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Call for Chapters: Colleges and Their Communities

updated: 
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 9:29am
Allison Hurst
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

This edited volume will explore myriad ways in which colleges/universities have worked with and against their communities, covering such issues as neighborhood gentrification, town-gown conflicts, innovation alliances, local food programs, and the existence (or lack of) access pipelines for local students. This project has been motivated by the recognition that, “From their founding, universities introduced class differences to cities in ways that only intensified as the institutions became key platforms for social and economic

Beat Studies at the 34th American Literature Association

updated: 
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 9:29am
Beat Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 27, 2023

The Beat Studies Association welcomes papers on any aspect of Beat writing, including centennial writers (Philip Whalen, Carolyn Cassidy, and Norman Mailer). Papers on the impact of Beat writers on subsequent writers and on the relevance of countercultural poetics to the current moment will also be welcome. Representations of writers and texts in televisual and cinematic media and ecocritical approaches are also possibilities. Send 100 word abstract, title, and a few lines identifying yourself to John Whalen-Bridge at ellwbj@nus.edu.sg.

Music and Language

updated: 
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 9:28am
University at Buffalo Music Graduate Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 15, 2023

The University at Buffalo Music Graduate Student Association (MuGSA) has announced a call for abstracts for its 2023 Research Symposium. The symposium topic is Music and Language. We invite any 300-word abstracts for papers that fall within this broad sphere of scholarship. Scholars from fields other than music are encouraged to participate in this interdisciplinary symposium.  

 

The deadline for abstract submission is Sunday, January 15th. We are anticipating notification of acceptance/rejection by no later than Sunday, February 5th. 

 

If you could circulate the attached poster amongst those in your department who may be interested, we would very much appreciate your help. 

The Sea in American Literature - ALA 2023 Boston

updated: 
Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 6:55pm
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

American Literature Association Annual Conference - Boston May 25-28, 2023

 
The Sea in American Literature

deadline for submissions: January 25, 2023

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites submissions for a panel on The Sea in American Literature. Potential subjects for this panel range from Melville and Richard Henry Dana to Stephen Crane, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Barry Lopez, and Jonathan Bayliss, but others will occur to you as well. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu by January 25, 2023. Please indicate if you have AV requirements.

Narrative Form in American Fiction - ALA 2023 Boston

updated: 
Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 6:55pm
Jonathan bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Jonathan Bayliss Society will sponsor a roundtable panel at the 34th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 25-28, 2023, at the Westin Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston.

Narrative Form in American Fiction

deadline for submissions: January 25, 2023

International Conference on EXILE

updated: 
Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 3:33pm
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

International Conference on "Exile" 

(Online and in-person)

2-4 May 2023 

Faculty of Arts and Humanities - Sousse, Tunisia 

Exile as a broad term denotes a force of (un)voluntary escape from one’s land to a foreign space, and it connotes a sense of estrangement and nostalgia. Exile in literature, culture studies and linguistics is more problematized, as it takes different forms and orientations. Indeed, Exile negotiates complex issues related to historical events that have marked human existence such as the Industrial Revolution, the two world wars etc…

 

Illinois Medieval Association March 10 Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 9:51am
Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will focus on medieval environments, with the term environment being liberally defined. We are now accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations for our March 10 session. Although we will consider proposals on any aspect of medieval studies, priority will be given to those dealing with medieval environments.

RSVP 2023 Conference: Currents in the Periodical Press

updated: 
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 6:45am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Currents in the Periodical Press (Deadline Extension)

2023 RSVP Conference
Caen, France, July 6-9, 2023 (with some hybrid & online options)

Creativecritical Writing Now

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:00pm
A Special Issue of TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 14, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: Creativecritical Writing Now 
A Special Issue of TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 

This Special Issue aims to explore forms of, and approaches to, creativecritical writing: writing which performs scholarly and creative functions simultaneously. Such blended approaches are no longer new—indeed, they are tracking distinct paths and uses in various contexts inside academia and beyond. As such, this Special Issue will take stock of the current nexus between the creative and the critical, as well as speculate on future conceptions of hybrid creative writing/scholarship.   

On Poe's Longer Works

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:00pm
Poe Studies Association (session at MLA Convention)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Call for Papers

MLA 2024 in Philadelphia

On Poe’s Longer Works

 

 

Poe’s theory of effect suggests that literary works should be readable in one sitting, but he published several pieces that are not. Organized and sponsored by the Poe Studies Association, this panel for the 2024 Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia will examine Poe’s longer works, including Eureka, Pym, Rodman, and others. (For example, are “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” really readable in one sitting? A very long one, perhaps.) We will consider proposals that offer new and engaging readings of any of these longer texts.

Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 9:59pm
TTT
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Open call for proposals to TTT2023 Malta
Interdisciplinary Conference Taboo – Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science
27-29 September 2023, Malta Society of Arts, Valletta
Call for papers, posters, artworks and artist-talks open until 31 January 2023

LONDON CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 9:59pm
LONDON CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 13, 2022

School of Social Sciences and Professions, London Metropolitan University

LONDON CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2023

June 30th and July 1st, 2023

Call for Presentations – deadline March 13th, 2022

The Call for Presentations is now open for the 10th annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT), hosted and supported by the School of Social Sciences and Professions at London Metropolitan University. This will be an IN-PERSON conference, occurring at the Holloway Road (North) campus of London Metropolitan University.

DANCE BETWEEN NOW-NESS AND FUTURE

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 9:58pm
International Association of Theatre Critics
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

 

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques is available online to the reader without financial, legal or technical barriers. Ιt is a a biannual (June/December) peer-reviewed journal fully committed to the Open Access Initiative. It offers a platform for debate and exploration of a wide range of theatre and performance art manifestations from all over the world.

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques is indexed by SCOPUS, DOAJ, MIAR, ERIH Plus, DRJI, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, and listed in the ULRICH’s web Global Serials.

Call for Papers

Special Issue #29 (June 2024)

Serial, True Crime, and Podcasting’s “Golden Age”

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 2:09pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 20, 2023

 

 

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents

 

Serial, True Crime, and Podcasting’s “Golden Age”

 

Friday, January 20, 2023, Noon–1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom

 

 (Replace) Register here.

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yp7JVVcrR_6cwJknwhZNgg

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email

British Women Writers Conference: Liberties

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 11:39am
British Women Writers Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

The organizers of the 2023 BWWC invite papers and panel proposals interpreting the theme of ‘Liberties’ in global and transatlantic British women’s writing from the long eighteenth century to the present. We ask participants to consider ‘liberties’ not only as a political abstraction but also as part of material and experiential subjectivity. Interpreted broadly, liberties include (but are not limited to) legal rights and freedoms, liberty of the person and bodily autonomy, liberties of creative and artistic expression, liberty of profession and vocation, freedom of movement both physical and social, and self-determination in the private and public spheres.

Envisioning Queer Black and Indigenous Self-Representations within the Digital Literary Sphere

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:59am
AmLit Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 30, 2023

In their book on Queer Indigenous Studies (2011), Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finely, Brian Joseph Gilley and Scott Lauria Morgensen ask: “What does a queer decolonization of our homelands, bodies and psyches look like?” (219). Their question is critical when understanding the complex realities of Indigenous and Black queer individuals in the settler-colonial states of both Canada and the US, as well as in the central and southern states of “Latin” America. The queer Indigenous and Black body – especially when it is trans* or gender nonconforming – is often the site of violence and misrepresentation, yet it is also a site of destabilization and decolonization when reimagined and reified in digital media and literary forms.

Media, American Culture, and Global Perspective: Images, Ideas, and Illusion

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:38am
Croatian Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

 

Call for Papers

Media, American Culture, and Global Perspective: Images, Ideas, and Illusion

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia

March 31, 2023

Deadline for submission: January 20, 2023

 

(E)motion in Changing Worlds

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 6:31am
The Department of English Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

 (E)motion in Changing Worlds

Thessaloniki, Greece, 3-5 November 2023

Call for Papers

The Department of English Literature of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE), invite scholars to (re)submit proposals for the international conference E-motion in Changing Worlds to be held in Thessaloniki, 3-5 November 2023.

 

Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2023 - 1:53pm
Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory at the University of Oregon
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 30, 2023

Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism is a two-day, interdisciplinary conference on the topic of critical feminist approaches to the coloniality of gender that will be held at the University of Oregon on May 12th - 13th, 2023.

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: August Wilson @ ALA 2023 in Boston

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2023 - 1:12pm
J. Ken Stuckey / August Wilson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The August Wilson

Author Society

of the

American Literature Association

announces its

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

for the

34th Annual ALA Conference

May 25-28, 2023

 

The Westin Copley Place

10 Huntington Avenue

Centering Blackness in Fan Studies **DEADLINE EXTENDED**

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2023 - 10:02am
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

This special issue centers Blackness in fandom studies. Fandom studies has gestured toward race generally, and Blackness in particular, from its alleged white center while always keeping race at its margin. It has largely co-opted the language of race, difference, and diversity from the margins and recentered it around white geeks and white women. Indeed, fandom studies has done lots of things—except deal with its race problem. But as Toni Morrison (1975) asserts, that is the work of racism: it keeps those at the margins busy, trying to prove that they deserve a seat at the center table.

Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition: (Non)Normative Identities, Forms, and Writings

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2023 - 8:51am
Alessandro Cabiati / Brown University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

 

Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition: (Non)Normative Identities, Forms, and Writings  

 

Brown University, 7-9 June 2023 

Conference Organisers: Alessandro Cabiati (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Brown University) and Lewis Seifert (Brown University)

 

Keynote Speakers

Maria Tatar (Harvard University)

Anne E. Duggan (Wayne State University)

Laura Tosi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

Global Complicities

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2023 - 4:08am
Technische Universität Dresden
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Complicity rhetoric is frequently adopted in public and political discourse. For example, Joe Biden has repeatedly used the formulation ‘silence is complicity’ as a call for the defence of human rights. Yet, in an ever more interconnected and globalised world, identifying and tracing the often complex relationships of cause and effect that comprise complicity is more and more difficult. The notion of collective complicity seems to be increasingly applicable to phenomena that define the contemporary world, such as the effects of global capitalism and the climate emergency (and has been elaborated, for example, by Christopher Kutz in Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age (2000)).

Visionary Fictions: Literature and Politics in Public (ASA 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, January 15, 2023 - 3:52pm
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 20, 2023

“Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism,” writes Walidah Imarisha, “we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction.” This panel seeks to bring together critics probing historical, present, and possible future relationships between speculative fiction and social justice. The emergent concept of “visionary fiction,” developed by Imarisha and adrienne maree brown, articulates radical and generative connections between speculation and social movement work.

General Call for Papers - Volume 6 Issue 2 Winter Issue

updated: 
Sunday, January 15, 2023 - 12:23pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

George Saunders Society, ALA, Boston, MA, May 25-28, 2023

updated: 
Friday, January 13, 2023 - 3:27pm
George Saunders Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 13, 2023

The George Saunders Society invites prospective participants for one or two panels at the 2023 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, to be held May 25 to 28, 2023. We are interested in presentations on any aspect of George Saunders’s life and work; in this, our fourth year of activity at ALA, we are particularly interested in papers that challenge, complicate, or go beyond the most common (particularly religious, ethical, or new sincericist) readings of the author’s work in the critical literature to this point. The topic is therefore open, but possible approaches might include:

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