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Issue Ten: Enchantment, Disenchantment, ReenchantmentRethinking practices of interconnection in a century of crisis
In her 2014 text, All Joking Aside, Rebecca Krefting argued that “Jokesters unmask inequality by identifying the legal arrangements and cultural attitudes and beliefs contributing to their subordinated status—joking about it, challenging that which has become normalized and compulsory, and offering new solutions and strategies” (2). Humor has long been a tool for upsetting the status quo, for questioning the social institutions that exalt some, while leaving so many others behind. But does this comedic approach succeed in effecting change? What are the tangible results of challenging the existing situation?
PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Session: American Literature 1865 to 1945
Contacts: Mary Pace, California State University - Los Angeles (mpace@calstatela.edu)
PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Session: American Literature 1945 to the Present
Contacts: Marc Malandra, Biola University (marc.malandra@biola.edu)
PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Session: American Literature before 1865
Contacts: Amy Parsons, California State University Maritime Academy (aparsons@csum.edu)
PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Session: Latinx Literature and Culture
Contacts: Lisette Lasater, Palomar College (lisette.lasater@gmail.com)
The Message Is? is an edited volume dedicated to exploring the expressed and sometimes hidden gems of black spirituality found in the creativity of the award-winning artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa. Nathanael J. Homewood and Isis Pickens are co-editing this volume.
We are inviting chapter proposals. Please consider submitting a 250-word abstract briefly outlining your potential chapter contribution. We kindly ask that these be submitted by March 15, 2021, and be emailed to nathanaelhomewood@depauw.edu.
Turkish Review of Communication Studies (TURCOM) is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal that publishes articles, commentaries, and reviews in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies. Based in Marmara University Faculty of Communication, Istanbul, the journal is published biannually in June and December and is currently indexed by Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), DOAJ, and EBSCOhost.
The concept of “Othering/ Otherisation” refers to the classification of individuals or groups as outsiders. This cognitive classification divides any sociocultural and political formation into potential two generally monolithic and mutually exclusive blocks: the in-group community versus the out-group community. The inclusion or exclusion of each block is contingent on different criteria like religion, ethnicity, culture, race, politics, class, etc. When these differences are used descriptively, they become somewhat acceptable and harmless. However, when they are normative, they are often couched in the discourses of superiority or inferiority, goodness or badness, civilized-ness or uncivilized-ness, etc.
This panel explores the ways educators are engaging with anti-racist practices in their classrooms, institutions, and communities as we re-invision the future of our profession.
The Modern Language Association will take place January 6-9 2022 in Washington D.C., and should include some hybrid components.
This roundtable invites perspectives across the academy, including graduate students and contingent faculty, to explore the impact of virtual teaching on discussions of academic freedom and intellectual property. This is a guaranteed session through the Higher Education in the Profession forum.
The Modern Language Association will take place January 6-9 2022 in Washington D.C., and should include some hybrid components.
Edited collection: Call for essay proposals
Interminable Rhetorics: Women and Gendered Labor in a Post-2020 Economy
Editors: Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Jessie McCrary, Georgia State University
lgaillet@gsu.edu and jmccrary@gsu.edu
We seek articles that explore how the conflation of 2020 events played out in the lives of women.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Drawing Memory in Jewish Women’s Graphic Novels
A Collection of Essays to be Published with Wayne State UP
Edited by Victoria Aarons
Chapter proposals are invited for a collection of essays under contract with Wayne State University Press on Jewish women’s graphic novels.
In this special issue on Kashmir, we look at the dramatic change in the status of Kashmir that was effected with the reading down/abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019 and the aftermath of this moment. While Kashmir has been violated for decades, the removal of all special status with the abrogation was more than a symbolic change and not just because of the escalation in violence, the most dramatic internet shutdown in any modern nation. What has changed with this abrogation? What did that moment mean for Kashmir and what does it mean for its future?
Satire is dead: long live satire. How can political comedy retain its critical edge when reality is more absurd than even its burlesque depiction? What media and literary satire emerge in the interregnum between old and new worlds?
Papers may engage with a range of the following topics/fields:
--Satire and its relation to fake news, truthiness, and viral conspiracy theories
--Satire and media form-- film, TV, social media, video games, podcasts, stand-up, improv, media platforms, etc. (focusing on the dynamic or dialectic between media form & satirical content)
Hello, everyone. I'm editing a series with Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington on a line of academic books critically analyzing elements of Jewish science fiction and fantasy (that's the series title). https://rowman.com/action/series/les/lexjsf As such, I’d love some authors with concepts to write about.
At this stage, a paragraph-long proposal emailed to valerie@calithwain.com with a subject of JEWISH SPEC-FIC would be great. Here are some examples:
The Secret Jewish Roots of Star Wars (or some other top franchise)
The E. E. Cummings Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2021 American Literature Association conference in Boston (http://americanliteratureassociation.org). We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Cummings’ life or work. Proposals that touch upon the following topics will be especially welcome:
• Cummings in 1918-1921 (Camp Devens, the flu pandemic, and afterwards)
• Cummings, the child, and the actual and real worlds
• Cummings’ early experiments in modernism
• Readings of little-studied Cummings poems
• Re-readings of much-studied Cummings poems
• Cummings among the modernists and post-modernists
The Marxist Literary Group is seeking proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2022, which is currently scheduled to be held in Washington D.C. from January 6th - 9th, 2022.
How is our understanding of particular genres, or even the concept of genre itself, shaped by Marxist thought? We welcome discussions of popular film, television, or literature. Please submit 300-word abstracts and bio to mmacer2@uic.edu and ahbrown@sas.upenn.edu by March 15th, 2021.
Middle English Forum Roundtable CFP for MLA National Convention 2022, to be held in Washington, D.C., January 6-9, 2022
This roundtable session invites papers that analyze perceptions, representations, and implications of the remote in the Middle English period and its immediate premodern afterworlds, whether geographic, linguistic, literary, cultural, political, emotional, or other, c.1200-1700. What does Middle English remoteness signify? How does such remoteness signify?
In view of recent and current global events, the phone camera has emerged as an important and effective political apparatus. The centrality, proliferation, and prominence of phone footage across contemporary screen media and media platforms suggests that the phone camera is no longer just an indulgent phone fixture, but rather, an invaluable truth-telling tool. Practical, accessible, and autonomously used, the phone camera has been an essential technology to the present-day exposures of injustice, violence, and corruption around the world.
Call for Book Chapter Proposals / The Invisible Professor: A Blueprint for Adjunct Faculty
Let’s be honest for a moment. Right now, higher education is a giant !@#$ show.
1. Enterprising graduate students are in limbo because of departmental cuts and new caps on M.A. and Ph.D. programs.
2. Adjuncts are being forced back into the classrooms, many lacking adequate insurance, while COVID-19 spreads like wildfire.
3. Chairs and deans are running around with their heads cut off due to projected enrollment and budget woes. Some smaller institutions may be forced to close their iron gates forever.
It is said that sometimes words get in the way of a good story.
If that is the case, let’s write a story with as few words as possible. In fact, tell us a story in 12 words exactly.
The ABC’s of our Keep It Short and Simple 12-word contest can be explained in, well, 12-words:
Articulate a story or concept with
Brevity in an interesting
Creative way.
Even small words count (we believe in the power of the little guys) and contractions count as one word (because working together makes us better).
This is a chance to challenge yourself to try something a little different and have some fun doing it!
Learn More and Register at TheWriteContest.com
It is said that sometimes words get in the way of a good story.
If that is the case, let’s write a story with as few words as possible. In fact, tell us a story in 12 words exactly.
The ABC’s of our Keep It Short and Simple 12-word contest can be explained in, well, 12-words:
Articulate a story or concept with
Brevity in an interesting
Creative way.
Even small words count (we believe in the power of the little guys) and contractions count as one word (because working together makes us better).
This is a chance to challenge yourself to try something a little different and have some fun doing it!
Prize Details:
We are now accepting entries for our Short Story contest. Writers of any kind any are welcome to enter.
Early Registration ($25) Ends April 1st / Registration ($35) Ends April 22nd
Prizes:
1st place wins $500, an “Ask the author?” Zoom session, and books from our judges in your chosen format.
2nd place wins $350.
3rd place wins $150.
In the Short Story Contest we give you a genre, a character prompt, and a location prompt. You write the best story you can, within the word count given.
All submissions are reviewed by our professional team and winners are chosen by our featured judging panel.
In today's culture, it's almost impossible to avoid "monsters." Straight from mythology and legend, these fantastic creatures traipse across our television screens and the pages of our books. Over centuries and across cultures, the inhuman have represented numerous cultural fears and, in more recent times, desires. They are Other. They are Us. This panel will explore the literal monsters--whether they be mythological, extraterrestrial, or man-made--that populate fiction and film, delving into the cultural, psychological and/or theoretical implications.
Speculative fiction covers a broad range of narrative styles and genres. The cohesive element that pulls works together under the category is that there is some “unrealistic” element, whether it’s magical, supernatural, or a futuristic/technological development: works that fall into the category stray from conventional realism in some way. For this reason, speculative fiction can be quite broad, including everything from fantasy and magical realism to horror and science fiction—from China Miéville to Margaret Atwood to Philip K. Dick. This panel aims to explore those unrealistic elements and all their varied implications about society, politics, economics, and more.
The Riverside Quarterly is accepting submissions for its inaugural Summer 2021 issue.
A multidisciplinary, open access, advertisement-free journal, The Riverside Quarterly is dedicated to serving the growing global creative class. We are accepting original articles, research digests, interviews, reviews, and opinion pieces [between 750 & 2500 words in length] that explore the art and practice of creativity.
Focusing primarily on the arts, education, and business, we seek to present our readers with the most compelling scholarship available in these areas. Our goal is to enlarge and amplify the global dialogue on creativity by providing our readership with a source for quality, usable, information.
Proposals are invited on any aspect of The Waste Land and/or its reception in the last 100 years. Please submit a 300-word proposal and brief biographical sketch to Dr. Frances Dickey, Department of English, University of Missouri, dickeyf@missouri.edu.
https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2022
https://www.tseliot.sites.luc.edu/
MLA 2022 Non-Guaranteed Session CFP: Comics on the Border
(DEADLINE: 3/15/2021)
Call for Papers for a proposed non-guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum to be held (if accepted) at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Jan. 6-9, 2022, in Washington D.C.
Comics are defined by borders in formal representation and structure, in the boundaries between word and image and generic categories, in the networks and communities of mainstream and alternative production and circulation.