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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.
LAMAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES
Call for Papers
Readers Needed for “Author Meets Readers” Roundtable
American Studies Association Conference
November 20th-23rd
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Email me if you’re interested in discussing my forthcoming book, That Book is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. It will be published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and distributed by Penguin Random House on August 12th, 2025. I will send you an advance reader copy in March.
Please email me by January 30th if you’re interested.
Call for Papers
Healing Narratives, Embodied Histories: Medical Humanities in South Asia
Animesh Roy and Bosudha Bandyopadhyay
Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that examines the human dimensions of health, illness, and healthcare through the lens of literature, arts, humanities, and social sciences. It seeks to deepen understanding of medical practices by exploring how cultural, historical, ethical, and literary contexts shape healthcare experiences.
The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical events that spark connections to nineteenth-century America. We are especially interested in episodes that help make both the nineteenth-century and the specific disciplinary knowledge of our scholarly community legible and exciting to a wide audience. As our podcast grows, we seek to expand its potential to engage diverse publics in the civic and cultural life of the past.
The emergence of modern documentary poetics is often attributed to twentieth-century writers who were interested in redefining the purpose and limits of artistic expression, a redefinition that occurred in the context of labor exploitation, racial violence, and ethnic cleansing. This panel asks participants to consider the nineteenth-century precursors of modern documentary literature. How and to what ends do documents and literature intersect throughout the long nineteenth century? What constitutes a document and how might this definition enable new ways of interrogating issues of race, gender, class, indigeneity, and ethnicity? What formal features and aesthetic innovations emerge during the nineteenth century?
Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises
The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
October 17-18, 2025
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mel Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ok Yeon Yi, Seoul National University, Korea
The language of crisis saturates our lives. The world is increasingly marred by climate change,
socioeconomic inequality, racial discrimination, religious conflicts, terror, and wars. The COVID-
19 pandemic created a moment when these ongoing crises confronted a new global challenge,
The Langston Hughes Society is pleased to invite proposals for the following panel to be held at the 36th Annual American Literature Association (ALA) Conference in Boston, MA:
The Kay Boyle Society is calling for proposals for an open panel or roundtable at the American Literature Association conference on May 21-24, 2025 in Boston at the Westin Copley Place hotel. We are looking for papers on any aspect of Kay Boyle’s work in prose or poetry. Topics could include (but are by no means limited to) Boyle and other writers and artists, transatlantic modernisms, literary and print cultures, racial and social justice, ageing, war and exile, approaches to Boyle’s letters, and teaching Boyle.
If interested, please email a proposed title and abstract of approximately 200 words by January 20th to anne.reynes@univ-amu.fr
American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society welcomes proposals for two guaranteed panels at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.
We invite presentations on any topic related to the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Please submit a one-page abstract to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.
American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA
The American Religion and Literature Society welcomes proposals for one guaranteed, open-topic panel at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.
We invite presentations on any topic related to the intersection of religion and literature. Papers on any time period, genre, and religious tradition are welcome.
Please submit a one-page abstract to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.
Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors.
In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.
Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of WaterJournal: Atlantic Studies: Global CurrentsGuest Editors: Andrea Carosso and Valentina Romanzi (University of Torino) We are inviting proposals for a limited number of contributions to a Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, titled “Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of Water.” The issue focuses on the new directions that anglophone fiction is exploring to express its “aquatic” imagination.We seek articles addressing new trends and currents of anglophone narratives focusing on the
Call for Participation:
Visual Culture Papers
American Studies Association (ASA)
November 20-23, 2025 | San Juan, Puerto Rico
**As the ASA has extended the deadline for its general CFP, the Visual Culture Caucus is also extending its call until January 24.**
Howells Society CFPs for ALA 2025 (Boston)
The W.D. Howells Society will host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).
PANEL 1: HOWELLS & OTHERS
This year the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics including literary genre, single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. The society also encourages a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary prisms, and a variety of panel types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature and culture.
Special Issue of Mississippi Quarterly,
“Emerging Scholars, Emerging Scholarship”
Deadline Extended to Friday, January 17, 2025
The George Saunders Society invites prospective participants for one or two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, to be held May 21 to 25, 2025. We are interested in presentations on any aspect of George Saunders’s life and work; in this, our fifth year of activity at ALA (returning after an absence in 2024!), we continue to be interested in papers that challenge, complicate, or go beyond the most common (particularly religious, ethical, or new sincerest) readings of the author’s work in the critical literature to this point. The topic is therefore open, but possible approaches might include:
Housekeepers: The Latina Maid in Contemporary American Film and Literature, Myra Mendible, Editor
CFP: MEDIA REVIEWERS and SCHOLARLY ARTICLES – MIDDLE WEST REVIEW
Middle West Review (MWR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that examines the American Midwest. The journal is published biannually by the University of Nebraska Press.
MWR is seeking scholars to review media texts that engage with midwestern identity, history, and/or culture. From popular films and television series to online exhibitions and digital archives, MWR spotlights Midwest-oriented media texts in each issue.
Rajpath Publisher invites writers from around the globe to participate in our upcoming competition celebrating culture and fostering world peace through the power of words.
Theme: Celebration of Culture and Fostering World Peace
Prizes:
Submission Guidelines:
2025 SSAWW Conference
Nov. 6-9 Philadelphia, PA
Roundtable CFP: American Women Writers and the Civic Humanities
CALL FOR PAPERS
5th INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE
Media in America, America in Media
27-28 March 2025
Rhetoric of the Borders
CFP:
We are seeking participants for a roundtable for the American Literature Association’s 2025 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025. This roundtable aims to further our understanding of the Federal Writers’ Project’s (FWP) literary legacy.
CFP:
We are seeking participants for a roundtable for the American Literature Association’s 2025 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025. This roundtable aims to further our understanding of the Federal Writers’ Project’s (FWP) literary legacy.
American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA
The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar and contemporary topics for the 2025 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA from May 21-24, 2025 (information about the annual conference can be found at the ALA conference page website). The Postwar Literature Group has three guaranteed panels this year, two in postwar studies and one in contemporary studies. Please review our calls for papers below, and email Jacqueline.Foertsch@unt.edu with any questions.
Call for Papers, ALA 2025, Boston
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer three panels.
One panel, “New Directions,” will provide an opportunity for innovative thinking on new and old topics.
This first panel will give priority to early career scholars—untenured faculty, newly-minted PhDs, and graduate students writing dissertations.
The second panel will be open-ended, but we will be especially interested in papers focusing on comic artifacts in digital formats, e. g. texts and images produced by generative AI, memes, viral videos, comment threads in social media platforms or websites.
CFP for ALA 2025 Panel
In the 2005 article, “A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture,” Frances Smith Foster observed that “the definitions and assumptions with which one begins have a significant influence upon the story one finds” (735).
The upcoming deadline for the next conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies has been extended UNTIL JANUARY 15th! See full CfP here: https://www.wordandmusicstudies.org/_files/ugd/5dbb84_21bf80d26ca74a839d19725255461956.pdf Call for papersFrauds & Fakes in Words and MusicUniversity of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025 With the proliferation of fake news, synthetic video, and AI-powered chatbots and compositions,deceptive material is all around us.
Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation
(Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series)
Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
Introduction