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category: postcolonialCall for Editors and Submissions: Revelations: Postgraduate Research in Mansfield Studiesfull name / name of organization: Jessica Gildersleeve /Katherine Mansfield Society contact email: jessica.gildersleeve@usq.edu.au The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce the launch of its new blog, Revelations: Postgraduate Research in Mansfield Studies.
[UPDATE] The pastoral turn in contemporary literaturefull name / name of organization: Dr Judith Seaboyer, University of Queensland contact email: j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au The President of the MLA, Marianne Hirsch, has announced her theme for the 2014 meeting of the MLA in Chicago: “Vulnerable Times addresses vulnerabilities of life, the planet, and our professional d
The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting Historyfull name / name of organization: Dr Rachel Douglas contact email: Rachel.Douglas@glasgow.ac.uk The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History
CFP Haunting Whiteness: Rhetorics of Whiteness in a ‘Post-Racial’ Erafull name / name of organization: Krista Ratcliffe, Joyce Middleton, and Tammie Kennedy contact email: krista.ratcliffe@marquette.edu The editors invite chapter proposals that work with the collection’s title, Haunting Whiteness: Rhetorics of Whiteness in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era.
CALL FOR PAPERS - BARNOLIPI Interdisciplinary Online Journalfull name / name of organization: Reflection Mentoring Services contact email: reflection.edu@gmail.com CALL FOR PAPERS - Twelfth Issue of Interdisciplinary Online Journal BARNOLIPI (http://www.barnolipi.com). BARNOLIPI is an interdisciplinary international research journal
Sports in French and Francophone Literature and Filmfull name / name of organization: Special Session, MLA Convention, Chicago 2014 contact email: roxanna-curto@uiowa.edu; RWines@cornellcollege.edu How are athletic activities (traditional games, mo
[UPDATE] Deadline extension: The Arts of Attention Conference, Budapest, Hungary (Mar. 31, 2013)full name / name of organization: Károli Gáspár University contact email: taoa2013@gmail.com; taoa2013@kre.hu Attention is increasingly regarded by cognitive scientists and evolutionary anthropologists as a faculty whose development in human animals is constitutive of what it means to be human.
Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conferencefull name / name of organization: Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students in English contact email: dagse@dal.ca Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
[UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space (deadline extended until Mar. 7)full name / name of organization: Southern Methodist University English Department (Graduate) contact email: smugradconference@gmail.com [UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space ($125 award for the best essay)
Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Studiesfull name / name of organization: UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association & UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies contact email: memsa.ucla@gmail.com KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Robert N. Watson
Twentieth Century Studies Area 2013 MIdwest Popular Culture/American Culture Conferencefull name / name of organization: Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association contact email: havenl@ohio.edu Call for Papers Friday – Sunday, October 11-13, 2013, St. Louis, MO
[UPDATE] Renaissance of Roland Barthes Deadline 3/1/13full name / name of organization: CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Literature and English Departments contact email: csommers@gc.cuny.edu The Renaissance of Roland Barthes
Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013full name / name of organization: ISCH Cost action 1101, Durham University, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale contact email: kerusso@unior.it Announcement/Call for Papers Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013
Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013full name / name of organization: ISCH Cost action 1101, Durham University, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale contact email: kerusso@unior.it Announcement/Call for Papers Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013
Salman Rushdie in the 21st Centuryfull name / name of organization: Dr. Charlie Wesley contact email: cwesley@daemen.edu How do we assess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his previous output and changing political beliefs? 200 word abstracts or more by 15 March 2013. Contact Dr.
Sensationalims and the Genealogy of Modernityfull name / name of organization: Alberto Gabriele contact email: alberto.gabriele.tau@gmail.com Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity A Two-Day International Workshop Tel Aviv University, December, 18-19, 2013
[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)full name / name of organization: Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University contact email: M-Cole@wiu.edu What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?
MLA 2014, Chicago: Everyday Unrecognized Sexual Violence in South Asiafull name / name of organization: Namrata Mitra/ South Asian Languages and Literatures contact email: nmitra@jcu.edu We invite critiques on representations of sexual violence against marginalized groups in South Asian literature, film, and/ or media.
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies journal - Special Issuefull name / name of organization: Elizabeth Kelley Bowman / Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State) contact email: ebowman@uguam.uog.edu We invite essays from interdisciplinary perspectives that address contemporary adaptations of Renaissance literature or art, particularly Jacobean, in film.
The Sacred and the Sexual in South Asian Literature , South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group, MLA Chicago 2014full name / name of organization: Indrani Mitra/ Mount St. Mary's University contact email: mitra@msmary.edu This Modern Language Association panel invites papers that interrogate gender and the constructions of sexuality in relation to one or more of the religious traditions of South Asia, and their local,
Queering Age (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013 in San Diego)full name / name of organization: PAMLA, Emily Mattingly contact email: emily.mattingly@email.ucr.edu Queering Age
[UPDATE] The Human journal NOW accepts submissions for June 2013 issuefull name / name of organization: The Human, a journal of humanities, social sciences, and arts contact email: human@humanjournal.org Call for Papers – The Human journal NOW accepts submissions
[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)full name / name of organization: Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University contact email: M-Cole@wiu.edu What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?
[UDATE] Supernatural Studies Journal - Inaugural Issuefull name / name of organization: Supernatural Studies Association contact email: SupernaturalStudies@gmail.com Supernatural Studies, a new, peer-edited e-journal welcomes submissions for its inaugural issue, Spring 2013, through March 1.
Marxism..."That is the Question"full name / name of organization: Marxist Literary Group/South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013 contact email: acooke2@emory.edu Taking a cue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this panel focuses on a critical examination of the act or state of calling one’s self a Marxist, that is to say, it asks the question, “What does it mean
Haunting Whiteness: Rhetorics of Whiteness in a ‘Post-Racial’ Erafull name / name of organization: Tammie M Kennedy, Joyce Middleton, and Kris Ratcliffee contact email: tmkenendy@unomaha.edu The editors invite chapter proposals that work with the collection’s title, Haunting Whiteness: Rhetorics of Whiteness in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era.
Space and Everyday Life in Contemporary Fiction - Journal Issue - deadline for proposals 30/03/2013full name / name of organization: Interférences Littéraires/ Literaire Interferenties: A Multilingual e-Journal in Literary Studies contact email: Liesbeth.Francois@arts.kuleuven.be Space and Everyday Life
Vulnerable Times and the Rise of Fascism: Radical Writers on the Front of the Spanish Civil War (MLA Chicago, Jan 9-12 2014)full name / name of organization: Ashley Foster (CUNY-Graduate Center) and Evelyn Scaramella (Manhattan College) contact email: jashfoster@yahoo.com, evelyn.scaramella@manhattan.edu This panel explores testimonies of writers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; J.
MLA 2014 Special Session: Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literaturefull name / name of organization: Kristine A. Wilson contact email: wilson67@purdue.edu For this proposed special session, I welcome paper proposals that address the presidential theme, Vulnerable Times, as it relates to Caribbean literature.
Creative submissions are invited to upcoming issue of Yellow Medicine Review devoted to the Fairy-talefull name / name of organization: Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought contact email: editor@yellowmedicinereview.com Yellow Medicine Review is accepting poetry, fiction, and creative essays for its upcoming issue devoted to modern writers working in the myth/folktale genre.
UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre; Summer 2013; Deadline 6/24/13full name / name of organization: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; St. Mary's College; Rivendale Press contact email: hgurfin@siue.edu; michelle.paull@smuc.ac.uk UPSTAGE, a peer-reviewed online publication dedicated to research in turn-of-the-century (1880-1914) dramatic literature, theatre, and theatrical culture, is seeking submissions for its Summer 2013 is
[UPDATE} Panel on "The Modernist Room,"* 29 Aug - 1 Sept, Brighton UK -- MSA conferencefull name / name of organization: Modernist Studies Association contact email: stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com According to Frederic Jameson, the Modernist novel abandoned the panoramic cityscapes of the 19th century realist novel and devised "strategies of inwardness." As Brigitte Munier suggests, the early-2
What's Material about Vulnerability? MLA, Chicago, Jan 9-12, 2014 (deadline: March 15)full name / name of organization: Joanna Fax and Kimberly Macellaro/Rice University contact email: jmf4@rice.edu, kam5@rice.edu Seeking new perspectives on the place of materialist theory in the study of vulnerability in American culture, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; racial, economic, sexual vulnerabi
Newer New or Coming After? Americanist Literary Criticism at the Present Moment (MLA)full name / name of organization: Jed Dobson contact email: james.e.dobson@dartmouth.edu This special session panel seeks papers that reflect on the work of the New Americanists. Abstracts (300-500 words) and brief cv by 15 March 2013; Jed Dobson (james.e.dobson@dartmouth.edu).
“Feminism and Nationalism”: The Case of South Asian Womenfull name / name of organization: MLA (Modern Language Association) 2014 Convention, Chicago contact email: ummeal-wazedi@augustana.edu, imohf@aol.com Do women and men have equal opportunities for agency within nationalist movements? Seeking proposals for a roundtable on the creation of the nation-state and the role of women in South Asia.
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