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.

CfP: Public History in European Historical Perspectives | C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History

14-15 September 2023 at the University of Luxembourg, followed by a book publication. Deadline: 1 April.

In this two-week in-person NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty from 16 July to 28 July 2023, twenty-five participants will explore place-based and archival approaches to the life and works of American novelist Willa Cather. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, participants will have access to unparalleled archival holdings of Cather materials and the expertise of a leading center for digital humanities. At the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, they will experience landscapes and buildings represented in Cather’s fiction that function as a kind of archive.

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference | Television Area

Friday-Sunday, 6-8 October 2023

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Address: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 | Phone: (312) 362-8000

The Television area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its 2023 conference in Chicago on the campus of DePaul University.

We are looking for papers that examine any aspect of television, from any time period and using any number of methods. Potential topics for paper or panel proposals include, but are not limited to:

Henry James and the Visual Arts

University of Reading, Thursday 29 June 2023

Publicly available text-generating engines like ChatGPT make large language models (LLMs) “writers” in their own right. How can we interpret the changing status of the writer in the age of machine learning? What does the success of AI-generated textuality ask us to reconsider, revisit, or reinvent in the context of literary theory and the digital humanities more generally?

This panel is a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the TC Digital Humanities executive forum for the 2024 MLA conference in Philadelphia (January 4-7). 

CFP: MLA Annual Convention 2024 (4-7 January)

MLA 2024 SolarpunkCFP 

Philadelphia, PA January 4-7 

Panel Organizers 

• Phoebe Wagner | Lycoming College | wagnerp@lycoming.edu 

Catherine Bush’s 2019 novel Blaze Island opens with the following epigraph from Elena Ferrante: “Pressing changes are underway. Everything is becoming something else, unpredictably. A completely new outlook is required. The challenge now and for the foreseeable future is to extract ourselves from what men have engineered, a planet long on the edge of catastrophe.” Throughout the novel, Bush underscores the importance of thinking critically about boundaries, specifically those of gender and geography, as she reworks Shakespeare’s The Tempest to particularly Atlantic Canadian purposes.

Philadelphia, PA (Jan. 4-7, 2024)

Proposed Joint Panel of Dickens Society and D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

JOYS AND SORROWS OF ATTACHMENT: DICKENS AND LAWRENCE

Amidst a growing insistence on disability futures, this panel centers the future of feminist disability scholarship. Taking up the conference sub-theme of Revisiting, Reclaiming & Re-imagining, panelists propose new directions for feminist disability thought not by looking forward, but through a transformative turn to alternative pasts. Recent critical disability scholarship reimagines the field’s scholarly origins and objects, including Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim’s call for feminist-of-color disability studies and the Crip Genealogies edited volume. This panel foregrounds this twinned intervention in field-narration and analytic objects--insisting that both are necessary for transformative feminist disability thought.

Chapter proposals are sought for a volume of critical essays on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Proposed chapters should ideally also connect to contemporary lives of the play, adaptations, influence on later works, translations, and/or connections with cultural studies' paradigms. The target readership for the volume includes teachers/instructrors, and students, which should bear upon the accessibility and adaptability of the essays themselves.

CALL FOR PAPERS: RADICAL CHILDREN’S FILM AND TELEVISION EDITED COLLECTION

Edited by Dr Noel Brown (Liverpool Hope University)

Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2023

I am seeking chapter proposals for possible inclusion in a forthcoming volume exploring radical children’s film and television. This edited collection is intended as an inaugural volume in the new ‘Children’s Film and Television’ book series, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language,
Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original,
unpublished research papers for July 2023 issue.

Indexed in:
1.      ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.      IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3.      Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4.      DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)