modernist studies

Proposed Special Session for MLA 2020 in Seattle (Jan. 9-12)

The upcoming 2020 MLA Conference is being held in Seattle, Jimi Hendrix's hometown, 50 years after his death in 1970.

To mark this meeting, we welcomes proposals about the significance of Hendrix and his music to cultural and literary studies, including how his legacy continues to infuse and inspire artists, writers, and scholars. We are especially interested in papers that tie his music to larger movements of black expression, such as blues traditions, black radical aesthetics, or the Black Arts Movement, as well as other innovative analyses inspired by affect theory and performance studies. 

Call for Proposals
Roundtable: Rethinking Periodization, Modernism(s), and Caribbean Literature

Modernist Studies Association Conference
October 17-20, 2019
Toronto, ON

(Conference Theme: “Upheaval and Reconstruction”)

Call for Articles: Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, IX (2019)

Postclassical Narratology: Twenty Years Later

Guest Editors: Biwu Shang, Arleen Ionescu and Laurent Milesi

Papers will consider how American theatre and drama of any period addresses empathy as part of the human experience. What notions of empathy are sedimented into traditional form(s) and/or by what practices do American plays re-humanize compassion for “the other?” Do American plays invite us to recognize “the other” in ourselves? How might empathy, compassion, and humanism help us to ask new questions regarding American theatre’s past, present, and future - such as how American plays refashion Classical ideas about dramatic catharsis? Conversely, panelists might pursue lines of inquiry, Brechtian or otherwise, which ask readers and audiences to consider a politicized theatrical “awakening” as an empathetic act.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 12 OF

Katherine Mansfield Studies

THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY

PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

celebrating the centenary of the publication of

Katherine Mansfield’s

Bliss and Other Stories (1920)

Editors

Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton, UK