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Caribbean Literature at CEA 2023 (March 30 – April 1, 2023 )

updated: 
Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:22am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Call for Papers, Caribbean Literature at CEA 2023

March 30 – April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, TX

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

 

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Caribbean Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

 

The general conference theme is “confluence,” so we are especially interested in presentations that feature topics relating to our theme of confluence in texts, disciplines, people, cultural studies, media, and pedagogy.

Afropresentism as Verb and Aesthetic

updated: 
Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:15am
Jasleen Singh, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The Present is the Future in Motion: Afropresentism as Verb and Aesthetic 

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) 2023 Conference, York University – Toronto, 27-30 May 2023 (part of the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference)

Panel Organizer: Jasleen Singh (she/her), University of Toronto, ja.singh@mail.utoronto.ca

Failure in/and American Literature

updated: 
Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:15am
Jasleen Singh, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

CFP: Failure in/and American Literature 

American Literature Association, 2023 Conference, May 25-28, Boston  

Jasleen Singh (University of Toronto) and Ross Bullen (OCAD University)  

 

TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: A Natural Hair Conference

updated: 
Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:04am
Trauma, Tresses, & Truth
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

 

TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: A Natural Hair Conference, August 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2023.

 

Black women view their hair as a problem. To enjoy black hair, such negative thinking has to be unlearned.   bell hooks

 

Don’t remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain. Marcus Garvey

 

It takes care and attention and time to handle natural hair. Something we have lost from our African culture are the rituals of health and beauty and taking time to anoint ourselves. And the first way we lost it was in our hair.   Hariette Cole, in Hair Story

 

Sound Studies in African American Literature and Culture

updated: 
Friday, October 7, 2022 - 8:47am
Humanities Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS

 

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/sound_studies

 

Dear Colleagues,

ARTICLE DEADLINE FEBRUARY 21, 2023

CFP: Sound Studies in African American Literature and Culture – Special Issue of Humanities. Guest Editor: Nicole Brittingham Furlonge (Deadline: Ongoing until February 21, 2023)

 

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Marginalized Women in American Historical Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, October 6, 2022 - 7:31am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

The creative work of historical fiction brings a prior time and place, one known but unfamiliar, into the present. Jerome de Groot considers one purpose of historical fiction is to “challenge the orthodoxy and potential for dissent [which will] challenge mainstream and repressive narratives.” Its characters and settings represent the cultural issues and struggles of their own time while also asking readers to recognize that many of the same situations still exist and need attention. The social and racial marginalization of women in the United States has been gaining that attention in popular culture outlets, including a recent Saturday Night Live cold open.

Posthumous Publication

updated: 
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 9:36am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Though “posthumousness” takes a variety of forms, the texts within its ambit share a quality that Jean-Christophe Cloutier, in Shadow Archives, calls “a belated form of timeliness.” The editorial apparatus of posthumously published texts, such as Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth or Muriel Rukeyser’s Savage Coast, foregrounds these novels’ prior lostness and subsequent belated arrival in forms and contexts that their authors could not have foreseen.

Access to Equality: Reproductive Justice in the United States

updated: 
Friday, September 30, 2022 - 10:27am
The Women’s Network of the European Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Call for papers
The Women’s Network of the European Association for American Studies invites contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium titled 
Access to Equality: Reproductive Justice in the United States

NeMLA 2023- Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in the 21st Century

updated: 
Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 10:12pm
Clark Barwick, Indiana University, Bloomington
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Northeast Modern Language Association 2023 Panel: "Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in the 21st Century"

Praised by generations of writers and thinkers, Ralph Ellison’s canonical novel Invisible Man remains deeply relevant. As we approach the thirtieth anniversary of Ellison’s passing, this panel will assess how Ellison’s landmark novel continues to be discussed, represented, and taught in the 21st Century.

How has Invisible Man taken on new meanings in the age of post-Obama, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, COVID-19, and ongoing climate change?

What influence has Ellison’s work had on later generations of writers?

How do we situate Ellison’s opus in his corpus and/or the canon of American letters?

NeMLA 2023 Roundtable-- Teaching 20th-century African American Women's Writing

updated: 
Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 10:11pm
Clark Barwick, Indiana University, Bloomington
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Northeast Modern Language Association 2023 roundtable: "Teaching 20th-century African American Women's Writing" 

Given the ongoing cultural assault on the history of race in the United States, now is the perfect time to discuss how we teach African American Women’s writing. This roundtable will focus on twentieth-century literature (broadly defined) and invite conversation about approaches for introducing African American Women’s writing to students and for emphasizing its vastness and power to help us understand our past, present, and future.

Roundtable participants will have between 5-10 minutes to introduce a topic, and conversation will follow.

Permanently Withdrawn: Examining the Histories, Identities, and Representations of Black Nones in the U.S

updated: 
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - 9:30am
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins/Palomar College
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 16, 2022

A growing percentage of the American population is leaving the church and opting to let go of religious and spiritual frameworks to find social and personal meaning and even economic success, and this is true for African Americans who would have had no other option than to be “churched.” This development is noteworthy because much of what it means to be “black” in the United States, at least from a Western standpoint, is immersed in religious or spiritual frameworks that claim that people of African descent are inherently religious or spiritual. To be sure, it is often assumed that being religious is synonymous (ontologically) with being black and African.

ASU RCAS 2023

updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2022 - 1:49pm
Dr. Lynne D. Schneider/ Alabama Statte University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Call for Papers:

 

Alabama State University 

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences 

Research and Creative Activity

2023 International Hybrid Symposium 

 

RCAS 2nd Annual International Hybrid Symposium 2023 Topic:

Empowerment

 

Post-Colonial Literature (Due 11/1/22 for CEA 3/30/23–4/1/23)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:41pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Call for Papers, Confluence at CEA 2023

March 30-April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio | 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Confluence for our 53nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Post-Colonial Literature by its very nature suggests confluence.  This special topic session welcomes scholarship that explores the blending, bringing together, or the conflicts in bringing together and then the separation in the issues, ideas, and cultures in Post-Colonial literature.

CFP - Humanities Bulletin 5.2 November 2022

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:40pm
Humanities Bulletin/London Academic Publishing, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Humanities Bulletin Journal - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: October 25, 2022
Vol. 5, No. 2 - November, 2022

ISSN 2517-4266

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.

Seeking Contributions for a Special Issue of ProudFlesh entitled “Black Motion: Looking Our Way Back to Black.”

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:34pm
Kent State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022

ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness is seeking contributions for a special issue entitled “Black Motion: Looking Our Way Back to Black.” This issue will examine how contemporary black people of both Africa and the African diaspora reinvent and reimagine their identities in terms that celebrate or draw attention to the body. These ways of imagining, representing the body and its various parts have historically played important roles in the lives of both Africans and peoples of African descent. Yet scholars have often neglected to study such representations and their significance in the day-to-day existence, lifestyles, hobbies, performances, and imaginations of blacks living in both the United States and abroad.

Transatlantic Literature (Due 11/1/22 for CEA 3/30/23–4/1/23)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:32pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Call for Papers, Confluence at CEA 2023

March 30-April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio | 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Confluence for our 53nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Transatlantic Literature by its very nature suggests confluence.  This special topic session welcomes scholarship that explores the bringing together, or the conflicts in bringing together, the literature, ideas, and cultures from across the Atlantic.

Radical Transcendentalisms

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:02pm
Alex Moskowitz
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Radical Transcendentalisms

Transcendentalism is readily understood to have been an American—and even a transatlantic—social reform movement, having played a significant role in antislavery efforts, women’s rights, and labor and educational reform. But reform is markedly different than radicalism. For this edited collection, we are interested in what nineteenth-century radicalism looked like, and the ways in which the Transcendentalist movement was intertwined with radical social practice and thought. We are interested in, for example, the historiographic and philosophic connections between radical workers’ movements in Europe and the rise of Transcendental social critique in the United States.

African American Music and Literature

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 1:56pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

In a memorable scene from Questlove’s award-winning documentary, Summer of Soul about the Harlem Cultural Festival (1969), singer Nina Simone performs “Backlash Blues,” a poem by her friend Langston Hughes. Five decades later, Beyonce performed a rousing version of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” for her Homecoming tour in 2019. The poem, affectionately called the Black National Anthem, was originally written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900. Across these multiple decades, (and long before) African American musicians have invoked Black Literature, while African American writers have referenced Black music.

Adaptation and African American Literature

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 1:56pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

In 2021, Nella Larsen’s novel Passing was made into a Hollywood film, before premiering on Netflix in fall of that year. The film garnered many prestigious awards, with critics praising the producer, script, and of course, the acting. Yet the film did not receive any Oscar nominations. To some, this omission is quite surprising, given the unanimous acclaim the movie has already received. To others, this exemplifies Hollywood: they often award golden statuettes to Black movies that are rooted in stereotypical Black images of slavery, violence, and the white savior complex, among many others.

CFP: The Handbook of African American Literature in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Friday, September 9, 2022 - 7:06pm
Belinda Waller-Peterson & Robert LaRue / Moravian University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 11, 2022

CFP- The Handbook of African American Literature in the Twenty-First Century

Editors: Belinda Waller-Peterson (Moravian University) and Robert LaRue (Moravian University)

 

Eugene Current-Garcia Distinguished Scholar Award Call for Nominations

updated: 
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 - 10:33pm
Association of College English Teachers of Alabama
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 18, 2022

The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama solicits nominations for the 2023 Eugene CurrentGarcia Award for Distinction in Literary Scholarship. This award is made annually to a living, outstanding literary scholar who is from Alabama or has worked primarily in Alabama or has focused mainly on Alabama writers. This year will mark ACETA’s 25th annual conferrence of this prestigious award.

When Resilience Isn't Enough: Justice for Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors

updated: 
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 - 9:51pm
North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

 

Please consider submitting an abstract to my panel for the NEMLA 2023 conference which will be held March 23-26th 2023 at the Niagara Falls Convention Center. This session, "When Resilience Isn't Enough: Justice for Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors" invites papers across different methodologies or methods of inquiry that address literary or media representations of sexual and domestic violence and/or global rape culture.

Modernism and Literature: A (Re)consideration

updated: 
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 - 9:46pm
Jeff Birkenstein & Robert Hauhart/Saint Martin's University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

CFP: Modernism and Literature: A (Re)consideration

Proposals due October 31, 2022

OVERVIEW:

Werewolves and Shape Shifters in Lore, Literature and More

updated: 
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 - 3:09pm
Myra Tatum Salcedo/University of Texas Permian Basin
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

“Children of the Moon: Werewolves and Shape Shifters in Lore and Literature”

University of Texas Permian Basin’s Fifth-Annual Halloween Conference

The University of Texas Permian Basin (with campuses in both Odessa and Midland), will conduct its Fifth Annual Halloween Conference 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The event, to be broadcast live from the main Odessa campus, will also be available virtually to encourage global presentations and viewer participation. This year’s theme is broad. It embraces everything from comics and graphic novels to global folklore tales of either benevolent or evil representations of those figures known as villains or victims (due to having been cursed into their lot).

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