Call for Chapter Proposals

Barbie in the Media: The Cultural Impact of Mattel’s Celebrity Doll
Edited by Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez and Rebecca C. Hains

Abstracts invited by May 1, 2023

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become a ubiquitous global presence and a touchstone of cultural consciousness. Those who have studied Barbie note that no other toy has generated so much sustained media and scholarly interest.

The Romanian Studies Association of America welcomes paper proposals on "Romanian Studies in the Digital Space" for the 2024 MLA convention. This is a great opportunity to engage in a conversation about digital modalities of promoting Romanian culture globally, addressing their impact on disseminating forms of Romanian culture to diverse audiences. Analyses may include journals, websites, translations, film, and the work of various organizations. The following topics are encouraged: 

Call for Papers: Bollywood Film Remakes

Co-editors: Rashna Wadia Richards (Rhodes College) and Lucia Krämer (University of Passau)

NEASECS 2023 “Old and New, Beginnings and Endings,”

Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington DC, November 17-19, 2023

Octave Mirbeau : vie et fiction, théâtre, critique d'art et amitiés
Octave Mirbeau. Life and Fiction, Drama, Art Criticism, and Friendships

2023 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention

CALL FOR PAPERS / Appel à contributions

Deadline for Abstracts: April 1, 2023
Conference Dates: October 11-14, 2023
Conference Location: Denver, Colorado

Frederic Leveziel, University of South Florida, fleveziel@usf.edu

Welcomes proposals of 50 to 100 words on Mirbeau’s Fiction, Drama, Art Criticism, and Friendships in French or English. Please include name, affiliation, address, telephone, and email.

The scientific journal Studia Polensia, published by the Department of Italian studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Pula/Pola, Croatia, is seeking articles for the 2023 issue. The journal publishes theoretical, research and methodological articles in Italian, English and Croatian languages in the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary research. The journal follows Open Access politics for all of its content. By submitting an article to the journal, the author implicitly accepts its publication under the license Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Authors retain their copyright of the work.

Call for Papers Conference Title: Less Talk, More Action: An International Conference on Changing the Course of Women’s Academic Leadership

Date: 17th-18th October’23

Venue: Quaid-e-Azam Auditorium, Faisal Campus, International Islamic University, Islamabad

Dear Colleagues,

DEADLINE EXTENDED - deadline for submissions: March 24 2023

Contemporary Modernisms - Call for Papers 

Institute of English and American Studies and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform

Goethe University Frankfurt

25th–27th May 2023 

Confirmed Speakers:

John Brannigan (University College Dublin)

Julie McCormick Weng (Texas State University)

Václav Paris (City University of New York)

Barry Sheils (Durham University)

How do 18th and 19th century Black writers reconceptualize religion beyond the nation-state? How do they utilize religious concepts such as celebration, prophecy, apocalpyse, etc. to critique and think outside the boundaries of the nation-state?

Please send abstract and brief bio to: donaldho@andrew.cmu.edu or kbp5545@psu.edu 

Deadline (Extended): March 30th

Queer and Trans Climate Futures

Special Cluster for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)

Guest Edited by Davy Knittle and Austin Lillywhite

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) serve a vital function within academia, particularly for the predominantly Black student body that these historic institutions serve. There are at least 74 HBCUs that offer degrees in English, Languages, or Literature, including 10 HBCUs that offer Master or Doctoral degrees in these subjects. Some of the leading scholars of our disciplines graduated from HBCUs with at least “9 percent of full-time Black faculty earned their doctorate degrees from HBCUs [with] more than half returning to HBCUs as faculty members” (Perna, 2001).

How can we leverage material texts and archival encounters to reinvigorate the humanities classroom? We invite proposals for a roundtable on such pedagogies and their impact in the classroom and beyond.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to the session organizers via email (see below) by March 17, 2023.

Contact the session organizers via email with any questions: Jennifer Rabedeau (jbr263@cornell.edu) and Grace Catherine Greiner (gcg49@cornell.edu).

Special Session at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024

How might we better understand colonialism, and ways of being and knowing against or outside of it, by foregrounding the maritime: oceans, sailing, ports, cargo, navigation, crews, shoals, shipwreck, piracy? “Water is the first thing in my imagination,” writes Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return: “I knew that everyone here was unhappy and haunted in some way” that “had something to do with the Door of No Return and the sea.” Following Brand’s method, the gambit of this roundtable is that approaching colonialism via the sea can help us see it better and imagine paths past it.

In the Western perception of things, which still preserves the Platonic, or rather Parmenidean image of a stable order in which they exist, the potentiality of monstrousness, emerging from fractures in this world – or, to reach even deeper, from the dark matter of the chōra, the sombre Nurse of all becoming – appears as absurd, and yet at the same time as ecstatic, epiphanic.