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Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

updated: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 5:13pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 16 ***  
 

PAMLA Annual Conference  

Palm Springs, California 

November 6-10, 2024 

 

 "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel)    

CFP: BOYHOOD STUDIES "Growing Up, Sex Ed"

updated: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 5:13pm
Berghahn Journals
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

GROWING UP, SEX ED

A Boyhood Studies special issue
berghahnjournals.com/boyhood-studies

Interim Editors:
Jonathan A. Allan, Brandon University
Chris Haywood, Newcastle University

Submission Deadline Extended (Palimpsest - East Delta University Journal of English Studies, Vol. 04, No. 01)

updated: 
Friday, May 31, 2024 - 2:43pm
Department of English, East Delta University, Chattogram, Bangladesh
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 7, 2024

Palimpsest - East Delta University Journal of English Studies

ISSN (Print): 2307-4094, ISSN (Online): 2709-2771

Publisher: Department of English, East Delta University, Chattogram, Bangladesh

Available Online at https://palimpsest.eastdelta.edu.bd

Crossref Identifier: https://doi.org/10.46603/pedujes

Inaugural International Symposium on Social Justice and the Teaching of World Literature October 12, 2024

updated: 
Friday, May 31, 2024 - 12:35pm
Department of English, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The English Department at the University of the Incarnate Word welcomes presentation proposals for its inaugural international interdisciplinary symposium on “Social Justice and the Teaching of World Literature.” The study and teaching of global texts actively allows for an inclusive representation of diverse voices and perspectives. This symposium seeks to explore more deeply the intersection between teaching world literature and social justice issues as they emerge in the 21st century.

Call for proposals for Post45 special issue: ‘The potential of cliché’

updated: 
Friday, May 31, 2024 - 10:27am
Harriet Smith Hughes & Siraj Sindhu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 7, 2024

When we call something a cliché, we’re typically calling it tired, banal, repetitive, or boring. Whether it’s an art object, a turn of speech, or a pattern of behavior, we’re identifying what it lacks: distinctiveness, originality, creativity, thrill. But in pointing to a cliché, we’re also pointing to a response. Noticing cliché creates a fissure. It elicits a reflexive movement, by which we’re forced to reckon with the repetitiousness of language; the ideological and economic structures that shape the creation of art; the social patterns that guide how we relate and self-present. Pointing to cliché, in other words, opens up the possibility for subversion.

Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary Cultures in Urdu

updated: 
Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 1:34pm
Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Fatima Z. Naveed
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Special Issue: Call for Papers

This issue will be published with Critical Pakistan Studies, pending review.

 

Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary Cultures in Urdu

Guest Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Fatima Z. Naveed

Submission Deadline Extended to June 15, 2024

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED! American and Diaspora Studies Session Proposals for NeMLA

updated: 
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 11:59am
Nicole Lowman/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Seeking session proposals for the American and Diaspora Studies area of the Northeast Modern Language Association. 

March 6-9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
Hotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

Our Thursday opening address will be given by Benjamin Fraser.
Our Friday keynote event will be given by Julia Alvarez.

ENSEIGNER LA LANGUE À TRAVERS LA TRADUCTION Perspectives franco-italiennes comparées entre Renaissance et Ère numérique

updated: 
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 3:05am
Université de Bâle ▪ Université de Bologne ▪ Université de Catane ▪ Université de Ferrare ▪ Université de Modène
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

ENSEIGNER LA LANGUE À TRAVERS LA TRADUCTION

Perspectives franco-italiennes comparées entre Renaissance et Ère numérique 

Ferrare, 21-22 novembre 2024   

Axes de recherche

CFP: IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2

updated: 
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 1:49am
IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, the official scholarly journal of the English Language and Literature Research Association of Türkiye (IDEA), is an international, electronically published, and double blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to English literary studies. The journal aims to provide a highly qualified academic platform for the exchange of diverse critical and original ideas on any aspect of literatures written in English, cultural studies, and literary theory. 

We accept works in the following areas: 

UPDATED: Horses in Film and Television: Volumes by Decade, 1 TV Volume

updated: 
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 12:53am
St. Thomas University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 29, 2024

These edited collections are part of the upcoming series Equine Creations: Imagining Horses in Literature and Film.

The scope of the present call is broad. All topics regarding the themes and impact of horses in film will be considered. 

1) Horses in Film Through the 1950s

2) Horses in Film in the 1960s and 1970s

3) Horses in Film in the 1980s and 1990s

4) Horses in Film since 2000

5) Horses in Television: since television shows can span multiple decades, all years will be combined in this volume.

 

Deadline for proposals: August 29, 2024

Open Issue: July2023-July2024

updated: 
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 1:38pm
postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 20, 2024

postScriptum:  An  Interdisciplinary  Journal of  Literary  Studies(online, open access, peer-reviewed, DOAJ indexed) ISSN: 2456-7507invites original, unpublished, scholarly research articles, popular articles, book/film reviews, interviews in English on Literary Studies for the following open issues: 

  • July 2023 (Vol VIII No ii)
  • January 2024 (Vol IX No i)
  • July 2024 (Vol IX No ii)

 Note: While sending submission email please mention for which issue you are submitting:July 2023 (Vol VIII No ii) / January 2024 (Vol IX No i) / July 2024 (Vol IX No ii) / Any of the Three 

Film Studies paper presentations, SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association); proposals by 6/3/2024

updated: 
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 12:53pm
SCMLA, South Central Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 3, 2024

We are seeking proposals for paper presentations (individual or special session) across all areas of film & media critical studies. Sessions will likely be organized topically and according to SCMLA's traditional Regular Sessions in 'English-language Film' and 'Global Film.' The topic is broadly conceived and open, and approaches may favor criticism, theory, history, or additional approaches.

One or more sessions in film and media studies will be held during the SCMLA annual meeting in New Orleans from 19-21 September 2024. Please see the general CFP for more information -- https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/

Exploring the Murky Depths: A Conference on Dark Tourism in Modern Societies Where Historical Narratives Encounter Geographical Landscapes

updated: 
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 10:50am
Department of Tourism and Aviation Management Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India- 722101
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Call for abstract

International Conference on Dark Tourism (ICDT)

Hybrid Mode

 

Theme:

Exploring the Murky Depths: A Conference on Dark Tourism in Modern Societies Where Historical Narratives Encounter Geographical Landscapes.

                                                                                                                 Date-14-16 September, 2024

Mapping Technologies, Making Worlds: Facing and Interfacing Challenges (Annual RINGS Conference, 24-26 October 2024)

updated: 
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 5:06am
Centre for Gender, Culture and Social Processes, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

With the advent of capitalism, always gendered and racialised, as a mode of production, profound changes have taken place in the ways in which various societies, human relations and ecosystems have evolved (Moore, 2016, Kaplan 2009). Technological development has always been integral to the directions and configurations of capitalism, as it has evolved over the last three centuries. Further, the globalisation of capitalism, with the imperialist phase of European expansionism, followed by US-American expansionism as well as later, in the emergence of Chinese state capitalism, has brought technology to the front and centre of social, economic and political relations at every level (Lewis, 2022).

Forgotten Spaces: Ecocriticism Social Justice, and the U.S. South (Collection of Essays)

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:29pm
Katie Simon, Georgia College and State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

The U.S. South is often a forgotten space within ecocritical discussions, yet it provides fruitful ground for thinking about environmental issues. In 2019, in the first edited collection of essays on the topic, Zachary Vernon notes that focusing attention on this bioregion might help “provide a way out of the limitations of thinking too locally or too globally,” and it might inspire a group of stakeholders to come to the table as well (7). One problem with ecocritical approaches is the long history of representing the U.S. South as an “internal other in the national imagination: colonized, subordinate, primitive, developmentally arrested, or even regressive” (Watson 254).

Crime Fiction and Communism

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:29pm
Carlos Uxo / Monash University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

In 1971, when the Cuban government launched the Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution Crime Fiction award, local literary critics were acutely aware of the genre’s roots in a capitalist setting. Yet, José Antonio Portuondo considered that crime fiction could serve a purpose within a Communist framework of life, provided it underwent adaptation to suit the new context. Over the following years, Cuban journals published numerous programmatic texts aimed at guiding writers willing to produce what would be termed Revolutionary crime fiction. Similar adjustments took place in other Soviet bloc countries, albeit with varying degrees of success and popularity.

Edited Volume Call for Papers on Susheel Kumar Sharma’s Unwinding Self

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:29pm
Danielle Hanson
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

CFP: Edited Volume Call for Papers on Susheel Kumar Sharma’s Unwinding Self

We are inviting submissions for a volume of papers exploring topics relating to Susheel Kumar Sharma’s Unwinding Self. The book is projected to be published in 2025 or early 2026, most likely by Paragon International Press. Contact editor for review PDF of the book, if interested.

Special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia: Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1964)

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:29pm
INNC International Network of 1950s Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia: Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1964)

https://www.sol.lu.se/engelska/innc

We are planning a peer-reviewed special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia focused on the topics of individuality and community in mid-century American culture (1945-1964), inviting explorations of the literature, film, art, and thought of the period. We seek 8,000-word articles that focus either on individual writers/artists/thinkers in the period or engage with the topic more broadly.

Call for Contributions: Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures (SUNY Press)

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:29pm
Anja Hartl & Ariane de Waal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

Call for Contributions

Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures

Eds. Ariane de Waal and Anja Hartl

SUNY Press

 

We invite additional contributions to an edited collection on Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures, which is under contract for publication in the series Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (series editor: Pamela Gilbert) at SUNY Press.

 

'Who Owns Shakespeare?' - Shakespeare's Globe

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:29pm
Shakespeare's Globe, London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 26, 2024

As part of the forthcoming Shakespeare and Race Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe, we are delighted to announce a two-day symposium to be held in London on 25-26 October 2024.  

Our festival theme is ‘Who Owns Shakespeare?’ and aims to examine the contested space that Shakespeare occupies in the world of theatre, academia and the public sphere.

We are inviting paper submissions for individual 45-minute sessions, which includes time for audience Q&A, engaging with the conference theme: ‘Who Owns Shakespeare?: Adaptation, Appropriation, Authority’.

 

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: 

 

Adaptation, appropriation, translation

Early modern and modern-day performance 

Lonergan on the Edge Graduate Student Conference 2024

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:28pm
Marquette University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Lonergan, Human Dignity & Culture - Lonergan on the Edge Graduate Student Conference 2024

at Marquette University, held Friday September 13th and Saturday September 14th, 2024 in Milwaukee, WI

Call for Papers:

Call for Chapter Proposals: New perspectives on the legacy of Daphne du Maurier

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:28pm
Amelia Crowther and Katharina Hendrickx; University of Sussex
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 24, 2024

We are looking for a few more chapter proposals to expand our forthcoming edited collection, New perspectives on the legacy of Daphne du Maurier. The collection explores du Maurier’s work in adaptation, including her most famous work Rebecca and its many adaptations. It has already had some interest from a publisher.

 

Comics, Catastrophe, Conservation: Reflections on Survivalism and Sustainability

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:27pm
Ananya Saha, PhD; Debadrita Chakraborty, PhD; Suniti Madaan, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 2, 2024

Delineations of apocalyptic non/alternative futures have been popular in the comic mode, irrespective of the approach to the formalistic manifestation: manga, graphic narratives, visual novels and so on. In the 20th century, wherein humanity has been torn apart by repeated belligerences of modern warfare and violence, doomsday sagas have garnered sustained attention; whether it is MARVEL’s ‘Apocalypse’, or the cyclopean ‘mecha’ robots of anime. The recent pandemic perhaps has augmented the darker side of imagination. However, the objective of the proposed volume is not to further the extant discourse of the cyberpunkish, post-apocalyptic dystopia.

Margaret Cavendish Society Conference: FAME "Absence and Death are Much Alike"

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:27pm
International Margaret Cavendish Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

The International Margaret Cavendish Society biannual conference will be held on the 12th and 13th of December, 2024, at Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).

 

FAME: “Absence and Death are much alike”

Fame is a report that travells far, and Many times lives long, and The older it groweth, The more it florishes, and is The more particularly a mans own…

The Worlds Olio (1655)

[W]ho knows but after my honourable burial, I might have a glorious resurrection in following ages, since time brings strange and unusual things to passe.

Literary Musings - Regular Issue July 2024

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:27pm
Literary Musings
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459
Academic Journal
Research Academy

RSA 2025: Laboring writers in the early modern world

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:26pm
N/A
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

We are seeking papers for a panel at RSA 2025 in Boston that address laboring writers--not so much writing as labor, but writers whose primary identity is as a laborer, peasant, artisan, or craftsperson from any geographic region. Such writers are often neglected in favor of courtiers and their clients. Indeed, some of how we conceive of “the literary” today is informed by the tastes of the ruling elite of the early modern period. This panel thus aims to recover non-elite voices of the past.

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