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Outcasts and Outliers in Literature, Music, and Visual Arts

updated:

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 4:22pm

Comparative World Literature, CSULB

deadline for submissions:

Friday, January 31, 2020

CFP: 55th Annual Comparative Literature Conference

Outcasts and Outliers in Literature, Music, and Visual Arts

Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14-15, 2020

The Comparative World Literature Program at California State University, Long Beach, invites abstracts for presentations at its 55th annual conference in Long Beach, California on the topic of Outcasts and Outliers.

Penumbra - Annual Journal for Weird Fiction - Inaugural Issue

updated:

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 4:21pm

Hippocampus Press

deadline for submissions:

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Penumbra is an annual journal edited by weird fiction scholar S. T. Joshi and published through Hippocampus Press. About 75% of its content will consist of articles (scholarly or otherwise) on all aspects of weird fiction; the other 25% will be original fiction. The journal will in all likelihood be indexed in the MLA [Modern Language Association] Bibliography and will consist of up to 100,000 words.

Deadline for the first issue of the journal is May 31, 2020. Submissions can be sent to S. T. Joshi at stjoshi45@hotmail.com

Conference CFP - Locations and Dislocations of Theory

updated:

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 7:49pm

Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

deadline for submissions:

Friday, December 20, 2019

The past few decades have been crucial for the dismantling of theory, formerly understood as a monolithic concept, applicable to a wide range of epochs and regions. Rather than a timeless or non-spatial concept, theory represents “a historically circumscribed mode of thinking about literature” (Galin Tihanov). Researchers informed by Edward Saidʼs “traveling theory” (James Clifford, Caren Kaplan, Mieke Bal) have also insisted on the enormous pressure of context in shaping and reshaping theory. Convincing metanarratives of itinerant international canonization in the 20th century literature (Mads Rosendahl Thomsen) have opened the theoretical debate.

Call for Papers for Critical Insights: Life of Pi (2020)

updated:

Friday, February 7, 2020 - 9:20am

Adam T. Bogar / NCIS

deadline for submissions:

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Call for Papers for Critical Insights: Life of Pi (2020)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 2020

This is a call for chapter proposals for a forthcoming edited collection on the 2001 philosophical novel Life of Pi by Canadian author Yann Martel. This volume will be published in Fall 2020 by Salem Press as part of the following subseries of their Critical Insights collection: https://www.salempress.com/ci_works.

In line with the expectations of the Critical Insights series, I ultimately seek essays that:

CFP: Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry

updated:

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 7:55pm

Kristen McNutt

deadline for submissions:

Saturday, February 15, 2020

Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry is seeking submissions for our next volume. Penumbra is an online journal of Union Institute and University's Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies. Penumbra aims to promote social change through theoretically informed engagements with concrete issues and problems. We publish socially engaged innovative, creative, and critical scholarship with a focus on ethical, political, and aesthetic issues in education, humanities, public policy, and leadership.

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