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Call for Chapters for Toyetic Television: A Companion

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:13pm
Sophia Staite
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

From G. I. Joe workout routines and Sailor Moon wedding gowns to Bratz doll make-unders and Ferby modding, toyetic, merchandise-driven television from past decades has proved remarkably resilient. Toyetic television clearly holds a far greater and more enduring cultural significance than definitions such as “glorified half-hour commercials” (Hilton-Morrow & McMahan 2003, p. 78) might suggest. It is meaningful to individual viewers, it becomes “social lubricants facilitating communication between one child and another” (Steinberg 2012, p. 90), and it can connect generations through shared viewing and playing pleasures.

Fellowship for California Black Women Creative Writers

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:13pm
Muses & Melanin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 5, 2024

The Muses & Melanin Fellowship is a supportive, virtual, fully funded eight-month cohort-based professional development program for 30 talented California African American, Afro Latina, and multiracial women creative writers of the African diaspora who aspire to become professional authors. The fellowship is designed for women who do not yet have a lengthy list of publishing credits, are not under a publishing contract, do not have literary agent representation, and do not have a doctoral degree in English, Creative Writing, or Literature (a Master's degree in these subjects is fine, such as an MFA or MA). A Bachelor's degree is required.

Special Issue - Breaking Convention: Genre Fiction in a Global Frame

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:12pm
Lucinda Newns, Bishop Grosseteste University (UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Special Issue of Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly the Journal of Commonwealth Literature)

Deadline for abstract proposals: 15 July 2024

Panel exploring the representations of motherhood in Canada for the in-person conference “Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives” (University of Debrecen, Hungary, October 24-25, 2024)

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:11pm
Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, University of Debrecen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

CFP: Panel exploring the representations of motherhood in Canada for the in-person conference “Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives” (University of Debrecen, Hungary, October 24-25, 2024)

Teaching Octavia E. Butler: SAMLA 96 Special Session

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:10pm
Octavia E. Butler Literary Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Teaching Octavia E. Butler: Call for Papers SAMLA 96

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association

November 15-17, 2024
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront
Jacksonville, FL

We invite proposals from educators, graduate students, independent scholars, and anyone passionate about incorporating Butler’s works into their teaching and learning environments.

Panelists are encouraged to share specific lesson plans, classroom activities, and resources that effectively engage students with Butler’s texts. Discussions on the challenges and opportunities of teaching Butler in diverse educational settings are also welcome.

Dalloway Day Mini-Conference

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:10pm
Charlotte Fiehn/Center at West Park
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 21, 2024

The Center at West Park (CWP) is hosting Dalloway Day - a celebration of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway - on June 21st. The event, beginning at 5pm, will feature a mini-conference session (approximately 2-hours) and a film screening.

We would like to invite interested parties - established and emerging scholars, students, and general readers - to submit proposals (200 to 300 words) for 15 to 20 minute papers on the novel or aspects of Woolf’s work.

Please send proposals to charlotte.fiehn@yu.edu.

If you’re interested in attending the event without presenting, we’d also love to add you to the mailing list for the event. 

Reading Taylor Swiftly

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:04pm
Post-45 Contemporaries
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

“Reading Taylor Swiftly”CFP for Post-45 Contemporaries

Co-editors:

Stephanie Burt, Donald and Catherine Loker Professor of English, Harvard University

Gabriel Hankins, Associate Professor of English, Clemson University

 

Knowing India: Academic Social Responsibility and the Humanities

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:04pm
Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures (CENTIL), Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University and Humanities in India Partnership Programme, University of East Anglia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Knowing India: Academic Social Responsibility and the Humanities

Offered by Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures (CENTIL), Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

under

SPARC Project (Scheme for the Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) in association with the Humanities in India Partnership Programme, University of East Anglia.

Comparative Literature and Translation: Mapping Milestones, Tracing Trajectories

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:04pm
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University in collaboration with the Comparative Literature Association of India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Comparative Literature and Translation:

Mapping Milestones, Tracing Trajectories

 

Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

in collaboration with the

Comparative Literature Association of India

(23rd – 25th July 2024)

Three-Day International Online Conference in Memory of

 Dr. Chandra Mohan,

former General Secretary of CLAI

 

British Literature 20 and 21st Century

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:03pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The "British Literature and Culture: 20th and 21st Centuries" session welcomes papers that explore the rich cultural heritage of 20th and 21st Century British literature. It is important to note that this session uses the term “literature” liberally to include visual and performing arts, products of stage and screen that point to aspects of British culture generally, including the country’s politics. With regard to the conference’s theme “Translation in Action,” the session also welcomes but does not require proposals that discuss how the non-Anglophone world has reacted to/understood/re-interpreted 20th and 21st century British literature, or thoughts on teaching this literature in the American classroom.

Corpus methods in the analysis of discourse - Special Issue

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:03pm
University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

We invite you to submit papers in English for the next 43rd issue of the journal “Świat i Słowo” (World and Word), which we dedicate to the use of corpus linguistics methods for the analysis of various linguistic phenomena occurring in discourse – broadly defined as “language in use” (Brown and Yule 1983). The aim of the volume is to present research that combines corpus linguistics and the analysis of different forms and varieties of discourse. Preference is given to articles presenting the results of original research of an empirical or analytical nature conducted using corpus linguistics tools and techniques to analyse the ways in which language is used in different contexts for communicative purposes.

Sci-Fi Special Issue

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:02pm
The Classical Connection
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Call for Papers: 

Special Issue: “Vol. 2 No. 1, Sci-Fi’s Narratives of Possibilities and Probabilities” 

The Classical Connection (ISSN 2994-9262 Online)

 

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RSA 2025 Margaret Cavendish Society Sponsored Sessions CFP

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:02pm
The International Margaret Cavendish Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 29, 2024

The Margaret Cavendish Society will sponsor two or more sessions (panels or roundtables) at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. The RSA conference in 2025 will be held jointly with the Shakespeare Assocation of America. 

CFP: GOLDEN GIRLS! EDITED VOLUME ON TV SERIES CREATED BY SUSAN HARRIS

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:01pm
Rosanne Welch
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

CFP: EDITED VOLUME ON TV SERIES CREATED BY SUSAN HARRIS

Screen Storytellers:

The Works of Susan Harris

Edited by Rosanne Welch 

 

This edited volume on the works of Susan Harris will be part of the new SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on television series created by Harris. Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers.

RSA 2025 - Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Age of Milton (Milton Society of America)

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:01pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-20-minute papers exploring Milton’s place in the global seventeenth century. This panel seeks to consider Milton’s participation in and reflections on cross-cultural encounters, including during his years in the Commonwealth government. Considerations of Milton’s engagements with empire, race, and non-Anglophone cultures are especially welcome. Send a paper title (15-word maximum), 200-word abstract, and resume (.pdf or .doc) to Marissa Greenberg at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than July 1.

RSA 2025 - Milton Studies: A General Session (Milton Society of America)

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:01pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-20-minute papers considering any aspect of Milton's writings, their reception, and their significance. Send a paper title (15-word maximum), 200-word abstract, and resume (.pdf or .doc) to Marissa Greenberg at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than July 1.

Language of Wars, genocides, and Conflict

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:01pm
The Protagonist Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

WE ARE LOOKING FOR ESSAYS, REVIEWS, RESPONSES, POETRY, PROSE, AND VISUAL ART

Bisexual Digital Rhetorics

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 6:59pm
Symposium Issue of Rhetoric Review on Bisexual Digital Rhetorics (BiDigiRhets)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

CFP: Rhetoric Review Symposim on Bisexual Digital Rhetorics (BiDigiRhets)Editors

Cindy Tekobbe and Derek M. Sparby

 

Contact Email

bisexualdigitalrhetorics@gmail.com

 

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International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media Vol. 8 2024 cfp

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 6:11pm
International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

The International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media has extended the deadline for submission of papers to be considered for its 2024 issue, vol. 8. Full paper submissions are due June 16. 

As late Spring often allows for clearer and more focused work, the editors are once again inviting submissions in a broad spectrum of themes related to visual and sonic media studies. Check the call for papers for further information at https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo/announcement/view/200

 

Afrofuturism, Special Issue of Studies in American Culture

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 6:02pm
Studies in American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

As an aesthetic and cultural movement, Afrofuturism began with Mark Derry’s 1993 essay, “Black to the Future.” Derry poses a difficult question: “Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine possible futures?” The clear answer is a resounding, “YES!” Not only can Black folk imagine possible futures, but they can also write, paint, and sculpt them into being. In this special issue we invite contributors to explore what these possible futures look like. How do Afrofuturist artists reimagine a world where Black folks can be/are free? What is the cost of such freedom? 

 

Literary Musings - Regular Issue July 2024

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 6:02pm
Literary Musings
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459
Academic Journal
Research Academy

[2nd CfP] Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 6:01pm
Dr. Joel White, University of Dundee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

Call for Papers

Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges  

A Trans-Disciplinary Conference 

31 Oct – 2 Nov 2024

University of Dundee & University of Edinburgh 

Edinburgh, Scotland 

 

Marlowe X Theory

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 2:15am
Northumbria University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.  

Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

updated: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 5:13pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 16 ***  
 

PAMLA Annual Conference  

Palm Springs, California 

November 6-10, 2024 

 

 "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel)    

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