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CFP ACLA2025: Interactive Storytelling Seminar and Edited Volume

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
Hudson Moura
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Title: Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

ACLA Conference Dates: May 29–June 1, 2025, Online

Call for Papers and Book Chapters

CFP: XXIX LAILAC Graduate Students Conference: Cultures of Extermination—War, Repression, and Survival in Ibero-America and the Caribbean

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

For the Twenty-Ninth Graduate Student Conference of the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the organizing committee is welcoming researchers in cultural studies, intellectual history, performance studies, linguistics, art history, and related disciplines to submit their work exploring and analyzing cultures of extermination in cultural productions across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. The conference is scheduled to take place in New York City on April 10-11, 2025.

Food, feeding and feedback

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
English Department of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In humanities, food, feeding, and feedback come together under one umbrella of human nature, culture, and creativity. Within this context fall the ethical, epistemological, phenomenological, and political tropes of food, calling for understanding and interrogation.

Food as a thematic focus in art has acquired a wide range of meanings related to consumption and consumerism, the search for and the loss of identity, localization/globalization, and high/pop culture. In literature, food has also been used as a metaphor for gender roles, human desires, power dynamics, and social status.

Revisiting the Gothic in Literature, Science, Culture and Language

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
English Department of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the transformations undergone by the Gothic genre since its inception. It will discuss and analyse the development and mutation of the genre on aesthetic, thematic and linguistic levels. The trajectory of Gothic literature encompasses the dynamics of continuity and discontinuity as two defining features of the genre. In fact, the transition from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, the first Gothic fiction that set the conventions of the genre, to Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Dracula, and then to modern and postmodern Gothic genres (poetry, fiction, films) entails the revival and the introduction of new Gothic tropes.

Leon Edel Prize

updated: 
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 10:02pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.

MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language 

updated: 
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 1:00am
Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 

MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language 

 

June 26-27, 2025 

Ewha Womans University  

 

Keynote Speakers 

  • Rebecca Walkowitz (Barnard College, Columbia University)
  • Janet Poole (University of Toronto)

 

Call for Papers

Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800 (Graduate Student Conference)

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 9:25pm
University of California, Irvine
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 11, 2024

UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference 2025: February 14, 2025

Call for Papers

Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800

 

Keynote speaker: Professor Maggie Vinter (Case Western Reserve University)

 

“By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.”

- Portia, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

 

YSLS - Harlem Renaissance: Community & Convergence

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 4:36pm
Shenandoah University: Young Scholars Literary Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Young Scholars Literary SymposiumShenandoah University’s Arts and Humanities Conference

Call for Proposals

The Harlem Renaissance:  Community and Convergence

Saturday, November 9, 2024: 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST

Hosted by Shenandoah University’s Department of English in Winchester, Virginia

The SU Young Scholars Literary Symposium is a one-day conference held on SU’s Winchester campus. This event brings together outstanding high school and undergraduate students from the region to share their academic and creative work related to the symposium’s annual theme. 

Unseen Shakespeares

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 8:52am
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, invites contributions to a special issue on ‘Unseen Shakespeares’, broadly conceived.  Topics covered might include (but are not limited to) bedtricks; things that happen off or under the stage; invisibility; ‘ghost’ characters; events which the audience is called upon to imagine; lines or scenes which are frequently cut in performance; and topics, issues or characters which have historically been marginalised or have failed to attract critical attention.  Please send abstracts of c.

Fandom | Cultures | Research (Call for Abstracts Issue 2-25)

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 7:20am
Journal Fandom | Cultures | Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Fandom | Cultures | Research is the first international journal based in Germany for scholarship in the fields of Fan, Audience, Media, and Cultural (Data) Studies. With its different formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers –  the journal fosters academic discussion across these disciplines, especially regarding methodological questions: Each issue will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed full papers, alongside with an editorially reviewed section consisting of data papers (data sets and complementary text), reviews, conference reports, and a “Method Lab” section with shorter papers and interviews that provide insight into work-in-progress, methodological challenges, as well as best practices.

ASECS Virtual Conference 2024: South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:03am
Department of English, Texas Christian University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]
Co-chairs: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, j.chow@bucknell.edu, Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, m.narain@tcu.edu

Poetry & Poetics (Critical) Papers and Panels for SWPACA Conference

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:03am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Poetry & Poetics (Critical)

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

Breathing in the Global South: Panel at ASLE 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:03am
Ben Stanley / University of Delaware
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Breathing in the Global South

Panel proposed for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

CFP Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2024/2025 issues

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:02am
Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

CFP for JWLS 2025

Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact

From his uneasy alliance with first-wave feminists to his role as a frontman for state-sponsored attempts to popularise the inter-war avant-garde in 1950s radio, Wyndham Lewis’s collaborative endeavours are as varied as they are surprising.

STORIES MATTER: (RE)-THINKING NARRATIVES, AESTHETICS AND HUMAN VALUES

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:02am
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 19, 2024

“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds; what worlds make stories.”

Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble

 

AAAS 2025: Literary Imaginaries of the Climate Crisis Within Contemporary Migrant Literature

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:01am
Ananya Bhardwaj/The George Washington University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

In her introduction to Living with the Weather: Climate Change, Ecology, and Displacement in South Asia, Piya Srinivasan emphasizes that the focus of the essays in the collection is to “imagine and investigate non-human spaces: charlands, crumbling coastlines, land facing desertification.” (Srinivasan 7) In a reportage-based essay in this anthology, investigating climate migration from the Sundarbans, Dipanjan Sinha discusses the present condition of these marshlands. He argues that the unique ecological and economic challenges faced by the land and its people include salination of water, challenges of relocation in fast-disappearing island communities, and climate migration – all being results of colonial policies of land degradation.

ALA Boston 2025 Panel “An ingenuity too astonishing”: The Poetry of Amy Clampitt

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:01am
Lara Meintjes (UC Berkeley)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

“An ingenuity too astonishing”: The Poetry of Amy Clampitt

36th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025 (Boston)

We are seeking 15–20-minute paper proposals on the work of Amy Clampitt for a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. We are interested in abstracts that examine Clampitt’s work from a variety of perspectives. As such, we have kept this call fairly capacious. Potential topics may include but are in no way limited to:

Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:01am
American Academy of Religion Western Region
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Conference 
"Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality" -- Arizona State University March 14-16, 2025
https://www.aarwr.com/call-for-papers.html
Proposals Due October 31, 2024

Religious Studies intersects with every aspect of our lives: political, spiritual, pastoral, creative,  performative, and relational. The study of religious life, thought, and practice touches upon our identities, responsibilities, and cultures. It can help us to explore our own selves as we acknowledge the diversity of religious expression across time and space

CFP: Children’s/Young Adult Culture at Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:00am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Illegibility and Aesthetic Form in the African Diasporas of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:00am
Kinaya Hassane (NYU) and Semilore Sobande (Brown University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

This seminar invites submissions that explore intentional illegibilites deployed in literary and visual forms in the African diasporas of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Despite their intertwined histories of slavery and colonialism, these regions have typically been understood as hermetically sealed off from one another in the humanities. The fields of literary studies and visual culture, however, illustrate how racialized subjects across these aqueous geographies have relied on shared strategies of opacity and obfuscation, leveraging forms such as the photograph and the novel whose histories and development were imbricated in colonial processes.

Call for Chapter Proposals - Refocus: The Films of Agnès Varda

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:00am
Natasha Farrell, Memorial University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

Call for Chapter Proposals - Refocus: The Films of Agnès Varda

Edited by Melissa Oliver-Powell and Natasha Farrell

• Deadline for proposals: November 29, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: December 17, 2024
• Deadline for chapters: September 20, 2025

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts Arts

updated: 
Friday, September 20, 2024 - 2:45pm
Diana Shaffer / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences?

This roundtable is part of NeMLA's 56th annual convention, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, March 3-6, 2025. To submit propoosals, follow these steps. 

Navigate to nemla.org

Navigate to Convention>Call for Proposals>Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature

Charles Olson, Vincent Ferrini, and Jonathan Bayliss in Gloucester: Poetry, Prose, and Place

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 8:33pm
The Charles Olson Society and The Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 27, 2025

The Charles Olson Society and the Jonathan Bayliss Society are pleased to announce a collaborative panel to be held at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. This panel will focus on writers who were inspired by Gloucester, Massachusetts and Cape Ann. The richness of Cape Ann, its history, people, and geography, deeply influenced poets Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini as well as novelist Jonathan Bayliss. How did these figures incorporate Gloucester’s geography, history, population, ecology, or other distinct elements in their work? How does place influence and determine the nature of a poet’s or novelist’s writing?

AI: The Next Frontier: Revisioning Written, Artistic, and Digital Landscapes

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 11:18am
Billy Joe Turner Interdisciplinary Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2025

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of modern life. From fashion and art to political science and history, AI’s influence is reshaping the way we interact with the world around us. In the realms of writing and social media, AI offers new opportunities for content creation, while posing questions about authorship, originality, and ethics. Fashion designers are now using AI to predict trends, create unique designs, and streamline production. Artists employ AI to create cutting-edge digital works that blur the lines between human and machine creativity. Meanwhile, AI is making waves in political science, helping to predict voting trends and offering new insights into historical patterns.

Fungal Horror and Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:11am
Berit Åström, Umeå University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Dr Katarina Gregersdotter and Dr Berit Åström, Umeå University, Sweden invite original essays for an edited volume on fungal horror in popular culture. Palgrave Macmillan have expressed a provisional interest in publishing the volume. 

Fungi are entangled in our lives, as food, as medicine or drugs, but also as parasites and agents of destruction, such as black mould, dry rot and cordyceps, the zombie fungus. This entanglement carries over into popular culture, where fungi are used to carry out different kinds of work, articulating deep seated fears and desires, functioning as a threat to, but perhaps also a saviour of, an embattled humanity at the brink of possible extinction. 

The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society at ALA 2025: Freeman’s Historicisms

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:10am
The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society will sponsor a panel at the 36th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. Our focus this year will be “Freeman’s Historicisms.”  The Society welcomes submissions related to this topic, including proposals that bring Freeman’s work into substantive conversation with that of her contemporaries. 

 

Possibilities include:

 

Margins : A Journal of Literature and Culture Vol. XV. 2025

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:10am
Department of English, Gauhati University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Margins, an international peer-reviewed journal, is published annually by the Department of English, Gauhati University. It offers a space for the exploration of the marginal in its theoretical implications and in literature and culture through four kinds of writings: 

  1. It welcomes examination of the historical and the contemporary through interdisciplinary perspectives – looking at texts in both their wider conceptual and immediate situational significance (7500 and 10,000 words). 

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