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[The Profession] (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:16pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Subject: Call for Papers: The Profession at CEA 2025

 

Call for Papers, The Profession at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

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

[Visual and Material Culture] (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:16pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Subject: Call for Papers: Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2025

 

Call for Papers, Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

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

ACLA: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

updated: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 1:21pm
Defense Language Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"

Please find the panel and submit to ACLA: Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time | American Comparative Literature Association (acla.org)

SEXTANT - student-centred journal seeking submissions

updated: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 6:23am
SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

SEXTANT (ISSN 2990-8124) is an online journal which navigates the lenses of masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.

SEXTANT aims to shift our understanding of these subjects while looking at the ways they intersect, especially in areas that are often overlooked. 

SEXTANT features the work of students, activists, artists, and researchers, welcoming submissions in a wide variety of mediums, such as research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, and digital projects.

Now accepting submissions for Volume 2, Issue 2. 

Peer Reviewed with Widening Scope

updated: 
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 10:05am
Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion continues to publish scholarship on a wide range of time periods, traditions, and perspectives. While welcoming essays on our longstanding concerns such as T S Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, and Graham Greene, we call attention to our recent interventions into contemporary writers like Marilynne Robinson and Carolyn Forché, into Dante studies and Shakespeare studies, and into non-Western areas of inquiry.

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Ghost Figures in World Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 8:23am
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

A ghost, Avery Gordon writes, “has a real presence and demands its due, your attention” (2008, Ghostly Matters). To answer this demand, our seminar invites submissions that turn their attention to literary and artistic ghosts. After all, ghosts are profoundly literary figures; like poetics, they are defined by their repetitions and returns, and constantly referring to something else, though failing to fully represent it. However, ghosts are not any literary figures. They are haunting, and although they have a strong presence they come into life in place of something absent. Moreover, in their haunting presence, they are signalling “repressed or unresolved social violence” (Gordon, 2008).

 

Black Aeromobilities: Engaging Flight in African and Afrodiasporic Cultural Texts

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Our Special Section for Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies seeks articles that are situated at the intersection of Black/ African/ Afrodiasporic aeromobilities and studies in literature and culture. Concentrating on “the study of various complex systems, assemblages and practices of mobility” (Sheller 2014, 45), mobilities research is often associated with the social sciences. Yet the field is also firmly rooted in the humanities (Aguiar et al. 2019, 4–5; Merriman and Pearce 2017, 493–494), and representations of mobilities are increasingly being studied in diverse cultural products.

Call for Book Chapters on Creative Disruption: Impact of AI on English Language and Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Dr. Abhijeet Pralhadrao Dawle
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Dear Scholars and Researchers

We are delighted to announce a Call for Book Chapters for an upcoming edited book titled “Creative Disruption: Impact of AI on English Language and Literature Studies.” This volume aims to explore the transformative influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the study, interpretation, and teaching of English Language and literature Studies. We invite contributions from scholars, researchers, and educators who are interested in examining how AI is reshaping the literary landscape, from literary analysis and criticism to pedagogy and linguistic studies.

Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn (ACLA 2025, online)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Nidesh Lawtoo & Mathijs Peters
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Located at the juncture of philosophy and the arts, mimesis is one of the most ancient concepts of literary theory and may not initially appear new, let alone original. It was indeed marginalized and forgotten in the Romantic and modernist periods, haunted by the myth of originality. Yet, in recent years, scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and even the neurosciences, have returned to the ancient, yet strikingly contemporary, realization that humans are an imitative species, or homo mimeticus (www.homomimeticus.eu).

Speculative Southern Futures at SAMLA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO), an affiliate of the Society of the Study of Southern Literature, invites current students and/or beginning faculty to submit abstracts for an upcoming guaranteed panel on envisioning the future of the South for SAMLA 96 this November 15th-17th in Jacksonville, Florida. This year’s conference theme, “Seen and Unseen,” looks to parts of stories that are untold.

International Conference on Fostering Multimodal Literacy Through English Language Education

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:09am
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Location: Bangalore, India 

Subject Fields: English Language Teaching/ English Literature/Linguistics/Computer Science/Education 

Venue: CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore, India 

Mode: Offline and Online (Only for Presenters) 

Date: 20 January 2025 (Tentative date. Final date to be announced soon) 

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm 

Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures [ACLA 2025; virtual; May 29–June 1, 2025]

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 1:25am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate the flow of goods, people, or ideas and allow for their exchange over space” (327). Though most commonly associated with its physical manifestations, the term infrastructurealso encompasses intangible elements that play a crucial role in society. Thus, infrastructures are not merely "limited to pipes, roads, and wires" but should, instead, be understood as “interdependent networks of materials, people, and nature that enable the functioning of modern life” (Lockrem 529).

NeMLA 2025- Uncanny Families: The Trauma Revolution

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:49pm
Rachel McKinley, University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The family can be a place of hidden and haunted spaces, and in these spaces they bring to mind the uncanny, often moving deftly from the ordinary to the extraordinary or supernatural. Families are also notorious receptacles for trauma and are frequently explored in writing from Isabel Allende’s La casa de los espíritus/House of the Spirits to Tara Westover’s Educated.

NeMLA 2025-Fringe Benefits: Leveraging Revolutionary Teaching Models to Transform Education

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

After working in alternative or hybrid spaces throughout the pandemic, the return of educators and students to the “traditional” classroom has brought its own unique challenges and frustrations both for students and instructors. Learners who previously participated in fully remote classes are expected to integrate smoothly into synchronous in-person courses with little guidance or preparation. Instructors are offered little guidance in easing the transition for students and are often already stretched thin themselves. In light of these circumstances, educators must reevaluate what teaching methods and structures might best serve students and instructors in a technological and AI-driven era.

College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:35pm
Dr. Heidi M. Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

Call for Proposals (CFP): College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice

Deadline for Submission: Nov. 29, 2024

As the homeschooling movement continues to grow, with close to 4 million documented homeschoolers in America (NHERI), college professors who choose to educate their own children at home bring a unique and valuable perspective to this educational approach. We invite college professors from various disciplines to contribute chapters to an upcoming collection on "College Professors and Homeschooling: Bridging Academic Scholarship and Home Education."

“To be or not to be”: Trauma, Crisis, and Shakespearean Fragments

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:29pm
ESRA - European Shakespeare Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

ESRA conference, Porto, July 9-12, 2025 (https://esra2025.com

Seminar 2: “To be or not to be”: Trauma, Crisis, and Shakespearean Fragments

Organizers: Richard Ashby, King’s College London, UK (richard.ashby@kcl.ac.uk), Natalia Khomenko, York University, Canada  (khomenko@yorku.ca), and Georgina Lucas, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (g.lucas@napier.ac.uk).

2nd Call Synergies in Communication International Conference

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:29pm
Bucharest University of Economic Studies/Dept. of Modern Languages
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 12th International Conference
Synergies in Communication (SiC 2024)
31 October- 1 November 2024
(hybrid format)

Narratives of Development

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:28pm
Lauren Horst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

In his seminal work, Encountering Development, Arturo Escobar traces a history of development that begins with the Truman Doctrine and unfolds as a western plot to control and contain the so-called “Third World.” Here, development is something undertaken by western financial institutions and imposed on the economies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is counter-revolutionary, intended to curtail the radical economic visions that emerged with decolonization and the formal end of empire.

Teaching Medievalism

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Illinois Medieval Association Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Teaching Medievalism

Deadline for Submissions: December 1

Session: February 28, 2:00 pm (Central)

Using Contemporary Theory to Teach the Middle Ages

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Illinois Medieval Association Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Using Contemporary Theory to Teach the Middle Ages

Submission Deadline: December 1

Session February 7, 2:00 (Central)

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Literature and International Development

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Lauren Horst, Columbia University & Susanna Sacks, Howard University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

See ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) listing for submission portal: https://www.acla.org/literature-and-international-development. 

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

ACLA conference will take place May 29–June 1, 2025, via Zoom.

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“Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality…What better preparation can a people desire as they begin their journey into the strange, revolutionary world of modernization?" (Chinua Achebe, “What Has Literature Got to Do With It?”)

 

Mid-Atlantic Review - Volume 33 (2025)

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:23pm
College English Association, Mid-Atlantic Group
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Mid-Atlantic Review seeks scholarly articles, position papers, short fiction, poems, and pedagogical reflections for its Special 2025 Issue focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the span of a year or two, generative AI has posed unprecedented challenges to and opportunities for higher education, the humanities, and the arts. Intellectual, pedagogical, and artistic engagement with this emerging technology is vital in our current world and this issue of The Mid-Atlantic Review encourages such engagement. We are also looking for original photographs or artwork related to the Mid-Atlantic region. Ethically produced AI art related to the Mid-Atlantic region would be of particular interest for this issue.

Kristeva's Powers of Horror at 45

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Julia Kristeva’s landmark essay, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), will have its 45th publication anniversary in 2025. In that time, its influence has been wide ranging, whether on women and gender studies broadly, on the fields of feminist, psychoanalytic, queer, horror/gothic, and disability theory, as well as on media studies. For this roundtable session we invite proposals that consider any aspect of the influence of Powers of Horror, past and present.

Book Chapters: Neoliberalism and Affect in Twenty-First Century Culture

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Dr Holly Parker, University of Lincoln and Dr Tommaso Villa, University of Lincoln
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 7, 2024

“We’re people, not parts of people. Even with what little they gave us these are our lives. no one gets to just turn you off” - (Severance, S1.8)

South Central Renaissance Society Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
South Central Renaissance Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

SCRC welcomes 15-20 minute papers on all aspects of Renaissance Studies for its international conference which will be held, for the first time, in coordination with the Saint Louis University 12th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies June 9-11, 2025.

Submit 300 to 500 word abstracts on the SLU Symposium Site (accessible via the SCRC website, here: https://southcentralrenaissanceconference.org/scrc-2025-st-louis-univers...). Deadline December 31, 2024.

International Conference on "Precarious Wetlands in Anthropocene: Representations in Literature, Cinema and Media". Conference Date: 12-13 December 2024 (Virtual)

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Woxsen University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 25, 2024

International Conference on "Precarious Wetlands in Anthropocene: Representations in Literature, Cinema and Media"

Conference Date: 12-13 December 2024 (Virtual)

Organised by: School of Liberal Arts and Humanities & CoE-Literature Studies, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India

Concept Note

Nurturing Curious Minds: Approaches to Assessing and Enhancing Critical Thinking and Writing in Higher Education

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:21pm
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Nurturing Curious Minds: Approaches to Assessing and Enhancing Critical Thinking and Writing in Higher Education

13 – 14 June 2025

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/cts2025/

We invite abstracts for a two-day symposium that aims to gather educators, researchers, and practitioners from all disciplines to share their experiences and contribute to the ongoing dialogue on improving the critical thinking skills of university students. 

Aside from panels, our symposium will feature two keynote speakers.

Revolt or Reinvention?: Citizenship in the Contemporary Literary Imagination [ACLA 2025, Virtual]

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:21pm
Daniel Bergman, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Please submit 200-300 word paper proposals through the online submission portal provided by the ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), which can be accessed through the original listing here: https://www.acla.org/revolt-or-reinvention-citizenship-contemporary-literary-imagination.

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

The ACLA conference will take place May 29-June 1, 2025. This conference is virtual.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino - Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:20pm
Cristina Perez-Ordoñez/University of Malaga
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

The Works of Amy Sherman-Palladino

Edited by Patricia Prieto-Blanco (Lancaster University, UK) and Cristina Pérez Ordóñez (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

Book Series: Screen Storytelling, Bloomsbury. Series Editor: Anna Weinstein

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