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Social Media and the Medieval - TSW Special Issue

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:57am
The So What (Arthuriana's Public Humanities Project)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces — whether critical, pedagogical, or creative — on social media accounts that engage with the medieval period for a special issue of TSW planned for on-line publication in 2025 or early 2026. 

 

Call for Papers "Parties, Luxury and American Celebrity: From Gatsby to Instagram" - Iperstoria Special Issue Fall 2025

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:56am
Iperstoria - Journal of American and English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Iperstoria no. 26 Call for Papers

Special Issue: Parties, Luxury and American Celebrity: From Gatsby to Instagram

Guest editors: Alessandro Clericuzio, University of Perugia (alessandro.clericuzio@unipg.it); Cinzia Schiavini, University of Milan (cinzia.schiavini@unimi.it)

 

Re-Defining Boundaries: Exploring Writing Program Administration Identities

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:55am
Kristi Murray Costello and Jacob Babb
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

Re-Defining Boundaries: Exploring Writing Program Administration Identities

 

Editors: Kristi Murray Costello, Old Dominion University, and Jacob Babb, Appalachian State University

 

This call emerges from our understanding that over the past five years, something has changed about how writing program administrators relate to their work. 

 

Or maybe we’ve changed. 

 

Maybe it’s both.

 

Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s Annual Conference

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:55am
Joanne Ella Parsons
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Wednesday 18th June 2025 to Friday 20th June 2025

Falmouth University, UK

 

The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of women’s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of women’s writing, including the popular and the literary; bestsellers and genres; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for games and digital spaces; creative non-fiction; life-writing, biography, and memoir; and journalism and other forms of cultural production.

DIFFERENCE, DIASPORA, AND THE NATION: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF MINORITARIAN PERFORMANCE IN 20th AND 21st CENTURY ITALY

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:54am
Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Performance and Politics, University of Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

DIFFERENCE, DIASPORA, AND THE NATION: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF MINORITARIAN PERFORMANCE IN 20th AND 21st CENTURY ITALY 

7-8 February 2025 

A two-day hybrid conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Performance and Politics, Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan, Italy 

Call for Papers for NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 3:54pm
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Novel: A Forum on Fiction is accepting submissions. Founded in 1967 at Brown University, Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies. After several decades under the editorship of Nancy Armstrong, Kevin McLaughlin took over as the chief editor in Summer 2023. Novel holds to these general principles:

Gaming Fandom - Transformative Works and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 1:18pm
Hayley McCullough - New Mexico Tech; Ashley P. Jones - Wartburg College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.

ReFcous: The Films of Anurag Kashyap

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 11:37am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.

 

NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".

*UPCOMING DEADLINE* Convalescence in 19th- and 20th-century anglophone literature

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 11:18am
Nantes Université & Daulat Ram College, Delhi University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

CFP Convalescence in 19th- and 20th-century anglophone literature

26-27 June 2025, CRINI, Nantes Université & Daulat Ram College, Delhi University

Organisers: Leslie de Bont, Aude Petit-Marquis, Sanna Melin Schyllert, Deepshikha Mahanta Bortamuly, Violina Borah

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 1:17am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 1:16am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

CFP for African American Literature and Culture Society Papers and Panels at ALA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 1:18pm
African American Literature and Culture Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than
250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature
Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited
number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).

EGSS 2025 Conference: Identity and Identification

updated: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 10:52am
Florida Atlantic University: English Graduate Student Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2025

 

 

Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held at the Grand Palm Room located at our Boca Raton Campus's Student Union* on February 3rd, 2025.

*The full address for our Student Union is 1995 Dade Ave #1973, Boca Raton, FL 33431.

Eco-Futures: A Companion

updated: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 2:54am
Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Simon Bacon
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Eco-environmental criticism has now become a staple presence in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape, calling for ongoing reflections on the human impact on the environment. A distinct aspect of these conversations has been the growing focus on the concern of ecological destruction for the planet, with all the inevitable consequences that this entails.  Within changing contexts that feel increasingly more precarious, conceptualisations of the ‘eco-futures’ have become central to our cultural discourses,  from film to television series, from literature to comics, from animation and video games to digital narratives, from architecture to design, from socio-ecology to animal studies. 

Replacement Chapter for Collection in contract: Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 10:07pm
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out in 2025. 

Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric of the book (see below).

The full chapter is needed by Dec. 31st. Please email to: maureen.fadem@gmail.com

Thank you considering this important project--my very best,

~Maureen Ellen Ruprecht, CUNY

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Dinosaurs in Film, Literature, and the Arts

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 1:14pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs

-Artwork with dinosaurs

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Paleontologists in Film, Literature, and Contemporary Media

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 1:13pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous Area of PCA

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 11:53am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Late submissions being accepted until 15 December 2024.

Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans

Cornell EGSO Conference 2025: Sound—Systems

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:23am
Cornell English Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Cornell EGSO Conference 2025: Sound—Systems

Deadline for Submissions: January 15th

Conference: March 14-15, 2025

Call for Academic and Creative Proposals

 

Landscapes of Language and Literature (IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference)

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization // Rachel Martin
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference 

Landscapes of Language and Literature 

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce our 2025 E-G-O Spring Conference. The conference will be held on March 21st & 22nd 2025, on campus in Indiana, PA and simultaneously in a hybrid format. 

Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming Climate

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
Comparative World Literature, CSULB
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

 CFP: 59th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference 

Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming ClimateVenue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid Dates: 23-25 April 2025; two days of in-person and one day of Zoom panelsKeynote Speaker: Kaniehtiio Horn.

Robert Lowell Session at American Literature Association, 21–24 May '25, in Boston

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
American Literature Association / Robert Lowell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Robert Lowell session, American Literature Association, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston

The Robert Lowell Society welcomes proposals for one session at the American Literature Association's annual conference (Boston, MA, 21–24 May 2025).

We are especially interested in proposals that consider Lowell's work in light of today's "death studies." For example: Lowell’s own elegies, his memories of and reconstructions of predecessors and peers, his cemetery poems, his care poems, his commemorative publishing projects, his imitations of elegies by others, his prose about others. Panelists might also consider poems about Lowell, including but not limited to elegies. 

Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
August Wilon Society (Biennial Colloquium)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Call for Proposals

August Wilson Society’s Biennial Colloquium

 

Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression 

 

April 2-5, 2025

The Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

 

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

FINAL DEADLINE - 11/30 - NEURODIVERGENT STUDIES - PCA 2025

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).

Richard Wright Society at the American Literature Association 2025 Conference

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Richard Wright Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

American Literature Association

May 21-24, 2025

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA

 

The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at

the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference.

 

Roundtable: Richard Wright’s Contributions to Postcolonial Studies

In his introduction to AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Vijay Prashad tells

the story of how Richard Wright came to attend the historic Bandung Conference in

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