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CFP: Collection (book) "The Time of Close Reading: Victorian Fiction's Presents" (deadline extended)

updated: 
Monday, August 2, 2021 - 12:07pm
Mary Ann O'Farrell
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Proposed collection:  “The Time of Close Reading:  Victorian Fiction’s Presents”

Editors:  Debra Gettelman, Audrey Jaffe, and Mary Ann O’Farrell

Deadline extended to September 1, 2021

 

Despite the spatializing intimacy that animates and names it, close reading exists in and as time.  Our collection “The Time of Close Reading” seeks to interrogate the multiple meanings that attach to each of our titular terms—“time,” “close,” and “reading”—in the present moment, specifically within studies of the Victorian novel. 

 

The Green Knight (2021): Key Critical Perspectives (A Roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, August 2, 2021 - 12:07pm
International Society for the Study of Medievalism (ISSM)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The Green Knight (2021): Key Critical Perspectives (A Roundtable)

 

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism (ISSM) invites submissions for a sponsored roundtable on David Lowery’s film The Green Knight (2021) for the 57thInternational Congress on Medieval Studies, which will take place online from Monday 9 May to Saturday 14 May 2022.

 

IV International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies

updated: 
Monday, August 2, 2021 - 12:07pm
FANTAELX
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 10, 2021

The International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies is an activity of scientific and academic divulgation that is part of Elche International Fantastic Film Festival – FANTAELX. An event that has the collaboration of the Miguel Hernández de Elche University, and that will be held in person and online on November 25 and 26, 2021 at the "Ciutat d'Elx" Congress Center (Spain).

HEL and Writing Studies Thread at SHEL-12

updated: 
Monday, August 2, 2021 - 12:07pm
Studies in the History of the English Language Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 1, 2021

We invite proposals for the HEL (History of the English Language) and Writing Studies thread at the 12th Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) conference in Seattle, WA, May 19-21, 2022.

The HEL and Writing Studies thread will explore ways in which the study of language change and variation can contribute to rhetoric and writing studies, and vice versa. When proposing, keep in mind that the history of the English language extends from the origins of the language to one moment ago, so proposals that engage contemporary language use through a historical lens are welcome. 

Proposals are invited for individual papers as well as panels or workshops on a range of topics, including…

Using Art to Explore Performances of Disability and Care

updated: 
Friday, July 30, 2021 - 1:01pm
Maria Guarino and Iona Murphy/ Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 30, 2021

What is disability? What is care?

 

Disability Scholar Margaret Price provides the following guidelines for care: 

“It means giving more when one has the ability to do so, and accepting help when that is needed. It does not mean knowing exactly what another’s pain feels like, but it does mean respecting each person’s pain as real and important… [C]are must emerge between subjects considered to be equally valuable... and it must be participatory in nature, that is, developed through the desires and needs of all participants” (2015).

Woolf Studies Annual (Vol. 28): Call for Submissions

updated: 
Friday, July 30, 2021 - 1:00pm
Pace UP
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 15, 2021

The editor of WSA welcomes submissions for volume 28, scheduled for publication in Spring 2022. The deadline for volume 28 consideration is 15 October 2021. 

CALL FOR PAPERS - 43rd Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Friday, July 30, 2021 - 1:00pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

Annual Conference

 

43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on August 1, 2021

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2021

NeMLA 2022 - Representing Care and Being Together in Refugee Writing

updated: 
Friday, July 30, 2021 - 12:59pm
Jonathan Nash (University of Victoria / NeMLA 2022
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022, in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021.

Submit abstracts at the NeMLA portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/login

Borders and Detective Fiction

updated: 
Friday, July 30, 2021 - 12:59pm
Manina Jones, University of Western Ontario
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 1, 2021

Borders and Detective Fiction (Theme Issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)

Guest Editor: Manina Jones, University of Western Ontario

Michigan Hemingway Society Conference Scholarships (2) CFP

updated: 
Thursday, July 29, 2021 - 9:50am
Michigan Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The Michigan Hemingway Conference will be held in Bay View, MI, on Oct 1-3 2021. These scholarships provide opportunities for scholars of all ages to come and present papers on Hemingway's Michigan fiction. 

For conference information, please go to: https://michiganhemingwaysociety.org/index.html

#1: The Sparrow Stoneback Memorial Award

Amount: $500

Eligibility: Must be
     a) enrolled in a graduate program and engaged in Hemingway Studies; or
     b) non-tenured English Department faculty in Lecturer or Adjunct position; or
     c) independent scholar with record of engagement in Hemingway Studies.

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