Announcing

The 2023 First Book Institute

June 4-10, 2023

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature seeks submissions of Articles, Notes, and essays for our Archives, Innovations, and Academy sections. TSWL focuses on women’s literature in all time periods and places, including foreign-language literatures, and in every genre—poetry, prose, drama, essays, diaries, memoirs, journalism, and criticism. While submissions need not be exclusively concerned with female writers, the focus must be on women and writing, explicating the specific links between the woman writer and her work.

6th Annual International Conference on Border Studies

 Transborderism: Reimagining Social Space

University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and Autonomous University of Tamaulipas

Nov. 8, 2023: Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Nov. 9-10, 2023: Edinburg, Texas, United States

Art About Writing | Writing About Art
Graduate Conference

Art, Literature, Architecture, Film, Museums, Creative Writing, and New Media

University of St. Thomas, April 28, 2023

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At the Hunterian Collection of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in collaboration with University of Winchester

19-21 July 2023, London UK.

How do we understand our bodies? Our own bodies might be the first we experience as children, but how do we use this lived experience to understand the bodies of other people? The bodies of everyday folks we meet on the street, bodies that may range from healthy to diseased, able to disabled, sports fit to couch potato, real to represented, cared for to cared by, and everything you can think of in between—how do we think about people who are like us but also somehow different? What knowledges do such encounters between variAble bodies create?

VLT #93: Reconsidering Mass Media

In the collaborative, referential, multilingual, and multidialectal context of the Internet, how do threads of continuity with the writing process and the concept of authorship align digital literatures with traditional literatures, including oral texts? Please submit 250-word abstracts by February 18, 2023.

Biodiversity loss, the warming of cities, increasing cost and demand of housing with limited supply, and many other topics are issues relating to spatiality and sustainability. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department of Geography and Sustainability seeks to highlight Spatiality and Sustainability as meeting points for a broad range of disciplines exploring the changing distribution of both human and natural elements on our planet across space and time. We invite the submission of abstracts from undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty from all disciplines with a strong emphasis on the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of space/time research.

Wayne State University’s Rhetoric & Writing Program and Wayne’s Rhetoric Society of America (WRSA) chapter present:

Teaching of Writing Conference: Rhetoric outside the lines

AFEA 2023, “Voices, Sounds, Noises, Silences”

International Congress of the French Association for American Studies, Dijon, France, May 23-26, 2023.

 “‘Hear the dance, see the music’ – voices, sounds, noises and silences in American dance and music” (A. Chevrier-Bosseau, Sorbonne Université, and M. Duplay, Université Paris Cité)

Contemplative Practice and Writing about Race

The American Religion and Literature Society (ARLS) invites papers for a panel at the American Literature Association Conference, May 25-28, 2023 in Boston. 

Crossings is a new, open-access undergraduate interdisciplinary research journal at Swarthmore College that provides a forum for discourse on feminist theory and scholarship. The title is inspired by M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing, which takes as its basis the concept of the Middle Passage, the Crossing, to understand Black transnational feminism’s erosion of boundaries —disciplinary conventions, respectability politics, national borders, and bodies that are gendered, sexualized, and racialized, among others kinds of categories—  in relation to empire and postmodernity. 

The 7th Annual Global Souths Conference

An Interdisciplinary Conference organized by the English Graduate Student Association, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Theme: “Face to Place”

March 23-25, 2023 ● University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 25-28. We are interested in abstracts that examine the influence of Charles Olson and/or other Black Mountain Poets on poetic practices and their developments up to the present. A variety of poets took up the innovative practices of figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, and others associated with Black Mountain. How have the practices of this fundamentally important school of poetics been extended, transformed, and/or resisted by other poets?