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Autofiction in the Age of the Self(ie)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 2:28pm
Special issue of English Studies in Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Call for papers: Autofiction in the Age of the Self(ie)

Special Issue of English Studies in Canada

 

Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2020

Deadline for final essays (6000-9000 words): August 15, 2020

Submit to: mbloom@glendon.yorku.ca

Certainty and Ambiguity: Essays on the Moral Imagination of Mystery Fiction (seeking additional chapters)

updated: 
Thursday, September 15, 2022 - 3:24pm
John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett, & Matthew Bardowell / Missouri Baptist University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Deadline for proposal submissions:

October 15, 2022

full name / name of organization:

John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett, & Matthew Bardowell / Missouri Baptist University

contact email:

john.han@mobap.edu

 

An academic press in New York has favorably responded to our initial book manuscript proposal.  In addition to the current 12 chapters, the editors plan to add 2-3 chapters on mystery fiction written by the authors who reside in the non-Western world (Asia, Africa, and Latin America) except for Japan and the Philippines.  Possible topics include but are not limited to:

 

Postcolonialism in mystery fiction

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2019 - 10:41am
Shane Trayers/SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to November 20th

Change in Motion: Environment, Migration, and Mobilities

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 2:28pm
University of California, Berkeley, GHI Pacific Regional Office, Zolberg Institute on Mobility and Migration
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Academics, journalists, NGOs, and institutions of global governance increasingly speak of ‘environmental migrants’ and ‘climate refugees.’ But what separates an environmental migrant or climate refugee from another migrant, refugee, or asylum-seeker? If the focus is on the prefix, our primary legal framework for making sense of cross-border migration—the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol—does not acknowledge the effects of climate change as a legitimate ground for refugee status.

Roundtable Deadline Extended: Kurt Vonnegut Panels at the ALA

updated: 
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 10:15pm
Tom Hertweck, Vice President / Kurt Vonnegut Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

The Vonnegut Society has extended its deadline for proposals for the roundable portion of our program, "Whither Vonnegut Studies?" as detailed below, due by 21 January.  The original CFP follows the roundtable information.  Please consider submitting!

Roundtable: Whither Vonnegut Scholarship?

This roundtable will consider past, current, and future trajectories for Vonnegut scholarship. Presentations will be 4-8 minutes (depending on the number of participants) using these brief statements on the current state of Vonnegut studies as a stepping-off point for further discussion. Though any angle will be considered, topics of particular interest could include:

“Locating the HEART and SOULS in Higher Education”: An International Conference on the Future of the Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 2:12pm
Bishop's University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 11, 2020

CFP: HEART Conference 

“Locating the HEART and SOULS in Higher Education”:

An International Conference on the Future of the Humanities

11th Annual Conference 

Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC

March 13 - 14, 2020

 

HEART: Humanities Education and Research in Teaching

Henry James Society-ALA-San Diego May 21-24, 2020

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 2:27pm
The Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2020

The Henry James Society

American Literature Association Conference

San Diego, CA

May 21-24, 2020

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Citizen James: Native, Nation, and Empire

 

Call for Papers: Barzakh Magazine

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 11:46am
Barzakh Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

What we’re looking for:

By defining ourselves as barzakh—a space of crossings & connectivity between histories, articulations, & media—we hope to make Barzakh Magazine a site of inquiry & revitalization. We want your fiction, poetry, criticism, personal essays, translations, paintings, drawings, photographs—any work that pushes against complacent taxonomies & forges new paths.

Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities (edited collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 11:45am
Outi Hakola (University of Helsinki)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities

We invite proposals for contributions to an edited collection on masculinities and populism, with abstracts of 300-500 words due on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.

Fan Fiction Workshop

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 11:44am
University of Zurich
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2019

An interdisciplinary workshop on Fan Fiction

14 – 15 February 2020

                                                              English Department, University of Zurich

CFP for Edited Volume on Science and Performance

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2019 - 10:41am
Meredith Conti and Vivian Appler
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2020

CFP for Proposed Volume on Science and Performance

From the Curious to the Quantum: Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance

Editors:     Vivian Appler, College of Charleston
            Meredith Conti, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Deadline for Abstracts:  January 31, 2020   
Deadline for Chapters:    December 1, 2020

2020 Contemporary Women's Writing Essay Prize

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2019 - 10:42am
CWWA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2020

2020 Contemporary Women’s Writing Essay Prize

 

The journal of Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford University Press) is delighted to announce the launch of the 2020 Essay Prize.  The Contemporary Women’s Writing Essay Prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of contemporary women’s writing, recognise and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers and support the professional development of next generation scholars.

 

Representations of Refugee, Migrant, and Displaced Motherhood in a Global Context

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2020 - 4:21pm
Maria Lombard
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Call for Abstracts: Representations of Refugee, Migrant, and Displaced Motherhood in a Global Context

Seeking abstracts or unpublished chapters looking at literary accounts of Latina and/or Indigenous motherhood experiences in the context of migration and displacement to fill a gap in scholarly edited collection. 

 

Please submit a 250-400 word abstract of your chapter and a 50-word bio by June 20, 2019.

 

Accepted and complete chapters due 15 August 2019 (6,000 words maximum with MLA format and references)