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Special Issue of Mississippi Quarterly,
“Emerging Scholars, Emerging Scholarship”
For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth-century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. The editors of this book proposal seek essays that explore some of the compelling changes Lowery makes to the base text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and what we can learn about the importance—or dangers—of retelling popular stories in new and inventive ways.
Aesthetics of the Clinic
Recently I, Tawnya Azar (co-editor), posted a request for information on the Writing Studies listserv to solicit information and ideas about hosting a celebration of student writing event in my composition program. After a long search for published research or essays on student writing events, I was finding very little and hoped I would at least get a few additional recommendations for published works on the subject. Instead many faculty and program heads contacted me with generous, detailed descriptions of student writing events they previously ran or currently run, and I was struck by the diversity and potential impact of these events on campus communities.
Call for Papers
IABA European Conference
Life Writing, and Social Transformation
July 23 to 26, 2025
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra
Call for papers until 15 January 2025
We are pleased to announce that the next IABA Europe Conference will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra in partnership with the Centre for Social Studies, 23-26 July 2025. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of 3-4 papers as well as round-table suggestions on the theme of the Conference: “Life Writing and Social Transformation”.
Despite its status as one of cinema’s most enduring and popular genres, complete with a rich history of narrative tropes, aesthetic conventions and character types, the sports film is more frequently analysed as a vehicle for the on-screen representation of sport than a distinct film genre. The representation of sport may be an identifying feature of the sports film, but in the way that horses are an identifying feature of westerns: a key part, to be sure, but film criticism would be much poorer if it elided the complexity of John Wayne’s performance in The Searchers to focus on the horse he rode. We seek abstracts for an edited collection reflecting the depth and breadth of the sports film as genre.
Blurring the lines between art and scholarship, creative-critical practices combine imaginative production with theoretical analysis and reflection. The creative process itself becomes a method of research, discovery and meaning-making, extending and transforming critical theories. By inhabiting a space between established genres and methodologies, creative-critical practitioners generate hybrid works that provoke new ways of seeing, understanding and engaging with the world.
The crafts of India are varied and illustrate the economy, history, culture, religious beliefs, politics, material culture, societal formations and creative faculties of a civilization. The craftsmanship of many states of India reflects diverse cultural influences and has a significant narrative relating to its origins. For ages, crafts have served as an archive of culture and heritage in various communities in India. Every state of India narrates its tales of handicrafts. The wonderful artistry of handcrafted artifacts, the traditions woven in time, get eroded by automation and accuracy, which draw us towards the ‘sophistication’ of repetitive mass production in a capitalist society.
CFP for A Warning to The Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales
An ONLINE conference on 23rd and 24th August 2025 marking the 100th anniversary of MR James A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th April 2025
The conference is fully online and is open to scholars and experts from around the world.
Deadline Extended to Friday, January 17, 2025
The George Saunders Society invites prospective participants for one or two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, to be held May 21 to 25, 2025. We are interested in presentations on any aspect of George Saunders’s life and work; in this, our fifth year of activity at ALA (returning after an absence in 2024!), we continue to be interested in papers that challenge, complicate, or go beyond the most common (particularly religious, ethical, or new sincerest) readings of the author’s work in the critical literature to this point. The topic is therefore open, but possible approaches might include:
Conference online (via Zoom): 13-14 February 2025
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
“It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. ... We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposals relating to the theme of “Forward Moving / Moving Forward” for our 18th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 7, 2025.
Keynote speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz (Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington)
Keynote roundtable: Moderated by Bishnupriya Ghosh (Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara); other roundtable participants from UCSB to be announced
Dates: March. 7-8, 2025
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Housekeepers: The Latina Maid in Contemporary American Film and Literature, Myra Mendible, Editor
Call for Book Reviews: Volume 14, Issue 2 (2025)
The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for book reviews for a forthcoming volume.
Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship.
If you would like to contribute, you may submit a review for consideration at https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors. If you would like to serve as reviewer, but have no text in mind, please send your CV and a statement of interest to citl@bu.edu.
EXTENDED DEADLINE (JANUARY 31)
2-4 July 2025
Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació.
Av. de Blasco Ibáñez, 32, València
Universitat de València (Spain)
Call for Chapters | Variational Translation: Practical and Theoretical Explorations
This edited volume seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into the practical and theoretical explorations of variational translation.
EDITORS
Dr. Chuanmao Tian, Professor, Centre for Translation Studies, Yangtze University, China, Jingzhou, China
Dr. Juntao Deng, Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China
Dr. Zhonglian Huang, Professor, Center for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.
Concept Note
In a significant portion of feminist criticism in its populist interpretation, there is an ongoing sense of wanting to shape feminine characters from legends, folklore, and history into models for a kind of feminism and perceived empowerment more closely associated with twenty-first-century understandings of the feminine than those directly connected to social, historical, or cultural sources. This backcasting and interpretation changes these characters into ones that would better suit a modern set of beliefs through syncretism and the creation not of folkloric or cultural beliefs but of a folkloresque sense of the subject.
The International T. S.
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2025, open to all, on the subject of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.
The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 18 (2026), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.
The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
D R A N D R E W H A R R I S O N
University of Nottingham, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
K A T H L E E N J O N E S
Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Biographer
D R M A R T I N G R I F F I T H S
Author and Musician
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 18 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S MEN
Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2025
‘Everything must ring like elizabethan english and like those gentlemen I always seem to be
mentioning ‘the Poets’. There is a light upon them especially upon the elizabethans and our
‘special’ set – Keats, W.W. Coleridge Shelley De Quincey and Co. […] Those are the people
with whom I want to live – those are the men I feel are our brothers’. (Letter to John
Middleton Murry, 4–5 March 1918)
Researchers at Northumbria University and the Open University invite contributions for a peer-reviewed edited collection of essays on Culture and Offence.
Our current ‘age of offence’ demands that we reflect critically on debates about trigger warnings, ‘cancel culture’, ‘anti-wokeness’, and free speech, to ask:
For a long time, historians showed limited interest in studying the history of the extreme right after 1945. In recent years, however, there has been a significant upsurge in the research on this topic. The rise of extreme-right movements and political parties has spurred numerous research projects, especially in Germany. These projects explore not only the aftermath of National Socialism, but also the emergence of a so-called New Right within the framework of democratic societies. Similar research initiatives have also gained momentum in countries such as France, Italy, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, reflecting the growing influence of the extreme right across Europe.
Poison(s) and Poisoning in Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
A special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal
Guest-edited by Manon Burz-Labrande and Sarah Frühwirth
HCIS Journal (2024 Edition)
(Call for Papers & Published Papers)
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Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)
ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park
Impact Factor: 3.9
Students in Writing Studies 4200, “Writing and Cultures,” will edit a collection of creative writing (visual art, poems and nonfiction writing) entitled "Through my Eyes" -- How we perceive world issues, crises or maybe even beauty. As such, they solicit writings from everyone (students, alumni, and the broader community) on this topic for inclusion in the collection.
Submissions could address the ways that we use our own experience to think about local, global, international or interpersonal issues. Or, they could address the ways that local, global, international or interpersonal issues change the ways that we understand our own experiences.
Illuminating the Experience of Birth Trauma
Call for Research, Art, and Story
Deadline for abstract submissions for early consideration: February 1, 2025
Full name/name of organization: Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
Contact email: zomibloompoetry@gmail.com, kelsea@d.umn.edu, and dbeard@d.umn.edu
CFP: MEDIA REVIEWERS and SCHOLARLY ARTICLES – MIDDLE WEST REVIEW
Middle West Review (MWR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that examines the American Midwest. The journal is published biannually by the University of Nebraska Press.
MWR is seeking scholars to review media texts that engage with midwestern identity, history, and/or culture. From popular films and television series to online exhibitions and digital archives, MWR spotlights Midwest-oriented media texts in each issue.
Digital platforms have never been a gender-neutral space, not only in the sense that they bring different experiences to people of different gender identities, but also because it has been structured in gendered ways—no matter it’s the gender imbalance existing in technology design teams, the gender-specific target audience segmentation, or third-parties’ involvement in reinforcing gender norms. Its gendered structures have also been further complicated by users’ actions. Instead of accepting gendered platforms as a default design, we encourage presentations to think of platforms as a cultural form that embodies larger social and political structures.