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Embodied Masculinities: Reconfiguring the Hegemony

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:07pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

*REMINDER* CFP Screening Women and/in Politics - Film Journal

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:53am
Film Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

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.

Hegel and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:05am
Northeast Modern Language association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

[Extended Deadline CFP]: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 4:53am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

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.

(2 Weeks Left) In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 3:54pm
Amir Gilmore
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

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

Call to Host the 2026 Post45 Graduate Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 1:28pm
Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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. 

Working With Tainted Legacies (virtual NeMLA panel)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 10:10am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Karine Germoni
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

How Not to Be a Misogynist: Un/Intentional Sexism in Early Modern Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Lilly Berberyan & Jess McCall
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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: 

 

FRAME 39.1 “Controlling the Narrative”

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

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.

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Worldview Critical Edition)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

The Handbook of Bengali Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Dr Subashish Bhattacharjee and Dr Indrajit Mukherjee
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

 

Regenerating Technical Communication: Creative Pedagogies & Practices

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Pascale LaFountain
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

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)

 

The Roles of 20th Century Regionalisms: Past and (Re)Generation.

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
NeMLA 57th Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This NeMLA panel invites proposals exploring the social, cultural, and political uses of regionalist aesthetics throughout the 20th cnetury.

Representing Authoritarianism in Modern Latin American Politics and Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Joseph Mulligan, Weber State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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.

NeMLA 2026 Roundtable - Villains Reborn: Redemption and (Re)Generation of Comic Book Antagonists

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) | Sydney Nelson and Josie Kochendorfer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:55am
Northeast Popular Studies Conference (Virtual)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 13, 2025

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.)?

[NeMLA 2026 Panel] The Name of the Witch

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:52am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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

Conflict and Literature: Perspectives from Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:25am
Indira Chakraborty (Bhattacharya)/ St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 5:33pm
Lenka Filipova / Freie Universität Berlin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

Eds. Başak Ağın, Z. Gizem Yılmaz, and Lenka Filipova

NeMLA 2026: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 3:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

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.

(Re)generating Pynchon (NeMLA 2026 panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 10:08am
NeMLA - Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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/.

The Literary Love Letter

updated: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:41am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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).

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