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W. B. Yeats: Dubliner

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 10:54am
International Yeats Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 16, 2025

W. B. YEATS: DUBLINER

The 2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society

30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin

 

Call for Book Chapters: Urban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:26pm
Rupkatha Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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

Echoes of Hope: Resilience and Renewal in Irish Literature

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:09pm
2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

Call for Papers

Irish Studies Permanent Section

Echoes of Hope: Resilience and Renewal in Irish Literature

 

2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference

14-16 November 2025

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI

 

New Approaches to the New Negro for Boston's MSA Conference

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:37pm
Martha H. Patterson, McKendree University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 14, 2025

On the 100th anniversary of Alain Locke's New Negro anthology, this panel seeks presenters eager to discuss what they see as new trends in New Negro research.  Possibilities include the New Negro in international, regional, or local contexts; the New Negro in newspapers, magazines, college yearbooks and other digitized sources; the New Negro on the move, re-envisioned to meet the needs of different socio-political groups; the New Negro in literature (especially in literature relatively new to the canon); the New Negro is conjunction with other "New" movements:  the New Woman, New Psychology, New Thought, and the New American.

Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
LMU Munich
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 3, 2025

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!

Eliot Society: MMLA 2025

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
Edward Upton/International T.S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The International T.S. Eliot Society is accepting proposals for a panel at the 2025 Midwest MLA conference at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI to be held November 14-16, 2025. Any proposal on a subject reasonably related to Eliot studies will be considered. Papers on Eliot and religion, or those drawing from the Hale correspondence, The Complete Prose, or Letters would be especially welcome. If you are interested in participating, please send abstract proposals (250-300 words) to Professor Edward Upton (edward.upton@valpo.edu). Submissions must be received no later than April 15, 2025.

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

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:05am
English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

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.

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Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
The Midest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

MMLA 2025 Call for Papers for their Permanent Section: "English III: Literature after 1900" under the theme Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism


 

Deadline: April 24th, 2025

For consideration: please send a brief abstract (250 words), tentative title, and bio to Sophie Nunberg at snunberg@uwm.edu by April 24th, 2025.


 

 

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MSA Boston 2025: Caregiving Infrastructure and the First World War

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:21am
Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 28, 2025

Millions experienced physical and mental trauma as a result of the First World War. Government and private organizations attempted to mitigate the war’s impact in multiple ways – whether through direct medical care, through social support, or through rehabilitative assistance.  This panel seeks to explore official and unofficial infrastructures of caregiving that surfaced during the war and postwar periods, with particular interest in the way that these systems are examined and evaluated in writing and the visual arts.  Papers on all aspects of the war’s caregiving infrastructure are welcome.

MSA Boston 2025: Queer Print Infrastructures in Literary Modernism [DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 29]

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 12:55pm
Sophie Yates, University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 29, 2025

This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little ReviewThe Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer/non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism.

Modernist Machines, Modernist Mechanisms: The Infrastructure of the City and its Literature (Proposed Panel for Boston MSA 2025)

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Modernist Studies Associations
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Modernist literature emerges at the intersection of industrialization and the rapid expansion of fossil fuels—railways, power grids, and oil pipelines—that define the modern city while also exposing its vulnerabilities. This panel explores how modernist works engage with the materiality and aesthetics of infrastructure to critique the systems that sustain modern life and the forms in which modern life is communicated.

T. S. Eliot in Dublin!

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
International T. S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

International T. S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting

 

Registration for the Society’s 2025 meeting is now open! We invite you to join us at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, on July 2–5 for the 46th annual gathering of the International T. S. Eliot Society.

 

Fumes and Flames: Petro to Pyromodernism (proposed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 5:13pm
MLA Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

This panel explores how fire and fossil fuels shape modernity and modernisms, focusing on literature, art, and culture beyond 1850. Papers may explore intersections of:

  • Environmental and energy humanities 
  • Extractivism, petroculture, infrastructure
  • Anthropocene, Pyrocene, energy unconscious 
  • Fire, fire suppression, thermal politics 
  • Aesthetics, identity, materiality

Please submit 250-word abstracts to Jennie Sekanics at jennie-sekanics@uiowa.edu or Harry Stecopoulos at harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu

Modernism and Foodways

updated: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 12:30pm
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Boston 2025, October 9-12
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

While revising Between the Acts in 1940, Virginia Woolf edited her drafts to reinforce the disruptive wartime shifts in food culture triggered by the Second World War: the novel notes a particular wariness for rationed beef and mutton, references the interwar freedom of easily obtaining bacon and oil, and suggests the indulgence of sugar consumption. The modernist moment saw a variety of such shifts in the alimentary, from increased industrialization and food processing to a more gastronomic turn to the realities of wartime food rationing that Woolf and others chart.

Beyond Human Divide: Revisiting the Partition of India

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 2:41am
Lady Shri Ram College for Women
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Beyond Human Divide: Revisiting the Partition of India

International Conference on 8th August 2025 (Friday)

 

Concept Note

Harold Pinter Review Call for Papers

updated: 
Monday, March 10, 2025 - 3:30am
International Harold Pinter Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Harold Pinter Review invites essays that consider the influence and effects that Harold Pinter’s plays have had on modern drama generally, including such aspects as style, staging, subject matter, characterizations, structure, and tone.  We also invite essays that consider the stylistic and thematic relations between Pinter’s work and that of another contemporaneous playwright. 

 

NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory (Online ISSN 2347-2073)

updated: 
Friday, March 7, 2025 - 11:49am
Interactions Forum, Pune
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory (Online ISSN 2347-2073)

Vol. 14 Issue 2 April 2025

New Academia is a peer reviewed and refereed journal published quarterly by Interactions Forum. The Journal strives to publish research work of high quality related to Literature written in English Language across the World, English language and literary theory. The aim of the journal is to give space to scholars and researchers to publish their works.
We are always keen to receive submissions from scholars, academicians and researchers in the form of Research Papers, Articles, Poems, Short Stories, Interviews and Book Reviews.

Global Transmedial Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 10:42am
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Global Transmedial Modernism

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN)

MLA 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 10:03am
Joseph Conrad Society of America (JCSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN

 

The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.

 

 

GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:

 

Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd

 

Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings.  Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique.  Short bio, 250wd proposals.

 

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

MLA 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 10:03am
Joseph Conrad Society of America (JCSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN

 

The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.

 

 

GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:

 

Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd

 

Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings.  Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique.  Short bio, 250wd proposals.

 

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 11:05am
Department of English, University of North Bengal, India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal,  has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its June, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.

Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:20pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire

 Comparative panel considering Conrad’s and Woolf’s female characters as challenging imperial gender norms.  Papers might range from Conrad’s often biracial colonial feminine roles to Woolf on threatening sexualities or “New Women.”  Short bio, 300wd proposals.

 Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025

Ben Leubner, Montana State University < leubnerb@montana.edu >

Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >

Conrad and the Global South: Networks of Relationality

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:20pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Conrad and the Global South: Networks of Relationality

 Panel on Conrad's sharp critique of the imperial logics of individualism and appropriation in the global south, focusing on that author’s anti-colonial depiction of non-Western human entanglements and kinships. 300wd proposals, short bio.

 Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

Alexia Hannis, University of Toronto < alexia.hannis@utoronto.ca >

Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:19pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd

 Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings.  Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique.  Short bio, 250wd proposals.

 Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >

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