About the prize

The editors of English: the Journal of the English Association are pleased to invite submissions to the journal’s annual essay competition exclusive to postgraduates. The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches. We are looking for essays that provide new perspectives on canonical and/or non-canonical Anglophone literatures, and therefore welcome submissions that focus on single authors/texts or a range, and which develop original arguments beyond simple close reading, while engaging with recent scholarship in relevant fields.

Call for Papers: Preserving, Producing, and Circulating Cultures, Arts and Languages of Hong Kong, 13-14 June 2024, University of Sheffield

With the migration of numerous Hong Kong scholars and artists, there is a pressing need to discuss and dissect the global dynamics of Hong Kong cultures and arts, and their salient impact on local and diasporic communities.

This workshop seeks to shed light on the intricate interplay of Hong Kong's rich cultural and artistic tapestry. We are particularly interested in explorations around the following potential themes within the fields of arts and humanities:

REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, ISSN: 2695-4168) is an open access interdisciplinary, academic, double blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on the study of the US popular culture manifestations and the representations of the United States in popular culture.

Book reviews must refer to monographs and edited volumes focused on topics fitting with the journal's scope, published in the past three years (or less recent books if put in perspective critically). The length for reviews is ca. 1000–1500 words.

Gender-based violence is a worldwide issue with an extended past that is predominantly an outcome of social norms and power disparities. In countries as different as Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, studies find that violence is frequently viewed as physical chastisement—the husband’s right to ‘correct’ an erring wife (Heise 1999). Unfortunately, it is one of many societal concerns that literature has long addressed. According to the analysis of a report by CARE and International Rescue, gender-based violence has arisen amid the pandemic and quarantines (Haneef and Kalyanpur 2020).

After Words: Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities

School of English Postgraduate Conference

Trinity College Dublin – Trinity Long Room Hub

Online and-person and event
9th February 2024

Organizers: Ginevra Bianchini and Elena Valli, PhD Researchers TCD English

The way violence is represented always influences its reception and integration within the cultural imaginary. The narration of violence is ingrained in our perception of ourselves and our communities, and those who report traumatic events then carry the responsibility of how they are received and memorialised.

New Research and Perspectives on Pauline E. Hopkins: “In the West” and Elsewhere

Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature

Date: May 24th and 25th 2024

Call for Papers | Divergence: Departures from the Canon

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection 
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci

This edited volume on the works of Jon Favreau will be the fourth book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on films and television series created or produced by Favreau. Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers, and will be due Summer/Fall 2024.  

MIND MATTERS: LITERATURE, CINEMA AND CULTURE

International Conference
organised by
Department of English
Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE)
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

Conference Dates: 19-20 January, 2024 (OFFLINE mode)
Venue: Rabindra Bhavan, Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
(Address: EE 9 & 10, Sector II, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700 091)

Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks submissions about translation and haiku in the following three categories:

1. Full-length academic articles: 2,500-10,000 words; any focus on translation and haiku including theoretical approaches, historical overviews, specific challenges, etc. is welcome. Articles should be thesis-driven and situated their claims within the context of existing scholarship about the topic.

2. Personal approaches to translation: 500-1,000 words; for established translators; may focus any aspect of one’s own approach to translating haiku in general or the work of a specific haiku poet or poets; may include discussions of mentors and influences on one’s approach.

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL 

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism 

The William Dean Howells Society invites proposals for presentations that examine William Dean Howells’ contribution to American Literary Realism and his enduring influence on subsequent literary and cultural developments.

Potential approaches include but are not limited to:

Howells and American Literary Realism – Authors could examine Howells’ role in shaping and defining American Literary Realism, offering comparative analyses of his works with those of other realist writers.

The Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.