Modern life has become defined in many ways by our digital experiences, and it is in this technological environment that a retreat to an idealized version of the past has been increasingly realized and depicted through social media. The distinctive aesthetics of cottagecore, dark and light academia, and vintage movements represent creative cross sections through which individuals blend pop culture, literature, fantasy, art, and lifestyle elements in an often fantastical, romanticized, or idealized version of the past—one inherently informed by and expressed through a modern, digital present.

We are soliciting book chapters for a volume under contract with Oxford University Press, The Oxford Handbook of African American Humor Studies. 

Edited by: Dr. Brittney Michelle Edmonds (University of Wisconsin) and Dr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan (Santa Clara University)

Editor’s Introduction

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Calls for Papers and Creative Presentations

Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota

Beginnings: New Approaches in Creative Writing,
Literary Studies, and Pedagogy

September 28-30, 2023

University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD)

Many academic institutions have been evaluating their diversity and inclusion statements. At the department level, several faculty members recognize that their curriculum also needs to be evaluated.  

Watchung Review invites scholarly articles and creative works that consider the following questions for the profession, for the discipline, for our areas of specialization, and for the larger society:

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Pedagogy or Community Project Award

Provides $500 to support projects designed to bring Emerson to a non-academic audience. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project proposal, including a description of projected expenses, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton (g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by May 1, 2023.

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Undergraduate Student Essay Prize

Undergraduate students are welcome to submit 1,000-1,500-word academic essays on any topic relevant to the study of Emerson—his life, work, national and transnational reception, importance within and beyond U.S. literature and culture, and/or contemporary relevance. Winning essays will demonstrate originality, clarity, and rigorous engagement with Emerson. Selected essays may be returned to applicants with suggested revisions. The winning essay will be published in The Emerson Society Papers and the writer awarded $100. 

Haunted Shores is inviting contributions to our blog. Our online platform aims to broaden the reach of our academic work, generate discussion, and engage scholars, scientists, artists, and members of the general public.

Call for book chapters in an edited volume: Human Rights and IndianLiterary Communities

This collection undertakes various explorations about the role of literary (and related cultural) communities in the acknowledgement and understanding of human rights bearing subjects. Can literary texts highlight and empathise with those on the social margins as legal subjects possessing rights? Do texts also recognise and challenge the contours of human rights? Can literary communities help imagine and reimagine the outlines of those deemed human and therefore capable of being human rights bearing citizens?

The online peer-reviewed journal Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP) is seeking articles for its Spring 2023 issue. Deadline for article submission is May 15. Visit the web site at 

https://www.cpcc.edu/teaching-american-literature-journal-theory-and-practice

For submission guidelines and send manuscripts to Patricia Bostian at Patricia.Bostian@cpcc.edu.

One Day National Conference on
Popular Culture: Texts and Contexts (Hybrid)

Organised by the Department of English, Salesian College, Siliguri,  in collaboration with  Department of English, The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata

Venue: Salesian College, Siliguri (Hybrid)

Pandemic Poetry

Please send an abstract and your biography to Sarah Montin by June 20th 2023 at the following email address: sarah.montin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

The editors of Tinakori: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society are seeking to publish a special edition of the journal for 2023 as the centenary of the writer’s death. We welcome proposals for essays that will celebrate Mansfield’s life and contribution to literature as one of the most highly regarded short story writers of the twentieth century. We welcome all approaches to Mansfield’s work to celebrate her centenary as a writer who continues to resonate with readers and invite critical attention in the twenty-first century. We would also be interested in articles that examine Mansfield’s contribution to modernist practice and its legacy.

From the ancient text of the Kama Sutra, the first script that studied sexual intercourse as science (Chakraborty and Thakurata), to the 2011 cult novel Fifty Shades of Grey, sex figures in literature in many different ways. That is, if it figures at all. While in the Victorian era “silence became the rule” on the subject of sex (Foucault), Preciado writes that today sex and the discourse surrounding it have silently “turned into governmental agents” of power.