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Edited volume: (Re)imagining Feminisms at the Atlantic Edge

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:19am
Gemma Marr (University of New Brunswick) and Catherine Barbour (Trinity College Dublin)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Catherine Bush’s 2019 novel Blaze Island opens with the following epigraph from Elena Ferrante: “Pressing changes are underway. Everything is becoming something else, unpredictably. A completely new outlook is required. The challenge now and for the foreseeable future is to extract ourselves from what men have engineered, a planet long on the edge of catastrophe.” Throughout the novel, Bush underscores the importance of thinking critically about boundaries, specifically those of gender and geography, as she reworks Shakespeare’s The Tempest to particularly Atlantic Canadian purposes.

NWSA Panel CFP: Revisiting, Reclaiming & Re-imagining Feminist Disability Futures

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:14am
Sarah Orsak
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Amidst a growing insistence on disability futures, this panel centers the future of feminist disability scholarship. Taking up the conference sub-theme of Revisiting, Reclaiming & Re-imagining, panelists propose new directions for feminist disability thought not by looking forward, but through a transformative turn to alternative pasts. Recent critical disability scholarship reimagines the field’s scholarly origins and objects, including Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim’s call for feminist-of-color disability studies and the Crip Genealogies edited volume. This panel foregrounds this twinned intervention in field-narration and analytic objects--insisting that both are necessary for transformative feminist disability thought.

FORUM Postgraduate Journal Call for Papers: Trans-

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:11am
FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

Trans- is powerful: attaching itself to concepts, it challenges supposedly settled knowledge about the world we live in. In FORUM’s 34th issue, this destabilisation becomes central. We draw attention to the importance the prefix ‘trans-’ has acquired in recent decades as an index of movement, crossing, and shifting – and we are interested in your approaches to all that trans- has to offer, as both description and method: transnationality, translation, transdisciplinary, transgender…

1st International Conference on English Language and Literature, Loneliness and Isolation in Literature (DIDE2023)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:09am
Doğuş University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

We are pleased to announce to you that Doğuş University, Department of English Language and Literature will be holding the 1st International English Language and Literature Conference between 12 - 14 May 2023. By sharing your valuable works in meetings and presentations throughout the conference, we are fully confident that we will achieve our symposium goals and achieve significant successes, thanks to the interactive discussion environment that will emerge. Abstracts (about 250 words), with the name of the author, institutional affiliation, contact address (e-mail), and a brief bio-note should be sent to the conference organizers by 10 April 2023 at the following address:

dide2023@dogus.edu.tr

Robert Graves and The ‘60s: “All You Need is Love”? || MLA 2024 Philadelphia

updated: 
Monday, February 20, 2023 - 1:52pm
The Robert Graves Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

CFP: Robert Graves and The ‘60s: “All You Need is Love”?

British writer Robert Graves (1895-1985) associated with multiple counterculture movements, including the modernist vanguard and anti-war poets, made forays into Eastern mysticism, reimagined the Classical period, contemporized ancient myths and rituals, experimented with hallucinogens, and managed to publish over 140 books, including what some might term his magnum opus, The White Goddess, an encyclopedic work he subtitled “A historic grammar of poetic myth.” Above all else, he is remembered as a poet of Love, exploring the subject across his long career in its many iterations: romantic, allegorical, ritualistic, the literary—the coupling of Poet and Muse.

Orientation: This Way, That way, and the Other

updated: 
Friday, February 17, 2023 - 10:51am
Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 3, 2023

The Graduate English Society at Queen’s University seeks abstracts for its hybrid 2023 graduate conference, “Orientation: This Way, That Way and the Other.” In addition to academic conference papers, we are looking for creative pieces that engage with the broad concept of orientation in various and imaginative ways.

The Work of English Studies: Digital Adaptation and Expansion in the Post-Pandemic Age

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 5:40pm
Pennsylvania College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

*SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED*

 

Pennsylvania College English Association Annual Conference

Lackawanna College, 

501 Vine St., Scranton, PA

May 24-26, 2023

 

The Work of English Studies: Digital Adaptation and Expansion in the Post-Pandemic Age

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism within the U.S. and Around the World in the 21st-Century

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 5:09pm
The Journal of Colorism Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 6, 2023

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair-will hereafter be made the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization.

—W.E.B. Du Bois (1900)

 

Are there multiple forms or species of racism or simply variations of a fundamental structure?

—Jared Sexton (2012)

 

I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (1952)

Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 4:44pm
Journal of Amazigh Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production

 

Orality, that is, the culture of the spoken word, is a central feature of Amazigh everyday life, history, and linguistics, and communal knowledge. Indeed, although Imazighen have one of the oldest writing systems in North Africa, known as Tifinagh, the latter is not associated with a body of written literature, an Amazigh literary canon. On the other hand, the Amazigh peoples have an extensive and rich oral literature that includes poetry, myths, fables, songs, proverbs, sacred rituals, and tales, which are excluded from a simple textualist notion of culture and communal identity. 

Women in religion: from spiritual leadership to female empowerment

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 4:43pm
ICSAH
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

It is more than a cliché that gender plays a crucial role in religion, as most religious orders in the world were, and currently are, dominated by men. The role of women in cultic settings is, as a rule, secondary, as is also the authority of female ministers of religion, while the social benefits of those appointed with religious duties are also incomparable with the privileges received by men.  This year, we invite proposals that explore the female share in leadership roles related to religion (saints, prophetesses, priestesses, nuns, preachers, witches, shamans and more), and emphasize how their achievements are reflected in history and art. How prominent female figures have compromised men’s secured positions of power in socioreligious structures?

Sindiwe Magona 2023:Celebrating Contemporary African Women Writers

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:28am
Renee Schatteman/Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Sidniwe Magona 2023 conference is a hybrid conference (April 12-14) intended to honor Sindiwe Magona on her 80th year. We are accepting paper proposals on Magona's work or on the work of other contemporary African women writers of fiction, peotry, drama, non-fiction. Our aim is to create discourse about creative work that can be brought into conversation with this formidable South Africa writer who writes about women's lives and women's rights, about the impact of colonialism/ apartheid and the need for decolonization, and about the challenges facing African children and families in the contemporary moment.

Pedagogies of Hope Workshop Series

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:28am
Pedagogies of Hope, McMaster University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Pedagogies of Hope Workshop Series 

May 11 & 12, 2023 at McMaster University and Centre[3] in Ohròn:wakon (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).


 

Online Human Rights and Literature (International Conference)

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:26am
Istanbul Topkapi University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

As a medium that conveys our acute sensitivities, longings, and struggles for justice, literature has always been responsive to human rights, namely, our political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental entitlements as rights-bearing subjects. The idea of human rights is simultaneously a political aim, a legal discourse, and a set of social, political, and legal practices. It figures in literary texts in the more recognizable form of access to justice. Writers and poets have always critically responded to injustices and violations of rights in their time and offered their reflections on the idea of justice and rights.

The Weird Russian 19th Century

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:20am
Arpi Movsesian | Rutgers University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

 

Symposium: The Weird Russian 19th Century 

April 28, 2023

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (via Zoom)

Organizers: Arpi Movsesian and Chloë Kitzinger (Rutgers University)

Keynote speaker: Jacob Emery (Indiana University Bloomington) 

 

Gaslighting in Global Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:20am
Diana Bellonby
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The term “gaslighting” has reentered the popular lexicon with a vengeance in recent years, appearing in countless news stories and opinion pieces on the subjects of sex, race, politics, medicine, and emotional abuse. It refers to “the experience of having your reality repeatedly challenged by someone who holds more power than you do,” as one Washington Postcolumn recently articulated it. Such pieces often note that the term is drawn from a specific twentieth-century source text: George Cukor’s 1944 film Gaslight, based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play of the same name, which tells the story of a sadistic husband actively working to make his wife believe she is losing her mind.

Call for Chapter proposals: A force of habit: Nuns in popular culture

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:18am
Marcus Harmes
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Nuns have a presence in cinema as longstanding as the medium itself, including the 1922 horror film Haxan. 2021’s Benedetta, a controversial but successful Paul Verhoeven film, is a recent restatement of the capacity for stories about women religious, or women in vocation normally called nuns, to be the source of powerful and successful works across all conceivable genres.

 

Archiving Black Women's Joys and Sorrows

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:10am
MLA 2024 Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The relationship between Black women and the archive has long been fraught. We invite 250-word proposals for papers that probe Black women writers' literary and/or theoretical negotiations with these realities.

 

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio by March 15th, 2023, to N. Morris Johnson at nmmorris@buffalo.edu. For more information about the MLA conference, please visit https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2024/Presidential-Theme-for-the-2024-Convention

EXTENDED DEADLINE Post-Otherness in Literature, Culture, and Language. New Strategies for the Validation of Identity

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 6:58am
Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Starting from the assumption that identity (seen as a relationship with one's self) and individuality (seen as a relationship of the self with the group) are both discursive constructs, we presume that it is the uniqueness of these constructs that confers authenticity and validation to a particular person/community/society. This issue is a subject already widely researched and problematized in theories of otherness from the perspective of dealing with diversity or even with social distancing and alienation.

Investigating Medical Drama TV series: approaches and perspectives

updated: 
Monday, February 13, 2023 - 10:05am
University of Bologna
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Call for papers - Media Mutations 14
Investigating Medical Drama TV series: approaches and perspectives

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, May 18th-19th, 2023

Organized by Stefania Antonioni (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo) and Marta Rocchi (Università di Bologna).

In collaboration with the research project “Narrative Ecosystem Analysis and Development framework (NEAD framework). A systemic approach to contemporary serial product. The medical drama case”

Confirmed keynote speaker:

Irene Cambra Badii (Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya)

Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aestheticism

updated: 
Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 10:27pm
Joseph Bristow / International Walter Pater Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

Marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance, this two-day conference will consider the place of Pater and The Renaissance in nineteenth-century debates on art, literature and culture, their legacies and those of aestheticism into the twenty-first century.

 

Volume III, Issue 1 (Open Issue)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 9:02pm
Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies welcomes original, unpublished submissions from interested academics, independent scholars and activists for Volume III, Issue-I. In addition to research articles, Consortium also publishes book reviews, journalistic and reportage works, field reports, and interviews with public intellectuals, literary figures and activists. Submissions can only be made electronically through online submission.

Cornell EGSO 2023 Conference: Reciprocity

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 6:07pm
Cornell University English Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Call For Academic and Creative Proposals:

Conference Date: April 28-29, 2023

Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

“Through reciprocity the gift is replenished. All of our flourishing is mutual.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

CFP, BIPOC Female Detectives (theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:21pm
Elizabeth Foxwell / McFarland & Co.
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Seeking to illuminate an often marginalized space, this Clues theme issue will focus on female detectives who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color); span eras, genres, and geographical locations; and appear in texts, TV programs, films, and other media. Of particular interest are intersections among race, indigeneity, gender, age, class, or sexuality in these works, as well as projects that center BIPOC authorship and scholarship.

Some Suggested Topics:  

Expanding the Scope of Victorian Rape Studies

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:33am
NAVSA 2023 Session Sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The majority of research on 19th-century literary representations of sexual violence variously restricts the field by 1) explicitly or implicitly treating rape as an exceptional crime; 2) limiting analyses to what Erin Spampinato has termed “adjudicative reading,” or legalistic approaches that evaluate rape stories as if they were real-life court cases; and 3) attending only to narratives about cisgender men’s violations of white cisgender women, especially within the middle-class home, to the exclusion of nonheterosexual, queer, and colonial contexts.

Joys and Sorrows of Black Geographies

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:32am
Modern Language Association 2024 Annual Convention Philadelphia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

This panel explores Black geographies (both real and imagined) of joy/sorrow in African American literature, examining how geographic thought, speculation, and practice produce joys/sorrows for Black subjects and communities. Send a 200-word abstract and CV.

Dorottya Mozes, University of Debrecen

 

WIF at the MMLA, Nov. 2-5, 2023

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:29am
Women in French
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Papers for Women in French

2023 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention

Cincinnati, Ohio

November 2-5, 2023

 

I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for WIF at the 2023 MMLA Convention (to be held in person November 2-5 in Cincinnati, OH). We welcome proposals that relate the study of French and Francophone women authors, the study of women’s place in French and Francophone cultures or literatures, and feminist literary criticism to this year’s theme: “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy.”

Identity in Cultural Diversity

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:27am
Moroccan-American Studies Lab
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 9, 2023

Identity in Cultural Diversity

International Conference

22 – 23 November 2023

Call for Papers

 

Call for Applications: Reviews Editor Gaskell Journal

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:20am
Gaskell Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 24, 2023

The Gaskell Journal seeks a new Reviews Editor. As well as publishing peer-reviewed articles, this annually produced academic journal features 2-4 book reviews, of works focused on Elizabeth Gaskell but also on Victorian literature and culture more generally. The reviews editor’s role is to identify suitable books for review, contact publishers to request a complimentary review copy, and appoint appropriate reviewers. As well as engaging with our regular reviewers, this also involves making new contacts in relevant scholarly fields. The reviews editor must then keep in contact with the reviewer to ensure that the review is completed in good time, and meets house requirements, before forwarding it to the journal editors.

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