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Commemorating Corelli: A Centenary Conference

updated: 
Friday, July 28, 2023 - 1:28pm
Dr Eleanor Dobson (University of Birmingham) & Joanna Turner (Loughborough University)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Commemorating Corelli: A Centenary Conference

4 May 2024, Mason Croft, Stratford upon Avon

We are delighted to announce a one-day conference dedicated to exploring the life, works, and lasting impact of the enigmatic and prolific author, Marie Corelli, to be held in 2024, a century after her death. This event - to be held at Corellli's former home, Mason Croft in Stratford upon Avon - seeks to bring together scholars and enthusiasts to shed new light on the literary contributions and enduring legacy of one of the most successful writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Victorian Affects

updated: 
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 9:16am
DACH Victorianists Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Victorian Affects

Online Workshop DACH Victorianists Network organised by Dr Anja Hartl (Innsbruck) and Dr Tim Sommer (Passau/Oxford)

Friday, 8 December 2023

NeMLA 2023 Panel: Animals of the Victorian Age: Queer Ecology and the Emphasis on Animal Kinship

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
Jacob Crystal / University of Tulsa
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In Animal Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Process (1892), Henry Salt argues that “Oppression and cruelty are invariably founded on a lack of imaginative sympathy,” which purports the notion of the “tyrant or tormentor” from ever having a “true sense of kinship with the victim” (16). In a similar way, Donna Haraway states in When Species Meet (2007), that “we are a knot of species coshaping [sic] one another in layers of reciprocating complexity all the way down” (42). Taking cues from Salt and Haraway, our panel will take up key features of human and animal relations and their intersection with the queerness of imaginative sympathy.

Dostoevsky's Women and the Image of the Femme Fatale in the European Novel

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:43pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

he proposed session will analyze the complex images of women in Dostoevsky novels, focusing on the archetypal female characters in his major novels vis-a-vis other Russian realist novels, such as the works of Leo Tolstoy and Turgenev, investigating social and cultural gender norms of that period. The papers focusing on the image of femme fatale in the European novels will also be considered.

"Death in Public" /// C19 '24 Panel Proposal

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 12:01pm
Lucy Wallitsch & Alex Anderson
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 21, 2023

Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel proposal for The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists' (C19's) 2024 conference in Pasadena. Feel free to reach out with any questions.


 

Death in Public

In “Sex in Public,” Berlant and Warner urged us to consider how sex—something seemingly private—is indeed “mediated by publics.” Similar to Berlant and Warner, we investigate how the concept of death, broadly defined, was determined, imagined, augmented, and regulated as a public spectacle throughout the nineteenth century.

"Trans(-) Turns in Nineteenth-Century Studies"

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:22pm
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 2, 2023

Whether in bridging divides or leaping over them, contesting a binary or dismantling it, “trans(-)” linguistically registers changes of state as well as movements in time and space; it indexes communication or traffic that puts places, persons, and things in new relations to one another and, perhaps, to themselves.

Diversity.Equality.Unity

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Upasana Ray
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

‘Feminism’ , according to the Oxford Dictionary , is defined as a “belief in and advocacy of
the political , economic and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through
organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests”. From the various
spheres of feminism , ‘feminine feminism’ has become a quite attractive topic ,
especially among women . It suggests women not to sacrifice her identity for the
patriarchal society , both physically and mentally , be powerful and strong . Though ,
it is a complex notion as femininity is a feeling and not a concrete thing , but it, at
the same time , also inspires to not to sacrifice the ‘girly’ features thus expected from

C19 2024: “Endlessness”

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:20pm
Thomas W. Howard
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

C19 2024 Panel CFP: “Endlessness”

NeMLA 2024: Excess Feeling in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 3:59pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

“Feeling,” in its multiple forms of meaning, is central to the literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The eighteenth century saw the rise of the the cult of sensibility, aesthetic explorations of the sublime, and medical explorations of the nerves; while the nineteenth saw the literary cultivation of sympathy and psychological theories of emotion. Whether emotional, affective, or physical, the push to define and understand “feeling” was frequently attended by anxiety about feeling’s propensity to spill over and overwhelm.

VISIONS OF THE AFTERLIFE (online conference)

updated: 
Monday, July 3, 2023 - 4:01am
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

VISIONS OF THE AFTERLIFE

7th December 2023

Online Conference

 

Call for Papers 

Deadline Extended: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom Call for Assessments

updated: 
Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 7:52pm
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

 

Overview

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assessments that model inclusive, antiracist, antiableist, and anticolonial assessment practices for teaching the nineteenth century. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.

 

Full Solicitation

The Review of English and American Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:16pm
The English and American Literature Association (EALA), Taiwan
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Review of English and American Literature

 

Call for Papers

 


 

Exploring the Nexus of Healing, Stories, and Illness in the Nineteenth Century and Today

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:12pm
International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Call for Papers, "Exploring the Nexus of Healing, Stories, and Illness in the Nineteenth Century and Today” for “The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal" IN-CSA Conference (Durham University in Durham, UK from July 10 - July 12, 2024).

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a 2-page CV by August 1, 2023 to Melissa Rampelli at mrampelli@holyfamily.edu

Animals of the Victorian Age: Queer Ecology and the Emphasis on Animal Kinship

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:31pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In Animal Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Process (1892), Henry Salt argues that “Oppression and cruelty are invariably founded on a lack of imaginative sympathy,” which purports the notion of the “tyrant or tormentor” from ever having a “true sense of kinship with the victim” (16). In a similar way, Donna Haraway states in When Species Meet (2007), that “we are a knot of species coshaping [sic] one another in layers of reciprocating complexity all the way down” (42). Taking cues from Salt and Haraway, our panel will take up key features of human and animal relations and their intersection with the queerness of imaginative sympathy.

It Takes a Village: Kinship Systems in the Gothic

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:20pm
Jenna Sterling (she/her) / Temple University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

To welcome the Gothic to NeMLA 2024 (March 7-10), this panel asks scholars to present work that introduces unlikely kinship systems in the Gothic and claims these relationships as unique to this genre.


 

CFP:

Queer Nineteen Summer Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:17pm
Queer Nineteen
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

 

 SUMMER SYMPOSIUM 2023

Queer Nineteen is a free, online resource dedicated to sharing queer stories from the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914). Join us for our debut #Queer19 Summer Symposium on 15th August 2023, 09:30 - 16:30 (BST) where we're opening the virtual doors to anybody with a Queer19 story to tell. This free, online, one-day event is aimed at postgraduate and early career
researchers working on any aspect of long nineteenth-century queerness.

Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (Panel)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 10:20am
Northeast Modern Language Association/NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation of both individual and corporate embodiment often turned to material resources like food to express approval or disapproval for various bodies’ relationships to each other. As David J. Hutson argues, during the nineteenth century “body weight was allowed to hold multiple symbolic positions, with thinness and fatness understood as both positive and negative” (2017).

Too Much of a Good Thing? Surplus Memory, Form, Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 11:17am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Is there such thing as too much memory? According to nineteenth-century French psychologists, there is, which is how they coined the term “hypermnesia,” or “the disease of too much memory” (Michael Roth). As Michael Roth has usefully charted, a “typical” or normal” memory, then, would be one that brings order, allowing for a clear link between the past and present that consequently allows for “possible futures.” In contrast, surplus memory becomes an “agent of disorder” that overwhelms the present.

Surplus and the Melodramatic Excess

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 10:34am
Matthew Skwiat/ Nemla
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Consider submitting paper extracts for Surplus and the Melodramaric Excess at the upcoming Nemla Conference, March 7-10 2024 in Boston! 

This session investigates the surplus of melodrama through an examination of its excess. What can an overabundance of tears, laughter, and music tell us about the cultures they grew out of or ourselves? In what ways can we re-engage with and rethink the legacy and influence of the melodrama during its time and today?

Matter Really Matters: Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:18am
Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Conference 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Matter Really Matters: Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

British and Global Anglophone Panel Session

55th Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Annual Conference

March 7-10, 2024 Boston, Massachusetts

Gothic Session 2023 SCMLA Conference

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:51pm
Shari Hodges Holt/ South Central Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Contact Information: Dr. Shari Hodges Holt, University of Mississippi, shodges@olemiss.edu

Deadline: June 30, 2023

Proposals for 15-minute conference presentations are invited for the regular Gothic Session at the 2023 South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) conference.  The conference will be held October 12-14 at the Omni Hotel in Corpus Christi, TX.  The session is open topic.  Presentations on Gothic tropes, the Gothic as a literary or cultural movement, or specific Gothic texts from literature, film, and popular culture are welcome.

Call For Papers | Special Issue of Victorian Review: “Videogames and Victorian Studies”

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:24am
Victorian Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Victorian Review invites submissions for a special issue devoted to the topic of “Videogames and Victorian Studies.” This issue will consider how game texts interact with Victorian genres, aesthetics, and literary themes by commenting on or critiquing their original contexts. Articles will examine how the embodied, user-driven mode of storytelling employed by videogames can offer new engagements with the era’s many lingering legacies in the present. This includes, but is not limited to, questions of class, race, gender and sexuality, colonialism, the professionalization of science, ableist modes of reading, etc.

 

Notes from the Nile: Egypt in the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:52am
Ross Conway / University of Birmingham
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

This is a Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) Study Day at the University of Birmingham (UK) on 15 September 2023.

KEYNOTE: Dr Eleanor Dobson (Associate Prof in English Literature at the University of Birmingham) Paper Title TBC

WORKSHOP: Dr Leire Olabarria (Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham) will run a session onthe amassing of Egyptian collections in the long nineteenth century, with a focus on Britain and the Eton-Myers Collection.

Deadline Extended! Victorians Journal Special Issue on Hospitality

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:47am
Victorians Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Victorians Journal announces a special topics CFP on Victorian Hospitality for our Winter 2023 number, guest edited by Kristen Pond. 

 

Victorians Journal CFP Winter Issue 2023 

SAMLA 2023: Grumpy Women in Fiction

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:40am
Monica Miller
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

For South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 9-11, 2023
Atlanta, GA

Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:51am
Brontë Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Brontë Studies is delighted to announce the launch of an Essay Prize established in honour of Margaret Smith. The Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognize and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars.

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