After D. H. Lawrence’s mother died, his father “struggled through half a page” of The White Peacock. After he had finished reading, he asked his son what he had been paid for the novel. When Lawrence told him his father

looked at me with shrewd eyes, as if I were a swindler. “Fifty pounds! An’ tha’s niver done a day’s hard work in thy life.”

LITERARIA invites the submission of articles, shorter essays, interviews, and book reviews offering historical, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and cultural approaches to literature and related fields. 

Submissions should be emailed to editor@newliteraria.com by no later than 30th May 2022.  All submissions must include a cover letter that includes the author's full mailing address, email address, telephone numbers, and professional or academic affiliation.

Articles should be between 3,500 and 8,000 words long (including bibliography and footnotes). Book reviews should be between 750 and 1,500 words.

This book project aims to examine the existence of dogma in literature and some cult texts, and how dogmas in literature are conveyed to various audiences as a mission by some literary readers, experts and academics. The questions leading up to the volume are varied and their answers require lengthy examination and interpretation. So, this project investigates; Is literature dogmatic? What about literary theories? Can they be dogmatic, too? The answers to these questions are open to clarification, but the responses can also initiate an extensive discussion and manifestation. However, above all, literature does have an aspect that drags the readers, habitually burying them in its pages, and blindly attaching them to itself.

The Rapoport Center’s Working Paper Series -- part of University of Texas at Austin's Center for Human Rights and Justice -- is seeking to publish innovative papers by established and early-career researchers and practitioners. Authors from all disciplines are welcome to submit papers on a variety of human rights and social justice topics. At present, we are particularly interested in papers in line with the Rapoport Center’s current thematic focus on the future of work.

How has the Covid-19 pandemic changed or disrupted the contours of childhood both as a cultural concept and a lived experience? The term childhoods in this panel refers simultaneously to the complex and infinitely varied experiences of people called children while also evoking a shifting set of cultural investments, projections, desires, and disavowals.

Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is now accepting submissions about teaching with primary sources for three series of peer-reviewed blog posts: “Public-Facing Scholarship and Outreach,” “Internships and Long-Term Student Project Management,” and “Accessibility and Access in the Primary Source Classroom.”  These series are intended to highlight a broad range of voices from all sectors of the TPS community.

Series 2: Internships and Long-Term Student Project Management

CALL FOR PAPERS
2022 MMLA Conference’s MVSA-Affiliated Panel

Minneapolis, Minnesota

November 16-21, 2022

“Post-Then” in Victorian Culture

In keeping with the MMLA conference theme, “Post-Now,” the Midwest Victorian Studies Association panel welcomes proposals that explore myriad examples of “Post-Then” moments in 19th century Britain that mirror our 21st-century “Post-Now” movements.

Victorian England was filled with the following “Post-Then” indicators:

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to invite you to take part in our 11th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies, which is to take place at Alfa BK University, Belgrade, on 22nd and 23rd September 2022. The topic of the 11th edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND INDUSTRY

COVID has drastically changed how individuals navigate their worlds. Many university campuses and graduate programs have made changes. Current graduate students finishing their PhD program and future incoming cohorts, for example, will face new difficulties. Will funding continue to be available? Will campuses remain open, specifically student housing? Will campuses improve the experiences of disabled and marginalized groups so that campus services are not only theoretically accessible to all graduate students but also equitably distributed? How has COVID impacted you and how do you navigate graduate school?

Gothic Pedagogies: teaching, learning, and the literatures of terror

Abstracts due: 30th April 2022

Symposium date: 14th July 2022

University of Birmingham

Keynote speakers:
Professor Gina Wisker
Dr Ian Burrows

MLA 2023 Special Session Proposal • San Francisco, CA • January 5-8

CALL FOR PAPERS

WILLIAM JAMES

IN SEARCH OF THE ESSENCE OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

International Conference

26-27 May, 2022

Cracow, Poland

Issue 62: April 2022: Exploring Motherly Instincts: Representation of Mothers in Indian Cinema [Last date for submission: 30 March, 2022; Date of publication: 1 May, 2022]

Guest-Editor: Srija Sanyal, Research Scholar, Ronin Institue, USA.

In this round of Call for Submissions, we are particulalrly seeking audio/visual presentations (in forms of interviews / conversations) of no more than 20 minutes in duration and personal narratives, along with general articles pertaining to the theme. Additonally, articles dealing with films in languages, such as Assamese, Oriya, Marathi, Kannada, Telegu, Bhojpuri, and Konkani are especially welcomed.

Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature

27 May 2022

Call for Papers | Escape: Moving Away, Moving Towards, Moving Within

 The Graduate English Society at Queen’s University seeks abstracts for its virtual 2022 graduate conference, “Escape: Moving Away, Moving Towards, Moving Within.” Because the thematic concern of our conference is “escape,” we are looking for academic papers, as well as creative pieces, that engage with this broad concept in various and imaginative ways.