twentieth century and beyond

The Research Project “The Novel as Global Form. Poetic Challenges and Cross-border Literary Circulation” organizes its final conference and seeks paper proposals of scholars who are pursuing research on the contemporary novel from a global perspective, from any literary and linguistic tradition. 

Note: Springer has shown interest in publishing this book subject to high standard of content and positive review

Concept Note:

Inflationary Modernities: Literature and Economy after 1789

*deadline extended*

Call for papers for edited collection

Editors: Kieran Brown (Oxford University) and Wayne Stables (University of South Africa)

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar and contemporary topics for the 2024 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Chicago, IL from May 23-26, 2024 (information on the annual conference can be found at the American Literature Association website). The Postwar Group has three guaranteed panels this year, two in postwar studies and one in contemporary studies. Please review our calls for papers below, and email nicoledib@suu.edu with any questions.

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL 

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

Panel Title: Carson McCullers and Embodied Difference

The Carson McCullers Society, in conjunction with The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University), invites proposals for a panel at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA), May 23-26, 2024, The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603.

Cather and the Readerly Imagination

In her own time as in ours, Willa Cather’s books created vibrant and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid reader with an acute awareness of the reading public. The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference seeks to celebrate and explore both the act of reading Cather and the presence of reading and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters. 

The directors invite papers on a variety of topics related to Cather, readers, and reading, including but not limited to the following areas.

• Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories

DETECTING [SERIAL] KILLING
14-16 NOVEMBER 2024
Interdisciplinary online conference

Our 2022 Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives conference demonstrated that the turns in the (serial) killing narratives, including the decline of the celebrity-like status the perpetrators enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s, growing popularity of police professionals, more pronounced female characters, or victim-oriented discourse, are a work in progress.

What scares us? Why do we sleep with the lights on? What creatures wait to grab a foot sticking out from under the covers? Why do we avoid the woods after dark?

This special issue of Humanities is themed on “Re-Imagining Classical Monsters.” Acrossall cultures, there have been monsters that have terrified, taught, othered, and much more. This issue will take a broad look at how modern authors and artists across genres conceptualize creatures—non-human as well as human—that haunt the imagination.

Open Section

 At the end of autumn 2024, the e-journal CLOSURE once again offers a forum for all facets of comic research. From cultural, visual and media studies to social or natural sciences and beyond: issue eleven of CLOSURE will publish essays and reviews that deal with the ›state of the comic‹. Whether detailed analysis, comic theory or innovative new approaches – our open section welcomes a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies of all things ›comics‹.  

 Thematic Section: »The End is Here«

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture in the Twenty First Century.

We invite submissions for the third issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March.

* Deadline is the end of January and we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication. For the third issue, alongside established academics, we would like encourage graduate students to submit their work.

You can submit your manuscript simply by clicking on the link: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/3958/submission/step/manuscript/new

Growth after the Trauma of Partition: A Critical Study (Working Title)

Editors:

1. Dr. Sambit Panigrahi, Professor  & Head, Deptt. of English, Ravenshaw  University,   Cuttack
2. Dr. Sanjoy K. Dutta, Asst. Prof. in English, Bhadrak (Auto.) College, Bhadrak
3. Dr. Gopinath Khutia, Asst. Prof.(TE) in English, Bhadrak (Auto.) College,  Bhadrak

Concept Note:

We inhabit a moment of accelerated urbanization primarily driven by the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in urban planning and management, most ambitiously articulated in the promises of the ‘smart city’. The ubiquity of digital information infrastructures has reshaped the form, shape, and texture of cities. Contemporary urbanity has come to be defined by ICTs. As the social, experiential and physical spaces in the city are increasingly being experienced with and through data generated by networked digital devices, digital mediations exert profound impact on how urban spaces are being reconfigured, curated and navigated.