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Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 8:33pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 90+ books already published in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice

Postwar Area Literature Group CFPs - American Literature Association 2024 Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 5:23pm
Postwar Area Literature Group
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar and contemporary topics for the 2024 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Chicago, IL from May 23-26, 2024 (information on the annual conference can be found at the American Literature Association website). The Postwar 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 nicoledib@suu.edu with any questions.

Comhfhios Conference: Eire’s Ireland - Shifting Visions of Performance and Positionality

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 1:42pm
Boston College Irish Studies Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Comhfhios Boston College

February 17, 2024

Connolly House, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

 

The Irish Studies Graduate Students of Boston College, in conjunction with the Irish Studies Program, are pleased to host the seventh annual Comhfhios Boston College conference. Comhfhios (pronounced “co-is”) meaning “knowledge together,” or “open to all knowledge,” invites emerging scholars in all Irish Studies fields to gather in Boston. 

 

Transnational Narratives: European Women's Fiction in the Early Modern Period

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:25pm
European Society for the Study of English, ESSE
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

26-30 August, 2024

Convenors:

Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de

Sonia Villegas-López (University of Huelva, Spain) villegas@uhu.es

 

Online seminar proposal:

28. TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES: EUROPEAN WOMEN’S FICTION IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Book Chapter on Deconstructing the Gender-Based Violence in South Asian Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:22pm
Priyanka Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology Patna; Partha Bhattacharjee, SRM University AP
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Gender-based violence is a worldwide issue with an extended past that is predominantly an outcome of social norms and power disparities. In countries as different as Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, studies find that violence is frequently viewed as physical chastisement—the husband’s right to ‘correct’ an erring wife (Heise 1999). Unfortunately, it is one of many societal concerns that literature has long addressed. According to the analysis of a report by CARE and International Rescue, gender-based violence has arisen amid the pandemic and quarantines (Haneef and Kalyanpur 2020).

Divergence: Departures from the Canon

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:21pm
Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature

Date: May 24th and 25th 2024

Call for Papers | Divergence: Departures from the Canon

 

Margaret Fuller Society American Literature Association 2024 Conference CFP: “Matters of Belonging” II: Learning and Teaching in Relation—Fuller’s Conversations and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Margaret Fuller Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

 

Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.

 

Margaret Fuller Society American Literature Association 2024 Conference CFP: “Matters of Belonging” I: Relationality and Feeling in Fuller and Other 19C Women Writers and Reformers

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Margaret Fuller Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

 

Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.

 

Carson McCullers and Embodied Difference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Carson McCullers Society (for ALA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

Panel Title: Carson McCullers and Embodied Difference

The Carson McCullers Society, in conjunction with The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University), invites proposals for a panel at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA), May 23-26, 2024, The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603.

Cather at ALA 2024: Open Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:16pm
The Willa Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Willa Cather Foundation will sponsor 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association’s 35th Annual Conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. Proposals on any topic related to Cather’s life and writing will be considered, including but not limited to:

- New approaches to Cather studies 

- Cather and her contemporaries

- Cather and authorship, circulation, reception, and/or publishing

- Teaching Cather 

- Environmental and ecocritical themes 

- Material culture

- Digital/computational approaches to Cather studies

- Cather's correspondence

Willa Cather and the Readerly Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:16pm
Willa Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Cather and the Readerly Imagination

In her own time as in ours, Willa Cather’s books created vibrant and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid reader with an acute awareness of the reading public. The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference seeks to celebrate and explore both the act of reading Cather and the presence of reading and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters. 

The directors invite papers on a variety of topics related to Cather, readers, and reading, including but not limited to the following areas.

 

  • Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories

 

Sex, Scandal, and Sensation

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:11pm
Falmouth University, UK, in partnership with City University, Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Sex, Scandal, and Sensation

Tuesday 2 July 2024 to Thursday 4 July 2024 

Falmouth University, UK, in partnership with City University, Hong Kong

In 2014 Falmouth University hosted the hugely successful Haunted Landscapes conference, which was followed in 2023 by Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments. Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is the third conference in this series. It will, like its predecessors, be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus amidst lush tropical gardens, only a short walk from the picturesque town and its beaches.

The Status of Myths in New Millennial/post-2000 Cultural Production

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
Conference Myths 2024 - https://myths24.fr/
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

What is left of myths in contemporary arts and literature?

As founding narratives or idealized representations of historical figures, myths have, from time immemorial, tied humans together, creating communities that grow into organized societies. They have therefore become the safeguards of a vision of History that the arts and literature have ceaselessly spun into stories, in order to better transgress, deconstruct or simply revisit an ever-changing mythos. Contemporary stories reshape the contours of an all-too-often glorified past and they question our cultural heritage at the same time as rekindling it.

Gaskell Journal Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
Gaskell Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Gaskell Journal

Joan Leach Memorial

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

 

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2024

 

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

 

Game Studies Area: 2024 PCA/ACA National Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
Steffi Shook, Area Co-chair, PCA/ACA Games Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on March 27-30, 2024, in Chicago, IL.

I. Topics of Interest

The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc.) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Rethinking the Global in English Studies

updated: 
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 9:38pm
English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

December 12–14, 2024

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kandice Chuh, CUNY Graduate Center, USA

Ato Quayson, Stanford University, USA

Hye-Joon Yoon, Yonsei University, Korea

 

Literature, Activism, Human Values: Then and Now

updated: 
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 8:38am
Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa (Taylor & Francis, Routledge)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Themed issue of Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, Volume 36, Issue 2 (2024)

Link to the CFP: https://bit.ly/_RCWR

Issue Editor

Goutam Karmakar, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, GermanyUniversity of the Western Cape, South Africa
goutamkrmkr@gmail.com

 

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2023 - 7:49am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

call for short articles | The US representation in popular culture and media

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 12:14pm
PopMeC research blog
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 30, 2021

The PopMeC Research Blog (https://popmec.hypotheses.org/, ISSN 2660-8839) is a peer-reviewed academic blog publishing short articles on a rolling basis.

ECRs and PGR students are very welcome to send their papers, as well as scholars at any stage of their career.

 

Full papers (about 3000 words, bibliographic references excluded) on topics related with popular culture, including (but not limited to):

>       the representation of specific ethnic / religious / gender / etc. groups in the US popular media and culture (including mainstream, alternative, and self-representations)

Queer Cinema & Festivals in India: Production, Circulation & Politics

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 9:36am
Department of English, Jadavpur University and The School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

Department of English, Jadavpur University and

 The School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow present

 

A One-Day Symposium (funded by Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant)

 

Queer Cinema & Festivals in India: Production, Circulation & Politics

 

12 December 2023

 

Venue: Department of English, Jadavpur University

(Deadline Extended) Man and the Machine: Exploring the Future of AI Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 11:26pm
Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 9, 2024

The primary aim of this edited volume is to explore the word ‘Literature’ in the age of AI. Etymologically, the Latin word litteratura is derived from littera (Latin) meaning the ‘smallest element of alphabetical writing’ (Klarer 1). The word ‘literature,’ then means, any writing e.g., a medical prescription, usage instruction written on the bottle of shampoo or maybe a cautionary warning on the packet of cigarettes. To specify the particular type of literature we use the term ‘Creative Literature’ (called the Literature of Power by Rees).

Sacred Cultures in Politics

updated: 
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 2:55pm
Eds. Roberta Sabbath, Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Sacred Cultures in Politics, a collection of scholarly articles, seeks to reveal sacred and/or religious rhetoric serving as persuasive tools in the vast arena of political activism. In his Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben challenges religious institutions to use their persuasive powers not for priestly privilege but “to make a new possible” for humanity. In a similar spirit, this collection seeks to make transparent both the rhetorical systems and their use in local, national, regional, or global political arenas.

Protecting Our Education, Protecting Our Futures

updated: 
Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 1:24pm
University of Cincinnati Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

Conference Date: Friday, March 1, 2024

Conference Location: University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, Ohio

Fugly: Aesthetics, Activism, and Politics

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 11:14pm
The 15th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference/The University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose histories are marginalized or overlooked because of their perceived bad taste, abject existence, and the taint they leave on supposedly beautiful, grand narratives of nationhood, well-being, or progress? How do kitsch, camp, and excess function in the realms of activism in contemporary politics? How do nasty, revulsive art, literature, and performances act as sites that engender questions that push boundaries of societal mores and cultural hierarchies?

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions on Transgender Issues

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:30pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender community is currently dominating the contemporary cultural conversation in the United States in an unprecedented way.  Against the backdrop of this discursive moment, Femspec calls for submissions for a special issue (Volume 24, Issue 1) dedicated to exploring speculative approaches to gender, and particularly to transgender identity and embodiment.  Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.  For this issue, we seek both scholarly and creative work that interrogates the co

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