Where Is Academic Work?

In-person Conference

Friday May 5th, 2023

The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY

You know what work is—if you’re

old enough to read this you know what

work is, although you may not do it.

–  Philip Levine, “What Work Is”

The room changes but the work continues. This conference seeks contributions to a day-long process of consensus-building and new ideas around the subject of location in intellectual work in all of its many contexts.

Call for Papers – American Humor Studies Assocation Panel at the ALA 34th Annual Conference 

Humor in American Literature and Culture
Organized by the American Humor Studies Association

In the aftermath of the spatial turn in literary studies, we look for fresh approaches to Jamesian spaces, material and metaphorical, real and imaginary. James’s texts have explicit spatial dimensions. Whether as settings aesthetically conceived or as sites of cultural, social, and political signification, spaces in James constitute means of thematic as well as formal exploration and even experimentation. From the Roman Colosseum to the “house of fiction” and from the “chamber of consciousness” to the “jolly corner” and the “amazing hotel-world,” James’s literary geography emphatically asserts the dynamic relations between space, subjectivity, and text.

Call for Papers: Black Popular Culture

PCA 2023 National Conference, PCA Annual Conference

April 5-8/San Antonio, TX

Panel Title: A is for Abortion: Reading Hawthorne’s Political Relevance Today

6th Annual Comics Studies Society Conference • July 27-29, 2023 • University of North Texas Gateway Center • Denton, TX

CFP: COMICS ON THE MARGINS

SCSECS Conference 2023 CFP: The Quixotic Eighteenth Century

SCSECS welcomes paper proposals on any aspect of teaching the Eighteenth Century, including (but certainly not limited to!): course design (a literary genre, author, archives, transnational, interdisciplinary, online or onground, and/or graduate vs undergraduate course), syllabus construction, assignments, high impact practices or other teaching strategies, grading, or other topic. Graduate students are welcome!

SCSECS 2023 will be held in Bryan-College Station, Texas, at the beautiful and serene Stella Hotel on February 24-25, 2023.