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.

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

“Sounding Hawthorne: Silence, Acoustics, and Aurality”

MLA Panel for The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

9-12 January 2025

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

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2025

“Faulkner’s Bodies”

July 20-24, 2025

University of Mississippi

Announcement and Call for Papers

http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner

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

Studies in the Novel: Call for Proposals for Special Issue, Winter 2025

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.

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.

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.

25 October 2024 

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida 

Call for Proposals

Government Arts and Science College

 Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. Nagalapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.

In collaboration With

NMS SVN College, Nagamalai, Madurai. 

Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

SAMLA’s 96th annual conference, Seen and Unseen, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, Florida this year from November 15-17.  Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://southatlanticmla.org/

Literary Monsters Panel

The Society for Textual Scholarship invites proposals for our 2024 conference hosted by the University of Tulsa, June 6-8, on the theme Text Under Pressure. The deadline for proposals is Monday, March 18.

Texts manifest many varieties of creative, social, and political pressure in their expressive content and form. But text is also often a matter of technological pressure: printing techniques rely on the pressure of a platen, roller, or squeegee; other recording and playback processes require the pressure of a stylus, a chisel, a nib, or the gentle pulse of a wifi wave. Such pressurized circumstances, symbolic and material, reveal core issues of textual production, circulation, reception, and contestation.