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To the Tenth Power: A Word from the LGBTQ+ Members of the Divine Nine

updated: 
Friday, June 30, 2023 - 11:55am
Kendra N. Bryant
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Note: This call for papers was first made in October 2021. Since then, Instagram accounts such as Recognize Our Pride (@recognizeourpride) and Out Greek Fest (@outgreekfest) have gained popularity and have made more visible queer Divine Nine Greek Organization members. With hope, such visibility (and normalizing) will encourage more folks to answer this call and to share their stories thus holding the Divine Nine Greek Organizations accountable to their social justice missions while archiving the social justice work of Black queer organizing folk.

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

Call for essays: Race and Racism in The Vampire Diaries Franchise

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 10:58am
Deanna P. Koretsky, Spelman College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

Demystifying Mystic Falls: Race and Racism in The Vampire Diaries Franchise

From the time it premiered on The CW in 2009, The Vampire Diaries was duly castigated in the media for uncritically tiptoeing around Civil War “lost cause” mythology and overtly tokenizing its Black characters. As the public later learned, minoritized actors were also treated poorly behind the scenes. Still, the series became a cultural juggernaut, boasting two successful spin-offs (The Originals and Legacies), reviving the book series on which the show was based, and inspiring a cottage industry of franchise-related institutions and conventions that, as of 2023, is just beginning to take off.

Unpacking Surplus in the Novels of Tiphanie Yanique (NeMLA)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 6:25am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel invites papers that explore the various engagements with surplus—specifically as in excess, excessive, leftover, or unwanted—in the novels of Tiphanie Yanique. This exploration may take a variety of forms, spanning from the emotional to the spatial and intergenerational. For instance, such an analysis might examine excessive or unwanted emotions, such as love, desire, anger, in Monster in the Middle (2021) and what one couple inherits from their ancestors.

Urban Cultures in Contemporary France

updated: 
Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 8:51am
NEMLA (Northeast Modern Languages Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel is part of the NEMLA conference taking place in Boston March 7-10, 2024.
It seeks to analyze the development of urban cultures in France while taking into account the impact of postcolonial studies since 2005, the year of the "urban riots". It also aims to discuss the political aspect of urban culture as well as the influence of American culture on French production.

Possible themes include:

· Urban literature and "banlieue" culture

· The literary aspect of French rap

· Urban culture and postcolonial studies

· French Caribbean rap

· Urban culture and social activism

· The American influence

· Global "Francophone" hip-hop

“The End” in Historical Fiction of and about the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 10:32am
The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Elodie Rousselot defines “neo-historical fiction” as a subgenre of historical fiction that reimagines history by offering an “active interrogation of the past.”[i] Historical fiction, broadly speaking, allows readers to witness perspectives of the recognizable past while audiences interrogate the future. Most importantly, imagining the livelihood or end of various societal institutions has different stakes for different groups. Perspective is critical in historical fiction as exploring significant historical events also offers the opportunity to actively interrogate the future.

‘Fantasies of France: Exploring Transatlantic Misunderstandings from the 18th Century to the Present Days’

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:11am
Université Paris Cité / LARCA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM

19th of January, 2024 – Université Paris Cité

‘Fantasies of France : Exploring Transatlantic Misunderstandings from the 18th Century to the Present Days’

‘Correct understanding is a particular instance of misunderstanding.’ – A. Culioli

 

Keywords: transatlantic circulation, cosmopolitanism, reception, translation, expatriation 

 

Small and Subtle Feminisms: Reconsidering Who or What Is Feminist Enough

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:10am
Tammie M. Kennedy & Jessi Thomsen / Peitho’s Summer 2024 Special Issue
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

This open invitation calls for authors to submit 500-750 word abstracts for Peitho’s Summer 2024 Special Issue: “Small and Subtle Feminisms: Reconsidering Who or What Is Feminist Enough.”

“Christianity and African American Literature(s)—Convergences and Consequences” 

updated: 
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 2:42pm
Peter Kerry Powers/ Christianity & Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

African American literary traditions are unimaginable apart from their engagement with and transformation of numerous Christian faith traditions. From the beginning, African American writers wrestled with the imposition and inheritance of Christianity and its attendant cultural and social formations that had directly contributed to and justified chattel slavery and its aftermath.

(DEADLINE EXTENDED!) Anger (SCLA, October 5-7, 2023, Philadelphia PA)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 11:24am
Society For Comparative Literature and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

2023 Conference

“Anger”

2023 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts

October 5-7, 2023

Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District (Hotel)

Philadelphia, PA

Keynote Speaker: Robert J. C. Young

 

BlackAntiquaLit: Reading the Black Past

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:04am
Northeast MLA Conference in Boston
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel reviews aspects of legacy identity formation inclusive but not restrictive to race, class, sex, and gender origins connectivity. The panel involves literary/theoretical inquiry working within a transdisciplinary spectrum of non-fiction, fiction, poems, songs, fashion, material culture, curated museum exhibitions/holdings, and/or interpretations of works of art, visual, film, and images as well. Papers should address construed understanding of meanings of the Black past in any varying guises here considered BlackAntiquaLit: narration, art, fashion, visual, film, historicism, literary characterization, symbolism, epistemics, identities, the worldly, and empire and their clash.

Surplus Cities: Urban Space within a Fluid American Canon

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:53pm
Northeast MLA Conference (Mar 7-10, 2024) in Boston
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This roundtable invites critics and writers to rethink cities (or neighborhoods/areas within cities) that are essential to understanding “American writing,” yet still seem to remain outside or “extraneous” to discussions of “American literature.”  What historical cities, lost neighborhoods, or even ruins/necropoli are critical to enduring issues explored within American writing?  What stories seem lost within locales trimmed of their histories?  How does re-centered dialogue around these locations remap American literary production?  What trajectories or points of transit are central to discussions of “canonical texts” in the present moment?  How do these questions reframe concepts of diaspora or a “literature of the Americas?” 

Consent and Cultural Competency (Fall 2023)

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:52pm
Journal of Consent-Based Performance
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 10, 2023

Call for Papers: Consent and Cultural Competency (Winter 2023)
Extension of previous deadline.

Seeking submissions in the form of articles and/or notes from the field. Both formats are reviewed through double-blind peer review. Find more details and guidelines here: https://journals.calstate.edu/jcbp/about/submissions

 

2023 CFP: INTELLECTUS: The African Journal of Philosophy

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:52pm
INTELLECTUS: The African Journal of Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Intellectus invites you to submit research articles, book reviews, and scholarly interviews on Africana philosophy, black studies, and applied philosophy (especially in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics), feminism, international law, public policy, and socio-political philosophy in their relevance to Africa or African heritage. This CFP is for Volume 2 Number 1, for the year 2023.

The Submission Process

Saying Yes to NOPE: Cinema, Spectacle, and Race in Jordan Peele's NOPE

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:51pm
Eric Gary Anderson / George Mason University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 4, 2023

CFP: Saying Yes to Nope: Cinema, Spectacle, and Race in Jordan Peele’s Nope

Editors: Russell Meeuf, Nancy McGuire Roche, and Eric Gary Anderson

Jordan Peele’s third feature film, Nope, has cemented Peele’s place in contemporary cinema as a visionary auteur concerned with cinema, race, genre, and media spectacle. Building on his work as a writer-director on Get Out and Us, and expanding his oeuvre as a film and television producer across genres, Nope is Peele’s most reflexive work to date, exploring our cultural obsessions with spectacle and media culture’s impact on people of color.     

Percival Everett's Erasure: Brandeis Novel Symposium 2023

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:46pm
Brandeis Novel Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Brandeis Novel Symposium CFP 2023: Percival Everett’s Erasure 

Friday October 20, 2023, Brandeis University Mandel Center for the Humanities

 

The seventh annual Brandeis Novel Symposium invites proposals for papers that think with and about Percival Everett’s Erasure. Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California, Percival Everett is the author of more than 30 books including most recently the Booker Prize shortlisted The Trees. Erasure (2001) is a satire of the American publishing industry and the pressures placed on African-American writers. 

 

Due Date Extended! (6/15) CFP: Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks JITP Themed Issue

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:54am
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Themed Issue 23: 

The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt

 

Issue Editors:

Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida

Summer L. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University

Asma Neblett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Kush Patel, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland

 

Thinking about Intersectionality: Minorities and diverse Dominations in the United States

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:51am
université Bretagne Sud, France
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

                                                              Thinking about Intersectionality:

                                              Minorities and diverse Dominations in the United States

 

International conference

April 11-12, 2024

Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient

 

Archival Work in American Literature (RALS) -- DEADLINE EXTENDED

updated: 
Friday, June 2, 2023 - 6:32am
RALS (Penn State)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 16, 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. 

European Studies Conference (Black Europe Session)

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:27am
Sara Marzioli / University of Nebraska at Omaha
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The 48th European Studies Conference, which will be held on October 5-6, 2023, both online and in person at the University of Nebraska Omaha, welcomes papers on European topics in all disciplines.

 Founded in 1975, our interdisciplinary conference draws every year participants from colleges and universities in the United States and from abroad.

Areas of interest include art, anthropology, history, literature, current issues and prospects in cultural, political, social, economic, or military areas; education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, music, geography, theater, and film.

 This year we will also offer special panels on the following topics:

Database Project: Contemporary African-American Literature

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:25am
Infobase Learning
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Infobase, a publisher of databases for schools, universities, and public libraries, is seeking to hire a scholar for a project on contemporary African-American literature. Responsibilities will include writing an overview of the state of African-American literature in the 21st century; writing brief critical biographies of a selection of the most important African-American writers working today; and updating existing biographies of great living African-American writers. The work be prominently featured in a new topic center within Bloom’s Literature, Infobase’s premier literary database. This is a paid assignment. Interested scholars should contact executive editor Jeff Soloway at jsoloway@infobase.com.

Call for Papers: HyperCultura, No. 12/2023

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:23am
Hyperion University, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

HyperCultura, No. 12/ 2023

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to invite you to submit articles for our next issue, due March-April 2024. We receive papers on Literature (not that of ancient Greece or Rome), Media Studies, Film Studies, Visual and Performative Arts, and Teaching (Language and Literature). Papers in said areas need to focus on the following themes: Nationalism/ Post-nationalism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism/Decolonization, Race, Gender Studies, Ethnicity, and Identity.

We are CEEOL, Ulrichsweb, MLA Directory of Peridiodicals, DOAJ, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS and SCOPUS, and also visible through WorldCat.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: African American Literature Permanent Panel

updated: 
Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 2:24pm
MMLA - Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

2023 Call for Papers:

The African American Literature permanent section invites proposals for in-person presentations at the 2023 meeting of the Midwestern Modern Language Association taking place in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 2-5. The conference’s theme this year is “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” and papers addressing literature’s connection to and challenge of democracy will be given preference.

DEADLINE EXTENDED - American Literature 1870-Present [MMLA Permanent Section]

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 11:04am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 26, 2023

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for its in-person panel at the 2023 meeting of the Midwestern Modern Language Association conference (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, particulary those that gesture toward the conference theme of democracy.

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by May 26, 2023.

 

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