Humans undressed
Derrida discovers his humanity while denuded and looked at by his cat. Houdon sculpts Voltaire naked ... See morePosted Saturday, 19 January 2019
Echoes of Historical Avant-Garde Anti-Normative Discourses in Contemporary Drama
Seeking papers focused on one late twentieth-century/ contemporary playwright and one/ two types of ... See morePosted Saturday, 19 January 2019
Colonial Authorship in the Americas
I seek proposals for a panel on transatlantic production, circulation, and representation of knowled ... See morePosted Sunday, 20 January 2019
Paris was a woman
Revisiting the community of women, expatriate or French, bookstore owners, writers, filmmakers and v ... See morePosted Sunday, 20 January 2019
Beyond Career Diversity: Supporting the Independent Scholar
As PhDs in the humanities increasingly find careers outside the academy, how do professional organiz ... See morePosted Sunday, 20 January 2019
World Literary Spaces: Translation and World Literature
Does translation create world literary spaces? How do you translate/teach translated works for world ... See morePosted Sunday, 20 January 2019
The Manifesto as Digital Media Object
This panel explores the manifesto as digital media object. The session aims to account for the genre ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Figuring Composthumanism
Donna Haraway insists that “we are compost, not posthuman.” What is at stake in this distinction? Ho ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Being and Writing Women in the Southwest Desert Landscape
Women writers of the Southwest present the challenge of being human amidst a seemingly inhospitable ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Terrorist Studies and LIterature
What can literature contribute to the interdisciplinary field of Terrorism Studies? Theoretical appr ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Literature and Suicide
Papers on all aspects of literature and suicide, including interdisciplinary and pedagogical approac ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts
Seeking abstracts that theorize any aspect of Nelson's The Argonauts. Send abstracts of 200-300 word ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Performing Miracles in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
This panel invites fresh, interdisciplinary, transnational perspectives on medieval and early modern ... See morePosted Thursday, 24 January 2019
On Autonomy
Papers sought on the possibility of literary, political or personal autonomy in the current situatio ... See morePosted Saturday, 26 January 2019
Political Imagination in Iberian and Latin American Graphic Narratives
Seeking proposals dealing with politicization, precarization and/or memorialization in 20th / 21st ... See morePosted Tuesday, 29 January 2019
The State of the Single-Author Study
Can we? Should we? In an era of large-scale reading / data, how do we justify the study of a single ... See morePosted Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Postmodern Metamorphoses
A panel exploring the afterlife of Ovid's myths in 20th& 21st century literature and culture; for in ... See morePosted Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Working-Class Writing and Nostalgia
Seeking papers examining the function of nostalgia in class-conscious writing, specifically its role ... See morePosted Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Southeast Asia and the Oceanic
How are Southeast Asian literary and cultural texts conceptualized in the region’s multiple oceanic ... See morePosted Thursday, 31 January 2019
Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
In “Intellect,” Emerson wrote, “Our spontaneous action is always the best.” How do improvised orato ... See morePosted Saturday, 2 February 2019
Indigenous Futurisms in Latin America
Seeking papers on 21st-century indigenous cultural production (poetry, film, visual art, architectur ... See morePosted Friday, 1 February 2019
Ecocritical Fieldwork
We invite talks that consider the role of field-based methods (observing, sampling, interviewing) in ... See morePosted Friday, 1 February 2019
Proust Post Prix Goncourt
How does the accolade of the Prix Goncourt, received in December 1919, for A l’ombre des jeunes fill ... See morePosted Friday, 1 February 2019
Class, Graduate School, and Labor
How does social class inform the experiences of graduate students and those transitioning into acade ... See morePosted Saturday, 2 February 2019
Doing Dissonance
This panel explores potential for positive disruption emerging from the clash of human perspective w ... See morePosted Saturday, 2 February 2019
Why Should We Be Open to Foreign Cultures?
Explore frontiers of cultural exchange that exemplifies the openness of culture vis-à-vis discourses ... See morePosted Saturday, 2 February 2019
Empathy and the Postcolonial
This panel invites papers that explore the fraught relationship between postcolonialism and the disc ... See morePosted Saturday, 2 February 2019
Nature and Reality in the German 19th Century
Papers exploring various roles played by the natural environment and concepts of reality in 19th-cen ... See morePosted Saturday, 2 February 2019
Bad Books
Books that misbehave. Books that rebel against the traditional codex and reading experience. Papers ... See morePosted Saturday, 2 February 2019
The Passions of Lana del Rey
Seeking abstracts for papers exploring Lana del Rey’s intertextual engagements with pop and literary ... See morePosted Sunday, 3 February 2019
Early Modern Hispanic Literature in Adaptation
This panel invites studies of contemporary adaptations, versions, reuses, or performances of early m ... See morePosted Monday, 4 February 2019
Animals, Technology, and War in the Global South
What is the relationship between the nonhuman and war in Global South literatures (esp. Latin Americ ... See morePosted Monday, 4 February 2019
Shakespearean Phenomenology
Papers on topics including but not limited to phenomenology of the Shakespearean theater after the h ... See morePosted Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Humour and Laughter in African Literatures
This panel will discuss humorous techniques and styles, and the place of humour in African literatur ... See morePosted Monday, 11 February 2019
Being Human in Contemporary Arab Writing
How contemporary Arab writing complicates the question of the Human and Post-human due to diaspora, ... See morePosted Tuesday, 5 February 2019
The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Writing and Publishing Critical/Creative Hybrids
Writers and editors address creative nonfiction and scholarly essays, envisioning affordances made p ... See morePosted Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Labors of Land and Language: Early Modern Literature and Agriculture
Essays might discuss ecocritical approaches, lyric in agricultural texts, domesticity and agricultur ... See morePosted Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Seriality
Empirical and theoretical papers on seriality, broadly conceived, to include work on print-culture, ... See morePosted Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Transformative Archives-Based Pedagogy
How can archives-based undergraduate pedagogy transform the institutional authority of the archive? ... See morePosted Wednesday, 6 February 2019
Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Assessment at the Community College
Roundtable focusing on developing, cultivating, and sustaining anti-racist pedagogy and assessment p ... See morePosted Wednesday, 6 February 2019
After Work?
How does working-class writing intervene in debates about the definition of work, its changing forms ... See morePosted Wednesday, 6 February 2019
Immediately Hooked: #OwnVoices in the Classroom
Presenters should focus on addressing issues of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in the context ... See morePosted Wednesday, 6 February 2019
The Very Online Novel
What is it--formally? Attitudinally? Aesthetically? What makes it distinct from other strands of the ... See morePosted Wednesday, 6 February 2019
Poetry and the Return of “Lived Experience”
The nineteenth-century concept of "lived experience" has seen a striking resurgence in recent times. ... See morePosted Thursday, 7 February 2019
Beyond the Boundaries: Women Writers in Early Modern
Proposal which reflects on women writers who established themselves as literate transcending gender ... See morePosted Thursday, 7 February 2019
New Approaches to Language Theory in Victorian Studies
How did the Victorians theorize language? How can we use modern approaches to language to understand ... See morePosted Friday, 8 February 2019
Plantationocene v. Anthropocene: Global South Perspectives
15-minute papers that theorize and contextualize current debates about the name, length, and roles o ... See morePosted Friday, 8 February 2019
Decadent (In)humanities
How do literatures and discourses of Decadence (broadly conceived) challenge, revise, or complicate ... See morePosted Friday, 8 February 2019
The Postcolonial Uncanny
This panel invites papers that explore manifestations of the uncanny in postcolonial literature. Wha ... See morePosted Friday, 8 February 2019
Colonial Pacific Northwest
Scholars interested British/American, Russian, Spanish, and especially indigenous literatures are in ... See morePosted Friday, 8 February 2019
The Uses of the University Press
Seeking participants for a roundtable on university presses examined in the contexts of intellectual ... See morePosted Friday, 8 February 2019
The Polar Imagination
This session will explore our fascination with the "ends of the earth," the polar landscapes as a si ... See morePosted Saturday, 9 February 2019
Channeling Relations in Medieval England and France
Based on the 2018 conference of the same name, this session invites 250-word abstracts describing pr ... See morePosted Saturday, 9 February 2019
REPRESENTING THE ALMOST-HUMAN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
What are the boundaries of the in/Human in Renaissance England? How do poets, writers, and philosoph ... See morePosted Saturday, 9 February 2019
Embodied Humanities: Beyond the Life of the Mind
The embodied nature of the humanistic profession. Affect, pain/pleasure, emotional labor, diverse bo ... See morePosted Saturday, 9 February 2019
Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem at 100
In celebration of the centenary of Hope Mirrlees’s modernist epic, Paris: A Poem (1920), this panel ... See morePosted Sunday, 10 February 2019
Redefining Religion in C19 Literature
How does C19 literature portray “religion” as a shifting, contested term? What possibilities for plu ... See morePosted Sunday, 10 February 2019
Lingering Ambiguities – America’s Legacy for Nazi Germany and Beyond
Comparative, interdisciplinary, and/or relational, theoretical frameworks for addressing the social, ... See morePosted Sunday, 10 February 2019
VR/AR Shakespeare
How are virtual and augmented reality transforming the way we view, consume, enjoy, and study Shakes ... See morePosted Sunday, 10 February 2019
Crossing the Divide: Political Polarization and the Humanities Classroom
What pedagogical opportunities are afforded by recent American ideological conflict, especially on c ... See morePosted Monday, 11 February 2019
Disrupting the Academic Prestige Economy
What would it mean to collectively refuse higher education's prestige economy? How might this change ... See morePosted Monday, 11 February 2019
Global Black Studies: A Roundtable
How does the prefix "global" alter, expand, or complicate notions and practices of Black studies? Co ... See morePosted Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Global Cities as Representational Challenge
How have changing urban realities in the era of globalization affected the literary representation o ... See morePosted Monday, 11 February 2019
The Cold War and Cultural Policy
How did writers and artists align themselves with—or distance themselves from—governments and instit ... See morePosted Tuesday, 12 February 2019
MAGA, Brexit, and the work of Reinhart Koselleck
How can Koselleck's work shed light on MAGA and Brexit? What modes of temporal experience make these ... See morePosted Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Postwar to Postweb: Redefining Contemporary Spanish Literature
Two decades into the 21st century, this round table proposal seeks 500-word abstracts that consider ... See morePosted Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Collectivity In Crisis
This panel solicits papers on forms of contemporary collective narration, especially scholarship tha ... See morePosted Thursday, 14 February 2019
Memory, Struggle and Trauma in post-Arab Spring Literature
What does Arabic fiction and non-fiction tell us about the memories, struggles, and trauma of the Ar ... See morePosted Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Crime and Crisis in Spanish Literature and Visual Culture
This special session seeks papers that engage with literary and cultural representations of the 2008 ... See morePosted Thursday, 14 February 2019
Being Human After Critical Theory
How does Critical Theory engage with globalizing conceptions of the human? Do the notions of mediati ... See morePosted Friday, 15 February 2019
Maoism and Literary Theory
Maoism in dialogue or in conflict with Western literary theory, particularly in relation to the conc ... See morePosted Saturday, 16 February 2019
Literature and Historical-Critical Bible Scholarship
What can historical-critical Bible scholarship offer literary criticism today? How can it reinvigora ... See morePosted Saturday, 16 February 2019
A Dog with a Name: Hosting the Non-Human
Connections between non-human animals and the experience of displacement. How do we envision a non-a ... See morePosted Saturday, 16 February 2019
Aspects of Punctuation
Topics having a literary or linguistic approach to punctuation. Abstracts of about 300 words by 15 M ... See morePosted Saturday, 16 February 2019
Graphic Narratives and Multiple Marginalities
Inviting proposals about graphic narratives that address marginal identities: diasporic, disabled, q ... See morePosted Sunday, 17 February 2019
Human-animal Relationships and the Possibility of Interspecies Communication in Anglophone/Postcolonial Novels
Explores the human-animal relationships and the implications of anthropomorphic representations of a ... See morePosted Sunday, 17 February 2019
Unsilencing the Anthropocene: Archiving Love and Queer Survival
How do contemporary circumatlantic texts respond to disaster narratives of the anthropocene without ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
New Culture Wars? Decolonial Canons
This session welcomes any proposals that consider how decolonial praxes transform our definitions of ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
Literature, Language, and Rhetoric in London’s Legal Inns
Papers sought on the influences of the Inns of Court and of Chancery, c. 1350-1640, and their indivi ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
Thinking Black Feminism and the Human: The Absence/Presence of Gender in Black Studies
We seek abstracts that grapple with the tensions between the human, blackness, and gender from the f ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
Railways, Speed, and Accidents
This panel explores literary accounts of railway accidents as a way of problematizing entanglements ... See morePosted Thursday, 21 February 2019
Persons in Poetry and Law
What relationships exist between poetic and legal invocations of personhood? What emerges in examini ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
Hotbeds of Radicalism?: Alt-Right and Leftist Radicalism on Campus
Universities have increasingly become breeding grounds for radicalism on the left and right. This ro ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
Remaking Early Middle English
In celebration of the 2019 launch of the journal Early Middle English (Arc Humanities): papers on an ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
Representations of Care / Ethics of Care
This panel seeks papers analyzing autonomy, dependency, and/or interdependency in representations of ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
Empathy and the Human
Seeking abstracts exploring how literature problematizes humanistic and sentimental notions of empat ... See morePosted Monday, 18 February 2019
More than human? Baroque Bodies as Alternative Paradigm
Thinking of Dalia Judovitz's (2000) genealogy of the modern body, how can representations of the "ba ... See morePosted Tuesday, 19 February 2019
“The Unbearable Wrongness of Being”: Abjection, Power, and the Possibilities of the Human in Popular Culture
How does popular culture interrogate the “wrongness of being” imposed on queer and racialized subjec ... See morePosted Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Being Human in a Microbial World
How has the identification of microorganisms and/or the human microbiome impacted representations of ... See morePosted Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Teaching Feeling: Affect in the Humanities Classroom
Panel exploring the intersections of pedagogy and affect, including but not limited to theories of r ... See morePosted Tuesday, 19 February 2019
The Short Script: Forms of and Formulas for Action
This session explores relationships between Renaissance literature and "short scripts," or formulae, ... See morePosted Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Holocaust Memory in Spanish
Particular uses of Holocaust memory in fiction or criticism in Spanish: "fictional" truth-telling; r ... See morePosted Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Microrrelatos and the Digital Age
What role do microrrelatos ("flash fiction") play in a digital-focused society? Papers dealing with ... See morePosted Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Literary and Cultural Contributions of Roxane Gay
How has the work of Roxane Gay impacted literary and cultural studies? How might we theorize her wor ... See morePosted Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Global Labor and Literature
Panel investigates representations of workers that are hidden from plain view, or have been excluded ... See morePosted Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Medieval Surveillance
Surveillance Studies and Medieval Studies intersect in a variety of important ways. Papers focusing ... See morePosted Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Empires, States, Forms
How do cultural works address the dissolution of empires and nation-state formation in East-Central ... See morePosted Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Visualizing Difference in 21st-Century French and Francophone Cinema
This panel investigates representations of marginalization (e.g. race, religion, disability) in 21st ... See morePosted Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Fostering Social Awareness and Activism in the Classroom
What can/should be done to ensure the relevance of humanities courses and to promote social justice ... See morePosted Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Literature and Post-Political Theory
Decades after everything was declared to be political, what are the affordances, triumphs, and pitfa ... See morePosted Thursday, 21 February 2019
Teaching Climate Literature: Syllabus Roundtable
This roundtable invites instructors who have taught or are planning to teach a course on climate cha ... See morePosted Thursday, 21 February 2019
Norths in and of the South: How does the South reinvent the North?
How do Southern (non)fictions of the North manifest themselves across an array of Global South nexus ... See morePosted Thursday, 21 February 2019
Revisiting Dreyfus in the age of fake news and yellow vests
In light of the recent upsurge in antisemitic acts in France this session addresses the return of 19 ... See morePosted Monday, 25 February 2019
The Novel of Time
What relation does the novel have to linear, homogeneous, historicist time? How have different exper ... See morePosted Thursday, 21 February 2019
Narco Nations in Latin America
Seeking contributions on 21st-century cultural production (literature, music, TV/film) that analyze ... See morePosted Thursday, 21 February 2019
Unearthing Indigeneity and Color Lines from 1865 to 1965
This panel seeks to recover forgotten authors’ lived responses to white supremacy beyond the black-w ... See morePosted Thursday, 21 February 2019
Poetics beyond Human Boundaries: New Directions in Geocriticism
This panel seeks all aspects of poetics on the non-human to implement an unconventional method of ma ... See morePosted Thursday, 21 February 2019
Figuring Modernism
The 20th-century revolutionary aesthetic Figure in relation to its materialisms and politics, its cr ... See morePosted Friday, 22 February 2019
Dolls
What is the meaning of objects that we create in our image? What do our interactions with these obje ... See morePosted Friday, 22 February 2019
Thinking Beyond the Poetry-Prose Binary
How and when did this dichotomy emerge, why does it persist, and what are its effects? Send 300-word ... See morePosted Friday, 22 February 2019
Humanities in the Age of Metrics
How are scholarly metrics, quantitative assessments, and other data cultures shaping humanities rese ... See morePosted Friday, 22 February 2019
Teaching Humanity? The Cultural Work of Literature Instruction in the United States
Seeking papers that illuminate the cultural work of literature instruction, focused on individual wo ... See morePosted Saturday, 23 February 2019
Queer Formalisms
Roundtable panel interrogating the potentials and applications of queer formalisms. Participants wil ... See morePosted Saturday, 23 February 2019
"Claudel et la mondialisation: technique, economie, environnement"
Les participants etudient en quoi Claudel annonce au fil de sa reflexion les enjeux de la mondialisa ... See morePosted Saturday, 23 February 2019
Complaining
Complaint as lament, elegy, grievance, protest, petition, dissent, whine; as sentimental, institutio ... See morePosted Saturday, 23 February 2019
Gothic Childhood
Investigating interactions between the Gothic and childhood in literature and other media. Diverse ... See morePosted Saturday, 23 February 2019
Quaring Childhood
Following precepts of E. Patrick Johnson’s call for “quare studies,” bringing childhood studies, cri ... See morePosted Saturday, 23 February 2019
Literary Aesthetics in the Digital Age
How has literature developed within cyberspace? What sort(s) of aesthetics have developed with this ... See morePosted Saturday, 23 February 2019
New Literary Realisms
You don’t have to be a materialist/naturalist to be a realist. What can we learn from literature, hi ... See morePosted Saturday, 23 February 2019
Queer Arabs / Queer Narratives
We seek papers that discuss representations of queerness (interpreted broadly) within Arab and Arab ... See morePosted Sunday, 24 February 2019
Time, Revolution, and Environment in French Studies
This panel explores French and Francophone literary and filmic depictions of human and ecological up ... See morePosted Sunday, 24 February 2019
Modernism in the Age of Insurance
How is the world-view of insurance in the early 20th century reflected in the artistic production of ... See morePosted Monday, 25 February 2019
Teaching the Difficult: Working with Social Justice, Modern Slavery, and Climate Change
This interdisciplinary roundtable discusses approaches to potentially triggering subjects, focusing ... See morePosted Monday, 25 February 2019
Empire, its Afterlives, and the Nonhuman
What happens to our understanding of colonialism or the postcolonial if we see them as encompassing ... See morePosted Monday, 25 February 2019
Kushner, Cohn, Trump
Roy Cohn plays a central role in both "Angels in America" and the rise of Trump. This panel explores ... See morePosted Monday, 25 February 2019
Literature and Liberalism
This panel explores the evolving relationship between Anglophone literature and liberalism, understo ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Iberian Cinema Studies in 2020: State(s) of the Field
This roundtable session invites 10-minute presentations addressing the place of Iberian Cinema Studi ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Infrastructure and Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries
In what ways has nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature contributed to the development a ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
The Eunuch: Past(s) & Present(s)
We invite papers that engage the figure of the eunuch by way of race, gender, and sexuality, across ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
The Turn to Abstraction
Is literary criticism, long concerned with particularity, now turning toward abstraction? How relate ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Comparative Poetics
Seeking abstracts that engage the theory and practice of poetics across cultures. Topics might inclu ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
MLA 2020: Dickens and Being Human/“Mankind Was My Business!:” Dickens and The Exploration of Humanity, Humanism, and Being Human
We seek papers that explore humanity, human behavior, humanitarianism, the human race, human beings, ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
#Metoo's Feminisms
This panel aims to chart the continuities and corrections between this movement and its second and f ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Politics and Practices of Travel Culture in China
This panel seeks papers and projects that explore the politics and practices of travel and the chang ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Petrarch Beyond Subjectivities
This session aims to explore the creative space of Petrarch’s poetics, moving the discourse from sub ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Uncovering Truths: Secrets and Self-Discovery in French and Francophone Literature
What role do secrets play in 20th/21st century French and Francophone literature? How do secrets, bo ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Prison Literature and Mass Incarceration
Panel addresses prisons as a site of literary production from Attica until present. Scope includes ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Gardens, Wilderness, and Landscape in the Novel
What’s the relationship between nature and the novel? Papers on order, disorder, and the disorderly ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Afro-Brazilian Literature and Contemporary Social Issues
Seeking proposals addressing sociopolitical problems pertaining to Afro-Brazilians in the intersecti ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Writing during Genocide
How do non-exiled writers create cultural spaces during state-sponsored atrocities? How do we study ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Wanted: Image Politics and the Criminal Body
Seeking papers that revolve around the intertwined relationship between image production (painting, ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Innovative Service/Experiential Learning in Second Language Learning
How can service/experiential learning be integrated into second language teaching and learning in in ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
New Modes of Resistance and Activism in the Arab World: The Power of Music and Visual Art
This panel examines how art in the Arab world today such as graphic novels, graffiti, music, and pol ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Afro-descend(i)entes in Brazil and Colombia
Seeking contributions that compare expressions of Afro-Latin American identities in texts (fiction, ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Indigenous Feminisms
Women have been at the forefront in Indigenous movements worldwide, as reflected in Indigenous liter ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Race and Autobiographical Theory
Scholars such as Christina Sharpe and Saidiya Hartman incorporate autobiographical reflection into t ... See morePosted Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Literatures of Displacement
Displacement literatures include immigrant, Indigenous, and other writers forced from their homeland ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Voicing Traumatic Memory
Trauma in literature has been a popular topic, yet it has rarely integrated recent neurological rese ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Conformity and Clandestinity in Spanish Literature, 16th-21st c.
How does literature resist or circumvent the classifications that institutional Spain imposes upon i ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Forms of Fascism
This panel seeks papers that theorize the relationship between fascism (including (proto)fascism) an ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Reevaluating Nineteenth-Century Cosmopolitanisms
Constructions of cosmopolitanism in 19th century literature and culture; cosmopolitanism in relation ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Posthuman Climate Fiction
This panel explores the growing genre of climate fiction. Papers may address the role of the (post)h ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Paper Plus: Multimodal and Transmedia Publishing
This electronic roundtable will feature publications as transmedia or multimodal products: book-webs ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Transnational Queer Studies
Queer of color critique; queer diaspora; queer Asia as method; queerness in non-liberal contexts; ho ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Early Modern Intersectionalities
This panel seeks to explore intersections of gender, race, dis/ability, sexuality, religion, and/or ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Monstrosity in Early Japanese Literature
This session will explore the figure of the monstrous in delineations of humanity in early Japanese ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Aesthetic Deceptions in the Long 18th Century
Is artistic representation always a form of deception? We seek papers that consider varieties of art ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Representations of Resistance and Renewal
However surprising it is to find Walter Scott give his character Gurth a "disposition to resistance, ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Figuring the Human in Ninteenth-Century Aesthetics
Nineteenth-century art critic Giovanni Morelli identified the artist's personal idiosyncrasies and i ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Literature and Crime
Accepting papers that consider fictionalized accounts of real crimes or criminals, serious and salac ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Anti-Humanism, Pessimism, and Political Nihilism
Seeking papers that examine the cultural-political significance of anti-humanist, pessimist, and nih ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
(Re)Theorizing Nineteenth-Century Materiality
Seeking papers adding to/thinking beyond the “stuff” theory of materiality. What or who becomes visi ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Queer Studies and Its Class Locations
How does the field of Queer Studies take shape at different class- and status-based locations in the ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Travel and Fantasies of Empire
How does travel shape the delusions, enchantments, and romances of empire? Roundtable on how travel ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
New Materialism in Latin America
This session seeks for papers submissions that deal with Latin American canonical texts through the ... See morePosted Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Latin American Literature and Interdisciplinarity in the 20th Century
This panel focuses on the dialogue between literary manifestations and other arts, such as photograp ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
RFP Trans+-Inclusion Panel: Montaigne and “The Essay”.
Invisible-Hypervisible, Enby-Trans, Woman-Man. How does Montaigne's "Essays" inform your view on Tra ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
The Force of Umbrella Academy
This proposed session aims at focusing on the concept of ‘force’ in the TV show and comic book serie ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Contemporary Poetry and the Archive
What are the methods, stakes, and effects of recent poetic engagements with the archive? How has poe ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Becoming Human: The (Im)Possibilities of Being
What does it mean to be human in the persistence of caste, religion and gender categorizations? Pa ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Memory-Work in Literature
This panel is interested in research that expands traditional conceptions of the representation and ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Whose World?
“World” is a normatively human category. Does the Anthropocene merely redescribe (per Wynter) the wo ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Towards 2020: Raymond Williams and the Politics of Being Human
Responses to re-discovered essay “The Future of Marxism.” How does Williams offer us a model for int ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Love and Critical Theory
This panel explores the relation between the idea of love, broadly conceived, and the traditions of ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Trauma and Ideology in the 20th Century
This panel seeks to develop a cross cultural communication on trauma studies. We welcome researches ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Black Modernity
How do we understand black modernisms and modernity? How is a modern black subject constituted? This ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Guess Who's Coming to Campus: Writers from the Global South and Cold War Academic Cultures
This panel considers the creative and institutional impacts of literary figures from the Global Sout ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Reviving a Legend: Le Chevalier de Saint-George
This interdisciplinary session seeks recent scholarly work in English or in French on Joseph Bologne ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Black Geographies and African American Literature Since 194
Soliciting papers that draw on recent work in Black Geographies to discuss African American literatu ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Black Aesthetics and the Limits of the Human
Seeking papers that explore themes, discourses, and representations of unreality in African American ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Posthumanism in French and Francophone Video-Games
What characterizes posthumanism in French and Francophone video-games (ex."Detroit", "Remember Me", ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Marx, Space, and Literary Studies
How do the formal processes of capitalist reproduction reframe the functions of specific institution ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Biopower and the Politics of Resistance
Foucault says, "Bio-power is exercised at the level of life." In modernity, how can we resist power ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Holocaust Surrealisms
How have surrealist aesthetics influenced and mediated Holocaust representations, memory, and testim ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
The Other #MeToos
What does #MeToo mean in non-Western countries? What does/can #MeToo do for non-Western women? How d ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Being Together: From the Public Scholar to the Collaborative Humanities
This panel welcomes papers that explore collaborative knowledge production from a range of instituti ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Genre in a Time of Literary Modernism
This panel invites papers which consider how genre fiction informed the reception and/or production ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Comparative Racial Form
Considering the broadest implications of the term “form,” this panel explores how aesthetic form mod ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Aestheticizing Posthumanism
A roundtable of short position papers to generate conversation about how aestheticizing posthumanism ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Talking Back to the Dead: Neo-Victorian Gothic
Invite submissions exploring the literary features, historical contexts, and theoretical approaches ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Lyric, Embodiment, Space, Affect, and Difficulty
How might lyric poetry, embodied cognition, affect, spatiality, or difficulty intersect in humanizin ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Buddhism and Buddhology in Germany
Papers exploring the history of Buddhism and Buddhology/Buddhismuskunde in Germany, especially in th ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Being Inhuman in Spanish Literature
Examining representations of monsters, beasts, and the supernatural in 20th and 21st Century Spanish ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Heimat, Heimweh: Home, Identity, and the Political in German Speaking Contexts
Abstracts preferred focusing specifically on the questions, and interrelations, of the political, co ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Hacking Academic Care
Seeking panelists for roundtable on intersections between academia, technology, and care. How is inf ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Teaching and Learning with the Spanish Golden Age Works from K-12 to College
The organizers of this panel seek abstracts exploring how instructors in K-12 through college classr ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Human Reading/Machine Reading
Seeking papers exploring the theoretical implications of reading machines for the human and the lite ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Re-Authorized: Recycling, Repurposing, and Refashioning in Eighteenth-Century Authorship
Recycling, repurposing, quotation, and adaptation as constitutive of eighteenth-century authorship. ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Literature, Money and Crisis
Seeking proposals that focus on literature's representations of money and society. What can literatu ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Undesirable Bodies in the Postcolonial Urban Space
Papers examining literary representations of social/ethnic/caste/religious “undesirability” at the i ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Gendering Celebrity: Pursuit and Performance
This panel explores women’s relationship with celebrity. How are the pursuit and performance of cele ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
Race and Media
Papers on overlapping discourses of race and media, including print culture, new media, DH, visual c ... See morePosted Thursday, 28 February 2019
German nationalism
What role did literature and philosophy play in determining the rise and characteristics of German n ... See morePosted Friday, 1 March 2019
Bartleby in Byblos: Not Reading Now
How do emergent/traditional forms of nonreading shape literary discourses and the political commons? ... See morePosted Friday, 1 March 2019
"O reason not the need!": The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of King Lear
This special session calls for any critical or theoretical response to the influence/afterlife conce ... See morePosted Friday, 14 December 2018
Universos discursivos femeninos: cortesía y descortesía verbal (XVI-XIX)
Buscamos feminizar el análisis histórico y literario de obras donde la mujer sea sujeto u objeto de ... See morePosted Sunday, 16 December 2018
Disabled Bodies and Ableism Ideology
This session welcomes any paper which discusses any topic related to disability studies. Please, sub ... See morePosted Saturday, 22 December 2018
Here We Are Now: Nirvana, the Grunge Revolution and the Humanities, 30 Years On
Scholars are invited to submit 300-word abstracts on the ongoing significance of grunge to literary ... See morePosted Friday, 11 January 2019
Looking Northward in the Trump Era: Revisiting the Canada-US Border in the context of Hemispheric Studies
How have representations of Canada and the US changed, especially with the Trump presidency? We invi ... See morePosted Wednesday, 2 January 2019
Conversation with Alecia McKenzie
This roundtable session elicits short presentations on various aspects of Jamaican author Alecia McK ... See morePosted Thursday, 3 January 2019
Affect and Politics in European Literature
This session welcomes any proposal which reflects on the relationship between culture, power and aff ... See morePosted Sunday, 6 January 2019
Digital Approaches to Place-Based Teaching
This panel welcomes discussions of the intersection between digital humanities and site-specific cur ... See morePosted Monday, 7 January 2019
Critical Approaches to the Study of White Supremacy
This roundtable session welcomes abstracts for short (10-minute) presentations that propose theoreti ... See morePosted Thursday, 10 January 2019
Theatre Gone Viral: On Social Media and Performance
This panel elicits papers that consider the place and politics of social media in/as contemporary pe ... See morePosted Thursday, 10 January 2019
The Rise of Professional Skills
With the move in English studies towards professional skills, a discomfort exists regarding the surv ... See morePosted Friday, 11 January 2019
Mobilizing Self-Indifference: "The agitation is only on the surface. Underneath I’m indifferent."
This session invites considerations of the politics and affect of self-indifference in literary stud ... See morePosted Friday, 11 January 2019
Human-Nonhuman Entanglements in Postcolonial Literatures
This session explores the politics of representation of inanimate things and their relationship with ... See morePosted Friday, 11 January 2019
The Queerness of White Trash
This panel solicits papers that interrogate queer constructions and genealogies of "white trash" in ... See morePosted Friday, 11 January 2019
Are You Experienced?: Jimi Hendrix 50 Years Later
This panel welcomes proposals about the significance of Jimi Hendrix to cultural and literary studie ... See morePosted Saturday, 12 January 2019
Afrofuturism after Black Panther
Seeking papers outlining the impact on the public discourse surrounding Afrofuturism in the wake of ... See morePosted Saturday, 12 January 2019
Early Modern Resilience: Shakespeare and Beyond
How does early modern literature portray the resilience of women or other marginalized groups in tim ... See morePosted Monday, 14 January 2019
Science, Sustainability, and Emerging Technologies in Dickens
This special session explores specific and oblique ways the novels of Dickens engage the emerging sc ... See morePosted Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Queering Food Studies
This session examines the queer dimensions of food phenomena and welcomes critical interventions tha ... See morePosted Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Autotheory
Seeking abstracts exploring the aesthetic, political, and critical import of "autotheory," a term in ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 January 2019
After Posthumanism: Parahuman Writing on 19C American Authors
This session explores Laura Dassow Walls' notion of "parahuman," specifically 19C Americanist work t ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Hermeneutics and Literary Studies Today
This session looks to question the relation between hermeneutics (broadly construed) and contemporar ... See morePosted Thursday, 13 December 2018
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