interdisciplinary

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Research Grant

Provides $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference is given to junior scholars and graduate students. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project proposal, including a description of expenses needed to complete the project, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton(g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by April 1, 2023.  

Publicly available text-generating engines like ChatGPT make large language models (LLMs) “writers” in their own right. How can we interpret the changing status of the writer in the age of machine learning? What does the success of AI-generated textuality ask us to reconsider, revisit, or reinvent in the context of literary theory and the digital humanities more generally?

This panel is a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the TC Digital Humanities executive forum for the 2024 MLA conference in Philadelphia (January 4-7). 

The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the January 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers.

Queer theory embraces psychoanalysis and its speculative concepts as crucial elements of counter-identitarian critical practice. Yet the relationship between these two fields remains under-examined. Topics of particular interest include:

Catherine Bush’s 2019 novel Blaze Island opens with the following epigraph from Elena Ferrante: “Pressing changes are underway. Everything is becoming something else, unpredictably. A completely new outlook is required. The challenge now and for the foreseeable future is to extract ourselves from what men have engineered, a planet long on the edge of catastrophe.” Throughout the novel, Bush underscores the importance of thinking critically about boundaries, specifically those of gender and geography, as she reworks Shakespeare’s The Tempest to particularly Atlantic Canadian purposes.

Amidst a growing insistence on disability futures, this panel centers the future of feminist disability scholarship. Taking up the conference sub-theme of Revisiting, Reclaiming & Re-imagining, panelists propose new directions for feminist disability thought not by looking forward, but through a transformative turn to alternative pasts. Recent critical disability scholarship reimagines the field’s scholarly origins and objects, including Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim’s call for feminist-of-color disability studies and the Crip Genealogies edited volume. This panel foregrounds this twinned intervention in field-narration and analytic objects--insisting that both are necessary for transformative feminist disability thought.

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language,
Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original,
unpublished research papers for July 2023 issue.

Indexed in:
1.      ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.      IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3.      Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4.      DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)

Gameplay in Teaching and Research

Call for Participants: The 47th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference in Montréal, Canada, from October 5-8, 2023

Seminar Format and Membership: Seminars meet October 6, 7, and 8 during one of the scheduled morning sessions to "foster extended discussion, rigorous intellectual exchange, and intensified networking" (GSA).  Seminar participants will come from all ranks and include graduate students.

Conveners:
Jeremy Best, Iowa State University, bestja@iastate.edu

    Writers and critics have in recent years hailed for a “return” of realism to the literary arena with revised notions of what constitutes realist representation to take account of the experiences that are unique to our new era, e.g. “speculative realism”, “metonymic realism”, “ecocritical realism”, and “quantum realism”, to name just a few. Indeed, realism has neverbeen away from the academic limelight despite its accused naivety in aspiring to represent reality objectively, unabashed interpellation of readers into dominant ideologies or as a symptom of the waning of affect in late capitalism.

*** Please note that special issue proposals for Verge: Studies in Global Asias 12.1 are due *March 20, 2023*. A previous announcement included an incorrect due date.***

Verge: Studies in Global Asias invites proposals for special issue 12.1, which will be published in Spring 2026.

Conference: 16-17 March 2023 (via Zoom platform)

Scientific Committee:

Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

This edited volume collects essays from those writing about the experience of reading, studying, teaching, and interpreting James Joyce. The essays form a picture of how Joyce’s writing serves its reader by reflecting dimensions of human experience.

Version française (English version below)

Proposition pour un dossier spécial :

“Nouvelles Perspectives en Études Québécoises multidisciplinaires depuis l’Europe et le Reste du Globe”

Québec Studies 77 (Printemps/Été 2024)

“Les études québécoises ont [...] depuis quelques années déplacé ou multiplié leurs centres de gravité [...]”(Hauser 2022, 128)

Ever since English literature made its way into academia, after enjoying a healthy relationship with other fields of knowledge for centuries, its connection with them became somewhat ambivalent, largely because of what Joe Moran calls its “woolly and ill-focused” disciplinary character.

Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts

Editors: Dr Mahitosh Mandal & Dr Sanjeev Kondekar