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2017 PCA/ACA Annual National Conference
San Diego: Wednesday, April 12th—Saturday, April 15th
CFP: A Collection of Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Reminder: Abstracts are due September 16, 2016
We invite proposals for any papers dealing with Gothic literature, culture and film. This session welcomes proposals on a wide variety of topics, with particular consideration granted to papers that engage with the 2016 conference theme of "Archives, Libraries, Properties." Possible foci might include sociohistorical context, intellectual heritage, culture and circulation, and textual materiality in (and of) the Gothic.
Proposals may be submitted via PAMLA's online submission form: http://www.pamla.org/2016/topics/gothic
This panel will explore how institutions dedicated to the collection, preservation, and circulation of material knowledge manage sexuality. Sex materials create conflicting imperatives for librarians. As one collections curator at the New York Public Library recently told a reporter, "We needed to collect life as it was lived… It was always part of our mandate." Yet librarians at NYPL also had a mandate to protect the mass of pornographic magazines, pulp novels, and fliers they collected by carefully regulating access to them. Until recently, sex materials at NYPL labeled with three stars required supervision. That one example illustrates how sequestration generally determines who can read about sex and under what conditions.
As a medium which excels at inducing its audience to fully identify with the images on screen and which, however, can also trick and enthrall viewers through the use of various effects, cinema is particularly well suited to portraying aspects of the fantastic, whether it be ghosts and monsters, futuristic scientific advances, or the depiction of the amazing bodily feats of martial arts masters. Though, to be sure, the fantastic in cinema may be seen as a mode of escape from the ennui or drudgery of modern life in a post-traditional society, we need not think of it only in these critical terms.
Abstracts for papers are requsted for the panel "Time and Trauma in Twentieth-century Literature" at
The 48th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 23-26, 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
In criticism, relying on character study or treating Shakespearean characters as real
people, has often been censured. But, in performance, where actors especially need to
get under the skin of the characters they portray, Shakespearean personae do exhibit
some kind of biographical reality.
This panel focuses on the instability of meaning in Old English elegies. Because queerness bears nuanced connotations that require individual definition, this session is open to a broad understanding of the term “queer” and how queer theory enhances our understanding of the elegies in Anglo-Saxon culture. Approaches may include, but are not limited to, manuscript history and paleography, generic conventions and their reception, as well as literary innovations within specific texts.
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (International Journal of Travel Writing) | www.coldnoon.com
invites writings (prose/nonfiction/research/opinions/poetry/travelogues) on travel/space/geography/landscapes/cities/urbanism etc.
Submissions in this category would only be for our exlcusive online segments, Diaries and Dialogues. These are published daily. if you wish to consider submitting for the journal please follow the call for submissions here: coldnoon.com/mapping-the-metropolis-london-lahore-cairo-calcutta/.
Submissions are invited in two categories:
ReFocus: A Series of International Film Studies Anthologies
Full name / name of organization:
Edinburgh University Press
contact email:
Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS FOR
CHANGING ENGLISH: STUDIES IN CULTURE AND EDUCATION
After the success of the NWA hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton, the importance that NWA played in the emerging culture we knew then as hip-hop is crystal clear. Subsequently, it is also clear that this once-emerging culture is now the pulse for popular culture. At the same time, movies like Dope become critical in thinking about the rendering and (re)rendering of hip-hop in this new wave of popular culture. This viewpoint is evident by simply observing the following nexus of events: