general announcements

Teaching and learning are always a series of voyages and returns.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, swaths of books about the pivot to online learning have emerged, many focused on practical classroom instruction as a much-needed kind of spiritual manna in a time comprised of uncertainty and abrupt shifts in normative praxes. These contributions capture a historical watershed moment where the voyage is key (e.g., Chan, Bista, and Allen, 2021; Jansen and Farmer-Phillips, 2021; Lemov, 2020; Reimers et al., 2020; Grays-Wiley, 2020).

UNISA: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES

is pleased to announce its third departmental

WAR AND WRITING LECTURE SERIES: May-July 2022

Call for Papers

Old Countries and New States: the Borders of War

The book provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy worldwide; it also examines women’s political representation and participation in peace processes in the context of their community, emphasizing existing cultural norms with biases, questioning societal prejudices toward women, for example, in STEM and creative economies. The volume covers several domains presenting a wide range of important issues that demonstrate gender inequality, discussing a wide range of cultural and geographical realities.

There has always been a need to adapt and disrupt conventions to tell one’s story and now there are almost as many forms of life writing as there are different lives. The boundaries of representation are continually being pushed. ‘Life’s Not Personal: A Creative-Critical Conference on Experimental Life Writing’ seeks to explore these narratives from both theoretical and practice-based perspectives.

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY-SOCIETY CONFERENCE

27-30 October 2022

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Hyatt Regency Hotel)

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY-SOCIETY CONFERENCE

27-30 October 2022

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Hyatt Regency Hotel)

The COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate infection and fatality rates among the working class, coupled with the increasing peril from climate catastrophe, has foregrounded the existential precarity of those on the unfortunate side of the wage relation and empire. This panel considers, however, that in the absence of full human flourishing—in Marx’s word, Gattungswesen—the proletariat is, in a sense, already dead prior to the expiration of their physical bodies.

                             CONSORTIUM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES 

ISSN (Online): 2583-0090

                                                                                                  CALL FOR PAPER

                                                               Volume-II, Issue-I (Open Issue)

The MLA's forum on African American Literature invites proposals for two sponsored panels about African American Literature and the digital humanities for the 2023 Modern Language Association convention: https://bit.ly/3uGl1WH Codes and Characters: Building Black Digital Worlds Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15 March 2022 How have Black writers used the virtual realm to build community and stake their claim in the public sphere?

Advanced Oral History TrainingMastering the Interview:Techniques and Methods International Workshop20 March 2022

To facilitate scholars from various timezones, there will be two groups (same workshop, different time).
Group 1:   11:oo am Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia
Group 2:   19.00 pm Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from the American continent
Find your timezone here

 Course Facilitator:  Konstantinos D. Karatzas, Ph.D 

This proposed special session for MLA 2023 invites abstracts on the depiction of crowds in literature of the eighteenth century and beyond. Please submit 250-word abstracts to ashley@strategistmarketing.com by March 8, 2022.

Please note that MLA 2023 is scheduled to take place in San Francisco, CA on January 5-8, 2023.

For more information, please see the listing on the MLA call for papers site:

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Paper18975.html

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents

Sizing Up The Chair

Friday, February 18, 2022, Noon–1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom

Register here.

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K-tboEe3Tv-t_b6iC8ve9A

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Call for Papers for Women in French

2022 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention

Minneapolis, Minnesota

November 16-21, 2022

I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for WIF at the 2022 MMLA Convention (to be held in person November 16-21 in Minneapolis, MN). We welcome proposals that relate the study of French and Francophone women authors, the study of women's place in French and Francophone cultures or literatures, and feminist literary criticism to this year's theme: “Post-Now.”

The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2021-22 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published between January 1 and December 31 2020, the primary focus of which is the editing of a volume of works or documents. The award carries a cash honorarium of $500. Eligible essays may have been published in digital and print journals, monographs, and collections. Please submit nominations and citations in the body of an e-mail to the address below and attach the essay or review to be considered. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominations are due by 1 April 2022. The winner will be awarded at the ADE annual meeting in June 2022.