twentieth century and beyond

Call for Papers on Robert Frost

Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, January 3-6, 2019

Sponsor: The Robert Frost Society

Contact: Grzegorz Kosc, President of Robert Frost Society, grzegorz.kosc@uw.edu.pl

Deadline for Proposals: April 7, 2018; length: 300-350 words

Session: “New Trends in Robert Frost Criticism”

“A diachronic approach to Ian McEwan’s fiction : from sensationalism to ethical writing ”

This call is for contributions to an ongoing book project on Ian McEwan's œuvre. We are specifically looking for chapters that examine the earlier part of his literary output – his stories in First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets as well as his novels and novellas The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent – and some of his more recent work: Saturday, On Chesil Beach and Solar.

International Seminar on Identity, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Afghan Literature in English

6-8 February 2019

The Department of English, Gauhati University, has been organizing a series of international seminars on literature emerging from India and its neighbours, with two seminars already held on Sri Lanka and Pakistan. This year, we are shifting our focus to Afghanistan, the nation, and its diaspora.

Call for Peer Seminar Participants: 1. Eliot and History / 2. New Editions, New Writings

T. S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting; 21-23 September 2018Atlanta, GA

The adjectival qualifiers attending rape are numerous: statutory rape, marital rape, date rape, acquaintance rape, and virtual rape. In delineating manifold patterns of sexual violence, these terms also index the historical and formal contingencies of recognizing sexual harm. Despite the work of feminist activists, scholars, and artists in specifying structures of sexual violence, “rape” persists as an analogy for nonsexual violation to authorize political recognition of other social movements (the “rape of the earth” once lamented by environmentalists).