The Hulu series Castle Rock (2018 – 2019) occupies a unique textual space that both builds upon and transcends traditional notions of adaptation in its approach to Stephen King’s canon, engaging with the significance of place, intersecting narratives, and multiple worlds. As stated in the opening credits, Castle Rock is ‘based on characters and settings by Stephen King’, but it uses those established elements to create something original, telling new stories, building on iconic characters and creating compelling tales for new ones, situated within one of King’s signature Maine towns.

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has impacted the globe for more than a year. This development sparked renewed interest in the historical, sociocultural, political, and economic aspects of epidemics and pandemics, currently evidenced by an outpouring of scholarship on the consequences of the current pandemic on the world’s population  as well as social and economic structures. This symposium provides a forum specifically for the study of the sociocultural developments that lead to “Othering” in situations of a perceived crisis.

The Critical Poetics International Summer School

Critical Poetics: Care Of... 

Online, 25 June – 3 July 2021

Raymond Antrobus

Maya Chowdhury

Marion Coutts

Eva Haifa Giraud

Seán Hewitt

Bhanu Kapil

Astrida Neimanis

Maggie Nelson

Craig Santos Perez

Nat Raha

Laura Salisbury

Mama D Ujuaje

(Further speakers to be confirmed)

For Students by Students! 

An International Conference on Literature,  Culture and Foreign Languages 

May 14-16, 2021 – online 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

If you are interested in 19th, 20th Century and Contemporary Literature or Language  and Culture, or if: 

You want to test your presentation skills in a culturally diverse (and accepting)  environment, and 

You can present in English or German, or 

You simply want to listen to presentations from the comfort of your home, and  connect with people on these subjects from all around the world, 

THIS CONFERENCE IS FOR YOU! 

Proposal Requirements: 

Commemorating the Sidney Ladies, 1621-2021

Call for papers for a one-day conference

At the Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris

25 September 2021

Gender in Transformation Processes: Central and Southeast European Perspectives

September 30 – October 2, 2021

University of Graz, Austria

Interdisciplinary Symposium organized by the Department of Sociology and

the Center for Inter-American Studies, both University of Graz, Austria, and
the Department of Sociology, University of Zadar and the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Split, Croatia

Representation of the East in Commercial Theatres and University Drama in the Early Modern Period (edited collection)

(EXTENDED DEADLINE UNTIL 15TH OF APRIL 2021)

Contact email: murat_ogutcu@yahoo.com, a.hussain34@edu.salford.ac.uk

Call for Chapters: Edited Collection 

The Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Renaissance/Early Modern forum of the MLA invites proposals for a guaranteed roundtable at MLA 2022 (Washington, D.C., 6-9 January). Thus far, there has been little work at the intersection of early modern critical race and trans studies. We invite new and in progress work to be presented in 5-8 minute talks. We particularly welcome comparative and transnational perspectives and work by graduate students. Please send brief CV and 300 word abstracts to jessie.hock@vanderbilt.edu by Thursday, March 25, 2021.

2021 NKAELL(The New Korean Association of English Language & Literature) Spring Conference

Date: May 31, 2021 (Wednesday)

Venue: Online

Theme: Hôte(Host/Guest): Between Hospitality and Inhospitality

A small number of entries for London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia (under contract, McFarland; ed. Kevin A. Morrison) remain unassigned in the "Literature" category. A list appears below. Entries for this category should range from 50-350 words. Established scholars, early career researchers, and advanced graduate students—those who, in a US context, have passed their qualifying exams—are welcome. Interested individuals may contact the volume's managing editor to have one or more entries assigned to them and request a style guide. 

All Hands

All Our Yesterdays

Analogies and metaphors (East End)

Barren Metal

The Big Bow Mystery 

Last Call for Chapters: Japanese Horror

Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University),

Ananya Saha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

http://artes.filo.uba.ar/pagnoni-berns-gabriel

We, the editors, are looking for four additional chapters for our book on Japanese horror. The deadline for the full manuscript to Lexington Press is May 10, 2021, so potential contributors must have in mind the process will be quickly as possible. Below, our original CFP.

CALL for PAPERS

Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled:

Care(ful) Relationships Between Mothers and the Caregivers They Hire

Editors: Katie B. Garner, PhD and Andrea O’Reilly, PhD

Deadline for Abstracts: June 1, 2021

Twenty years since its publication, this roundtable celebrates the impact, enduring relevance, and potentials of Karen Shimakawa's monograph National Abjection for the interdisciplinary humanities in the US and beyond. Please submit 300-word abstracts for consideration.

The MLA Annual Convention will be in Washington, DC, 6–9 January 2022.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 20 March 2021

Rustem Ertug Altinay, Kadir Has Univ (rea270@nyu.edu)

Vivian Huang, Williams College (vlh1@williams.edu)

Teaching Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century US Short Fiction

Edited by Jeehyun Lim and John K. Young