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Dialogues with D. H. Lawrence: Connection, Collaboration, and Allusion

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 6:40am
Jo Jones (University of Manchester); Laura Ryan (University of Limerick)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

In a 2023 article, the Black British writer Derek Owusu describes the transformative experience of reading D. H. Lawrence’s St Mawr (1925) as simultaneously an awakening to language and to a wider sense of connectedness. ‘I don’t have the words to describe what happened to me while turning the pages of that short story,’ he writes, ‘but I know language became something three-dimensional, and everything around me seemed connected by an unexpressed narrative.’

The Afterlives of Absurdism @ NeMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:44am
Daniel Amaral / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Northeast Modern Language Association 

March 6-9, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

 

Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism 

 

Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world. 

 

Henry James Review special issue: Henry James and the Archive

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:37am
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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

Modernism and Data Special Issue

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
The Modernist Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

“A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data

A Fitzgerald Centennial: The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:58am
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

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.

ALA 2025: Wallace Stevens’s Essays

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 12:31am
Wallace Stevens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

ALA Annual Conference (May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA) — Wallace Stevens’s Essays

 

Revisiting Spoon River (edited collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:37am
Caroline Gelmi/UMass Dartmouth and Jason Stacy/Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

We invite abstracts for a proposed edited collection of scholarship on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.

Topics of interest include gender, sexuality, race, regionality, reception, pedagogy, performance, and adaptation.,

Leon Edel Prize

updated: 
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 10:02pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

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.

MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language 

updated: 
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 1:00am
Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 

MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language 

 

June 26-27, 2025 

Ewha Womans University  

 

Keynote Speakers 

  • Rebecca Walkowitz (Barnard College, Columbia University)
  • Janet Poole (University of Toronto)

 

Call for Papers

CFP Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2024/2025 issues

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:02am
Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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.

ALA Boston 2025 Panel “An ingenuity too astonishing”: The Poetry of Amy Clampitt

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:01am
Lara Meintjes (UC Berkeley)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

“An ingenuity too astonishing”: The Poetry of Amy Clampitt

36th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025 (Boston)

We are seeking 15–20-minute paper proposals on the work of Amy Clampitt for a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. We are interested in abstracts that examine Clampitt’s work from a variety of perspectives. As such, we have kept this call fairly capacious. Potential topics may include but are in no way limited to:

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts Arts

updated: 
Friday, September 20, 2024 - 2:45pm
Diana Shaffer / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences?

This roundtable is part of NeMLA's 56th annual convention, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, March 3-6, 2025. To submit propoosals, follow these steps. 

Navigate to nemla.org

Navigate to Convention>Call for Proposals>Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature

Charles Olson, Vincent Ferrini, and Jonathan Bayliss in Gloucester: Poetry, Prose, and Place

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 8:33pm
The Charles Olson Society and The Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 27, 2025

The Charles Olson Society and the Jonathan Bayliss Society are pleased to announce a collaborative panel to be held at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. This panel will focus on writers who were inspired by Gloucester, Massachusetts and Cape Ann. The richness of Cape Ann, its history, people, and geography, deeply influenced poets Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini as well as novelist Jonathan Bayliss. How did these figures incorporate Gloucester’s geography, history, population, ecology, or other distinct elements in their work? How does place influence and determine the nature of a poet’s or novelist’s writing?

Eudora Welty Society CFPs for ALA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:37pm
Adrienne Akins Warfield/Mars Hill University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

I'm writing to share the CFPs for the two Eudora Welty Society sessions that will be featured at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference in Boston at the Westin Copley Place (May 21-24, 2025). ******************** 1. Welty’s Sheltered Daring and Furtive FeminismEudora Welty concludes her literary autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings with the self-summation, “[a]s you have seen, I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring comes from within” (104).

Henry Miller in the 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal/The Henry Miller Memorial Library
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

HENRY MILLER'S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

 

From 16-19 October of 2025, Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal and the

Henry Miller MemorialLibrary will host aconference at Asilomar in Pacific Grove,

California, with an excursion to the Henry MillerMemorial Library in Big Sur. We will

examine Miller in light of contemporary thinking, asking the question: Is Henry

Miller relevant today?

 

Although presentations on any aspect of Miller's writing, artwork, and life are

welcomed, the conference organizers particularlyencourage consideration of the

theme of Miller's place in the 21st Century.

 

Topics for presentations might include, but are not limited to:

Forwarding: The Reach of Black Mountain Poetry

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 1:33pm
The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 27, 2025

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 21-24. We are interested in abstracts that examine the influence of Charles Olson and/or other Black Mountain Poets on poetic practices and on subsequent generations of poets. A variety of poets took up the innovative ideas of figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Dorn and others associated with Black Mountain. How have the practices of this fundamentally important school of poetics been extended, transformed, and/or resisted by poets from subsequent generations?

Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:03am
Yu Min Rodan/ DLI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"

This seminar explores the concept of "future memory" across literature and film. We will examine the impact of memory, trauma, and technology on human cognition. We will analyze texts that challenge traditional notions of temporality and consciousness. We will question how memories shape identity, and how technological advancements might alter our understanding of lived experience.

LCLC52nd: “a-motion-upo-nmotion-n”: Modernist Cummings, Aesthetics of Precision, Kinesis, and Arts (deadline extended 9/20/24; Louisville, 2/20-22/25)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 10:58pm
Gillian Huang-Tiller / The E. E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 52nd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 20-22, 2025, at the University of Louisville (https://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/conferences/lclc).

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 8:38pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

A World Unknown: New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 15 2024

“Of Paradise Terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:49am
International Lawrence Durrell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 5, 2024

 “Of paradise terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms

 

Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society

 

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900

 

 

The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on the relationship of the profane and the holy in the modernist era.

 

Potential topics include:

 

Anthologising Irish Writing from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

updated: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - 6:10am
Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

'[...] the seas of literature are distraught with storms and currents, and full of the wrecks of Irish anthologies’. W. B. Yeats A Book of Irish Verse (1895)

Atmospheric Disturbances (ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, July 8-11, College Park, MD)

updated: 
Friday, August 23, 2024 - 7:36pm
Matt Morgenstern/Purdue University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 9, 2024

Hello! This is a CFP for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, which will take place July 8-11 in College Park, MD. In accordance with the ASLE 2025 theme (“Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality”), I am soliciting proposals for scholarly presentations that consider the ways in which climate engineering, geoengineering, terraforming (and other related processes) disturb the atmosphere. The panel’s overall purpose is to explore how different representations of and engagements with atmospheric disturbances present opportunities for environmental and climate justice while serving as solutions to potential social and ecological issues like climate change.

Mediations of Body in Popular Spaces/Culture

updated: 
Thursday, August 22, 2024 - 1:46am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Fraught with moral, religious, racial, sexual, and transgressive configurations, the body is a potent site for reflective practices within popular culture. The self-reflexive matrix of popular culture’s representations of human body functions as a site for materializing possibilities of varying forms of living. As a cultural sign, body features in both normative and non-normative debates on identity, selfhood, social relations, power, institutional surveillance and regulation. The practice of its representations, on the other hand, traditionally enables a culture of shared meaning-making which shapes how an individual perceives, thinks, feels, and acts amidst the production and circulation of discourses.

Subtle Modernist Revolutions: 1925 as Annus Mirabilis at NeMLA

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Dr. Galen Bunting (Northeastern University) and Dr. Jared Young (SUNY Orange Community College) / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

"Suble Modernist Revolutions: 1925 as Annus Mirablis" invites abstract submissions for our panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia). A centennial has passed since 1925, a watershed year of subtle Modernist revolution. If we look to 1925 as a year of subtle Modernist revolution, where Modernist literature found its footing as a revolutionary art movement, what symbols, patterns, or commentaries emerge through the exercise of Modernist techniques? Moreover, where has this revolutionary movement engendered revolutions–the cycling and recycling of certain formal interventions? What writing practices still echo through contemporary literature today and what are their implications?

Narrative: Identity, Temporality, and Interdisciplinarity

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
56th NeMLA Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Scholars of postmodern philosophy have developed a notion that “narration constitutes an act of forming identity further and suggests that a human being needs a life story in order to develop fully as a person” (Meyers 2018). Postmodern literature challenges traditional narrative conventions by embracing a more fragmented, non-linear, and self-referential narrative style (Zaidi & Khurram (2020). This shift can be viewed as a revolutionary dissent against modernism's emphasis on coherence and narrative closure or evolving narrative forms to reflect changing temporal experiences.

“What about It?”: Science, Nature, Self, and Cummings' Modernist Aesthetics  (9/5/16; Louisville, 2/23-25/17)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:13pm
E.E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 5, 2016

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 45th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2017, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). This session welcomes papers on elements of Cummings’ modernism, cultural aesthetics, genre issues and visual effects, critical reception, and interactions with other modernists.

“living said”: Modernist Rhythm, Visual Form, and Cummings' Cultural Aesthetics

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:12pm
E.E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2017

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 46th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2018, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).  Taking up what Cummings means by “my specialty is living said,” this session explores Cummings’ various modernist/avant-gardist experiments with rhythm and sound that came to shape his new art and new poetry.

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