Creative Textual Reuse & Research (PAMLA Conference in Seattle, November 2026)

Twenty-Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Split, Croatia, 30 June - 2 July 2027

Founded in 2003, the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Editors: Elise Boxer (Dakota), University of South Dakota and Travis Franks, Utah State University, Department of English

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Call for Papers for Volume 9

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.

All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, editor, foremost exemplar of modernism, or his influence on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture.

I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions. I encourage you to invite friends/colleagues outside of the Appalachian region, too.

Abstract

The "Shakespeare and the Early Moderns" session at PAMLA 2026 seeks proposals focusing on: Shakespeare and the early moderns; Shakespeare and/or his peers (Massinger, Heywood, Beaumont, Fletcher, Wroth, Middleton, etc.); the influence of Shakespeare and the early moderns on later works of literature. Topics of particular interest include work on Shakespeare and power and authority; labor and hierarchy, national identity, Shakespeare and race, feminism, gender and sexuality, disability studies, post-colonial studies, early modern economies; adaptations, and other proposals that touch on any aspect of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and related topics.