This special issue, “The Transnational Erotic,” aims to challenge and refuse Western-centric understandings of sexuality, gender, and desire in the context of theatre, dance, and performance studies. Theatre Journal has cultivated a distinguished tradition of making theoretical and historiographical interventions vis-à-vis gender, sexuality, and performance; this issue aims to expand upon and complicate that tradition through an emphasis on diaspora, decolonization, and the Global South.

Shakespeare first travelled to the Korean peninsula at the turn of the twentieth century and has since enjoyed enduring popularity in classrooms, on the stage, and far beyond. The playwright's work has provided and continues to provide fertile ground for performance, from direct Korean-language stagings to hybrid productions which marry the Shakespearean text to Korean cultural forms such as operatic changgeuk and the traditional musical storytelling medium of pansori. Our proposed collection of essays, Hanguk Shakespeare: Korean Receptions and Transformations, aims to explore the rich tradition of Shakespeare in Korea from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day in all its various forms and manifestations.

Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous (virtual)

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

Session Information

The 10th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature is organized by different universities and research centers.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian.

Please join the Georgia and Carolinas College English Association for a hybrid conference, co-hosted with the Michigan College English Association! The conference themes are “Crisis and Resilience.”

This exciting event will take place over two days. On Friday, Oct. 4, we will gather at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA, in-person. In the afternoon, you are invited to join a tour of Andalusia, essayist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor’s Milledgeville home.

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in italy is now accepting contributions for the general section of its #11 issue (publication date: May 2025).

The deadline for submission is September 30, 2024.

Essay proposals should not exceed 8.000 words (including footnotes and reference list).

Submit proposals online at https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/about/submissions 

We are pleased to announce the Fourth Hawaiʻi International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2025) hosted by A'Sharqiyah University will be held at A'Sharkiya University Campus in Ibra, Oman on February 26 - 27, 2025. This year's conference theme is "Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning in English Language and Literature Studies," aims to explore the cutting-edge methodologies and transformative practices in education. 

2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8 - 10, 2025)

More than 25 years ago, Robert LA Clark and Claire Sponsler argued in "Queer Play: the Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama" that "transgender and transstatus representations cannot be reduced to one simple meaning but rather perform a variety of...cultural work." We seek contributions to explore, expand and complicate the idea of transgender identities, trans bodies, transgressive practices, or other kinds of transformations or translations in medieval drama and performance. In 2025, how do we understand the shapeshifting nature of "trans"? What are the emerging questions and where do they lead us?

H(a)unted

October 25, 2024 

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“O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted.”

-         William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes.”

-         Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.”

-         Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

Call For Papers for Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture

Cosmoramas and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880

Before virtual reality, peeping has long been a widespread media practice. Since the 18th century, the world has been presented in lensed and boxed apparatuses that aroused wonder and seduced audiences. Our contemporary culture of immersion was initially launched by peepshows and cosmoramas: one of the earliest media systems in Europe that produced and distributed views.

56th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 6-9, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA

Where does sensing occur: within the sensory organ, the perceived object, or somewhere in between? This panel draws on insights from environmental media to explore the history of sensations. We examine how the environment not only shapes our sensory reality but has also been used historically to define, measure, and standardize the senses.

The Seen and Unseen in Supernatural Literary Contexts of the Long-Nineteenth Century
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
15-17 November 2024
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Calling all graduate students working in Horror Studies! This year, the SCMS Horror SIG will be convening a graduate student symposium, and we invite proposals from graduate students outlining their primary research topic.