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Howells Society CFPs for ALA 2025 (Boston)
The W.D. Howells Society will host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).
PANEL 1: HOWELLS & OTHERS
We are seeking chapters for an edited book with the provisional title: Engaging young people with the climate emergency through literature. We are currently working with Bristol University Press to get this project off the ground.
Call for Papers: INSAP XIII: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space(Queen’s University Belfast, 8-13 June 2025)
We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the INSAP XIII conference Celestial Connections Across Time and Space. This conference aims to bring together scholars, artists, and scientists from various disciplines to explore the multifaceted relationships between the skies - be it the stars, planets, or other celestial phenomena - and their influence across cultures, histories, and fields of study. INSAP’s purpose from its inception has been to foster a dialogue that bridges the gap between the sciences and the arts, encouraging a holistic understanding of the universe.
Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459
Academic Journal
Research Academy
Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.
Vegan Intersections: Literature, History, Theory
31 March-4 April 2025
Online via Zoom
Hosted by the University of Geneva
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles
Special Issue: ‘Use for Longer: Opportunities and Barriers to Extending the Clothing Lifetimes’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2024
The editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite submissions for its upcoming issue that advance scholarly research and critical inquiry in the fields of English language and literature. We seek original contributions that explore a diverse array of topics, aiming to enhance academic discourse and foster interdisciplinary dialogue.
A ghost, Avery Gordon writes, “has a real presence and demands its due, your attention” (2008, Ghostly Matters). To answer this demand, our seminar invites submissions that turn their attention to literary and artistic ghosts. After all, ghosts are profoundly literary figures; like poetics, they are defined by their repetitions and returns, and constantly referring to something else, though failing to fully represent it. However, ghosts are not any literary figures. They are haunting, and although they have a strong presence they come into life in place of something absent. Moreover, in their haunting presence, they are signalling “repressed or unresolved social violence” (Gordon, 2008).
Call For Papers
Williams Wells Brown: A Man of Letters
This panel seeks works investigating the tug between progressive and conservative ideals and influences on the Gothic genre, especially as they are expressed through the ways Nature and the environment are used and described.
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship
In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?
Call for Papers
The CLA Online Research Conference will be held virtually on Friday, February 21, 2025. This year's conference theme is Illuminating Children's Literature Research in Theory and Practice.
Tracing its roots to a long history of philosophical discourse, identity stands as one of the most intricate and ubiquitous concepts within the large debates of human and social sciences. It is taken for granted in everyday life and assumed to be an all-inclusive determinant of empirical and virtual entities; yet, obscure when it comes to marking out its essence as a referential determinant and delineating the shaping politics of its concretizations. The ambiguity and paradox of identity stem from the contradictory dimensions it encompasses, entailing at the same time a sense of similitude yet difference, uniqueness yet commonness, and independence yet reliance.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film
“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series
-UPDATE on the CHAPTERS-
Editors’ Introduction
Special Issue: Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies
Action on behalf of life transforms…as we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Location and Dates
Conference Theme: Leading from the Center
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 24-28, 2025.
The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their ongoing Ph.D. projects. The conference offers a forum for Ph.D. candidates in which they can present their research candidly and receive valuable feedback
A Fitzgerald Centennial: The Great Gatsby, New York, and New Perspectives
The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference
Hosted by the New School, New York, NY
June 22-28, 2025
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, we invite scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts to submit proposals for The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in New York City.
Editors Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Lorna Piatti-Farnell solicit proposals for a collection of scholarly essays with the working title Everyone’s an Assassin: John Wick and the Aesthetics of Violence.
Proposals are welcome on all aspects of the John Wick films and paratexts, with particular emphasis on the aestheticization of violence and worldbuilding within the John Wick universe.
Inquiries and 300-word proposals with CVs may be directed by October 31st, 2024 to lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz and Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu. 6000-word essays will then be due in late 2025.
Our CFP in Brief
Title: TBD, but potentials include:
Editors (Collaborators): Elizabeth Sanders, Daniel M. Look
Description / Call for Papers:
We are soliciting chapters/articles for an edited academic book on topics relating to the Transformers franchise and gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.Proposals from academics and independent scholars covering official continuity/properties, fanfiction, the fandom, and content creators will be considered. Proposals should be for new essays, not republications of previous works.
Land, Labor, and Legacy: Black CCC Enrollees in the US South
We invite scholars, community activists, and historians to submit chapters for an upcoming book on the largely unexplored experiences of Black enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression, with a focus on the American South. This volume seeks to illuminate the labor conditions, social dynamics, and enduring legacies of Black participants in this pivotal New Deal program.
Key Topics for Submission:
CALL FOR PAPERS Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis May 22-24, 2025International conferenceUniversity of Kent, Canterbury, UK (and online)Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Vinciane Despret and Susan McHughOnce upon a time, not very long ago, many considered fables to be an anthropocentric mode of representing animals, to be avoided (Derrida 2002). It is then remarkable to see the flowering of scholarship on ‘fables’ in recent years.
The Victorians Institute Journal is now accepting submissions for Volume 52. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.
For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com
Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans
Please join us in exploring the themes, influences, and impact of the monster as a cultural and historical touchstone. Across the globe and throughout the centuries, the label of monster has been invoked to separate the “natural” from the “unnatural” and the acceptable from the socially unacceptable. Whether referring to mythological creatures, the Victorian creations that have become standards through Universal film adaptations, or as a shorthand to denigrate othered peoples, the monster has no shortage of applications and, sometimes, reevaluations.
Roger Corman’s Horror Movies: collected essays
edited by Sue Matheson
Part of theLexington Books Horror Studiesseries edited by Carl Sederholm
We are bringing out an edited collection of essays with the working title Time is Power: Temporality and Caste. Time is an ontological phenomenon organized around humans’ need for social interaction and collective life, often compelling individuals to be chrono-normative or abide by a rigid clock. Currently little scholarship exists which examines the power of time and temporal agency in an environment organized by systems of caste and other intersecting identities.
Submissions due December 1, 2024
To mark the 2026 Semiquincentennial of the American Revolution, the journal Diplomatic History seeks article proposals that engage with historical aspects related to the international, transnational, transimperial, continental, or global dimensions of the American Revolution, including its origins or aftermath. The articles will be published in a special forum in 2026.