Global Prison Literature
The panel invites paper proposals about modern and contemporary carceral narratives, fictions, and p ... See morePosted Monday, 6 December 2021
Race, Gender & Animality
This panel invites proposals that concern (non)human animality and the histories or logics of race, ... See morePosted Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Audiences, Huddled Masses, Riots: Depictions and Descriptions of Crowds in Literature
This special session invites abstracts on the depiction of crowds in literature of the eighteenth ce ... See morePosted Sunday, 12 December 2021
Magical Realism in French and Francophone Literature
How has Magical Realism been adopted by French and Francophone writers from the beginning of the twe ... See morePosted Monday, 13 December 2021
Representing Grief in American Literature
Nineteenth-century mourning was a "deeply meaningful practice" (Luciano). By the mid-twentieth centu ... See morePosted Tuesday, 4 January 2022
Critical Dialogues: Decolonizing Contemporary Literature in French
Recent calls for decolonizing French cultural institutions invite readings of contemporary literatur ... See morePosted Friday, 7 January 2022
Global Surveillance Cultures: The Arts, Surveillance, and Disruptions
The panel invites paper proposals about surveillance narratives (literature, film, theatre, games, ( ... See morePosted Friday, 7 January 2022
Pre-modern sadomasochisms in and surrounding Europe
Please submit a 300 word abstract on any investigation into pre-modern sadisms and masochisms. Feel ... See morePosted Friday, 7 January 2022
Temporal Turns
What is time? Why and how have questions surrounding temporality become central to queer and Black s ... See morePosted Saturday, 8 January 2022
Asian American Literary Engagement of Natural and Man-made Disasters
Facing the current urgency to establish a dialogue towards planetary consciousness, how can Asian Am ... See morePosted Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Actualizing the possible: reshaping writing departments through the stories we tell
We seek faculty for a roundtable on how writing departments might tell new stories about labor, gate ... See morePosted Friday, 11 February 2022
Accenting Punctuation
Its use in certain genres, as it is used by specific literary figures, or ways in which it is discus ... See morePosted Thursday, 13 January 2022
Writing Aslant: Cross-Gender Voicing in Nineteenth-Century Literature
This panel invites papers that consider literature’s role in representing, producing, and rewriting ... See morePosted Thursday, 13 January 2022
Failure as Literary Method for Creative and Critical Exploration
Queering breakdowns of intention within narratives can invite literary possibilities otherwise omitt ... See morePosted Thursday, 13 January 2022
Liveness in a Remote World
What is the relationship between remoteness and liveness in literature and performance? Any period, ... See morePosted Thursday, 13 January 2022
Hierarchy and Biopower in the Workplace (or, How Not to be Apes in the Ivory Tower)
Can we behave in a biologically pre-programmed manner, at work, while also avoiding tribalistic powe ... See morePosted Thursday, 13 January 2022
Modernism Beyond Borders
This panel invites papers examining how Woolf’s writings have influenced (or helped) other countries ... See morePosted Thursday, 13 January 2022
First-Generation-Student Club
This session convenes around the concerns, experiences, representations, and scholarship on works of ... See morePosted Friday, 14 January 2022
Eco-thinking in 20th century Spain: Gender, Class, and the question of National Construction
This panel seeks to explore how environmentally inspired ideas, behaviors, objects, or associations ... See morePosted Saturday, 15 January 2022
The Limits of Affect
What potential loss and trade-off could a prevailing existence of affect theory bring to literary st ... See morePosted Sunday, 16 January 2022
Afterlives in Racialized Art and Literatures
Papers examine concepts of the afterlife, such as the afterlife of slavery (Hartman), of chemicals ( ... See morePosted Monday, 17 January 2022
World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019, McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel exp ... See morePosted Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Unveiling the New French Standards
During this session participants will view the newly revised French standards published by ACTFL. P ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Proleptic Nostalgia: Navigating the Futures of Future Pasts
Seeking 350-word abstracts assessing intersections of sf and historical fiction in recent (1995-2022 ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Tributes to the 20th century Spanish Literary Canon
This panel asks how scholars can create and study tributes to twentieth century Spanish writers whil ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Migration and Identity in Afro Latin American Literature
This panel invites papers (in English or Spanish) analyzing issues of migration and identity affecti ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 January 2022
Sustaining the Global Hispanophone in a Shifting Academia
This panel welcomes papers showcasing best practices to support work on marginalized cultural produc ... See morePosted Monday, 24 January 2022
Building Professional Dispositions for Undergraduate Humanities Majors
Professional development prepares humanities majors for post-baccalaureate success and undermines my ... See morePosted Monday, 24 January 2022
The Literary Mediterranean
This panel invites proposals that rethink questions of Mediterranean connectivity in terms of (world ... See morePosted Monday, 24 January 2022
Forms of Exile in Chinese Literature, Cinema, and Visual Culture
Seeking papers on the representation of exile, expulsion, banishment, dispossession, and/or disenfra ... See morePosted Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Women and Food in French and Francophone contexts
This panel seeks papers that examine diverse representations of women engaging with food in any form ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 January 2022
Graduate Union Organizing and Scholarship
This roundtable invites graduate students to examine how the day-to-day activities of union organizi ... See morePosted Friday, 28 January 2022
Octavia E. Butler at 76
Octavia E. Butler would be 76 in June had she not died in 2006 at 58. This panel will explore her le ... See morePosted Saturday, 29 January 2022
Signing the Sining: Philippine Literature and the Arts
This session invites papers on how literatures of the Philippines engage with other artistic mediums ... See morePosted Saturday, 29 January 2022
The mode of production and cultural criticism now
This panel will explore how cultural criticism understands and uses the concept of mode of productio ... See morePosted Sunday, 30 January 2022
Transnational Approaches to Settler Ecologies
This panel explores the intersection of settler colonialism and ecological crisis in literature, cin ... See morePosted Wednesday, 2 February 2022
The Future of Language in Multiethnic Art and Literature
We seek papers that discuss language, multilingualism, and translingualism (broadly understood) with ... See morePosted Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Affect and Embodiment at the Margins in the 20th-21st C
This panel invites papers that interrogate the affordances and stakes of mobilizing marginalized aff ... See morePosted Thursday, 3 February 2022
What should an English degree teach, now?
What is at the heart of an English degree? Is it texts or skills? What--if anything--is core materia ... See morePosted Thursday, 3 February 2022
Fetishizing William Shakespeare's First Folio
On the occasion of the 400th. anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, this special sessio ... See morePosted Thursday, 3 February 2022
Queer Galician Studies
This panel welcomes proposals for papers on queer Galician culture, identity, literature, film, etc. ... See morePosted Thursday, 3 February 2022
Eco-Feminism, Eco-Narratives and Eco-Imaginaries in Literature and Media
Regarding gender and age, climate discourse has highlighted asymmetrical structures of power. Acknow ... See morePosted Friday, 4 February 2022
From Segregation to Inclusion: Creating an Identity-Safe World
How can educational institutions move from imposing a one-size-fits-all model to fostering an equal- ... See morePosted Friday, 4 February 2022
Looking Backward, Working Forward: Contemporary Life Writing and the Queer/Trans Past
What strategies are contemporary life writers using to approach queer/trans pasts that remain unreco ... See morePosted Friday, 4 February 2022
Feminist Pedagogy - Towards Intersectional Education
This panel invites paper proposals exploring feminist pedagogy in the modern language classroom (and ... See morePosted Friday, 4 February 2022
Early Modern Tricks, Scams, Cheats
Textual or performative tricks, magic and cunning, cheats in early modern literature, or epistemolog ... See morePosted Friday, 4 February 2022
The Aesthetic Sphere of the Pandemic
This panel invites papers that explore artistic responses to the pandemic, both in its global and lo ... See morePosted Friday, 4 February 2022
Nostalgia, Space, and Ecocriticism in Twentieth-Century Literature
Nostalgia for the past--while often considered reactionary--may align with progressive concerns abou ... See morePosted Saturday, 5 February 2022
Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity
How can we define poetics in the 21st century? How does it relate to poeticity and the classical not ... See morePosted Monday, 7 February 2022
About Suffering: Suffering in Modern Poetry
The panel invites proposals interested in how modern poetry has used and thematized suffering to tal ... See morePosted Monday, 7 February 2022
Working Conditions in the 19th Century Press
The Research Society of Victorian Periodicals seeks paper proposals on all aspects of working condit ... See morePosted Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Afro-Latinx Literature and Anti-Racism in Translation
We welcome anti-racist critiques of Afro-Latinx texts translated into English. What are the implicat ... See morePosted Monday, 7 February 2022
The South Asian Diaspora: Dynamics of Change
We invite 200-word abstracts for papers that explore the construction/theorization/rethinking/decons ... See morePosted Monday, 7 February 2022
Feeling Minor: Affect and Asian America
How does Cathy Park Hong’s concept of “minor feelings” inform Asian American literary and cultural s ... See morePosted Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Global Nikkei Literature
This panel proposes a comparative study of Nikkei literature from a global perspective. How do Nikke ... See morePosted Wednesday, 9 February 2022
Quit / Lit: Literature of Resignation from Bartleby to Present
Following the example set by Melville's Bartleby, this session seeks to sketch a modern literary his ... See morePosted Thursday, 10 February 2022
Better State Forms
Roundtable inviting papers that consider states outside negative critique and through theories of fo ... See morePosted Thursday, 10 February 2022
Codes of Palestine
This panel seeks to invite papers that focus on the ways Palestine is being codified in literature, ... See morePosted Thursday, 10 February 2022
Sade and Materialism
A panel on materialism in Sade's writing and/or materialist readings of his work. Submit abstract an ... See morePosted Friday, 11 February 2022
Latin American Literature and Digital Humanities
This panel invites paper proposals that use Digital Humanities approaches to challenge traditional s ... See morePosted Saturday, 12 February 2022
Solarpunk Labor: Working Conditions in Post-Anthropocene Imaginaries
Representations of new economies and working conditions in solarpunk literature and art. How can lab ... See morePosted Saturday, 12 February 2022
Intermediality and the Global South
This panel invites abstracts that reflect on intermediality as a decolonial practice in Global South ... See morePosted Sunday, 13 February 2022
Indigenous Literatures of the Boarding/Residential Schools in the U.S. and Canada
This panel invites proposals on recent and historical representations of boarding and residential sc ... See morePosted Monday, 14 February 2022
Author Interviews and Postwar African American Literature
How does the author interview figure in postwar African American literary contexts? 250-word abstrac ... See morePosted Monday, 14 February 2022
The “Safe Animal” Sensibility
Do we ask animals represented in media to be safe for their sake or ours? Roundtable on the relation ... See morePosted Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Gender and Class Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
This panel welcomes paper proposals on nineteenth-century literary representations of antagonism—aga ... See morePosted Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Twenty-First-Century Forms
If the novel and lyric poem might be considered residual forms, what literary forms are emerging in ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 February 2022
The New Academic Novel
How does current academic fiction diverge from previous conventions? Is there a new academic novel? ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Multilingualism in South Asia
We invite 250 word proposals which engage with multilingualism in South Asia. How do texts in subcon ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Italian Inspiration, English Aspiration in the Renaissance
Papers are invited exploring features of Italian Renaissance literary and theatrical works that insp ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 February 2022
(Re)producing the Optical Unconscious
This panel invites 250-word abstracts that explore Walter Benjamin’s concept of the optical unconsci ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 February 2022
New Working Conditions in Asian American Studies
Seeking proposals on any aspect of studies in literature, language, and culture that considers, expl ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Race and Lyric Theory
This panel invites proposals that consider the work of race in historicizing and theorizing lyricism ... See morePosted Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Race, Sex, and Performance Culture, 1600-1750
This panel seeks proposals on topics related to race, sexuality, and sexual desire in the performanc ... See morePosted Thursday, 17 February 2022
White Supremacy as Export: Segregation and Jim Crow Beyond U.S. Borders
This special session explores various representations of how segregationist policies, white supremac ... See morePosted Thursday, 17 February 2022
What's new now in Sembène Ousmane?
This session examines the legacy of novelist, filmmaker and public intellectual Sembène Ousmane. 202 ... See morePosted Thursday, 17 February 2022
Experiential Education in the Humanites and Critical Citizenship
Frequently, we decenter the lived experiences of our students in the classroom. This roundtable brin ... See morePosted Thursday, 17 February 2022
Antiracist Reading
Panel on the cultivation of antiracist reading practices. Topics may include the race novel, social ... See morePosted Thursday, 17 February 2022
Post-9/11 Poetry
This panel seeks to explore how 9/11 and the Global War on Terror inspire new forms of poetry to add ... See morePosted Friday, 18 February 2022
Afro-Latinxchanges
This panel explores dialogues across the Americas between people of African descent and people of La ... See morePosted Friday, 25 February 2022
Writing work
How do working-class authors represent writing as a form of labor? How do they understand it in rela ... See morePosted Friday, 18 February 2022
Gardening in Black literature
This panel explores figurations of the plot, the garden, and gardening in Black literature, examinin ... See morePosted Saturday, 19 February 2022
Transcontinental relations across early modern Eurasia and Africa
300-word abstracts about inequalities and asymmetries, both historical and scholarly, of textual pro ... See morePosted Saturday, 19 February 2022
Realism and History in Latin American Literature
This panel invites papers that address the relations between Realism, in its different manifestation ... See morePosted Sunday, 20 February 2022
Asian Solidarities in Art and Literature
This panel invites papers that explore how Asian solidarities are forged among marginalized and dise ... See morePosted Sunday, 20 February 2022
Delirium Anthropocene, Mutagenic Plantationocene: Displacement, Figuration, and Immanence in Contemporary Southern Cone Writing
This panel welcomes abstracts of papers that explore writing by Southern Cone authors in terms of gl ... See morePosted Monday, 21 February 2022
Writing Otherness in Globalized Fictions
How do writers of globalized fiction engage challenges of empathy? How do they invent narrative stra ... See morePosted Monday, 21 February 2022
Sakoku 2.0?: Borders in Modern and Contemporary Japan (Guaranteed LLC Japan Since 1900 Forum Panel)
This panel questions “borders” in the study of Japanese media, literary, and cultural studies across ... See morePosted Monday, 21 February 2022
Precarities in Public Scholarship and on Public Platforms in Japanese Studies (Guaranteed LLC Japan Since 1900 Forum Roundtable)
This roundtable addresses both online harassment of scholars and digital mobilization of scholarship ... See morePosted Monday, 21 February 2022
Believable Narratives, Narrative Realism Today
Rehabilitating narrative reasoning: In the post-truth era, can narrative be severed from association ... See morePosted Monday, 21 February 2022
What Can Faculty Governance Do?
Roundtable on faculty governance and its capacity to influence our working conditions, as well as it ... See morePosted Monday, 21 February 2022
ROUNDTABLE: Translating Work: Legibility and Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities
How does one make interdisciplinarity or unconventional work legible? What is gained or lost in doin ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Queer Pregnancies and (Re)production: Then and Now
We are looking for 250-word abstracts on representations of pregnancy that trouble how reproduction ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Literary Urban Studies and City Planning
This session welcomes papers at the intersection of literary studies and the design professions. Top ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Beyond the Grotesque
If the grotesque is distortion of form, what exists beyond the grotesque? Accepting 150-300 word abs ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Sociology of international circulation of literature
We invite 300-word abstracts and short bio, with clear methodology, examining circulation of literar ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Transgressive Work in Postcolonial Lit
Papers on conditions of transgressive work in postcolonial literature and film. Sex work, piracy, dr ... See morePosted Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Affects, Emotions, and Desires: Perspectives on Postcolonial Masculinities
We invite 250-300 word proposals that explore the contradictions, ambiguities, and affective dissona ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Afro-Optimist Ecologies
This session invites papers exploring Afro-Optimism/Black Optimism from an ecological perspective. W ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 February 2022
The Embodiment of the Alien: Sci-Fi Media Interpretations of the Alien
Conversation on Sci-Fi media about the alien body, human-alien encounters, considerations of extra-p ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Interrogating Cultural Production and Transformative Learning in the Global South And Its Diaspora
We invite 300-words abstracts and CV that addresses ways in which minority literature, cultures, and ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 February 2022
The City in Early Modern Literature
This special session invites papers on early modern literary representations of the city in relation ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Technology Problem Solving Experiential Workshop Co-Designers
Seeking academic technologists, digital scholars, etc. to co-design experiential workshop where atte ... See morePosted Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Queer and Trans Environmental Futures
This session welcomes papers at the intersection of queer and trans studies and the environmental hu ... See morePosted Thursday, 24 February 2022
Ricoeur's Interpretation Theory and Our Work Now
Paul Ricoeur insisted there is always more meaning than can be articulated, appropriated, or underst ... See morePosted Thursday, 24 February 2022
Financial Imperialism and the Economic Humanities
This panel seeks scholars who work in any area of the economic humanities, challenging the broad rub ... See morePosted Thursday, 24 February 2022
Work & Pleasure
How does literature conceive of (dis)pleasure & (anti)work? Possible topics: pleasure in work/anti-w ... See morePosted Thursday, 24 February 2022
Transnational Antifascisms in the mid. 20th Century
This panel discusses histories, theories, and cultural consequences of middle-to-late 20th century i ... See morePosted Thursday, 24 February 2022
Peripheral Modernisms: In Theory
Modernist dislocations across the Global South; invites papers that theorize peripheral literatures' ... See morePosted Friday, 25 February 2022
Boom and Bust
How has nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature shaped and been shaped by boom-and-bus ... See morePosted Sunday, 27 February 2022
Proust and the *Fin de Siècle*
Papers dealing with Marcel Proust and Turn-of-the-Century Aestheticism, Symbolism, and Decadence in ... See morePosted Sunday, 27 February 2022
Responding to the Postcolonial Condition: Discursive Shift and Style in Contemporary African Children's Literature
This panel seeks 200-word abstracts focusing on the discursive shift of 21st century African childre ... See morePosted Sunday, 27 February 2022
Dangerous Undertakings: Black Immigrant Artists at Work
This panel explores the "dangerous undertaking" of artistic representations of the creative, intelle ... See morePosted Sunday, 27 February 2022
The Social Life of Serial Form(s)
We invite proposals on the role of seriality in fostering sociality in racialized or erotic/intimate ... See morePosted Sunday, 27 February 2022
"The Great Tradition" at 75: The Legacies of F.R. Leavis
This session invites proposals exploring the vexed, persistent legacies of The Great Tradition. Prop ... See morePosted Sunday, 27 February 2022
Epistemologies of Transformation: Multilingual Research Conditions in Contemporary Indigenous Thought
We invite papers that address the multilingual conditions of Indigenous literary, philosophical, and ... See morePosted Sunday, 27 February 2022
Territoriality, Migration and Diaspora in/to the Hispanic world
This panel invites papers (English or Spanish) analyzing issues of migration, exodus, diaspora and i ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
How Literacy Changes Institutional Histories
Literacy changed the history of Monticello to include Sally Hemings because socio-historical context ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
The figure of the child as the symbol of resistance in violent politics
The importance of the figure of a child in cinematography for creating the collective memory during ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Romantic and Victorian Crossovers (Roundtable)
We welcome proposals that consider “crossover(s)” broadly: from theorizing across Romantic and Victo ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Legacies of Marxism: Working Conditions in Contemporary China
What is Marxism’s relevance in “Greater China” today? How does contemporary literature continue, eng ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Reading (from) the Postcolonial Archive
What critical practice does a necessarily contingent, multilingual, and heterogenous postcolonial ar ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Reconfiguring Tastes: Gastropolitics, Environmental Resilience, and Climate Futures
How do eating, food sovereignty, and gastropolitics shape narratives of environmental resilience? Wh ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Science Fiction Goes to College
In the 1970s, science fiction became thematically and institutionally entangled with academia. This ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
New Realisms and Social Reproduction Theory
How do new realisms register the carework needed for the reproduction of our social and environmenta ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Boundaries of the Grotesque
Does the grotesque have boundaries? If so what are they? Geographic? Symbolic? Bodily? Abstracts of ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Chicanx/a/o Environmentalisms
Submissions invited for papers on Chicanx/a/o literature and ecocriticism, ecopoetics, animal studie ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
(Re)covering Lost Archives
This panel will address the work of recovering and/or obfuscating archives. Possible topics include ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
‘Out of the Kumbla’ one more time: Caribbean Women Writers and the Literary Landscape
Inspired by Carole Boyce Davies' and Elaine Savory Fido's pioneering collection of essays, this pane ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Sylvia Wynter’s “No Humans Involved”: Towards the Rewriting of Knowledge and Undoing Truths
This panel considers Wynter’s letter as a call to challenge present truths of biocentrism, classific ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Doing Justice: Law and Postcolonial Studies
Legal analyses have been crucial to postcolonial studies' development, but where is the postcolonial ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Caribbean and Black Atlantic Occult Arts
Panel inviting interventions on literary and aesthetic engagements with Caribbean and Black Atlantic ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Figurations of Labor in the Global Early Modern
What forms of labor emerge from early modern genres? How do they mark agency or the lack thereof? Ho ... See morePosted Monday, 28 February 2022
Literacy and the transcendence of capital functions
The mediation of capital as states of being, militarist and neo-primitivist inscriptions. Provides t ... See morePosted Tuesday, 1 March 2022
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