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Update- Gated Communities of the Post-Apocalypse -- NeMLA Panel:

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 1:49pm
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Speculative Fiction (SF) creators regularly imagine worlds in precipitous decline where the privileged few live in a safe, prosperous, hazard-free enclave from which surplus subaltern populations are excluded. What do these stories of safety for the few while the “surplus” rot outside or join a captive servant class status tell us about our own concepts of borders, citizenship, and expendability? Presenters are invited to engage with one or more texts using cultural studies, postcolonial theory, or other relevant analytic tool to analyze how gated communities function in the SF canon or the real world.

Call for Proposals: The Films of Michael Cimino

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 11:47am
Benjamin Halligan / University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

This proposed edited collection on Michael Cimino will represent the first, full critical engagement with the work of this divisive figure: acclaimed and lionised with The Deer Hunter (1979 Oscars for Directing and, presented by John Wayne, Best Picture), dismissed and demonised with Heaven’s Gate, condemned for The Year of the Dragon, and marginalised and forgotten thereafter, only to be haltingly reappraised shortly before his death in 2016 (with tributes at the Venice and Locarno film festivals).

NeMLA 2024: 'I, Too, Sing America': Immigrant and BIPOC Reflections on Americanness

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 11:24am
Javiera Morales-Reyes (Pennsylvania State University)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In May 2023, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville replied, “Well, they call them that. I call them Americans,” when asked by Richard Banks, a radio host for WBHM in Alabama, if he believed white nationalists should be allowed in the U.S. military. Tuberville, who later said “I look at a white nationalists [sic] as a Trump Republican,” also later slightly recanted, stating that, “We agree that we should not be characterizing Trump supporters as white nationalists.” However, Tuberville’s initial comments and impulses create and reinforce a corollary that to be American is to be white.

Jayanta Mahapatra: Modern Critical Views

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 10:03am
Dr Anshu Gagal, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi and Dr Barnali Saha, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

Call for Book Chapters

 Jayanta Mahapatra: Modern Critical Views

 

We invite scholars, researchers, and literary enthusiasts to contribute to the upcoming edited book Jayanta Mahapatra: Modern Critical Viewsthat aims to delve into the multifaceted dimensions of the celebrated poet, Jayanta Mahapatra. As one of India's foremost poets, Mahapatra's work has left an indelible mark on the landscape of contemporary Indian poetry. This volume intends to critically explore his poetic corpus, shedding light on its thematic richness, artistic innovations, and its relevance in the larger literary discourse.

Woman Scream International Call for Poets and Visual Artists

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 10:02am
Woman Scream Festival
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 16, 2023

The Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer) cause opens call for participation. Poets and Visual Artists from anywhere in the world, are invited to send a proposal to raise awareness about women violence as part of our social mission.

The work submitted might become part of our next international anthology in tribute to women and their rights to a life free from violence.

Check the menu “join the cause” of our page www.womanscreamfestival.com for further details and submission’s form.

Special cluster on Spanish life writing after the Civil War

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 10:01am
Editors, Maria Gomez-Martin, PhD and Ana Roncero-Bellido, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

 

Call for papers for a Special Cluster in a/b: Autobiography Studies 

Spaniards across the Americas after the Spanish Civil War: “I am from the Country Called Exile” / Españoles en las Américas después de la Guerra Civil: “Soy del país del exilio”  

Bonkbuster! Sex and Popular Romance from the 1950s to the Present Day

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 10:00am
Jo Parsons (Falmouth University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

 

Bonkbuster!

Sex and Popular Romance from the 1950s to the Present Day

Edited by Dr Jo Parsons (Falmouth University)

 

The Bonkbuster is a baggy and pejorative term which has been applied to a wide ranging and diverse literary form. These texts, written mostly, but not exclusively, by women have suffered from critical neglect due to sexism and their popularity, as well as elitist attitudes towards what constitutes literature.

 

Extremely Online: The Internet and Connectivity in the 21st Century Novel

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 10:00am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Though the Internet has been around since the 1980s, the “Internet novel” as a genre has only really emerged in the last decade or so. We can think of Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts (2021), Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This (2021), and Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing (2021) as notable recent examples. Each of these novels take as their topic the particular and peculiar confines of the digital world we live in. Lockwood has described this sensation as falling through a “long void that never reaches the bottom,” while Brandon Taylor claims that “the Internet Novel captures some of the weird Gothic horror that white people have come, by way of their new digital Calvinism, to accept as being inherent to digital life.”

2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:58am
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

The University of Chicago Press and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society are pleased to announce the competition for the 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.

Twenty-second Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:58am
Claflin University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Twenty-second Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

November 1-2, 2023

THEME: THE IMPACT OF AI ON WRITING AND READING

Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Concurrent sessions

Thursday, November 2, 2023, Concurrent sessions

11 AM EST Plenary session speaker: Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2021-23, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA.

*(Participants not residing in the United States may request a virtual option)

Theology Without Walls: An Assessment and Critique

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:56am
SHERM Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

In 1982 Robert Neville wrote, “The encounter of Christianity with the world’s other religions has shaken Christian theology to its foundations.” One recent response to this trauma is the so-called “theology without walls” movement, in which Neville has been an active participant. Unlike another response, namely comparative theology (which remains “confessional” or married to the truth of one’s starting or “home” religion), theology without walls is willing and eager to explore other religions—even non-religious sources—in what Jerry Martin calls “an effort to understand ultimate reality as fully as possible.”

The New Ray Bradbury Review, issue 8 (2024)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:54am
Ray Bradbury Center, Indiana University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The New Ray Bradbury Review Issue 8 (2024)

For the next issue of The New Ray Bradbury Review (NRBR), we invite articles which examine the theme of space, broadly construed.

DEADLINE EXTENDED--Women in French 11th International Colloquium "Precarious Lives/Vies Précaires"

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:53am
Women in French
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The deadline for the 2024 Women in French 11th International Colloquium, to be held at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on March 28-30, 2024, has been extended until SEPTEMBER 30, 2023.

Please find the original CFP below.

11TH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN FRENCH CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

University of Alabama  

Precarious Lives/Vies précaires

28-30 March 2024  

Call for Proposals: The Films of Bernardo Bertolucci

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:53am
Benjamin Halligan / University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The work of Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018), in its preoccupations, scope and politics, exemplifies that of the post-war generation of radical European auteurs: initial films made in the shadow of Neo-Realism, and under the influence of the French New Wave (The Grim Reaper, Before the Revolution); a full embrace of the events of 1968 (Partner, Agonia); a late modernist art cinema that interrogated the scandal of Italian war-time history and exerted a profound influence on other film-makers – particularly those of New Hollywood (The Conformist, The Spider’s Stratagem); a global “success de scandale” with Last Tango in Paris, which was still in the headlines half a century later, via #MeToo; a particularly 1970s

Panel on Transgenerational Trauma in Theatre and Performance (Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, April 4-6, 2024)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:52am
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

In Dark Matter (2013),  Andrew Sofer observes that “[s]taging trauma poses a representational conundrum because trauma confounds chronology and eludes comprehension” (118). Yet the theatre has long been a site for exploring the effects of collective trauma from genocide, slavery, war, environmental disaster, and forced displacement. Building on existing trauma studies scholarship and the work of psychologists such as Cathy Caruth and Judith Herman, whose research highlights trauma’s resistance to coherent, chronological narrative and simple representation, we are seeking papers for a special panel focusing on transgenerational trauma as it is expressed in dramatic literature and performance.

M. Butterfly at 35

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:52am
David Henry Hwang Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

 

 

M. Butterfly at 35

Sponsored Panel by the David Henry Hwang Society for the Comparative Drama Conference

2023 marks the 35th anniversary of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly.  We welcome  papers that engage with Hwang's Tony-winning play, the David Cronenberg 1993 film as well as the 2017 rewritten Broadway revival.   We also encourage discussion of various productions of either play.

From cottagecore to solarpunk: the new faces of the pastoral

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:52am
Théo Maligeay / Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Call for papers on the pastoral, cottagecore and solarpunk, regarding an upcoming 1-day symposium, organised by Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone (EMMA) in Montpellier, France (Université Paul Valéry). Date : November 17, 2023. 

 

Call for papers :

 

Call for Co-Editors - Journal of Contemporary Poetics

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:51am
International Islamic University, Islamabad
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Dear Scholars and Researchers,

We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to contribute to the advancement of scholarly discourse in the field of contemporary poetics. The Journal of Contemporary Poetics is seeking enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to join our esteemed editorial team as Co-Editors.

ACLA 2023 - Mediterranean Comparisons: Literature Beyond Borders

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:50am
C. Ceyhun Arslan / Koc Universitesi; Karim Mattar / University of Colorado at Boulder
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 28, 2023

The Mediterranean has often been considered a transitional space—a rite of passage, an interval between borders, a route to conquest.  But what of the Mediterranean as a context and a framework in itself?  How might notions of ‘man,’ ‘nation,’ ‘empire,’ ‘center,’ and ‘periphery’ be reformulated when looked at from the perspective of the sea? What does comparative literature look like when the Mediterranean is viewed not only as a sea in which cultures exist and literatures are produced but also as a context or a framework in which they can be reassessed?

Thomas Merton + Tranformations (CEA 3/21-3/23/2024)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:47am
College English Association + International Thomas Merton Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

International Thomas Merton Society

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College English Association

53rdTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

Westin Buckhead Atlanta

March 21-23,2024

Call for Papers

 

Trans Literatures

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:47am
College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

 

Trans LiteraturesA special issue of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies

 

Call for Proposals 

Co-edited by: Alex Brostoff (Kenyon College) & RL Goldberg (Princeton University, Prison Teaching Initiative)

 

Composition and Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2024

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:47am
CEA College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers: Composition and Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2024

March 21-23 Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Composition and Rhetoric: Practice for our 53rd annual conference.

The special topics chair for Composition & Rhetoric: Practice invites submissions on a range of topics exploring writing pedagogies and practices focused on the conference theme of Transformations. Proposals may address the following topics:

-       What are successful transformations of your curriculum that have supported student success in writing?

American Studies and American History

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:45am
Southwest Popular American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

American Studies and American History

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

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