Breaking Convention: Diasporic Fiction and the Re-Making of Genre

A one-day workshop

16 May 2023, King’s College London

Deadline for abstracts: 22 Feb 2023

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Poets and Prose Authors Read their Works in English, Session II Prose.

Audra Spicer, Colorado State University Global audra.spicer@csuglobal.edu

Location: Golden/Denver, CO

Dates: October 11-14, 2023

Costs:

RMMLA membership: $35/year

Conference registration: $85 by April 1

Friday luncheon: free of charge for presenters ($35 for guests)

Hotel room: $147/night and sleeps four

The LGBTQ+ and/in Popular Culture caucus of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Studies Association is proud to announce the call for papers for the 2023 MPCA/MACA conference at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, October 6-8. Papers pertaining (but not limited to) to current and historical issues of the LGBTQ+ community and their representation in popular culture are encouraged.

2023 marks the anniversaries of Jerzy Grotowski's 90th birthday and Krystian Lupa's 80th birthday.  On this occasion, Pamiętnik Teatralny, a bilingual Polish-English academic quarterly, invites scholars to reflect on the international presence of these two Polish directors in different cultural contexts around the world.  

Hard Times

The 2023 Conference of the Victorians Institute
NC State University and Methodist University
Raleigh, NC
Sat-Sun October 7-8, 2023

https://victoriansinstitute2023.wordpress.com/

"Hard Times" was a frequent Victorian refrain, perhaps most famously in the title of Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel but also in Stephen Foster’s 1854 song "Hard Times Come Again No More"; in the title of Hubert von Herkomer’s 1885 painting; and throughout the century as an experience of socioeconomic difficulties, political oppression, and personal suffering.

This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of care; the various ways bodily ability are articulated in different spaces within the early Francophone world. We especially welcome papers engaging with these topics from global and/or intersectional perspectives, as well as those considering diachronic and transtemporal approaches.

Open Call for WSA Volume 30 (2024)

Deadline: 15 October 2023

Launched in 1995, Woolf Studies Annual will publish its thirtieth volume in the spring of 2024. The editor invites submissions for this important milestone volume. 

Of particular interest would be articles that make use of the WSA Index (see vol. 28 and 29) to return to and expand/revise the insights of the scholarship and archival material published in the journal’s first 15 years. Of particular interest might be 

• Vara Neverow and Merry M. Pawlowski’s preliminary bibliography to Three Guineas’s notes (vol. 3), 

Henry James and the Visual Arts

University of Reading, Thursday 29 June 2023

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Subvention Award

Provides $500 to support costs for the publication of an upcoming scholarly book or article on Emerson. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation from an academic mentor or colleague, and a 1-2 page single-spaced proposal, including an abstract of the forthcoming work and a detailed description of expenses, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton (g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by April 1, 2023.  

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Research Grant

Provides $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference is given to junior scholars and graduate students. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project proposal, including a description of expenses needed to complete the project, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton(g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by April 1, 2023.  

Publicly available text-generating engines like ChatGPT make large language models (LLMs) “writers” in their own right. How can we interpret the changing status of the writer in the age of machine learning? What does the success of AI-generated textuality ask us to reconsider, revisit, or reinvent in the context of literary theory and the digital humanities more generally?

This panel is a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the TC Digital Humanities executive forum for the 2024 MLA conference in Philadelphia (January 4-7). 

CFP: MLA Annual Convention 2024 (4-7 January)

MLA 2024 SolarpunkCFP 

Philadelphia, PA January 4-7 

Panel Organizers 

• Phoebe Wagner | Lycoming College | wagnerp@lycoming.edu 

Catherine Bush’s 2019 novel Blaze Island opens with the following epigraph from Elena Ferrante: “Pressing changes are underway. Everything is becoming something else, unpredictably. A completely new outlook is required. The challenge now and for the foreseeable future is to extract ourselves from what men have engineered, a planet long on the edge of catastrophe.” Throughout the novel, Bush underscores the importance of thinking critically about boundaries, specifically those of gender and geography, as she reworks Shakespeare’s The Tempest to particularly Atlantic Canadian purposes.