twentieth century and beyond

Existing scholarship in Asian (North) American Literature has long examined travel narratives about Asian travelers within immigrant or diasporic paradigms: Sau-ling Wong famously establishes the Necessity/Extravagance framework in understanding transpacific mobility by early Asian American immigrants (1993), whereas Chih-ming Wang reads the autobiographical travelogues by diasporic Vietnamese American writers as “homecoming stories” (2013), and Patricia Chu interprets them as “return narratives” deploying acts of countermemory and postmemory to address racial melancholia (2019).

Twelfth International Iris Murdoch Conference CFP University of Chichester, 14-16 August 2026: First Call for Papers The Twelfth International Conference on Iris Murdoch studies will take place at the University of Chichester in 2026. The conference will showcase ongoing, and published, Murdoch scholarship with a particular focus on ‘Influences and Inspirations’. Panels should not be confined by this focus, however, and all researchers currently working on Murdoch’s fiction, philosophy, theology, personal journals, letters and poetry – and/or the political and cultural significance of any of these ¬– are invited to submit proposals.

War leaves lasting marks not only on people and communities, but also on the natural world that witnesses, and endures, its violence. Long after the fighting has stopped, landscapes shaped by destruction remain living archives, bearing the aftereffects of conflict: damaged forests, polluted rivers and seas, and disrupted ecosystems that continue to hold its traces. These ‘trauma ecologies’ pass on the legacy of war from one generation to the next, forming what we call ‘environmental postmemory.’

CALL FOR PAPERS
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
Los Angeles
JANUARY 7-10, 2027

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

Hemingway and Disability

Deadline extended

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

Date: 22-23 April, 2026

Venue: Department of English, Netrokona University, Netrokona, Bangladesh

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Dr Anirudra Thapa, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Professor Dr Shamsad Mortuza, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professor Dr Shaila Sultana, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Literary Representations of Co-Existence 

Conference location: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia

Keynote speakers: Mark Bould (University of the West of England Bristol) in-person

                               Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) online

Conference dates: Sept 3-5, 2026

Conference fee: 75 Euros for the fully employed, 50 Euros for students and those not fully employed

Send abstracts of 200 words, and a short biography, to bwillems@ffst.hr by May 1, 2026

Stories and histories of power, 24-25 Septembre 2026.

 Confirmed Keynote speaker : Peter Boxall

Based on the premise that any account is the result of a re-ordered selection in facts which is the mark of the power of the author and/or the institution or cultural group they stand for., this conference will examine factual and fictional narratives of power in the English-speaking world.

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles):  

 Nabokov in the ‘70s / Nabokov’s Afterlife

The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel on testimony and resistance in Margaret Atwood’s work. In keeping with the MLA 2027 presidential theme, this panel welcomes papers that examine how Atwood’s narratives represent coercion and constraint while also tracing the risk and agency at stake in claiming liberatory space. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Testimony, witnessing, and the politics of voice

• Surveillance, secrecy, confession, and the archive

• Gendered power, reproductive politics, and bodily autonomy

• Critical reception and adaptation

Oxford Literary Review 49.2: SETI and the Cosmic Turn in the Environmental Humanities, Edited by Timothy Clark and Philippe Lynes

OLR devotes itself to outstanding writing in deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, political theory and related forms of exploratory thought. OLR 49.2, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in late 2027, is planned to direct the journal’s distinctive mode of enquiry on the philosophy, culture and assumptions of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/olr

CFP: The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics 

Special Issue: Art & the Public Sphere 

Call for Expressions of Interest: Book Reviews Editor for The London Journal

The London Journal is seeking expressions of interest for the role of Joint Book Reviews Editor.

This role will cover the period from roughly 1800 to the present, joining Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval and early modern periods. The Book Reviews Editors are full members of the Editorial Board.

Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2025 exhibition From Haworth to Eternity,

Brontë Studies invites new and original articles of no more than 7,500 words that respond to the theme of ‘the Brontës and adaptation’ across film, screen, and the visual and performing arts—including digital, transmedia, and other emerging media forms. The special issue will be published in 2027.

Please note this is a call for potential SITE AND PROGRAM DIRECTORS to organize the 2028 Hemingway Society Conference. We are not accepting individual paper or panel proposals at this time.

The Hemingway Society Welcomes Preliminary Site Proposals for 2028 Conference

The executive board of the Hemingway Society (hemingwaysociety.org) welcomes preliminary proposals for our 2028 international conference. Please share this call widely with your professional networks.

Teams wishing to be considered should submit to Hemingway Society President Verna Kale (vlk123@psu.edu) a letter of interest that includes the following information: