gender studies and sexuality

Edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Cati Connell, and Gowri Vijayakumar

Abstract

Anne Tyler has won the Pulitzer Prize (Breathing Lessons, 1988), the Kafka Prize (Morgan’s Passing, 1980), the National Book Critics Award (The Accidental Tourist, 1985), and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (A Spool of Blue Thread) and while the subject of scholarship and dissertations, analysis of her work has been infrequent since the 1990s. This panel welcomes papers on any of her twenty-five novels that discuss Tyler's contribution as a modernist or postmodernist observer of the American family.

Mary Jacobs Memorial Essay Prize 2026

The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is pleased to announce the Mary Jacobs Memorial Essay Prize 2026. The aim of the Prize is to encourage further study of the writings of Sylvia Townsend Warner, in honour of the distinguished work of Dr Mary Jacobs.

With the theme of (Re)generation in mind, this roundtable explores 21st-century cultural products created by women in Transatlantic and Latinx contexts. The works of prominent authors and filmmakers of our era (María Fernanda Ampuero, Liliana Colanzi, Mariana Enríquez, Belén Gopegui, Angélica Gorodischer, Rita Indiana, Carmen Maria Machado, Sara Mesa, Guadalupe Nettel, Mónica Ojeda, Anita Rocha da Silveira, Samatha Schweblin, to name a few...) reveal that women are still marginalized and disregarded within their societies. Still, despite the unsettling tone that often characterizes these works, they also offer bridges to more equitable realities made possible by powerful feminist coalitions and unconventional alliances.

CALL FOR PAPERS:  Man-Hating in Cinema, Literature, Media, and Society  Editors Gilad Padva, scholar in cinema, culture, men's studies, and queer theory Yair Koren Maimon, Chair of the Department of Literature, GordonAcademic College When a legitimate and crucial criticism of patriarchy is transformedinto a bigoted, ruthless misandry/man-hating? When resistance toandrocentric systems that focus on men's interests stimulatesgynocentric attitudes that disrespect, misrepresent, and diminish men'shuman dignity? How does resistance to the objectification of women'sbodies involve mocking and grotesque representations of men's bodiesand, particularly, their genitalia?

 Key cities in Joan of Arc’s history often emphasize associations with the Maid as important parts of their cultural identities and contributors to their economies. Catholic and secular organizations alike propose tours for those who wish to “live” some dimension of Joan’s history by visiting the sites where she was born, fought, and died.

Victorian Review is currently accepting submissions for a forum on George Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Deronda, to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Guest edited by Eliot scholar Ilana Blumberg, “Daniel Deronda at 150 Years” will appear in VR 51.2. We seek readable, engaging, and focused pieces of 1200-1500 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and we welcome a wide range of themes, styles, and approaches, both personal and academic. 

Possible topics include but are not limited to: 

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts

Globally, we are experiencing a moment of heightened anxiety surrounding work and discussions about sex, eroticism, bodies/pleasures, identity, and desire, among many other topics. Indeed, scholars and researchers focused on the erotic often grapple with the label and association of “dirty work,” described as “occupational tasks and jobs that were ‘physically, socially or morally’ tainted” (224). Coined by Everette Hughes (1962), this term has been applied to research on sex and sexuality, as well as other subjects that may provoke controversy. Louisa Allen (2019) utilized the term “dirty work” to address the frustrations involved in publishing images of penises in scholarship related to sex education.

Plí invites submissions for its 37th volume:Gender, Sexuality, Feminisms and Women’s Studies in the History of Philosophy

Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy invites submissions for its thirty-eighth issue, which will explore how questions of gender and sexuality (and, more broadly, Women’s Studies and Feminisms) intersect with the History of Philosophy. We welcome original research articles that engage with any philosophical and literary period or tradition, as long as they advance our understanding of the historical entanglements between intellectual thought and lived, gendered experience.

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SAMLA 97: Knowledges

Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025 | Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center

Knowledge from the cracks

Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France2026 NeMLA ConventionMarch 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA Since the 1970s, LGBTQ+ Francophone authors and scholars have produced an expansive critique of psychoanalytic practices and thought. Despite their differing views, Guy Hocquenghem, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, Didier Eribon, Sam Bourcier, and Paul B.

In recent years, publishers and children’s book professionals have registered a new enthusiasm for comic and graphic narrative forms. Graphic narratives as children’s literature offer an exciting new type of text for children and youth, providing important insights into the interests and capabilities of these youngsters as readers and as potential agents of change. Curiously, children’s literature criticism has tended to ignore or, at best, marginalize comics and graphic narratives for young people. This “blind spot” in children’s literature and comics criticism, as Charles Hatfield has called it on a number of occasions, is now being addressed.