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Please see below a call for papers for a panel at the 2024 American Studies Association:
IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, the official scholarly journal of the English Language and Literature Research Association of Türkiye (IDEA), is an international, electronically published, and double blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to English literary studies. The journal aims to provide a highly qualified academic platform for the exchange of diverse critical and original ideas on any aspect of literatures written in English, cultural studies, and literary theory.
We accept works in the following areas:
Call for Papers
Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference
University of Connecticut (maritime campus), Avery Point, Connecticut, USA
Dates: June 16-19, 2025
Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2024
Conference Theme: Oceanic Melville
Meditation and water are wedded forever.
Moby-Dick, Chapter 1
The oceans cover two thirds of our planet’s surface and are responsible
for over half of our oxygen and one fifth of our nutrition. They are in trouble.
We are proposing a special issue of Post-45 Journal, titled “Race and Animality Reconsidered.” In light of a host of recent interventions and discourses emerging from Black studies, postcolonial studies, environmental studies, and other fields, this special issue seeks to highlight contemporary work on the entanglements of racialization or racialized gendering and animalization, including what this means for the material lives of human and nonhuman animals since WWII.
Article submissions of between 20 and 30 pages on lives and work of either Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell are sought for consideration by the peer reviewed Bishop-Lowell Studies journal published by Penn State UP. Please consult the journal page a thttps://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_BLS.html for further submission information.
Reconstructing Race, History and Subjectivity after the 1960s
International Seminar:
Date: October 30–31, 2024
Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Conference: Tribute to Cid Corman: From Japan to the US and the World, 1924–2004
Our Conference (in a hybrid format, both in person and online) aims at celebrating the life and work of US poet Cid Corman, bringing to light his crucial contribution as a poet, editor and translator of two shores (Japan and the US, also within the European, French and Italian traditions), in his role bridging the gap between cultures in English and in Japanese.
Contributions:
Issues to address are not limited to the following,
The 2024 TTU Symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited”
The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host its 2024 annual symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited” on April 12-13, 2024.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studies Program, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Alfred Hornung, Professor and Chair of American Studies, Editor-in-chief of Journal Of Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
2024 Biannual Conference
June 23-26, 2024
Courtyard by Marriot Beachfront | Gulfport, Mississippi
There is a need to reconceptualize queer Souths in the face of the challenges and revocation of rights that the community has faced in the last seven years. While there is certainly an existing body of scholarship on queer Souths, those works tend to focus on specific sites or individuals rather than examining the activism and art that connect to build a genealogy of queer Souths.
This panel welcomes proposals that include but are not limited to:
We're reloading our call for short articles on color!
A dark urban setting scattered with dots of light. Yellow gas flames shoot up against a glowing red horizon, creating an almost hellish feel. Flying cars pierce the atmosphere, revealing the orange smog haze that reappears in urban sequences throughout the movie. As the camera moves closer to futuristic, monumental buildings, cold white beams of light transition to interiors dominated by blue hues. Sequences in the Tyrell Corporation are marked by cool tones as opposed to Deckard’s warm-toned private spaces. How would we feel and think about a cult film like Blade Runner (1982) if cinematographic choices about color had been made differently?
“Barbenheimer: Beauty and Destruction”
Call for Papers
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2024
April 5th – April 7th, 2024
Deadline Extended! Abstracts available for submission until February 5!
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference
June 23-26, 2024
Courtyard by Marriott Beachfront
Gulfport, MS
Theme: "Reconstruction(s)"
CfP
CSSA’s 2024 Conference: Intellectual Resistance
The Comparative Studies Student Association of Florida Atlantic University would like to invite undergraduate students, graduate students, post docs, and scholars early in their careers to participate in our annual conference focusing on the idea of intellectual resistance.
“Intimacy and the Right to Privacy in the English-Speaking World”
October 10 & 11, 2024
International conference
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
“If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion.” Justice William Brennan
Paper proposals of 100-200 words are due by 15 May 2024 to Marshall Bruce Gentry at bruce.gentry@gcsu.edu for "Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back," an academic conference to be held 12-15 Sept. 2024 at Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA, as part of the worldwide "Flannery at 100" celebrations of O'Connor's centennial.
Papers may use any approach to studying O'Connor and her works. Along with your paper proposal, please send a short bio and identify your academic affiliation.
Keynoters for the conference are Mark Jarman, Mab Segrest, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Karen M. Gravel. Andalusia's new Interpretive Center will be open for visits throughout the conference.
The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson will offer scholars and university students at the graduate and undergraduate levels a comprehensive overview of the exciting critical conversations currently shedding new light on Jackson’s novels, short stories, and memoirs, and the literary and moving-image works they have inspired. From architecture to alterity, horror to humour, and pessimism to pedagogy, the forty-five essays in The Oxford Handbook to Shirley Jackson will form a comprehensive guide to Jackson’s role in literary history while highlighting her continued relevance—and, often, prescience—regarding timely considerations of issues concerning gender, sexuality, race, class, mental illness, and apocalyptic anxieties.
Jonathan Bayliss Society
Tangents and Divigations
Jonathan Bayliss Society
The Jonathan Bayliss Society is sponsoring two roundtable panels for the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 23-26, 2024, at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL. For additional information about the conference see https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu or info@jonathanbayliss.org by January 29, 2024.
CFP: The California Ideology Conference
Submission Deadline (updated): February 1st, 2024, by midnight PST.
Speakers: Alberto Toscano, Banu Bargu; Massimiliano Tomba
The California Ideology Project (UCHRI) welcomes submissions for an upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the theme of “The California Ideology” at UC Santa Cruz on April 6-7, 2024.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Flannery O’Connor Society
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
2024 Biannual Conference
June 23-26, 2024
Courtyard by Marriot Beachfront | Gulfport, Mississippi
“Reconstructing” Flannery O’Connor
The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstract submissions for a proposed panel at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s biannual conference in Gulfport, Mississippi from June 23-26th, 2024. This panel’s theme is, broadly, “‘Reconstructing’ Flannery O’Connor,” in line with SSSL’s conference theme of “Reconstruction(s).”
"The Material Lives of Logistics" - As part of a panel proposal for the upcoming American Literature Association (ALA) Conference (Chicago, IL - May 23-26, 2024), we invite paper abstracts that explore logistics and infrastructures in literary texts. The global supply chain accounts for the movement of 90% of everything and over 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions (George 2013, MIT Climate Portal). The organizational imperatives enabling the ecocidal acceleration of commodity circulation, Alberto Toscano reminds us, encompass “a deeply incoherent, contradictory, conflicted and competitive domain” (2014). Literary forms are particularly apt for dealing with contradiction and incoherence.
Nothing stops the Stones! With a new album Hackney Diamonds and a major global tour planned for 2024, The Rolling Stones remain a vital part of contemporary culture and history. In the 60 years since the band released its first albums in the UK and US, it has stirred the hearts and minds of generations.
Yet, there is still so much more to say about the Stones.
Goal
This anthology aims to investigate and analyze the music and influence of The Rolling Stones and the band’s impact on contemporary culture.
CALL FOR PAPERS – MLA 2025 – New Orleans
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA):
Nabokov, Blackness, and Whiteness
This panel seeks to examine historical and contemporary iterations of feminist and queer coalition building, focusing on the capacities and frailties of political work to build community and power across time and space. Topics of interest include social movement memory and archives as political tools, intersections of academic and activist feminisms and queer politics, the incorporation and institutionalization of grassroots politics, and neocolonial discourses and practices within American feminist and queer projects globally. Drawing on the conference theme, the panel invites papers which examine grounded knowledge production from a variety of perspectives.
The August Wilson
Author Society
of the
American Literature Association
announces its
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the
35th Annual ALA Conference
May 23–26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
SAMLA 96Seen and UnseenFriday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2024Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront | Jacksonville, FL
The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2024 biennial conference in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, at the stunning fifteenth-century Villa Cà Erizzo Luca, where Dos Passos was stationed as an American Red Cross ambulance driver in the winter of 1918.
Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.1
Special Issue: Trade in Humans
Edited by Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, and Jessamyn Abel
Deadlines | Convergence proposals: March 15, 2024 | Essays: August 30, 2024
A PDF of this call is available here. Please direct all questions to verge@psu.edu.
Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 11.2
Special Issue: The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media
Edited by Christopher T. Fan, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Tina Chen
Deadlines | Essays: May 1, 2024
What is the Asian Century? Are we living in it? Do its recent invocations—by writers and readers, politicians and pundits, journalists and academics—mark a return to earlier eras of relative Asian centrality on the world stage or announce a future we have yet to inhabit? Is it a paranoid, U.S.-centered discourse of Western decline or a triumphant announcement of Asian economic-semiotic arrival? Is the Asian Century an aspiration or a threat—and to whom?
Teaching Alcott’s Writings/ Teaching in Alcott’s Writings (Deadline Extended)
ALA 2024/ Chicago