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Conference: Digital Humanities Against Dark Times

updated: 
Friday, February 24, 2023 - 10:19am
Vanderbilt University Center for the Digital Humanities, Nashville, TN
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Conference: Digital Humanities Against Dark Times

Dates:  April 14 – 15, 2023

Location: Vanderbilt University Center for the Digital Humanities, Nashville, TN

Abstract Deadline: March 5, 2023

 

We are pleased to share that the Center for Digital Humanities is hosting a two-day conference titled “Digital Humanities Against Dark Times” this upcoming April 14 – 15, 2023. This conference provides a venue for early-career scholars to discuss digital humanities work that engages with emerging and ongoing crises of our moment, such as:

No, This Is America: Interrogating Bad Faith Narratives, Epistemologies of Ignorance, Grammars of Violence, and Selective Racial Memories in a Post-Truth, Post-Shame, and Post-Accountable United States

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:38am
Professing Education Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

Where is that place where what should not ‘happen to nobody’ happens every day? Why is it that, in so many places found in every corner of the global space, so many human beings face that which ‘no one deserves’?

—Ferreira da Silva (2009, p. 212) 

You better understand White people’s fantasies because tomorrow they’ll be legislation

—Jared Sexton, invoked by Frank Wilderson (2020)

I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (2013, p. 153) 

This is America. Don’t catch you slippin’ now.

—Childish Gambino, This is America (2018)

“Writing with Security and Insecurity in Early America”

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:29am
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 4, 2023

South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 95th Conference:

Pre-1900 American Literature Panel: “Writing with Security and Insecurity in Early America.” 

Political Oratory and African American Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:27am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 13, 2023

I am proposing an MLA 2024 special session on "Political Oratory and African American Literature."  Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse.  Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.

1st International Conference on English Language and Literature, Loneliness and Isolation in Literature (DIDE2023)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:09am
Doğuş University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

We are pleased to announce to you that Doğuş University, Department of English Language and Literature will be holding the 1st International English Language and Literature Conference between 12 - 14 May 2023. By sharing your valuable works in meetings and presentations throughout the conference, we are fully confident that we will achieve our symposium goals and achieve significant successes, thanks to the interactive discussion environment that will emerge. Abstracts (about 250 words), with the name of the author, institutional affiliation, contact address (e-mail), and a brief bio-note should be sent to the conference organizers by 10 April 2023 at the following address:

dide2023@dogus.edu.tr

Archival Work in American Literature (RALS)

updated: 
Monday, February 20, 2023 - 2:10pm
RALS (Penn State)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

Resources for American Literary Study (RALS), a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2023 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism within the U.S. and Around the World in the 21st-Century

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 5:09pm
The Journal of Colorism Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 6, 2023

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair-will hereafter be made the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization.

—W.E.B. Du Bois (1900)

 

Are there multiple forms or species of racism or simply variations of a fundamental structure?

—Jared Sexton (2012)

 

I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (1952)

Archiving Black Women's Joys and Sorrows

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Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:10am
MLA 2024 Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The relationship between Black women and the archive has long been fraught. We invite 250-word proposals for papers that probe Black women writers' literary and/or theoretical negotiations with these realities.

 

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio by March 15th, 2023, to N. Morris Johnson at nmmorris@buffalo.edu. For more information about the MLA conference, please visit https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2024/Presidential-Theme-for-the-2024-Convention

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies): Call for book reviews

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:09am
European Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies): Call for book reviews

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies) invites reviews of current books on topics relevant to American studies for publication in EJAS’ upcoming issues (vol. 18-19) due in 2023 and 2024. 

Please send a review proposal (author, title, publisher, publishing date and place, number of pages), and CV (including the list of publications) to the Book Reviews Editor, Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska (kornelia@amu.edu.pl). We accept proposals on a rolling basis.

Authors of accepted proposals will be expected to write a book review (1000 words) and follow the MLA 8th edition style manual when preparing the manuscript.

Working through the Federal Writers’ Project: Labor, Place, Archive, and Representation

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:27pm
Maureen Curtin and Michele Fazio
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

This proposed volume of interdisciplinary essays reexamines the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) as a labor project. We are working with a publisher to feature this book, Working through the Federal Writers’ Project: Labor, Place, Archive, and Representation, as part of a potential series on the FWP,  on the burgeoning field of FWP studies, and on how FWP studies fits in the larger framework of labor studies. Labor, in this sense, is not a narrow category. It encompasses trade unions, working conditions, labor power, political economy, and the everyday reality of working lives.

CFP, BIPOC Female Detectives (theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:21pm
Elizabeth Foxwell / McFarland & Co.
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Seeking to illuminate an often marginalized space, this Clues theme issue will focus on female detectives who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color); span eras, genres, and geographical locations; and appear in texts, TV programs, films, and other media. Of particular interest are intersections among race, indigeneity, gender, age, class, or sexuality in these works, as well as projects that center BIPOC authorship and scholarship.

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Joys and Sorrows of Black Geographies

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:32am
Modern Language Association 2024 Annual Convention Philadelphia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

This panel explores Black geographies (both real and imagined) of joy/sorrow in African American literature, examining how geographic thought, speculation, and practice produce joys/sorrows for Black subjects and communities. Send a 200-word abstract and CV.

Dorottya Mozes, University of Debrecen

 

the Black Theatre Review Vol. 2 No. 1: Afrofuturism

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:29am
the Black Theatre Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

the Black Theatre Review (tBTR) is a biannual online, peer-reviewed journal published by the Black Theatre Network (BTN). BTN is dedicated to the exploration and preservation of the theatrical visions of the African Diaspora. The goal of tBTR is to explore the scholarship, history, and performance of Black peoples and cultures wherever they are expressed throughout the world.

tBTR is accepting submissions for tBTR’s second publication, Vol. 2 No. 1, to be published in July of 2023.

A Cultural Experience: The Role of Theatre at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (an edited volume)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
Khalid Y. Long and DeRon S. Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Since their inception dating back to as early as 1829, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have continuously represented the notion of possibility and hope for African Americans. As an initial action, these organizations emphasized the educational improvement of Blacks at the elementary and secondary levels. Since the creation of the first HBCU, these institutions of academic excellence have transformed exclusively into postsecondary institutions, ultimately forming a network where thousands of African descendants could obtain an education that they otherwise could not afford due to years of educational suppression and segregation in higher education.

MLA 2024 Special Session: Bob Dylan's Blues: Blues Poetics and American Memory

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
Robert Reginio/Special Session MLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

Bob Dylan's Blues: Blues Poetics and American Memory I am seeking  abstracts between 200-400 words for a panel on Dylan's incorporation, use, and revision of blues music especially in the context of theorists of blues poetics such as Houston Baker, Angela Davis, and Fred Moten. Most existing scholarship on Dylan's use of blues music remains informed by the work of writers and critics such as Sam Charters, Michael Gray, Greil Marcus, and Alan Lomax. This work often favors a conceptualization of the blues as a distant,  pre-modern source of "authentic" soundings.

Call for Chapters -- August Wilson in Context

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:18am
Khalid Y. Long and Isaiah M. Wooden
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 20, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

August Wilson in Context

Edited by Khalid Y. Long and Isaiah Matthew Wooden

 

Samuel R. Delany and the City

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:55pm
Modern Language Association 2024 Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 10, 2023

Samuel R. Delany and the City Samuel Delany has strong ties to New York City and Philadelphia. Not surprisingly, many of his major works investigate cities. We seek papers on the city throughout Delany's work. 200 word abstracts; brief bio

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 10 March 2023

Daniel Shank Cruz, Hunter College, CUNY (danielshankcruz@gmail.com)  https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Paper22607.html 

“With a Pen in Her Hand”: Communities in Gloria Naylor’s Fiction and her Archives

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:00pm
Dr. Michelle Loris/ Sacred Heart University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

“With a Pen in Her Hand”: Communities in Gloria Naylor’s Fiction and her Archives.

Conference dates: Thursday, October 19- Friday, October 20, 2023, held in-person at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, 06825

Gloria Naylor is one of the most important writers of 20th century American literature. Her literary works, from The Women of Brewster Place (1982), a NationalBook Award winning novel, to her fictional memoir, 1996, portray the communities that Black women build to resist, survive, and even thrive against the racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia that confines and violates them.

DEADLINE EXTENDED!: Edited Collection: Afrosouthernfuturism

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 2:14pm
A.D. Boynton, II (U of Kansas), Joanna Davis-McElligatt (U of North Texas), & Kristen Reynolds (U of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1st, 2023

Afrosouthernfuturism

Editors: A.D. Boynton, II (U of Kansas), Joanna Davis-McElligatt (U of North Texas), and Kristen Reynolds (U of Minnesota - Twin Cities)

 

Fashion, Culture and the Literary and Media Arts

updated: 
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 3:29pm
Texas Southern University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Fashion, Culture, and the Literary and Media Arts

deadline for submissions: 

January 18th, 2023

full name / name of organization: 

Billy Joe Turner Interdisciplinary Symposium

Texas Southern University

Department of English, World Languages, and Philosophy

April 20th and April 21st 2023

contact email:

iris.lancaster@tsu.eduor Michon.Benson@tsu.edu

(Updated) Fashion, Culture and the Literary and Media Arts

updated: 
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 2:57pm
English Department, Texas Southern University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Department of English, World Languages, and Philosophy

April 20th and April 21st 2023

contact email:

iris.lancaster@tsu.edu 

Fashion and literature have a long, intricate relationship. The function of clothing is primarily to conceal the body, yet in some literary texts and film, clothing can often reveal something about character, whether by its style, value, or use. In the 1928 novels, Plum Bun and Quicksand, Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen, respectively, highlight fashion as an essential tool for passing, as well as the embodiment of their characters’ elusive identities. 

The 26th Southern Writers/Southern Writing (SW/SW) Graduate Student Conference -- Deadline Extended!

updated: 
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 1:19pm
EGSB (English Graduate Student Body) at the University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

****DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31, 2023 ****

 

The 26th Southern Writers/Southern Writing (SW/SW) 

Graduate Student Conference

University of Mississippi 2023 

Call for Submissions

“Y’all and/in the Queer South”

Submissions: https://swswgradconference.squarespace.com

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Radical Vitality/Axé

updated: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 12:45pm
Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Call for papers: Special issue of Apocalyptica

in collaboration with the Caribbean Institute for Decolonial Thought and Research (INCAPID/GLEFAS)

 

 

Radical Vitality/Axé

Edited by Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso and Ashanti Dinah Orozco Herrera

 

 

Abstracts are due March 30, 2023

Final manuscripts are due August 31, 2023

 

 

“There is no end / To what a living world / Will demand of you." 

Octavia Butler

 

Strategies of Critique 2023 - Care and Cure

updated: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 12:43pm
Strategies of Critique Organizing Committee of the Social and Political Thought Programme at York University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Strategies of Critique 2023:

Care and Cure

 

Call For Papers

 

17th - 19th May 2023, York University, Toronto, Canada

 

With Keynotes Speakers:

 Patrice Douglass and Sara-Maria Sorentino

 

Final Reminder: First Book Institute Applications Due by 2/13 (Hard Deadline)

updated: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 10:56am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 13, 2023

Announcing

The 2023 First Book Institute

June 4-10, 2023

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Care and Cure

updated: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 10:52am
Strategies of Critique
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Call For Papers

17th - 19th May 2023

York University, Toronto, Canada

 

With Keynotes Speakers: Patrice Douglass and Sara-Maria Sorentino

 

Food and the American Dream/New Deadline: 2.13.23

updated: 
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 9:52am
Jeff Birkenstein & Robert Hauhart/Saint Martin's University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 13, 2023

CFP: Food and the American Dream

Proposals due February 13, 2023

 

Call for Chapters: The American South in Ten Recipes

updated: 
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 9:51am
Christopher L. Ballengee
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Call for Chapters for Edited Volume:  The American South in Ten Recipes 

Edited by Christopher L. Ballengee

The Southern United States is home to many diverse communities, some historically linked to the legacies of colonization and slavery and others emerging more recently thanks to migration from other parts of the country and from abroad. The essays collected in this volume use food as an entryway to understanding the individuality and interconnectedness of these communities. Each chapter will focus on a single recipe as emblematic of a particular culture, region, or tradition such that the collection of essays comes to characterize the dynamic histories, cultures, and innovations of the American South.

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature: "Radical Print Cultures in the Midwest" (East Lansing, June 1-3, 2023)

updated: 
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 9:47am
Marc Blanc
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

In recent years, print culture scholars have injected unprecedented focus on print production and circulation in Black, working-class, indigenous, and Latinx reading communities in the U.S. Once a field with a reputation for patrician pursuits, book history has expanded to include previously ignored communities and print forms such as newspapers and popular magazines. However, studies of anticapitalist and antiracist print cultures have tended to focus on urban, northeastern publishing capitals such as New York and Boston at the expense of literary scenes from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains. 

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