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The Afterlives of Absurdism @ NeMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:44am
Daniel Amaral / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Northeast Modern Language Association 

March 6-9, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

 

Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism 

 

Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world. 

 

EXTENDED LAST CALL: Women’s Perspectives on Suicide (NeMLA, roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:17am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025, https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

NeMLA meets next during the centennial of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and the sesquicentennial of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina’s initial serialization. Central to both storylines is their eponymous characters’ differing relationships to suicide. From a less literary perspective, the moment comes relatively quick on the heels of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, on June 24, 2022, undermining reproductive rights by undermining substantive due process rights generally, and so also euthanasic rights. The convergence is an auspicious occasion to explore women’s historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives on suicide.

All disciplines, methods, and perspectives welcome.

EXTENDED LAST CALL: Don DeLillo’s White Noise at Forty (Don DeLillo Society Session) (NeMLA, roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:17am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025, https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

NeMLA meets next during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020).

EXTENDED LAST CALL: Terrence Malick’s filmography at Fifty Plus (NeMLA, panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:16am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025, https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Famed and enigmatic filmmaker Terrence Malick’s remarkable filmography turned fifty recently. It begins with Badlands, that is, which appeared on October 15, 1973, followed five years later by Days of Heaven (1978). He returns after a twenty-five year hiatus with a triptych of literary and historical adaptations, including The Thin Red Line (1998), The New World (2005), and The Tree of Life (2011).

Henry James and the Archive

updated: 
Monday, September 30, 2024 - 12:50pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James Studies and archives for a special Fall 2025 Forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.”

 Topics could include, for example:

 • Using archives for Henry James scholarship

• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive

• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship

• Collecting or collections of Henry James-related material(s)

• Overlooked or forgotten archives or archival research methods for Henry James scholarship

• James’s use of archives, archival concepts, and/or the archival in his fiction or non-fiction

• Henry James as archivist

Indigenous Ecocriticism: Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Literature * 56th NeMLA Convention

updated: 
Monday, September 30, 2024 - 9:24am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Environmental Humanities is currently experiencing an unprecedented influx of creative and critical works from writers of Indigenous literature. This literary revolution, closely linked to climate change and environmental discourse, is a contributing factor, and writers are at the forefront of this contemporary debate. This session offers a unique opportunity for presenters to contribute to a significant academic debate by exploring paradigm shifts in Indigenous environmental discourse. The works will delve into the intersection of gender, class, race, and the Anthropocene, offering a comprehensive understanding.

Climate and the Limits of Narratability

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 4:42pm
International Society for the Study of Narrative 2025 conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Climate and the Limits of Narratability

A panel to be pitched for inclusion in the 2025 conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative in Miami, April 2–6, 2025.

Organizer: Daniel Aureliano Newman, University of Toronto

Call For Qualified Guest Reviewers - Creative Industries (Business, Crafts, New Technologies, Theater, Video Games, Etc)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 1:54pm
Creative Industries Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Call for Well-Qualified Guest Reviewers

The international peer-reviewed Creative Industries Journal [CIJ] (Routledge/ Taylor and Francis), now in its 17th volume and approaching its 16th year, seeks to create a pool of guest reviewers, who possess the requisite expertise, to complement our Peer Review Board and Editorial team.

Specifically, the journal is currently looking for those with expertise in the business of the creative industries, music, architecture,  software, media and digital media, film, video games, art, crafts, design, fashion.

New Writing Journal seeks articles, creative work, articles on pedagogy, genre and more

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 1:50pm
New Writing journal (Routledge/Taylor and Francis)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge) seeks high quality articles, as well as creative work 

Articles submitted might focus on any aspect of Creative Writing Studies, including, for example:

• Creative Writing in universities and colleges
• pedagogy, practice or research topics
• the processes of creative writers, their drafts and completed works
• the history of particular writing forms
• analysis of particular creative works

Submission length is open. 

CFP: Guest Reviewers, New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 1:46pm
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Guest Reviewers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers.

New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise. 

The journal can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmnw20/current

NeMLA 2025- Embodying the Revolution: Storytelling and Performance for Social Resilience (UPDATED DEADLINE)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 12:42pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Embodying the Resolution: Storytelling and Performance for Social Resilience

(A Creative Panel Session of 56th NeMLA Annual Convention| March 6-9, 2025| Philadelphia, PA)

Abstract submission link: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21022


NEMLA 2025 theme is "(R)EVOLUTION”, submission deadline (UPDATED): October 15, 2024

LAST CALL: New Perspectives on Maria von Herbert’s 1792-94 Correspondence with Immanuel Kant (ASECS, panel)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:37am
American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) (Annual Convention, On-line, March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025, https://asecs.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Maria von Herbert’s 1792-94 correspondence with Immanuel Kant—arising out of her despair and suicidal ideation, coupled with her commitment of his philosophical perspective, including his famously uncompromising prohibition of suicide—has enjoyed increasingly careful attention in the roughly forty years now since Beverley Brown and Rae Langton’s invitations to this effect, in the mid-eighties and early-nineties—most recently as the subject of the annual Kant Reading Party at the University of St Andrews, in July and August of 2023, out of which a volume of new translations and critical materials will soon emerge.

Henry James Review special issue: Henry James and the Archive

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:37am
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

Henry James and the Archive

 

 

The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James studies and archives for a special fall 2025 forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.” 

 

Topics could include, for example:

 

• Using archives for Henry James scholarship

• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive

• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship

George Saunders Society, ALA, Boston, MA, May 21-25, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
George Saunders Society / American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The George Saunders Society invites prospective participants for one or two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, to be held May 21 to 25, 2025. We are interested in presentations on any aspect of George Saunders’s life and work; in this, our fifth year of activity at ALA (returning after an absence in 2024!), we continue to be interested in papers that challenge, complicate, or go beyond the most common (particularly religious, ethical, or new sincerest) readings of the author’s work in the critical literature to this point. The topic is therefore open, but possible approaches might include:

Navigating the Sahara Desert: African Migrants’ Precarious Journeys and Restricted Mobilities

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration

(http://www.africamigration.com)

Organizes

A One-Day Virtual Conference on

 

Navigating the Sahara Desert: African Migrants’ Precarious Journeys and Restricted Mobilities

 

-January 18, 2025-

 

Concept Note:

Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation (ACLA 2025, virtual)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
Rusaba Alam (University of British Columbia) and Torin McLachlan (Capilano University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Please note that abstract submissions must be sent through the ACLA submission portal online. For details, see the seminar posting on the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/comparative-literature-and-politics-detranslation 

The 2025 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held virtually, May 29-June 1, 2025.

SCMS Translation/Publication Committee Call for Translations

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
SCMS Translation/Publication Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 25, 2024

Society for Cinema & Media Studies–Translation/Publication Committee

in collaboration with

JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2024-2025

JCMS: Journal for Cinema and Media Studies annually publishes one translation of outstanding scholarly or creative work on cinema and media studies. The translation is selected by the SCMS Translation/Publication Standing Committee, which coordinates the annual Call for Translations. The committee shepherds the selected submission into a completed manuscript for publication in an upcoming volume of JCMS. Original texts may be in any language and come from any period or geographic region.

Notes from the Field - Fall Call 2024

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
TPS Collective
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is accepting submissions about teaching and working with primary sources for three series of peer-reviewed blog posts: “Language,” “Teach

NeMLA 2025: : Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
Mamen Rodriguez
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Dates: March 6-9, 2025

Location: La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th , 2024

Panel Title: Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed

Panel Description: 

Modernism and Data Special Issue

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
The Modernist Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

“A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data

Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
Bennett University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

“Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human” 

Critical Survey Journal

Guest Editor: Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Bennett University, India 

W.D. Howells Society CFPs for ALA 2025 (Boston)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
William Dean Howells Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Howells Society CFPs for ALA 2025 (Boston)

 

The W.D. Howells Society will host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend). 

 

PANEL 1: HOWELLS & OTHERS

Engaging young people with the climate emergency through literature.

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
University of Gloucestershire / University of Minnesota
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

We are seeking chapters for an edited book with the provisional title: Engaging young people with the climate emergency through literature. We are currently working with Bristol University Press to get this project off the ground.

INSAP 2025: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:34am
The Conferences on The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Call for Papers: INSAP XIII: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space(Queen’s University Belfast, 8-13 June 2025)

 

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the INSAP XIII conference Celestial Connections Across Time and Space. This conference aims to bring together scholars, artists, and scientists from various disciplines to explore the multifaceted relationships between the skies - be it the stars, planets, or other celestial phenomena - and their influence across cultures, histories, and fields of study. INSAP’s purpose from its inception has been to foster a dialogue that bridges the gap between the sciences and the arts, encouraging a holistic understanding of the universe.

 

Literary Musings - Regular Issue December 2024

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:34am
Literary Musings
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459
Academic Journal
Research Academy

Literary Druid - Regular Issue October 2024

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:34am
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

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