligned by its creative class in music, literature, and performing arts.
Edward Taylor Fifty Years Later
What effect has Asian thought or culture had in/on American poetry? How has it diversified or failed to diversify that poetry or its epistemology? This panel seeks papers on connections between American poetry/poetics and Asian culture, philosophy, and/or religion. Any connection is welcome including how poets have (mis)used Asian culture and/or thought in their poetry and thinking about poetry. However, in keeping with NeMLA’s theme of “(R)EVOLUTION,” I am particularly interested in affinities between ways of knowing in Asian thought and American poetry and how such affinities may disrupt traditional Western epistemologies or cause American and European readers to rethink their connection to the world.
In recent decades, poetry performance has been one of the fastest growing arts practices internationally. Since movements such as Beat poetry, jazz poetry, and poetry slam have inspired performance scenes across the English-speaking world and beyond, innovative performance styles have emerged alongside new genres and styles of composition geared towards oral performance. The global reach of spoken word poetry has become highly noticeable in the arena of slam, evidenced by the diverse programmes of initiatives such as the 2005 ‘Poetry International World Slampionship’ in Rotterdam, the ‘Coupe du Monde de Poésie’ in France (since 2007), and the recently established ‘World Poetry Slam Organization’.
NB: deadline extended to 10/15!
For Adrienne Rich, those who watch “will never act,” yet therein lies the enactive potential of poetry, which “appears as a rift, a peculiar lapse, in [this] prevailing mode” of “managed spectacles and passive spectators.” As Sean Bonney insists, “The deep truth is imageless. When you know that, you know there’s everything to play for.” And “everything”? It is, per Diane di Prima, that for and after which we must ask: “you can have what you ask for, ask for / everything." To tap Bonney once more, “All else” — indeed, anything short of everything! — “is madness and suffering at the hands of the pigs."
Multilingual poets write at the intersection of language, identity, and cross-cultural communication. Not only does the work of multilingual poets naturally create a space for innovation, but it also often serves as a broader commentary on the interplay between language and power. Every multilingual poet combines, leverages, or silences pieces of their complex identities, negotiating deeply personal nuances as well as socially constructed codes. Multilingual poets may choose to employ self-translation or multiple languages within a single poem, they may write separate works in different languages, or they may confine their work to a single language.