Special Sessions: Calls for Papers

Historical and New Materialist Perspectives on Environment and Ecology
This panel invites 250-300 word abstracts exploring the convergence of historical materialism and ne ... See more
Suvankur Sukul, University of California Santa Barbara
Posted Thursday, 29 February 2024
Literary Agency and Critic-Text Relationship
Drawing on Rita Felski’s proposal this panel seeks 250-500 word abstracts (plus brief bio) that exam ... See more
Leenu Sugathan, The George Washington University and Moumita Chowdhury, University of Hyderabad
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Rethinking National Allegory
This panel examines the current relevance of the interpretive method of national allegory – in all i ... See more
Pratistha Bhattarai, Duke U
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
‘Afterlife’ and ‘Afterlives’: Forms of (Un)Making in the wake of Disasters
This panel examines which forms being can take after disaster (death/genocide/slavery/colonialism/ca ... See more
Ana Claudia Sao Bernardo, Providence C and Collin Wingate, University of California Davis
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
The Visibility of Portuguese Modernity
Except for Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese modernity remains largely invisible in the English-speaking w ... See more
Mario Bastos, University of Lisbon
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
George Bernard Shaw and Nationalism
How did Bernard Shaw's treatments of nationalism in his drama, essays, correspondence, and public st ... See more
Jennifer Buckley, U of Iowa
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
From Source to Text? Methods for French and Francophone Literature
What methods, genetic or otherwise, do scholars have available to make the writing process visible? ... See more
Jeanne Sauvage, Yale U and Thomas Corbani, University of California Berkeley
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Unruly Archives: Women Writing South Asian Literary Fiction
Thinking about South A archival practices and women’s fiction, this panel invites papers on SA women ... See more
Vaishnavi Dube, Independent scholar
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
The Poetics of Wetlands in Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Production
Swamps, fens and bogs are chronotopes that have challenged hegemonic narratives of progress since co ... See more
Aroldo Nery Mora, Washington and Lee U
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Towards a Negative Performance Studies
This panel seeks papers that approach performance as noncompliant and unruly object-of-study. How do ... See more
Lauren Bakst, U of Pennsylvania
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Latinx Speculative Worlds
Inviting papers examining "Latinx Speculative Worlds," broadly defined and imagined--from alternate ... See more
Angie Bonilla, U of California, Santa Cruz
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Strange new connections: exploring the relationship between humans and artificial machines in the age of AI
Topics may include: human–machine relationships in literature, visual & performance arts, human-AI a ... See more
Alina Anton, Alexandru Ioan Cuza U and Lucia Tudor, Universitatea Technica “Gheorge Asachi” (Romania)
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
The Intensification of Inauthenticity: Revealing the Self in the Mundane
This panel invites abstracts that consider how the narratives in both Afrodiasporic literature explo ... See more
Omoyemi Ajisebutu, Northwestern University
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Decoding Trauma in the Global South: What is Visible and What is Unrevealed?
Invites submissions exploring Western and non-Western theoretical frameworks or their conflict in co ... See more
Abhik Banerjee, Georgia State University
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Women Walking
We invite papers that consider what it means to be a woman walking. From the “hot girl walk” to Roma ... See more
Corey Risinger, New York U
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Narrating Spectacle around 1800
Audiences for eighteenth-century theater were more likely to be reading accounts of performances on ... See more
Ellwood H. Wiggins Jr., University of Washington and Tove Holmes, McGill U
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Applied Humanities: The Active Life of Literature
Can poetry save the earth? Submission a 250 word abstract on the following: multi-genre forms in and ... See more
Virginia Ramos, University of San Francisco
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Perspectives on Filipino Culture, Media, and Preservation
Papers on Filipino culture that embrace cultural preservation through new media, including animation ... See more
Clarisse de Jesus, Georgetown University
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Birth, Desire, and the Divine: Sexuality and the Feminine Figure in the Middle Ages
Seeking papers that explore women's writing, sexuality and constructions of femininity in the Middle ... See more
Caitlyn Salinas, Texas A&M U, College Station
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Unholy bodies: women and children control rhetoric in the Spain and Hispanic America
This panel welcomes proposals about representations of discipline via modern Government discourses a ... See more
Genesis Portillo, Hope College and Jannet Torres Espinoza, UC Davis
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
African Women's Writing and (In)visibility:
Abstracts requested for a session on African women whose writings defy what Irene Assiba d'Almeida c ... See more
Cheryl Toman, University of Alabama
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Ecology Without Nostalgia: Form and Futurity
Following methodological interventions in ecocriticism's nostalgic appeals to "nature," this session ... See more
Sarah-Nelle Jackson, University of British Columbia
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares
This panel discusses rhetorical strategies the new/social media users employ to voice for justice, p ... See more
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Invisibility: Languages of the Margin, Stories of the Voiceless
This panel aims to discuss how contemporary global Anglophone/multilingual writers are dismantling t ... See more
Namrata Dey Roy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Literature and the Brain
This session explores two questions: How does literature itself illuminate the functioning of the hu ... See more
Radhika Koul, Claremont McKenna C
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares
This panel discusses rhetorical strategies the new/social media users employ to voice for justice, p ... See more
Sarbagya Kafle, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Posted Thursday, 29 February 2024
Imagining the Future in Contemporary Chicanx and Latinx Literatures
How are race, citizenship, space, gender, and/or the environment imagined through representations of ... See more
Jose R. Diaz Vasquez, Stanford University
Posted Thursday, 29 February 2024
War, literature, and human rights
In light of recent studies on this topic (e.g. Coundouriotis 2014 and 2021) and current conflicts ac ... See more
Ted Laros, Open University of the Netherlands
Posted Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Spanish Louisiana
The Spanish presence in Louisiana dates at least as far back as the French. Papers on Louisiana Span ... See more
Leslie Bary and Richard A. Winters, U of Louisiana, Lafayette
Posted Monday, 27 November 2023
Post-Soul Humor
This panel invites researchers to consider how African American writers deploy humor within what cri ... See more
Jasleen Singh, U of Toronto and Alex Valin, Columbia University
Posted Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Reframing Louisiana Studies
How has Louisiana Studies constructed its object of study? We invite papers offering new perspective ... See more
Nathan Rabalais, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Leslie Bary, U of Louisiana, Lafayette
Posted Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Diachronic Narratology
Abstracts are solicited for a session on developments in narrative over time. Topics could be the pr ... See more
Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg
Posted Thursday, 21 December 2023
Why Literary Studies Needs to Get Fat
This panel asks why considerations of fat/fatness are so often missing from literary studies and ask ... See more
Kendall Dinniene, Southern Methodist University
Posted Saturday, 6 January 2024
Francophone Palestinian Voices
Papers analyzing perspectives and representations about Palestine in works by Palestinian writers in ... See more
Carine Bourget, U of Arizona, Tucson
Posted Monday, 8 January 2024
Lyric Poetry and Disability
What forms of generative pressure do disability and deafness exert on the body of lyric? How does "l ... See more
Nikki Skillman, Indiana University
Posted Wednesday, 10 January 2024
William Carlos Williams and Jazz
Proposals and on William Carlos Williams and Jazz, broadly conceived as allusion (e.g. Bunk Johnson ... See more
Stephen Hahn, William Paterson U
Posted Thursday, 11 January 2024
Arabic Historical Novel
Seeking abstracts addressing: genealogies, trajectories, contemporary directions of the Arabic histo ... See more
Brady Ryan, U of Southern California
Posted Saturday, 13 January 2024
Visibility of Envy: Politics and Poetics
Taking the lead from Fredric Jameson's continuous valorization of envy across his oeuvre, how has en ... See more
Xinyu H. Zhang, Cornell U
Posted Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Queer Historical Poetics
What is the relationship among queer theory, sexuality studies, and historical poetics? Consideratio ... See more
James Mulholland, North Carolina State U
Posted Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Sick, Sad Girls: Experiences of Chronic Illness in Women's Poetry
Inviting submissions for a panel on women's pain and illness experiences in poetry, particularly usi ... See more
Maria Rovito, Penn State Harrisburg
Posted Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Collective Performance and Writing Since 1900
This session focuses on collaborations among performers and/or writers in the 20th and 21st centurie ... See more
Alexander Diaz-Hui, Princeton U
Posted Wednesday, 17 January 2024
The Bible as Literature for the 21st century
8 pages or 750 word abstracts offering innovations regarding “The Bible as Literature." Possible top ... See more
Cynthia Scheinberg, Roger Williams U
Posted Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Trans/Temporalities Toward the End of This World
This panel asks how temporality overdetermines racialized, gendered modes of being in the world and ... See more
Liz Rose, University of Pennsylvania
Posted Thursday, 18 January 2024
Conflicting Views of Capitalism
How might established anti-capitalist approaches to literary studies (e.g. Michaels, Berlant, Newfie ... See more
Kyle Garton-Gundling, Christopher Newport University
Posted Friday, 19 January 2024
Black Fantasy Worldbuilding
Seeking papers addressing Black fantasy worldbuilding and the negotiation of fantasy space in Afro-/ ... See more
Ian MacDonald, Florida Atlantic University
Posted Friday, 19 January 2024
(In)Visibilities during Francoism
We invite papers that explore any kind of political/identity (in)visibility and its representation d ... See more
Enrique Muñoz-Mantas, U of Florida / U of North Dakota
Posted Friday, 19 January 2024
The Hope of Hybridity
The generative potential and transcendence of hybridity in all its deployments including mythology, ... See more
Claire Sommers, Washington University in St Louis
Posted Saturday, 20 January 2024
Decolonizing the Historical Spanish Empire
This panel will interrogate decolonization efforts, sentiments, and methods of throughout the Spanis ... See more
Meghan Hodges, Louisiana State University and Grace Miller, Binghamton U, SU of New York
Posted Monday, 22 January 2024
Siglo Latinx: New Perspectives on Spanish Golden Age Theatre Performance in the Americas
Siglo Latinx is the study of Latin American artists adapting early modern Hispanic plays. This panel ... See more
Erin Cowling, MacEwan U and Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, Ohio Wesleyan University
Posted Monday, 22 January 2024
404 File Not Found: Deleted, Discarded, and Defunct Projects in the Digital and Data Humanities
Roundtable discussion of digital projects and data sets rendered invisible (due to neglect, lack of ... See more
Edward Whitley, Lehigh U
Posted Monday, 22 January 2024
Diaspora and Partition
Seeking abstracts on partition and diasporic literature and the impact of partition on cultural and ... See more
Maria Hadjipolycarpou, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter College
Posted Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Louisiana in World Literatures
How is Louisiana (its history, its culture, and/or its folklore) depicted in literary, artistic, and ... See more
Jeanne Jegousso, Hollins University and Emily O'Dell, McNeese State University
Posted Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Conjuring Afterlives: Reverberations of Slavery, Colonialism, and Empire in Caribbean Fiction
We seek abstracts of 250-300 words relating to afterlives of colonialism in Caribbean fiction. After ... See more
Cristina Esteves-Wolff and Gabriela Lomba Guzman, The University of Chicago
Posted Wednesday, 24 January 2024
(In)Visibility of Adjuncts
Visible to students but invisible to faculty/administration for governance, pay, and benefits, this ... See more
Dr. Stacey Amo, U of Wisconsin, Superior and Amee Schmidt, Marshalltown Community C, IA
Posted Thursday, 25 January 2024
Contemporary Earthquake Literatures: Global Contexts
This panel explores forms of contemporary earthquake literatures across different contexts. Possible ... See more
Nergis Ertürk, Penn State U and Merve Tabur, Utrecht University
Posted Friday, 26 January 2024
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 Saturday, 27 January 2024
Abandoned by God: On Secularization and the Modern Novel
Scholars are invited to delve into ways in which the modern novel endures the lingering echoes of re ... See more
Xena Amro, Northwestern University
Posted Saturday, 27 January 2024
Necropolitical Violence and Visibility
Inviting submissions for a panel on the relationship between necropolitical violence and visibility. ... See more
Muhammad Farooq, Seton Hall U
Posted Sunday, 28 January 2024
The Art of the Book Review
I invite 200-word abstracts on the art of the book review. Possible topics, among many: historical d ... See more
Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Acad.
Posted Sunday, 28 January 2024
Ralph Ellison in/and World War II-era Periodicals
I invite 200-word abstracts on Ralph Ellison's involvement with periodicals during World War II. Pos ... See more
Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Acad.
Posted Monday, 29 January 2024
Stefan Zweig and the Global South
Once seen as the quintessential European, the Zweig of the 21st century has rendered visible a more ... See more
Birger Vanwesenbeeck, SU of New York
Posted Monday, 29 January 2024
20th Century Black Literary Ecologies
This panel seeks 250-300 word abstracts exploring political and aesthetic questions across 20th cent ... See more
Alex Alston, Rutgers University New Brunswick
Posted Monday, 29 January 2024
The Magic After the Magical Realism in Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Fiction
How do contemporary Latin American and Latinx Fiction reframe expectations associated with the Latin ... See more
Ethel Barja Cuyutupa, Salisbury University
Posted Tuesday, 30 January 2024
AI and Authorship
Which implications does generative AI technology have for our understanding of what an author/creato ... See more
Gundela Hachmann, Louisiana State University
Posted Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Translating Black and Indigenous (In)Visibility from Portuguese
Papers exploring approaches and challenges in the literary translation of Black and Indigenous texts ... See more
Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Posted Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Blueprint, Model, Building: Architecture and the Novel
Papers that explore the relation between architecture and the novel across styles, modes, genres, an ... See more
Pavel Andrade, Texas Tech University
Posted Wednesday, 31 January 2024
What is Palestinian American Literature?
Should Palestinian American literary study exist as a discrete field? Histories, theories, disciplin ... See more
Benjamin Schreier, Penn State U, University Park
Posted Wednesday, 31 January 2024
The Impact of Generative AI Tools on Language Education
Language educators are invited to discuss the impact of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool ... See more
Teresa Lobalsamo, University of Toronto Mississauga, Dpt of Language Studies and Dellannia Segreti, U of Toronto
Posted Friday, 2 February 2024
Literary Study Hesitant
This panel seeks 250-300 word abstracts exploring problems, visible and invisible, in the methodolog ... See more
Seth Cosimini, Columbia U and Ryan Sheldon, Middlebury College
Posted Thursday, 1 February 2024
Women Writing War: Visibility and Representation in South Asian Literary Fiction
Abstracts solicited to explore women's role in writing violence in S Asia. How has the question of v ... See more
Aparajita De, University of the District of Columbia
Posted Thursday, 1 February 2024
Edward Said’s Legacy Today
Twenty years since his passing and almost half a century since Orientalism was published, how has Sa ... See more
Noelle Brada-Williams, San José State U
Posted Friday, 2 February 2024
Materiality and Materialism in Poetry and Drama of the English Renaissance
This session seeks proposals for papers on topics of materiality and materialism in English Renaissa ... See more
Vincent Mennella, Southern Methodist University
Posted Friday, 2 February 2024
Visualizing Risk in the 20th & 21st Century
This MLA Special Session Panel invites papers that interrogate “risk” as a political, visual, and/or ... See more
Elaine Cannell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Posted Friday, 2 February 2024
World Literature and Visibility
This round table invites papers about hegemonic inclusion/exclusion and its representation in World ... See more
Thais Rutledge, U of Texas, Austin
Posted Friday, 2 February 2024
Southwest/Borderlands/Frontier: Representing an Inter-Imperial Space
This panel seeks papers on cross-media analyses of narrative setting with a special emphasis on pre- ... See more
Kristian Ayala, Stanford U
Posted Friday, 2 February 2024
Post-Tanzimat Ottoman Literature Made Visible
New work in Ottoman literature that goes beyond the Westernization paradigm. Possible approaches: th ... See more
Sezen Unluonen, Tel Aviv University
Posted Saturday, 3 February 2024
Early modern meritocracies: Conceptualizations of value, valorization, achievement and entitlement in early modern literature and culture
Some cultural narratives that are today classified as 'meritocratic' gained traction in the early mo ... See more
Eva Ulrike Pirker and Maria Pace Aquilina, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Posted Monday, 5 February 2024
Gothic Wilde
In what ways did Oscar Wilde appropriate, influence, parody, or otherwise participate in the Gothic ... See more
Sandra Leonard, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Posted Monday, 5 February 2024
"Don't Look Away": Seeing Children in Conflict
This panel investigates images of children that circulate during global wars, protests, and conflict ... See more
Amber Sweat, University of California Berkeley
Posted Monday, 5 February 2024
Critical Perspectives on Ottoman Racialization
Inviting submissions that engage critical race studies to explore processes / technologies / structu ... See more
Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, University of Pennsylvania and Berkay Uluç, University of Michigan
Posted Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Comparative Visions of Modernity in West Asia and the Middle East
Seeking abstracts addressing the link between modernity and vision in Middle Eastern-West Asian lite ... See more
Mehtap Ozdemir, Emory University
Posted Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Visibility and Black Public Rhetoric
Seeking papers on seeing and being seen in African American public speaking and performance, C18 to ... See more
Laura L. Mielke, U of Kansas
Posted Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Canary Islands Studies: Exploring an (in)visible field in the classroom
Is the academic study of the cultural and literary production from the Canary Islands (in)visible ou ... See more
María Hernández-Ojeda, Hunter College-CUNY and Nayra Ramirez, U of Pittsburgh
Posted Saturday, 10 February 2024
Education for Freedom: The Liberal Arts and Popular Democracy in the United States.
Do or can the liberal arts function as an education for freedom within the contemporary United State ... See more
Peter Powers, Messiah University
Posted Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Difference in Unity: Polyphony, Perspectivism, and Diverse Points of View
Seeking abstracts that explore polyphony and/or multiple perspectives in transnational and/or ethnic ... See more
Aristides Dimitriou, Gettysburg C
Posted Monday, 12 February 2024
American Women's Mobility Narratives
This special session will explore women's mobility as exemplified through American women's fiction, ... See more
Nina Bannett, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Posted Thursday, 8 February 2024
Making Visible: Conrad, Poland, and World Literature
On the centenary of Conrad’s death, 250-word paper proposals sought on Conrad’s place in world liter ... See more
Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University
Posted Thursday, 8 February 2024
Claudel et la femme/Claudel's Representation of Women
The session explores the importance of women in Claudel's theater, poetry, criticism, and exegesis. ... See more
Eric Touya de Marenne, Clemson U
Posted Thursday, 8 February 2024
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of John Fletcher, Early Modern English Playwright and Shakespearean Collaborator
Submit abstracts concerning any dramatic work that Fletcher wrote, especially single-authored plays ... See more
William Reginald Rampone Jr., South Carolina State U and Celia Caputi, Florida State U
Posted Friday, 9 February 2024
Henry Green Today
Reconsidering the work of Modernist novelist Henry Green, a quintessential "writer's writer." Questi ... See more
Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana U, Bloomington
Posted Friday, 9 February 2024
Labor in African-American Literature
This session invites presentations on the role of labor and working in African-American literature a ... See more
Jacob DeBrock, The University of Mississippi
Posted Friday, 9 February 2024
Radical Futures and Decolonization: Law, Marxism, and World Literature
Seeking proposals that consider literary and/or legal texts and questions in relation to race, class ... See more
Philip Kaisary and Cait Jones, Carleton University
Posted Friday, 9 February 2024
Constructions of Race, Modernity, and Health in Nineteenth-Century America
This panel invites scholars to examine the intersection of constructions of race, health/wellness, a ... See more
Phil Bax, Southern Methodist University
Posted Friday, 9 February 2024
The Wild City
This special session seeks 250-word abstracts that consider encounters of wildness in urban landscap ... See more
Matthew Lambert, Northwestern Oklahoma State University
Posted Saturday, 10 February 2024
Local/Global Scales: Provincializing the National
This session welcomes papers showcasing an interplay of local and global scales that provincializes ... See more
Federica Di Blasio, Hamilton College
Posted Saturday, 10 February 2024
Teaching Indigenous Languages: Fostering Multilingual Classrooms and Decolonial Methodologies across Abiayala
We invite papers that explore academic programming and pedagogical curricula for Indigenous language ... See more
Tiffany D. Creegan Miller, Colby College and Leila G. Gomez, University of Colorado Boulder
Posted Saturday, 10 February 2024
Information, Technology, and Literary Forms
This panel invites presentations that consider how literary forms interact with the discourse and ma ... See more
Lu Han, Cornell University, Romance Studies and Chengxiang Lin, Cornell University, Asian Studies
Posted Sunday, 11 February 2024
"Spoiling This Wonderful Falsehood” - Japanese Video Games and Critiques of Western Worlding
This panel on video games explores Japanese perspectives and critiques of Western Worlding. Particul ... See more
Austin Anderson, Howard U and David Hall, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Posted Sunday, 11 February 2024
Gulf South/Global South
This session invites papers exploring literary and cultural links between the U.S. Gulf South and th ... See more
Leigh Anne Duck, The University of Mississippi
Posted Sunday, 11 February 2024
Self-Publishing in the Digital Age
Inviting papers about the rise of self-publishing digital platforms (Wattpad, Amazon's Kindle Direct ... See more
Oana Sabo, Tulane University
Posted Sunday, 11 February 2024
Posthuman Studies
The Posthuman Studies session welcomes abstracts/papers that deal with the application of literary t ... See more
Akim Golubev, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Posted Monday, 12 February 2024
Rethinking the Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in English for a New *Quarter* Century
This roundtable seeks a mix of six current or recent English Master’s and Doctoral graduate program ... See more
Rik Hunter, The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Posted Tuesday, 13 February 2024
(In)Visibility as a Form of Protest in Contemporary German-speaking Surveillance Cultures
This panel explores how artists, writers, filmmakers, and game designers construct, experiment, oppo ... See more
Sarah Koellner, Washington University in St Louis
Posted Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Gullah narratives in American Literatures
Drawing upon our New Orleans context, seeking papers on the presence of Gullah/Geechee folklore and ... See more
Feroza Jussawalla, The University of New Mexico
Posted Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Céline Sciamma: film director, screenwriter, activist.
Céline Sciamma: film director, screenwriter, activist. An emphasis on the cinematography and mise-en ... See more
Olivier Morel, U of Notre Dame
Posted Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Words and Music
From talking drums to “wordless rhetoric,” music is commonly understood by analogy to language. Seek ... See more
Charlie Hankin, Pitzer College
Posted Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Asian American Queer, Trans, Feminist Relationality
This panel turns to expressive forms that are invisibilized through white, ableist, cishetero and ho ... See more
Phuong Vuong, U of California San Diego and Stef Torralba, Grinnell College
Posted Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Encounters with Race and the Animal
How has the philosophical entanglement of race and the animal informed the lived experiences of huma ... See more
Savannah DiGregorio, Vanderbilt University
Posted Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Creoles and Criollos: Visibility of Colonial Subjects and Cultures in Louisiana and Beyond
The 18th and 19th century Spanish and Iberian Forum invite papers that explore the intersections or ... See more
Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, University of Mary Washington
Posted Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Agnotology in Literature, Culture, and the Arts
Agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance, has emerged as a critical lens to examine the ... See more
Amit Ray, Rochester Institute of Technology
Posted Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Rural as Periphery in Latin America
This panel invites papers that explore configurations of rural spaces in Latin American literature o ... See more
Lenin Lozano-Guzman, U of Pennsylvania
Posted Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Milton's Poetry and Prose: 17th Century History
This special session welcomes papers that contextualize Milton's poetry or prose--or Miltonia--withi ... See more
Hugh F. Wilson, Grambling State University
Posted Sunday, 18 February 2024
Rethinking John Addington Symonds
New approaches to the work of the late-Victorian writer, particularly in light of the 2016 publicati ... See more
Richard Allen Kaye, Hunter C, City U of New York
Posted Thursday, 15 February 2024
Max Beerbohm Now
Submissions considering aspects of the writer's life and legacy such as satire and parody (literary ... See more
Richard Allen Kaye, Hunter C, City U of New York
Posted Thursday, 15 February 2024
Beyond Modernismo's Excess
This panel invites papers that examine the modernista canon and its archives beyond the registers of ... See more
Juan G. Ramos, C of the Holy Cross
Posted Thursday, 15 February 2024
Revised, Updated, and Unabridged: Rereading José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of the Night
The upcoming release of the first unabridged English translation of Donoso’s novel asks us to reflec ... See more
Joe Larios, Emory U
Posted Thursday, 15 February 2024
New Theoretical Trends in Iberian Visual Cultures
We welcome proposals that consider recent approaches to visual media and cultures in contemporary Ib ... See more
Xavier Dapena, Iowa State University and Caroline Colquhoun, U of Alaska, Fairbanks
Posted Thursday, 15 February 2024
Incarcerated Writing Today
The panel seeks to examine terms of production and examples of the literature produced by mass incar ... See more
Joseph Lockard, Arizona State University
Posted Thursday, 15 February 2024
Exploring Jin Ping Mei: Unveiling the Multifaceted Dimensions of the First Chinese Novel in the Ming Dynasty
This panel welcomes submissions exploring the intricate dimensions of Jin Ping Mei, China's first no ... See more
Zhenxing Zhao, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Posted Thursday, 15 February 2024
The New Media Classroom at Open Admissions Colleges
This session aims to consider how open admissions institutions can utilize New Media content to enha ... See more
Aaron Duplantier, Nicholls State U
Posted Friday, 16 February 2024
Re-Visioning as Resistance: Modernizations of the Western Canon
This roundtable invites papers on contemporary retellings of the canon as cultural and/or political ... See more
Prof. Elizabeth J. Toohey, Queensborough Comm C, CUNY
Posted Friday, 16 February 2024
Alliances, genealogies, knots: forms of literary activism in Latin America
This panel proposes a reflection on diverse and cooperative forms of political engagement in Latin A ... See more
Oriele Benavides, Princeton University
Posted Friday, 16 February 2024
Monstrous Souths: A Gothic Now Roundtable
What role does invisibility/ hypervisibility play in constructing Gothic (Global) Souths? Through th ... See more
Maisha Wester, University of Sheffield
Posted Friday, 16 February 2024
Seeing and Being Seen: Fostering Connection and Engagement in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This panel explores faculty experiences focused on amplifying the voices and perspectives of underre ... See more
Angela Mooney, Texas Woman's University
Posted Friday, 16 February 2024
Women in the early history of comics (1800s-1950s)
How did women artists or women's magazines contribute to the formation of the medium known today as ... See more
Camila Gutiérrez, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Posted Friday, 16 February 2024
Social Media and the Discourse of Racism
The mechanisms and rhythms of social media tend to privilege sensationalist content. How has the ris ... See more
David Tse-chien Pan, University of California Irvine
Posted Saturday, 17 February 2024
Guerrilla Aesthetics: Invisibility, Anti-Imperialism, and Militant Regeneration
This panel investigates the links between guerrilla insurgencies and aesthetics; anti-imperialism an ... See more
John Maerhofer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
Posted Saturday, 17 February 2024
Bordering Queerness
Thinking critically about both borders and sexuality, this panel invites papers that border on queer ... See more
Ketan Jain, Tufts University
Posted Saturday, 17 February 2024
(Re)Writing the "New Woman"
This panel welcomes submissions that disrupt the concept of the "New Woman" by engaging late ninetee ... See more
Gianna Bacchetta, Tufts U
Posted Saturday, 17 February 2024
Literary Scholars Writing Collective Biographies
This panel seeks submissions from literary scholars who have written or are writing a prosopography. ... See more
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Latinx Archival Forms
How do contemporary Latinx writers engage archives through formal procedures such as erasure, docume ... See more
Mariajosé Rodríguez Pliego, Northwestern University and Olivia Lott, Princeton University
Posted Saturday, 17 February 2024
Behind the Obscure: Possessions, Position and Memories in Orhan Pamuk’s Writings
This panel seeks abstracts discussing how individual and collective traumas connected to images, obj ... See more
Funda Guven, Nazarbayev University
Posted Sunday, 18 February 2024
Rewriting History Through Fiction
250-word abstracts on historical fiction as a mode of visibilizing what has been footnoted or writte ... See more
Jenny Bhatt, The University of Texas at Dallas
Posted Sunday, 18 February 2024
Concrete Jungles: Hip Hop and the Global City
Seeking papers that explore the relationship between hip hop and the global city. How do urban lands ... See more
Akshara Dafre, Texas A&M University
Posted Sunday, 18 February 2024
How Ballads Mean
The longevity of ballads, as non-authorial texts, is impressive, but how they "mean" as narratives i ... See more
Alan Rauch, U of North Carolina, Charlotte
Posted Monday, 19 February 2024
Theorizing "Twinks" in Literature, Culture, and Cinema
What is queer theory's relationship to the "twink"? This panel welcomes submissions that use differe ... See more
Rahul Sen, Tufts U
Posted Monday, 19 February 2024
Delany and the Pornographic
A session on the pornographic works of Samuel R. Delany, especially his late-career pornographic tur ... See more
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, The University of Chicago and David S. Kurnick, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
Posted Monday, 19 February 2024
Writers as Historians in Slavic Literatures: Poetics vs. Facts
This panel will explore the impact of literary techniques and historiographical interventions by fic ... See more
Marianna Petiaskina, University of California Los Angeles
Posted Monday, 19 February 2024
Unseen Forces: Aesthetic Engagements with the Otherworldly
How do aesthetic engagements with otherworldly dimensions—via esoteric practices of spellwork, astro ... See more
Anna Mukamal, Coastal Carolina University and Victoria Papa, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Posted Monday, 19 February 2024
Queer/Trans/Feminist Fronteras
Seeking papers on Latin American and Latinx queer/trans/feminist engagements with corporeal, geopoli ... See more
Mathilda Shepard, Texas Tech University
Posted Monday, 19 February 2024
Italian Emigration in Film
Seeks to discuss how filmmakers have documented Italians emigrating abroad. Filmic analysis through ... See more
Chiara De Santi, Farmingdale State C, State U of New York
Posted Monday, 19 February 2024
Disabilities Studies in Art and Literature
Looking for work that considers invisible disability in works of literature, art, philosophy, etc. S ... See more
Caitlin Simmons, Southern University and A&M College
Posted Monday, 19 February 2024
Transmedial Articulations of Blackness and Afrocyberactivism in Spain
Please submit 250-word abstracts related to the digital self-positionings of Afro-Spaniards, focusin ... See more
Jeffrey Coleman, Northwestern University and Julia Borst, Univ of Bremen
Posted Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Poverty and Renunciation in Early Modern Literature
This panel invites papers on representations of poverty in Early Modern literature that think critic ... See more
Goutam Piduri, Brown University
Posted Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Making Citation Visible: Merging and Emerging Visions of MLA Style
This roundtable invites discussion on re-envisioning MLA style in the digital world, including adapt ... See more
Beth Kramer and Rick Cole, Boston University
Posted Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Literature and Culture from Lusophone Africa
This panel examines literary and cultural expressions from Portuguese-speaking African countries. P ... See more
Patrícia H. Baialuna de Andrade, Brigham Young U, UT
Posted Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Chivalry is Dead? Medieval Masculinity and Its (Ir)Relevance
Exploring medieval conceptions of masculinity, what the "medieval masculine" could mean, how it is e ... See more
Megan Maldonado, Columbia University
Posted Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Highlighting Antarctica's Visibility through Literary and Cultural Texts
With global warming and climate change on the rise, we must make Antarctica more visible on the worl ... See more
Ellen Cressman Frye, William Paterson University of New Jersey
Posted Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Emerging Visible Age/Aging Studies in Humanities
How do age scholars make their age studies work visible in disciplines that haven’t established a ‘v ... See more
Roya Liu, Stony Brook U, State U of New York
Posted Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Indigenous ARTivism in Latin America
If you are working on the artistic representation of the socio-cultural and political legacy of land ... See more
Nicole Bonino, U of Virginia
Posted Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Visible Affects, Invisible Violence: A Postcolonial Problem
Invites papers on the enmeshed relationship between affect and violence in postcolonial literature, ... See more
Shwetha Chandrashekhar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Posted Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Off The Camera, On The Page: Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century Reader and Writer
Marilyn Monroe was a reader, writer, and poet. This panel solicits papers that read her hypervisible ... See more
Alessandra Occhiolini and Onur Ayaz, CUNY Graduate Center
Posted Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Attunement, Atmosphere, Resonance
How do contemporary theorizations of attunement (Rita Felski, Zadie Smith, Hartmut Rosa) reconceptua ... See more
Rachel Wong, University of Chicago
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Hospitality and Contemporary Global Fiction
In our era of unprecedented displacement, how does fiction engage with the stakes of welcoming the m ... See more
Penny Vlagopoulos, St Lawrence University
Posted Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Visible Value: Career Readiness in the Classroom
This roundtable will explore strategies for incorporating career awareness and readiness into underg ... See more
Kimberly Hall, Wofford C and Heidi Lawrence, George Mason U
Posted Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Premodern Practices of Space in Iberia and the Americas: Digital Perspectives
We welcome papers which engage with the digital turn to explore how (physical, textual, visual, etc. ... See more
Marija Blašković, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Campus del Mar
Posted Thursday, 22 February 2024
The World's Borough: Queens in the Literary Imagination
Like New Orleans, Queens has historically served as a meeting point for communities from all across ... See more
Francisco Delgado, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Posted Thursday, 22 February 2024
Prompt Engineering as Rhetoric, Literary Criticism, and Creative Writing
This session aims to discuss how the deliberate design of prompts can serve as a critical and creati ... See more
Jong-Keyong Kim, Texas Christian University
Posted Thursday, 22 February 2024
Teaching Generation Z
This panel explores the challenges and benefits of teaching Generation Z students by examining appro ... See more
Nicole Mills, Harvard U
Posted Thursday, 22 February 2024
Indigenous Literatures Now!
Mishuana Goeman and Cristina Stanciu invite abstracts for papers examining recent theoretical, metho ... See more
Cristina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth U and Mishuana Goeman, U of California, Los Angeles
Posted Thursday, 22 February 2024
Is Visibility Still a Trap? Rethinking Visibility in Queer and Trans Studies
Dominant queer and trans studies frameworks still tend to see visibility as a ‘trap’. We invite 200- ... See more
Guy Davidson, U of Wollongong and Ben Nichols, U of Manchester
Posted Sunday, 25 February 2024
Landed Solidarity: The Medieval in Place
This session explores Indigenous-informed land-centric and place-based approaches to the Global Midd ... See more
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette, Cornell U
Posted Thursday, 22 February 2024
Apertures of Access: Neoliberal Grammars of White Supremacy
How do Black texts enable or restrict the visibility of neoliberal grammars of white supremacy? Plea ... See more
Diana Molina, Rutgers University New Brunswick and Sophie Ziner, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Silicon Valley Beyond the Valley
Seeking 250-word abstracts on narratives of the tech industry and the digital beyond the Valley itse ... See more
Robert Nguyen, Penn State University
Posted Thursday, 22 February 2024
Fairy-Tale and Fairyland-Fiction Psychoanalysis
I seek Presentations that reflect upon the Fairy-Tale and Fairyland-Fiction genre through a Psychoan ... See more
Padmini Sukumaran, Kean University
Posted Thursday, 22 February 2024
Reconsidering a Legacy: Tom Robbins and the Postmodern Novel
This session seeks scholarship that engages Robbins's novels with critical, transdisciplinary method ... See more
Erin Devine, Northern Virginia Community College
Posted Friday, 23 February 2024
La (in)visibilidad de la maternidad
While motherhood and womanhood tend to be equated in Spanish-speaking cultures, recent works by wome ... See more
Catherine Bourland Ross, Southwestern U
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Affective Economies of the (Greater) Caribbean
We invite papers interrogating the affective dimensions of labor, consumption, extractivism, tourism ... See more
Cristina E. Pardo Porto, Syracuse U and Zorimar Rivera Montes, Tulane University
Posted Friday, 23 February 2024
Poetry after Gaza
With an eye on Adorno's ban on poetry after Auschwitz, this special session seeks reflections on the ... See more
Nouri Gana, University of California, Los Angeles
Posted Friday, 23 February 2024
Uncanny Poetics: New Insights into Obscure Interests
This special session considers the uncanny elements of poetry, and asks how the uncanny inform our a ... See more
William Arguelles, CUNY Graduate Center and Clint Morrison, U of Texas, Austin
Posted Friday, 23 February 2024
Representations of Working-Class Life in Contemporary Fiction
Seeking papers interrogating working-class life, cultures, and identities as represented in 21st-cen ... See more
Simon Lee, Texas State U
Posted Saturday, 24 February 2024
The Power of Pages: Enhancing Visibility and Dialogue on Diversity Through Children’s and Young Adult Literature
This panel explores how children’s and young adult literature can facilitate discussions on sensitiv ... See more
Liza Bolen, U of New Brunswick and Pooja Booluck-Miller, University of New Brunswick
Posted Sunday, 25 February 2024
Motherhood in Visual Media
This special session will investigate how representations of motherhood in visual media complicate n ... See more
Rosette Simityan and Yasmin Mendoza, University of California Davis
Posted Saturday, 24 February 2024
Reimagining Friendship: Aesthetics and Politics
Friendship which accompanies us throughout different stages of life, is also the key to forming poli ... See more
Hande Gürses, Capilano U and Başak Çandar, Appalachian SU
Posted Saturday, 24 February 2024
Crisis as Form: Cultural Representations of the “Crisis” of Neoliberalism in Latin America
In addition to engaging with cultural representations of crisis in Latin America as its contemporary ... See more
Jose Luis Suarez Morales, Hampton University
Posted Sunday, 25 February 2024
Decolonization and Genealogies of Neoliberalism
How might we reconsider the formation of neoliberalism by situating it within the histories of globa ... See more
Jini Kim Watson, New York University and Paul Nadal, Princeton U
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Black Maternal Labor
Submissions invited for papers focusing on the Black maternal, labor, reproduction, healing, and jus ... See more
Raquel Kennon, U of Wisconsin, Madison
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Food and Drink in Migrant Narratives
This special session will explore the manifold roles of food and/or drink within narratives of migra ... See more
Liza Bolen, U of New Brunswick
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Comparative Aesthetics of Extractivism: A Cross-Language Approach
We invite papers discussing the aesthetics and effects of extractive economies in cultural productio ... See more
Francisco Tijerina, Washington University in St Louis and Victor Putinier, Washington University in St. Louis
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Corrective Feedback in the Language Classroom
Panelists will share empirical findings on the diverse ways for language educators to provide effect ... See more
Heather Jeronimo, U of Northern Iowa
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Representations of In/visibility: Human Rights Across Genres
This panel invites abstracts of 300 words which deal with visibilities and invisibilities of subject ... See more
Iqra Raza, U of Houston
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Visibility and Power in Recent Issues of _Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas_: Venezuela, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
_Review Magazine_'s recent issues on Venezuela, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic are connected throu ... See more
Carlos Riobo, Graduate Center, City U of New York
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
Temporality and Landscape in Latin America
This panel explores relationships between landscape, memory, and the future in various cultural medi ... See more
María Victoria Taborelli, Brown U
Posted Monday, 26 February 2024
National and Global Orientations in Contemporary Latin American Literature
This panel invites papers that reflect on recent debates on Latin American literature and World Lite ... See more
Camilo Malagon, Ithaca College
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Law-Abiding Literature: Critical Perspectives on the Contemporary US Book Censorship Crisis
This session explores intersections of literature, law, philosophy, and affect theory that cast new ... See more
Johs Rasmussen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
(Re)thinking Academic Forms: A Conversation
This proposed roundtable, based on the work of the Working Group on Academic Forms (https://keyforms ... See more
Florian Zappe, LMU Munich
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Brevity in Scholarship: The Short Book
Papers discussing writing or editing of short books and their roles in scholarship. Series might inc ... See more
Nicole Lobdell, Northwestern SU of Louisiana
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Labor and Memory in Contemporary Literature in French
This special session examines how labor and workplace texts (broadly understood) engage with the que ... See more
Sonja Stojanovic, Texas Tech U
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Define it—Make it Visible
Inviting abstracts on categorization and classification as drivers of knowledge formation in literar ... See more
Mary Gilstad, Yale University
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Mysticism in the Flesh: Poetics, Improvisation, and Aliveness
This panel explores poetic performances that improvise embodiment and collectivity amidst social, po ... See more
Sally Hansen, U of Notre Dame
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Experiments in New Poetry with Old English, Old French, and Old Spanish: A Roundtable
We invite poets interested in engaging with Old English, Old French, and/or Old Spanish to reflect o ... See more
Benjamin Saltzman, The University of Chicago
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Poetry and HIV/AIDS
This panel looks to consider poetic responses to HIV/AIDS that emphasize various flavors of what Leo ... See more
David Hobbs, University of Lethbridge and Sylvie Thode, University of California Berkeley
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Eliot, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway: Contact and Revision
Revision strategies of Eliot, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway. Finding a voice in 1922, 1925, and 1926, a ... See more
Harold Henry Hellwig, Idaho SU
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Visible and Invisible Geographies
Please share abstracts of no more than 250 words for a special session exploring the relationship of ... See more
Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Transphobia Past and Present
Trans scholarship is poised to give transphobia the analytic importance early queer theory gave homo ... See more
Jessy Nyiri, University of California Berkeley and Alexis Ferguson, Princeton U
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
“Black Femme Visible Literatures and Histories—Traditions, Lineages, Traces, & Roots”
Seeking papers that engage visibility as a practice, theory, politics of recovery, recentering, resi ... See more
Courtney Murray, The Pennsylvania State University
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Sensation and/as Method
How does sensation work as a method in relation to modes of reading and writing? This panel seeks pa ... See more
Yanbing Er, National University of Singapore and Hayun Cho, U of Southern California
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Beyond Shadows/Borders: Global Perspectives on Queer Gothic Imaginaries
The panel focuses on global explorations of Queer Gothic modes. Please submit a 250-word abstract an ... See more
Suleyman Bolukbas, Pennsylvania State University and Ardel Thomas, City C of San Francisco
Posted Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Reimagining the American West
How are poets, novelists, filmmakers, and other artists reconfiguring the Western genre? How do 21st ... See more
Nate Mickelson, New York University
Posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024
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