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Panel for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, OR. October 26 – 29 2023.
The global and digital connectivity of recent years has transformed creative writing infrastructure and practice around the world. Recent decades have seen a number of critical and popular publications exploring the history and practice of creative writing, from Marc McGurl’s “The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing” (2011) to Lisa Jaillant’s Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writing in Anglo-American Universities (2022). Yet, as these titles suggest, the critical focus has been on US and UK courses.
Abortion in International Popular Culture--Soliciting Abstracts
Deadline Extended to June 30th!
Bending Metal: Metal Scenes during and after COVID
deadline for submissions:
August 15, 2023
full name / name of organization:
Bryan Bardine/University of Dayton/ Jerome Stueart
contact email:
Bending Metal: Global Metal Scenes during and after COVID
Proposals due: August 15, 2023
Continuing our work examining metal scenes and with a contract with Lexington Press we propose the following project:
2024 ASAC Biennial Conference CFP
Conference Theme: Adoption Belonging, Brown University, April 4–6, 2024
No Publication or Subscription Fee/ Free Complimentary Copy
Call for Papers
Theorising Gender in the Context of Cultural Limitations: A Series of Book Chapters on Contemporary Indian Writing in English
DEADLINE EXTENDED:
Call for Papers
“Consensus and Divergence in Reception Studies”
Sponsored by the Reception Study Society
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Cincinnati, Ohio
November 2-5, 2023
This session brings together literary studies and the study of human sensation to question how literature acts as a representation or conduit of sensory knowledge. How can literature challenge our perspectives through unconventional representations of sensation? What are sensory aesthetics? What role do the senses play in eliciting feeling? How can recentering sensation open new pathways and epistemologies of identity and difference? The study of literature and sensation is particularly fertile grounds for the study of perspective: how do our senses shape our perspective? How does the separation of the senses into five distinct categories, as is it commonly depicted, foreclose possibilities for more complex depictions of human experience?
This session seeks to answer the question: in what ways do queer and trans writers revise and recreate established generic modes and forms (or fashion entirely new ones) to depict queer and trans stories? How are queer and trans writers (especially queer and trans writers of color, disabled writers, and the global working class) experimenting with genre and aesthetics to depict intersectional queer and trans experiences? In a time of unprecedented legislative attacks against queer and trans people in the United States, this panel turns its attention to the ways that writers work formally to tell the stories of queer and trans lives amidst ongoing social and legislative hostilities.
This is a Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) Study Day at the University of Birmingham (UK) on 15 September 2023.
KEYNOTE: Dr Eleanor Dobson (Associate Prof in English Literature at the University of Birmingham) Paper Title TBC
WORKSHOP: Dr Leire Olabarria (Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham) will run a session onthe amassing of Egyptian collections in the long nineteenth century, with a focus on Britain and the Eton-Myers Collection.
SMU Symposium on Poetic Form - Southern Methodist University, Dallas, March 18-19, 2024
“Conceptualisms and Erasurisms”
Hosted by the SMU Department of English and co-sponsored by Tel Aviv University’s Department of English and American Studies and the University of Liège’s Center for Interdisciplinary Poetics/UD Traverses, the Symposium on Poetic Form will gather scholars and poets on the SMU campus for two full days to discuss poetic form in practice and theory.
Seasonal Horrors: On the Intersection of Holidays and the Macabre in Audiovisual Media
The Poetics of American Speech
according to Beat Generation Poet Lew Welch
by Charles Upton
[Excerpted from Giving Myself Away, an autobiography-in-progress;
submitted for consideration to CONTEMPORARY POETRY, Volume 6]
I: The Art of Poetic Recitation
as taught by Lewis Barrett Welch
There are numerous descriptions of affect within literary criticism, including those focused on the human psyche, reader or author contexts, time-spaces and places, non-human vibrance, and the notion that affect involves yet exceeds us. Since this year's PAMLA theme is "Shifting Perspectives," a panel with more than one understanding of affect is fitting. Whether you study Sara Ahmed, Brian Massumi, Lauren Berlant, Sianne Ngai, Gillies Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jenny Sharpe, Claire Colebrook, Eve Sedgwick, Rei Terada, Hsuan L. Hsu, or any of the growing number of theorists which address affect in their work, this panel is for you!
Edited Collection CFP: Shakespeare on Broadway
CFP 2023: American Conspiracism: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Publisher: Routledge Press
Forthcoming Publication Date: Summer 2024
If you are interested in contributing, please submit the following to Editor Luke Ritter @ lukeritter@nmhu.edu:
chapter title
500-word abstract
C.V.
A new volume edited by Kirstin Pauka, Dennis Gupa, and Catherine Diamond will address the particular contributions made by Southeast Asian live performances of theatre, dance, puppetry, and performance art to further a healthy engagement with nature.
Co-Chairs:
Stefano Boselli, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (stefano.boselli[at]unlv.edu)
Sarah Lucie, New York University (slucie[at]gradcenter.cuny.edu)
This year’s ASTR conference theme of Hope is compelling, and our session will be focused on what hope means in a posthuman framework. This may be an opportunity to workshop an idea for an article or book, in a friendly group of like-minded scholars.
This online session will be scheduled during the first week of December and proposal submissions should go through the ASTR website:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Creative Philology: Studies in Speculative Fiction
A Tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien
The intersection of the digital and environmental humanities speaks to our current moment: we live in a world in flux, experiencing a changing climate we seek to explain by digital models. As we use new technology to interact with and understand the “natural” world, scholars and activists also use digital platforms to communicate about ecological issues with new and diverse audiences. Medieval studies has long been at the forefront of the digital humanities, while ecocriticism and environmental history have significantly advanced our understanding of how people in the Middle Ages conceived of the nonhuman world.
We are a self-initiated group that has plans on publishing an anthology on life based in Singapore and currently, we are looking for a Tamil editor to review short stories and poems that are written in Tamil. We welcome anyone who is interested and proficient in Tamil for this role. You will be credited for your contributions in the anthology. For indication of your interest or further enquiries, please feel free to contact us by 24th July 2023 at the following email address: anthology.fwlb.sg@gmail.com
SPACE IN TIME: FROM THE HEAVENS TO OUTER SPACE
The Warburg Institute
12–13 October 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS
In Passage : The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, the journal of the Department of English of the University of Boumerdes (Algeria), seeks essays in English or French for its sixth issue, to be released in December 2023.
All the contributions should either be written in English or discuss questions that relate to the English-speaking world. They should fit within the broad scope of texts and mobility and their interconnectedness in the fields of literature, linguistics, and translation, among others.
Suggested topics:
- Travel literature and intercultural contact.
- Nomadism.
- Exile in literature
- Literary genres and movements
Victorians Journal announces a special topics CFP on Victorian Hospitality for our Winter 2023 number, guest edited by Kristen Pond.
Victorians Journal CFP Winter Issue 2023
Title: Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World
Series: Routledge Literary Studies in Social Justice
Expected Completion date: 31 May 2024
Expected Publication date: Second half of 2024
Humanities in the Time of ChatGPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2023 Issue of Critical Humanities
In a recent blogpost, Bill Gates announces the beginning of the age of AI. Gates’ enthusiastic pitch for AI is not limited to it being a groundbreaking technological advancement. He sees it as a powerful tool for achieving social and environmental justice. Gates notes “achievement in math is going down across the country, especially for Black, Latino, and low-income students” and he claims that “AI can help turn that trend around.”
Call for Papers – ReFocus: The Films of John Waters
Call for Papers: The 2023 Jack London Society 16th Biennial Symposium: October 5-8, 2023, The Huntington Library in San Marino, California
For South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 9-11, 2023
Atlanta, GA
The Emily Dickinson International Society panel at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference (November 9–11, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia) seeks submissions on any aspect of Dickinson studies. Abstracts related to the conference theme of (In)Security are particularly welcome. Creative as well as critical work will be considered, and submissions from graduate students are encouraged. By July 31, please submit an abstract, CV, and any A/V requirements to Trisha Kannan at trisha@concisionmatters.com.