Unsettling Scottish Literature: Studies in Hogg and his World
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Update: Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World
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Feminist scholar Peggy Phelan (1993) famously said that “visibility is a trap” and argued for the immense power of the unmarked. Such a theory of the unmarked finds utmost relevance in the case of what R.W. Connell calls hegemonic masculinity, which often maintains its superiority by being the norm and thus abstract, untraceable. However, material bodily practices among marginalized groups of men often subvert such invisibility tactics, expose the nodes of hegemonic and normative masculinities, and articulate a language of resistance. For example, dance scholar Mark Broomfield (2024) observes that black gay male dancers in America use “straight acting” as a way of passing and surviving in a world where white heterosexual masculinity is the norm.
Screening Women and/in Politics
Film Journal - special issue
Hélène Charlery and Anita Jorge
This special issue of Film Journal seeks papers on the representation of political women and women in institutional politics in audiovisual productions from and on the anglophone world, whether they be documentaries, fiction films (short, medium, feature-length, television or platform) films, series or mini-series.
In Positions, Derrida stated that “we will never be finished with the reading or rereading of the Hegelian text.” Hegel's impact on all areas of thought cannot be overstated. Recent decades have seen the efflorescence of publications such as Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory (Habib 2018), or Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique (Scott 2025), which attempt to retrace the pervasiveness of Hegel's thought, the hostility as well as hospitality it underwent in literary critical discourse, or Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (Bates 2010), which cross-reads Hegel and Shakespeare to reciprocally shed light on each other.
The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
University of Oregon Portland
April 23–25, 2026
In Living Color:
Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century
Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing
Edited by
Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair
Submission deadline: August 5, 2025
We are pleased to announce an open call for bids to host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium. The Post45 Graduate Symposium is a two-day event, typically held in Spring, which brings together graduate students and faculty members working on post-1945 arts, literature, media, and culture. Around fifteen graduate students each submit a work-in-progress and convene in a workshop-style setting along with faculty respondents to discuss each participant's work.
‘Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World’
13-14 March, 2026
Northeastern University London
Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro last year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but one of many revelations in recent years to upend the legacy of a cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse. Similarly, disputed claims to Indigenous ancestry touted by artists including novelist Joseph Boyden and singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie have generated outrage and heartbreak among Indigenous groups and innumerable admirers, compounding generational traumas.
The CfP for the hybrid panel "Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters" (NeMLA 2026 convention) is now open (please see abstract and description below).
The convention will take place in Pittsburgh, PA on March 5-8, 2026.
Stemming from the “How Not to Be a Misogynist” panel at the 2025 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, we are soliciting chapters for an edited collection that engages with matters of gender, power, and misogyny. We are particularly interested in interrogations of how—perhaps unwittingly—misogyny is inscribed onto early modern texts and contexts by contemporary scholars and scholarship. Some of the questions we seek to answer in this collection include:
Dissension exists on a spectrum. It can be expressed on an individual scale—by rejecting challenges to ethical or moral beliefs—or within collectives that object to systems that harm or subjugate. Literature can be used as an act of protest and resistance, to create counter narratives that combat oppressive agendas; it can mirror the outcry of societies that wish to test the limits of oppression but lack the voice to do so. Now more than ever, it is imperative that we listen to those voices that systems continually work to silence. Authoritarianism, protest, incarceration, and revolution are interwoven themes that dominate allegorical genres such as dystopian fiction.
We invite original, unpublished essays (maximum 5,000 words) for an upcoming Worldview Critical Companion to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. This volume aims to serve as both a scholarly resource and a generative site of contemporary dialogue on one of the most significant dramatic works of the twentieth century. Contributors are encouraged to revisit canonical readings while also offering new, boundary-pushing approaches that open Godot to current critical, theoretical, and performative discourses.
We invite original and unpublished essays for inclusion in a forthcoming Handbook of Bengali Cinema. This interdisciplinary volume will offer a comprehensive and critical survey of Bengali cinema across periods, geographies, genres, styles, and theoretical frameworks. It will serve as a key reference for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in one of South Asia’s most influential regional cinemas.
Essays should be no longer than 5,000 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and must follow the MLA citation style (current edition). Contributions may be historical, thematic, theoretical, or practice-based, and are expected to demonstrate critical rigor and originality.
Technical communication, as a field of practice and study, has grown larger and more varied in response to the rapidly developing technologies, new forms of globalization, and shifting institutional demands of the past 20 years—all greatly intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic within the last five. How, then, do today's instructors of technical communication meet the current moment as well as current student needs?
CFP: (Chapter Abstracts) German Romantic Humour (Aug. 1, 2025)
Call for Chapter Abstracts
Due: August 1, 2025
Subject fields: German Romanticism, Humour Studies, Philosophy, Literature Studies, Musicology, Art History, History of Religion
This is a call for abstracts for book chapters to be included in an edited volume on “German Romantic Humour”
Edited by Dr. Pascale LaFountain (Montclair State University, USA)
This NeMLA panel invites proposals exploring the social, cultural, and political uses of regionalist aesthetics throughout the 20th cnetury.
Throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and into the twenty-first century, authoritarianism has proven to be an enduring leadership style in Latin American and has manifested in diverse forms, including the uprisings of regional caudillos, the ascendency of personalist rulers, the formation of solemn cults of personality, the imposition of military dictatorships, the establishment of single-party States, the totalitarian perpetuation of the state of exception, the cultural promotion of ethnonationalism, and the installation of illiberal technocracies, among others.
From brainwashed assassins to complicated anti-heroes to villains on a redemption arc, comic books, films, television, and novels frequently present readers with complicated antagonists-turned-superheroes, many of which become beloved characters. Through varied processes of regeneration, former antagonists remake themselves into superheroes in fascinating and often unexpected ways.
Children’s Rights &/in Popular Culture (panel/roundtable for NEPCA conference taking place virtually Oct 9-11 2025)
How are children’s rights represented in current popular culture (e.g., videogames, board games, graphic novels, film, TV, social media, music, toys etc.)? In what ways does pop culture today curtail children’s rights (e.g., cellphone apps, tracking devices, surveillance equipment)? How do children themselves define their rights, notions of justice, law and order in their interactions with popular culture (e.g., toys, games, art, fashion, hobbies, social media etc.)?
We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "The Name of the Witch."
Conference Details
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details.
Modality
Panel / In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.
Submissions and Deadline
Philosophy and Literature: A Problematic Relationship
Global South is a phrase often heard in the academic parlance to categorise a group of nations which have been broadly classified in economic terms by the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on certain defining characteristics (socio-economic and political factors). The countries or continents which come under this category are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand). However, to classify economic grounds poses severe questions about factors contributing to the dissemination of this inequality. This unevenness as one suspects can be a major reason for armed conflicts often leading to tensions and permanent war zones.
Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z
Eds. Başak Ağın, Z. Gizem Yılmaz, and Lenka Filipova
57th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026
Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 10, 2025
All presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in person. We will use Whova (our conference app) and Zoom to integrate remote sessions into the conference.
Session Title: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual).
“The era of world literature is at hand, and everyone must contribute to accelerating it,” Goethe said to Eckermann on the afternoon of 1827, and the idea of world literature (Weltliteratur) was born.
The 57th annual NeMLA Convention is taking place Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, 2026, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information, see https://www.nemla.org/.
CFP: Lexicon for Animacy
In Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine, Sabine Strohem and Griffin Moss have never met--not really. They have, though, shared an extraordinary epistolary correspondence. And through this correspondence, Griffin wonders how he can feel so close to someone through letters, only, "How can I miss you this badly when we've never met?" (39).