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Victorian Pedagogy

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 1:43pm
Victorian Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Call for Papers  - Victorian Pedagogy

 

Victorian Network is an open-access, MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best work across the broad field of Victorian Studies by postgraduate students and early career academics. We are delighted to announce that our sixteenth issue (2024) will be on the theme of “Victorian Pedagogy” guest edited by Kevin A. Morrison.

Pedagogy is an exciting topic within Victorian scholarship that has attracted new critical focus in recent years. This issue seeks to include themes relating to the history and depiction of education in the nineteenth century, but also the ways in which Victorian Studies are being taught to students today.

Call for Nominations: Colby Book Prize

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:24pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

RSVP's Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book PrizeThe Colby Prize is intended to honor original book-length scholarship about Victorian periodicals and newspapers, of the kind that Robert and Vineta Colby themselves produced during their careers. The annual prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press. The winner receives a monetary award of up to $2,000 and is invited to speak at the following year’s RSVP conference.

Morris, Religion, and Myth

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:20pm
William Morris Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

MLA New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025

Morris, Religion, and Myth

 This MLA guaranteed session invites proposals exploring Morris’s writings on religion and myth. Topics could come from Morris’s Icelandic writings, his fantasy romance, The Earthly Paradise, News from Nowhere, The Defence of Guenevere, and A Dream of John Ball.

 Please include a 250-word abstract and short bio no later than Friday, 1 March 2024, to jnixon@salemstate.edu

William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
William Dean Howells Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism 

The William Dean Howells Society invites proposals for presentations that examine William Dean Howells’ contribution to American Literary Realism and his enduring influence on subsequent literary and cultural developments.

Potential approaches include but are not limited to:

Howells and American Literary Realism – Authors could examine Howells’ role in shaping and defining American Literary Realism, offering comparative analyses of his works with those of other realist writers.

Epistolary friendships between writers and readers

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:15pm
Université de Haute-Alsace, France
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

 

Conference, 13-14 June 2024, Université de Haute-Alsace, France | Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (ILLE)

 

Working languages: French, English

The 29th Annual Dickens Society Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:11pm
The Dickens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Call For Papers:

We are delighted to welcome you to the University of Birmingham!

The theme of the 2024 symposium will be “Dickens, Context and Co-occurrence.” We invite you to think of the various contexts that Dickens’s works are set in, connect to, and imagine. Contexts are where things co-occur – with various effects.

Gaskell Journal Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
Gaskell Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Gaskell Journal

Joan Leach Memorial

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

 

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2024

 

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

 

Charles W. Chesnutt Association panels ALA (Chicago, May 23-26 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
Bill Hardwig, Charles W. Chesnutt Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 20, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
https://chesnuttassociation.org/
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300
words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2024 ALA
conference in Chicago.

‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:36pm
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s 16th Annual Hybrid Conference
‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’
15-17th July, 2024
Canterbury Christ Church University
Hosted in person and online with Zoom

Call for Papers

If ‘space’ is understood as an area that can be objectively measured or at least conceptualised, the construction of ‘place’ depends on a range of affective and cultural meanings at any given moment.

The Brontës and the Wild

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:53pm
Brontë Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

No promised heaven, these wild desires

Could all, or half fulfil;

– Emily Brontë, “The Philosopher”

 

Bronte Studies invites new and original essays of no more than 7,500 words responding to the theme of “The Brontes and the Wild,” which inspired the Bronte Parsonage Museum’s 2023 programme of events and activities and the Bronte Society’s conference.

Transatlantic Literature at CEA 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 8:23am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 13, 2023

Call for Papers, Transatlantic Literature at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Transatlantic Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Transatlantic Literature seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.

Post-Colonial Literature at CEA 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 8:23am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 13, 2023

Call for Papers, Post-Colonial Literature at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Post-Colonial Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Post-Colonial Literature seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.

Women’s Connection/Women ‘s Lit/WGST CEA 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 8:23am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 13, 2023

Call for Papers, Women’s Connection/Women ‘s Lit/WGST at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Women’s Connection/Women‘s Lit/WGST for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Women’s Connection/Women ‘s Lit/WGST seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.

Devils and Justified Sinners (Conference)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 11:29am
Romancing the Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

 

Devils and Justified Sinners

An online conference on 24th and 25th August 2024 to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The conference is entirely online and is open to scholars and experts from around the world.

 

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area, SWPACA--DEADLINE EXTENDED!

updated: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 - 4:05pm
Southwest Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Call for Papers

Mystery/Detective Fiction Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline (extended!): November 14, 2023

Place in the Victorian Periodical Press

updated: 
Friday, October 27, 2023 - 7:37am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Place in the Victorian Periodical Press, June 13 -15 2024, University of Stirling, Scotland, 2024 Conference CFP

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will hold its annual conference in Scotland at the University of Stirling, June 13-15, 2024. The conference will be primarily in-person, although it will include some online sessions, as well as opportunities to attend the Woolf and Colby lectures and the RSVP annual business meeting remotely.

Call for Papers: Silenced Voices and Erased Agencies: A VPFA Study Day

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:03pm
Victorian Popular Fiction Association/ Rebecca Hamilton
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 11, 2023

VPFA Study Day: ‘Silenced Voices and Erased Agencies in Victorian Life and Victorian Popular Fiction’ 

 

Online | 8&9 June 2024

 

 

VPFA Book Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:32pm
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

We are delighted to announce two new Book Prize Awards, under the auspices of the UK-based Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA): the VPFA First Book Prize and the VPFA Second Book Prize awards. These book prizes will be awarded in alternate years, beginning in 2023 with the First Book Prize, followed in 2024 by the Second Book Prize. The VPFA First Book Prize is intended for the first book of an early-career scholar; the VPFA Second Book Prize is for a second book by scholars at any career stage.

Submissions for the 2023 VPFA First Book Prize are now open, with a deadline of 31 December 2023. The winner will be announced in the spring of 2024.

Shaw and Ireland

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:24pm
SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

SHAW 46.1 (June 2026): SHAW AND IRELAND

Call for Applications: 2024 Curran Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:23pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.

Medievalism in Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 3:46pm
Christina Francis/Popular Culture Association (PCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

CFP: Medievalism in Popular Culture

PCA/ACA 2024 National Conference

March 27-30, Chicago, IL (In-Person)

The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:

Call for Papers: Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 10:59am
Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Call for Papers: Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature welcomes submissions of new work for 2024, Summer and Winter numbers. 2024 marks the bicentenary of a number of literary, intellectual, and cultural events associated with 1824, including:

Science: Michael Faraday and the Royal Society

Periodicals: founding of Jeremy Bentham’s Westminster Review

Education: Manchester Mechanics’ Institute (preceded by Edinburgh, 1821 and Liverpool, Glasgow, and London in 1823)

Music: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

Social Reform: Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals established 

Music, Domesticity, and British Identity

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:56pm
Dr Roger Hansford, guest editor, Ninteenth-Century Music Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2023

‘Music, Domesticity, and British Identity’ – Call for Articles (deadline 20 October 2023), Nineteenth-Century Music Review

 

Dear all,

 

I am delighted to announce the call for articles for ‘Music, Domesticity, and British Identity’, a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nineteenth-century-music-review> (General Editor: Prof. Bennett Zon).

 

The call is available here: <https://musicdomesticbritain19.hcommons.org/sample-page/>

 

DEADLINE IN TWO WEEKS - Call for Book Chapters: Recovering Lost Voices 19th-century British Literature

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:48pm
Michaela George and Elizabeth Drummey/ University of New Hampshire
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 9, 2023

This collection aims to continue the work of diversifying the 19th-century British literary canon. Many authors who were revolutionary and popular during their time are now underrepresented in the current scholarly field. The essays in the collection will touch on underread texts and authors as well as underappreciated characters in more traditionally canonical works. We welcome essays using lenses such as disability studies, trauma theory, critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and more.

Chapter proposals can include but are not limited to:

  • Underread 19th-century British authors

  • 19th-century diaries or letters that have been critically ignored

Humour across Victoriana

updated: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 8:08am
Mou-Lan Wong / National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Humour across Victoriana

To be published as part of the series, Humour in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2023-2025).

This volume will attempt to explore the prevalence and function of humour across all levels of Victorian society by focusing on how humour is expressed, encountered, and experienced in all forms of media and expression.

Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century (Southampton, UK)

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:50am
Romance, Revolution & Reform
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

The study of labour in the long nineteenth century has enjoyed a rich critical history, guided by the twentieth century’s New Left focus on class formation and experience, and extended in more recent years by scholarship which has diversified traditional and non-traditional categorisations of ‘labour’. This conference seeks to question the thinking by which we identify forms of labour in the first place: who, both in the nineteenth century and now, is allowed to decide what counts as labour? Which voices of the long nineteenth century emerge if we diversify our definition(s) of labour? And, how can the scholarship of labour – or the labour of scholarship – help us navigate the nature, purpose, and value of labour in a post-Covid era? 

 

Victorian Realism and Crime

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:46am
Victorian Realism and Crime Special Issue
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

The definition of literary realism and the key features of Victorian realist novels have long been the subject of debate. However, most would agree that Victorian realist texts have traditionally focused on the lived experience of everyday people, representing the observable world and embracing literal representation of it, and using it to present social commentary prescient to the real world it is designed to reflect.

Narratives of Coercive Control: An International Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 11:19am
University of York
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 22, 2023

Call for Papers: Narratives of Coercive Control

University of York, 19-20 April 2024

Bringing together literary critics, legal historians, and creative practitioners, this conference will provide the first in-depth analysis of literary representations of coercive control. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers or creative submissions that draw out ways in which coercive control has been identified and interrogated by writers from the 1800s to the present day. 

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