The relationship between the sciences and the humanities is one that is currently marked by tension. Often viewed as distinct in their approaches to collecting and creating data, the two fields rarely come together to combine methodologies and form what could be a powerful symbiosis of qualitative and quantitative research. For our 18th annual conference, the English Graduate Student Organization is especially interested in exploring the past, present, and future relationships between STEM and the humanities.

Resources for American Literary Study, a biannual journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship, is inviting submissions for 2020. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. The journal also welcomes pedagogically focused submissions examining archival study in the classroom. 

Call for Papers

Urban Experience

Art, Literature, Architecture, Film, Museums, Creative Writing, and New Media

University of St. Thomas, April 24, 2020

Cornell EGSO 2020 Conference: ProximityMarch 6th - 7th, 2020Call for Proposals:

As knowledge travels through time and space, proximity emerges as an increasingly important category for critical inquiry. How does our understanding of proximity change our intellectual landscape? What issues seem distant from us? Which objects, texts, or historical moments feel more proximate in the present? How does the idea of proximity shape our understanding of political, economic, ecological, and social issues? Whether addressing the position of the humanities with regard to geopolitical conflicts or the ways in which history becomes entangled with the present, matters of closeness and distance must be considered urgent intellectual problems. 

“Do We Have a Future?”: Cognition, Speculation, and (Dis)Connection

Department of English Graduate Conference

Carleton University

24-25 April 2020

“Since the world is ending [. . .] why not let the children touch the paintings?”

-        Ben Lerner

Reminder: "Chat with an Editor" at the MLA is back!

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) is pleased to announce an excellent mentoring opportunity at this year’s MLA Convention in Seattle. Interested participants can sign up for 20-minute, one-on-one meetings with editors from top scholarly journals to learn about every aspect of the publication process, from initial submission to Revise & Resubmit, from turning a dissertation chapter into an article to managing readers’ reports, etc. Graduate students and early-career scholars are especially welcome!