ReFocus:The International Director Series
ReFocus: A Series of International Film Studies Anthologies
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Edinburgh University Press
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Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com
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ReFocus: A Series of International Film Studies Anthologies
Full name / name of organization:
Edinburgh University Press
contact email:
Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com
Deborah E. McDowell’s 1993 essay, “In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition,” issues a call to “start putting an end to beginnings even those that would put woman in the first place” or a “reformulation or refocusing of genealogy as a concept of analysis” (56-7). This roundtable seeks papers that complicate how and in which ways we make visible the roots, sites, and lineages of Black women’s literary and historical production from the eighteenth century forward. Papers can interrogate visibility as a practice or theory of recovery, recentering, and resituating that we also must remain critical of even when establishing “firsts” or origins of Black women’s historical and literary traditions.
Call for Chapters: IRB, Human Research Protections, and Data Ethics for Researchers
Proposal submissions due date extended to March 31, 2024
Chapters in this collection will present information relevant to new investigators for IRB, Human Research Protections, Data Ethics, and Data Privacy for Human Subjects. As an essential guide for new researchers, the book audience is also appropriate for new investigators such as doctoral students, dissertation mentors, and doctoral research supervisors.
For details and submission link, visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/7175
Studia austriaca (founded in 1992)
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
p-ISSN 1593-2508 | e-ISSN 2385-2925
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/
Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani
Co-Editor: Marco Castellari
This guaranteed panel of MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities (CSGSH) seeks presentations on the problems faced by non-STEM graduate students for starting their careers in the US, including visas, mentoring, and job search. How do they handle their 1-year OPT as opposed to the 3-year STEM OPT?
The 2025 MLA Annual Convention will be held from 9 to 12 January in New Orleans, LA.
Please send 250-word abstracts with a short CV to jahidul.alam1@louisiana.edu by Wednesday, 20 March 2024
The Nagoya local chapter of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teaching) journal is seeking papers for volume 5(1).
Papers may be one of the following:
English Featured Article (Long: 6,000-10,000 words), English Featured Article (Short: 3,000-5,000 words), Students' Research Papers, Graduation Thesis Summary, Book Reviews, My Share. Papers must be related to teaching EFL (English as a foreign language) contexts. For more information, please email Camilo Villanueva at camilov@nufs.ac.jp. Deadline: March 31, 2024. Submit manuscripts using the Google Form on the publication page below:
The cinematic horror genre depends on a system of oppression, domination, and subordination. Although horror is deeply embedded within the politics of representation and social subjugation, we recognize an explicit lack within its scholarship (across disciplines) regarding class and historical materialism. This collected volume, which has emerged after years of collaboration and collective conversations, wishes to remedy this absence: we call for a comprehensive examination of horror as it intersects socio-economic class issues, brutal capitalism, cultural systems of excess, and rugged individualism.
Across English and related fields, graduate students are developing engaging, inventive, and transformative projects that envision their disciplines in new and exciting ways. In an effort to highlight this “next-gen scholarship,” this session will feature eight (8) 5-minute lightning round presentations to offer a snapshot of where the field is headed. (Please visit the MLA website for more information on innovative sessions at the MLA annual convention.)
Examples include, but are not limited to:
Following methodological interventions in ecocriticism's nostalgic appeals to "nature," this session invites formal analyses and other close readings of texts that gesture toward, illuminate, or articulate liberatory socio-environmental futures. Any period, genre, language.
Please send 250-word abstracts to Sarah-Nelle Jackson, sarah-nelle.jackson@ubc.ca, by March 22, 2024. Graduate students and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply.
What happens when an author, playwright, or filmmaker choses to embed a translation in a fictional setting? This panel will consider the many forms of fictional, imaginary, and somewhat deceitful translations - from pseudotranslation (a text written as if it had been translated from a foreign language, even though no foreign language original exists) to self-translation (when an author composes a text in one language and translates it into another) - to interrogate the act of translation as both a motor and an obstacle in a work of fiction.
Conference: 25-26 April 2024 (online - via Zoom)
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CALL FOR PAPERS:
We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics- "The Beauty of Storytelling and the Story of Beauty", Vol. 75 (2/2025), edited by Joanna Szczepanik (Faculty of Architecture, West Pomeranian Technological University in Szczecin, Poland) and Kalina Kukiełko (Institute of Sociology, University of Szczecin, Poland)
Submission deadline: 31 March, 2025
The Cultural History panel seeks to revivify the political or social intersections that exist between text and context, including interdisciplinary aspects of culture. While papers that explore the continuities between history and film, history and literature, or history as it interweaves with marginalized aesthetic traditions would receive preference, excerpts of longer, ongoing projects that examine how cultural formations are “translated” or subsumed into historical trajectories would be particularly welcome. Submissions that not only practice cultural history by invoking the liminality of borderlands, but also critically reflect upon that practice are also encouraged.
“Sounding Hawthorne: Silence, Acoustics, and Aurality”
MLA Panel for The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
9-12 January 2025
***Please see link to full CFP for more information.***
What is the Young Rhetoricians' Conference?
The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference (YRC) began in 1985 at San Jose State University. From its inception, YRC has been a place for those who teach rhetoric at the university level to share research about teaching rhetoric and techniques for teaching rhetoric. “Young” refers not to the age of the rhetoricians but refers instead to rhetors with a willingness, in the mind, to dance whenever possible. You can learn more about YRC at our website.
PAMLA 2024 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rhetorical Theory”
Palm Springs, CA, Nov. 6-10
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Abstract
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.
Description
General Issue: Queer Resistance
Special Topic Trans Violence in Contemporary Latin American Culture
Mester has extended the deadline for the call for submissions for its 53rd issue. We are the graduate student academic journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. Our scholarly magazine publishes academic articles, interviews, and book reviews on Iberian, Latin American, Brazilian, Luso-African, Latinx, and Chicanx literature, culture, and linguistics. Mester is seeking submissions that shape and inform queer resistance and the challenges it encounters in contemporary literary representation and cultural production. As a critical praxis of resistance, what do writing, filming, performing, and reading queerly (re)present?
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2025
“Faulkner’s Bodies”
July 20-24, 2025
University of Mississippi
Announcement and Call for Papers
Thinking Beyond Brecht – Collective and/or Artificial Intelligence
Panel sponsored by the International Brecht Society
Modern Language Association Convention (January 9 – 12, 2025), New Orleans, LA
International Conference
on
WRITING THE NON-HUMAN: ANIMAL NARRATIVES BEYOND THE HUMAN LENS
Organised by
Department of English
University of North Bengal
In collaboration with
University of Milan, Italy
Film and History
Chair: Michael Modarelli, Walsh University. mmodarelli@walsh.edu
While this area welcomes presentations on a wide range of film topics contributing to popular culture, we are epically interested in papers that explore the following:
Studies in the Novel: Call for Proposals for Special Issue, Winter 2025
Each year, SAMLA is pleased to accept nominations of outstanding creative work written by graduate students. The award alternates yearly between Prose and Poetry.
The 2024 edition honors Prose, and the prize includes a $250 honorarium, publication of the winning work in the South Atlantic Review, and complimentary registration for SAMLA 96 in Jacksonville, FL.
Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) 2024
Banal Devices: Everyday technology in globalized technocultures
University of Music and Theatre Munich, 8-10 September 2024
What systems and devices are relevant in people’s everyday lives, beyond the globalized dreams and universalising narratives professed by big tech and state bodies in the Global North? This question will be the starting point for DRHA 2024.
Breaking New Grounds.
Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.
Date: 27 September 2024.
Venue: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.
A one-day conference organised by Clémence Laburthe-Tolra (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, EMMA) and Aurélien Wasilewski (Law & Humanities, CERSA, UMR 7106, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas).
Steeped in the wide-flung diaspora of the Gothic mode, the Southern Gothic is one of the most prominent ways the South is represented in media and culture. Represented in the works of writers as varied as Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner to Cormac McCarthy, Cherie Priest, and Jesmyn Ward, whether categorized as a form, a style, or a genre, the Southern Gothic is bound up with the specificity of regional cultural anxieties about race, class, gender, sexuality, history, and geographic identity itself. From its most stereotypical depictions to more nuanced, complex interpretations, the Southern Gothic shapes the wider perception of regional identities in ways that invite our contemporary scholarly engagement.
But Guyon all this while his booke did read,
Ne yet has ended: for it was a great
And ample volume, that doth far excead
My leasure . . . . (2.10.70.1-4)
Call for Papers: The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath
This call for papers invites submission to The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath, edited by Janet Badia, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, and Emily Van Duyne. The collection, now under contract, will be a new addition to the Routledge Literature Companions series—highly regarded, field-defining volumes that showcase exciting areas of literary studies. These volumes are ideal introductions for beginners and useful volumes for those already working in the field. By design, they summarize current scholarship while simultaneously highlighting emergent approaches to authors and areas of study.
Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association
English Nineteenth-Century Panel
October 10-12, 2024
Las Vegas, Nevada
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2024
25 October 2024
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Call for Proposals