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Critical Essays on Horror Vestron Films

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:27pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Critical Essays on Horror Vestron Films

 

Edited by

Matthew Edwards

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

 

Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:17pm
Sarah Wadsworth / Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024

The Henry James Society is organizing a panel for the Modern Language Assocation Convention in New Orleans in January 2025! 

 

The topic is "Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James." How is sight in James tied to the physical body, material world, and felt relations? How do language and style play with sensation, cognition, and embodiment? Proposals on Alice and William are welcome. 

 

Please submit 300-word abstract + short bio to tkill@unc.edu and sarah.wadsworth@marquette.edu by 3/14/2024. 

 

[New deadline] *Essay Collection* New Faces of William Gaddis: Reconsiderations for his Second Century

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 7:54pm
Crystal Alberts, Ali Chetwynd, Michael Sanders
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

December 2022 marked William Gaddis’s (1922-1998) centenary. Reputed during his lifetime for—in his characters’ words—being “difficult as I can make it,” or writing “for a very small audience,” the years since his death have nonetheless seen his work republished in increasingly wide-reaching editions and discussed in numerous online reading groups, with his unpublished archive increasingly studied and brought to public attention.

The present edited collection of academic essays seeks contributions that will challenge, update, expand, or surpass the extant understandings of Gaddis’s work, clarifying what it can offer readers more than a century after his birth.

American Literature 1870-Present (Permanent Section), MMLA 2024, Chicago, IL

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 10:32am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, in Chicago, IL, from Nov. 14-16 (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, especially those that gesture toward the conference theme of "Health in/of the Humanities".

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by April 15, 2024.

Articles on American Literary Archives / Bibliography (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:15pm
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

Resources for American Literary Study (RALS), a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2024 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. 

EXTENDED DEADLINE (3/23/24) - Nabokov and Musicality - MLA 2025 (New Orleans)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:02am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS – MLA 2025 – New Orleans 

 

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following theme for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA):  

 

Nabokov and Musicality 

CFP: Circus Historical Society 2024 Convention in Atlanta, Georgia

updated: 
Saturday, March 16, 2024 - 11:20am
Circus Historical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Circus Historical Society invites proposals from scholars of all levels for presentations on any subject related to circus history for Convention 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-7. Papers/presentations by a single speaker should be limited to 25 minutes including questions. Panel/group presentations should be limited to 45 minutes including questions. All presentations must be delivered in person (no Zoom).

Submission Details

Twentieth Anniversary Slayage Conference

updated: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 1:41pm
Association for the Study of Buffy+ (ASB+)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ and the Association for the Study of Buffy+ invite proposals for the twentieth anniversary  Slayage Conference—the tenth biennial (SC10). Devoted to creative works and workers of the ‘fuzzy set’ surrounding Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SC10 will be held on the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, on 18-21 July 2024. This twentieth anniversary conference will be organized by Local Arrangements Chair Lewis Call.

New Orleans and Black Literature (MLA 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:52pm
The College Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

 New Orleans and Black Literature The College Language Association invites papers for a proposed panel at MLA 2025 (January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA) on "New Orleans and Black Literature." Interested scholars are invited to submit 350-word abstracts that explore the influence of New Orleans (emphasizing food, music, history, art, and language) on Black literature and culture, in U.S. and diasporan contexts. 

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 22 March 2024

Janaka Lewis, The College Language Association (janakabowman@gmail.com )

The New Negro at 100 Years (MLA 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:52pm
MLA African American Literature Forum / College Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

The African American Literature Forum and the College Language Association, collaboratively, invite papers for a panel at MLA 2025 (January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA).

 

We invite scholars to submit 250-word abstracts that reflect on the lasting significance of The New Negro: An Interpretation, in recognition of the centennial anniversary of its 1925 publication.

 

Please submit abstracts and brief (250-word) speaker biographies to McKinley E. Melton (mmelton@gettysburg.edu) by Friday, March 22nd for consideration.

 

Imperfect Women Writers

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Margaret Fuller Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

  “Imperfect Women Writers” sponsored by the Margaret Fuller SocietyModern Language Association 2025 | January 9–12, 2025, New Orleans In Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, the editors cite an anonymous correspondent of Fuller’s, who writes, “Margaret was one of the few persons who looked upon life as an art, and every person not merely as an artist, but as a work of art. She looked upon herself as a living statue, which should always stand on a polished pedestal, with right accessories, and under the most fitting lights. She would have been glad to have everybody so live and act. She was annoyed when they did not, and when they did not regard her from the point of view which alone did justice to her.

Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century Reader and Writer - 2025 MLA Special Session (New Orleans, LA - Jan. 9-12)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Onur Ayaz & Alessandra Occhiolini
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

This is a Special Session proposal for MLA 2025. We invite papers that broadly explore any aspect of Marilyn Monroe including:

+ Reading Marilyn Monroe reading literature, poetry, etc.

+ Monroe and adaptation in literature, film, and cinema

+ Speculative readings of Monroe in popular culture

+ Her posthumous publications

+ Monroe's reception as writer in mainstream vs. academic circles

See below for the full title, the call, and contact information.

Off The Camera, On The Page: Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century Reader and Writer

Visons and Revisions of National Identity [MLA 2025]

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:47pm
Langston Hughes Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Visions and Revisions of National Identity

The Langston Hughes Society at MLA 2025

New Orleans, Louisiana

January 9-12, 2025

PAMLA 2024 Panel: Gothic

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:47pm
Melanie A. Marotta / Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2024 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

With the advent of 2021, there has been a perceptible shift in gothic focus. Viewers have been treated to network hauntings – CBS’ Ghosts (USA) and GhostsUK, cinematic –The Voyage of the Demeter, and streaming – The Fall of the House of Usher. This year marks the 215th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth and the 175th anniversary of his death in Baltimore. In February, Dr. Martens released its gothic line of footwear.

Unmasking America: Comparative American Studies Special Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:39pm
Rachael McLennan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

During the Covid-19 pandemic, responses to the injunction to ‘wear a mask’ reflected tensions over attitudes towards individual freedoms, or lack of, in American culture. For some, masks limited the spread of the virus. They protected the individual and (or over?) others. For some, masks were ineffective medically, and / or an intolerable intrusion into individual rights. Wearing a mask might signify that an individual took the virus seriously and heeded the state (via medical advice, scientific expertise and laws); refusing to wear one might indicate the opposite. Paradoxically, but no less powerfully, for some mask wearing itself presented unexpected freedoms; from the pressure to engage in social norms, to smile for strangers.

ASAP 2024 Conference Panel: "Necessary Community: Black Feminist Friendships and Organizing"

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:38pm
ASAP 2024 Conference: "Not a Luxury"
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 17, 2024

The ASAP conference theme “Not a Luxury,” (10/17-10/19 in New York City) borrows Audre Lorde’s assertion that in times of crisis, poetry and creative expression are not extraneous to survive but necessities. Known for her community building and work with Kitchen Table Press, Lorde positioned her sense of self as developing from and within her social and artistic circles. This panel asks what contemporary  forms of community building--for example: edited collections, across-campus coalitions, unions, friend groups—are necessary for Black feminist survival and thriving in precarious times.

MLA 2025: “Black Femme Visible Literatures and Histories—Traditions, Lineages, Traces, & Roots”

updated: 
Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 12:41pm
Courtney Murray
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Deborah E. McDowell’s 1993 essay, “In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition,” issues a call to “start putting an end to beginnings even those that would put woman in the first place” or a “reformulation or refocusing of genealogy as a concept of analysis” (56-7). This roundtable seeks papers that complicate how and in which ways we make visible the roots, sites, and lineages of Black women’s literary and historical production from the eighteenth century forward. Papers can interrogate visibility as a practice or theory of recovery, recentering, and resituating that we also must remain critical of even when establishing “firsts” or origins of Black women’s historical and literary traditions.

Sounding Hawthorne

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
Michael S. Martin/Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

“Sounding Hawthorne: Silence, Acoustics, and Aurality”

 

MLA Panel for The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

9-12 January 2025

 

Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn: Twenty-First-Century Religion and Culture in Youth Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:12pm
Sara Schwebel, Suzan Alteri, Dainy Bernstein
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Call for Papers: A Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn

Twenty-First-Century Religion and Culture in Youth Literature

Deadline for submissions of proposals: July 15, 2024

Submit via Google Form: https://forms.gle/tC8g7MYpLAxF6dcu8

For any questions, contact Sara Schwebel (sls09@illinois.edu), Suzan Alteri (salteri@illinois.edu), or Dainy Bernstein (dainyb@illinois.edu).

“American Hospitality” – PAAS/IASA 2024 - September 25-27, 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:10pm
Polish Association for American Studies / International American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly changing global landscape, hospitality emerges as a pivotal focus in academic discourse, especially within Western geopolitical contexts. Hospitality, as a mode of conduct, garners both ardent enthusiasm and staunch opposition. As a concept, it presents both notable limitations and diverse modalities. This multidimensional notion encompasses a right, a privilege, an obligation, an act of sympathy, and an expression of charity. It shapes and is shaped by various environments, from tangible spaces and places to non-places and heterotopias (as articulated by Marc Augé). Its expansive research potential warrants a thorough, interdisciplinary exploration.

The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:09pm
Janet Badia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Call for Papers: The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath

 

This call for papers invites submission to The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath, edited by Janet Badia, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, and Emily Van Duyne. The collection, now under contract, will be a new addition to the Routledge Literature Companions series—highly regarded, field-defining volumes that showcase exciting areas of literary studies. These volumes are ideal introductions for beginners and useful volumes for those already working in the field. By design, they summarize current scholarship while simultaneously highlighting emergent approaches to authors and areas of study.

 

Dreaming of Christmas: Rediscovering the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Christmas Story

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:07pm
Edited Collection, Monika Elbert and Thomas Ruys Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

 

Dreaming of Christmas: Rediscovering the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Christmas Story

Please send proposals of roughly 300-500 words, a short bio, and any other enquiries, to editors Monika Elbert (elbertm@mail.montclair.edu) and Thomas Ruys Smith (thomas.smith@uea.ac.uk) by May 1st 2024.Final essays (roughly 7000 words) will be due by October 15th 2024.

 

MAPACA 2024 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:07pm
Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 

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