The 2nd Annual 9-Online Virtual Baseball Conference (October 12-13, 2023) invites original  unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history,  literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be  submitted no later than July 16, 2023, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes.  

Call for Papers: The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway

The Routledge Literature Companions feature newly-commissioned work from an international team of contributors in exciting areas of literary studies.  The essays in this volume, written in clear and jargon-free prose, are intended for both students and scholars, providing a comprehensive overview while introducing emerging scholarship. The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway, edited by Verna Kale, is currently under contract. 

Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel proposal for The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists' (C19's) 2024 conference in Pasadena. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Death in Public

In “Sex in Public,” Berlant and Warner urged us to consider how sex—something seemingly private—is indeed “mediated by publics.” Similar to Berlant and Warner, we investigate how the concept of death, broadly defined, was determined, imagined, augmented, and regulated as a public spectacle throughout the nineteenth century.

Illinois Medieval Association Symposium
“Gain through Loss: Accruing Spiritual Wealth from Voluntary Poverty”
Organizer: Francis A. Grabowski III
January 26, 2024, 3:00 pm Central, online

Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai

and the Association for Literary Urban Studies

present

Experiencing Home: Domestic Architecture in Urban Writing

An international conference

22 & 23 February 2024

Concept Note & CFP

Apply to the New Scholars Program by September 5

Established in 2000, the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) New Scholars Program strives to welcome researchers who have not previously published, lectured, or taught on bibliographical subjects by nurturing and promoting their scholarship. Each year, three New Scholars receive a cash award of $1,000, a $500 travel stipend, and the opportunity to present their work by participating in a two-pronged program:

The historical texts known as the Brut, based on the legendary history of Britain introduced by Geoffrey of Monmouth, survives in multiple prose and poetic versions.  The English prose Brut, for instance, was the most widely copied and circulated text next to Wycliffe’s Bible in fourteenth-century England.  Many of these texts have been brought to light in the past two decades, through new discoveries and digitalization of known manuscripts, adding to our growing knowledge of the dissemination of the Brut tradition.  This session invites papers that share findings about the Brut manuscripts, including new evidence in individual manuscripts, comparisons of variant texts, and examination of paleographic and codicological

Title: Faith, Morality, and the Man without Fear: Theology and Religion in Daredevil

Editors: Taylor Thomas and Regan Hardeman

Abstract, CV, and Proposal due: July 30, 2023

Initial Final Paper due: November 15, 2023

Call for Papers

“The Politics of Home”

A Special Issue of

Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power

Guest Editors: Kristin Aubel and Sarah Heinz (Wien)

This panel explores and theorizes storytelling strategies used in Black (African and Afro), Indigenous, and Multi-Ethnic Futurist art and social movements, including literature, poetry, film, music, and visual and digital arts. These alternate Futurisms shift the impetus of the creative energy from discarding the past to engaging complex senses of temporality and intertextuality that often center memory, history, folklore, urban legends, and identity.

**Call for Papers, Reviews, and Creative Pieces**

Gothic Nature: Decolonising the EcoGothic

Issue V: Themed Issue

Deadline for Paper Abstracts: Aug 15, 2023

Guest Editor: Professor Kim D. Hester Williams

Editors-in-Chief: Dr Elizabeth Parker and Dr Harriet Stilley

A note from the Editors-in-Chief:

‘EcoGothic from postcolonial societies has long pointed towards the need to reconceptualise the relation between humans and their environment as central to the project of decolonisation.’
—Kerstin Oloff, 2012

Cinematographic Pathologies: Representations and Figurations of the Sick Body

Guest Editors: Alan Salvadó, Àngel Quintana and Daniel Pérez-Pamies 

The Covid-19 pandemic has established the sick body as one of the main axes of contemporary thought and 21st-century visual culture. There has been a resurgence in the importance of the body and mental health in media perceptions that has changed political, economic and social life at the global level. 

32nd Annual CDE Conference, Innsbruck (Austria), 2-5 May 2024

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 32nd annual conference (2-5 May 2024). It is organized by the Department of English at the University of Innsbruck and will be held as a residential conference at ‘Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof’ in Innsbruck.

Theatre in the Digital Age

Teaching the Literature Survey Course