Embodying the WPA: Advice Narratives for Writing Program Administration

Edited by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, Juliette Holder, Jennifer Judd, & Danielle Littlefield Brady

Even among the quietest of us, there are stories to be told. Stories of how we dressed for the campus visit, whether or not we drank wine with the search committee at dinner. Stories from the first year as the WPA, remembering how we physically composed (or contorted) ourselves and our offices for comfort – our own or others’. Stories of how we hugged a bereaved teacher, toasted in celebration, or laughed a little too loud at that one department meeting.

The erotic is a point of infinite signification, a navel in humanity’s symbolic circuit. However, despite its resistance to formalization, it is always in the process of not being written. As Octavio Paz insists, the erotic is a metaphor indelible to the human. As such, it is unsurprising that the manifestations of the erotic in subjective embodied experience are variable and correspond to equally plural treatments of it across the academic panorama. This diverse archive is bound by certain distinguishable threads, in terms of the potentiality of the erotic, its singular relation to language, and to the sphere of sexuality.

The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.

We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in late 2027.

This collection explores how literature and popular music intersect, influence each other, and create new possibilities for artistic expression, and seeks to map the rich terrain where these two cultural forms meet. We will work from broad definitions of both literature and popular music, encompassing work from traditional novels and poetry to digital narratives and graphic novels, from classical and folk sound traditions to electric and contemporary electronic music.

Call for Papers: Global Hip Hop Studies

Special Issue: ‘Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers

Guest editors

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Francesca D’Amico Cuthbert, University of Toronto, Canada

Myrtle D. Millares, University of Toronto, Canada

Dennis Howard, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Reception, including reading, listening and viewing, occurs at the tail-end of a complex process of production and reproduction that can create a significant distance between the authors who begin the process and the individual recipients who enact multiple, unique endings in their idiosyncratic experience. With an acknowledgement of the digital reproduction that enables this online conference to occur, we invite papers that address the impact of reproduction at any stage of this process. We especially welcome papers that address the impact of reproduction on the textual, material and cultural meaning of the work, text or image that is reproduced on, amongst others: