JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory seeks theoretically sophisticated essays that examine narrative in a host of critical, interdisciplinary, or cross-cultural contexts. Of particular interest are history and narrative; cultural studies and popular culture; discourses of class, gender, sexuality, race, nationality, subalternity, and ethnicity; film theory, queer theory, and media studies; new historical, poststructural, or global approaches to narrative forms (literary or otherwise); along with essays that span or subvert epistemic and disciplinary boundaries.

In the last few years, the Covid-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented experience of the everyday in us. We were all locked up at home somewhere in the world spending time with family or our own selves in isolation. In the absence of the ‘busyness’ of routine public activities, life showed down. In the tremendous fear of whether we would survive the disaster or feel anxiously for our family based elsewhere, we noticed the slow spiralling out of each day, sometimes at the level of the moment, in our lives. Slowness, an awareness of our body and movement, and a deep noticing of our surroundings and our loved ones – in short, a re-cognition of the everyday marked our ‘species’ life.

We are delighted to announce the EASTAP Annual Conference 2024, hosted by the Institute of the Arts Barcelona (Sitges, Spain), under the theme “Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance”. As host city, Sitges has been a biosphere destination since 2016, and is committed to environmental, economic, and social sustainability. 

The conference aims to bring together international scholars, practitioners, and researchers, inviting submissions for papers and presentations that delve into various aspects of this theme and offer fresh insights into the dynamic field of theatre and performance. 

2024 – Virtual – Call for Proposals – #ELOnline

We invite submissions for presentations, performances, and exhibition pieces at the annual Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (ELO), to be hosted fully online July 18-21, 2024 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around the world.

Victorians CFP 2024 

Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature is one of the longest running journal publications in the field of Victorian literature. It began in 1952 under the title The Victorian Newsletter, and its transformations over the last 70 years reflects the continued growth and reputation of the journal as a key professional publication that participates in the most recent and important conversations in the discipline of Victorian studies. Victorians is published in partnership with Ohio State University Press / Journals, and is available both in hardcopy and online, hosted by Project Muse. 

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: 12 February 2024

Conference Meeting: 19 April 2024  

Host: English Graduate Student Association at the University of Texas at Arlington  
Location: Arlington, Texas

Conference Website: www.egsaconference.com

Reconstructing Race, History and Subjectivity after the 1960s

The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review are seeking scholarly and innovative essays for publication in the sixth volume of the journal in December 2024.

For this issue, the editors are interested in essays on any aspect of Bowen’s writing – fiction, reviewing and criticism, biography and travel writing, or work discussing Bowen criticism. 

Essays should be 6-7,000 words including citations, and use Harvard referencing. Please attach a 150-word abstract and short biography.

Completed essays should be submitted by July 1st 2024.

More information about the journal is available at http://www.bowensociety.com/elizabeth-bowen-review/

Queer Africa: New Directions in Art, Film, and Literature

This special issue of The Thinker sets out to examine the rapidly expanding field of queer artistic production in Africa. The special issue aims to shine light on the rich and dynamic cultural production that explores and subverts conventional narratives and adds to the continuing conversation about queer representation and visibility by highlighting the various ways queer identities are portrayed across the continent. The goal of this special issue is thus to showcase the various ways that African queer voices are redefining and shaping the cultural landscape by looking at how queerness intersects with and is expressed in art, film, and literature.

We invite chapter proposals for a new edited book, Transforming Cinema with Artificial Intelligence, to be published by IGI Global. In an era of technological advancements rapidly reshaping industries, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the cinema industry marks a climactic transformation. The swift integration of AI technologies has revolutionized filmmaking processes and opened new vistas for creative expression and audience engagement. This book, “Transforming Cinema with Artificial Intelligence," aims to delve into the dynamic intersection of AI and cinema, highlighting how AI is redefining the art and science of filmmaking.

Martineau Society Conference 2024 in Lewes, England    06/24/2024-06/27/2024; deadline 04/19/2024

The Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in the historic town of Lewes, East Sussex, England. The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900).

Started by Norwich Unitarians in 1994, the Martineau Society encourages scholarship on the Martineau family and their nineteenth-century context as well as their continuing influence.  

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Conference Details

The University of Buckingham is proud to host a two-day conference on 20-21 June 2024 exploring the dynamic between Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens to commemorate the bicentenary of Collins’s birth. 

NEW DEADLINE: 3rd February 2024

“I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Invitation 

The University of Exeter’s AHRC-funded “The Art of Fiction” project invites proposals for 15-minute papers on the theme of “patchwork and authorship”.