Short Abstract:

The multiplicity of gender has been a feature of many cultures throughout history, but its meaning and application have varied widely. The panel examines the coloniality/neo-coloniality, and the charges thereof, of the "third-gender" category by tracing its development across a variety of local contexts and times. We invite papers that examine how local formulations of gender intersect with, transform, and assimilate third-ness as an intelligible form of gender.

Long Abstract:

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Research Grant

Provides $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference is given to junior scholars and graduate students. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project proposal, including a description of expenses needed to complete the project, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton(g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by May 1, 2023.  

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Subvention Award

Provides $500 to support costs for the publication of an upcoming scholarly book or article on Emerson. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation from an academic mentor or colleague, and a 1-2 page single-spaced proposal, including an abstract of the forthcoming work and a detailed description of expenses, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton (g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by May 1, 2023.  

Haunted Shores is inviting contributions to our blog. Our online platform aims to broaden the reach of our academic work, generate discussion, and engage scholars, scientists, artists, and members of the general public.

Call for book chapters in an edited volume: Human Rights and IndianLiterary Communities

This collection undertakes various explorations about the role of literary (and related cultural) communities in the acknowledgement and understanding of human rights bearing subjects. Can literary texts highlight and empathise with those on the social margins as legal subjects possessing rights? Do texts also recognise and challenge the contours of human rights? Can literary communities help imagine and reimagine the outlines of those deemed human and therefore capable of being human rights bearing citizens?

The online peer-reviewed journal Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP) is seeking articles for its Spring 2023 issue. Deadline for article submission is May 15. Visit the web site at 

https://www.cpcc.edu/teaching-american-literature-journal-theory-and-practice

For submission guidelines and send manuscripts to Patricia Bostian at Patricia.Bostian@cpcc.edu.

One Day National Conference on
Popular Culture: Texts and Contexts (Hybrid)

Organised by the Department of English, Salesian College, Siliguri,  in collaboration with  Department of English, The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata

Venue: Salesian College, Siliguri (Hybrid)

Pandemic Poetry

Please send an abstract and your biography to Sarah Montin by June 20th 2023 at the following email address: sarah.montin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

The editors of Tinakori: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society are seeking to publish a special edition of the journal for 2023 as the centenary of the writer’s death. We welcome proposals for essays that will celebrate Mansfield’s life and contribution to literature as one of the most highly regarded short story writers of the twentieth century. We welcome all approaches to Mansfield’s work to celebrate her centenary as a writer who continues to resonate with readers and invite critical attention in the twenty-first century. We would also be interested in articles that examine Mansfield’s contribution to modernist practice and its legacy.

From the ancient text of the Kama Sutra, the first script that studied sexual intercourse as science (Chakraborty and Thakurata), to the 2011 cult novel Fifty Shades of Grey, sex figures in literature in many different ways. That is, if it figures at all. While in the Victorian era “silence became the rule” on the subject of sex (Foucault), Preciado writes that today sex and the discourse surrounding it have silently “turned into governmental agents” of power.

Journal of Ethnic American Literature, a refereed scholarly annual dedicated to new research and criticism in American literature and culture, seeks scholarly articles (5000 to 7000 words saved in Word) that use the MLA Style. Submissions with the subject line containing JEAL, Sub, your name, and the date can be emailed to journaljeal@yahoo.com. The deadline is August 1.

Contemporary Global Feminisms – Solidarity Across Differences

Taking place 13 June 2023, Birkbeck University and online

Deadline for CfP: 24th April 2023, 9:00 AM

Since its initiation in 2016, the CHASE Feminist Network has been in conversation with many of the transitions that took place within academia and the world at large. During this period, the attitudes towards and within feminism have also experienced vast shifts, where intersectionality has permeated the mainstream just as dividing lines have been erected between the feminisms of varying kinds. Yet at its core, there remains the reverberation of solidarity against patriarchal oppression, which is ever-present in our contemporary moment. 

The research group CULIVIAN (“Culturas Literarias y Visuales del Animal” / “Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures”) is hosting the international conference “The Factual Animal: Audiovisual Representations of Real Other-than-Human Animals.” The conference will be held face-to-face at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació at the Universitat de València (Spain) on November 29 – December 1, 2023. The conference is organized as part of the CIGE/2021/100 research project, funded by the Conselleria d’Innovació, Universitats i Societat Digital, and is additionally sponsored by the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València, and the Friends of Thoreau Program at the Instituto Franklin

The protagonist Journal opens their next call for papers!

We are looking for submissions for our second issue on the topic of DIS | ABILITY.

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