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Watermark Journal

updated: 
Monday, March 11, 2024 - 7:42pm
California State University, Long Beach
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Watermark is dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers concerned with the fields of rhetoric, composition, and literature of all genres and periods. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered. (https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/english/watermark-journal/)

ReFocus:The International Director Series

updated: 
Monday, March 11, 2024 - 11:14am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2028

ReFocus: A Series of International Film Studies Anthologies

Full name / name of organization:
Edinburgh University Press

contact email:
Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com

MLA 2025: “Black Femme Visible Literatures and Histories—Traditions, Lineages, Traces, & Roots”

updated: 
Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 12:41pm
Courtney Murray
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Deborah E. McDowell’s 1993 essay, “In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition,” issues a call to “start putting an end to beginnings even those that would put woman in the first place” or a “reformulation or refocusing of genealogy as a concept of analysis” (56-7). This roundtable seeks papers that complicate how and in which ways we make visible the roots, sites, and lineages of Black women’s literary and historical production from the eighteenth century forward. Papers can interrogate visibility as a practice or theory of recovery, recentering, and resituating that we also must remain critical of even when establishing “firsts” or origins of Black women’s historical and literary traditions.

Call for Chapters: IRB, Human Research Protections, and Data Ethics for Researchers

updated: 
Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 9:27am
Robin Throne, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Call for Chapters: IRB, Human Research Protections, and Data Ethics for Researchers

Proposal submissions due date extended to March 31, 2024

Chapters in this collection will present information relevant to new investigators for IRB, Human Research Protections, Data Ethics, and Data Privacy for Human Subjects. As an essential guide for new researchers, the book audience is also appropriate for new investigators such as doctoral students, dissertation mentors, and doctoral research supervisors.

For details and submission link, visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/7175

[UPDATE] Studia austriaca - Deadline: 30th April of each year

updated: 
Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 11:24am
Studia austriaca - An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature - http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Studia austriaca (founded in 1992)
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
p-ISSN 1593-2508 | e-ISSN 2385-2925
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani
Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

The Problems of the US Job Market for Humanities International Grad Students

updated: 
Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 10:56am
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

This guaranteed panel of MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities (CSGSH) seeks presentations  on the problems faced by non-STEM graduate students for starting their careers in the US, including visas, mentoring, and job search. How do they handle their 1-year OPT as opposed to the 3-year STEM OPT? 

The 2025 MLA Annual Convention will be held from 9 to 12 January in New Orleans, LA. 

Please send 250-word abstracts with a short CV to jahidul.alam1@louisiana.edu by Wednesday, 20 March 2024

CFP for EFL topics

updated: 
Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 5:51am
Nagoya JALT Publication
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Nagoya local chapter of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teaching) journal is seeking papers for volume 5(1).

Papers may be one of the following:

English Featured Article (Long: 6,000-10,000 words), English Featured Article (Short: 3,000-5,000 words), Students' Research Papers, Graduation Thesis Summary, Book Reviews, My Share. Papers must be related to teaching EFL (English as a foreign language) contexts. For more information, please email Camilo Villanueva at camilov@nufs.ac.jp. Deadline: March 31, 2024. Submit manuscripts using the Google Form on the publication page below:

(Call for Chapters: Edited Volume) Horror Capital: Class, Material, and Production Analyses of Horror Entertainment

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 9:29pm
William Chavez (Stetson University) and Valeria Dani (Cornell University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 17, 2024

The cinematic horror genre depends on a system of oppression, domination, and subordination. Although horror is deeply embedded within the politics of representation and social subjugation, we recognize an explicit lack within its scholarship (across disciplines) regarding class and historical materialism. This collected volume, which has emerged after years of collaboration and collective conversations, wishes to remedy this absence: we call for a comprehensive examination of horror as it intersects socio-economic class issues, brutal capitalism, cultural systems of excess, and rugged individualism. 

Next-Generation Research in English: A Graduate Student Showcase

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 3:47pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

Across English and related fields, graduate students are developing engaging, inventive, and transformative projects that envision their disciplines in new and exciting ways. In an effort to highlight this “next-gen scholarship,” this session will feature eight (8) 5-minute lightning round presentations to offer a snapshot of where the field is headed. (Please visit the MLA website for more information on innovative sessions at the MLA annual convention.)

 

Examples include, but are not limited to: 

MLA 2025 — Ecology without Nostalgia: Form and Futurity

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:13pm
Sarah-Nelle Jackson
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

Following methodological interventions in ecocriticism's nostalgic appeals to "nature," this session invites formal analyses and other close readings of texts that gesture toward, illuminate, or articulate liberatory socio-environmental futures. Any period, genre, language.

Please send 250-word abstracts to Sarah-Nelle Jackson, sarah-nelle.jackson@ubc.ca, by March 22, 2024. Graduate students and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply.

Traductions Trompeuses: Deceitful Translations in French and Francophone Literature and Art

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:13pm
PAMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

What happens when an author, playwright, or filmmaker choses to embed a translation in a fictional setting? This panel will consider the many forms of fictional, imaginary, and somewhat deceitful translations - from pseudotranslation (a text written as if it had been translated from a foreign language, even though no foreign language original exists) to self-translation (when an author composes a text in one language and translates it into another) - to interrogate the act of translation as both a motor and an obstacle in a work of fiction.

"Memory, Affects and Emotions" - 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:13pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Conference: 25-26 April 2024 (online - via Zoom)

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The Beauty of Storytelling and the Story of Beauty

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics- "The Beauty of Storytelling and the Story of Beauty", Vol. 75 (2/2025), edited by Joanna Szczepanik (Faculty of Architecture, West Pomeranian Technological University in Szczecin, Poland) and Kalina Kukiełko (Institute of Sociology, University of Szczecin, Poland)

Submission deadline: 31 March, 2025

Cultural History

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 30, 2024

The Cultural History panel seeks to revivify the political or social intersections that exist between text and context, including interdisciplinary aspects of culture. While papers that explore the continuities between history and film, history and literature, or history as it interweaves with marginalized aesthetic traditions would receive preference, excerpts of longer, ongoing projects that examine how cultural formations are “translated” or subsumed into historical trajectories would be particularly welcome. Submissions that not only practice cultural history by invoking the liminality of borderlands, but also critically reflect upon that practice are also encouraged.

Sounding Hawthorne

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
Michael S. Martin/Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

“Sounding Hawthorne: Silence, Acoustics, and Aurality”

 

MLA Panel for The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

9-12 January 2025

 

Young Rhetoricians' 2024 Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
Young Rhetoricians' Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

***Please see  link to full CFP for more information.***

What is the Young Rhetoricians' Conference?

The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference (YRC) began in 1985 at San Jose State University. From its inception, YRC has been a place for those who teach rhetoric at the university level to share research about teaching rhetoric and techniques for teaching rhetoric. “Young” refers not to the age of the rhetoricians but refers instead to rhetors with a willingness, in the mind, to dance whenever possible. You can learn more about YRC at our website.

"Rhetorical Theory" Panel (PAMLA 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

PAMLA 2024 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

“Rhetorical Theory”
Palm Springs, CA, Nov. 6-10

Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description

Mester UCLA Call for Papers, Issue 53

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
Mester UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024

General Issue: Queer Resistance

Special Topic Trans Violence in Contemporary Latin American Culture

Mester has extended the deadline for the call for submissions for its 53rd issue. We are the graduate student academic journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. Our scholarly magazine publishes academic articles, interviews, and book reviews on Iberian, Latin American, Brazilian, Luso-African, Latinx, and Chicanx literature, culture, and linguistics. Mester is seeking submissions that shape and inform queer resistance and the challenges it encounters in contemporary literary representation and cultural production. As a critical praxis of resistance, what do writing, filming, performing, and reading queerly (re)present?

WRITING THE NON-HUMAN: ANIMAL NARRATIVES BEYOND THE HUMAN LENS

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:11pm
Department of English, The University of North Bengal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 18, 2024

International Conference

on

 

WRITING THE NON-HUMAN: ANIMAL NARRATIVES BEYOND THE HUMAN LENS

 

Organised by

Department of English

University of North Bengal

 

In collaboration with

University of Milan, Italy

 

NEPCA: Film & History

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:11pm
Northeast Popular Culture Assoc.
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Film and History

Chair: Michael Modarelli, Walsh University. mmodarelli@walsh.edu

While this area welcomes presentations on a wide range of film topics contributing to popular culture, we are epically interested in papers that explore the following:

SAMLA Graduate Student Creative Writing Award

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:11pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Each year, SAMLA is pleased to accept nominations of outstanding creative work written by graduate students. The award alternates yearly between Prose and Poetry.

The 2024 edition honors Prose, and the prize includes a $250 honorarium, publication of the winning work in the South Atlantic Review, and complimentary registration for SAMLA 96 in Jacksonville, FL.

DRHA 2024: Banal Devices - Everyday technology in globalized technocultures

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:11pm
Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) 2024
Banal Devices: Everyday technology in globalized technocultures
University of Music and Theatre Munich, 8-10 September 2024

What systems and devices are relevant in people’s everyday lives, beyond the globalized dreams and universalising narratives professed by big tech and state bodies in the Global North? This question will be the starting point for DRHA 2024.

Breaking New Grounds Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:10pm
Clémence Laburthe-Tolra / Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

 

Breaking New Grounds.
Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.

 

Date: 27 September 2024.
Venue: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.
A one-day conference organised by Clémence Laburthe-Tolra (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, EMMA) and Aurélien Wasilewski (Law & HumanitiesCERSA, UMR 7106, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas).

 

THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ ACAS 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:10pm
Popular Culture / American Culture Association in the South
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Steeped in the wide-flung diaspora of the Gothic mode, the Southern Gothic is one of the most prominent ways the South is represented in media and culture. Represented in the works of writers as varied as Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner to Cormac McCarthy, Cherie Priest, and Jesmyn Ward, whether categorized as a form, a style, or a genre, the Southern Gothic is bound up with the specificity of regional cultural anxieties about race, class, gender, sexuality, history, and geographic identity itself. From its most stereotypical depictions to more nuanced, complex interpretations, the Southern Gothic shapes the wider perception of regional identities in ways that invite our contemporary scholarly engagement.

 

The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:09pm
Janet Badia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Call for Papers: The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath

 

This call for papers invites submission to The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath, edited by Janet Badia, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, and Emily Van Duyne. The collection, now under contract, will be a new addition to the Routledge Literature Companions series—highly regarded, field-defining volumes that showcase exciting areas of literary studies. These volumes are ideal introductions for beginners and useful volumes for those already working in the field. By design, they summarize current scholarship while simultaneously highlighting emergent approaches to authors and areas of study.

 

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