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Classics Illustrated: Adaptation and Appropriation in the Comics and Other Graphic Narratives

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 2:30pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twenty-first Century
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

CFP: Classics Illustrated: Adaptation and Appropriation in the Comics and Other Graphic Narratives

 

A collection organized to further the goals of Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twenty-first Century, a joint outreach effort of the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture. (More information at https://accessing-comics-in-the-21st-century.blogspot.com/.)

 

Organizers: Nick Katsiadas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Carl Sell, Lock Haven University; and Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

CFP Fair Unknowns: Extending the Corpus of Arthurian Texts

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 2:30pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

CFP Fair Unknowns: Extending the Corpus of Arthurian Texts

 

Sponsored by the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain

 

Collection edited by Carl Sell, Lock Haven University, and Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar.

 

Proposals due by 1 June 2022

 

 

Southwest Humanities Graduate Student Symposium

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 2:30pm
Arizona State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 18, 2022

What: CFP for ASU Graduate Student Southwest Humanities Symposium 

When: April 9 & 10, 2022

Where: Zoom (this is a virtual conference)

 

UPDATE: DFW 2022 - David Foster Wallace - Austin, TX - June 2-4, 2022

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 2:29pm
International David Foster Wallace Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 28, 2022

UPDATE:  EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 28, 2022

The International David Foster Wallace Society invites you to attend DFW 2022 in Austin, Texas. Special events at the Harry Ransom Center (home to Wallace’s archive), social events, and other presentations will be included, in addition to a wide variety of panels of Wallace criticism and commentary. 

Panels will be held at the University of Texas Glickman Conference Center. The keynote address by Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan will be held at Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall on Thursday, June 2. The keynote, sponsored by the Harry Ransom Center, is free and open to the public.

Willa Cather's Letters/Willa Cather and Letters

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 2:29pm
Melissa Homestead/University of Nebraska-Lincoln
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Call for Papers: Willa Cather’s Letters/Willa Cather and Letters

As the Complete Letters of Willa Cather is nearing completion, Cather's letters are available and accessible to scholars and researchers in an unprecedented way. To mark this moment in Cather scholarship, Cather Studies will devote a volume to essays that engage with Cather's letters in new and deeper ways that may have been previously unavailable to scholars. Melissa J. Homestead, editor of Cather Studies and co-editor of the Complete Letters, will edit the volume.

A variety of approaches and topics are welcome, and essays may focus exclusively on Cather or Cather in relation to other figures.

Animal(ity) in Southern Literature (In-Person Panel)

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 2:29pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

This traditional session welcomes submissions on any representation of nonhuman animals or animality in southern literature from the last century. With the development of posthumanism and human-animal studies over the last few decades, nonhuman animals in literature invite readers to no longer consider them as only symbols of human experience, but instead as literary agents of cultural change for both human and nonhuman worlds. Particularly, this panel seeks to explore how those nonhuman animals are active in southern literature. Panelists may be interested in examining nonhuman animals or animality in a single southern text, a southern author’s oeuvre, or an entire southern genre.

Special Issue of Shakespeare journal: Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 2:18pm
Subhankar Bhattacharya (Cambridge), Thea Buckley (Queen's U Belfast) and Rosa García-Periago (U Murcia)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 25, 2022

A Special Issue of Shakespeare:

Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema

Edited by Subhankar Bhattacharya, Thea Buckley, and Rosa García-Periago

MMLA 2022: “Art and Politics: Pinter and the Nobel”

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 2:16pm
International Harold Pinter Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

The International Harold Pinter Society

MMLA CFP 2022

“Art and Politics: Pinter and the Nobel”  

The Ecology of the Community College Classroom

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 12:55pm
MLA HEP Community College Executive Committee Forum Session
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 21, 2022

We are currently looking for presenters for the MLA 2023 HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Forum. This is a guaranteed session set for the convention in San Francisco, on January 5-8, 2023. If you are interested, please see the detailed call description below and the shortened call posted on the MLA site below it.

CFP for MLA 2023: The Ecology of the Community College Classroom

Call for Presentations, Papers, Performances, Panels

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 12:53pm
Breakin' BLACK Reachin' Back
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 27, 2022

CUNY Graduate Center English Student Association Conference (virtual/online)

Friday, April 29 & Saturday, April 30, 2022

CFP EXTENSION to 03/27/2022

 

Breakin’ BLACK Reachin’ Back is an experiential conversation engaging with Black intellectual, political and creative concepts through the primary disciplinary nodes of Black studies, Hip Hop and DJ scholarship. This virtual two day gathering centers practitioners as theorists, interdisciplinarity and public humanities through roundtable panel conversations, keynote presentations including musical and dance performances followed by discussion/Q&A, and breakout sessions. 

EXTENDED: REVEALING POSTHUMAN ENCOUNTERS IN PERFORMANCE

updated: 
Monday, March 14, 2022 - 9:47am
Stefano Boselli and Sarah Lucie
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

EXTENDED: Call for Chapter Proposals

REVEALING POSTHUMAN ENCOUNTERS IN PERFORMANCE

Edited by Stefano Boselli and Sarah Lucie

to be published by Routledge

Extended Deadline for abstract proposals: April 15, 2022

Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance is an intervention to reframe current theatre studies methodologies to attend to the broader spectrum of non-human actors and the crucial ways they exert agency in the theatre event. 

Call for Chapter Proposals for Edited Collection -- Retreating to the (Modern) Past: Vintage and Cottagecore Lifestyles in the Digital Era

updated: 
Sunday, March 13, 2022 - 10:36pm
Clare Douglass Little
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Modern life has become defined in many ways by our digital experiences, and it is in this technological environment that a retreat to an idealized version of the past has been increasingly realized and depicted through social media. The distinctive aesthetics of cottagecore, dark and light academia, and vintage movements represent creative cross sections through which individuals blend pop culture, literature, fantasy, art, and lifestyle elements in an often fantastical, romanticized, or idealized version of the past—one inherently informed by and expressed through a modern, digital present.

MLA 2023: Temporal Turns

updated: 
Sunday, March 13, 2022 - 10:19pm
MLA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

What is time? Why and how have questions surrounding temporality become central to queer and Black studies in recent times? What is the (non)relation between queer temporality and Black time? Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio to mstekl@stanford.edu and jennyme@stanford.edu. The MLA 2023 conference will take place in San Francisco, CA, from January 5-8 2023. 

UPDATE CFP: Teaching Chicana/Latina Literature, including Jovita Gonzalez’ Caballero, Anzaldua, Cisneros, Moraga, Castillo & Borderlands narrative

updated: 
Saturday, March 12, 2022 - 10:29am
Dr. Kim Wells, San Antonio College
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Final update: Panel complete. Please email kwells37@alamo.edu for the Zoom room ID if you'd like to join informally. 

 

Call For Papers: Teaching Jovita Gonzalez’ Caballero, Feminist Radical Domesticity, and Memory as Borderlands and Transformation

UPDATE: Papers on Cisneros, Moraga, Anzaldua: Mexican American studies feminist texts also highly encouraged. We wish to center student approaches to Mexican American studies of feminist/borderlands texts of all kinds as part of a conversation around Cabellero, but welcome other texts as well. 

Violence and Autonomy: Indigenizing Speculative Fiction (PAMLA 2022)

updated: 
Friday, March 11, 2022 - 11:40am
Carlos Tkacz / University of Nevada, Las Vegas
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Speculative fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate not totally free of the specter of history but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. If the weight of history has and does manifest itself in violence, both physical and otherwise, then the question of autonomy is central, for violence is perhaps the most basic violation of the individual and the communal.

The Review of English and American Literature

updated: 
Thursday, March 10, 2022 - 10:12pm
The English and American Literature Association (EALA), Taiwan
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

The Review of English and American Literature

 

Call for Papers

 


 

Sylvia Wynter’s “No Humans Involved”: Towards the Rewriting of Knowledge and Undoing Truths

updated: 
Thursday, March 10, 2022 - 4:46pm
MLA 2023 Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 18, 2022

This panel considers Wynter’s letter as a call to challenge present truths of biocentrism, classifications of humanness, and the condemnation of “the speech of the street” to cultivate new modes of knowing/feeling. 250 word abstract. Contact: Amari Mitchell (amari.mitchell@rutgers.edu) or Diana Molina (diana.molina@rutgers.edu). 

  • If you are invited to participate in a 2023 session, you must be an MLA member by 7 April 2022. 

  • All session participants must register for the convention.

Topics may include but not limited to:

11th Annual Undergraduate and Graduate Spanish Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, March 10, 2022 - 6:19am
Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 18, 2022

Deadline for Submissions: April 18th

 

A call for paper presentation on any aspect of Spanish (literature, film, civilization, linguistics, pedagogy, etc.). Priority is given to presentations in Spanish, though papers in English will be accepted too.

Keywords: Spanish, Literature, Spanish Pedagogy, Linguistics, Spanish Culture

Important Dates: to be held, Via Zoom, on April 29th, 2022

Email abstracts to: simposio@slu.edu

 

MLA 2023: Comedy, Capitalism, and Hope

updated: 
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 2:49pm
American Humor Studies Association and the Screen Arts and Culture Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

How can critical comedy studies of popular and/or experimental media help us revive political theories of hope amid material conditions characterized by climate apocalypse, obscene inequality, and rising authoritarianism? We invite a range of approaches.

Please send 250-word abstracts and a brief bio to Sam Chesters at samantha.chesters@gmail.com and Maggie Hennefeld at mhennefe@umn.edu.

"Future Of Migration"

updated: 
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 11:38am
Batman University International Migration Symposium 2022
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

CALL FOR PAPER

Dear Scholars,

 

The effects of international migration, which has increased in the last century, on the change and transformation of social structures have also increased the interest in the phenomenon of migration. Integration, citizenship and repatriation are frequently discussed, especially in recent years, on the migrations from Syria and Afghanistan. The discussion is carried out on the following questions:

 

EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE: Reimagining Rebecca: a symposium on du Maurier’s novel & its legacy

updated: 
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 6:23am
Amelia Crowther & Katharina Hendrickx; University of Sussex
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 18, 2022

Call for Papers: Reimagining Rebecca: a symposium on du Maurier’s novel & its legacy

A symposium at the University of Sussex on 27th May 2022

Deadline for abstract submissions: 7th March 2022

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION EXTENDED: 18th March 2022

 

 

Roundtable on Teaching Literature Online

updated: 
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 7:03pm
Modern Language Association Conference 2023, San Francisco, CA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

 Soliciting participants in a roundtable reflecting on the opportunities and challenges of teaching literature online. The discussion will focus on topics such as teaching close reading, fostering community, and asynchronous discussion and synchronous online meeting tools. Please submit a brief description of experiences and innovations in teaching literature online in synchronous and/or asynchronous modalities. Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, 1/5/23 - 1/8/23

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15 March 2022

Julie Wilhelm, National University (jwilhelm@nu.edu )

Jewish Los Angeles (PAMLA Panel) - Nov. 11-13, 2022

updated: 
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 7:03pm
Jana Schmidt / German Historical Institute DC
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Jewish Los Angeles "Jewish Literature and Culture" panel at the Pacific Modern Languages AssociationNovember 11-13, 2022 From Boyle Heights to Hollywood, and from Santa Monica to the Valley, Los Angeles has been a site for fantastic projections, colonial encounters, and organized struggles for Jews “moving West” since the late 19th century. This panel explores how L.A. as the other “promised land” is figured in the writings, films, artworks, and music of Jewish Californians and immigrants.  From its settlement as a supposedly empty “virgin territory” to its more recent description as a city that has no memory of itself, Los Angeles is often stylized as a place without identity, history, or borders (Baudrillard, Mike Davis, Thom Andersen, Vanessa Place).

Society for Utopian Studies Conference: "make, unmake, remake"

updated: 
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 7:02pm
Society for Utopian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 22, 2022

"make, unmake, remake"

November 9th-13th, 2022
Society for Utopian Studies
Embassy Suites Charleston Historic District
Charleston, SC
#SUS2022

We invite creative and scholarly responses to our conference theme--"make, unmake, remake"-- with a particular interest in panels that offer interdisciplinary approaches to shared questions in utopian studies, including those that speak to post-pandemic life and renewal. Topics might include:

--"tinkering towards utopia" vs. large scale utopian plans

--arts and crafts, "craftivism," and sustainability

--reparations for slavery and other historical atrocities

--utopian labor; labor in dystopian times

Genres Against Markets

updated: 
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 7:02pm
FU Berlin/RiVAL
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 11, 2022

This week-long workshop will bring together both critical and creative writers to support one another in the development of new written work across a wide range of “popular” genres, forms and approaches. “Genres Against the Market” aims to foster a temporary community to encourage radical writers to explore new methods for reaching unconventional audiences toward a critique of economic limitation and possibility. Leaving aside the familiar form of the conventional academic essay and monograph, we aim to host a gathering to explore how radical ideas that challenge reigning forms of social and economic power can be expressed and broadcast using “popular” formats of writing.  

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