New Ways of Thinking About Modernism and the Left

Scholars have explored modernism’s relationship both with the political right, broadly construed (fascism, nationalism, etc.) and the political left (feminism, pacifism, and Marxism in its time, how it anticipates disability studies in our time, etc.). In the spirit of MSA 2020’s stream topics on crip modernisms, activism, and environmentalism, this panel explores new paths for scholarship on modernism and the left.

This roundtable for the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto invites participants to briefly present and discuss documentary poetry by Canadian and First Nations writers. We particularly invite papers relating to questions of political activism, historical revisionism, and archival materials. Please send 250-word abstracts to Claire Grandy (claire_grandy@brown.edu) and Whitney DeVos (wdevos@ucsc.edu) by March 16th.

MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, is an MLA Allied Organization, meaning that we organize a guaranteed panel for each MLA conference. For MLA 2021, MELUS invites papers that consider the aesthetic and cultural implications of migrant movement and diasporic historical consciousness, engaging with issues of space, mobility, identity, and resistance in US multi-ethnic literatures. Submit titled proposals (250 words), a brief CV, and AV needs to Stella Setka at setkasn@wlac.edu by Sunday, March 15, 2020. 

Re/Inventions is an annual conference organized by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) of California State University, Long Beach. Our goal is to provide a forum in which graduate students and advanced undergraduates may present their academic research in a conference setting. Re/Inventions promotes interdisciplinary collaberation and engagement among students from Southern California and around the Globe.

The conference will be held at the Karl Anatol Center on the campus of CSU Long Beach on April 16th, 2020.

This year's theme is : "Identity"

Potential topics include, but aren't limited to, the following:

- Narrator Identity

- Rhetoric of Identity

- Rhetorical Identity

MLA (2021): New Directions Towards Theorizing Neoliberal Heteronormative Masculinities Seeking theoretical research abstracts to study the persistent hegemony of heteronormative masculinities. Philosophical and literary meditations are invited. Email 300 word abstracts to ade1@binghamton.edu

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 8 March 2020

Amrita De, Binghamton U, SU of New York (ade1@binghamton.edu )

Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference

Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston

April 8-11, 2021

Of Haunted Houses and Dark Nights of the Soul: Edgar Allan Poe in American Film

Paper submissions and proposals are accepted on a continuous basis throughout the year 2020 and there is no deadline for submission.

Unpublished manuscripts and research papers from the domain of English language and literature are invited for review and consideration of publication in our journal's two regular issues: June and December 2020.

Click on the link below to know the research areas that are covered by our journal's section: English Literature:

https://www.socratesjournal.com/index.php/SOCRATES/English-literature

Submitting your manuscript: