While graduate school has long been a space for cultivating generations of academics, researchers, and intellectuals, it has never been exempt from the dynamics of power that underlie the workings of the University. Recent strides at improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in graduate school—for example in the form of the rise in number of sociopolitically- and culturally-cognizant programs, the push towards increasing international student populations, and the rise of grassroots movements such as labour unions to improve representation—belie the reality that universities remain set up according to ideological lines that facilitate the success of some graduate students while (re)producing the inequities experienced by others.

“Invisible Secrets in Pre-1865 American Literature” (SAMLA) Recent scholarly approaches in antebellum American literature emphasizes the role of secrets and secrecy, as in Dominick Mastroianni’s Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature (2022); essays on secrecy in Emily Dickinson’s poetry (Jeffrey Simons, Paul Scott Derrick, 2011); and the secret lives of nineteenth-century literature (Harper, Dickinson, Melville, 2022) in digital media, as Kayla Shipp has argued. This panel explores the way that unstated ideas, points, or secrets are exchanged in antebellum American literature.

In educational settings, safeguarding free speech is crucial for upholding democratic principles, yet campuses increasingly face censorship and suppression of dissenting voices. By fostering an environment that values free expression and respectful dialogue, educators can prepare students to become informed citizens who think critically and contribute positively to the (r)evolution of democratic society. How do educators include censored, controversial and diverse perspectives into their curriculum and classroom?

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Anticipated Publication: Volume 5, November 2025

Guest Editors: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, and Hannah Steele

Purpose: Articles that explore the intersection of queer studies and professional wrestling studies to address a scholarship gap on the application of queer theory to explore professional wrestling individuals, texts, practices, and fandoms.

Submissions: Seeking empirical articles aligned with the special issue’s purpose that may include, but is not limited to, the following topics:

Call for Papers - Linguaculture, vol. 15, no. 2, 2024

Posted on 2024-03-15

Deadline Extended to Aug. 20, 2024

Linguaculture Thematic issue: Pop Culture and Audience Reception in a Transnational Context

International online conference (free of charge)

September 12, 2024

Organizers:

Faculty of Public Administration, Faculty of Law & Faculty of Economics
AAB College, Pristina, Republic of Kosovo

in partnership with:

University of Southeast Europe, North Macedonia
University of  Vlora "Ismail Qemali", Albania

Keynote Speaker: 

SAMLA 96 Convention, "Seen and Unseen," will be held Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL

Unreal Prisonscapes (panel--in-person)

Call for Papers: 7th Annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference

Theme: "My Dungeon Shook":  A Century of James Baldwin

Date: October 24-26, 2024

Venue: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024

Summary: Midsommar, Saint Maud, False Positive, Hereditary, The Hole in the Ground, The Witch, etc. All of these A24 horror films feature women in crisis. Most are struggling with their mental health, most are betrayed by their loved ones, most are literally or emotionally isolated, and most are victims of an uncaring world. In all cases, the films end with the physical or figurative destruction of woman. She is insane, incinerated, beheaded, broken, forever haunted ... The question remains, should viewers accept these endings? Should they be viewed exploitative or unnecessarily shocking? Or is there room to view these as a warning?

The transnational turn in modernist studies has helped generate important scholarly works— Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (Jessica Berman, Cambridge UP, 2001),  Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (edited by Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel, Indiana UP, 2005), Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Rebecca Walkowitz, Columbia UP, 2006), The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (edited by Mark Wollaeger and Matt Eatough, Oxford UP, 2012), Chimeras of Form (Aarthi Vadde, Columbia UP, 2016), and many other publications— over the last two decades which have examined how modernism transcends national borders and reveals the aporias of nationhood.

Humanities programs, and the writing programs often housed within, are under threat for reasons that are as much political as they are economic. It is not simply a question of whether humanities degrees or writing skills reward students with economic value or how much revenue humanities faculty bring to an institution, but of what humanities programs and writing classes teach: critical histories, texts that capture the perspectives of the oppressed, and how to think critically about complicated social, political, and historical events.

We are seeking one (1) chapter contribution to Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives (tentatively titled) to be published with Routledge as a part of their series "Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture." Specifically, we seek a chapter that addresses topics of race/postcolonialism in connection with the book's main scope. 

Abstract proposals of 300-500 words are due on August 9th. Please also include a biographical note including institutional affiliation (if any) of 150-200 words, and a bibliography with a minimum of 5 sources.

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous papers about texts from any time period and literary tradition. We are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2024 issue. Submissions are due by September 22, 2024.

The Concord Museum, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society will hold a conference on April 10-11, 2025 on the theme “1775”. The conference will be convened at the Concord Museum and marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. There will be opportunities for attendees to visit historic sites and view objects and collections significant to the Revolution.