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Feeling Cultures / Culturing Feelings: Emotions and Affects in Cultural Practices

updated: 
Friday, September 20, 2024 - 5:01am
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

 

[W]e need to contest this understanding of emotion as ‘the unthought’, just as we need to contest the assumption that ‘rational thought’ is unemotional…
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Crime and Hope for Justice: Criminality and Violence in Web Series, Cinema and Fiction in the 21st Century

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 10:33pm
Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

 

Call For Paper

“History provides numerous examples of people who were convinced that they were doing the right thing and committed terrible crimes because of it.”

                                                 ---Christopher Paolini

 

Charles Olson, Vincent Ferrini, and Jonathan Bayliss in Gloucester: Poetry, Prose, and Place

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 8:33pm
The Charles Olson Society and The Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 27, 2025

The Charles Olson Society and the Jonathan Bayliss Society are pleased to announce a collaborative panel to be held at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. This panel will focus on writers who were inspired by Gloucester, Massachusetts and Cape Ann. The richness of Cape Ann, its history, people, and geography, deeply influenced poets Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini as well as novelist Jonathan Bayliss. How did these figures incorporate Gloucester’s geography, history, population, ecology, or other distinct elements in their work? How does place influence and determine the nature of a poet’s or novelist’s writing?

Wayward Studies and Methods

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 6:46pm
MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

The MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) seeks scholars whose literary analysis (i.e., the examination of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays, film, music, and/or TV) of works by women of color centers approaches to literary research, especially work that makes visible or accounts for women of color’s invisibility and/or seeks to fill gaps in the canon and archives around experiences. Our models for this work include scholars and theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Audre Lorde, and essayists such as Cathy Park Hong, Claudia Rankine, Elissa Washuta, and Carmen Maria Machado. These approaches can include: 

AI: The Next Frontier: Revisioning Written, Artistic, and Digital Landscapes

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 11:18am
Billy Joe Turner Interdisciplinary Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2025

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of modern life. From fashion and art to political science and history, AI’s influence is reshaping the way we interact with the world around us. In the realms of writing and social media, AI offers new opportunities for content creation, while posing questions about authorship, originality, and ethics. Fashion designers are now using AI to predict trends, create unique designs, and streamline production. Artists employ AI to create cutting-edge digital works that blur the lines between human and machine creativity. Meanwhile, AI is making waves in political science, helping to predict voting trends and offering new insights into historical patterns.

Fungal Horror and Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:11am
Berit Åström, Umeå University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Dr Katarina Gregersdotter and Dr Berit Åström, Umeå University, Sweden invite original essays for an edited volume on fungal horror in popular culture. Palgrave Macmillan have expressed a provisional interest in publishing the volume. 

Fungi are entangled in our lives, as food, as medicine or drugs, but also as parasites and agents of destruction, such as black mould, dry rot and cordyceps, the zombie fungus. This entanglement carries over into popular culture, where fungi are used to carry out different kinds of work, articulating deep seated fears and desires, functioning as a threat to, but perhaps also a saviour of, an embattled humanity at the brink of possible extinction. 

The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society at ALA 2025: Freeman’s Historicisms

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:10am
The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society will sponsor a panel at the 36th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. Our focus this year will be “Freeman’s Historicisms.”  The Society welcomes submissions related to this topic, including proposals that bring Freeman’s work into substantive conversation with that of her contemporaries. 

 

Possibilities include:

 

Margins : A Journal of Literature and Culture Vol. XV. 2025

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:10am
Department of English, Gauhati University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Margins, an international peer-reviewed journal, is published annually by the Department of English, Gauhati University. It offers a space for the exploration of the marginal in its theoretical implications and in literature and culture through four kinds of writings: 

  1. It welcomes examination of the historical and the contemporary through interdisciplinary perspectives – looking at texts in both their wider conceptual and immediate situational significance (7500 and 10,000 words). 

5th Singapore Literature Conference: Verse Nation

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:09am
Poetry Festival Singapore
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

 

5th Singapore Literature Conference August 2, 2025

Poetry Festival Singapore (PFS) and the Singapore Literature Conference (SLC) are commemorating Singapore's 60th anniversary of independence with the theme "Verse Nation."

 

The Heroine's Tale: Reimagining The Female Hero's Journey in the New Millennium

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:09am
Caroline Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Call for Essays

Edited Anthology

The Heroine's Tale: Reimagining The Female Hero's Journey in the New Millennium 

 

We are seeking essays for an edited collection titled “The Heroine's Tale: Reimagining The Female Hero's Journey in the New Millennium.” This collection considers the role of the contemporary heroine, aiming to take stock of existing conversations and debates related to cultural and creative representations of heroines and heroinism and providing the basis for new directions of inquiry.

 

The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:08am
American Comparative Literature Association 2025 CFP
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Despite its long and varied history, the infamous subgenre of body horror didn’t gain critical currency until the 1986 January/February volume of the journal Screen. Indeed, it was in this special issue on the “textuality of contemporary horror” that body horror emerged as an object worthy of scholarly attention. We now find ourselves with nearly forty years of distance from this moment in horror criticism, all the while body horror has remained as a key subgeneric tendency within the horror genre with exciting new and (un)timely directions having been explored by directors and authors such as Julia Ducournau, Jordan Peele, and Brian Evenson.

Borderlands: Reimagining the Medieval Periphery

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:08am
Indiana University Bloomington Medieval Studies Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Borderlands: Reimagining the Medieval Periphery

MEST Symposium, Indiana University Bloomington

April 11-12

Keynote: Dr. Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University)

The Middle Ages and our study of it are defined by borderlands. To better understand and enrich our knowledge of the medieval world, this conference asks us to consider what lies at its peripheries and what happens when we attend carefully to these “borderlands.” 

Potential panels might consider:

Call for Proposals - Book Series "Global Historical Fictions"

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Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:07am
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Global Historical Fictions

 

Defining historical fictions as encompassing of many media forms, this book series invites contributions that consider the multiple ways in which we shape history for diverse purposes, and that investigate popular history in a variety of contexts, and modes.

 

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025 - Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:06am
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

We are proposing an ACLA Seminar to convene, for the first time, the interdisciplinary community of scholars working on or in the spirit of J.L. Austin (1911–1960). Though widely, albeit often begrudgingly, acknowledged as an important twentieth-century philosopher, Austin is unique among this rarified class of thinkers in several unfortunate ways: he is the progenitor of no noteworthy schools, there are no chaired positions named for him, and until recently there were no collections of essays about his work and even fewer conferences about his legacy. Yet, many scholars owe a debt to Austin, and there have been signs recently of a more pronounced reemergence of interest in him.

Companionship in Literature and Cultural Studies

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:06am
University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to submit your original research articles and review papers in the forthcoming special issue of Anglica Wratislaviensia devoted to the concept of companionship in its various social, technological, historical manifestations.

NEMLA 2025 Panel: The Southern Question: Literary Forms of Revolution in Peripheries of the World System

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:06am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Literary forms like the poems, novels, and short stories are often understood to be stand-ins for political resistance in critical theoretical debates especially since the dominance of post-al theories within literature departments. For literary forms emerging in the peripheries of the literary world system yoked by the global literary marketplace, the signification of resistance acts as a marker of value. This is superimposed on the idea of literary forms emerging from the peripheral locales of the literary world system that are read as derivative and mimetic of literary forms emerging from the core of the same system.

LIBERATORY PRACTICES FOR WORLDS IN CRISIS

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:05am
Consortium for Graduate Studies In Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology | March 22-23, 2025 | Hybrid Format

 

In 2024, we are surrounded by crisis in nearly every sector of our world(s): environmental, political, social, cultural, and interpersonal. Crisis is not a new nor a unique phenomenon: Indigenous societies have faced decimation, war has torn through family and political associations, and environmental devastation cycles again and again.

 

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Evolutions of Literary Theory: The Afterlives of New Criticism, Structuralism, and Others

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:05am
Katherin Yu / Stanford University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

 

The publication of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism in 1957, in some ways, marked the end of New Criticism. The two approaches—structuralism and New Criticism—represent two ways of seeing texts as unities, yet produce entirely different views on key issues, such as how texts might be grouped together, the importance of historical context to the literary text, and the role of broader cultural systems in shaping a text’s meaning. We might wonder now whether or not these issues and ideas from New Criticism and structuralism, rooted in mid-20th century literary theory, continue to offer valuable insights and methodologies.

Extended deadline: The Street and the City – Challenges

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:05am
University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

We are delighted to announce that the submissions deadline for paper, panel and roundtable proposals for the Conference “The Street and the City – Challenges”, taking place at the University of Lisbon (5-6 December 2024), has now been extended until 2nd October 2024.

Submissions to the conference are invited from a broad range of disciplines including literature, cultural studies, anthropology, history, politics, the social sciences, and other related disciplines. 

We welcome proposals for papers, pre-organised panels and roundtables.

NeMLA 2025 CFP - Revolutionizing Perspectives: Navigating Paradigm Shifts in Interdisciplinary Humanities Research

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 2:47am
56th NeMLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

With the changing social realities alongside rapid innovation in science and technology, there is a sharp paradigm shift in academia in terms of research, especially in humanities. This shift can be considered a radical change in the core concepts. It is imperative to absorb the very meaning of paradigm shift. The term paradigm shift was coined by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in the context of revolutions in natural science. What is remarkable about Khun’s thought process is that in his book, Kuhn propounded the idea that theories have a social character and approaches them as social constructions that contain historical traces of the time and place in which they were generated.

From Medical to Health Humanities: Evolving Interventions (NeMLA 2025 Roundtable)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - 5:39pm
Natalie Mera Ford / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The fields of medical and health humanities often aim to intervene in socially embedded systems of care and advance health justice. This roundtable explores ways to work toward that goal through pedagogy, research, and community partnership.

Steve Tomasula: The Art of Representation

updated: 
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - 3:34pm
Paris - University of Chicago in Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 4, 2024

Steve Tomasula: The Art of Representation

June 12 and 13 2025The University of Chicago in Paris, in the presence of the author

 

Keynote speakersDavid Banash (Western Illinois University), Mary K. Holland (State University of New York, New Paltz)

 

Organized jointly by several institutions (Université Paris Cité, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Sorbonne Université, Université de Rennes, Université de Rouen, Université de Strasbourg), this is the first international conference devoted to the work of Steve Tomasula.

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

updated: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:37pm
Edited volume on Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

 

Concept Note:

Eudora Welty Society CFPs for ALA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:37pm
Adrienne Akins Warfield/Mars Hill University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

I'm writing to share the CFPs for the two Eudora Welty Society sessions that will be featured at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference in Boston at the Westin Copley Place (May 21-24, 2025). ******************** 1. Welty’s Sheltered Daring and Furtive FeminismEudora Welty concludes her literary autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings with the self-summation, “[a]s you have seen, I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring comes from within” (104).

Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators--special issue

updated: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:37pm
American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections, titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?

New Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology

updated: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:37pm
Melissa Sande and Christine Battista
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

New Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology This edited collection is interested in the intersections of feminism, American politics, and popular culture. Right now, as feminism in general is forced to shift back to a focus on reproductive rights, the fourth wave is being splintered into those prioritizing this issue and those still focused on empowerment, intersectionality, and other issues original to the fourth wave. As more and more strains of feminism emerge, how might we understand their origins and place them in conversation with each other? Is feminism finally intersectional? If not, how do we get there?

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