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Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in August 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

UPDATED: Women Wandering Purposefully: The Flâneuse in Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:19pm
Jeff Birkenstein & Irina Gendelman/Saint Martin's University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 8, 2024

CFP:

Women Wandering Purposefully:

The Flâneuse in Literature and Popular Culture

(Edited Collection/Updated 6-1-24)

 

“I love walking in London. Really, it’s better than walking in the country.”

—Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

 

“Invisible Secrets in Pre-1865 American Literature” (SAMLA)

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:19pm
Michael S. Martin/SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Recent scholarly approaches in antebellum American literature emphasizes the role of secrets and secrecy, as in Dominick Mastroianni’s Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature (2022); essays on secrecy in Emily Dickinson’s poetry (Jeffrey Simons, Paul Scott Derrick, 2011); and the secret lives of nineteenth-century literature (Harper, Dickinson, Melville, 2022) in digital media, as Kayla Shipp has argued. This panel explores the way that unstated ideas, points, or secrets are exchanged in antebellum American literature. “Secrets” could be considered as gossip, or social exchange, in texts; hidden codes or alternate forms of discourses in various forms of writing; covert, extratextual meanings in texts, and much more.

Call for Panel Proposals: Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC) Sponsored Panels for RSA

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:18pm
Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Call for Panel Proposals
Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC) Sponsored Panels for RSA
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Boston, MA, USA March 20-22, 2025
CFP Deadline: August 1, 2024

As an Associate Organization of the Renaissance Society of America, RCSC will be sponsoring up to two sessions at next year’s RSA conference in Boston. We seek proposals for complete panels on any subject of the Renaissance world. All fields are welcome. Please see the details below about what is expected to propose a panel, or consult the RSA conference website. 

Deadline Approaching: Engaging Global Cinema Cultures: Discourses and Disruptions

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:18pm
Global Cinema Symposium, University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Nov. 1-2, 2024, In-person at the University of Texas at Dallas

 Keynote Speakers: Dr. Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading), Dr. Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin)

Special guests include Samirah Alkassim (George Mason University),
Iggy Cortez (University of California, Berkeley), Shekhar Deshpande (Arcadia University), and Meta Mazaj (University of Pennsylvania).

Jubilee!

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:18pm
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

It's our 50th birthday, and we're having a party!

Please join us Feb 28th-Mar 1st, 2025 for a very special Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. This year’s conference theme is intended to be as capacious as possible to encourage previous presenters, respondents, and plenaries to return to the Colloquium to celebrate what lies ahead for Medieval Studies. The meeting is intended to celebrate the ways in which the conference has fostered conversations between established scholars and new voices in the field. To this end, we hope to create as many panels as possible that pair former attendees with new, emerging scholars as we think about the future of the discipline.

Star Trek and Disability

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:18pm
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers — Disability and Star Trek, Special Issue of CJDS

 

Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2024

 

The Textual Self: Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Self-Narration

updated: 
Monday, June 3, 2024 - 4:58am
English Department / LMU Munich
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

IBZ, Munich

*21st-22nd November, 2024*

*Keynotes*

 

  • Kirsty Bell (Author of The Undercurrents, Berlin)
  • Claire Squires (Stirling)
  • Corinna Norrick-Rühl (Münster)
  • Alexandra Effe (Oslo)
  • Julia  Lajta-Novak (Vienna)
  • Sabine Erbrich (Editor, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin)

 

Hideous Progenies: Adulterous Adaptations of Frankenstein in the 21st-Century

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:18pm
Kyle William Bishop
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

With the commercial and critical success of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023), I am assembling a collection of scholarly essays that will explore additional unfaithful 21st-century adaptations (in various media) of Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein. Taking a page from Thomas Leitch’s idea of the “Ethics of Infidelity,” I propose that investigating the longevity of Shelley’s essential story (the overreacher plot coupled with an animated or re-animated creature) as translated into a variety of “adulterous adaptations” would demonstrate how the plot, structure, character types, themes, etc.

American women novelists of the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 2:08pm
Godfrey Maotcha
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Calls are being made for entries into a biographical dictionary of American women Novelists of the 21st century for possible publication into a book form. 

  Godfrey Maotcha is a Malawian Journalist and writer whose first ebook '16 American Women Poets From Bradstreet to Dove ' 2023 was self published and distributed by Draft2Digital of Oklahoma.  Although there have been publications on all genres of literature by women, few studies have looked at women novelists. 

11th International Biennial Conference on American Studies

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:17pm
Akaki Tsereteli State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 27, 2024

 

XI International Conference on American Studies

Akaki Tsereteli State University in Kutaisi, Georgia will host a two-day international biennial multidisciplinary conference on American studies. The conference is dedicated to the memory of Professor Vasil Kacharava, the former president of the Georgian Association for American Studies and one of the founding fathers of American Studies in Georgia. It is organized by Prof. Vakhtang Amaglobeli Center for American Studies at Akaki Tsereteli State University (ATSU), ATSU Foreign Affairs and Development Office and John Dos Passos Association of Georgia.

CFP Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis: On the Uses of Absence

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:17pm
Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 10, 2024

Soapbox 6.0: On the Uses of Absence

-- peer-reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: June 10; extended proposals --

The Coming Freedom: Censoring Queer Lives, Bodies, and Books

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:17pm
Kurt Milberger & Hannah Shearer The Journal of Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The Journal of Popular Culture Special Issue Call for Papers

The Coming Freedom: Censoring Queer Lives, Bodies, and Books

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Ambedkar and Community: Minor Figurations and Comparative Mediations

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:14pm
Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Singularly remembered for his influential role in authoring the Constitution of India, Ambedkar’s
thinking continues to provoke new thoughts on the normative orders of the social and the state.
However, foregrounding the centrality of “community” in understanding the social and the state,
this conference invites scholars to rethink Ambedkar as a paradigmatic figure—a writer and a
thinker—on community, understood as critical, even conflictual, constellations of affinities and
associations.
The idea of such a conference itself was an offshoot of conversations and contestations among a
few scholars of Humanities and Social Sciences in Hyderabad, working and worrying

The Nuclear Age, Redux: Forms and Modes of Environmental Change Change in Transnational North American Literature and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - 4:44am
Lena Pfeifer (University of Würzburg), Annika Schadewaldt (Leipzig University)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the nuclear – as both material reality and cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, the war in Ukraine has evoked memories of the previous nuclear disasters and stoked fears of a continued Cold War. On the other hand, politicians and economists are debating nuclear technology as a sustainable alternative to carbon-intense and fossil-based forms of energy. At the same time, popular texts such as the Oscar-winning movie Oppenheimer (2023) or the miniseries Chernobyl (2019) indicate a renewed fascination with both nuclear capabilities and post-apocalyptic scenarios. Have we entered a new nuclear age, or have we never truly been post-nuclear?

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