The emergence of modern documentary poetics is often attributed to twentieth-century writers who were interested in redefining the purpose and limits of artistic expression, a redefinition that occurred in the context of labor exploitation, racial violence, and ethnic cleansing. This panel asks participants to consider the nineteenth-century precursors of modern documentary literature. How and to what ends do documents and literature intersect throughout the long nineteenth century? What constitutes a document and how might this definition enable new ways of interrogating issues of race, gender, class, indigeneity, and ethnicity? What formal features and aesthetic innovations emerge during the nineteenth century?

 Physical landscapes and human-environment interactions have long been portrayed in literature and the arts. The modern environmentalist movement, which first appeared in the late nineteenth century and which gained traction in the 1960s, has resulted in a wide variety of fictional and nonfiction works addressing the evolving interaction between humans and the natural world. However, it was only in the early 1990s that “ecocriticism” emerged as a self-conscious critical practice, one that has gone through a variety of designations: environmental criticism, literary-environmental studies, literary ecology, literary environmentalism, green cultural studies or, more recently, environmental humanities.

Call for Papers: Sinophone Research Forum: Island Voices on the Move 

11-13 June 2025, University of Leeds

The forumfocuses on the global Sinophone communities. We welcome proposals for individual papers (20-minute papers) and 3-paper panels.  

Watermark, the annual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by graduate students in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking submissions for its nineteenth volume. Our journal is dedicated to publishing original, critical, and theoretical papers concerned with literature of all genres and periods, as well as representing current issues in the field of rhetoric and composition. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered.

The Post/Colonial Eye: Visual Discourses of Empire

With expressed interest from Routledge

Please note: At this point, we are only looking for additional chapters focussing on the second part of this volume as highlighted below. To expand our geographical scope, we are, unfortunately, not able to include more contributions studying postcolonial India.  

In examining the intersections of (post)colonial studies and visual culture, the proposed volume employs a dual approach. 

Please Post and Share CALL FOR PAPERS W.D. FARD: MAN, MYTH, AND MYSTERY Edited by Dr. John Andrew Morrow Academics, scholars, professors, and researchers are invited to submit studies on the following and related topics for consideration for publication in a new work delving into the identity and ideology of W.D. Fard, the founder of the Nation of Islam. We are looking for anything and everything related to W.D. Fard. - W.D. Fard and the First Nations / The Native American connection- Previously unpublished letters, family stories, and photographs of W.D.

The Kay Boyle Society is calling for proposals for an open panel or roundtable at the American Literature Association conference on May 21-24, 2025 in Boston at the Westin Copley Place hotel. We are looking for papers on any aspect of Kay Boyle’s work in prose or poetry. Topics could include (but are by no means limited to) Boyle and other writers and artists, transatlantic modernisms, literary and print cultures, racial and social justice, ageing, war and exile, approaches to Boyle’s letters, and teaching Boyle.

If interested, please email a proposed title and abstract of approximately 200 words by January 20th to anne.reynes@univ-amu.fr

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 2, 2025

Proposals for conference papers are now being accepted for "Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium," held in person at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on April 25-26, 2025. 

 New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge / Taylor and Francis) seeks articles and creative work for publication in Volume 22 (4 Issues, 2025) and Volume 23 (4 Issues, 2026).  Any length.  https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmnw20/about-this-journal#aims-and-scope Submissions are internationally peer reviewed and the journal is widely published, and made avai

American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society welcomes proposals for two guaranteed panels at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.

We invite presentations on any topic related to the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 

Please submit a one-page abstract to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.

We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday April 24th and Friday April 25th2025. Proposal submissions are due on February 1st, 2025 and can be submitted through this form.

Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion
Conference dates: 19th and 20th June 2025

Abstract deadline
31st January 2025
Email to:womeninworldlitconference@gmail.com

This hybrid conference follows 2022's ‘Women in World(-)Literature’ which was also held at the University of Warwick.

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

University College Dublin, Ireland

17-20 June 2025

Keynote Speakers –    Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University)

                                Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)

                                Simone Murray (Monash University)

Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of WaterJournal: Atlantic Studies: Global CurrentsGuest Editors: Andrea Carosso and Valentina Romanzi (University of Torino)  We are inviting proposals for a limited number of contributions to a Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, titled “Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of Water.” The issue focuses on the new directions that anglophone fiction is exploring to express its “aquatic” imagination.We seek articles addressing new trends and currents of anglophone narratives focusing on the