twentieth century and beyond

Corporate Fictions

Across the novel, theater, film, and television, and across genres and modes, the corporation has served as a key setting for fictionalizations of modern life. This panel aims to create an intermedial, intergeneric, and historically comparative conversation between literary and literary-minded scholars interested in the corporation as a representational content and form. Paper foci could include:

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

Deadline for proposal submission: August 31, 2025

Editors: Madalynn L. Madigar (Cherokee Nation, University of Oregon), Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

Contact Email: mmadigar@uoregon.edu, jschell5@alaska.edu

For this edited collection, we invite proposals for essays that focus on and engage with petrogothic and petrohorror, emerging fields that examine the textual artifacts of hydrocarbon cultures through the lens of gothic and horror studies.

XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference

“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”

(Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025

Panel 5

Coordinators: Tadeusz Pióro (University of Warsaw), t.t.pioro@uw.edu.pl Daniela Daniele (University of Udine), daniela.daniele@uniud.it

Avant-garde Poets of the San Francisco Bay Area. Their Lives, Works, and Film Portraits

CALL FOR PAPERS: James Baldwin Review

Modern Language Association

2026 MLA Convention

January 8-11, 2026

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

Social domination, as exerted and felt through the categories of race, class, sex, and gender, finds itself expressed in and through James Baldwin’s work, often unevenly, subject to the peculiarities of his historical moments. Both Baldwin and his interpreters can be seen to elevate one vector of domination in racial capitalist modernity over the others, or forget one at the others’ expense, obscuring our vision of such domination and our capacities for struggling against it. 

CFP Contemporary Feminism and the Politics of Emotion

Proposed Panel Submission for NWSA 2025    Conference dates: Nov. 13th-16th, 2025

Submission Deadline: March 15th

This is a call for proposals to participate in a proposed panel at MLA in Toronto in January 2026.

Higher education had three socially pertinent effects in previous eras of capitalist development. It: offered graduates a pathway to upward mobility; conferred a “stake” in normative society such that graduates could “buy into” the dominant economic systems from which they stood to benefit; and was an incubator for mass social and political movements such as the 1960s student movement.

But much recent fiction evinces a change in attitudes to university – a weakening of the assumption that higher education is a pathway to social mobility for the individual and social justice/progress for the collective.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15 2025

IAAS Annual Conference
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

24-26 April 2025

Conference Theme: “We the People”

CALL FOR PAPERS

“It is certain in Theory, that the only moral Foundation of Government is the Consent of the People. But to what an Extent Shall We carry this Principle?”—John Adams, 1776

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DELEUZE(NESS)

International symposium

18-19 September 2025

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

CALL FOR PAPERS

MLA 2026 (Guaranteed Session)

Toronto, January 8-11, 2026

Generous Modernisms

The Edward Albee Society is proud of the launch of The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre and sends out this call for proposals for new projects.

The new book series aims to examine mid-to-late 20th Century American theatre; its most influential and important playwright, Edward Albee; and his contemporaries.

Currently, two books are in production:

--David A. Crespy and Les Gray, eds. Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatres, 1950s-1970s: Albee and his Contemporaries, forthcoming 2025.

--John P. Bray, Jack Gelber: Consider This, forthcoming 2025.

In keeping with this year’s conference theme, this panel will focus on texts that function as infrastructures or sties of negotiated meaning and which also take as their subject matter real sites of infrastructure around which collective or communal identities or meanings are disrupted, negotiated and crystallized.  Obvious examples include Williams's Paterson and Crane's The Bridge, but proposals on novels and plays as well as on film and painting are also welcome.  Please send abstracts to Charles.Sumner@usm.edu no later than 3/21/25.

Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
 
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern

This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.