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“Hawthorne and Food: A Tasty Affair”
CFP for the American Literature Association Conference, May, 2025 in Boston
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film
“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series
-CFP CLOSED-
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
Editors’ Introduction
Call for papers
Frauds & Fakes in Words and Music
University of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025
REVISED DEADLINE: Special Issue of Surveillance & Society on Literature and Surveillance now accepting submissions until 12 January 2025.
Call for Papers: Surveillance and Literature
Special Issue of Surveillance & Society
Edited by Steph Brown, University of Arizona
Submission deadline: January 12, 2025 for publication September 2025
This special issue asks: what does literature, and the study of literature, offer our shared understanding of surveillance? And what can literature tell us about surveillance and its entanglement with the arts?
ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture
This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that explore the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.
Call for Papers update
International Conference
Neobaroque and/in the Contemporary World
University of Wrocław, Poland 08-09 May 2025
https://neobaroque.now.2025.uwr.edu.pl
***Extended Deadline***
Nothing on Leila (1997) please!!!
ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.
Topics of Interest
CFP Convalescence in 19th- and 20th-century anglophone literature
26-27 June 2025, CRINI, Nantes Université & Daulat Ram College, Delhi University
Organisers: Leslie de Bont, Aude Petit-Marquis, Sanna Melin Schyllert, Deepshikha Mahanta Bortamuly, Violina Borah
Conference Panel: Faulkner and Digital Yoknapatawpha
The Digital Yoknapatawpha project is organizing a panel for Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2025: “Faulkner’s Bodies”, July 20-24, 2025, Oxford, MS. We are seeking papers from anyone who has used Digital Yoknapatawpha (https://faulkner.iath.virginia.edu/) for their research or in the classroom. The presentation format is open. In years past, presentations have featured:
For sign-up forms, consult: https://beyondtrauma.yolasite.com/
The Beyond Trauma Conference (June 9, 10, & 11, 2025; Nice, France) aims to gather an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to share their research (ethnographies, theories, and clinical practice) on post-traumatic states from resistance and resilience to retribution and growth. More specifically, we propose to focus less on trauma and PTSD and more on modes of healing that so often involve the arts for trauma survivors.
Special Issue “World Mythology and Ecocriticism: Remembering Nature as a Sacred Teacher”
A special issue of Humanities.
Conference online: 23-24 January 2025
CFP:
Conference: 23-24 January 2025 (online)
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
Call for Papers for WLA’s guaranteed panel at the 2025 American Literature Association Meeting (Boston, May 21-24) This year’s general call seeks proposals related to any aspect of the study of Western literature, regardless of period. Papers on single texts or single authors are welcome, though comparative, transnational, and/or multiethnic approaches are especially encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to apply. For consideration, please submit an abstract (250-400 words) to Travis Franks (travis.franks@usu.edu) by DECEMBER 31, 2024.
Call for Proposals: "TRANS∗Media”Harvard Graduate Music Forum 2025 ConferenceCambridge, MA | February 28–March 1, 2025
∗Deadline extended to January 5th, 2025 at 11:59PM!∗
This call has expired!
The Human Catalyst: Ecological Crises and Their Cinematic Echoes
The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than
250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature
Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited
number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).
The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language
June 26-27, 2025
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Keynote Speakers
Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sino Queer Translation:
Sexualities across Languages, Cultures, and Media
Edited by Hongwei Bao and Yahia Ma
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. John Carlos Rowe, the USC Associates’ Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature, the University of Southern California
Dr. Lan Duong, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies, the University of Southern California
Dr. Long Bui, Professor of Global and International Studies, the University of California, Irvine
Dr. Pheng Cheah, Professor of Rhetoric, the University of California, Berkeley
From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted through the decades, both for activists and academics. In addition to a historical focus, we seek to address contemporary manifestations of dissent within feminism, exploring who successfully forges narratives that challenge feminism’s dominant iteration(s)—and what accounts for their success.
Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy, and Gender
The Handbook of Body Horror
UPADTE
Dear Scholars, Educators, and Practitioners,
Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to extend the submission deadline for abstracts for the book Soft Skills Unscripted: Lessons from Literature and Films to 30 January 2025.
We kindly urge all contributors to carefully review the theme of the book and ensure that your abstract aligns with the subject. The anthology seeks to explore how literature and films provide valuable insights into soft skills development, bridging the gap between academic perspectives and practical applications.
We look forward to receiving your thoughtful and subject-relevant submissions. For more details
Warm regards,
Editorial Team
April 25-26, 2025
57th Comparative Literature Symposium Going Virtual
Call for Papers
The symposium is generously funded by the TTU College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Media & Communication, The Harris Institute, Departments of English, CMLL, and History
“50 Years after the Fall of Saigon: Colonialism, Interventionism, and Critical Refugee Studies”
Keynote Speakers:
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Long T. Bui, Associate Professor of Global and International Studies, the University of California at Irvine
Dr. Patricia Pelley, Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University
Dr. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin
Special Guest Speaker
Ms. Callie Wright, Education Director, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host the 2023 symposium on “Pandemic, Environment, and Life Writing” on campus on April 21-22, 2023.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Jennifer Ho, Eaton Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for
Humanities & the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dr. Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of
California at Irvine
Dr. Muhsin al-Musawi, Professor of Classic and Modern Arabic Literature and of
Comparative and Cultural Studies, Columbia University
Dr. Aretha Phiri, Associate Professor of English, University of Rhodes, South Africa
The 2024 TTU Symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited”
The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host its 2024 annual symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited” on April 12-13, 2024.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studies Program, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Alfred Hornung, Professor and Chair of American Studies, Editor-in-chief of Journal Of Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
The recent development in Digital Humanities marks a transformative era in academia, where the humanities are increasingly integrating with digital technologies, computational methods, and AI, enhancing research, teaching, and creative outputs. This conference explores how DH sees such development and the evolving relationship between humanities and digital technologies. It focuses on topics that reshape humanities scholarship, from data analysis and pedagogy to creative production. This fosters interdisciplinary dialogues and examines innovations and implications in fields traditionally centered around humanistic inquiry.
This American Studies Association 2025 panel seeks papers that consider the role of children and childhood in histories of medicine. From experiments across medical, scientific, and social scientific disciplines to issues of consent and privacy to interventions that delimit trajectories of child development, histories of medicine have helped shape childhoods–its bounds, temporalities, and norms–and children have helped to shape medicine–its protocols, rationales, and knowledges.