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Romanticism and Malevolence (Panel Proposal for NASSR 2024)

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 5, 2024

In Literature and Evil, Bataille argues for a close connection between literature and "Evil" as a sovereign and productive value, which is defined against an oppressive use of reason that "flattens" all knowledge into a reductive uniformity. Bataille finds in Blake's A Marriage of Heaven and Hell "agitations", "poetic violence" and "lacerations" that occur in Blake’s drive towards human totality and death. At the same time, Bataille observes that this violence and Evil also "raise us to glory" in Blake's attribution to Evil of "the wisdom of Hell that heralds ... truth” --albeit a truth irreducible to representation, priority of the logos, and assimilation by reason.

British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century at CEA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers: British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century at CEA 2024 

March 21-23 Atlanta, Georgia 

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta 

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century for our 53rd annual conference.  Submit your proposal by 1 November 2023 at https://www.conftool.pro/cea2024/

CFP: Global Perspectives on Surveillance (Jump Cut)

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
Jump Cut
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Global Perspectives on Surveillance

Call for Papers

 

Special Section of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (editor-in-chief Julia Lesage)

Section Editor: Gary Kafer (University of Chicago)

 

Description

This special section of Jump Cut seeks original research and review essays that examine the global circuits of surveillance that increasingly mark contemporary social and political life.

 

“Global Plant Humanities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Botanical Life”

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, John C. Ryan, & Goutam Majhi
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

                                                                A One-Day International Conference

                                                                               on

                                   “Global Plant Humanities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Botanical Life”

                                                                            organised by

The Department of English, Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya in collaboration with the School of Arts & Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia

Date of Conference: 12-12-2023                                                                 Mode: Hybrid

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field (TPS Collective): Fall 2023

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
Notes from the Field [TPS Collective]
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field: Fall 2023 

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: “Student Perspectives,” “Accessibility in Primary Source Instruction,” and “Primary Sources for K–12 Audiences.” These series are intended to highlight a broad range of voices from all sectors of the TPS community. Please see the calls below for more information.

Series One: Student Perspectives

“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
International Lawrence Durrell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence

 

Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society

 

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900

 

 

The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on artificial intelligence in the modernist era. Potential subjects include:

 

Queer & Trans Philologies

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

QUEER & TRANS PHILOLOGIES, 22–23 MARCH 2024 (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE / HYBRID)

 

Critical Essays on "The Righteous Gemstones"

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
Jeffery P. Dennis/Minnesota State University, Mankato
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

The Righteous Gemstones is a dark comedy about a world-famous megachurch pastor; his three children, who assist with the ministry; and various associates, extended family members, and antagonists.  Each season (2019, 2022, 2023) is self-contained and intricately structured, inviting scene by scene and even frame by frame analysis. Typically the family faces two interconnected outside threats; parallel father-son crises featuring patriarch Eli, his eldest son, and his grandchildren; parallel relationship crises involving the other children and their partners; and a disruptive force.

Hurricane Katrina at 20: Rethinking the Literary and Cultural Legacies of the Storm

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
Courtney George/Columbus State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Mississippi Quarterly

“Hurricane Katrina at 20: Rethinking the Literary and Cultural Legacies of the Storm” 

 Guest Editors, Courtney George and Judith Livingston (Columbus State University)

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast with catastrophic results for the surrounding communities, which are still recovering today. Almost immediately, journalists, artists, and scholars began producing significant work about Katrina—work that has continued, especially as we begin to view the disaster and its circumstances in the context of our current social justice and climate-related struggles.

NeMLA 2024 CfP: Archives in Transit: From Personal Life Histories to Public Experiences as Academics

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Archives in Transit: From Personal Life Histories to Public Experiences as Academics

 

Northeast Modern Language Association

 

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2023, at: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20713

 

Abstract

While life in the academy often precludes acknowledging one’s own personal and familial life histories and experiences, generative and embodied scholarship in the humanities requires a thorough reckoning with our positionality and intersectionality. In this creative session, participants traverse from the personal to the professional by paying homage to the roots that lead to routes.

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Area

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:41pm
Shane Trayers/ SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

Young Adult + Series + Romance (proposal deadline Dec. 1)

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:41pm
Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

2023 marks the fortieth anniversary of the initial publication of Sweet Valley High. While Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield may rank amongst the best-known teen romance heroines, the texts themselves exist within a much larger pantheon of series books intended for or read by teens, and featuring romance narratives. The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS) seeks articles for a special issue devoted to young adult series romance. These articles may focus on YA series romance from any historical period or language context, and may derive from any relevant discipline, including interdisciplinary approaches.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

Fluid Boundaries: Gender and the Freedom of Movement in American Literature

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:18pm
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

Fluid Boundaries: Gender and the Freedom of Movement in American Literature

International Seminar
1 October-3 December 2023

-Live:Sundays
-Virtually:anytime till 3 December

 

Course FacilitatorOlga Akroyd , Ph.D 

CFP: Caribbean Literature at CEA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:18pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers, Caribbean Literature at CEA 2024

March 21-23, 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Caribbean Literature for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

 

The general conference theme is “transformations,” so we are especially interested in presentations that feature topics relating to our theme of confluence in texts, disciplines, people, cultural studies, media, and pedagogy.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Queen Elizabeth II: Life, Times, Legacies

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:18pm
Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures NOVA FCSH
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Queen Elizabeth II: Life, Times, Legacies
Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures
NOVA FCSH
Colégio Almada Negreiros, Campus de Campolide
17-19 April 2024

 

Website: queenelizabeth2024.wordpress.com

 

The Will before Psychoanalysis

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:18pm
ACLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Will before Psychoanalysis

Co-organizers: Andrea Gadberry and Gerard Passannante

Long before the emergence of a conceptual vocabulary that named the unconscious and its wishes—that adumbrated a modern subject’s desires, repetitions, and obsessions—there was a robust conversation about the faculty of the will: its powers, its vulnerabilities, their sources, and their bearing on experience. This seminar investigates willed and unwilled experiences across habits of feeling, vicissitudes in thought, and activities of the soul in literary and philosophical works prior to the advent of psychoanalysis.

Multicultural and World Literature Papers at the CEA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:09pm
Moumin Quazi / College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers, Multicultural and World Literature at CEA 2024

March 21-23, 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia

Westin Buckhead, Atlanta | 3391 Peachtree Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30326

(404) 365-0065, https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/atlwb-the-westin-buckhead-atlanta/overview/?scid=f2ae0541-1279-4f24-b197-a979c79310b0 

Latinx Literature (CEA 3/21-23/2024)

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:09pm
Joseph M. Viera / College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta

53rd Annual Conference | March 21–23, 2024

Westin Buckhead Atlanta

 

JOIN CEA IN ATLANTA!

TRANSFORMATIONS

 

ABSTRACTS DUE: NOVEMBER 1, 2023

 

Papers on Latinx Literature are especially welcome on our conference

theme of “Transformations,” although papers on other concepts are also

welcome. Topic suggestions include migration, exile, resident statuses,

memory, history, borderlands, and identities, among others.

Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy 2024 – Risk-Taking in the Composition Classroom

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:09pm
University of Florida's University Writing Program
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

“We learn when we take risks. We learn when we do something we have not done before…otherwise we are not learning.” – Dr. David Docterman, “Developing Academic Mindsets for Literacy,” 2016.

Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:09pm
Post45 Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journal and her generosity as an editor and reviewer. The two prize-winning essays will be awarded $500 each and—pending anonymous peer review—will be published in the journal.

CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:08pm
Shannon Derby (Emerson College) and Kyle Kamaiopili (Utah Valley University)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This collection returns to a question that is at this point familiar terrain within literary studies: what is a novel? Our goal in this collection is to approach this question through scholarly essays that span a broad geographic scope and rethink the idea of “global” within and beyond established binaries: global norths and souths, easts and wests, colonial centers and peripheries, travelers and travelees. 

 

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