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Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (www.ncgsjournal.com) is currently accepting proposals for guest-edited summer 2018 and 2019 issues.
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Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (www.ncgsjournal.com) is currently accepting proposals for guest-edited summer 2018 and 2019 issues.
CFP: Romanticism and Popular Culture (K-SAA/SAMLA-89; Atlanta, GA, USA, 3-5 Nov. 2017)
Call for Papers
Romanticism and Popular Culture, an affiliated session of the Keats-Shelley Association of America at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 89th Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (3-5 Nov. 2017)
Libraries advertize their relationship with “alternative facts”. Religious schools voice strong opposition to presidential actions. Silenced government employees create rogue Twitter accounts to voice concerns.
Two PhD candidates (English, German) at University of Oregon are proposing a panel for the annual NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) conference in Baltimore November 16-19th, 2017. In line with this year’s topic on “Revisiting Intersectionality” we are proposing a panel on Animal Studies and intersectionality. We are currently looking for a third panelist and one moderator who work in this field, especially on Animal Studies and Black Feminism, Queer Theory, or Disability Studies to participate on this panel. Please email us (evah@uoregon.edu and curry2@uoregon.edu) if you are interested in participating (the deadline for abstracts is 2/22).
The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its 64th Annual Meeting will be hosted by Webster University in St. Louis, MO, September 29-Oct 1, 2017. The keynote speaker will be Tammy Proctor of Utah State University, and the plenary address will be given by Jonathan Sawday from Saint Louis University.
The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its 64th Annual Meeting will be hosted by Webster University in St. Louis, MO, September 29-Oct 1, 2017. The keynote speaker will be Tammy Proctor of Utah State University, and the plenary address will be given by Jonathan Sawday from Saint Louis University.
‘Horror is becoming the environmental norm.’ —Sara L. Crosby
Gothic and horror fictions have long functioned as vivid reflections of contemporary cultural fears. Wood argues that horror is ‘the struggle for recognition of all that our society represses or oppresses’, and Newman puts forward the idea that it ‘actively eliminates and exorcises our fears by allowing them to be relegated to the imaginary realm of fiction’. Now, more than ever, the environment has become a locus of those fears for many people, and this conference seeks to investigate the wide range of Gothic- and horror-inflected texts that tackle the darker side of nature.
Volume Editor requests essays for a Salem Press Critical Volume on Historical Fiction. The volume is intended for a YA audience and their instructors. Essays will be due in August, 2017; tentative publication date is spring, 2018. A stipend of $250 is paid upon publication. Contact Virginia Brackett at Virginia.brackett@park.edu for guidelines and instructions before submitting abstract. Abstracts received by February 15, 2017 will receive strong consideration. Please feel free to share this RFP – contributors limited to one per institution.
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society is soliciting proposals on the subject of 'Nabokov and Correspondence' for its guaranteed MLA Panel at the 2018 Modern Language Association Conference, which will take place in New York City from January 4th to January 7th.
Performing Fantastika:
An Interdisciplinary Conference
April 28-29, 2017, Lancaster University
The 4rd annual Fantastika conference will focus on performative bodies in fantastika. This includes performance in theatrical plays and films, as well as an examination of the body itself. How is the body performed and perceived in fantastika texts? How do fantastika texts and our interaction with fantastika texts modulate our understanding of performative bodies?
Plants have played key roles in some of the most notable science fiction, from prose to graphic novels and film: John Wyndham’s triffids, the sentient and telepathic flora in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Vaster than Empires and More Slow,” the gene-hacked crops of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, the agricultural experiments of Andy Weir’s The Martian, the invasive trees and mechaflowers of Warren Ellis’s Trees, and the galactic greenhouses of Silent Running represent just a few. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations, and inhabit our metaphors—and yet in some ways they remain opaque.