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Call for submissions

Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim: Critical Essays

Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and proto-Modernist, Lucas Malet was a literary tour de force in her own day, yet her work has been largely neglected by contemporary readers and critics. A daughter of Charles Kingsley, Malet was part of a creative dynasty from which she drew inspiration but against which she rebelled both in her personal life and her published work. Scholarship by Talia Schaffer and Catherine Delyfer has reopened critical enquiry into the work of this fascinating author, and we are seeking contributions in order to expand this emerging field of study.

ACLA 2017 Utrecht University, Netherlands, July 6-9, 2017

“Taking Pictures, Telling Stories”: Photo­graphy’s Encounters with Literature

“The essence of photography is writing with light.”

-- Yousef Khanfar

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations for our 48th annual conference. The conference will be held in Hilton Head, South Carolina from March 30 to April 1, 2017. 

The 2017 theme is "Islands" and CEA invites papers and panels that address the idea of the island.  How are islands in literature and film, as in life, places of desperate refuge and welcome escape?  What respites do they provide? Are islands imagined utopias, or do they offer only barriers and isolation?  Finally, is the study of composition, film, language, literature, and writing, a kind of island amidst the tempest of the current attack on the humanities?

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Baltimore, MD

March 23-26, 2017

A Joint Panel of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario and the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)

Toronto, Ontario

27-30 May 2017