Special Sessions: Calls for Papers

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
T.W. Higginson is mostly remembered for his connections with Emily Dickinson. But Higginson had a lo ... See more
Gerard Holmes, U of Maryland, College Park
Posted Tuesday, 1 December 2020
"El Microrrelato": Extremely short fiction in Spanish
All topics related to Spanish-language "microrrelatos" (micro-stories; extremely brief works of fict ... See more
Robert Gabbard-Rocha, Purdue University
Posted Tuesday, 22 December 2020
On Not Leaving "House of Leaves"
Mark Z. Danielewski’s epochal novel(?) House of Leaves has turned twenty. What new approaches may ch ... See more
Manuel Herrero-Puertas, National Taiwan Univ
Posted Thursday, 7 January 2021
Cimarronaje en la escritura Latinoamericana
Este panel explorará la experiencia del cimarronaje en la literatura Latinoamericana, cómo se usa el ... See more
Ángela Castro, Colorado C
Posted Monday, 4 January 2021
The Value of a Common Read?
One method colleges use to attract students has been the Common Read program. As the humanities face ... See more
Precious McKenzie Stearns, Rocky Mountain College
Posted Thursday, 7 January 2021
Teaching GE Required Great Books Surveys in the 21st Century
How do you teach the canon within the context of the 21st Century in order to engage non majors, in ... See more
Jan Balakian, English/Kean University, Union, NJ. 07083
Posted Friday, 8 January 2021
Translingual Iberia: Peripheries and Mobilities
Please send 250 word abstracts for papers on trans- and multilingualism in cultural production of th ... See more
Catherine Barbour, U of Surrey
Posted Friday, 8 January 2021
Approaches to Teaching American Drama-- from O'Neill to the Present
Call for Abstracts on innovative ways of teaching American plays from O'Neill to the present. Intere ... See more
Jan Balakian, Kean U
Posted Saturday, 9 January 2021
Making the World Lit. Survey Matter to Students
Please send abstracts about exciting ways of teaching your text of choice from Homer to the 21st Cen ... See more
Jan Balakian, Kean U
Posted Saturday, 9 January 2021
Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration
Essays that analyze the diasporic experiences of migratory/postcolonial subjects from the Spanish-sp ... See more
Sonja Stephenson Watson, Texas Christian University
Posted Sunday, 10 January 2021
Black Humor Studies: Thinking--and Rethinking--Satire
We invite 250-word abstracts for papers that query/develop/theorize the genre of Black satire by thi ... See more
John Brooks, Boston C
Posted Monday, 11 January 2021
Not Counting Languages: Naoki Sakai on Multilingualism and Translation
Abstracts and papers invited on aspects of Sakai’s critique of translation as a modern regime and of ... See more
Andrew C. Parker, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
Posted Wednesday, 13 January 2021
The Poetics of Post-Truth in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Literature
Digitization, bigotry, fundamentalisms, and Trumpism have confounded notions of truth in the U.S. Ho ... See more
Liliana Naydan, Penn State U, Abington
Posted Thursday, 14 January 2021
Fighting for the Survival of Minority Languages on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait
Seeking abstracts (500 words) about fighting for the survival of minority languages on both sides of ... See more
Ashley Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Posted Thursday, 14 January 2021
Views of Blackness in Nineteenth-Century British Novels
Going beyond the often-cited black and West Indian characters of the Brontës and William Makepeace T ... See more
Lydia Craig, Loyola U Chicago
Posted Thursday, 14 January 2021
Kerouac at 100
Born in 1922, Jack Kerouac produced a corpus of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that remains popular ... See more
Hassan Melehy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Nancy McCampbell Grace, C of Wooster
Posted Saturday, 16 January 2021
Gloria Naylor: Worlds Reimagined
Please submit a 300 word abstract on any work of Gloria Naylor, her creativity, intertextuality, fem ... See more
Emily Bryan and Michelle Loris, Sacred Heart U
Posted Sunday, 17 January 2021
Counternarratives: Weaving Graphic Narratives in the Local, National, and the Global
Seeking abstracts (300-350 words) on multicultural graphic narratives that counter the hegemonic gra ... See more
Sayanti Mondal, Illinois SU
Posted Monday, 18 January 2021
Climate Fiction: Multilingual Approaches for a Global Crisis
How is a multilingual approach essential to tackling a crisis on a global scale? Seeking papers on t ... See more
Heather O'Leary, Illinois State U
Posted Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Don DeLillo's Underworld at 25
We invite 250-word abstracts for a roundtable discussion about Don DeLillo's Underworld on the twent ... See more
Patrick Whitmarsh, Harvard University
Posted Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Radical Aesthetics and the Rehearsal of Black Liberation
We invite 250-word abstracts for papers about creative expression and Black life-worlds. How do expe ... See more
John Brooks, Boston C
Posted Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Robert Graves, Adaptations and Restagings
The Robert Graves Society invites 250 word proposals on translating the classical world into the con ... See more
Michael Joseph, Rutgers U, New Brunswick and Anett Jessop, U of Texas, Tyler
Posted Monday, 25 January 2021
White Supremacy as Export: Segregation and Jim Crow Beyond U.S. Borders
How did the United States implement segregationist policies outside the U.S.? How did white supremac ... See more
Frances Betty Jaeger, Northern Illinois U
Posted Friday, 22 January 2021
African American Literature and Languages other than English
English is largely understood as the official language of black writing in the U.S. We invite 250-w ... See more
Keith Michael Green, Rutgers U, Camden
Posted Friday, 22 January 2021
Institutional Identity, Literary Studies, and the Secular/Religious Divide
Roundtable on the limits of teaching and studying literature at religious as well as secular univers ... See more
Jack Dudley and David Z. Wehner, Mt. St. Mary’s U
Posted Saturday, 23 January 2021
Race and the Aesthetics of Refusal in Contemporary Latin America/Hemispheric Americas
How are activists/artists engaging in visual/written/performative practices to advocate for the visi ... See more
Marcelo Carosi, Hamilton C and Lee Xie, New York University
Posted Monday, 25 January 2021
Poetry and Pessimism
In an 1892 article, “Poetry and Pessimism,” E. K. Chambers claimed, “Our splendid literature is inve ... See more
John Rooney, Ohio State U, Columbus
Posted Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Romantic Neologisms
Please send 2-page CVs with 250-word abstracts for papers on the creation, significance, and afterli ... See more
Padma Rangarajan, U of California, Riverside and Michele Speitz, Furman University
Posted Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Contemporary Migration in Coming-of-age Novels
We welcome 250-word abstracts (and bio) for papers that examine contemporary migration & diasporas i ... See more
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Posted Thursday, 28 January 2021
Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature
Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature. 300-word proposals featuring ritual as theme or ... See more
Susan Stanford Friedman, U of Wisconsin, Madison and Hertha D. Sweet Wong, U of California, Berkeley
Posted Thursday, 28 January 2021
The Post-Secular and the Long C19
What new vistas—aesthetic, theological, historical, or otherwise—open on Romantic and Victorian text ... See more
Joseph McQueen, Northwest U
Posted Friday, 29 January 2021
Inaugural Poetry
Topics open but can include: the inaugural poem as genre; poetry of politics and poetry as politics; ... See more
Douglas G. Dowland, Ohio Northern U
Posted Friday, 29 January 2021
Rethinking Diasporas
We invite papers exploring new frameworks and languages of global connections through representation ... See more
Subhalakshmi Gooptu, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
Posted Friday, 29 January 2021
Health, Medicine & Literature: Critical Intersections
This session invites papers that explore intersections among literature, medicine and culture, disab ... See more
Rachel Warner, U of North Carolina and Mr. Paul Blom, MA, PhD candidate, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Posted Friday, 5 February 2021
Sexuation at 50: Lacan and Literature
Reappraising the applications to literary study of the formulae of sexuation and the function of the ... See more
Nathaniel Douglas, Indiana U
Posted Saturday, 30 January 2021
Roundtable: Language Access in Rural Communities
Proposed roundtable on the challenges of providing language access (translation and interpretation s ... See more
Tammy Berberi, U of Minnesota, Morris and Thomas Genova, University of Minnesota, Morris
Posted Saturday, 30 January 2021
Borders and Migrations in Latin American and Latinx Literatures
Intersections of literary, border and migration, Latin American, Chicanx and Latinx studies. How Lat ... See more
Pavel Andrade, U of Pennsylvania and Emily Celeste Vazquez Enriquez, U of California, Davis
Posted Saturday, 30 January 2021
Neuroscience and the Humanities
How can neuroscientific research on memory, language, aesthetics, and affect engage in a productive ... See more
Yasuko Kase, U of the Ryukyus
Posted Sunday, 31 January 2021
Perec, Je me souviens/Je me souviens de Perec
Perec et l’après Perec. Je propose une méditation sur Perec et ses traces qui affluent aujourd’hui d ... See more
Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid, U of Florida
Posted Sunday, 31 January 2021
Speculative Afropolitanisms
Seeking papers which assess the intersections of Afropolitanism, speculative fiction, and identity-- ... See more
Ian MacDonald, Florida Atlantic U
Posted Monday, 1 February 2021
Families Torn Apart
This session invites papers on the representations of family separation in contemporary ethnic Ameri ... See more
Hazel Gedikli, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
Posted Monday, 1 February 2021
Therapeutic Culture: Affordances and Limitations
Seeking papers on affordances and limitations of therapeutic culture broadly conceived, including bu ... See more
Valerio Amoretti, Columbia U and Anna Mukamal, Stanford U
Posted Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Transcultural Responses to the “Age of Terror”
This panel welcomes abstracts of papers that examine transcultural literary responses to the War on ... See more
Jay Shelat, U of North Carolina, Greensboro
Posted Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Turning Back to Look Forward
Soliciting abstracts from creative writers who link their work to great literary works of modernism ... See more
Lee Okan, Aberystwyth U, Penglais Campus
Posted Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Afterlives
We invite papers that examine contemporary afterlives of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, particular ... See more
Ashley Polasek, The Conan Doyle Review
Posted Wednesday, 3 February 2021
The Erotics of Blackness in Early Modern English Literature
Any abstracts in which representations of blackness in early modern English drama, prose, or poetry ... See more
William Reginald Rampone Jr., South Carolina State U
Posted Thursday, 4 February 2021
Opening Up: Exploring Alternative Access in Academia
This panel explores the changing enclosures of knowledge. Lockdowns have propelled alternative openi ... See more
Anna Veprinska, U of Toronto and Sarah Jensen, York U
Posted Friday, 5 February 2021
Challenging the One-Drop Rule: Multilingual America and Comparative Racializations
Representations and deconstructions of race in the cultural production of any American language. Spe ... See more
Jarrod L. Hayes, Monash U
Posted Sunday, 7 February 2021
Manifesto: Genre, Technology, Aesthetic
This panel explores experimentation in/with the manifesto form. Papers may bring historical perspect ... See more
Matt Applegate, Molloy C
Posted Sunday, 7 February 2021
Phototextualities in Conflict
This panel invites 250-word abstracts that explore the intersection between narrative and photograph ... See more
Anthony Pearce, U of British Columbia
Posted Sunday, 7 February 2021
The New Californian Fiction
Proposals sought for papers on Californian fiction post-2000. Both single work/author papers and bro ... See more
Michael Docherty, University of Kent
Posted Monday, 8 February 2021
Subversive Settings in 19th-century British Novels
How does setting impact form, plot, genre? Papers on landscapes, domestic spaces, cities, liminal sp ... See more
Janice Niemann, University of Victoria
Posted Monday, 8 February 2021
Linguistics in Times of Pandemic
500-word abstracts exploring the ways in which languages, language use, and language policies have e ... See more
Mariche Bayonas, U of North Carolina, Greensboro and Amanda Boomershine, U of North Carolina
Posted Monday, 8 February 2021
Disunited Kingdom: Irish and British literature and 2022
Abstracts sought regarding literature that illuminates, celebrates, or challenges the history and co ... See more
Mary M. Burke, U of Connecticut, Storrs
Posted Monday, 8 February 2021
Homos at 25
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Leo Bersani's Homos with reappraisals of the ... See more
Austin Svedjan, Louisiana State University
Posted Monday, 8 February 2021
A Laboratory of Her Own: Women and STEM in Contemporary Cultural Productions
This panel explores women and STEM topics including environmental issues, biodiversity, temporal an ... See more
Victoria Louise Ketz, La Salle U
Posted Monday, 8 February 2021
“Alternative” Institutions of Literary Study
Approaches to literary and cultural study in labor schools, experimental colleges, Black/Indigenous/ ... See more
Andrew Hines, Swarthmore College
Posted Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Tactile Poetics
Tactility (the sense of touch) as / of / in metaphor, allegory, material, or textile. How are object ... See more
Clint Morrison, Ohio State U, Columbus
Posted Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Postcolonial Satire
Panel to ponder satire in our postcolonial /post-postcolonial? / neocolonial world: agency, power, r ... See more
Amy Friedman, Temple U, Philadelphia
Posted Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Conceição Evaristo and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Writing.
Seeking proposals that explore the implications of Conceição Evaristo’s oeuvre for the expansion of ... See more
Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues, Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques and Paulo Dutra, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Posted Thursday, 11 February 2021
Britain, Empire, and Global Afterlives: 1850-1950
This panels explores the “undisciplining” possibilities of challenging Anglocentric periodization in ... See more
Oishani Sengupta, U of Rochester
Posted Thursday, 11 February 2021
Remembering the Middle Passage
The Atlantic Seabed, the middle passage, and memorialization. Roundtable to consider oceans, and rac ... See more
Kerry Sinanan, U of Texas, San Antonio
Posted Thursday, 11 February 2021
Reading Literature and Cultural Production through Social Reproduction Theory (SRT): a Roundtable
This session is meant to explore the ways in which SRT can help literary and cultural criticism enga ... See more
Daniella Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania and Sharae Deckard, National U of Ireland
Posted Thursday, 11 February 2021
Critiques of neoliberalism in the contemporary French novel
Representations and critiques of neoliberalism in the contemporary French novel (1980s-forward). How ... See more
Jennifer Willging, Ohio State U, Columbus
Posted Thursday, 11 February 2021
Postmodernism in Humanities: Destruction or Deconstruction?
Postmodernism casts prime doubt on totalizing narratives and views of the contemporary Western world ... See more
Peter Yang, Case Western Reserve U
Posted Friday, 12 February 2021
Elegy/Ecology/Emergency
Is there a place for elegy in a time of pandemic and climactic emergency? Can it grapple with presen ... See more
Travis Alexander, Rice U
Posted Friday, 12 February 2021
Commemorating José Saramago's Centenary
Proposals for a roundtable discussion of José Saramago’s literary legacy. We invite creative, dynami ... See more
André Corrêa de Sá, U of California, Santa Barbara
Posted Saturday, 13 February 2021
The Memory of Things: “Arabia” in Literary and Cinematic Imagination
Send 300-word abstracts for papers that examine the social life, affective response, and/or biograph ... See more
Ileana Baird, Zayed U
Posted Saturday, 13 February 2021
Infrastructures in 19th- to 21st-Century Iberia
Essays on how literature and cultural production engage modern infrastructures in the Iberian Penins ... See more
Carles Ferrando Valero, Bowling Green State U
Posted Monday, 15 February 2021
Accenting Punctuation
Its use in certain genres, as it is used by specific literary figures, or ways in which it is discus ... See more
Albert E. Krahn, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Posted Monday, 15 February 2021
Multilingualism and Modernism
This panel welcomes abstracts that explore multilingualism in modernist literary and cultural produc ... See more
Paige Miller, U of Miami
Posted Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Disability, Race, and the Politics of Care
This session gathers papers that consider relational models of psychiatric and physical disability a ... See more
Davy Knittle, Princeton U and Declan Gould, Temple U, Philadelphia
Posted Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Probing Creativity
We invite papers that examine how writers, composers, or other artists describe their work processes ... See more
Gundela Hachmann, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge
Posted Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Multilingualism in Caribbean Literature
Please submit abstracts about the representation of multilingualism, as both an asset and a detrimen ... See more
Carine M. Mardorossian, U at Buffalo, SU of New York
Posted Wednesday, 17 February 2021
“France during Covid 19: distancing, grief, inequality, solidarity.”
Topics may include, self-quarantine, face mask, stress (relief), children, classroom, workplace, uni ... See more
Eric Touya de Marenne, Clemson U
Posted Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Marxism, Form, and the Future
In what sense are the alternatives to capitalism already present in our cultural forms? Can we detec ... See more
Oded Nir, Queens C, City U of New York
Posted Thursday, 18 February 2021
“Representations of Care / Ethics of Care”
“Representations of Care / Ethics of Care” seeks papers analyzing autonomy, dependency, and interdep ... See more
Chris Gabbard, U of North Florida
Posted Thursday, 18 February 2021
Memory and/as Fiction: Rereading the past in Literature and Film
How do we remember? How do we narrate the things we remember? How do memory studies intersect with o ... See more
Ana Maria Ferreira, University of Indianapolis and Maria Jose Navia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Posted Friday, 19 February 2021
Language and Violence: Literary Mediations in the Anthropocene Epoch
Through notions of subalternity, oppression, hegemonic power, gender & class struggle, this panel ai ... See more
Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim, Washington U
Posted Friday, 19 February 2021
Writing Drawing/Drawing Writing
Abstracts should focus on the relationship between the two 'graphic' acts: writing and drawing. Pres ... See more
Thomas Gould, U of East Anglia
Posted Friday, 19 February 2021
Caribbean Literature and Eco/Feminist Interventions
This panel examines how Caribbean feminisms have influenced the call for environmental justice comin ... See more
Lubabah Chowdhury, Brown U and Christine Okoth, U of Warwick
Posted Friday, 19 February 2021
Resistance, Refusal, and Repair in Poetry Now
Where do we go from here? What roles should poetry play? Hybrid talks, historical, and comparative a ... See more
Nate Mickelson, New York U
Posted Friday, 19 February 2021
Victorian Play, Delight, and Joy
Roundtable on playfulness within nineteenth-century texts, playful approaches to reading/research, m ... See more
Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester C
Posted Friday, 19 February 2021
Communities of/and 19th c studies
How does community shape scholarly practice? Roundtable on positive models of collaboration, new med ... See more
Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U
Posted Friday, 19 February 2021
Anti-Black Racism in a Global Context
Papers addressing anti-Black racism, and resistance to it, in the context of West Asia and other glo ... See more
Nasrin Rahimieh, U of California, Irvine
Posted Saturday, 20 February 2021
Navigating Bi-Racial Identities
How are bi-racial or mixed identities represented in Spanish America in Literature? How have those w ... See more
Monica Styles, College of Charleston
Posted Sunday, 21 February 2021
Bad Revivals
We welcome 250-word abstracts addressing creative, critical, or textual revivals which deviate from ... See more
Rebecca Kastleman, Southern Methodist University and Kelli Shermeyer, U of Oklahoma
Posted Sunday, 21 February 2021
Critical Engagement in Language Pedagogy
This panel seeks 5-6 interventions commenting on the role that content-based language instruction ca ... See more
Luna Najera, Yale U
Posted Monday, 22 February 2021
Queer Fiction in Translation
What happens when works of gay fiction are translated or reviewed in other languages? How does trans ... See more
Joseph M. Ortiz, U of Texas, El Paso
Posted Monday, 22 February 2021
Circuitous Channels: The Communications Circuit at 40
This panel explores the impact, potentials, and limitations of Robert Darnton’s field-defining “comm ... See more
Alec Pollak, Cornell University
Posted Monday, 22 February 2021
Empire, Border, and Sovereignty in Contemporary Afro-Latinx Literature
How do some bodies become "edgy"? How do they push against the limits of nation to cause discomfort, ... See more
Joshua Deckman, Marywood University
Posted Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Indigenous Print Cultures/Indigenous Periodicals
We seek papers on Indigenous Periodicals, esp. on bi-lingual publications in Indigenous languages an ... See more
Cristina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth U and Oliver Scheiding, Johannes Gutenberg U
Posted Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán
Multilingualism, foreign relations, cultural practices, material culture. Racial/ethnic Otherness, p ... See more
Jennifer Lynn Smith, Southern Illinois U
Posted Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Graduate Mentorship and Career Diversity in German Studies
As graduate studies evolve to adapt to current job market realities, how can we provide effective gu ... See more
Julie Shoults, Muhlenberg C and Anke K. Finger, U of Connecticut, Storrs
Posted Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Collectivity in Multilingual Migration Literature
How do multilingual practices in migration literature intersect with imagining novel forms of collec ... See more
Duncan Gullick Lien, Penn State U
Posted Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Mothers in Antiquity
Inviting 250-300 word abstracts that investigate representations of mothers in ancient texts from ac ... See more
Tuhin Bhattacharjee, New York University
Posted Wednesday, 24 February 2021
21st-Century Memory Work
This panel centers 21st-century memory work. Possible topics include: fragility and resilience; glob ... See more
Katharine G. Trostel, Ursuline C and Amanda Sharick, Harvard U
Posted Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Chinese Literary Diaspora in the Postcolonial Context
Writing in foreign languages, how the Chinese diasporic writers in the West transcend and challenge ... See more
Anqi Liu, U of Georgia
Posted Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Bibliomancy
We invite 300-word proposals on representations of bibliomancy (particularly sortes in its various f ... See more
Thomas Ward, United States Naval Acad.
Posted Thursday, 25 February 2021
Latin American Noir
How does the noir genre challenge the conventions of Latin American literary tradition? Welcome disc ... See more
Alexandra Brown, U of Pennsylvania
Posted Thursday, 25 February 2021
The South Asian Diaspora: Dynamics of Change
We invite 200-word abstracts for papers that explore the construction/theorization/rethinking/decons ... See more
Medha Bhattacharyya, BENGAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Posted Thursday, 25 February 2021
Victorian Bodies in the World
This panel examines the poetics and biopolitics of embodiment in relation to the conceptual and geop ... See more
Suvendu Ghatak, U of Florida
Posted Thursday, 25 February 2021
The Orient Writes Back II
The panel welcomes papers focusing on authors who claim the position of "the oriental" in ways that ... See more
Arif Camoglu, Northwestern U
Posted Thursday, 25 February 2021
The Religious Afterlives of Women's Writing
What survives in women’s religious writing? How do religious motifs persist through translation, ref ... See more
Sara Judy, U of Notre Dame
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
Literary Urban Studies and Climate Futures
Organized by the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS), this session welcomes papers engaged ... See more
Davy Knittle, Princeton U and Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi University
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
Poetics of Labor
We invite abstracts (250 words) on the relationship between poetry and the body through capitalist e ... See more
Noa Saunders, Boston University
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
Literature and Informal Empire
How does literature help us understand informal empire both in particular contexts and as a conceptu ... See more
Ross G. Forman, U of Warwick and Jessie Reeder, Binghamton U, State U of New York
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
Literature and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019; McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel aim ... See more
Ted Laros, Open Univ of the Netherlands and Alberto Godioli, U of Groningen
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
Postcolonial Cultural Conservatism
How does the postcolonial condition inflect the significance of cultural conservatism? How do postco ... See more
Adam Spanos, U of Chicago
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
The Multilingual Classroom
This session seeks abstracts (max. 300 words) that examine methods for encouraging multilingual stud ... See more
Kelly Aliano, Long Island U, Post Campus and Dongshin Chang, Hunter C, CUNY
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
Post-Pandemic Program Building
How do we: build collaborations that strengthen our humanities disciplines; leverage gen ed courses ... See more
Thyra Emily Knapp, U of North Dakota
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
Unthinking Literacies
How may we unthink the enumerative approach towards languages implied in multi-lingualism? Are texts ... See more
Eunice Ying Ci Lim, Penn State U, University Park
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
National Abjection at 20
Twenty years since its publication, this roundtable celebrates the impact, enduring relevance, and p ... See more
Rustem Ertug Altinay, Kadir Has Univ and Vivian Huang, Williams College
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
Transcendental Victorians
This panel considers the place of idealism in British literature and culture throughout the epoch of ... See more
Mark Taylor, Stanford U
Posted Friday, 26 February 2021
Multilingual Encounters in Captivity: Italians in POW Camps
We will explore the linguistic and cultural production by Italian POW in the US, UK, Australia, Afri ... See more
Elena Bellina, U of Rochester
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
From disgust to laughter: the art of discomfort
What is the role of discomfort in the construction of a stronger postcolonial consciousness? We invi ... See more
Maude Havenne, Georgetown U
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
Translation and/as Hospitality
This panel seeks to explore interconnections between translation and hospitality from any period, la ... See more
Sevinc Turkkan, Oberlin College
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
The Californian Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch's early work as a poet, playwright, and essayist in California has received little sc ... See more
Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Acad.
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
Historical Poetics Approaches to the Twentieth Century
How might historical poetics—critiques of lyric reading, recovery of non-elite poetics, global Engli ... See more
Lisa L. Moore and Erin Yanota, U of Texas
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
Cautionary Tales as "Vaccines" in French and Francophone Science Fiction and Fantasy Works
Wired's February 2021 issue describes cautionary tales as "vaccines" to avoid terrifying futures. Th ... See more
Emmanuel Buzay, U of Massachusetts, Amherst and Elisabeth Buzay, U of Connecticut, Storrs
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
Textual and literary relations across early modern Eurasia
For a panel on the interconnectedness of early modern Eurasian literatures, send 250-300-word abstra ... See more
András Kiséry, City C, City U of New York and Nigel S. Smith, Princeton U
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
Medieval Realism Redux
In the context of the political crises of the “post-fact” era, papers reconsidering the category of ... See more
Robert W. Epstein, Fairfield U
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
Architectural Spaces in Early Modern Literature
This session proposal welcomes abstracts on representations and functions of architectural spaces/ar ... See more
Katherine Brown, Albright C
Posted Saturday, 27 February 2021
The Language of Protest in Militarized Regions
We invite papers that engages with conflict, sexual violence, and confrontations with the politics o ... See more
Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, JMI Delhi and Nupur Chawla, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Abolition and Literary Study
This roundtable puts literary study in dialogue with the project of PIC abolition to examine what th ... See more
Shea Hennum, Southern Methodist University
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Representing Violence in Twentieth-Century Anglophone Poetry
This session invites papers analyzing the poetics and ethics of twentieth-century Anglophone poetry' ... See more
Sarah Coogan, U of Notre Dame
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Canons, Critique, Archives
How do we query the affordances and challenges of working towards, against, or from a canon? What po ... See more
Manasvin Rajagopalan, University of California, Davis and Neelofer Qadir, U of North Carolina, Greensboro
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
1920s/2020s: Another Modernism? Literature after the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Covid-19
How does Modernist experimentation (including with stream-of-consciousness, memory, and mental/senso ... See more
John Schranck, U of California, Santa Barbara
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Patricia Highsmith at 100: How Might We Teach Her Fiction Now?
What role should biographical information play in teaching Highsmith's novels? Which books and arti ... See more
John L. Schilb, Indiana U, Bloomington
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Multilingualism and World Literature
What is the relationship between multilingualism and world literature? Multilingual texts are today ... See more
Elisa Segnini, U of Glasgow and Gigliola Sulis, University of Leeds
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Roundtable: Cultivating Collaboration in Doctoral Education
We invite students, faculty, and administrators to participate in a roundtable session on building c ... See more
Ruth Curry, Northwestern University and Annie Dwyer, U of Washington, Seattle
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Academic Fiction and the Politics of Multilingualism
Proposals sought on academic fiction engaging with the politics of multilingualism thematically, for ... See more
Almas Khan, Georgetown U
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Transnational Fascist Cultures
How do fascist cultures travel—across media, across borders, across languages? Interdisciplinary and ... See more
Sanders I. Bernstein, U of Southern California
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
The Indigenous Experience in 20th and 2st C Latin American Literature
Submit 250 word abstracts for papers examining the experience, memories and legacies of indigenous p ... See more
Raquel Patricia Chiquillo, U of Houston, Downtown
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
TRANSLATION AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MULTILINGUAL AMERICAS
We invite papers that historicize the translational turn in literary studies by exploring C19 transl ... See more
Jenny Marie Forsythe, Western Washington U and Carmen Lamas, U of Virginia
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Environmental Nihilism: On Ecocatastrophe and Meaning
This panel invites papers that consider the relationship between ecocatastrophe and nihilism/pessimi ... See more
Tyler Harper, Bates College
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Other-than-human Heritability: Imagining Environmental Lineages
How might we imagine inheritance or lineage vis-a-vis other-than-human beings? We welcome papers tha ... See more
Molly MacVeagh and Krithika Vachali, Cornell U
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
The Multilingual U.S Politics of Women's Writing
Preference to 21st and late 20th centuries works as well as girlhood approach. Please, send abstract ... See more
Mercedes Albert-Llacer, University of the Basque Country
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Humanism or Posthumanism?
The session explores connections, conflicts and boundaries between humanism and posthumanism in phil ... See more
Giorgia Bordoni, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Round Table: Let Your Intellectual Life Speak
Seeking participation from teachers and scholars at all professional stages to engage in a dialog wi ... See more
Kieran Kennedy, independent scholar
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
The Politics of Multilingualism
Please, send abstracts and brief bio to mariamercedes.albert@ehu.eus. ... See more
Mercedes Albert-Llacer, University of the Basque Country
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Using OER for Literature Courses at Community Colleges
Open Access literature is scarce, and historical texts in the public domain present their own set of ... See more
Emily A. Hegarty, Nassau Comm C
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Using our power: The MLA, advocacy, and academic labour
How might we use our roles as MLA members, delegates, committee members, forum chairs, etc., to advo ... See more
Meryl Winick, Harvard University and Amy Lynch-Biniek, Kutztown U
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Transnational Narratives of Return in Contemporary Literature
Abstracts between 250-350 words are invited, focusing on narratives of return to a cultural homeland ... See more
Alok Amatya, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
Speculative Adaptations of Blackness
Black Panther, Watchmen, and Lovecraft Country are recent adaptations of speculative fictions that v ... See more
Rebecca A. Wanzo, Washington U
Posted Sunday, 28 February 2021
The Method Armistice
Recent debates emphasize the diverse "methods" of literary studies. But what kind of thinking or pra ... See more
Aurelia Cojocaru, U of California
Posted Monday, 1 March 2021
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