Northeast Modern Language Association 

March 6-9, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism 

Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world. 

NeMLA meets next during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020).

The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James Studies and archives for a special Fall 2025 Forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.”

 Topics could include, for example:

 • Using archives for Henry James scholarship

• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive

• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship

• Collecting or collections of Henry James-related material(s)

• Overlooked or forgotten archives or archival research methods for Henry James scholarship

• James’s use of archives, archival concepts, and/or the archival in his fiction or non-fiction

• Henry James as archivist

Call for Chapters 

Call for Well-Qualified Guest Reviewers

The international peer-reviewed Creative Industries Journal [CIJ] (Routledge/ Taylor and Francis), now in its 17th volume and approaching its 16th year, seeks to create a pool of guest reviewers, who possess the requisite expertise, to complement our Peer Review Board and Editorial team.

Specifically, the journal is currently looking for those with expertise in the business of the creative industries, music, architecture,  software, media and digital media, film, video games, art, crafts, design, fashion.

Guest Reviewers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers.

New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise. 

The journal can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmnw20/current

Maria von Herbert’s 1792-94 correspondence with Immanuel Kant—arising out of her despair and suicidal ideation, coupled with her commitment of his philosophical perspective, including his famously uncompromising prohibition of suicide—has enjoyed increasingly careful attention in the roughly forty years now since Beverley Brown and Rae Langton’s invitations to this effect, in the mid-eighties and early-nineties—most recently as the subject of the annual Kant Reading Party at the University of St Andrews, in July and August of 2023, out of which a volume of new translations and critical materials will soon emerge.

The George Saunders Society invites prospective participants for one or two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, to be held May 21 to 25, 2025. We are interested in presentations on any aspect of George Saunders’s life and work; in this, our fifth year of activity at ALA (returning after an absence in 2024!), we continue to be interested in papers that challenge, complicate, or go beyond the most common (particularly religious, ethical, or new sincerest) readings of the author’s work in the critical literature to this point. The topic is therefore open, but possible approaches might include:

Please note that abstract submissions must be sent through the ACLA submission portal online. For details, see the seminar posting on the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/comparative-literature-and-politics-detranslation 

The 2025 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held virtually, May 29-June 1, 2025.

Society for Cinema & Media Studies–Translation/Publication Committee

in collaboration with

JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2024-2025

JCMS: Journal for Cinema and Media Studies annually publishes one translation of outstanding scholarly or creative work on cinema and media studies. The translation is selected by the SCMS Translation/Publication Standing Committee, which coordinates the annual Call for Translations. The committee shepherds the selected submission into a completed manuscript for publication in an upcoming volume of JCMS. Original texts may be in any language and come from any period or geographic region.

Dates: March 6-9, 2025

Location: La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th , 2024

Panel Title: Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed

Panel Description: 

“Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human” 

Critical Survey Journal

Guest Editor: Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Bennett University, India 

Howells Society CFPs for ALA 2025 (Boston)

The W.D. Howells Society will host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend). 

PANEL 1: HOWELLS & OTHERS

Call for Papers: INSAP XIII: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space(Queen’s University Belfast, 8-13 June 2025)

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the INSAP XIII conference Celestial Connections Across Time and Space. This conference aims to bring together scholars, artists, and scientists from various disciplines to explore the multifaceted relationships between the skies - be it the stars, planets, or other celestial phenomena - and their influence across cultures, histories, and fields of study. INSAP’s purpose from its inception has been to foster a dialogue that bridges the gap between the sciences and the arts, encouraging a holistic understanding of the universe.