CFP: Russian & American Short Stories & Influence, updated

Abstract: 7/8/2019; Completed Draft: 12/1/2019

UPDATE: Below follows our original CFP, which we now update slightly and with urgency. We have thus far assembled an excellent collection of promised essays, but are now looking specifically for essays that meet the requirements below as well as1) are about Russian authors OTHER than Chekhov (as you can imagine, we quickly got our share of those) and 2) about American authors who are of color and/or women. Please read on and submit your idea(s) to us. We are excited to hear from you.

UPDATE: We have a contract with Lexington Books!

But we are posting our updated CFP because we would still like one or two more excellent essays on specific authors.  

CFP: Food in American Literature

Proposals due July 20, 2021

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UPDATE: CFP: Food in American Literature

Proposals due December 24, 2021

NOTE:

We are well along in the peer review process with a university press with favorable evaluations. In order to further bolster our collection, however, at this point we are looking only for proposals addressing the following:

• Food and one or more contemporary (last 20 years) African American texts;
• Food and one or more queer literary texts;
• Food and a 19th century American literary text.

For more detailed information on what to send, please see our original CFP below. Thank you.

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CFP: Modernism and Literature: A (Re)consideration

Proposals due September 1, 2022

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Call for Chapter Proposals:

Figures of Freedom in Anthropocene Fiction

We are soliciting chapters for a forthcoming book, Figures of Freedom in Anthropocene Fiction, a collection of essays examining how American literary, filmic, and televisual narratives have represented and reimagined themes of personal and political agency within the context of 21st-century aspirations and anxieties.

COVID showed us what we already knew, how fragile global capitalist societies are and how unresilient they become when the structures get shocked. Some of those structures deserve to be destroyed (authoritarianism, nationalism, racism, colonialism, labor exploitation, e.g.); others need to be shored up or replaced with even better institutions and practices (healthcare, the planetary ecosystem, wealth equity, social justice, e.g.). When these fragile structures fail, their failures disproportionately affect those least able to bear the harm. And, around the world, the harmful effects of exploitative structures are repeatedly discriminatorily directed.

Continuing an ongoing philosophical conversation about the order of rank and value, media theorist and evolutionary biologist Donna Haraway states in A Cyborg Manifesto that the classifications of human, machine, and animal species blur if one examines them at the genetic or molecular level; the order and rank of human supremacy dissolves. In the late 19th century following the acceptance of Darwin’s theory of evolution, how were the fuzzy lines between humans, animals, and machines drawn and by whom? At what point do we, as humans, become transhuman—enhanced by technology?

We are seeking submissions of abstracts for our NeMLA panel. The NeMLA Convention will take place from March 23-26, 2023, in Niagara Falls, NY, USA. The 2023 conference theme is RESILIENCE. 

"You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?" (Plato, The Republic)

“Allegorie entsteht, wenn der Verstand sich vorlügt, er habe Phantasie.” Allegory occurs when the mind betrays and tells itself it has imagination. (Hebbel, Diary 1840, translation added)

CALL FOR PAPERS

EVELYN G. ETHERIDGE CONFERENCE

ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

PAINE COLLEGE

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA

OCTOBER 26-28, 2022

Paine College

1235 Fifteenth Street

Augusta, GA 30901

Contact: Dr. Nancy Wellington Bookhart, Conference Chair (nbookhart@paine.edu), or Professor Jeffrey Jones, Conference co-chair (jjones3@paine.edu)

Call for Abstracts for the

Humanities and Arts in Business Series

Series Editors: Rhonda Knight, PhD, Coker University and Eric Litton, PhD, University of Central Florida

Deadline for Submission of Abstract + Learning Objectives = November 1, 2022

Feminismos decoloniales, negros y queer de Latinoamérica y el Caribe.

From Sabrina to Supreme, there are plentiful modern representations of the witch in popular culture, each exuding singular or group-sourced power borne from traditions of centuries-past, as manifested in literature, television, film, or local lore. But what about the lesser-known witches, those who practice and represent branches of witchcraft rarely examined within the subcultural analysis or fandom?

This panel examines portrayals of lesser-known witches and how their quiet unconventionality, even within the broader occult subculture, might inform scholarship, practice, and preservation. What can we learn by examining lesser-known witches or unconventional representations of the witch?