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Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of Hardy’s life, work, and legacy for the Twenty-Sixth International Hardy Conference and Festival in Dorchester, UK, from July 27th—August 3rd 2024.
MIDWEST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Seminars at the 2024 Conference| Call for proposals
April 19-21, 2024. University of Iowa | Applications due: February 5, 2024
Conference Theme: Evolving Forms
SHAW 46.1 (June 2026): SHAW AND IRELAND
Sharon Cameron’s Thinking in Henry James pointed up the weirdness of how consciousness works in his novels. She cites this example from The Portrait of a Lady, in which the subject of Isabel Archer’s reverie suddenly appears: “The effect was strange, for Madame Merle was already so present to her vision that her appearance in the flesh was like suddenly, and rather awfully, seeing a painted picture move.” In Mark Fisher’s account, “the weird is constituted by a presence – the presence of that which does not belong. In some cases [...] the weird is marked by an exorbitant presence, a teeming which exceeds our capacity to represent it.”
The Morris Circle and Collaboration
Co-sponsored with SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Readers and Publishers
William Morris and his circle were constant collaborators—in poetry, journalism, essays, lectures, translations, printing, art, socialism, and much more. We seek papers and presentations on any topic related to shared works by and with Morris and his associates: these could include literary writings and translations, illuminated manuscripts, the Kelmscott Press, Morris’s political and art journalism, the contributions of others in his literary, political, and artistic circles, or of those substantially influenced by his works.
This online panel is being organized for the upcoming hybrid Young Scholars’ Conference on “Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality.” Please note that the conference will be held in CET time zone. As such, the panel, while entirely online, will also adhere to CET time zone.
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.
Victorian Network: Call for Book Reviews
2024 Issue Theme: Victorian Pedagogies
Victorian Network, an open-access, MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed journal, is thrilled to announce its sixteenth issue on the theme of “Victorian Pedagogy,” guest edited by Kevin A. Morrison.
As a platform committed to showcasing the finest work in Victorian studies by postgraduate students and early career academics, we invite proposals for insightful and critical book reviews that explore the theme of Victorian Pedagogy.
Papers on any aspect of Thomas Hardy, poetry or prose, 19th or 20th century. Email abstracts or papers by April 1 to clay.daniel@utrgv.edu. Conference Dates: October 10-12, 2024. Conference Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
"Everyone whose name appears on the convention program must pay MEMBERSHIP DUES AND the applicable CONVENTION REGISTRATION FEES, even faculty and students from the local host institution."
Conference, 13-14 June 2024, Université de Haute-Alsace, France | Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (ILLE)
Working languages: French, English
Survey and Call for Proposals on
Great Expectations
for a new volume in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series
Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Great Expectations,
ed. by Michelle Allen-Emerson and Peter J. Capuano
This survey is designed to gather information about the methods and materials used by instructors when teaching Dickens’s Great Expectations. The purpose is to develop a new volume on the topic in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature.
VPFA Study Day: ‘Silenced Voices and Erased Agencies in Victorian Life and Victorian Popular Fiction’
Online | 8&9 June 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.
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.
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
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.
“Evolving Forms”
University of Iowa, 19-21 April 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.
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.
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.
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
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline (extended!): November 14, 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.
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.
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.
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 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’ – 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/>
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
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.
CFP Overview: