modernist studies

CALL FOR PAPERS  
Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World Postgraduate Symposium 
 Centre for Modern Studies, University of York

16 May 2020   

Keynote Speaker: Professor Ian Gregory (Lancaster University)

Call for Abstracts

"Women Writers and Social/Political Activism”

A special issue of Women: A Cultural Review

Guest Editors: Lise Shapiro Sanders and Carey Snyder

Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2020

“Avant-Garde @ Zero Hour:
Destruction and New Meaning”  

Bernhard Tauchnitz's Collection of British and American Authors series, initiated in 1841, was not only a successful entrepreneurial eneavour but also a milestone in the history of print culture. The Leipzig-based publisher Tauchnitz, renowned all over the world for his series of affordable pocket books in English, eventually produced more than 5000 volumes over the next 100 years. The cultural and literary repercussions of this unique achievement have been far-reaching since the late 19th century.

In keeping with the Modernist Studies Association 2020 conference theme of the “streets,” the Carson McCullers Society is pleased to sponsor a roundtable discussion series about southern modernist women writers and the streets. The roundtable panel is intended to spark conversation among Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, Margaret Walker, Katherine Anne Porter, Kate Chopin, Anne Spencer, Zora Neale Hurston, and Lillian Hellman scholars, among others, about the innovations and interventions of southern modernist women writers in creating street scenes and characters.