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Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:52am
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 28, 2027

Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

 

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press for Rice University, invites submissions of original scholarly essays for upcoming issues. We seek work that offers fresh, rigorous contributions to the study of British literature across four historical fields:

 

• English Renaissance Literature

• Tudor and Stuart Drama

• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

• Nineteenth-Century Literature

 

Thinking by Parts: Analogy, Fragmentation, and the Search for Wholeness in Literature and Philosophy

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 5:02pm
University of the Balearic Islands and University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

 

University of Siedlce

Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies

and

University of the Balearic Islands

Faculty of Philosophy and Art

 

would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part

in the International Conference

 

Thinking by Parts: Analogy, Fragmentation,

and the Search for Wholeness in Literature and Philosophy

 

Our Victorians, Ourselves: Rethinking Victorian Texts & Contexts

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 1:05pm
UGSVA--Undergraduate & Graduate Students Victorian Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Our Victorians, Ourselves: Rethinking Victorian Texts & Contexts

An online student conference hosted by the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Victorian Association (UGSVA)

 

Conference on April 28th, 2026 and Abstracts due March 31st, 2026

 

Keynote:

Sarah Bliss, Florida State University

“Reading the Forest with the Trees: Victorian Fiction and Periodicals”

 

Interactive Closing Session:

Sabarno Sinha, University of Texas at Austin

“UnConferencing (v. 1860): The Black-Out Victorian Poetry Edition”

Anxieties About Trafficking and Transport in 19th-Century British Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 1:05pm
NAVSA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

I am hoping to organize a panel for the upcoming NAVSA conference (Nov 11-15, 2026 in Pasadena), examining the exploration of anxieties associated with trafficking and transport in nineteenth-century British literature.

The conference web link is attached: https://traffic2026.ucr.edu/

Please send 300-word abstracts and 1-page CVs to charlotte.fiehn@yu.edu by February 28th, 2026.

SAMLA panel: "Hospitality, Leisure, Vacations, Entertainment and Travels in Pre-1865 American Literature

Micahel Martin/Nicholls State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

How was the concept of “hospitality” and “leisure” conceived by early American writers? Travelogues, whether from William Bartram, Sara Kemble Knight, or others, served as a major genre type during the period. Topics may include stays at early American hotels, the way that leisure was/is linked to social class, and the Caribbean and European vacation in the early American imagination. What regional places of leisure figured heavily in the early American cultural imaginary? How did Black writers and Native American writers conceive of entertainment and visitation? This panel seeks contributors who can speak to leisure and travel from writings that span the early part of American culture and history into the nineteenth century.

Weather in 19th-century Literature and Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

Dewey W. Hall/NeMLA Conference 2027
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Weather in 19th-century Literature and Art in the Age of the Anthropocene concerns the question of evidence of weather-related changes due to anthropogenic emissions induced, in part, by industrial capitalism. While humanity has been considered to be largely responsible for weather-related changes regarding shifts in wind current patterns, varying levels of precipitation, and drought-like conditions induced by an increase in anthropogenic emissions, leading Paul Crutzen to declare a new geologic epoch in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2000) during a gathering of atmospheric chemists, the conditions continued to be exacerbated by the close of the 19th-century.

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