modernist studies

Theorizing (Sub)peripheries: Strategies of Synchronization 

in Southeast European Literary and Cultural Criticism

(1821–2025)

Dates: May 9–10, 2025

Location: Sibiu, Romania

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

MLA 2026  (Toronto Jan. 8-11 2026)

Feministas Unidas-Non-Guaranteed Session

Title: Sexual Violence and Power: Sexual Assault As a Metaphor for Political Culture.

How do we continue to teach in unending crisis? How do we move from neoliberal and ableist expectations of “excellence” and “resilience” to center community and care? How can classrooms make space for what hurts? This roundtable intends to generate a conversation around teaching approaches and strategies faculty are using that attend to their own needs and the needs of their students given ongoing institutional and political turmoil. 

Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025.

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

Saturday 25 October 2025

Northeastern University, London

Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), the modernist long poem continues to be the focus of critical response and varied definitions. Recent work on the genre in its historical context by Oliver Tearle (2019), Sean Pryor (2021) and others, as well as a recent conference (Paris, 2024) on the topic, indicates fresh attention to the modernist long poem, on which we aim to build at this event.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Henry James Society

Modern Language Association Convention

Toronto

8-11 January 2026

The Henry James Society invites proposals for the following panel. 

James on James

CFP for proposed panel, “Modernist Mind Sciences”

Inviting proposals for papers to be included on a panel on the “modernist mind sciences” that consider the cognitive, neuroscientific, and psychological contexts for modernist creative practice: fiction and nonfiction, manifestoes, poetry, material culture, and experimental media. Papers might address the “infrastructures” of mind contemporaneous with the “modernist” literary and artistic historical period; papers may also consider contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific frameworks for understanding modernist aesthetics, modernist institutions, and broader cultural systems.

The Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium

Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America

May 10th and 11th, 2025

Online via Zoom

With keynote addresses by:

Dr Michael P. Bibler

(author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 [University of Virginia Press, 2009])

and

Dr Laura Rattray

The Brain and the Body: the Love Affair of the Cognitive and the Corporeal
in Literature
GWU English Graduate Student Association Symposium
March 2025

Keynote Address by Dr. Evelyn Tribble

For MLA in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026), we welcome contributions on Morris, his associates, and their influence in relation to material culture: the Arts and Crafts movement, the portrayal of objects and environments in literature, and the meanings ascribed to “things.” In addition to seeking new approaches to the work of Morris and his circle in the book arts, stained glass, textiles, architecture, and landscape design, we seek reevaluations of materiality and concrete symbolism within Pre-Raphaelite writings more broadly as reflective of beliefs about identity, permanence, and change. Contributions on Morrisian and Arts and Crafts-related Canadian material culture are especially welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.

The Wallace Stevens Society - International Conference: “Transnational Conversations, Partial Perspectives” (Singapore, June 2025)

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 2, 2025

Proposals for conference papers are now being accepted for "Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium," held in person at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on April 25-26, 2025. 

Call for Chapters | Variational Translation: Practical and Theoretical Explorations

This edited volume seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into the practical and theoretical explorations of variational translation.

EDITORS

Dr. Chuanmao Tian, Professor, Centre for Translation Studies, Yangtze University, China, Jingzhou, China
Dr. Juntao Deng, Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China
Dr. Zhonglian Huang, Professor, Center for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2025, open to all, on the subject of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 18 (2026), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
D R A N D R E W H A R R I S O N
University of Nottingham, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
K A T H L E E N J O N E S
Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Biographer
D R M A R T I N G R I F F I T H S
Author and Musician