The concept of virtual worlds, while not new, has become a normalized part of 21st-century consciousness in the wake of the worldwide novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Once a realm reserved for playful escape, “dissolv[ing] the constraints of the anchored world so that we can lift anchor—not to drift aimlessly without point, but to explore anchorage in ever-new places” (Heim, 1993), virtual spaces have taken center stage in our everyday lives. Our meeting places, our workplaces, our places of learning, even the places where we unite to break bread have shifted from the physical realm to the virtual.

Call for Papers

Television and Empathy

Edited Collection 

What is television’s capacity to elicit empathy?

From the global to the individual level, our sense of community has undergone a profound transformation within just a couple years. Where it once suggested closeness and intimacy, community now paradoxically demands that we maintain a healthy distance from one another—each one of us a monad tucked away in our respective homes, our old sources of community displaced as they transition to virtual formats. We even maintain patterns of disciplined isolation to protect the health and safety of those whom we would otherwise not need to consider.

Urzeitig: The Journal of Primeval Studies is devoted to the study of ancient ways of living and knowing, primarily related to the teachings of D. H. Lawrence. The journal aims to both criticize modernity, and to reinvigorate the old pagan ways, through the use of Lawrencian philosophy.

Urzeitig: The Journal of Primeval Studies is published bi-annually. Articles, reviews and letters to the editor can be emailed to the editor, Farasha Euker.

The editor invites submissions, including articles, reviews and letters to the editor.

Submissions should be sent to the editor, Farasha Euker at:

Email: editor@urzeitig.org

Confronting Curriculum Epistemicide within Teacher Preparation: Art, Poetry, and Teacher Resistance

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Call for Papers for the Fall 2022 Edition (Volume 17, Issue 3) 

Dear Prof/Scholars,

Literary Druid is a journal that destinies to foster research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

In the form of memoirs, autobiographies, diaries or correspondence, or given a literary spin as autofiction and biofiction, the experiences of East and South-East European women during wartimes and under the oppressive regimes of the twentieth century (a period laden with contrasts, which in the West was hailed as “acentury of women”, Rowbotham 1997, but also framed as an “age of testimony”, Felman and Laub 1992) have been surfacing in the past two decades. The transmission of these narratives followed sinuous paths, taking both verbal and non-verbal forms, relying on both “filial” and “affiliative” networks (Hirsch 2012), and coming from both female victims and female perpetrators (Schwab 2010).

Call for Papers: Wisconsin English Journal Spring/Summer 2022 Issue (64.1)

College students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or other learning disabilities are frequently allowed to complete examinations and assignments under separate rules or even in a separate, distraction-reduced setting. For example, although separate room test accommodations are believed to provide students with equal access to testing and thereby improve performance, little experimental research has examined their effects on actual test/essay scores. Even less research and scholarship focus on the location of testing and the impact of testing centers on students with various documented disabilities.

2022 Situations International Conference for Graduate Students

Antagonism in Asia: The Fault-lines of Conflict in an Interdependent World

Date: Jan. 28 -29, 2022 Venue: Online Zoom

Reminder: A Critical Companion to Wes Craven

deadline for submissions: 

December 20, 2021

full name / name of organization: 

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

contact email: 

wescraven1939@yahoo.com

A Critical Companion to Wes Craven

edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and John Darowski

Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory and Culture Organization Graduate Student Symposium, March 4-5, 2022

Space and Movement through Literature, Theory, and Culture 

FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT

International Pynchon Week 2022 will be held June 6-10, 2022, in Vancouver BC on the campus of the University of British Columbia.

The deadline for paper and panel proposals has been extended to November 30, 2021.

IPW 2022 will also now feature a limited number of remote/online papers.

For all these details and more, see the cfp (and addendum regarding online papers) at internationalpynchonweek.org.

Call for Papers

lambda nordica Special Issue:

“Troubling Racism: Subversive Bodies, Subversive Desires”

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: November 11, 2021