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Virginia Woolf Miscellany #104: Woolf and Failure
Mary Wilson
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Virginia Woolf Miscellany #104: Woolf and Failure
Mary Wilson
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH) is accepting submissions for the 2025 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture, and the humanities.
This conference is the second in a sequence of events co-organized by three public universities: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, University of California Berkeley, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst on the theme of the political economy of South Asia. Titled South Asian Capitalism(s), this Fall 2025 conference aims to investigate how capitalist accumulation is socially structured across South Asia.
In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).
While the EAAS’ "West of the Rest" research network will be represented with a total of three panels at the the 28th Biennial Conference of AISNA Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani, we are specifically looking for contributions to our panel dedicated to video games: "Videogame Wests: Playing (at) the Frontier". Since there is the opportunity to have fresh research on video game Wests published as part of this venture, we invite everyone interested to pitch a paper. Please feel free to (re)share the enclosed cfp with interested parties. The panel is coordinated by Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and Stefan "Steve" Rabitsch (University of Oslo). Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N.
Layers: Physical and Cultural Constructions of Space in the English-Speaking World
International conference organised by SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone: Représentations, Culture, Histoire)
University of Strasbourg, 16-17 October 2025
Keynote speaker: Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds)
Call for papers
Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern
Arts Funding and Its Nationalisms, The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Houston, TX, October 22-25, 2025. #ASAP16
Call For Papers:
AfroNordic Feminisms
This special issue of Scandinavian Studies explores and questions what it means to theorize, articulate, and practice a Black/Afrofeminism from a distinctly Nordic standpoint.
We invite submissions engaging with questions such as:
What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in e.g. U.S., African, and other AfroEuropean contexts?
Special Issue title: Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media
Journal: Society & Animals (SCI & SSCI indexed)
Edited by: Dr. Zhaoyu Zhu (First Author); Dr. Thomas William Whyke (Corresponding Author)
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Background and scope
This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.
Medieval + Monsters in Comics
Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library
Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library
17-18 October 2025
The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.
Topics might include:
Call for Papers
2025 EALA Annual Conference
Disease and Death
Conference Co-organizers:
English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan), National Taipei University of Education and University of Taipei
Date: October 18, 2025
Venue: National Taipei University of Education
The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 25, 2025
This CFP is for a guaranteed session organized by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) for the 2026 Modern Language Association convention in Toronto (8-11 January 2026).
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend.
Call For Papers
The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to:
October 17 & 18, 2025
Hosted at Dominican University and The Newberry Library
CFP: Solitude and loneliness in Nordic Cinema
Special Issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
To submit visit our website here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers
“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”
International Conference
Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025
Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces.
We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.
The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:
- literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;
- distribution and consumption;
- literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);
Special issue of Canadian Literature — seeking work by new, graduate, and/or early-career scholars
Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)
Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)
Abstract
The University of Tehran English Language Scientific Student Association (UTELSSA) presents:
Decolonizing the Mind: A Journey through
Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind. This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial studies, the significance of decolonial theories, and engage directly with a remarkable author in the field.
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.
All topics will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
-Studies of specific films
-Studies of specific novels
-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media
Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
-Studies of specific films
-Studies of specific novels
-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs
-Artwork with dinosaurs
Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation
(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)
Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
Introduction
Call for Papers Home: The Space We Claim March 14-16, 2025
University of Ottawa, English Graduate Student Association 2025 Conference
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.
The 2025 ELLAK International Conference
“Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media”
Organized by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
December 18-20, 2025
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Ted Underwood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Call for Papers
International Seminar on Indigenous Studies: Envisioning Janjatiya Gaurav: The Legacy of Birsa Munda and the Decolonisation of ‘Global’ Indigenous Studies
Date: March 26-27, 2025 (IST)
Venue: Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
Organised by the IQAC, Durgapur Women's College in collaboration with Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Event URL: https://durgapurwomenscollege.ac.in/seminars/