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The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society at ALA 2025: Freeman’s Historicisms

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:10am
The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society will sponsor a panel at the 36th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. Our focus this year will be “Freeman’s Historicisms.”  The Society welcomes submissions related to this topic, including proposals that bring Freeman’s work into substantive conversation with that of her contemporaries. 

 

Possibilities include:

 

Steve Tomasula: The Art of Representation

updated: 
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - 3:34pm
Paris - University of Chicago in Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 4, 2024

Steve Tomasula: The Art of Representation

June 12 and 13 2025The University of Chicago in Paris, in the presence of the author

 

Keynote speakersDavid Banash (Western Illinois University), Mary K. Holland (State University of New York, New Paltz)

 

Organized jointly by several institutions (Université Paris Cité, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Sorbonne Université, Université de Rennes, Université de Rouen, Université de Strasbourg), this is the first international conference devoted to the work of Steve Tomasula.

Eudora Welty Society CFPs for ALA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:37pm
Adrienne Akins Warfield/Mars Hill University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

I'm writing to share the CFPs for the two Eudora Welty Society sessions that will be featured at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference in Boston at the Westin Copley Place (May 21-24, 2025). ******************** 1. Welty’s Sheltered Daring and Furtive FeminismEudora Welty concludes her literary autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings with the self-summation, “[a]s you have seen, I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring comes from within” (104).

Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators--special issue

updated: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:37pm
American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections, titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?

Henry Miller in the 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal/The Henry Miller Memorial Library
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

HENRY MILLER'S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 

From 16-19 October of 2025, Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal and the

Henry Miller MemorialLibrary will host aconference at Asilomar in Pacific Grove,

California, with an excursion to the Henry MillerMemorial Library in Big Sur. We will

examine Miller in light of contemporary thinking, asking the question: Is Henry

Miller relevant today?

 

Although presentations on any aspect of Miller's writing, artwork, and life are

welcomed, the conference organizers particularlyencourage consideration of the

theme of Miller's place in the 21st Century.

 

Topics for presentations might include, but are not limited to:

Universal Declaration of (Post)Human Rights: (R)evolution of the Clones, Robots & AIs--NeMLA 2025 Panel

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 2:19pm
Martha Zornow
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Speculative fiction creators regularly interrogate the question of who/what is entitled to human rights. As the created, grown, augmented, and manufactured beings of imagination become more sentient, is it ethical to maintain them as labor-saving devices or will they start to become entitled to, or even demand, rights? Is there a Posthuman Rights Movement in our future or a post “human rights” movement? How will this movement accommodate already-existing arguments for the rights of non-human beings, such as the rights of animals, corporations, and even fetuses, while accounting for humans who are not entitled to human rights? Does one need a human-ish form to deserve rights including around one’s labor?

ACLA 2025 Seminar: Working with Tainted Legacies

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 1:33pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro this year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the longstanding sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child at the hands of her stepfather, Munro’s husband, Gerald Fremlin—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but the latest revelation to throw into question the legacy of a revered cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in recent years in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse.

Forwarding: The Reach of Black Mountain Poetry

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 1:33pm
The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 27, 2025

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 21-24. We are interested in abstracts that examine the influence of Charles Olson and/or other Black Mountain Poets on poetic practices and on subsequent generations of poets. A variety of poets took up the innovative ideas of figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Dorn and others associated with Black Mountain. How have the practices of this fundamentally important school of poetics been extended, transformed, and/or resisted by poets from subsequent generations?

"Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship."

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:16am
Rachel Terman/Ohio University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 17, 2024

We invite abstract submissions for contributions to a themed issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies (JAS) on "Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship." Co-Edited by Krystal Carter, Tammy Clemons, and Rachel Terman, we especially invite contributions from authors who identify as early-career and/or underrepresented scholars, but submissions from all are welcome.

 

CFP: “Provocations” Essays for American Gothic Studies

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 2:37pm
American Gothic Studies/Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

CFP: “Provocations” for American Gothic Studies

 

American Gothic Studies is seeking short essays for its “Provocations” section. These pieces (2,000 words) are meant to question conventional wisdom, tackle compelling issues, or advance new theses about the American Gothic as an academic field or pedagogical subject.

 

Among other things, authors might:

Critical Essays on Laughter in War

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Marcus Harmes
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 4, 2024

War is hell but can also be funny, whether as a safety valve from pressure or catharsis after tragedy, as subversion, as efforts to build and maintain morale, or as exercises in nostalgia. Cinema early discovered the comedy inherent to conflict including the immensely successful 1920 film Alf’s Button, made just after and set during the First World War and notable as being popular despite (or because of) making comedy about the recent war. Comedy about war has since proliferated and writing and themes continue to respond to and adapt themselves to changing global and political circumstances including comedy responding to the Global War on Terror.

 

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

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:03am
Yu Min Rodan/ DLI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 12, 2024

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

This seminar explores the concept of "future memory" across literature and film. We will examine the impact of memory, trauma, and technology on human cognition. We will analyze texts that challenge traditional notions of temporality and consciousness. We will question how memories shape identity, and how technological advancements might alter our understanding of lived experience.

“Radical Futures and Decolonization: Law, Marxism, and World Literature”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:26am
North Eastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Description:

This panel will consider Black diasporic literary and/or legal texts in relation to the interdisciplinary field of ‘Law and Literature.’ An emphasis will be placed on the relations and intersections of race, class, and gender, and the historical experience of capitalist modernity, as well as materialist approaches employing ‘world-literary’ perspectives.

Abstract:

The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Edited by A. Robert Lee and Chad Weidner
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Introduction and Scope:

The Mississippi River, often regarded as America’s central artery, has been instrumental in shaping the nation’s geography, culture, and history. This edited volume, The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River, aims to explore the river’s vast influence, tracing its course from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its expansive delta at the Gulf of Mexico.

The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Special Topic in Latinx Literature at CEA 2025 (CEA 3/27-29/2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:58am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Call for Papers, Latinx Literature 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 Latinx Literature for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

LCLC52nd: “a-motion-upo-nmotion-n”: Modernist Cummings, Aesthetics of Precision, Kinesis, and Arts (deadline extended 9/20/24; Louisville, 2/20-22/25)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 10:58pm
Gillian Huang-Tiller / The E. E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 52nd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 20-22, 2025, at the University of Louisville (https://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/conferences/lclc).

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 8:38pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

A World Unknown: New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 15 2024

Special Issue on W.E.B. Du Bois

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:56am
American Literary History
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

American Literary History invites submissions for a Spring 2026 special issue focused on the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois. All aspects of Du Bois’s literary, historical, and political thought are welcome, as well as his engagement with other key thinkers and with social and political movements. Papers may focus on questions of Marxism, nationalism, and Pan-Africanism; gender, sexuality, and queerness; print culture and reading networks; political theory and sociology; aesthetics and cultural forms. Deadline: July 1, 2025.

Latinx Joy: The Pleasure of Latinx Literature

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:56am
Dr. Leigh Johnson and Dr. Erin Murrah-Mandril
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for Genealogies of Joy: The Pleasure of Latinx Literature. This edited collection aims to explore the diverse representations of joy within Latinx literary traditions, emphasizing how joy manifests as a form of resistance, resilience, and cultural affirmation from the earliest writings to contemporary moments. How do readers and scholars experience the jouissance of literary recovery, new methodologies, texts, and pedagogies? 

 

TSQ Special Issue: Trans Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century Americas

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:55am
Jesse Alemán, Ren Heintz, Bernadine Marie Hernández
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Trans Studies in the long Nineteenth Century Americas 

 

Co-editors:

Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico)

Ren Heintz (California State University, Los Angeles)

Bernadine Marie Hernández (University of New Mexico)

 

The Revolutionary Possibilities of Singlehood

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:52am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Singles have been and continue to be regarded as anomalies and threats to the social order in the United States and elsewhere (Moran). Within the humanities, the growing interdisciplinary field of Singles Studies builds on scholarship in queer theory and gender and women’s studies to highlight the evolution of relationships that fall outside the structure of traditional marriage and the nuclear family to include singlehood and other types of intimate relationships that do not revolve around these conventional models. As more people opt toward relationship models and orientations that do not involve marriage, it is important that scholarship in the humanities reflect this revolutionary thinking.

The Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale (2017-2025)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
Northumbria University at Newcastle Upon Tyne / UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 6, 2024

The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has enjoyed unprecedented academic and popular international success, with the first season winning eight out of thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth Moss. Therefore, there will be a variety of papers presented, from the fields of literature, language, film studies, and fashion, by postgraduate students and academics at various stages in their career. The Symposium is supported by research funding by Northumbria University and represents two research groups, ‘Gendered Subjects’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Writings’. It is also endorsed by The Margaret Atwood Society.

 

Edited Volume on Periodization

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
Lee Bebout
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call for Papers for Edited Volume on Periodization

Periodization, the act of chunking up time to make units of study, is a fraught practice undertaken by scholars, educators, media professionals, and everyday people. Although largely arbitrary, the ending and beginning dates of a period do much to influence how people outside of the historical profession think about topics such as progression, regression, and the present’s current location in a larger human narrative.

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