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2024 LITCO Symposium: Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo

updated: 
Sunday, December 10, 2023 - 12:02pm
Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 19, 2024

Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo

Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Saturday, December 9, 2023 - 5:36pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

updated: 
Saturday, December 9, 2023 - 5:36pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 90+ books already published in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice

Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Saturday, December 9, 2023 - 5:36pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
• Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture
• Relationships between humans and plants
• Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals
• Plants and the environmental crisis

"Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality" Young Scholars' Conference

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 5:21pm
Anna Ronewicz, University of Szczecin
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:09pm
Jacek Gutorow / University of Opole
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the University of Opole, Poland (for more information and the current issue see http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl).

For the next issue of the journal, to be published in December 2024 we invite articles addressing language and literature related topics in an original and innovative way. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches ranging across linguistics, critical theory, literary studies, cultural studies and translation studies (theoretical or applied).

Close Reading and Renaissance Texts: Sixteenth Century Society Panel & Roundtable (Toronto, 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2024)

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:09pm
Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

This panel and roundtable seek to investigate the value of close reading in early modern studies. Since the sunset of New Criticism’s zenith in literary studies, close reading has assumed a primarily pedagogical role. But what of its theoretical and historicist payoff? What position can close reading play in the 2024 scholarly landscape?

 

Papers proposed for the panel may address any aspect of close reading, from its utility for approaching particular Renaissance texts (broadly conceived), to its role amid other methodologies now in vogue, to attendant questions of early modern textual transmission and translation. Case studies are welcome, as are comparative and interdisciplinary approaches.

 

DOCTOR WHO: 60

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:07pm
DR ANDREW O'DAY
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 18, 2023

I am currently putting together a proposal on the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who for Manchester University Press and am seeking proposals on the following topics:

 

* The Blue Peter Doctor Who competition, placed in the context of the relationship between the two programmes

 

* The Beyond the Screen event of December 9 2023, only open to competition winners but with a q & a live streamed

 

Please contact me at my email address with Doctor Who: 60 in the subject line if you are interested in submitting a 500 word abstract on either of these topics.

“Resurgence and Decolonization: Creating Alternative Worlds”

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:07pm
JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

We are pleased to announce a special issue of JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy) titled “Resurgence and Decolonization: Creating Alternative Worlds.” Our inquiry aims to explore the transformative power of Indigenous Resurgence movements, which seek to transcend the limitations of settler colonial systems by envisioning alternative ways of thinking, organizing, and being.

Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize 2022-23

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:07pm
Research Society for American Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 22, 2023

Deadline for submissions: December 22, 2023

Contact: James Berkey, jhb5255@psu.edu

 

The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2022-23 Article Prize.

The prize is awarded to the best article on the subject of American periodicals published in a peer-reviewed academic journal between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023. RSAP takes an expansive view of “periodicals” and will consider any article that focuses on serial publications in print or digital form in the Americas, broadly construed. We also welcome submissions from any field or discipline.

 

BEYOND HABITABILITY: HOMES AS BUILT AND IMAGINED SPACES

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:07pm
The Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Submission Date: Monday, January 1st, 2024

Symposium Date: Saturday, April 6th, 2024

Note: Selected presenters will be notified by Friday, January 19th, 2024.

 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eva Díaz, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the Pratt Institute School of Art and Design.

 

The Flannery O'Connor Society at ALA 2024

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:06pm
The Flannery O'Connor Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 20, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

Flannery O’Connor Society

American Literature Association

2024 Annual Conference May 23-26, 2024
Palmer House Hilton | Chicago, IL

The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks proposals for three planned sessions at ALA 2024 in Chicago. See panel descriptions and submission details below under the appropriate headings.

American Literature in the National Parks

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:06pm
Sarah Buchmeier / American Conservation Experience
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Proposed Panel for

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

 

CALL FOR PAPERS – Home/Bodies: NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference, April 5-7, 2024

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:00pm
University of Tennessee, Knoxville English department
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Gaston Bachelard asserts that "all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home." How does one define "home"? Is it a materially constructed shelter, or a psychological space that holds one's memories, imaginations, and, essentially, a space that "protects the daydreamer" (The Poetics of Space, 5)? Furthermore, what does it mean to exist in a "body"? And what does it feel like to be "at home" in a body? How does one traverse these inhabited spaces, both in public and in private? Or, how are spatial boundaries reinstated when the home and the body is misaligned?

We Need to Write about Art: Ekphrasis Now

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 5:04am
Leeds Trinity University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

We Need to Write about Art: Ekphrasis Now 

A one-day symposium on contemporary ekphrasis at Leeds Trinity University on Saturday 6 July 2024.

Call for Cooperators: Academic Forms: Thinking the Ways We Do Our Work

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 3:26am
Tim Lanzendörfer, Goethe University, Frankfurt
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Call for Cooperators

Academic Forms: Thinking the Ways We* Do Our Work

(*Where “We” Names, Specifically, Humanities Scholars)

Preliminaries Towards Some Academic Product

Anglo-Israelism and the British Imperial Imagination

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:25pm
Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Anglo-Israelism and the British Imperial Imagination

Submission deadline: 20 December 2023

Anglo-Israelism is a religious movement that identifies the Anglo-Saxon peoples of Britain and northern Europe as the ethnic descendants of biblical Israel. It emerged in the eighteenth century and reached its peak in the early twentieth century, gaining favour among the upper echelons of society. Although the presence of official Anglo-Israelist organisations began to decline in England in the 1970s, Anglo-Israelist themes have been and continue to be influential in England and abroad. Despite this significance, Anglo-Israelism is not well understood by scholars or the public.

Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:25pm
Cerae Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Shifting – or transforming – between states of being is a feature of human and animal societies as well as of the wider living world and the cosmos. This act of shifting is experienced through both natural and unnatural processes and can be seen in all areas of life, from the reproductive cycles of organisms, to epochal changes undergone by entire societies, and everything in between. But transformations can also refer to distortions of reality, both deliberate and accidental, magical or real, as much as they can reflect genuine changes to an individual, an institution, a landscape, or even a society.

Transcendentalist Legacies of Resilience

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:22pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

Thoreau Annual Gathering

July 10-14, 2024

Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

 

Transcendentalist Legacies of Resilience  

CHILD AND TEEN CONSUMPTION 2024: PLAYING WITH BORDERS

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:22pm
Conference on Child and Teen Consumption
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

CHILD AND TEEN CONSUMPTION 2024

11th Interdisciplinary Conference on Child and Teen Consumption

October 16 -18 2024, York University, Toronto, Canada PLAYING WITH BORDERS

The 2024 edition of the Child and Teen Consumption Conference will be held in Toronto (Canada) and will be hosted by York University, October 16-18, 2024.

William H. Gass at 100: Essays

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:22pm
Ted Morrissey / Twelve Winters Press
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The year 2024 will mark the centenary of William H. Gass (1924-2017), and a collection of essays examining the work of the influential author and educator will be published by Twelve Winters Press, edited by long-time Gass scholar Ted Morrissey. Gass -- who was born in Fargo, ND, grew up in Ohio, and taught primarily at Purdue University and Washington University in St. Louis, home of the William H. Gass papers -- is perhaps best known for his massive and controversial novel The Tunnel (1995), famously 26 years in the writing and winner of the American Book Award (1996).

Reminder Call for Chapters - Dark Reflections: Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:22pm
Stuart Joy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Reminder Call for Chapters - Dark Reflections: Edited Collection

The editors of this important volume are putting together a collection of essays on Dark (2017-2020) for publication which is currently entitled Dark Reflections. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's groundbreaking German original series, Dark, premiered in 2017, and spanned three thought-provoking seasons. Set in the small town of Winden, the series revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a child and the subsequent unraveling of family secrets spanning several generations. As the story unfolds, intricate time loops and paradoxes emerge, propelling the characters into a tangled web of interconnected destinies.

Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:21pm
Monica Sousa (York University), Jerika Sanderson (University of Waterloo)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

CFP: Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives

According to Descartes’ views of animals, animals are to be perceived as “automata” and “void of reason” (Discourse on the Method). As he explains, “were there such machines exactly resembling organs and outward form an ape or any other irrational animal, we could have no means of knowing that they were in any respect of a different nature from these animals” (Discourse on the Method). Contemporary animal studies scholars have moved past this outdated approach, instead accepting that animals exhibit cognition, sentience, emotion, and a myriad of demonstrations of intelligence.

Call for Papers: ‘Researching Political Cinemas: A State of the Art’

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:20pm
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

 

Call for Papers: International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics

 

Special Issue: ‘Researching Political Cinemas: A State of the Art’

 

View the full call here>>

 

Acts of Literary Creation- An Undergraduate Conference

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:20pm
Department of
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 19, 2024

The Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) invites submissions for 'Acts of Literary Creation,' an undergraduate conference to be held Friday, April 19 April, 2024. Submissions for online and in-person presentations are welcome. 

From storytelling and architectural design to moviemaking and economic production, the act of creating is intimately tied to our senses of self and community. What is creativity? What constitutes a creation? What constitutes a creature? What are the political implications of the act of creation? How might an attention to creativity impact our understandings of the history of literary thought?

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Kay Boyle Society: Call for Papers: American Literature Associa9on Conference (May 23-26, 2024)

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:20pm
Kay Boyle Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 12, 2023

The Kay Boyle Society (https://kbs.hypotheses.org/) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2024 American Literature Association in Chicago, IL, 23-26 May 2024.

The Kay Boyle Society invites proposals for papers examining any aspect of Kay Boyle’s life and work that provide fresh insights.

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