We are now accepting proposals for the upcoming Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, “Create, Connect, Reflect: Launching Collaborations and (Re)building Community in Our Fields,” which will be held on Zoom from February 28-March 1 and in-person at the University of Louisville from March 7-9, 2024.

A brief summary of what we are planning is below; for more details and the exigence, please see our call for proposals. Project proposals are due on Sunday, November 26 at 11:59 pm EST.

https://louisville.edu/conference/watson/2024-watson-conference

What We are Planning, In Brief:

SHAW 46.1 (June 2026): SHAW AND IRELAND

The historical period of 1650-1800 includes massive historical transformations with particular purchase for the history of gender, yet this period has only begun to attract substantial attention from scholars of trans studies. This volume seeks to gather work that engages rigorously with trans studies methodologies while deepening the field’s engagement with historical periods and materials across regions, languages, and disciplines.

You're invited to apply for the WIS Symposium: Dear colleagues, We hope you will join us for another WIS! Specifically, Writing Human/s, the 6th annual Writing Innovation Symposium, is slated for February 1-2, 2024. Proposals for flashtalks, workshops, posters, and displays are due 10/27; proposals for flares, an undergrad-only program category, are due 12/15; applications for this year’s Bedford/St. Martin’s WIS Fellows cohort is due 12/1. Notifications will begin in early November, and registration will open in December. We want to call special attention to the 3-minute pre-recorded “flares” we are inviting undergrads to share.

WANT TO PUBLISH YOUR SCHOLARLY WORK?

• The Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (JURH) is looking for excellent undergraduate essays!

WHAT IS JURH?

The Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.

 New Directions in Brut Studies

Saturday, October 14, 2023, 10AM- 12PM, Hybrid:

In Person at Seton Hall University, Fahy Hall, rm. 129

Virtual in Zoom 

Please join us for the NJCEA annual Fall Roundtable. There will be two topics of discussion, both of which will inform our spring conference. 

“Facing the Challenges of Generative AI” 

How are you and your institution addressing the challenges being raised by generative AI, including ethical considerations and policies? How are you handling the use of generative AI in your classes, if at all? 

"How Can Literature, Writing, And Language Programs Survive and Even Thrive in These Challenging Times?" 

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2024

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment 

Critical theory has questioned the conceptual limits of ideas like the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and supremacy of human animals over nature. Ongoing global crises, such as climate change, divergent levels of modernization, and the search for bold and expedient solutions to accelerating environmental crises urge new frameworks to analyze an interdependent world.

The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2024 biennial conference in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, at the stunning fifteenth-century Villa Cà Erizzo Luca, where Dos Passos was stationed as an American Red Cross ambulance driver in the winter of 1918.

RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (https://www.aisna.net/journal/, currently transitioning to OJS), is seeking Special Section proposals for its #35 issue (publication date: September 2024). The Special Section revolves around one "leading edge" topic/concept in the field of American Studies and typically includes 6 journal-length essays by established as well as early career scholars.

CALL FOR PAPERS

January 13, 2024. An International Online Conference on Literature, Culture and Foreign Languages

You want to test your presentation skills in a culturally diverse (and accepting) environment, and You can present in English, or You simply want to listen to presentations from the comfort of your home, and connect with people on these subjects from all around the world, If you are interested in 19th, 20th Century and Contemporary Literature or Language and Culture, or if: THIS CONFERENCE IS FOR YOU!

Greetings from California State University, San Bernardino. As the editor of the digital edition of the Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature (Facts on File), I'm inviting scholars to contribute essays of approximately 1500-2000 words to this contracted and peer reviewed volume. The volume is scheduled to be published digitally in 2024/2025.  Deadline for proposals is 11/1/23.

Ways to contribute:
1) Research, write and submit for peer review one of the essay topics listed, a biography.
AND/OR
2) Serve as a peer reviewer–reviewers should have expertise/publishing/teaching/editing record in the field of Spanish American and or Latino literature. Each reviewer will read about 50-100 pages.