modernist studies

The Evelyn Scott Society invites abstracts of 1-2 pages on the American writer Evelyn Scott (1893-1963).

Papers may focus on any of her works (novels, memoirs, poetry, young adult literature) and take any contemporary critical approach. We are especially interested in papers investigating the canonicity process, the literary networks to which Scott belonged, or the role of disability in her career, but all topics will be considered. Scott participated in various and major literary currents during her writing life, including Imagism, naturalism, and modernism, and she had a variety of literary mentors, including Lola Ridge, Theodore Dreiser, Waldo Frank, William Carlos Williams, Emma Goldman, and Jean Rhys, among others. 

Calcutta Research Group (www.mcrg.ac.in) will conduct an online orientation course on the city of our time, under the specific theme “Making and Unmaking of Cities”. This online certificate course will be held from 15 February to 31 March 2025. It will have twelve lectures (two lectures on Saturdays / weekends) encompassing accounts of making and unmaking of cities in South Asia and the world, issues of urban autonomy and sovereignty, struggles for rights and urban justice, as well as dominant stories that cities tell of themselves. Some of the discussions will be anchored in a political-economy perspective throwing light on forms of labour in global South, which include cities of South Asia.

INTERDISCIPLINARY; COMPARATIVE; GRADUATE - PROFESSIONAL DEVLOPMENT

Graduate students are invited to present on Dress and Fashion of Baroque Spain at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on March 27, 2025. The conference will be held in the Museum’s Wolgin Education Center, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432.

Chromatic Encounters: Experiencing Colour from Early Modern Literature to Modernism

Place: Sorbonne Université and Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris

Dates: 26-28/06/2025

We are seeking essay submissions pertaining to Henry James’s early stories and criticism, to be published by Vernon press. The working title of the collection is Writing as Revenge. We define James’s “early period” as anything he wrote up to The Portrait of a Lady. Please submit an abstract by October 31, 2024.

The Henry Miller in the 21st Century Conference is offering five scholarships for students to help defray the costs of housing, food, and registration fees while attending this event to be held at the Asilomar Conference -Grounds, in Pacific Grove, California, from October 16, 2025 - October 19, 2025.

Eligibility:        This scholarship is open to any currently enrolled college student who has Junior, Senior, or Graduate Student level standing as of October 1, 2024.

John Dos Passos Society, Open Topic Panel(s)

American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference May 21-24, 2025: Boston, MA

The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for one or two open-topic panels at the American Literature Association conference, to be held in Boston on May 21-24, 2025.

Teaching Medievalism

Deadline for Submissions: December 1

Session: February 28, 2:00 pm (Central)

Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

CALL FOR PAPERS

Henry James and the Archive

The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James studies and archives for a special fall 2025 forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.” 

Topics could include, for example:

• Using archives for Henry James scholarship

• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive

• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship

A Fitzgerald Centennial: The Great Gatsby, New York, and New Perspectives

The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference

Hosted by the New School, New York, NY

June 22-28, 2025

As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, we invite scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts to submit proposals for The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in New York City.

"The Future of the American Literary Archive" panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites panelists to share archival discoveries in American literature while also engaging in broader methodological reflections on the state of archival research in the humanities. In the context of explaining their own archival work and/or pedagogy, panelists will discuss how archival research has been impacted—for better or for worse—by tectonic shifts in the US humanities landscape including technological developments (AI, digitization), declining undergraduate humanities enrollments, and calls for more public-facing humanities scholarship readable to a general audience.

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.

CFP for JWLS 2025

Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact

From his uneasy alliance with first-wave feminists to his role as a frontman for state-sponsored attempts to popularise the inter-war avant-garde in 1950s radio, Wyndham Lewis’s collaborative endeavours are as varied as they are surprising.