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Final Reminder: First Book Institute Applications Due by 2/15

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:27am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 15, 2021

Announcing  

The 2021 First Book Institute

June 6-12, 2021

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University via Zoom

Co-Directors

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Institutional Identity, Literary Studies, and the Secular/Religious Divide (MLA 2022)

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:27am
Jack Dudley and Dave Wehner, Mount St. Mary's University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 1, 2021

This proposed special session roundtable invites reflections on the tensions and limits of teaching and studying literature at religious as well as secular universities and colleges. How do different institutional commitments and governing documents as well as campus cultures and constituencies implicitly and/or explicitly limit what can be taught and published at each kind of institution? What are these limits and how have scholars navigated, challenged, and/or adapted to them? What kind of institutional discursive spaces might be created between and beyond the secular/religious divide?

MLA, Washington, DC, 6–9 January 2022

Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies Open Call

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:23am
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 31, 2021

Open Call for Papers

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies, with the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies, publishes a wide range of high-quality scholarship. We are currently accepting paper proposals on all research-based, quantitative and qualitative topics regarding leadership and leadership studies. We welcome both collaborative and single-authored papers. Papers must be submitted using this online portal and follow the guidelines outlined at Submission Guidelines.

 

Open Call for Book Reviews

Ireland and Intangible Cultural Heritage

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:22am
Etudes Irlandaises
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Etudes irlandaises

Appel à contributions / Call for papers

Numéro printemps/été 2022

 

Ireland and Intangible Cultural Heritage 

Forthcoming Book Series: Narratives and Mental Health

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:22am
Brill
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Series editors: Jarmila Mildorf, University of Paderborn, Germany, Elisabeth Punzi, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Christoph Singer, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and Cornelia Wächter, University of Bochum, Germany

 

Narratives and Mental Health offers a forum for dialogue between the arts, humanities and other disciplines interested in mental health and well-being.

Narrative is a central tool for meaning-making. Yet, its relevance has long been side-lined in the mental health sector including psychiatry, clinical psychology, medicine and social work.

Reading Contemporary South Asian Literature: A Postcolonial-Ecocritical Approach

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:22am
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS (Vol. 44, No. 3, Autumn 2021)

SPECIAL ISSUE Reading Contemporary South Asian Literature: A Postcolonial-Ecocritical Approach

GUEST EDITORS Somjeeta Pandey and Bidhu Chand Murmu

Call for Papers: [Inter]sections #24 (2021)

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:20am
American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

[Inter]sections publishes academic articles, reviews, and interviews relevant to the field of American studies. We encourage our authors to explore the most recent scholarship, from a solid critical background and in conversation with relevant and challenging work from the field. Although we focus primarily on subjects that are grounded in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, we do not exclude work that explores other time periods. The scope of our journal includes research in the fields of North American literature, history, visual culture, film and television studies, popular culture, political studies, race and ethnic studies, philosophy, gender and sexuality studies.

"Rhetorical Theory" Panel (PAMLA 2021)

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:20am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 15, 2021

PAMLA 2021

“Rhetorical Theory”
Las Vegas, 11/11-14, 2021

Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack, USC

“Rhetoric is a coproductive function of circulation in excess of human intention, which collapses rhetoric and persuasion into the rhetorical, a process of world making that extends relationality into future publics.” 

—Byron Hawk, Resounding the Rhetorical (2018)

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme. 

Cinema, Aesthetics and Memory: I International Film Studies Conference

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:20am
University of Coimbra
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 15, 2021

Cinema, Aesthetics and Memory: I International Film Studies Conference 
2, 3 and 4 of June of 2021, University of Coimbra (Online)

Deadline: 15th of March of 2021

Keynote Speaker: Irene Depetris Chauvin (University of Buenos Aires)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference CFP: African American Literature (Nov. 11-14 2021)

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 11:20am
Martin Japtok, Palomar College
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 15, 2021

PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Session: African American Literature

Contacts: Martin Japtok, Palomar College (mjaptok@palomar.edu)

Description: The African American session is open to all papers that explore some aspect of African American culture, but we are particularly interested in papers attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "City of God, City of Destruction.

Conference Note:

Out of Bounds: An Exploration of Boundaries in Crisis

updated: 
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 8:05am
Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 1, 2021

Out of Bounds: An Exploration of Boundaries in Crisis Online Conference: 14 & 15 July 2021 Trinity Centre for Literary & Cultural Translation 

From the exact lines on an architect’s blueprints to the demarcations on maps that shape the world today, boundaries have consequences. In concrete form they have separated societies, but they need not be material in order to exert power. The onset of crisis often sees the imposition of boundaries that are nebulous and ill-defined but surely no less potent than the menacing walls of segregation. 

Call It What It Is: Antiblackness

updated: 
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 10:23pm
Northwest Journal of Teacher Education
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 2, 2021

NWJTE Special Issue, Summer 2021: Call It What It Is: Antiblackness 

 

Guest Editors: Amir A. Gilmore, LaToya T. Brackett, and Davida Sharpe-Haygood 

 

Background and Context

What does it mean to be against the Black? 

ATHE Emerging Scholars Debut Panel (Religion and Theatre)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 10:03pm
Evangeline Jimenez / Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 1, 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMERGING SCHOLARS DEBUT PANEL (ATHE - Religion and Theatre Focus Group)

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2021 Conference

Austin, TX (Hybrid and/or Virtual Conference TBD)

August 5-8, 2021

The ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at a major national conference to submit papers for the 2021 Emerging Scholars Panel.

The 2021 ATHE Conference theme:

RE: ATHE (Reclaim. Redesign. Revolt. Recover.)

Kate Chopin International Society Presentations at ALA 2021

updated: 
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 2:17pm
Kate Chopin International Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 21, 2021

The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2021 American Literature Association conference in Boston, Massachusetts, from July 7-11 2021.

The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work. Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks.

The second panel seeks proposals relating to any aspect of Chopin’s life or work. Proposals for presentations no longer than twenty minutes should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a 200- to 400-word abstract.

From Postcolonial to the Universal: Recent Trends in Postcolonial Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 1:02pm
Dr. Sharbani Banerjee & Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 15, 2021

 

Deadline Extended- 15 March 2021

 

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS  

 "From Postcolonial to the Universal: Recent Trends in Postcolonial Studies"

 Edited by- Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag, Assistant Professor of English, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura University

                 Dr. Sharbani Banerjee, Associate Professor of English, Triveni Devi Bhalotia College, Kazi Nazrul University

                   Contact mail-pocotrends@gmail.com 

  

 

 

Postponed Conference: 118th Annual PAMLA Conference in Las Vegas, NV: "City of God, City of Destruction" 2021

updated: 
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 6:02am
David John Boyd, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Postponed Deadline Announcement: Virtual Conference Option Open
PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Please propose your special sessions to pamla.ballastacademic.com by February 15, 2021. Please take a look at the bottom of this page* for a list of General/Standing Sessions, and be sure your special session proposal does not replicate the topics of PAMLA's General/Standing Sessions.

Postponed Conference: 118th Annual PAMLA Conference in Las Vegas, NV: "City of God, City of Destruction" Special Session CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 6:02am
David John Boyd, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 15, 2021

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS - POSTPONED EXTENDED DEADLINE: Virtual Conference Option Open!

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference

In order to protect our members during the current pandemic, the PAMLA Board has voted to postpone the PAMLA conference until the fall of 2021. As a result, we will be putting offering a virtual option to our 2021 Las Vegas conference! Should you have any questions, feel free to call or email PAMLA Executive Director Craig Svonkin: 626-354-7526 or director@pamla.org.

PAMLA Needs You! Please consider joining PAMLA for the 2021 year to receive our journal and support PAMLA in these difficult times.

Craft Critique Culture Conference 2021 - Justice Framed

updated: 
Monday, January 25, 2021 - 12:27pm
The University of Iowa English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Craft Critique Culture Conference 2021: Justice Framed

Call for Papers

The University of Iowa English Department invites proposals for its 2021 Annual Conference, Craft Critique Culture, to be held virtually on Zoom. 

Event date: Friday, April 16 – Saturday, April 17, 2021

Categories: interdisciplinary, humanities, arts, literature, language, politics, law, social justice, criminal justice, race, gender, LGBTQ+, resistance

Keynote speaker: Harsha Walia; author of Undoing Border Imperialism;University of British Columbia alum; No One is Illegal co-founder; Women’s Memorial March Committee organizer

American Literature Area at PCA 2021 Virtual Conference

updated: 
Monday, January 25, 2021 - 9:49am
Corey Taylor / Popular Culture Association (PCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 28, 2021

The American Literature Area of the Popular Culture Association invites submissions for our National Conference, to be held in an entirely virtual format on June 2-5, 2021. PCA has extended the submission deadline for this online conference to Februrary 28, 2021.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference CFP: Drama and Society (Nov. 11-14 2021)

updated: 
Friday, January 22, 2021 - 1:58pm
Kimberly Jew, University of Utah
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 15, 2021

 

PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

 

Session: Drama and Society

Contacts: Kimberly Jew, University of Utah (kimberly.jew@utah.edu) & Judith Saunders (judith.saunders1@gmail.com)

Cultural Labour and Contemporary Literature in Portuguese

updated: 
Friday, January 22, 2021 - 10:57am
Carlos Garrido Castellano, Ph.D. Lecturer. Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. University College Cork
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 16, 2021

Cultural Labour and Contemporary Literature in Portuguese

 

Online Research Seminar

 

8-9 July 2021

 

 

 

Ana de Albuquerque

University College Cork

ana.albuquerque4@hotmail.com

 

Carlos Garrido Castellano, Ph.D.

University College Cork

Carlos.garridocastellano@ucc.ie

 

 

Global South: Incarceration and Resistance

updated: 
Friday, January 22, 2021 - 10:57am
The Global South
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

The editors of this special issue of the Global South are seeking contributors whose work engages with questions of incarceration and movements for resistance and abolition. As many major works regarding the development of mass incarceration in the United States draw explicit links between the development of the prison and the legacies of U.S. slavery and Jim Crow practices, this issue is, rather (or also), interested in examining the development of the prison-industrial complex through a global south perspective. In 2001, Angela Y.

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