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PAMLA Conference Session: Women in Literature

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Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:09pm
Pacific and Asian Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

The session “Women in Literature” includes papers dealing with any aspect of women in literature or literature by women. The session may contain essays on a wide variety of topics related to literature by and about women, including essays engaging with a wide variety of critical or theoretical approaches. Presentations might include consideration of women/women writers in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and geographical region. Papers may engage with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict," but doing so is not required. Additional topics might include:

Zombie Hierarchies: Power, Class, and Conflict in the Undead Imagination

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:09pm
Rigoberto Gutiérrez Piñón / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

This special session invites papers on zombies and the undead as figures through which literature, film, television, games, and popular culture imagine power, hierarchy, and social conflict. In keeping with PAMLA 2026’s theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” this panel explores how zombie narratives dramatize the fragility of social order, the failures of ruling elites, and the tensions between collective survival and unequal power.

Call for Papers: Women's Autobiographies and Memoirs 1920-2025: Precarity, Resistance and Selfhood in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:09pm
Anirban and Suranjana
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

The volume Women's Autobiographies and Memoirs 1920-2025: Precarity, Resistance and Selfhood attempts to look into the dialectics of identity and writing - the compulsion to respond to the other inhabiting the self, which provokes in her something peculiar and singular - a text of one's own. The self-authenticated narratives are often haunted by many an unsubduable voice that breaks open the self-centred finitude of living and dying.