Hull (UK), 8th - 9th December 2022

In the last five years, renewed focus has been on Philip Larkin.

Conference Director: Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia

*Extended Deadline for Proposals: September 30, 2022*

You are invited to propose a scholarly paper, panel, or roundtable, or more public-facing creative presentation, performance, or screening to a conference designed to explore the career of Asian North American writer Winnifred Eaton Reeve (1875-1954) and her contexts.. 

Etymologically, the term “resilience”--from the Latin re- and salire, “to leap in return”--refers to the capability of a thing, in response to some stimulus, to return to its original form or state. The term connotes a dual activity, simultaneously an undoing and a rebuilding. But in Indigenous contexts, under the realities of settler-colonialism, the aspiration to “return to original form” is a fraught enterprise, as it inevitably encounters the romanticized conceptual dichotomies of traditional / modern, sedentary / nomadic, cultural / political, and historical / mythical.

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
• Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture
• Relationships between humans and plants
• Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals
• Plants and the environmental crisis
• Phytosemiotics and plant communication
• Plant sensation and consciousness
• Vegetal agency

Streaming a movie. Waiting in line for gas. Drinking a tall glass of water. These are day-to-day experiences that rely on forms of energy and natural resource extraction that are often hidden in plain view, entangled with dynamics of colonialism, transnational flows, digital assemblages, stock markets and neoliberalism. The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly made these entanglements more felt. As such, we are tasked with unraveling these complex embodied and sensorial daily experiences of energy and extraction.

In the 1990s, transgressive fiction authors like Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, and Irvine Welsh shocked, disgusted, and offended audiences with their depictions of terrorizing, murdering, and drug-abusing characters whose bad behavior rejected and subverted the Western hegemony of neoliberalism. But their behavior was only seen as “shocking” or “transgressive” because of its blatant opposition to the dominant paradigm. What does it mean to transgress norms, boundaries, and conventions in today’s post-9/11 world, when the paradigms of whiteness, masculinity, heteronormativity, etc. are not necessarily viewed as the ultimate gatekeepers of what is normal, standard, correct, or expected?

REMINDER: AUGUST 15 DEADLINE

CALL FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS

Women in French Studies

2024 Special Topics Issue

Out of Confinement: Creativity in Constraint

“True enclosure was surely a state of mind.”

—Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages

Loving Dystopia
A Global Interdisciplinary Conference

Friday 17th March 2023 - Saturday 18th March 2023
Prague, Czech Republic

Literally the opposite of utopia, or ‘perfect place,’ the term dystopia was coined in the mid-19th century and has been used to both critique laws, policies and actions by those in power, and to describe states of being.

A dystopian society is generally seen as an imagined state of existence or an imagined society, characterized by gross imbalances of power, injustice, cruelty, suffering and hopelessness, with either totalitarian or nonexistent — or at least invisible — and always unethical forms of government.

Fairy Tales
A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference

Sunday 19th March 2023 - Monday 20th March 2023
Prague, Czech Republic

WSQ: Nonbinary

Call For Papers

FALL 2023 ISSUE

Guest Editors:

JV FUQUA, Queens College, CUNY
MARQUIS BEY, Northwestern University
RED WASHBURN, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
BRIANNE WAYCHOFF, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY 

Popular Culture in South Asian Context

(Edited Volume)

Call for Papers

Beyond the Council Estate: Cinematic Space(s) of the Working-Class.   

CALL for SUBMISSIONS 

Edited by: Katerina Flint-Nicol and Deirdre O’Neill 

54th NeMLA Annual Convention

March 23-26, 2023
Niagara Falls, NY

This is a CFP for Panel 19949 "Afectos y emociones en la literatura y el cine español y latinoamericano"

The Review of English and American Literature

Call for Papers