modernist studies

Call for Papers: International conference

                    Flux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literatures (late-19th century to present)

                            9-10 April 2026 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

                      Keynote Speaker: John Brannigan, University College Dublin 

In chapter 4 of The Ambassadors, following a scene that few who have read could ever forget,Strether’s dinner with Maria Gostrey, “whose dress was ‘cut down,’ . . . in respect to shoulders and bosom,” “face to face over a small table on which the lighted candles had rose-colored shades,” and after attending a play in London, Strether outlines the nature of his journey to Paris to Miss Gostrey, who asks whether Mamie Pocock is Chad Newsome’s “own niece.” Strether tries to clarify: 

“Oh, you must yourself find a name for the relation. His brother-in-law’s sister. Mrs. Jim’s sister-in-law.”

It seemed to have on Miss Gostrey a certain hardening effect. “And who in the world’s Mrs. Jim?”

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to be held in Asheville, NC, September 25-27, 2025. In keeping with this year’s conference theme of “Performance at Black Mountain College,” we are especially interested in abstracts that address aspects of performativity in relation to Black Mountain poetics, though more general proposals focused on broader topics within the work of Black Mountain poets, projective verse, or the New American Poetry more broadly construed will also be considered.

This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?

The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference

June 14-15, 2025

Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London

and online

Proposal Deadline: May 12, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Susan Rowland

 Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/the-creative-psyche/

Call for Papers:

We invite proposals for short articles to complete a cluster on “Accessibility in Feminist Modernist Studies.” The papers in this cluster will consider how feminist methods and considerations of structural access help us understand and re-examine the concept of “modernist difficulty.”

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures) 

University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXX 

(2025). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely open access journal, published 

annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes 

articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide 

hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered 

Modernist Studies in the 21st century has rigorously adapted itself to bridge the gap between the narrowly periodized referent of “modernism” and the much broader range of literary-critical interests that the term encompasses. This trend is heralded by Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s 2008 call for a spatio-temporally and “vertically” expanded “New Modernist Studies,” and it reaches its logical extreme in Susan Stanford Friedman’s Planetary Modernisms (2015), which locates discrete modernisms both throughout and beyond the scope of recorded human history.

CFP for Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2025

Deadline for Submissions: essays (6,500 words) due 30/06/25, book reviews (2,000 words) due 31/07/25.

JWLS 2025 Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact

The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies seeks articles for its 2025 issue. 

Articles that centre the broad themes of 'Collaboration, Influence, Impact' are particularly welcome. Articles (c.6,500 words inclusive of Bibliography) should be formatted using MLA, with in-text citations.

W. B. YEATS: DUBLINER

The 2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society

30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin

Call for Book ChaptersUrban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature

Editors
Dr. Neethu P. Antony, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India
Dr. Arpana Venu, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India

Seminar  “P raises his head”. Acts of Resistance in Samuel Beckett

Convenors:

Davide Crosara (“Sapienza” Università di Roma) davide.crosara@uniroma1.it

Rossana Sebellin  (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”) sebellin@lettere.uniroma2.it

Abstract

Publish your work on single, unmarried, widowed, asexual, queer or otherwise celibate Irish actvists, authors, characters, or collaborative networks, in an open-access journal with NO charge to the author!

Call for Papers: Special Issue of English Studies on Digital Humanities and the English Novel

We are pleased to invite submissions for a special issue of English Studies on the intersection of digital humanities (DH) and the study of the English novel. This special issue aims to push the boundaries of how we understand the novel as a genre by leveraging computational and quantitative methods to explore form, structure, and themes in English fiction. We invite scholars from both the digital humanities and literary studies to contribute to this exciting and interdisciplinary dialogue.

Overview: