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T. S. Eliot Studies Annual - Vol 7 CFP

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:56pm
T. S. Eliot Studies Annual
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.

All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, editor, foremost exemplar of modernism, or his influence on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture.

Call for Papers: Theatre in Iranian Society

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Istanbul University Press/ Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Call for Papers

Special Issue for December 2024 (Issue 39)

“Theatre in Iranian Society”

Guest Editor: Fatima Parchekani, Kharazmi University

Deadline for article submission: 30 June 2024

 

Prospero 29 2024

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:49pm
Marilena Parlati
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and
cultures) University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue,
volume XXIX (2024). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely openaccess
journal, published annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA,
Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes articles and essays in the field of literary studies which
consider texts and textual analysis from a wide hermeneutic, philological and historical
perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered in their interdisciplinary and

Beyond Trauma : Postmemory in Liquid Time

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:04pm
Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 5, 2024

The Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College invites you to a virtual guest lecture to be delivered by Prof. Marianne Hirsch:

 

Topic: Beyond Trauma: Post Mmeory in Liquid Time

 

About the Speaker:

Marianne Hirsch is a William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in a global south perspective.

Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:17pm
Sarah Wadsworth / Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024

The Henry James Society is organizing a panel for the Modern Language Assocation Convention in New Orleans in January 2025! 

 

The topic is "Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James." How is sight in James tied to the physical body, material world, and felt relations? How do language and style play with sensation, cognition, and embodiment? Proposals on Alice and William are welcome. 

 

Please submit 300-word abstract + short bio to tkill@unc.edu and sarah.wadsworth@marquette.edu by 3/14/2024. 

 

The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:10am
NYU Paris, CY Cergy Paris, École Normale Supérieure
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents

19-20 September 2024

Venue: École Normale Supérieure & NYU Paris

 

Keynote Speaker: Virginia Jackson (University of California, Irvine)

                    Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University)

 

Organizers: Richard Aldersley (NYU), Mantra Mukim (CYU Paris/CNRS), Samantha Lemeunier  (ENS)

 

[New deadline] *Essay Collection* New Faces of William Gaddis: Reconsiderations for his Second Century

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 7:54pm
Crystal Alberts, Ali Chetwynd, Michael Sanders
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

December 2022 marked William Gaddis’s (1922-1998) centenary. Reputed during his lifetime for—in his characters’ words—being “difficult as I can make it,” or writing “for a very small audience,” the years since his death have nonetheless seen his work republished in increasingly wide-reaching editions and discussed in numerous online reading groups, with his unpublished archive increasingly studied and brought to public attention.

The present edited collection of academic essays seeks contributions that will challenge, update, expand, or surpass the extant understandings of Gaddis’s work, clarifying what it can offer readers more than a century after his birth.

Making Visible: Conrad, Poland, and World Literature

updated: 
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 4:28pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Making Visible: Conrad, Poland, and World Literature

Special Session MLA25 New Orleans

Joseph Conrad: Tyranny and Revolution

updated: 
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 4:27pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Joseph Conrad: Tyranny and Revolution

Joseph Conrad Society of America (MLA Allied Organization) MLA 2025 New Orleans

[deadline extended] Lawrence & Ecology: Virtual Graduate Conference in Lawrence Studies (May 18, 2024)

updated: 
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 3:42pm
D.H. Lawrence Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America is pleased to share the CFP for the next Virtual Graduate Conference in D.H. Lawrence Studies. It is scheduled for Saturday, 18 May 2024 and will take place over Zoom. The theme for the event is “Lawrence & Ecology.” Please circulate the poster (attached) and the information below widely. 

Prospero 29:2024 A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Prospero - A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures, University of Trieste, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and culturesUniversity of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXIX (2024). Prospero is a double-blind peer-reviewed, printed and entirely open-access journal, published annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective.

Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century Reader and Writer - 2025 MLA Special Session (New Orleans, LA - Jan. 9-12)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Onur Ayaz & Alessandra Occhiolini
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

This is a Special Session proposal for MLA 2025. We invite papers that broadly explore any aspect of Marilyn Monroe including:

+ Reading Marilyn Monroe reading literature, poetry, etc.

+ Monroe and adaptation in literature, film, and cinema

+ Speculative readings of Monroe in popular culture

+ Her posthumous publications

+ Monroe's reception as writer in mainstream vs. academic circles

See below for the full title, the call, and contact information.

Off The Camera, On The Page: Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century Reader and Writer

Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 2:27pm
Modern Fiction Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Special Issue Call for Papers

Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change

Guest Editors: Nedine Moonsamy (Johannesburg) and David Shackleton (Cardiff)

Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2025

Cultural History

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 30, 2024

The Cultural History panel seeks to revivify the political or social intersections that exist between text and context, including interdisciplinary aspects of culture. While papers that explore the continuities between history and film, history and literature, or history as it interweaves with marginalized aesthetic traditions would receive preference, excerpts of longer, ongoing projects that examine how cultural formations are “translated” or subsumed into historical trajectories would be particularly welcome. Submissions that not only practice cultural history by invoking the liminality of borderlands, but also critically reflect upon that practice are also encouraged.

Breaking New Grounds Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:10pm
Clémence Laburthe-Tolra / Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

 

Breaking New Grounds.
Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.

 

Date: 27 September 2024.
Venue: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.
A one-day conference organised by Clémence Laburthe-Tolra (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, EMMA) and Aurélien Wasilewski (Law & HumanitiesCERSA, UMR 7106, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas).

 

MSA 2024: Gendered Migration in Transnational Modernism

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:01pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Gendered Migration in Transnational Modernism

 MSA 2024, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 7-10, 2024

 

Deadline for abstract submission: March 29, 2024

Ecodread: Art and Ecology against the Double-Bind

updated: 
Monday, March 4, 2024 - 3:16pm
Claire Frances Spaulding
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

     “Paper or plastic?” Sustainably sourced or affordably manufactured? Organic or GMO? Every day, consumers are faced with small decisions marketed to make a big impact. ​​Choosing either paper or plastic puts the onus onto the shoulders of the customer rather than acknowledging that regardless of whether or not you leave the store with a paper bag, it’s the planned obsolescence of what’s inside the bag that’s left unaddressed. Opting out of paper billing feels great, until you realize that the WiFi bill’s gone up and an electric bill leaves you contemplating if your LED bulbs are a sustainability placebo. 

CFP: Pathographical Ecopoetics (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Monday, March 4, 2024 - 12:13pm
Jayjit Sarkar and Anik Sarkar
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

 

Book Title: Pathographical Ecopoetics 

Editors: Jayjit Sarkar & Anik Sarkar

Modernist Chicago: Richard Wright and Beyond

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:59pm
Modernist Studies Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Modernist Chicago: Richard Wright and Beyond (Modernist Studies Association Conference, Nov 7-10)

 

Deadline for Submissions: 12 PM PST, Friday, March 29, 2024

 

In the spirit of MSA 2024’s location in Chicago, this panel—centered around but not limited to Richard Wright—seeks work that engages the city’s modernist scene, broadly construed, through WWII: in literature (for example, Lawd Today!, Wright’s posthumously published experimental novel about Chicago, tensions and pollinations between realist and modernist aesthetics), sociology (the Chicago School, including Robert Park), blues music, journal culture and other radical politics, etc.

 

MSA 2024: Modernist Collectivity Roundtable

updated: 
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 11:24am
Laura Hartmann-Villalta / Gabriel Hankins // JHU / Clemson U
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 16, 2024

This roundtable asks for new thinking about modernist collectivity: collectivity in relation to material resources, intellectual support, and aesthetic productivity in the modernist period; and collectivity as principle for sustained scholarly collaboration and resource-sharing now. 

Posthuman Studies (MLA 2025 Conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 3:36pm
Akim Golubev/UNLV/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

The Posthuman Studies session welcomes abstracts/papers that deal with the application of literary theory to historical/social/cultural issues. Posthuman as an umbrella term includes a range of topics/periods from the 18th-C dualism/monism to deconstruction/postmodernism.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024

Akim Golubev, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (akim.golubev@unlv.edu )https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26259.html 

21st-Century Eliot

updated: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 2:44pm
International T. S. Eliot Society MLA_2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 10, 2024

21st-Century Eliot. Panel for MLA 2025 (New Orleans). Recent developments in Eliot studies, including the release of the Eliot/Hale letters and the publication of Eliot’s complete prose in digital format, as well as the new editions of his poetry and new scholarly biographies and collections, promise to transform Eliot studies for the foreseeable future. 21-st Century Eliot brings together Eliot scholars with a focus on digital methodologies and/ or approaches drawing on the new materials available for research.

Send abstracts of 200 words and a brief CV to Dr. John McIntyre at jmcintyre@upei.ca by 10 March.

Call for Editorial Assistants and Editorial Review Board Members

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 2:58pm
Essence &Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Call for Assistant editors and Editorial Review Board Members

Essence &Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is seeking candidates for Editorial assistants. The term of office is expected for a period of two years.

Journal page: https://www.journalofcritique.com/

POSITION DESCRIPTIONS

Editorial assistants 

Face, Form and Modern Fictions

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 2:48pm
_LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory_
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

LIT Special Issue CFP: Face, Form and Modern Fictions

CONRAD IN THE FAR EAST

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:29am
Pei-Wen Clio Kao/National Ilan University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Papers

CONRAD IN THE FAR EAST, Editor: Pei-Wen Clio Kao (National Ilan University)

Vol. 36 of CONRAD: EASTERN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES, Editor: Wiesław Krajka

The Maria Curie-Skłodowska University – Columbia University Press Conrad Project

Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press; New York: Columbia University Press, to be published in 2027.                                                                  

 

Call for submissions from JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 4:03pm
JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory seeks theoretically sophisticated essays that examine narrative in a host of critical, interdisciplinary, or cross-cultural contexts. Of particular interest are history and narrative; cultural studies and popular culture; discourses of class, gender, sexuality, race, nationality, subalternity, and ethnicity; film theory, queer theory, and media studies; new historical, poststructural, or global approaches to narrative forms (literary or otherwise); along with essays that span or subvert epistemic and disciplinary boundaries.

Elizabeth Bowen Review Vol. 6 - Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 3:53pm
Elizabeth Bowen Society/University of Bedfordshire
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review are seeking scholarly and innovative essays for publication in the sixth volume of the journal in December 2024.

For this issue, the editors are interested in essays on any aspect of Bowen’s writing – fiction, reviewing and criticism, biography and travel writing, or work discussing Bowen criticism. 

Essays should be 6-7,000 words including citations, and use Harvard referencing. Please attach a 150-word abstract and short biography.

Completed essays should be submitted by July 1st 2024.

More information about the journal is available at http://www.bowensociety.com/elizabeth-bowen-review/

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