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:

Strangeness and Oddity: Embracing the Extraordinary

in Arts-Based Research

A Transdisciplinary Conference

February 25-26, 2025

Online

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25, 2025

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/strangeness-and-oddity/

Call for Papers:

“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.

Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies 

【Special Issue】Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

Guest editor

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa

“Approaching Dystopia”

Call for Papers

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025

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.

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.

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 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

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:

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

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.  

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.