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In her 2017 debut novel Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney writes, “You can love more than one person” (Rooney 141). A statement so obvious, it’s not even worth stating. However, a simple edit—you can be in love with more than one person—suddenly becomes a much more controversial statement.
The current surge of graphic novels in French, from Marjane Satrapi's oft-celebrated Persepolis to Jessica Oublié's lesser-known-yet-prize-winning Péyi An Nou, signifies a shift in priorities for Francophone storytellers. Graphic novels create meaning through the interplay of text and image; they privilege non-linear storytelling and thinking; and they prioritize accessibility over erudition. As a marginalized genre, graphic novels are a welcome home for those writing and illustrating from the margins of society. In a graphic novel, what we see is never the full story; instead, we are constantly challenged into new modes of "seeing" and "reading" that question assumptions about the consumption of literature and art.
Deceptive and unethical rhetorical strategies are increasingly prevalent in politics, media, digital spaces, and everyday conversations. Whether the result of a changing discursive landscape (McIntyre, 2018; Nichols, 2017), our enmeshment in digital environments (Bolter, 2019; Pigg, 2020; Gurri, 2018), or a reflection of long-standing rhetorical trends (Fuller, 2018; Roberts-Miller, 2019) that have simply accelerated in the digital age, the question of how to address these disingenuous rhetorics is a challenge for both scholars of rhetorical theory and researchers from across the disciplines.
This conference, marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the African Literature Association (ALA), explores the ways in which African writers reconceive movement and place. Often, narratives about Africans on the move, particularly migrant Africans, reflect a tension between motion and stasis. Such tensions highlight the often-unsettling narrative transitions that characterize recent poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction from Africa and the diaspora. While narratives like NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names depict the exigencies of forced removal, others, like Fatou Diome’s Belly of the Atlantic describe identities and situations in flux.
Indiana English encourages submissions on the role of English studies in the Midwest but will consider submissions on any topic related to English literature and criticism, linguistics, or pedagogy. For this volume, we are particularly interested in exploring writings on national politics, the Midwest's impact on Presidential elections, works studying candidates who came from the Midwest, and the rich literary history that comes with such considerations (speeches, policies, educational content). We also publish original creative work (fiction, poetry, creative or literary nonfiction, and photography).
Although writers like Sappho and Shakespeare died hundreds of years ago, the works they left behind are still vibrantly alive. When we read them, we recognize something fundamental about ourselves. In this roundtable, literature scholars, creative essayists, and poets reflect on deeply personal encounters with “old” books, texts, and images from the pre-Industrial past. Covering a range of topics—Shakespeare and divorce, Dante and gender, Hippocrates and the modern health-care system, St. Agatha and embodiment, studying the Middle Ages while Black—these essays show how conversations with the past continues to animate our twenty-first century lives.
We are especially interested in essays that engage the 17th and 18th centuries.
As today we see Western countries enacting various immigration laws and borders are being mined to prevent “intruders” from accessing those countries. Faced with (in)security in sub-Saharan Africa the African woman has become that monster of abjection residing in that marginal geography, dwelling in the gates of difference in unfamiliar spaces. The African woman faced with (im)migration goes through a strong feeling of revulsion, fear, or aversion, she is treated as something that is a threat to one's boundaries and undermines one's sense of identity and security, exemplifying Kristeva’s idea of abjection.
UPDATED DEADLINE! OCTOBER 15, 2024
This creative session seeks writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction who address Philadelphia’s past, present, and future creative evolution, revolution, and devolution in their work.
ABSTRACT
As one of America’s oldest cities, Philadelphia has experienced drastic changes many times over, often celebrated or maligned by its creative class in music, literature, and performing arts.
HJEAS Books: Contemporary maternal subjectivities on the page and on the screen - Call for Papers for an edited collection
We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection on 'Bugs in long-19thC Eco-Literature.'
Essays in this collection will focus on a specific subgenre of eco-literature, ranging from Gothic horror to children’s fantasy.
In 21st-century Ireland, women have experienced several (r)evolutions in their political rights that have, in turn, shaped the imagination of the nation. Irish abortion law faced a major public challenge with the 2012 death of Savita Halappanavar after she was denied an abortion while suffering a septic miscarriage; in 2018, lawmakers passed a law that allows abortion up to week 12 of pregnancy, a small victory in a nation where abortion under any circumstances beyond saving the life of the mother was forbidden.
Literary works, video games, comics, TV shows, films, and podcasts that adapt or retell Classical mythology remain popular. Yet, recent attention on these contemporary stories has focused largely on women and women’s perspectives, while Classical queer identities have been decidedly underexplored or even excluded from feminist scholarship. Works such as Xena: Warrior Princess, BBC/Netflix’s Troy: Fall of a City, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, Steven Sherrill’s The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, and Supergiant Games’ Hades and Hades II demonstrate a sustained interest in centering queer bodies and voices within the Classical tradition.
The Arkansas Philological Association invites papers/presentations for its 51st annual conference. The conference will take place Nov. 8-9, 2024, at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.
We welcome faculty, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and independent scholars from a wide range of disciplines to submit proposals of no more than 200 words for 15- to 20-minute presentations on topics related to language(s), literature, theoretical and cultural analysis, creative works, and pedagogical approaches. Papers addressing any aspect of literary and cultural studies are welcome, but we particularly encourage proposals for talks (or panels) on the APA 2024 conference topic of food and culture.
56th NeMLA ConventionPhiladelphia, PA | March 6-9th, 2025
All abstracts must be submitted through NeMLA's CFP portal: View Session (cfplist.com)
This session is sponsored by the Kurt Vonnegut Society and seeks abstracts that engage the conference theme of "(R)EVOLUTION."
We are open to what shape presentations might take, but possibilities might include:
56th NeMLA ConventionPhiladelphia, PA | March 6-9th, 2025
All submissions must be made through NeMLA's submission portal: View Session (cfplist.com)
Hip hop began in the Bronx, NY, in the early 1970s, but the musical genre and cultural movement build from a rich history of Black American traditions, experience, and epistemology. This session seeks short presentations that will prompt a roundtable discussion about how hip hop has influenced and been influenced by American (r)evolution.
Some might argue that hip hop was and is a cultural (r)evolution for many reasons, including:
Call for Papers for volume 18, n° 2(36)/ 2025
ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies
Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and Public Relations
Journalisme et relations publiques face à l’Intelligence Artificielle
Guest editors / Coordination
Mónika ANDOK, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, HUNGARY
e-mail: andok.monika@btk.ppke.hu
Beyond the Capitals of Decadence
This seminar invites papers critically exploring whiteness as an invented political and social identity category. We seek to investigate its emergence from the transatlantic slave trade, its persistence as an entrenched social norm, and its relative stasis compared to evolving terminology for other racial identities.
Central to our inquiry: Why do people who believe themselves to be white still invest in this category? What strategies might facilitate evolution beyond whiteness? As other racial designations have transformed—Black/Negro/Colored to African-American, Hispanic to Latin/x, Indian to Native/Indigenous, Oriental to Asian—we pose the crucial question: What does Post-Whiteness look like?
We encourage submissions examining:
Title: Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential Organizers: David Delgado López (Visiting Assistant Professor, Carleton College), Kelly Ferguson (Assistant Professor, Miami University), Brittany Frodge (Lecturer, Ohio State University) Description: Due to varied complex historical processes such as industrialization, urbanization, and colonization, the rural has often been articulated in literature and other cultural products as an underdeveloped space tied to the past that can only progress through civilizing acts of modernization; Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism (Argentina, 1845), Camilo José
Edward Taylor Fifty Years Later
Theatre Topics Call for Paragraphs on the Pedagogy of the Now
Theatre Topics invites submissions of short reflective descriptions of activities, exercises, assignments, and scripts currently used in the theatre and performance classroom for a March 2025 special section on the pedagogy of the now. We seek paragraphs of no more than 300 words about how theatre educators are meeting the needs of today’s students.
Second Annual National Advanced Writing Symposium (NAWS) - Innovative Pedagogies and Student Engagement in Advanced Writing
Friday, January 31, 2025
The pandemic years have shown us that writing instruction needs to become more inclusive, more robust, and more compassionate. However, it has also challenged us to find new and innovative ways to maintain student engagement, foster participation, and address declining student attendance, among other concerns.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of
Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture
invite submissions for the 24th meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars,
to be held at Stanford University on June 9-10, 2025.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The workshop is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, post-doctoral
scholars, and independent scholars working in law and the humanities. In addition to drawing
from numerous humanistic fields, including Black and Indigenous studies, history, literature,
“WE THE PEOPLE:” Black People and Politics, From Past to Present
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Tuskegee University invites you to participate in our annual Black History Month International Symposium on Friday, February 21, 2025.
The symposium desires papers and panel proposals from students, faculty and independent scholars of all disciplines. We encourage you to present research on black people’s involvement in politics, political movements, literature, and the black experience throughout the globe.
Information for Potential Presenters:
Abstract: 200 words maximum
What effect has Asian thought or culture had in/on American poetry? How has it diversified or failed to diversify that poetry or its epistemology? This panel seeks papers on connections between American poetry/poetics and Asian culture, philosophy, and/or religion. Any connection is welcome including how poets have (mis)used Asian culture and/or thought in their poetry and thinking about poetry. However, in keeping with NeMLA’s theme of “(R)EVOLUTION,” I am particularly interested in affinities between ways of knowing in Asian thought and American poetry and how such affinities may disrupt traditional Western epistemologies or cause American and European readers to rethink their connection to the world.
Deadline Extended: Submissions Now Due December 1, 2024 The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for its fall 2024 issue on the 2023 MMLA convention theme of “Going Public.” The MMLA’s 2023 convention theme, “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” asked convention attendees to explore the following questions:
Saints English Graduate Conference 2025 at the University of St Andrews
Theme: Obsession
Dates: 11th - 12th April, 2025
Location: St Andrews, Scotland (UK)
‘Without obsession life is nothing’ — John Waters
Banned Ideas: Challenges and Opportunities in the Current Political Climate A Roundtable Session at the 56th NeMLA Annual Convention
March 6-9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
NEMLA 2025 theme is "(R)EVOLUTION”, submission deadline (UPDATED): October 15, 2024
This session is sponsored by the Diversity Caucus.
Mentoring for Schlars of Color: A Roundtable Session at the 56th NeMLA Annual Convention
March 6-9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
NEMLA 2025 theme is "(R)EVOLUTION”, submission deadline (UPDATED): October 15, 2024
The goal of this roundtable is to create a safe space for scholars of color to meet and discuss the challenges and opportunities in the area of mentorship among scholars of color. This session is sponsored by the Diversity Caucus and welcomes proposals from scholars at any level of their career, from graduate students to senior scholars.
In recent decades, poetry performance has been one of the fastest growing arts practices internationally. Since movements such as Beat poetry, jazz poetry, and poetry slam have inspired performance scenes across the English-speaking world and beyond, innovative performance styles have emerged alongside new genres and styles of composition geared towards oral performance. The global reach of spoken word poetry has become highly noticeable in the arena of slam, evidenced by the diverse programmes of initiatives such as the 2005 ‘Poetry International World Slampionship’ in Rotterdam, the ‘Coupe du Monde de Poésie’ in France (since 2007), and the recently established ‘World Poetry Slam Organization’.