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Transatlantic Literary Networks 1949-1972 TRANSLATION, MODERNITY, AND CULTURAL TRANSFER BETWEEN ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 5:07pm
Università del Piemonte Orientale
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Università del Piemonte Orientale (Vercelli, Italy) invites paper proposals for a conference exploring the routes and branches of literary and cultural exchanges from Italy to the United States in the years 1945-1975. The conference is the third in a series of events taking place within the framework of the transdisciplinary research project Transatlantic Transfers: the Italian presence in Postwar America 1949-1972 (PRIN 2017, 2020-23) developed in partnership with Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, and Università di Scien-ze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo. 

The 39th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning: Innovations Across Boundaries in English Language and Literature Education

updated: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 3:08am
Department of English Language & Literature, Fu Jen Catholic University (R. O. C, TAIWAN))
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 14, 2022

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The 39th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning
English Teaching and Research Association 2022 Annual Conference

Conference Theme:
Innovations Across Boundaries in English Language and Literature Education

 Date: July 15-16, 2022
Venue: Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

http://english.fju.edu.tw/etra2022fju/

Abstract submission deadline extended to February 14, 2022

MLA 2023: Histories of Childhood and Medicine

updated: 
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 11:57am
Mary Gryctko / Northeastern University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

This panel investigates the centrality of childhood to the rapidly changing medical and scientific landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an era that saw the development of Darwin’s theories of evolution, the rise of wide-spread support within the scientific community for eugenics, and the medicalization of birth, of neurodivergence, and of gender and sex. Papers will interrogate how various scientific/medical discourses used actual children as subjects, and how these discourses relied on the imagined figure of the child to bolster scientific claims around “naturalness,” plasticity, race, and gender, and to justify invasive medical practices performed on both children and adults.

A Critical Companion to David Fincher

updated: 
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 9:26am
Francis Mickus/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

Deadline extension

[UPDATE] Studia austriaca - Deadline: 31st March of each year

updated: 
Monday, January 24, 2022 - 10:03am
Studia austriaca - An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature - http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

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

TWC: Chinese Fandoms **DEADLINE EXTENDED**

updated: 
Sunday, January 23, 2022 - 12:11pm
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

Chinese Fandoms

Chinese fandoms are a growing area of interest attracting attention from groups as diverse as academia, industry, and even government. Although the foci of these groups vary, at the core are questions related to the function, organization, interests, and activities of fan groups. As Chinese media and entertainment industries mature and transnational collaborations increase, content and celebrity figures both inside and outside the Chinese context are increasingly distributed, consumed, and implicated in the formation (or extension) of fan communities.

Deadline Extended: E. E. Cummings Sessions at the American Literature Association’s 33rd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 26-29, 2022

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 9:06pm
E. E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 28, 2022

The E. E. Cummings Society invites proposals for two panels at the American Literature Association conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago on May 26-29, 2022.

Panel 1: Cummings and Transcendence

In 1960, Norman Friedman declared that Cummings’ “philosophy of life” was “transcendental, romantic, prelapsarian, organicist, and individualistic. The same is publicly available in the writings of many others, such as Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson” (Art 66). We seek papers examining, critiquing, clarifying, or complicating these assertions through a close reading of any Cummings work(s).

Deadline Extended: Two Vonnegut Panels at ALA 2022 in Chicago

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 2:36pm
Kurt Vonnegut Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 28, 2022

American Literature Association Annual Conference

May 26-29, 2022

Chicago, IL

The Kurt Vonnegut Society will sponsor two panels at the upcoming ALA Conference:

Vonnegut on Film
Robert Weide’s documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time was released in theaters
on November 19, 2021, following a Kickstarter campaign and much anticipation from
Vonnegut fans and scholars alike. Weide’s work is the first full-length documentary film
addressing the author’s life and works. This session invites responses to the
documentary and to “Vonnegut on Film” more broadly.

Gender Justice: Women’s Rights and Equity Call for Chapters

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 9:47am
Harvard University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 7, 2022

The book provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy worldwide; it also examines women’s political representation and participation in peace processes in the context of their community, emphasizing existing cultural norms with biases, questioning societal prejudices toward women, for example, in STEM and creative economies. The volume covers several domains presenting a wide range of important issues that demonstrate gender inequality, discussing a wide range of cultural and geographical realities.

Final Reminder: First Book Institute Applications Due by 2/14 (Hard Deadline)

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 9:04am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 14, 2022

Announcing

The 2022 First Book Institute

June 12-18, 2022

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Call for book proposals: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 9:00am
Katarzyna Lecky, Loyola Chicago / UW-Madison
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures

A Bucknell University Press Series 

 

Aperçus is a series of books exploring the connections among historiography, culture, and textual representation in various disciplines. Revisionist in intention, Aperçus seeks monographs as well as guest-edited multi-authored volumes, which stage critical interventions to open up new possibilities for interrogating how systems of knowledge production operate at the intersections of individual and collective thought. 

"Beloved Community" Virtual Graduate Conference at UC San Diego

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 9:00am
UC San Diego Literature Department Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Call for PapersUCSD Literature Department 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference  

University of California, San Diego 
Remote, April 29th-30th, 2022
Beloved Community

Shadow Screens: Unmade, Unseen, Unreleased Film and Television

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:59am
James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University) / Kieran Foster (University of Nottingham)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 31, 2022

We’d like to remind you of the upcoming conference abstracts deadline of 31 January for the conference “Shadow Screens: Unmade, Unseen, Unreleased Film and Television”.

Death, Dying and Diseases: Critical Reflections

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:59am
Department of English, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 28, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Jadavpur University Essays and Studies (JUES) Vol. 36 (Themed Issue)

                                            Editors: Dr. Rafat Ali

                                                                Dr. Doyeeta Majumder

 

Death, Dying and Diseases: Critical Reflections

 

Call For Papers International Conference: The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:59am
CAPIRE Research Group
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Conference dates: March 2-4th, 2022

CFP deadline: 1st february

Place: Madrid (Spain)

Organised by: Medieval Colors Network. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (CAPIRE Research Group), Freie Universität Berlin, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Università di Bologna, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne y Helsingin Yliopisto.

Extended Deadline: January 31 - CFP Interactive Film and Media Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:59am
IFM Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 31, 2022

CFP #IFM2022 Virtual Conference

Extended Deadline - January 31st, 2022

Hosted by Ryerson University (Canada), The University of Texas at Dallas (USA), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Leeds Trinity University (UK), and the University of Bayreuth (Germany)

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Judith Aston, Associate Professor and Wallscourt Fellow in Film &Digital Arts, the University of the West of England, Bristol (United Kingdom) 

 

Current Research in Speculative Fiction CFP 2022

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:59am
CRSF, University of Liverpool
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2022

11th Annual Conference

30th June – 1st July 2022, University of Liverpool - https://crsfhome.home.blog/

 

“Always treat language like a dangerous toy.” (Ansel Hollo)

KEYNOTES:

Dr. Christy Tidwell (South Dakota School of Mine & Technology) Dr. Jalondra A Davies (Writer and Scholar)

WORKSHOP: Sell Your Stories: Writing and Submitting SFF Short Fiction.

IMPOST: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:59am
English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 4, 2022

Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work

deadline for submissions: 

4 April 2022

full name / name of organization: 

English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities

contact information: astuart@bloomu.edu

Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work, a peer-reviewed journal published by the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, welcomes submissions of creative writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short dramatic pieces, and literary journalism), as well as scholarly essays in all fields of English studies.

Constructing Fantastical Worlds from Antiquity to the Present

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:58am
University of Amsterdam
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Constructing Fantastical Worlds: from Antiquity to the Present

University of Amsterdam, Thursday 30th June– Friday 1st July 2022

Keynote Speakers: Dr Benjamin Stevens (Trinity University) and Dr Rutger Allan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 

This interdisciplinary two-day workshop is devoted to the construction of fantastical worlds across various narrative media from antiquity to the present. 

CFA: Women's Writing from 1900-1920

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:54am
Falmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

Special issue of Women’s Writing (Taylor & Francis)

 ‘Women’s Writing from 1900–1920’

Guest Edited by Meredith Miller and Joanne Ella Parsons

 

Crones, Crime, and the Gothic

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:54am
Falmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

 

Crones, Crime, and the Gothic

 

In-person Conference

 

Falmouth University UK, 10-11 June 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Older women have traditionally been portrayed negatively in folklore, fairy tales, literature and film, for example. Images of witches, evil stepmothers, shrivelled, bitter 'spinsters', and vindictive, bullying women abusing positions of power are rife in Western culture. Yet,

 

perhaps things are changing. A new emphasis on the need to discuss and understand the

 

THEATRE ANNUAL 2022 Call for Articles

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:54am
Theatre Annual
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Due to a number of requests and a heck of a hectic beginning to 2022, we have extended the deadline for article submissions for Theatre Annual 2022. We welcome articles on theatre and performance of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands, from diverse fields such as theatre studies, performance studies, popular culture, music, anthropology, dance, communication, philosophy, folklore, history, and areas of interest that cross disciplinary lines. We especially encourage submissions from graduate students and early career scholars. Please do not hesitate to contact TA editor Ann Folino White whitea38@msu.edu with any questions regarding your submission.

Suspirias: Covering Trauma, Memory and the Body

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:54am
Queen Mary University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 7, 2022

Suspirias: Covering Trauma, Memory and the Body


Queen Mary, University of London, 11th June 2022
Co-organisers: Archie Wolfman and Alice Pember

This symposium considers Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo horror Suspiria alongside Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 film of the same name.

 

Call for Contributions to The James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal Special Issues: Celebrating the Two Hundredth Anniversaries of The Pioneers and The Pilot

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:52am
The James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

The James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal is the official publication of the James Fenimore Cooper Society. Published twice a year, it promotes the study of the life and works of James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). The Cooper Society draws its membership from scholars and enthusiasts from about a dozen countries.

 

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