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DEADLINE IN TWO WEEKS - Call for Book Chapters: Recovering Lost Voices 19th-century British Literature

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:48pm
Michaela George and Elizabeth Drummey/ University of New Hampshire
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 9, 2023

This collection aims to continue the work of diversifying the 19th-century British literary canon. Many authors who were revolutionary and popular during their time are now underrepresented in the current scholarly field. The essays in the collection will touch on underread texts and authors as well as underappreciated characters in more traditionally canonical works. We welcome essays using lenses such as disability studies, trauma theory, critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and more.

Chapter proposals can include but are not limited to:

  • Underread 19th-century British authors

  • 19th-century diaries or letters that have been critically ignored

Competing Christian Identities

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:45pm
Katherine Kelaidis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

 

Call for Papers:

Competing Christian Identities

 

Literary Theory CEA 3/21-3/23/2024

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Literary Theory at CEA 2024

deadline for submissions: 

November 1, 2023

full name / name of organization: 

College English Association (CEA)

contact email: 

conaway@usi.edu

Call for Papers, Literary Theory at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Literary Theory for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

CFP: ACLA Panel: "Unruly Women in Contemporary Pop Culture"

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
Lisa Timmermann
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Recently, we have seen a growing number of unconventional female characters in literature, film, and on TV – characters that do not conform to patriarchal and capitalist constructions of femininity, that defy our expectations and refuse to follow the (written and/or unwritten) rules. In her monograph The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter (1995), Kathleen Rowe focused on the representation of “unruly women” in comedy. According to Rowe, the romantic comedy genre has “provided one of the few outlets for representations of female unruliness in Hollywood film” (Rowe 19).

Caste-ing Academia: The Global Rise of (Critical) Caste Studies

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
American Comparative Literature Association/ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

North American academia in the last few decades has been forced to confront Caste as a crucial analytic in the study of the local and the global through various disciplinary perspectives. With groundbreaking work such as Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit (2019), Divya Cherian’s Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (2022) and so on, Caste has become, rightly so, an avoidable part of the global-postcolonial-neocolonial world of scholarship. Recent work by scholars like Nico Slate and Isabel Wilkerson seeks to compare and connect modern racial structures in the US and Europe to the ancient system of Caste in India.

Symposium Selfing and Shelving: Zines, Zine Media, and Zintivism

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
Sabina Fazli / Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Zines are extremely versatile and shapeshift across various historical and cultural contexts. The term covers a wide range of objects with different aesthetic and material qualities as well as contexts of production and reception: Zines accommodate the collective concerns of fans and activists (zintivism) and the personal voice of the diarist and letter writer. Since the rise of digital media, zines and their aesthetics have become portable: Digitised and digital zines exist alongside blogs, social media, podcasts, and substacks, which seem to exhibit zine-y tendencies, while digital infrastructures have changed the ways that print zines are produced, distributed, and archived.

Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:40pm
Dr Kelly Kar Yue Chan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Call for Papers

Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries

We are inviting chapter proposals for the edited book The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries. It is a collection of academic essays that scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and heroines in different folkloric traditions and narratives and in the context of Asia. Contributors can explore relevant notions in the topics of mythologies, folktales, literature, theatre performance and any other forms of arts/genres etc.

Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from the Global South (Online)

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:40pm
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Memory and Trauma Studies have emerged as a key paradigm in the field of humanities, social and cultural studies, especially towards the end of the 20th century. The intersections and interactions between these two fields have been employed by contemporary scholars to study human histories of war, atrocities, genocides, partition, displacement and discrimination. Building upon this enriched understanding of the intricate relationship between memory and trauma, scholars have extended their inquiries to explore the mechanisms through which societies and individuals navigate the aftermath of traumatic experiences.

Transformations (CEA in Atlanta 3/21-3/23/24)

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:39pm
Lynne M. Simpson / College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The College English Association’s 53rd national conference, from March 21-23 in Atlanta, will focus on the theme of transformations. CEA invites proposals from academics specializing in Medieval and Early Modern literature or cultural studies. We especially welcome presentations that focus on the theme of transformations in texts, disciplines, culture, media, education, and pedagogy. But in addition to our conference theme, we happily accept proposals on other topics of interest.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted electronically by November 1, 2023, through our conference management database housed at the following web address: https://www.conftool.pro/cea2024/.

Excès de stéréotypes genrés/ 55e congrès annuel de NeMLA

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:39pm
Hind Aassouli (Université Hassan II de Casablanca Maroc)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Cet atelier se veut un creuset d'échange et de réflexion sur les stéréotypes liés au genre dans les différents domaines de la société.

Writing Faith and Place in Early Modern Britain

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:30pm
University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

Writing Faith and Place in Early Modern Britain

17th–19th April, University of Exeter

 

4th International e-Conference "On Exploring Crisis in Literary and Cultural Studies" to be organized by New Literaria Journal in collaboration with the Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan (CURaj), India

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 12:54pm
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

4th International e-Conference

On

 

Exploring Crisis in Literary and Cultural Studies

Date: 19th & 20th October, 2023

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

in collaboration with

Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan (CURaj), India

 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 Mode: Online

Transgender Science Fiction

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 12:12pm
Douglas A. Vakoch, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1, 2023 ***

The response to our earlier CFP was so strong that we are expanding our edited volume into The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction, and we welcome additional chapters examining science fiction novels, short stories, YA literature, graphic novels, comics, films, television, games, material culture, and other media. 

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no later than October 1, 2023.

Humour across Victoriana

updated: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 8:08am
Mou-Lan Wong / National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Humour across Victoriana

To be published as part of the series, Humour in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2023-2025).

This volume will attempt to explore the prevalence and function of humour across all levels of Victorian society by focusing on how humour is expressed, encountered, and experienced in all forms of media and expression.

NEW REMINDER: Il Parlaggio - new issue January 2024

updated: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 2:25am
Edizioni Sinestesie (Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

IL PARLAGGIO

ISSN 2280-6849

 

This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.

“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS : Dalit Life Narratives: The Context, Text and Praxis

updated: 
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 11:51am
Dr. S. Balasundari Associate Professor School of English and Foreign Languages The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be university) Dindigul, Tamilnadu Contact: 94430 15040 E-Mail: balasundarigru@yahoo.com Mr. V. Siva Research scholar, Sch
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Dear Scholars and Researchers,

We are delighted to announce the Call for Chapters on Dalit Life Narratives: The Context, Text and Praxis a timely and significant initiative that seeks to explore and highlight the contemporary relevance of Dalit experiences. This compilation aims to shed light on the lived realities, struggles, triumphs, and aspirations of the Dalit community through the medium of life narratives.

CALL FOR PAPERS – Home/Bodies: NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference, April 5-7, 2024

updated: 
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 10:55am
University of Tennessee, Knoxville English department
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Gaston Bachelard asserts that "all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home." How does one define "home"? Is it a materially constructed shelter, or a psychological space that holds one's memories, imaginations, and, essentially, a space that "protects the daydreamer" (The Poetics of Space, 5)? Furthermore, what does it mean to exist in a "body"? And what does it feel like to be "at home" in a body? How does one traverse these inhabited spaces, both in public and in private? Or, how are spatial boundaries reinstated when the home and the body is misaligned?

CFP: How We Do Asian American Studies: AAPI Narratives of Shared Vulnerability and Care Communities

updated: 
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 10:11am
Seol Ha & Surbhi Malik / Creighton University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Call for Papers

 

2024 AAAS Annual Conference

April 25-27, 2024

Seattle, WA

 

Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities

 

 

Panel Title

How We Do Asian American Studies: AAPI Narratives of Shared Vulnerability and Care Communities

 

Type: Paper Presentation (3-4 presenters)

 

CALL FOR CHAPTERS - The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 4:05pm
Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D., Brooklyn College, CUNY
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora

 

Submission Deadline – December 15th, 2023

Notification of selection – January 15th, 2023

Full Chapters Due – May 30th, 2024

 

Editor

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department and Caribbean Studies Program, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY)

 

SEEKING CHAPTER PROPOSALS FOR EDITED VOLUME-

Description

“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 3:18pm
Université Paris Nanterre (CREA EA 370) - Université Clermont Auvergne (IHRIM-UMR 5317)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

                                               Call for papers 

“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”

(Scroll down for the French version, scientific committee and selected bibliography)

A one-day preparatory seminar will take place on April, 5th 2024 (as a hybrid event) to enable scholars to present their research. The conference will then take place at Université Paris Nanterre on April 3-4, 2025

Caribbean Carnival Space and New Media

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 11:40am
Hanna Klien-Thomas, Alison McLetchie, Natalie Wall
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL SPACE AND NEW MEDIA

Studies in Theatre and Performance Special Issue Call for Papers

Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century (Southampton, UK)

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:50am
Romance, Revolution & Reform
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

The study of labour in the long nineteenth century has enjoyed a rich critical history, guided by the twentieth century’s New Left focus on class formation and experience, and extended in more recent years by scholarship which has diversified traditional and non-traditional categorisations of ‘labour’. This conference seeks to question the thinking by which we identify forms of labour in the first place: who, both in the nineteenth century and now, is allowed to decide what counts as labour? Which voices of the long nineteenth century emerge if we diversify our definition(s) of labour? And, how can the scholarship of labour – or the labour of scholarship – help us navigate the nature, purpose, and value of labour in a post-Covid era? 

 

BCPS Conference - February 12-13, 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:50am
British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCECALL FOR PAPERS  BACK IN-PERSON AGAIN!     FEBRUARY 12-13 2024     DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA

After three years of virtual conferences, we're excited to welcome you back to Savannah. As we reboot our in-person conference, we're also bringing back one of our most popular Keynote speakers. Please join us at the DeSoto Hotel in the beautiful Historic District this coming February for the critical engagement, friendly community, and vibrant network that the BCPS Conference has been known for for over three decades.

Modern Hebrew Literature from a Distance - Chapter submissions for co-edited anthology

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:48am
Nancy Berg, Washington University, St. Louis; Yael Dekel and Adia Mendelson Maoz, The Open Univesrity of Isarel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

What can quantification, statistics, and algorithms contribute to our understanding of literary works, trends, or history? How can engagement with data be productive, contributing to traditional research strategies by adding more options of interpretation and analysis? We welcome proposals for an edited volume on the possibilities – and limitations – of applying computational methodologies to the study of modern Hebrew literature from the Haskalah to contemporary times, all genres, including translation studies.

 

Please send abstracts by December 1, 2023 (500 words, and preliminary bibliography) in which you define your project: corpus, methodology, innovation, context, and connection to traditional literary study.

 

Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:47am
College English Association Special Topics Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2023

Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture We are organizing a panel (or panels) on the topic of "Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture" for the 53rd Annual CEA Conference in Atlanta, GA, from March 21-23. We are looking for papers that discuss how popular culture can be used to teach important concepts or skill sets in a way that engages students in the learning process. Some potential topics include, but are not limited to, critical thinking skills, empathy, composition styles, and rhetorical analysis. There is a possibility that panel presenters may be asked if they want to participate in an edited essay collection on this topic. Please note that presenters must be members of CEA to present at the conference.

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