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Transatlantic Literature (Due 11/1/22 for CEA 3/30/23–4/1/23)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:32pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Call for Papers, Confluence at CEA 2023

March 30-April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio | 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Confluence for our 53nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Transatlantic Literature by its very nature suggests confluence.  This special topic session welcomes scholarship that explores the bringing together, or the conflicts in bringing together, the literature, ideas, and cultures from across the Atlantic.

Welsh, Irish, or Scottish Literature at CEA 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:30pm
Corey E. Andrews / College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Subject: Call for Papers: Confluence at CEA 2023

Call for Papers, Confluence at CEA 2023

March 30-April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio | 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Confluence for our 53nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Special Issue of the Journal 'Shakespeare': Health and Wellbeing in Shakespeare

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:30pm
Dr Joan Fitzpatrick, Loughborough University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Health and Wellbeing in Shakespeare (Special Issue of the journal Shakespeare)

Guest editor: Joan Fitzpatrick (Loughborough University, UK)

Length of submissions: 6,000 – 9,000 words

Deadline for abstracts (200 - 250 words): March 31, 2023

Deadline for final copy submission: September 29, 2023

 

contact email: j.fitzpatrick@lboro.ac.uk

 

Vampire Studies (PCA/ACA National Conference) April 5-8, 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:28pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Annual National Popular Culture Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS:

PCA CONFERENCE 5-8 APRIL 2023 IN SAN ANTONIO, TX

The Vampire Studies Area of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of the vampire as it appears throughout global culture.

[Creative Writing] Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:28pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Call for Papers

[Creative Writing]

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

44th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2023

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on August 15, 2022

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2022

 

“Adapting the Victorians”-- Special Issue of South Atlantic Review

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:28pm
South Atlantic Review
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Victorian literature in adaptation is a mix of “high” and “low” culture: filmmakers like Kenneth Branagh or Francis Ford Coppola might adapt the canonical literature of Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker into prestige films, while the same stories are remixed in comic books and parodied in TikToks. 

 

Found Footage Horror - special issue

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:27pm
Horror Homeroom
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Horror Homeroom's Special Issue #7: Found Footage Horror

In today’s media landscape, questions of authenticity, truth, and manipulation of fact are more pertinent than ever. While journalists herald the dawning of a ‘post-truth’ era, and deepfakes bring to a boiling point the anxiety of online communication and documentation, the subgenre of found footage horror seems to encapsulate a terror that is both commonplace and elusive. 

 

"Norman Mailer @ 100": 20th Annual Conference of the Norman Mailer Society, April 20-22, 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:27pm
Norman Mailer Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Call for Papers: 20th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference

Norman Mailer at 100

 Austin, TX

April 20-22, 2023 

The Norman Mailer Society invites paper proposals for its 20th annual conference, which will celebrate Norman Mailer’s centenary. The conference events will be held at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center and the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX, from April 20-22, 2023.

Reproductive Justice in Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:26pm
Popular Culture Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

The Reproductive Justice  area will focus on reproductive justice issues as they appear in popular culture (film, television, social media,  music, literature, etc.). Reproductive justice is a term that goes beyond the term reproductive rights, something that typically focuses on contraception and abortion.   According to the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, “it’s ‘the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities”  (Abrams).

Popular Culture Association 2023 Special Topic: True Crime

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:25pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

True Crime typically focuses on investigative journalism used to present a mystery or attempt to understand the psychology of a crime/perpetrator. It may include narratives of a case, victimology, forensics, or analysis of evidence, although each case is different. Much of True Crime focuses on serial killers/killings, although subsets of the genre may delve into topics such as kidnappings, cults, wrongful convictions, advocacy, white-collar crimes, trial proceedings,
prevention of crime, survivor stories, or sensationalism/entertainment.

NeMLA 2023 CfP - Modern and Current Environmental Crises in Italy

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:25pm
NeMLA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA session "Modern and Current Environmental Crises in Italy" (54th Annual NeMLA Convention March 23-26, 2023 in Niagara Falls, NY). The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2022. You can submit an abstract for this session here:https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19857 Session Abstract: Now more than ever it is important to interrogate the impact and discourses of the modern and contemporary environmental crises afflicting the world. This panel takes an interdisciplinary approach in order to explore the meaning of such key terms as “environment,” “ecology,” “nature” within the Italian context.

Writing Catastrophe/Centering Realism: Textualizing Capitalism’s Disasters

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:23pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

In the current moment, there is no paucity of catastrophe writing. From apocalyptic speculative fiction, cli-fi, and other textual forms of disaster writing, catastrophe is too often conceived of as environmental events or disasters that already have occurred (tsunami; forest fires; hurricanes and floods) or will reliably occur in the future. Part of the problem with this textualization is that catastrophe often is seen as an event rather than a process. More pointedly, our critical attention has been (understandably) trained on the effects and harms of climate change rather than on capitalism’s disastrous drive for surplus extraction that renders life unlivable for millions in the here and now.

Special Issue "Mobilization of Art and Religion in the Hispanic World: The Intersections of Race, Religion, Gender, and Objects c. 1500–1800"

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:23pm
Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 16, 2022

**Deadline Extended**

**Since these are electronic publications, we have been offered the opportunity to expand our content. Likewise, we recognize that the lessening of covid restrictions has allowed for more research travel. The expected deadlines for delivery of final papers remains the same [1 February 2023], but all abstracts should be submitted by September 16th, 2022. Please note for both journals: all abstracts we select and papers put forward for peer review will have their submission fees waived.** 

Special Issue Information:

Dear Colleagues,

CFP: 2023 Writing Innovation Symposium, Writing As _____ (due 10/28 & 12/9

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:23pm
5th Annual Writing Innovation Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 28, 2022

Writing As ____ the 5th Writing Innovation Symposium (WIS), is slated for February 2-3, 2023 in person and online at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. Undergrads, grads, faculty of all ranks and roles, academic staff, and independent writers and scholars are welcome to apply. Proposals for workshops and flashtalks are due 10/28; proposals for posters, displays, and other creative work as well as applications for B/SM Fellows are due 12/9. Notifications will be made in early November, and registration will open in December, when conference modalities and health mandates will be confirmed. For more: visit our online CFP.

 

Sandman: The TV Series

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:21pm
Tara Prescott-Johnson, UCLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

After decades of failed attempts at interpreting the comic that many fans believed couldn’t be adapted, the Netflix series Sandman is now enjoying richly deserved critical and commercial success. The explosive popularity of the series follows on the heels of other recent television adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s work, most notably Good Omens (2019 Amazon) and American Gods (2017-2021 Starz). It is also fueling ongoing discussions about representation, social justice, and art's role in responding to and reflecting upon historical and cultural movements. This edited book collection seeks essays that delve into these issues and more.

Journal of Contemporary Poetics: Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:20pm
International Islamic University, Islamabad
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Journal of Contemporary PoeticsCall for Papers

 

Deadline for submissions: Submission permitted throughout the year.

Full name / name of organization: International Islamic University, Islamabad

Contact email: jcp@iiu.edu.pk

Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens next issue on Decolonizing Visuality: Looks, Minds, Ways of Thinking and Acting

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:19pm
Teresa Mendes Flores/Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Universidade Lusófona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Decolonizing Visuality: Looks, Minds, Ways of Thinking and Acting

 

Editors : Teresa Mendes Flores (Université Nova de Lisbonne et ULHT), Filipa Duarte de Almeida (Université Omar Bongo) and Joseph Tonda (Université Omar Bongo)

 

(NeMLA 2023 Panel Call for Papers): If It Looks Like Horror: Mechanics of Fear

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 2:35pm
Stacey Anh Baran / Jeremy Freeman
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (2004), the hospital scene has been paid special attention for seeming “more at home in a horror movie than a superhero sequel,” according to Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro: it depicts Dr. Octopus’ mechanical tentacles as they slaughter the surgeons who are about to remove them from his body. The scene is rife with the imagery of gaping screams, fingernails clawing into the floor, and limbs going limp, evoking an atmosphere of terror which even Dr. Octopus recognizes once he awakens to the carnage before him.

Antisocial Femininity: Refusal Toward the Relational (ACLA 2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 2:32pm
Chelsea Largent & Nora Carr / ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

As we figure out what new social configurations look like, and whether or not we want to be a part of them, it seems we are at a point in queer and feminist theory where the futurity of our current conceptions of the social is also being called into question.

New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions (SUNY Press)

updated: 
Monday, September 19, 2022 - 12:25pm
New Rape Studies edited volume
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Co-editors Michael Dango, Erin Spampinato, and Doreen Thierauf invite original chapter-length contributions for a volume on New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions, under contract with SUNY Press. Final chapters are due February 1, 2023, and should be no longer than 8,000 words, inclusive of Chicago-style footnotes. We strongly encourage interested contributors to be in touch with abstracts by December 1, 2002, to ensure a fit before submissions of full drafts. We are committed to boosting the voices of graduate student, early career, and contingently employed writers. All queries can be sent to Michael Dango at dangomt@beloit.edu

Fantasy Literature: A Companion [UPDATE 2]

updated: 
Monday, September 19, 2022 - 7:01am
Editor Dr. Charul ("Chuckie") Palmer-Patel
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 1, 2022

While fantasy fiction has become incredibly popular and prolific in these last few decades, the appeal of fantastical literature dates back to antiquity, as mythologies, legends, and encounters with the supernatural have formed a large part of narrative traditions in every culture and language. This companion seeks to update and address underexamined areas of fantasy fiction, with the chief aim to provide a global introduction to English-language and English-translation fantasy fiction. This collection will focus on the contemporary written word (narrative prose) produced in late 20th and early 21st century.

Dramatic Fictions / Fictional Dramas

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:08pm
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

“Dramatic Fictions / Fictional Dramas”

Comparative Drama Conference

Orlando, FL, March 30 – April 1, 2023

Deadline: October 12, 2022

 

I am organizing a comparative panel that crosses and combines genres: works of fiction that contain plays, playwrights, actors, or dramatic performances; or plays that contain writers, fictional texts, or acts of literary composition. Alternately, presenters may set up intertextual conversations between the work of a playwright and an artist or character from another genre. For instance, I will be presenting a paper on Samuel Beckett and Bartleby the Scrivener. I am seeking two other papers to complete the panel. Only in-person presentations will be considered for this panel.

The Eighteenth Century Fragment

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:07pm
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 3, 2022

Material fragments such as a scrap of ancient poetry, a fractured sculpture, a torn diary page, or a partially written novel warranted increasing attention during the eighteenth century. The unfinished aesthetic of fragments offered an experience that was contrary to the sense of completion provided by whole and polished texts, and provided access to voices that would be otherwise inaccessible and lost. How do we understand this fascination with fragments in their various aesthetic, material, and political conditions? This panel invites contributions of papers on any aspect of the fragment. Papers may consider a single work, author, or artist; a theoretical approach; individual fragments or their role in larger works.

Spring Academy for Doctoral Students in March 2023 in Germany

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:06pm
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 20-24, 2023.

 

The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects. Additionally, it offers workshops held by visiting scholars.

The Many Fortunes of the Courtier: The Resilience of Castiglione’s Cortegiano

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:05pm
NEMLA 2023a
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Learning of Castiglione’s death in 1529, Charles V declared “one of the finest gentlemen in the world has just died.”
The Spanish emperor’s praise is evidence of the depth and scope of the influence of Il Cortegiano during the
sixteenth century, appearing in Spanish translation by Juan Boscán in 1534 and in an Elizabethan translation by
Thomas Hoby in 1561. Yet Castiglione’s Courtier—read at times as a book of manners, and other times as
representative of Renaissance ideals—continued to influence writers, poets, and literary critics well into the
seventeenth century and for long after. Whether interested in sprezzatura, the art of conversation, the persistence of

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:05pm
45th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance 

Papers are sought for a special panel series on the subject of disability in dramatic texts and performance for the 45th Annual Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, FL. We invite research on representation, image, symbolism, societal regulation or construction of disability as it pertains to casting and depictions of those with disabilities in playtexts and dramatic performance. The conference will allow hybrid attendance and presentations.

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