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Extended Deadline: Indigenous Speculative Fiction (PAMLA 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, June 4, 2023 - 4:54am
Carlos Tkacz / University of Nevada, Las Vegas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Speculative Fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate, not totally free of the specter of history, but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. Because settler histories work towards indigenous erasure, the question of individual and communal autonomy is central. In this context, Speculative Fiction has become a key component in the Indigenous fight to regain personal and communal autonomy from narratives of erasure and abjection.

 

Poetry Now: Who Reads It? How Do We Read? Why? [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 12:12am
Jan Maramot / PAMLA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

PAMLA 2023 Special Session

October 26-29, 2023

This panel is and isn’t about poetry. At its core, it is a panel about our reading habits surrounding poetry, the ways in which the definition of poetry has shifted in its capaciousness, about how we recognize a poem, what has happened to poetry’s public in the wake of Amanda Gorman’s powerful reading of "The Hill We Climb" in Joseph Biden’s presidential inauguration, and what poetry might become in a heavily digitized, perhaps even metaversal future. The specter that haunts this panel is Stanley Fish’s “How to Recognize a Poem When You See One,” but his essay is really just one starting point in how critics have been fervently trying to recognize our reading habits on poetry.

Call for Book Chapter Proposals - Women and Literature in India: A Critical Perspective (Working Title)

updated: 
Friday, June 2, 2023 - 11:20am
Dr. Animesh Roy and Srija Sanyal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Editors: Dr. Animesh Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of English St. Xavier's College (Ranchi University), Ranchi, India

              Srija Sanyal, Research Scholar, Ronin Institute for Independent Research, NJ, USA

 

Women and Literature in India: A Critical Perspective (Working Title)

"Rhetorical Theory" Panel (PAMLA 2023)

updated: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 11:49pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

PAMLA 2023 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINE

 

“Rhetorical Theory”
Portland, October 26-29th

Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

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REMINDER: Il Parlaggio - new issue September 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 1:26am
Edizioni Sinestesie (Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

IL PARLAGGIO

ISSN 2280-6849

 

This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.

“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.

The National Health Service on Television

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:01pm
Julie Anne Taddeo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Call For Papers for an Edited Collection, The National Health Service on Television

Fraker Graduate Conference (University of Michigan, Oct. 6-7, 2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:01pm
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 6, 2023

We are very excited to share our Call for Papers for the 2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. This year’s conference will be titled, "Dis/continuities: Unsettling Memory and Time" and will take place on October 6 and 7, 2023.

Appel à contributions pour le numéro 36 de Post-Scriptum : Pratiques de l’hésitation : pour une observation des tremblements

updated: 
Saturday, May 27, 2023 - 11:04am
Revue Post-Scriptum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Pratiques de l’hésitation : pour une observation des tremblements 

 

Si, p. ex., quelqu’un disait « je ne sais pas s’il y a là une main », on pourrait dire : « Regarde de plus près ». – Cette possibilité de se convaincre de quelque chose fait partie du jeu de langage. (Wittgenstein 1969, 16) 

 

Depuis, j’ai tout oublié de l’inconnu, mais le timbre de sa voix, au creux de cette houle, résonne encore en moi. Émoi définitivement présent :

 – Ma main en tremble encore, disait-il, regardez!  (Djebar 1985, 162)

 

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Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association Seeks Submissions for Spring 2024 Special Issue on “Intelligence”

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 8:38am
Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

CFP: “Intelligence,” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (JMMLA), Spring 2024

The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for a Spring 2024 special issue on the theme of “Intelligence.”

In 2021, as a consequence of the pandemic, schools and colleges across the country placed a temporary freeze on standardized testing, reinforcing doubts regarding the necessity and efficacy of such tests to assess intellectual potential. Soon thereafter, the November 30th 2022 launch of ChatGPT-3 elicited responses ranging from the apocalyptic (the software is a huge step toward artificial general intelligence) to the skeptical (the software is not and cannot be intelligent).

The 11th International Conference Synergies in Communication

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:26am
Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 11th International Conference

Synergies in Communication (SiC 2023)

Bucharest, 26-27 October 2023 (hybrid)

                                                   

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions on Transgender Issues

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:25am
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender and feminist communities currently dominates contemporary cultural conversation globally. Against this backdrop, Femspec calls for submissions exploring speculative approaches to gender, and particularly to transgender identity and embodiment; the rise and use of what some liken to Orwellian doublespeak; and projections extrapolated from our present into the future. 

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  

AI and Fandom

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:25am
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Due in part to well-publicised advancements in generative AI technologies such as GPT-4, there has been a recent explosion of interest in – and hype around – Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. Whether this hype cycle continues to grow or fades away, AI is anticipated to have significant repercussions for fandom (Lamerichs 2018), and is already inspiring polarised reactions. Fan artists have been candid about using creative AI tools like Midjourney and DALL-E to generate fan art, while fanfiction writers have been using ChatGPT to generate stories and share them online (there are 470 works citing the use of these tools on AO3 and 20 on FanFiction.net at the time of writing).

The Routledge Handbook of the Sociopolitical Context of Language Learning: Call for Reviewers

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:24am
Dr Chris Shei Swansea University UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

If you would like to serve as a reviewer for the handbook please email me. Having reviewed three papers and provided detailed feedback, your name will be listed as a member of the Editorial Board at the front of the book on a conspicuous page.

The handbook has 47 prospective chapters now but there will be withdrawals and rejections before final completion. If you have a full paper to contribute between now and December 2023 please feel free to approach me at c-c.shei@swansea.ac.uk. We may still be able to use your paper.

Current table of contents:

The Routledge Handbook of the Sociopolitical Context of Language Learning

The Routledge Handbook of Endangered and Minority Languages: Call for Reviewers

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:24am
Dr Chris Shei Swansea University UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

If you would like to serve as a reviewer for the handbook please email me. Having reviewed three papers and provided detailed feedback, your name will be listed as a member of the Editorial Board at the front of the book on a conspicuous page.

The handbook has 52 prospective chapters now but there will be withdrawals and rejections before final completion. If you have a full paper to contribute between now and December 2023 please feel free to approach me at c-c.shei@swansea.ac.uk. We may still be able to use your paper.

Current table of contents:

The Routledge Handbook of Endangered and Minority Languages

Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 12:23pm
Douglas Vakoch / Critical Plant Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 14, 2023

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
• Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture
• Relationships between humans and plants
• Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals
• Plants and the environmental crisis
• Phytosemiotics and plant communication
• Plant sensation and consciousness
• Vegetal agency

DEADLINE EXTENDED - American Literature 1870-Present [MMLA Permanent Section]

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 11:04am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 26, 2023

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for its in-person panel at the 2023 meeting of the Midwestern Modern Language Association conference (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, particulary those that gesture toward the conference theme of democracy.

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by May 26, 2023.

 

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2023

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:24am
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2023

 

November 9-11, 2023

Philadelphia, PA

 

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

 

_Edith Wharton Review_

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:24am
Edith Wharton Review
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Edith Wharton Review, the peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, scholarly journal of the Edith Wharton Society, welcomes submissions on Edith Wharton, Wharton in the context of other authors, and literary and cultural trends, and Wharton in relation to other writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from a broad range of theoretical perspectives including transmedial approaches.

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: The Liminal Beings: Vulnerability and Resilience

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:23am
Vernon Press (USA/Spain)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Vernon Press invites book chapters for the forthcoming edited volume titled The Liminal Beings: Vulnerability and Resilience, edited by Dr. Raisun Mathew, Assistant Professor of English at Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), India.

Concept:

Bending Metal: Metal Scenes during and after COVID

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 3:06pm
Bryan Bardine/University of Dayton/ Jerome Stueart
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

 

 

Bending Metal: Metal Scenes during and after COVID 

deadline for submissions: 

August 15, 2023

full name / name of organization: 

Bryan Bardine/University of Dayton/ Jerome Stueart

contact email: 

bbardine1@udayton.edu

Bending Metal: Global Metal Scenes during and after COVID
Proposals due: August 15, 2023

Continuing our work examining metal scenes and with a contract with Lexington Press we propose the following project:

Deadline Extended: “Consensus and Divergence in Reception Studies” (MMLA 2023)

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:56am
Reception Study Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED:

Call for Papers

“Consensus and Divergence in Reception Studies”

Sponsored by the Reception Study Society

Midwest Modern Language Association Convention

Cincinnati, Ohio

November 2-5, 2023

 

 

In Passage 6 UPDATE

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:47am
University of Boumerdes
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 2, 2023

In Passage : The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, the journal of the Department of English of the University of Boumerdes (Algeria), seeks essays in English or French for its sixth issue, to be released in December 2023. 
 
 All the contributions should either be written in English or discuss questions that relate to the English-speaking world. They should fit within the broad scope of texts and mobility and their interconnectedness in the fields of literature, linguistics, and translation, among others.

Suggested topics:

 

- Travel literature and intercultural contact.

- Nomadism.

- Exile in literature

-  Literary genres and movements

Call for contributions

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 8:04pm
Handbook of Diasporic Indian English Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023

 

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

SPRINGER HANDBOOK OF DIASPORIC INDIAN ENGLISH WRITING

 

This is a call for contributions to a forthcoming Handbook of Diasporic Indian English Writing which will be published by Springer. The work is in progress and contributors from across international borders are working on it.

AWP Session Presenters Needed for “Creative” and “Craft and Criticism” Panels

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10:31am
Anna Faktorovich / Anaphora Literary Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Presenters are invited to submit their interest to jointly submit panel proposals for the upcoming AWP conference in Kansas City, Missouri on February 7-10, 2024. Depending on the number of interested writers, there can be 1-3 different panels we can pitch in groups organized by category type. One panel should focus on “Craft and Criticism” in “Multiple Literary Genres”. Another panel can be a “Multiple Literary Genres Reading”. Other categories in “Craft and Criticism” include “Nonfiction”, “Poetry” and “Fiction”.

Cormac McCarthy Special Symposium-The Passenger and Stella Maris

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10:04am
Steven Frye/Cormac McCarthy Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Call for Papers

 

Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris

A Special Symposium

Sponsored by the Cormac McCarthy Society

 

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska

Sept 21-23, 2023

 

 

Papers are welcome on any aspect of McCarthy’s most recent novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. Submit one-paragraph abstracts to cormacmccarthysociety@gmail.com b

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