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NeMLA 2023 CfP - Modern and Current Environmental Crises in Italy

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:25pm
NeMLA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA session "Modern and Current Environmental Crises in Italy" (54th Annual NeMLA Convention March 23-26, 2023 in Niagara Falls, NY). The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2022. You can submit an abstract for this session here:https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19857 Session Abstract: Now more than ever it is important to interrogate the impact and discourses of the modern and contemporary environmental crises afflicting the world. This panel takes an interdisciplinary approach in order to explore the meaning of such key terms as “environment,” “ecology,” “nature” within the Italian context.

Writing Catastrophe/Centering Realism: Textualizing Capitalism’s Disasters

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:23pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

In the current moment, there is no paucity of catastrophe writing. From apocalyptic speculative fiction, cli-fi, and other textual forms of disaster writing, catastrophe is too often conceived of as environmental events or disasters that already have occurred (tsunami; forest fires; hurricanes and floods) or will reliably occur in the future. Part of the problem with this textualization is that catastrophe often is seen as an event rather than a process. More pointedly, our critical attention has been (understandably) trained on the effects and harms of climate change rather than on capitalism’s disastrous drive for surplus extraction that renders life unlivable for millions in the here and now.

Special Issue "Mobilization of Art and Religion in the Hispanic World: The Intersections of Race, Religion, Gender, and Objects c. 1500–1800"

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:23pm
Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 16, 2022

**Deadline Extended**

**Since these are electronic publications, we have been offered the opportunity to expand our content. Likewise, we recognize that the lessening of covid restrictions has allowed for more research travel. The expected deadlines for delivery of final papers remains the same [1 February 2023], but all abstracts should be submitted by September 16th, 2022. Please note for both journals: all abstracts we select and papers put forward for peer review will have their submission fees waived.** 

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CFP: 2023 Writing Innovation Symposium, Writing As _____ (due 10/28 & 12/9

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:23pm
5th Annual Writing Innovation Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 28, 2022

Writing As ____ the 5th Writing Innovation Symposium (WIS), is slated for February 2-3, 2023 in person and online at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. Undergrads, grads, faculty of all ranks and roles, academic staff, and independent writers and scholars are welcome to apply. Proposals for workshops and flashtalks are due 10/28; proposals for posters, displays, and other creative work as well as applications for B/SM Fellows are due 12/9. Notifications will be made in early November, and registration will open in December, when conference modalities and health mandates will be confirmed. For more: visit our online CFP.

 

Sandman: The TV Series

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:21pm
Tara Prescott-Johnson, UCLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

After decades of failed attempts at interpreting the comic that many fans believed couldn’t be adapted, the Netflix series Sandman is now enjoying richly deserved critical and commercial success. The explosive popularity of the series follows on the heels of other recent television adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s work, most notably Good Omens (2019 Amazon) and American Gods (2017-2021 Starz). It is also fueling ongoing discussions about representation, social justice, and art's role in responding to and reflecting upon historical and cultural movements. This edited book collection seeks essays that delve into these issues and more.

Journal of Contemporary Poetics: Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:20pm
International Islamic University, Islamabad
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Journal of Contemporary PoeticsCall for Papers

 

Deadline for submissions: Submission permitted throughout the year.

Full name / name of organization: International Islamic University, Islamabad

Contact email: jcp@iiu.edu.pk

Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens next issue on Decolonizing Visuality: Looks, Minds, Ways of Thinking and Acting

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 9:19pm
Teresa Mendes Flores/Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Universidade Lusófona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Decolonizing Visuality: Looks, Minds, Ways of Thinking and Acting

 

Editors : Teresa Mendes Flores (Université Nova de Lisbonne et ULHT), Filipa Duarte de Almeida (Université Omar Bongo) and Joseph Tonda (Université Omar Bongo)

 

(NeMLA 2023 Panel Call for Papers): If It Looks Like Horror: Mechanics of Fear

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 2:35pm
Stacey Anh Baran / Jeremy Freeman
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (2004), the hospital scene has been paid special attention for seeming “more at home in a horror movie than a superhero sequel,” according to Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro: it depicts Dr. Octopus’ mechanical tentacles as they slaughter the surgeons who are about to remove them from his body. The scene is rife with the imagery of gaping screams, fingernails clawing into the floor, and limbs going limp, evoking an atmosphere of terror which even Dr. Octopus recognizes once he awakens to the carnage before him.

Antisocial Femininity: Refusal Toward the Relational (ACLA 2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 2:32pm
Chelsea Largent & Nora Carr / ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

As we figure out what new social configurations look like, and whether or not we want to be a part of them, it seems we are at a point in queer and feminist theory where the futurity of our current conceptions of the social is also being called into question.

New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions (SUNY Press)

updated: 
Monday, September 19, 2022 - 12:25pm
New Rape Studies edited volume
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Co-editors Michael Dango, Erin Spampinato, and Doreen Thierauf invite original chapter-length contributions for a volume on New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions, under contract with SUNY Press. Final chapters are due February 1, 2023, and should be no longer than 8,000 words, inclusive of Chicago-style footnotes. We strongly encourage interested contributors to be in touch with abstracts by December 1, 2002, to ensure a fit before submissions of full drafts. We are committed to boosting the voices of graduate student, early career, and contingently employed writers. All queries can be sent to Michael Dango at dangomt@beloit.edu

Fantasy Literature: A Companion [UPDATE 2]

updated: 
Monday, September 19, 2022 - 7:01am
Editor Dr. Charul ("Chuckie") Palmer-Patel
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 1, 2022

While fantasy fiction has become incredibly popular and prolific in these last few decades, the appeal of fantastical literature dates back to antiquity, as mythologies, legends, and encounters with the supernatural have formed a large part of narrative traditions in every culture and language. This companion seeks to update and address underexamined areas of fantasy fiction, with the chief aim to provide a global introduction to English-language and English-translation fantasy fiction. This collection will focus on the contemporary written word (narrative prose) produced in late 20th and early 21st century.

Dramatic Fictions / Fictional Dramas

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:08pm
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

“Dramatic Fictions / Fictional Dramas”

Comparative Drama Conference

Orlando, FL, March 30 – April 1, 2023

Deadline: October 12, 2022

 

I am organizing a comparative panel that crosses and combines genres: works of fiction that contain plays, playwrights, actors, or dramatic performances; or plays that contain writers, fictional texts, or acts of literary composition. Alternately, presenters may set up intertextual conversations between the work of a playwright and an artist or character from another genre. For instance, I will be presenting a paper on Samuel Beckett and Bartleby the Scrivener. I am seeking two other papers to complete the panel. Only in-person presentations will be considered for this panel.

The Eighteenth Century Fragment

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:07pm
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 3, 2022

Material fragments such as a scrap of ancient poetry, a fractured sculpture, a torn diary page, or a partially written novel warranted increasing attention during the eighteenth century. The unfinished aesthetic of fragments offered an experience that was contrary to the sense of completion provided by whole and polished texts, and provided access to voices that would be otherwise inaccessible and lost. How do we understand this fascination with fragments in their various aesthetic, material, and political conditions? This panel invites contributions of papers on any aspect of the fragment. Papers may consider a single work, author, or artist; a theoretical approach; individual fragments or their role in larger works.

Spring Academy for Doctoral Students in March 2023 in Germany

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:06pm
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 20-24, 2023.

 

The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects. Additionally, it offers workshops held by visiting scholars.

The Many Fortunes of the Courtier: The Resilience of Castiglione’s Cortegiano

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:05pm
NEMLA 2023a
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Learning of Castiglione’s death in 1529, Charles V declared “one of the finest gentlemen in the world has just died.”
The Spanish emperor’s praise is evidence of the depth and scope of the influence of Il Cortegiano during the
sixteenth century, appearing in Spanish translation by Juan Boscán in 1534 and in an Elizabethan translation by
Thomas Hoby in 1561. Yet Castiglione’s Courtier—read at times as a book of manners, and other times as
representative of Renaissance ideals—continued to influence writers, poets, and literary critics well into the
seventeenth century and for long after. Whether interested in sprezzatura, the art of conversation, the persistence of

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:05pm
45th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance 

Papers are sought for a special panel series on the subject of disability in dramatic texts and performance for the 45th Annual Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, FL. We invite research on representation, image, symbolism, societal regulation or construction of disability as it pertains to casting and depictions of those with disabilities in playtexts and dramatic performance. The conference will allow hybrid attendance and presentations.

Call for Submissions to ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:03pm
ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Call for Submissions to ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama.

ROMARD is currently seeking submissions for publication in Volume 60. Anyone may submit original work to be considered for publication provided that they hold the authorized copyright for the work. ROMARD welcomes submissions of:

Radical Transcendentalisms

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:02pm
Alex Moskowitz
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Radical Transcendentalisms

Transcendentalism is readily understood to have been an American—and even a transatlantic—social reform movement, having played a significant role in antislavery efforts, women’s rights, and labor and educational reform. But reform is markedly different than radicalism. For this edited collection, we are interested in what nineteenth-century radicalism looked like, and the ways in which the Transcendentalist movement was intertwined with radical social practice and thought. We are interested in, for example, the historiographic and philosophic connections between radical workers’ movements in Europe and the rise of Transcendental social critique in the United States.

American Literature Association Conference: “Wallace Stevens’s Harmonium at 100.” (Boston, May 25-28, 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 2:00pm
Wallace Stevens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

2023 will mark the hundredth anniversary of Wallace Stevens’s debut poetry collection, Harmonium. To celebrate the occasion, the Wallace Stevens Society is organizing a panel about this landmark publication for the American Literature Association Conference in Boston (May 25-28, 2023). All approaches welcome, including fresh readings of individual poems, archival discoveries related to the book’s composition and publication history, discussions of new literary theories and their relevance to the poems, or reflections on the volume’s enduring impact on contemporary poetry.

Cultural Studies: A Global History

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 1:58pm
Rebecca Roach / University of Birmingham
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 21, 2022

This project aims to provide the first global history of cultural studies as a field, with a particular focus on its institutional manifestations and the ways in which cultural studies has been taken up in different cultural and geographical settings to various ends. 

NEMLA Convention session "Cultural Identities in Russian Emigre Literature" (#20137)

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 1:57pm
Daria A Kirjanov/Northeast Modern Languages Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

I am looking for papers for our  panel at  the Annual Convention of the Northeast  Modern Languages Assocation  (NEMLA) to be help at Niagra Falls, Buffalo, NY March 23-26, 2023.

 

CFP: Queering Asia: Cinema and Beyond (NEMLA 2023 panel)

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 1:56pm
Debarati Roy, Xinyuan Qiu (SUNY Binghamton)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Asia in popular media was predominantly represented as sexually conservative with heterosexual narratives culminating in marriage. The 21st century, however, witnessed a surge of queer depictions that challenged the dominance of the heteronormative. This panel invites papers exploring representations of non-normative sexualities and genders from media industries within Asia. We are seeking in-depth discussions about queer narratives in films – independent as well as mainstream, television programs, and webseries. How do these different media formats shape the queer? To what extent does censorship affect these depictions? What roles do studios/production houses play in crafting queer subjectivities? How is the queer embodied in these narratives?

The Mindful Intersection of Pedagogy and Scholarship (Roundtable – NeMLA 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 1:56pm
Matthew Leporati / Donetta Hines / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

NeMLA 2023 Roundtable: The Mindful Intersection of Pedagogy and Scholarship

This roundtable session invites you to discuss practical strategies for implementing techniques of mindfulness in both the classroom and our scholarly work, considering especially their intersection.

African American Music and Literature

updated: 
Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 1:56pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

In a memorable scene from Questlove’s award-winning documentary, Summer of Soul about the Harlem Cultural Festival (1969), singer Nina Simone performs “Backlash Blues,” a poem by her friend Langston Hughes. Five decades later, Beyonce performed a rousing version of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” for her Homecoming tour in 2019. The poem, affectionately called the Black National Anthem, was originally written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900. Across these multiple decades, (and long before) African American musicians have invoked Black Literature, while African American writers have referenced Black music.

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