Survey and Call for Proposals on

 Great Expectations

 for a new volume in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series

Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Great Expectations,

ed. by Michelle Allen-Emerson and Peter J. Capuano

This survey is designed to gather information about the methods and materials used by instructors when teaching Dickens’s Great Expectations. The purpose is to develop a new volume on the topic in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature.

Call for Papers

Obscurity and Exegesis
Towards an Unwritten Chapter of the History of the Bible

Programme

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, a publication of the L.M. Montgomery Institute and the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island, invites submissions (written, visual, or audio-visual) for a special collection on the topic of “Writers and Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery.” This collection will be published starting in November 2024, as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of Montgomery’s 1874 birthday.

Call for Papers: "Godzilla at 70: The Giant Monster’s Legacy in Global Popular Culture"

                                                    Call for Book Chapters on Discourse, Meaning, and Understanding

Discourse is a term that yields several meanings to academics in the human and social sciences. It is often used to describe a formal and/or informal way of text and talk, which seeks to empower some social groups and subordinate others in the social world. This definition might sound hasty at first sight in as much as discourse per se came to signify multiple forms of knowledge, systems of thought, and perhaps most important of all, the beliefs and attitudes people hold about life, death, (co)existence and the like.

The International David Foster Wallace Society will sponsor two panels at the 35th annual conference of the American Literature Association in Chicago on May 23-26, 2024. 

We are seeking submissions related to any aspect of Wallace’s fiction or nonfiction. 

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words including name, institutional affiliation (if any), and contact information, no later than January 15, 2024 to info@dfwsociety.org . Please attach your abstract as a Word document, and indicate if you will need AV equipment.  Note that scholars are limited to one presentation at this conference. 

GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS) Bengaluru is pleased to announce the organization of its first international conference, "Modernities Redefined: Perspectives from South Asia," to be held on February 22nd & 23rd, 2024, at GITAM, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Call for Nominations:

2024 SSAG Award for Best Scholarly Monograph on the American Gothic

The recently-launched Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG) invites nominations for its inaugural Award for Best Scholarly Monograph. This award is open to all scholarly monographs published in the past two years that focus on some aspect of the American Gothic. The winner of the award will be announced at the Society for the Study of the American Gothic business meeting, at the American Literature Association conference in May 2024 (exact date TBA).

This panel invites researchers to consider how African American writers deploy humor within what critics have termed the “post-soul,” “post-Black,” “Black post-Blackness,” and “New Black Aesthetic” movements. Derek C. Maus, in Post-Soul Satire (2014), notes that the propensity for Black satirists to turn their critiques inward at the Black community rather than outwardly toward white institutions marks a key shift from ‘soul’ to ‘post-soul’ aesthetics.

International Conference

on

Climate Change and Cultural Representations: Australian and Indian Perspectives

to be organised by

Centre for Australian Studies,

The University of Burdwan

in association with

Australian Consulate-General, Kolkata

on

10-11January 2024

at

The Dept of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan

Call for Papers: Journal of Environmental Media 6.2 

Special Issue: ‘Care-ful convening: towards low carbon and inclusive knowledge sharing’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-environmental-media#call-for-papers

Call for Papers: Choreographic Practices Volume 15 Issue 2, November 2024

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/choreographic-practices#call-for-papers

This is an open call for Volume 15.2 of Choreographic Practices to be published in the northern autumn of 2024. We welcome submissions from around the world in which the author(s) focus on the nature and/or experience of choreographic practices, and in which these practices are clearer located in relationship with other similar or overlapping practices. 

Over the last number of years, Indian classical dance traditions have seen major shifts in terms of practice, pedagogy, and performance, both ‘at home’ in India and in diaspora contexts. These changes have been intensified most recently by two primary and co-related phenomena; the global adoption of specific algorithmic social media and streaming platforms, and lockdown restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. What happens to the embodied physical presence on virtual platforms? How has the format of the art form been modified to fit in digital spaces? What do these transformations mean for the future of the dance forms? How are socio-political issues embedded and addressed in such spaces? 

Displaced Cultures: Uncovering Suppressed Narratives