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The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:09pm
Janet Badia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Call for Papers: The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath

 

This call for papers invites submission to The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath, edited by Janet Badia, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, and Emily Van Duyne. The collection, now under contract, will be a new addition to the Routledge Literature Companions series—highly regarded, field-defining volumes that showcase exciting areas of literary studies. These volumes are ideal introductions for beginners and useful volumes for those already working in the field. By design, they summarize current scholarship while simultaneously highlighting emergent approaches to authors and areas of study.

 

RMMLA English 19 Century Panel

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:09pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

Rocky Mountain 

Modern Language Association

English Nineteenth-Century Panel

October 10-12, 2024

Las Vegas, Nevada

Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2024

 

Teaching in the Age of AI

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:09pm
Zea Miller/University of Florida
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

25 October 2024 

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida 

 

Call for Proposals

SAMLA 96: Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:09pm
Lisa Wenger Bro
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

SAMLA’s 96th annual conference, Seen and Unseen, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL this year from November 15-17.  Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://southatlanticmla.org/  

 

World Mythology and World Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:09pm
GOVERNMENT ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE (Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli.) Nagalapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Government Arts and Science College

 Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. Nagalapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

In collaboration With

 

NMS SVN College, Nagamalai, Madurai. 

Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

The African Historical Novel

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:08pm
MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

In light of the resurgence of interest in the historical novel, this panel invites papers that reflect on, periodize, or contextualize the genre’s dominance in African literary production, past and present. Bio and paper abstract.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Lily Saint, Wesleyan U (lsaint@wesleyan.edu ) Farah Bakaari, Cornell U (fmo8@cornell.edu )

Literary Monsters

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:08pm
Dr. Tracie Provost
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

SAMLA’s 96th annual conference, Seen and Unseen, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, Florida this year from November 15-17.  Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://southatlanticmla.org/

 

 

Literary Monsters Panel

 

Dreaming of Christmas: Rediscovering the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Christmas Story

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:07pm
Edited Collection, Monika Elbert and Thomas Ruys Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

 

Dreaming of Christmas: Rediscovering the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Christmas Story

Please send proposals of roughly 300-500 words, a short bio, and any other enquiries, to editors Monika Elbert (elbertm@mail.montclair.edu) and Thomas Ruys Smith (thomas.smith@uea.ac.uk) by May 1st 2024.Final essays (roughly 7000 words) will be due by October 15th 2024.

 

Text Under Pressure: Society for Textual Scholarship 2024 conference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:07pm
Society for Textual Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 18, 2024

The Society for Textual Scholarship invites proposals for our 2024 conference hosted by the University of Tulsa, June 6-8, on the theme Text Under Pressure. The deadline for proposals is Monday, March 18.

Texts manifest many varieties of creative, social, and political pressure in their expressive content and form. But text is also often a matter of technological pressure: printing techniques rely on the pressure of a platen, roller, or squeegee; other recording and playback processes require the pressure of a stylus, a chisel, a nib, or the gentle pulse of a wifi wave. Such pressurized circumstances, symbolic and material, reveal core issues of textual production, circulation, reception, and contestation. 

MAPACA 2024 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:07pm
Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 

MLA 2025: Geographies of the Precarious In-Between: Navigating Spaces of Young Adulthood and the Gothic

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:05pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Giselle Anatol, in her articulation of the postcolonial Gothic in young people’s fiction, considers the ways in which familiar living spaces become unfamiliar, and how this “represents both the epitome and the deformation—a haunting, in essence—oftraditional notions of home, a place that is supposed to provide safety, security, contentment, and happiness ("Brown Girl Dreaming: A Ghost Story in the Postcolonial Gothic Tradition"411).

Science Fiction of the 1870s

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:05pm
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 7, 2024

To mark the 150th issue of Foundation in spring 2025, we would like to include contributions on the topic of sf from 150 years ago, published during the 1870s. Darko Suvin once proposed 1 May 1871 as the starting-point for sf – the day that Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race was published, George Chesney’s The Battle of Dorking began serialisation, and Samuel Butler submitted Erewhon to his publisher. Jules Verne, however, was already in full swing and he would soon be joined by such contemporaries as Camille Flammarion. Where else can we trace the roots of science fiction in the 1870s? How can we reassess the writers we know and who are the writers we need to rediscover?

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:05pm
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2025.

CFP for Angelaki: Ontological-Existential Exhaustion: Being-Tired, and Tired-of-Being: a philosophy of fatigue and exhaustion

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:05pm
Marina Christodoulou
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

Call for papers for a Special Issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

EXTENDED DEADLINE

 

Ontological-Existential Exhaustion:

Being-Tired, and Tired-of-Being: a philosophy of fatigue and exhaustion

(preliminary title)

 

Editor: Marina Christodoulou

https://edinburgh.academia.edu/MChristodoulou

Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:02pm
Special Session for 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans (Jan. 9-12)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

This panel discusses rhetorical strategies the new/social media users employ to voice for justice, push propaganda, and create or remix content to amplify visibility in attention economy. Please submit ~250-word abstract and a brief bio.

Call for Papers: Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares (2025 MLA Annual Convention) (confex.com)

Call for Papers - Explorations E-Journal's Issue 6: In the Grip of Western Rationality

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:02pm
Climate Psychology Alliance
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Modern (Western) civilization has always assumed that there are no problems for which solutions cannot be found. Today there is no shortage of technical solutions on offer for the climate crisis, from carbon capture and storage under the North Sea through to giant high altitude aerosols which deflect the sun’s rays back into outer space. These kind of solutions require what Iain McGilchrist terms a left hemisphere worldview. 
 

Literature and Identities in Portuguese

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:01pm
XII Montevideana Conference: Literature and Identities in Portuguese
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

XII Montevideana Conference: Literature and Identities in Portuguese

Montevideo, Uruguay, June 26-28, 2024

The Dpt. of Modern Literatures of the Universidad de la República announces its 12th international conference on literary and cultural relations across languages and hemispheres. 

MSA 2024: Gendered Migration in Transnational Modernism

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:01pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Gendered Migration in Transnational Modernism

 MSA 2024, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 7-10, 2024

 

Deadline for abstract submission: March 29, 2024

**EXTENDED DEADLINE** 27th Annual Southern Writers/Southern Writing Grad Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:01pm
Southern Writers/Southern Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

**EXTENDED DEADLINE MARCH 15th**

 

The 27th Southern Writers/Southern WritingGraduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

July 26th-27th, 2024

Call for Submissions

“Southern” Legacies in the 21st Century

 

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 27th edition of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from July 26th-27th, 2024.

 

Black Feminist Excesses

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:00pm
Proposed Working Group for MLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Black Feminist Excesses

(MLA 2025 Proposed Working Group)

This working group aims to theorize excess, desire and unbridled being in Black feminist and womanist studies. How does Black feminism and womanism engage disparate, wayward, or fringe forms of identity, embodiment, materiality, affect and culture?  How can concepts like ‘indulgence’ or ‘aspiration’ be considered or troubled among current theoretical frameworks? What do you think is on the horizon for Black feminist and womanist thought in moving beyond the postfeminist moment?

Silicon Valley Beyond the Valley (MLA 2025 Special Session proposal)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:00pm
Robert Nguyen
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Call for PapersSeeking 250-word abstracts on narratives of the tech industry and the digital beyond the Valley itself. How does Silicon Valley the place become a global imaginary in literature, film, television, and public discourse? (include bio+CV)

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024

BSSH annual Conference 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:00pm
British Society of Sports History
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Call For Papers

British Society of Sports History Annual Conference

Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester, Chichester, UK

Thursday 22nd August 2024 – Friday 23rd August 2024

This will be an open-themed conference. Submissions based on original research are welcomed by UK and overseas scholars and can relate to any aspect of sport, physical recreation, education and culture, as considered from a historical perspective.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

CALL FOR PAPERS:

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:59am
Theme issue for American Behavioral Scientist titled: "A Sampling of Pre-Internet Networked Operations"
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Essays sought for a survey of 1960s military operations such as: COINTELPRO (US); CHAOS (US); Phoenix (Vietnam); Condor (South America); ORDEN (El Salvador); Jakarta (Indonesia); OBAN (Brazil) and other operations that networked societies prior to the Internet. Focus on how evident or non-evident the communications were that supported these operations; the staffing and hardware; how operations were used; and, how they contributed to social and financial inequality and political polarization, in the populations they monitored.

The Seventh Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:59am
Horror Writers Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Seventh Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2024

Conference Date: Friday, May 31, 2024

Conference Location: San Diego Mission Bay Marriott, 8757 Rio San Diego Drive, San Diego, California, USA, 92108 and via Hopin

Conference Website: https://www.stokercon2024.com

 

From the mysterious lights in the windows of the William Heath Davis House to the footsteps in the seemingly empty rooms of the Old Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego has long been home to stories of the uncanny. The 2024 StokerCon convention is eager to channel the creative potential of San Diego’s history, culture, and communities. 

Unruly Archives: Women Writing South Asian Literary Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:51am
Modern Languages Association Convention (MLA'25 New Orleans)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Thinking about South A archival practices and women’s fiction, this panel invites papers on SA women’s fictional narratives questioning whose experiences can be preserved, exhibited, remembered in the public spaces (curations, exhibitions, museums). 300-word abstracts.

“Spoiling This Wonderful Falsehood” - Japanese Video Games and Critiques of Western Worlding (MLA 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:38am
Austin Anderson, Howard University / DA Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Japan has been historically situated as uniquely isolated from the broader world. Yet, the Meiji era (1868-1912) of Japan was defined by intentional efforts on the part of the Japanese government to respond to the pressures of global capitalism such that Japanese cultural identity was preserved not against but through a process of modernization and industrialization. The restoration of imperial power in explicit reference to the monarchies of Europe, including the dramatic successes of Queen Victoria in England and Emperor William I of Germany, was part of this project.

PJSA2024: "We Are All Connected: Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity"

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:38am
the Peace and Justice Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

2024 Call for ProposalsWe Are All Connected:Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity

The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association 

Hosted by The Justice House Program at Niagara University

OCTOBER 24-27, 2024 | Niagara, New York, USA


Proposal Submission Deadline: May 01, 2024

Early Bird Registration: May 1 – July 15, 2024

Draft Schedule Released: June 3, 2024

SHEL-13: Studies in the History of the English Language, Conference Theme: The History of English as a (G)local Language

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:38am
Studies in the History of the English Language
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

SHEL-13, Studies in the History of the English Language

Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, October 17-20, 2024 co-hosted by The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

 

Conference Theme: The History of English as a (G)local Language

 

Artifact & Apparatus 3: Teaching Media Archaeology (final deadline May 15)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 3:31am
Artifact & Apparatus: Journal of Media Archaeology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

As scholars’ engagement with media-archaeological study have increased, so have students’ interest in the field’s approaches, methods, and philosophies. Many courses on media history and theory today include sessions focused on media archaeology.

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