general announcements

The Modernist Studies Association is thrilled to announce that the submission portal for our upcoming conference in Brooklyn, NY, October 26-29, 2023, is NOW OPEN at 

Writing Character(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Call for Papers

Unearthing

Past in Present and Future

Associative Interactions in the Orbit of Memory Studies

Deadline for Submissions: March 25, 2023

Concept Note

THEMED ISSUE: DISPLACEMENT 

Issue editor: Dr Rebecca Blanchard, University of Tours 

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN 2791- 6553) invites submissions for its upcoming issue on the theme of displacement in literature, theatre and culture studies. 

Displacement, in its various manifestations, serves as one of the defining  characteristics of the 20th and 21st centuries and remains a salient concern in diverse  cultural and political contexts. 

Proposals for essay chapters are invited for a collection on the fiction of nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin with an emphasis on global perspectives. A book proposal for Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, the collection will be comprised of essays that present global approaches to teaching, reading, and/or researching Chopin’s work in contexts outside the United States. Comparisons to other authors is welcome, and emphasis on racial or class-based concerns is encouraged. Essay chapter proposals should be between 200-250 words, and include a title and short bio of the contributor. Final essays will be due at the end of 2023/beginning of 2024, and will run 20-24 double-spaced pages long.

• 10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture 
• The topical theme of the conference is "Fashion as Material Culture"
• Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Stephen Bending, University of Southampton and Prof. Dr. Abby Lillethun, Montclair State University
  

• 10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture 
• The topical theme of the conference is "Fashion as Material Culture"
• Keynote speakers
• Prof. Dr. Stephen Bending, University of Southampton
• Prof. Dr. Abby Lillethun, Montclair State University
  

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”.

 Intersections: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies

ISSN: 2583-1542

OPEN ISSUE

Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is looking for original and well-researched interdisciplinary papers at the intersection of comparative literature, literary studies, literature and translation, language and translation studies, linguistics, foreign language education, translator education, and theory and cultural studies that fall within the scope of the Journal. The mission of the Journal is to facilitate a more expanded and participatory academic discussion on the theoretical and/or applied scholarly work under its scope, and to inform scholars and public about recent developments in these fields.

In her book The Promise of Happiness (2010), Sara Ahmed explains how the concept of happiness is related to heteronormative notions of the “good life”: “The good life is the life that is lived in the right way, by doing the right things, over and over again” (Ahmed 2010, 36).Questioning the promise of a good life leads to unhappiness, but unhappiness (unlike happiness) can be productive for social change as it fosters a possibility to open to new affective spaces in the subject’s life. Ahmed describes individuals’ urges toward “the good life” as frequently grounded in attachments that, while often toxic and ultimately unfulfilling, are not recognized as such by the people who engage in these negative relations.

Announcing

The 2023 First Book Institute

June 4-10, 2023

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

MMLA 2023 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature

“Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now"

The General Call opens with an analogy between now-times and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, invoking an approach that is both medieval and modern by looking at how the arts, the academy, and general society should, can, and do interact. In that spirit, the general question for this panel is “what is the value of studying medieval history, culture, art, and/or literature in today’s world?”

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering The Passenger and Stella Maris 

Edited by Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore