CALL FOR PRESENTATION

Prof. Debabrata Mukherjee Memorial Annual Students' Conference (Online), 2022, Department of English, Jadavpur University

Fashioning the Everyday Digital Self: Pandemic and the Online Classroom
21-22 March, 2022

Feminist Spaces Summer 2022 Issue

Feminist Spaces is pleased to announce that we are now accepting general submissions for our next issue.

Feminist Spaces welcomes work across genres and disciplines and invites students, faculty, and independent scholars to submit academic papers, creative writing, and artistic pieces that address topics in feminist, gender, sexuality or women’s studies. Articles may originate or enter into dialogue with current feminist discourse or present historical research. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

■     Feminism in politics and/or political discourse

■     Feminist theory, practice, and politics

Victorian Resurrections

International Conference, 22nd – 24th September 2022 (University of Vienna)

Deadline for proposals (300 words): 15th May 2022

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Ann Heilmann (University of Cardiff)
Patricia Duncker (University of Manchester)

Call for Papers

Call for panel for the MLA Convention in San Francisco (2023, January 5-9) Gardening in Black literature

This panel explores figurations of the plot, the garden, and gardening in Black literature, examining the otherwise relationalities and possibilities cultivated by this cultural, geographic, and environmental practice. 

Please send a 200-word abstract and brief CV to Dorottya Mozes at dorottya.mozes@gmail.com by March 20. 

Culture, Theory and Critique: 

SPECIAL ISSUE ON MILITARIZATION & PLEASURE

Why study the early modern period? Most academics of earlier periods have encountered this question in one form or another. This question seems especially pressing when it comes to teaching. For many of us, it is our goal to have monographs published by university presses and spend summers conducting research in archives. But the reality is that a large part of our day-to-day impact as scholars is on the undergraduate students we encounter as instructors, usually teens and young adults. This panel is interested in engaging in a conversation about how teaching undergraduate students impacts our scholarship in early modern studies.

We need to rethink the state. No one loves to hate the state more than a humanist. Yet does this critique serve us well? What do we mean by “the” state? Humanities scholars often take for granted a unified and homogenous idea of the state as a basis for critique. The settler colonial state, the necropolitical state, the neoliberal state; or perhaps less negatively, the welfare state, the developmentalist state, the liberal state. As this plethora of familiar models suggests, it should be impossible to talk about “the” state as a singular form, to equate it with one function or to define it by one pattern of experience. And yet such singular imaginaries often underpin humanistic engagement with the state. 

Eighteenth-century women’s writing has attracted critical attention in recent years and the rise of the novel genre has faced reconsideration and re-evaluation accordingly. The fiction of women writers such as Eliza Haywood, Aphra Behn, Delariver Manley, and Penelope Aubin has undergone new editions and has come under critical focus to question their relationship to the canon and to theories of the novel. This workshop focuses on women writers alongside the canonical writers of the long eighteenth century and invites talks on various aspects of eighteenth-century novel. Talks on the intertextual relationships between canonical writers and non-canonical women writers and on theories of the novel are especially welcome.

POSTHUMANITIES AND CITIZENSHIP
FUTURES
Series edited by
Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki

Romanian Literary History at a Crossroads

Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020

and the Cultural-Materialist and Transnational Turn in Literary Studies

Special Issue 3/2022

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia

studia.philologia@lett.ubbcluj.ro

Guest editors:

Textual Negotiation of Online Identities 

Special Issue 4/2022  

Studia Universitatis Babeș-BolyaiPhilologia  

studia.philologia@lett.ubbcluj.ro  

Guest Editors:  

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

Transgression and Irish Writing since 1921

  (Guest Editors: Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin / Wei H. Kao, National Taiwan University)

Publication Date: December 2022 (Issue No. 48)

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2022

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This panel follows the occasional tradition of examining Poe’s life and works in an Eastern Seaboard city where he once lived and wrote that happens to be hosting the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, but with a West Coast slant as the MLA gathers in a land that Poe called “Eldorado.” Synonymous with the California Gold Rush, 1849 was also the year of Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death. 1849 was a productive year for Poe.

How do issues of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender affect the production and consumption of American humor? Please send 250-word abstracts and a brief bio by March 12th to Sam Chesters at samantha.chesters@gmail.com.