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The August Wilson Society
at the
American Literature Association
announces its
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the
36th Annual ALA Conference
May 21–24, 2025
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Edgar Allan Poe worked for a double audience (the popular and the critical), in double tones and manners (grim and mocking, metaphysical and pseudo-scientific). Whether he strove for alternance or interdependence between the terms “grotesque” and “arabesque” which he used to categorize his own narratives, critics such as G. R. Thompson and Dennis Eddings have argued that the former – more visible in tales such as “King Pest,” “Some Words with a Mummy,” “Lionizing,” and “Loss of Breath” - underscored the carnivalesque, the satirical, and the hoaxical.
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will host two sessions at the upcoming ALA Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. The PEHS is collaborating with the Research Society of American Periodicals (RSAP) on one of these two sessions. You can find the two CFPs below. Please consider submitting a proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2025.
PEHS CFP One:
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Hemingway Review
Emerson Society at the Thoreau Annual Gathering CFP
The Emerson Society will sponsor a panel at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering this summer in Concord, Mass. (July 9-13, 2025). This year’s conference theme is Thoreau’s Revolutions. We will consider papers both on the topic below and on the conference theme more generally.
“Emersonian Revolutions Today”
CFP: American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for two panels at the upcoming ALA conference in Boston.
"Emerson's Like-Minded Transcendentalists."
“The House of the Seven Gables in Ink, Wood, and Stone: A Roundtable Discussion”
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference“Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW”November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City
For the 2025 SSAWW Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we invite proposals on the theme “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures” as we commemorate twenty-five years of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
Nancy Drew and Sookie Stackhouse. The Executioner and Sweet Valley High. Warhammer or Star Wars tie-in novels. Franchise series like these occupy a unique position, inspiring voracious (often young) readers while often complicating traditional scholarly approaches to literature.
We seek 15-minute papers for a prospective panel on franchise fiction, mass market books, and pulp at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025.
Iperstoria no. 26 Call for Papers
Special Issue: Parties, Luxury and American Celebrity: From Gatsby to Instagram
Guest editors: Alessandro Clericuzio, University of Perugia (alessandro.clericuzio@unipg.it); Cinzia Schiavini, University of Milan (cinzia.schiavini@unimi.it)
Novel: A Forum on Fiction is accepting submissions. Founded in 1967 at Brown University, Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies. After several decades under the editorship of Nancy Armstrong, Kevin McLaughlin took over as the chief editor in Summer 2023. Novel holds to these general principles:
EXposuRE.
The Dynamics of Influence in Post-millennial North American Literature and Culture
March 2026
Call for papers
Robert Lowell session, American Literature Association, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston
The Robert Lowell Society welcomes proposals for one session at the American Literature Association's annual conference (Boston, MA, 21–24 May 2025).
We are especially interested in proposals that consider Lowell's work in light of today's "death studies." For example: Lowell’s own elegies, his memories of and reconstructions of predecessors and peers, his cemetery poems, his care poems, his commemorative publishing projects, his imitations of elegies by others, his prose about others. Panelists might also consider poems about Lowell, including but not limited to elegies.
Call for Proposals
August Wilson Society’s Biennial Colloquium
Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression
April 2-5, 2025
The Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
American Literature Association
May 21-24, 2025
The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at
the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference.
Roundtable: Richard Wright’s Contributions to Postcolonial Studies
In his introduction to AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Vijay Prashad tells
the story of how Richard Wright came to attend the historic Bandung Conference in
2025 WAR AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT WRITING AWARD
The War and Media Studies SIG is holding its annual graduate student writing award competition to showcase innovative work in the field by our graduate student members. We will again be partnering with the Sage journal Media, War & Conflictand the winning author will have the opportunity to be published in the journal in addition to receiving a $100 cash prize.
Editors:
contact email:
Presentation
Dickinson and Ecologies deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Li-hsin, Hsu / National Chengchi University contact email: johsu@mail2.nccu.tw
Dickinson and Ecologies
Emily Dickinson International Society + Wenshan Conference (Hybrid)
Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan
19-22 June 2025
(1 Day Critical Institute + 3-Day International Conference)
Call for Papers
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024
4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium
12 April 2025Contact: bevlclarksymposium@gmail.com
We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on April 12th, 2025.
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.
This conference aims to examine the question of figurative art at the beginning of the 21st century. Nowadays, figurative artistic models are challenged by increasingly sophisticated technologies that reshape our definition of “the real,” and more particularly, of reality. AI-generated images tend to normalize manipulated and distorted representations of the world we live in and can sometimes become indistinguishable from real images (“deepfakes”).
ASLE Panel Topic: “Plant Humanities”
This is a call for papers for the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Panel at the American Literature Association Conference: May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA (in person - Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).
“Plant Humanities” will investigate how plants shape American literary and environmental landscapes, cultural narratives, and material practices. Please submit 300-word abstracts on any aspect of plant studies in American, transnational, or postcolonial literature and material culture related, but not limited to, the following topics:
CFP: Playing Games in the American Environmental Literature classroom
Panel at ALA 2025 in Boston
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) is putting together a pre-constituted panel for submission to the 2025 Console-ing Passions conference, held at Georgia State University in Atlanta from June 27-29, 2025.
Critical hegemony tracing the start of the Second Golden Age of Television to the release of HBO’s The Sopranos in 1999 means that several properties released before that time have flown under the academic radar. Oz (1997-2003), the first serial drama ever produced by HBO, contains all the tightly plotted storytelling and enhanced aesthetics Alexis Pichard defines as key features of Golden Age television, and achieved the required level of popular success with both audiences and critics.
CFP for Special Session Panel
American Literature Association Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, Massachusetts
Interest in the philosophical ideas of the Greek and Roman Stoics has burgeoned over the
past three decades, and Stoicism is experiencing a fascinating resurgence into various
facets of U.S. literature and culture. Although this popularity across diverse groups of
readers seems new, Stoicism has had a long if changeable history in the U.S.—from the
Puritan colonial settlers (who brought Stoic texts with them across the Atlantic) and
Trickster. Traitor. Villain. Variant.
Hero?
AIRBORNE GOTHIC
ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
The Kurt Vonnegut Society invites proposals for presentations at the 36th annual American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, 21 May 2025 - 24 May 2025. You can learn more about the conference from the ALA's general call for papers: Call for Papers.