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From Proletariat to Precariat: Representations of Class and Identity in Working-class writing from the 1930s to the present

updated: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 10:24am
The University of Birmingham
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2020

We invite submissions to an interdisciplinary conference on working -class fiction, to be held at the University of Birmingham in June.

 

In a recent Guardian article Tim Lott laments the death of the English working-class novel and likewise that of the English working-class literary novelist. He qualifies his pronouncement, by remarking the delineation ‘English’ is used advisedly, for ‘the same is not true of Scotland’. Nevertheless, he may have also appended the modifiers ‘White’ and ‘Male’ before ‘English’ so as to complete the chain of associations traditionally linked to working-class writing.

Travel Literature and Transatlantic Encounters: “The Iberian Peninsula as seen from North America (1850-1950)"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 6:18am
Sara Prieto
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Travel Literature and Transatlantic Encounters: “The Iberian Peninsula as seen from North America (1850-1950)"

University of Alicante (Spain), June 4-5, 2020.

This conference is part of the research project "Exotic Spain: American Travel Literature about Spain (1900-1950)" (ATLAS) funded by the Research and Knowledge Transfer Office of Alicante University (GRE18-14 A). The project focuses on the study of a corpus of American authors who traveled to Spain in the first half of the twentieth century, especially on those texts that look beyond the vision of Spain related to the experience of the Spanish Civil War.

Ambiguity and Narratology (Interdisciplinary and Diachronic Workshop)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 3:02am
Universität Tübingen, GRK 1808 Ambiguität
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2020

(with apologizes for cross posting)

Dear all,

The Research Training Group 1808: Ambiguity - Production and Perception of the Eberhard Karls Univeristät Tübingen is delighted to announce the CfP for the interdisciplinary and diachronic Workshop

Ambiguity and Narratology

Tübingen, November 5-7 2020

 

VICTORIAN WOMEN NOVELISTS: NAVIGATING PLACE IN BRITISH SOCIETY

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 8:40pm
Calabria Turner, Georgia State University, SAMLA 92
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2020

British women novelists of the Victorian era often explored the accepted and shifting concepts of woman’s role at home, in the workplace, and in society as a whole. Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Oliver Schreiner, for example, discuss a woman’s right to education and the careers open to her as well as how she chooses, if she has a choice. This panel will explore these writers’ arguments for women’s equality and examine repercussions deriving from their writing. Panelists might address such questions as how authors expressed their acceptance of or discontent with women’s position in society or whether the conversation changed as the nineteenth century came to an end. Papers should not exceed 15 minutes.

ASLE panel at RMMLA Convention (October 2020)

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 8:40pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association/ Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Proposals are now being accepted for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) permanent panel at the Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association (RMMLA) annual convention. This year’s conference will take place October 8–10 in Boulder, Colorado. Proposals on any topic related to ecocriticism and the environmental arts and humanities are welcome, including pedagogical papers. Proposals of 250–300 words should be sent to Lowell Wyse at Lowell.Wyse@gmail.com by March 31, 2020.

Love Beyond the (Hu)man

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 8:40pm
Dr. Lilith Acadia & Dr. Clare Tebbutt, Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

 Love Beyond the (Hu)man  

Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute

Dublin, Ireland | 26 June, 2020

 

Donna Haraway and her tree snails, Alice Walker and Marley,

Lotte Laserstein’s “Self-portrait with a cat,” Lazi’s crocodile…

Fantastic (Fantasy & Science Fiction / Monsters & the Monstrous) (NEPCA Manchester, NH 10/23-24/2020)

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 8:40pm
Michael Torregrossa, Northeast Alliance for Scholarship on the Fantastic
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2020

Call for Papers on the Fantastic (Fantasy & Science Fiction / Monsters & the Monstrous)

The Northeast Alliance for Scholarship on the Fantastic and the allied Fantastic Areas (Fantasy & Science Fiction and Monsters & the Monstrous) invite paper proposals for the 2020 conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA) to convene at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, from Friday, 23 October, to Saturday, October 24.

The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2020.

The Robert Frost Society Call for Papers

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 8:40pm
Daniel Toomey/The Robert Frost Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 22, 2020

For its MLA Convention 2021 (Toronto) Panel, the Robert Frost Society seeks papers offering fresh insights into the writing and life of Robert Frost.  All paper topics will be considered.  Some possible subject areas: influences on Frost's own writing and his influences on that of others; deeper analyses of overlooked or underappreciated poems, prose pieces, and plays; and analytical work that furthers our understanding of Frost's philosophical dualism.

"Energy and Infrastructure: An Environmental Humanities Roundtable" (MLA 2021)

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 4:01pm
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2020

"Energy and Infrastructure: An Environmental Humanities Roundtable" (MLA 2021)

Jacob Goessling, Jordan B. Kinder, and Andrew B. Ross

A non-guaranteed roundtable organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

SVOD Platforms and the Future of Television - Call for Chapter Proposals

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 4:01pm
Dr. Christina Adamou and Dr. Sotiris Petridis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2020

SVOD Platforms and the Future of Television - Call for Chapter Proposals

Edited by Christina Adamou and Sotiris Petridis

 

  • Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2020
  • Notification of Acceptance: by 01 June 2020
  • Deadline for chapters: 01 October 2020

 

Closer Together-Further Apart: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Academia

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 4:00pm
University of Utah
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2020

Call for Papers:

Sego Graduate Student Language and Culture Conference
Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah
Closer Together-Further Apart: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Academia

April 10-11, 2020

Call for Book Reviews

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:56pm
Journal of Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2020

Hello:

I currently have several books available for review for The Journal of Popular Culture.  These reviews would be due May 1, 2019.  If you have a completed Master's degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are committed to writing a review for us, please contact me at t.jenkins@tcu.edu, noting your preferred title and your mailing address.  The reviews need to be between 500 and 1,000 words and documented in MLA style.  Further guidelines can be found at: http://www.journalofpopularculture.com/submissions

Many thanks!

Tricia Jenkins

Texas Christian University

Call for Papers - Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:55pm
Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Submissions invited for the inaugural issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. The Journal is being launched from this year to commemorate the Birth Centenary of legendary English Professor Late P. S. Sastri (Nagpur University). It’ll be published thrice a year and shall cover interdisciplinary research in all forms and genres of literature, art, and culture such as fiction, folklore, film/ theatre, travel writing, popular culture, translation, gender and sexuality studies, ecocriticism, globalization and urban studies, race, ethnicity, subaltern and Dalit studies, and all related areas.

Finding Home: Migration, Placemaking & Research Creation Symposium

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:54pm
Ryerson University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Call for Proposals

Finding Home: Migration, Placemaking & Research Creation Symposium

May 22-23

Ryerson University, Toronto

 

Finding Home: Migration, Placemaking & Research Creation,  a 2-day symposium May 22-23 at Ryerson University in Toronto, invites scholars, policy-makers, artists, migrants and other stakeholders to join us in round table discussions, performances, film screenings and workshops. The symposium is the culminating event of a SSHRC-funded 2-year international project examining the concept of home for forced migrants of all identities, using arts-based research. 

 

Hwa Kang English Journal

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:54pm
Department of English Language and Literature, Chinese Culture University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Call for Papers

Hwa Kang English Journal, Vol. 25 (July 2020)

 

Painful Pleasure, Pleasurable Pain

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:53pm
JSBC
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Painful Pleasure, Pleasurable Pain

 

Call for Contributions

 

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH CULTURES ( 2/2022)

 

Guest Editors: Sarah Schäfer-Althaus and Cornelia Wächter

 

Supermodels of the World: RuPaul’s Drag Race as International Phenomenon

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:53pm
Danny Cookney / University of Salford
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2020

Supermodels of the World: RuPaul’s Drag Race as International Phenomenon

A One-Day Interdisciplinary Symposium

 

School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK.

25th September 2020

 

 

Since its 2009 debut, RuPaul’s Drag Race has shifted from a niche American reality show anomaly to an award-winning global success. This one day symposium will examine its international reach with versions of the contest created in the UK, Thailand and Canada alongside, titular host, Rupaul having already hinted at further growth when teasingly asking journalists “how many countries are there?”.

 

Journals of Decolonization

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:52pm
Maryam Fatima/ University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2020

This cfp is for a special session at the Modern Language Association's annual convention in Toronto (7-10 Jan 2021)

 

Modernism, Empire, and the Environment (MSA 2020 Panel)

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:52pm
Elizabeth Dinneny / University of Maryland, College Park
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 6, 2020

“Modernism, Empire, and the Environment”

MSA 2020 Brooklyn panel

22-25 October 2020

Abstracts due 3/6/20

Call for Abstracts: Theatre in a Post-Truth World: Texts, Politics, and Performance

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:51pm
William C. Boles
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 19, 2020

 

In 2016 Oxford Dictionaries named ”Post-truth” as the international word of the year, but as Lee McIntyre argues in his book Post-Truth (MIT, 2018), the concept of post-truth is not a new one, as he cites the vociferous arguments made against the cancer causing effects of cigarettes, the assault on vaccinations, and other significant moments of push-back that have occurred when the facts will out. 

However, in the 2010s the omnipresent nature of post-truth arguments has accelerated and is now an omnipresent part of our lives (on international, national, regional, and communal scales).

The theatre, as one might imagine, has noticed and has responded.

MOVE! (Conversations in Motion)

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:50pm
Queens College, City University of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS

Seventh Annual Queens College English Graduate Conference 

 

MOVE!

Conversations in Motion

 

Conference Date: April 29, 2020

Keynote Speaker: Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Manhattan College)

Submission Deadline: March 10, 2020

 

Violence in Art Book (Call for Submissions)

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:50pm
GCRR Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

GCRR is currently seeking written or visual submissions to be anthologized in a bound publication dedicated to the theme of violence in art (or perhaps the absence of violence in art). We welcome both industry leaders and scholars from the disciplines of art, humanities, design, technology, and education to submit abstracts of their essay that will make a unique contribution to the academic study of violence and art. Abstracts or Proposals are due March 1, 2020.

Final scholarly submissions should be approximately 3000 words, or 500 words and mixed media, that address one of the following:

Diverse Projects on American Lit - archival, bibliographical, pedagogical, DH

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:50pm
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 6, 2020

Resources for American Literary Study, the leading journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, is inviting submissions for 2020. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. The journal also welcomes pedagogically focused submissions examining archival study in the classroom. Due to the nature of the journal, there is no minimum or maximum length for submissions, and we encourage innovative projects and approaches that will serve as resources for the field.

The Age of Innocence at 100

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:50pm
Edith Wharton Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2020

The Age of Innocence at 100

MLA 2021 - Bureaucratic Poetics

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:49pm
Alexandra Irimia / Western University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2020

This proposal for a special session panel at the 2021 MLA Convention (Toronto, Jan 7-10) invites 250-word abstracts for critical, theoretical, and comparative explorations of literary works involving bureaucratic subjects, settings, and tropes. Particular emphasis falls on clerk figures and paperwork, analyzed in their poetic and narrative complexities.

 

Please send your abstracts to airimia2@uwo.ca by March 15.

 

Official call:

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper12865.html

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture (1900-1950) (edited collection)

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 3:49pm
Leticia Perez Alonso / Jackson State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

We invite proposals for contributions to an edited collection on cinematic representations of women in works of art, poetry, fiction, theater and criticism of the avant-garde. The popularization of film stars such as Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo and Brigitte Helm shaped the cultural imaginary of modernity to such an extent that they influenced the creative activity of artists and writers in the years 1900-1950. Questions centering on feminine stardom will set the background of this collection of essays examining the intersections of vanguardism with popular culture, publicity and performance. How are images of femininity circulated and consumed by the spectators of the cinematic medium?

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