Food Representation in the Hispanic World
This session explores the representation and significance of food in Hispanic literature, cookbooks, ... See morePosted Friday, 15 November 2024
The Affordances of Frustrating Narratives
Inviting proposals exploring texts that disrupt or deny anticipated narrative dynamics. How are resp ... See morePosted Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Allen Ginsberg at 100
Born in 1926, Allen Ginsberg began his career in the mid-1950s; over four decades he became one of t ... See morePosted Monday, 16 December 2024
The Current State of Beat Studies
Scholarly interest in the Beat Generation is growing rapidly; we invite contributions from all criti ... See morePosted Monday, 16 December 2024
Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership
Seeking papers that engage with rhetorical formations of academic leadership, and/or how rhetorics i ... See morePosted Tuesday, 7 January 2025
Latin American Black Identities Beyond National Boundaries
We invite participants who research literature, art, and other cultural manifestations that portray ... See morePosted Friday, 10 January 2025
Post-Socialist Chinese Literature, Culture, and History
This panel aims to provide an interdisciplinary study of post-socialist China. Seeking papers that e ... See morePosted Friday, 10 January 2025
Contemporary American Paranoias
Accepting 300-word abstracts proposing 15-minute papers on paranoia in contemporary American literat ... See morePosted Friday, 10 January 2025
Literature and Surveillance Studies
Inviting papers on literature and surveillance studies. How does literature reproduce, resist, or ot ... See morePosted Sunday, 12 January 2025
Protecting Plurilingualism in the Graveyard of Languages
Seeking presentations on literatures, theories, and pedagogies conducive to fostering metalinguistic ... See morePosted Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Trauma and Healing in Latinx Memoirs
In recent Latinx memoirs, mental health issues and diseases– like eating disorders and addiction–are ... See morePosted Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Early Modern Women Authors and Cultures of Chastity and Courtesy
This call seeks proposals for papers on topics of courtesy and chastity that place early modern wome ... See morePosted Friday, 17 January 2025
Latin American Literature: Letters to Numbers to Data
Inviting proposals analyzing Latin American literature with digital humanities, computational litera ... See morePosted Friday, 17 January 2025
Barbara Johnson's "Apostrophe, Animation, Abortion" at Forty
2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Johnson’s important essay on lyric poetry and abortion. How does ... See morePosted Saturday, 18 January 2025
Spectrality and Historical Trauma: Narratives of the Asian Diaspora
This session examines how Asian diasporic writers present spectrality as an insight into subaltern h ... See morePosted Saturday, 18 January 2025
Unpopular Shaw
Irish dramatist Bernard Shaw was never far from controversy. This panel will examine aspects of Shaw ... See morePosted Monday, 20 January 2025
Languages and Literature in the Medical Humanities
Inviting proposals exploring language and literary studies' capacity within the growing field of the ... See morePosted Monday, 20 January 2025
Espaces et temps Queer - Session affiliée du CIÉF
Cette session propose d’examiner les représentations francophones des espaces-temps Queer et d'explo ... See morePosted Thursday, 23 January 2025
Comparative Comfort Women Studies
Inviting papers that examine intersectional and comparative perspectives on the Comfort Women issue, ... See morePosted Friday, 24 January 2025
Women and Physical Objects
We invite proposals exploring women’s interactions with physical objects in cultural products. Compa ... See morePosted Friday, 24 January 2025
The Multilingual Classroom
This session calls for 300-word abstracts that speak to the experience of teaching multilingually. O ... See morePosted Friday, 24 January 2025
Neuroscience and Theories of Affect
This panel explores scholarly dialogues and productive tensions between neuroscientific research on ... See morePosted Sunday, 26 January 2025
Working with Tainted Legacies
How do we address works of deep cultural meaning when the moral failings of their creators are expos ... See morePosted Sunday, 26 January 2025
Queer Cultures of the Hispanic World: 19th and 20th Centuries
How have modern Hispanic queer cultures taken shape and been remembered, forgotten or censored over ... See morePosted Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Family Ghosts
How to think this phrase? The family as haunted or family as haunting. Whom? What? Why? And what do ... See morePosted Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Representation of Economy in Victorian Novels
This panel will discuss the representations of the economy in Victorian novels. Submit 250 word abst ... See morePosted Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Prehistories of Racial Capitalism
We invite 150-word proposals on the roots of racial capitalism in the classical, medieval, and early ... See morePosted Thursday, 30 January 2025
Doing Digital Multimodal: Pedagogical Innovations in the Age of Gen AI
As a pedagogical response to multiplying Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and Large Langu ... See morePosted Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transnational Literary Exchanges: US-South Asia
This panel seeks papers on the US-South Asian literary exchanges, affinities, and collaborations int ... See morePosted Thursday, 30 January 2025
Accenting Punctuation
Punctuation--as used by a specific literary figure, in certain genres, or topics related to linguist ... See morePosted Friday, 31 January 2025
Critical Digital Humanities in Practice: Reflections and Visions
This roundtable analyzes new challenges in DH applications, e.g., ethical concerns, multilingual bar ... See morePosted Saturday, 1 February 2025
Victorian Leisure
Accepting 300 word abstracts on representations of leisure in Victorian literature and culture. Topi ... See morePosted Saturday, 1 February 2025
Racialized and/or Queer Forms of Resistance in Digital Literature and Media
Seeking presentations on digital literature and media (broadly understood) that go beyond or resist ... See morePosted Sunday, 2 February 2025
Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands
This session explores the multifaceted experiences, perceptions, and narratives of travelers who jou ... See morePosted Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Beyond Realism in African Literature
Since the 1950s, African authors have written works that move beyond realism to address colonial and ... See morePosted Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Republican Radical Poethics in Exile
This session examines how exiled Spanish Republican poets disrupt hegemonic norms through formal exp ... See morePosted Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey
This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spann ... See morePosted Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Lineation, Global Modernism, and Comparative Poetics
This panel explores modernist experimentations with the poetic line in a global context. We welcome ... See morePosted Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Global Abolitionist Literature and the Ottoman Empire
Inviting 200-word abstracts that locate the Ottoman Empire in the global map of abolitionist writing ... See morePosted Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Recentering Diaspora in the 21st Century
Diaspora has fallen out of favor in the 21st century in postcolonial studies, Asian American Studies ... See morePosted Thursday, 6 February 2025
Contemporary Impacts of Settler Traumas Upon Indigenous Peoples of North America
Submit a brief bio and 150 word abstract examining contemporary narratives of Indigenous peoples of ... See morePosted Thursday, 6 February 2025
Storied Seas, Blue Humanities and the Mediterranean Imagination
This session invites proposals that explore the field of blue humanities through a Mediterranean len ... See morePosted Friday, 7 February 2025
American Narratives of Death, Grief, and Health
This session explores human death, health, and/or their intersections. Critical question: what are s ... See morePosted Friday, 7 February 2025
Spectral Kinships—The Churail as Gothic Double in South Asian Literature and Film
How does the figure of the churail transgress the patriarchal familial structures as gothic double i ... See morePosted Saturday, 8 February 2025
Aesthetics, Politics, and Ecological Overshoot
Explorations of ecological overshoot and aesthetic representation. Themes may include: climate break ... See morePosted Sunday, 9 February 2025
Imagining Iberian Civic Belonging
What is citizenship? What could it be? We invite papers on all aspects of intellectual, artistic, li ... See morePosted Sunday, 16 February 2025
Global Hispanophone Soundscapes
We seek papers exploring intersections of sound, aurality, and sonic practices with topics such as e ... See morePosted Wednesday, 12 February 2025
James Baldwin and Turkey at Their 100
Last year marked the centenary of both Turkey and James Baldwin. This panel invites papers on Baldwi ... See morePosted Sunday, 9 February 2025
Contemporary Transnational Islamic Writing
we invite proposals examining contemporary Postcolonial literary texts intersect with Islamic perspe ... See morePosted Monday, 10 February 2025
Ecocinema in the 20th Century: An Inconvenient History
Ecocritical studies of film made prior to the year 2000. Themes may include intersections between na ... See morePosted Monday, 10 February 2025
Race and Pornographic Genres
We invite scholars who examine how erotic genres—film, magazine, fiction, porn, and more— reproduce ... See morePosted Monday, 10 February 2025
Morrison's Modernism
This panel seeks papers exploring any aspect of Toni Morrison’s generative yet critical engagements ... See morePosted Monday, 10 February 2025
Decolonizing Critical Theory: Rethinking Its Limitations and Possibilities
A panel exploring how Critical Theory can be decolonized through its engagement with diverse intelle ... See morePosted Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Mass/Social Media and Literary Celebrity
Examines the intersection of mass/social media and literary celebrity, highlighting the role of medi ... See morePosted Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Borderlands of Labor in the Americas
We invite papers that consider the intersections between borders/borderlands and labor in cultural p ... See morePosted Saturday, 15 February 2025
Running From the Rising Tide
Proposals which study climate migrations through its literary and cultural iterations. The aim is to ... See morePosted Thursday, 13 February 2025
Academic Novels After the End of the University
This session will be devoted to papers focusing on academic novels and the current precarious state ... See morePosted Friday, 14 February 2025
Jan Kott's Shakespeare, Our Contemporary 60 Years On
This panel seeks to explore the influence of Kott's Shakespeare, Our Contemporary in both literary s ... See morePosted Friday, 14 February 2025
Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought
This session invites participants to consider the relation between Deleuze's philosophy and commenta ... See morePosted Saturday, 15 February 2025
What Remains of Character?
Literatures from the peripheries of existing caste/class/race hierarchies have variously challenged ... See morePosted Saturday, 15 February 2025
Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature
Seeking explorations of how mutual aid is represented in American literature. Particularly intereste ... See morePosted Saturday, 15 February 2025
Borderless Poets, Decentered Poems: Writing to Interrogate Boundaries
This interactive panel explores how poets of exile establish their rhythmic accord with the space an ... See morePosted Saturday, 15 February 2025
Modernism Otherwise: Intermediality and Intertextuality in Global Modernisms
We invite proposals that examine literary modernism from a global perspective, centering on non-West ... See morePosted Saturday, 15 February 2025
Technocracy in the Modern Hispanic World
Papers on the representation and critical engagement of technocracy in Hispanic cultural production ... See morePosted Saturday, 15 February 2025
Laboring Mothers, Motherlands, and the Nation: Literary Constructions of Maternal Identity, Work, and Belonging
Papers on literary constructions of motherhood, motherlands, and the nation-state, including materna ... See morePosted Sunday, 16 February 2025
Translating Movement and Interruption in World Poets
This roundtable will discuss how poets resist fixity and stasis. What are the challenges of translat ... See morePosted Sunday, 16 February 2025
Masters of Whose House?: Haunted Spaces and Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary Literature and Cinema
We invite papers that examine how contemporary literature and cinema reimagine haunted space narrati ... See morePosted Sunday, 16 February 2025
Kinship in the Cut: Feminist Narratives of Hysterectomy, Trauma, and Transformation
Female-coded illnesses are too often shrouded in shame; we invite 250-word abstracts and brief bios ... See morePosted Monday, 17 February 2025
Oscar Wilde, French by Sympathy?
An Irish playwright educated at Oxford who found his literary success in London, Wilde still claimed ... See morePosted Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Literary Representations of Caregivers and Caregiving for Adults
This special session seeks 250-word abstracts on literary representations of care-giving, specifical ... See morePosted Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Family Resemblances in East Asian Anthologies
Abstracts (300 words) for presentations on materials assembled in C/J/K anthologies and other collec ... See morePosted Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Latin American Literatures of Internal Migration
Inviting abstracts that address questions of internal migration in Latin American literature. Open t ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Contemporary Queer and/or Trans Life Writing: Locating the Autobiographical “I”
How does contemporary Trans/Queer life writing conceptualize the self as situated within community a ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Biological Muses of Baroque Literature
Baroque art is embellished with signatures of nature. What of Baroque era literature? What are the ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 February 2025
The Legacy of Grendel: Anthropomorphism in New Fiction and Poetry
Gardiner's tragicomic voicing of Beowulf's beast is a staple of the college literature diet. How ha ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 February 2025
"I put a lot more value on the animal than I do my name" - The (Un)Importance of Inheritance in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove
Of all Larry McMurtry's novels, Lonesome Dove contains perhaps the bleakest depiction of families. T ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Drawing Place: Rust Belt Comics
Panel explores the Rust Belt as a generative place for comics-making. (Paper Girls, Superman, Americ ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Affinities Beyond Blood: Transimperial Resemblances, Queer Kinships, and Imperial Aftermaths in South and Southeast Asia
How do transimperial, queer resemblances represented in literature, film, and transmedia narratives ... See morePosted Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Bangladesh's July (2024) Revolution
This panel addresses Bangladesh's recent July Revolution, focusing on Hasina's fascist regime and pe ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
The Latin American and Caribbean World
The session will comprise comparative research/sttudies in the areas of Latin American and Caribbean ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Postcolonial Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma
Challenging the aesthetics and ethics of non-representability in trauma narratives. Seeking abstract ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Sustainable Humanities: towards equitable knowledge-making practices
We invite contributions on non-extractivist modes of knowledge-making in the field of culture, langu ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Archiving Queer Chicano Cultural Producers
We invite submissions engaging Gil Cuadros and Greg Barrios and the deployment of male erotic autono ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Weakening Masculinities in Modernist Literature, Art, and Theory
Forty and thirty years after Sedgwick’s Between Men and Connell’s Masculinities, this panel seeks ab ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Postcolonial Ecologies, Displacement, and Decolonial Futurities
Inviting abstracts on postcolonial ecologies (global South) addressing migration, extractivism, disa ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Unwriting the Mother: Literary and Theoretical Disruptions of Maternity in Latin America
How do Latin American textual strategies refigure the maternal through supplementarity, erasure, and ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Reimagining Home and Identity in Ukrainian American Literature
This session explores Ukrainian American literature, highlighting how Ukrainian American writers hav ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Stefan Zweig and Translation
This panel invites proposals that explore Zweig’s complex relationship to the act and practice of tr ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Literary Kinships Between Texts and Their Translations
Seeking papers that explore complex relationships between texts and their translations (beyond tradi ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Family Resemblances: Brown and Latinx
Five years after the publication of The Sense of Brown, what is the relation between Muñoz's theoriz ... See morePosted Thursday, 20 February 2025
Reconstructing AIDS at the “end of AIDS”
Inviting papers on 21st century reconstructions of the HIV/AIDS crisis. What is created/erased in th ... See morePosted Friday, 21 February 2025
Toni Morrison’s "A Mercy" in Focus
This session explores various thematic interests in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008). Topics might inc ... See morePosted Friday, 21 February 2025
James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism
We are looking for papers that develop sustained argumentative analysis of the problematic entwineme ... See morePosted Friday, 21 February 2025
How Can Black Poetry and Asian (American) Poetry Work Together?
Please submit a bio (50-100 words) and an abstract (200-300 words) exploring ways in which two seemi ... See morePosted Friday, 21 February 2025
Translation and Diaspora Politics
How can we reimagine diaspora politics through the affordances of translation culture? Can it mobili ... See morePosted Saturday, 22 February 2025
Gothic Transgressions and Eerie fantasies in contemporary Latin American Literature
This panel invites 250-word abstracts on the New Latin American Gothic, which emerges not merely as ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
Multiple-Births in Literature
This Panel-Session will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as ... See morePosted Saturday, 22 February 2025
Multilingualism in China, 1600-1949
Explore multilingualism in China from the Qing to the Republican era, examining the ways that multil ... See morePosted Sunday, 23 February 2025
Labyrinth No More? Demystifying Hiring Processes at the Two-Year College
Proposals highlighting the diversity of regional and local differences in hiring processes for tenur ... See morePosted Sunday, 23 February 2025
Story as Theory in Indigenous and World Literatures
Indigenous scholars have troubled the boundary between theory and story. Our panel questions this bo ... See morePosted Sunday, 23 February 2025
The rewriting of myths by French and Francophone women writers of the twentieth century
This session explores the rewriting of myth in 20th-century French and Francophone literature, exami ... See morePosted Sunday, 23 February 2025
Germaine de Staël for the 21st century : in between literature and politics
I welcome proposals to discuss key elements of Staël's path : thinking with her a French-European Hi ... See morePosted Sunday, 23 February 2025
Far-Right National Narratives
As far-right ideologies are rapidly (re)mainstreamed across American society, false histories and my ... See morePosted Sunday, 23 February 2025
Challenging Constructions of Marginalized (Trans)Women in the U.S.
Panel seeks papers on the role marginalized (trans)women authors and artists have played in destabil ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Professional Deformation
Inviting papers that explore the concept of professional deformation in contemporary literary studie ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
Literature and Taxonomy
This panel will explore the relationship between taxonomic science and literary studies. Submit abst ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
Corporate Fictions
Across literature and media, corporations are key settings for fictionalizations of modern life. Thi ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
Forms and politics of appearance and disappearance in Latin American literature and arts
We invite 250-word abstracts engaging the dynamics of appearance and disappearance in contemporary a ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies
This seminar critically revisits contemporary interactions between psychoanalytic thought and litera ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
Representation of Animals in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Inviting proposals to discuss the modes of animal representation in Latin American literature, from ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
Ecologies of Experimentation: Environmental Thought and Planetary Avant-Gardes
This panel explores the intersections of early ecological thought and avant-garde experimentation in ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
Literary translation and identity in 20th/21st century Latin America
This panel explores translation's role in shaping 20th and 21st century Latin American literature. T ... See morePosted Monday, 24 February 2025
Radical Pedagogies and Institutional Change: Historical Perspectives and Global Contexts
What can be learned about challenges facing the humanities by looking to other moments of social and ... See morePosted Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Health Humanities and the Maternal Imagination
Inviting 300-word proposals that explore narratives about the maternal imagination in relation to he ... See morePosted Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Multilingual Voices: Exploring the Link Between Language and Identity
This session welcomes presentations on language and cultural identity in linguistic and literary res ... See morePosted Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Racial Passing On the Page & On the Screen
This panel seeks abstracts that explore racial passing in literature & film. Topics can explore any ... See morePosted Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Performing the Past: Historical Subjects on Stage
This session examines the theatrical performance of historical subjects. Approaches include adaptati ... See morePosted Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Influence and Resemblance among Liberation Theologies: Translation between Christianity and Marxism
This panel invites papers on transnational influences among liberation theologies worldwide or on co ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
War and Media
Addressing the relation between war and media (broadly construed), this panel invites papers discuss ... See morePosted Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Reimagining Language and Culture Immersion Today
How can language immersion programs survive and thrive amid changing institutional environments? Rou ... See morePosted Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Critical Translation Studies and Empire
How do studies of empire activate the “critical” in translation studies? Seeking new methods and the ... See morePosted Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Plural Cosmologies
From Sullivan’s Star Waka to LaPensée’s Along the River of Spacetime, this session invites abstract ... See morePosted Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Bodies in Transition: Power, Sexuality, and Memory in Late 20th-Century East Asian Cinema
This panel explores how late 20th-century East Asian cinema reimagines gender and memory through rep ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Postcolonial Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma
Challenging the aesthetics and ethics of non-representability in trauma narratives. Seeking abstract ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Comics without a cure: Healthcare Stories in Words and Images
This session explores comic art on end-of-life, aging, working through long-term disability, and thi ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
After Reconciliation: Collective Apologies and Ontologies of Relation
How might performance methodologies call into question national narratives of justice? Beyond repair ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Terror and Messy Feelings
Inviting proposals on the interplay between terror and messy (“minor” and “ugly”) feelings in contem ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Rethinking Structuralism
We invite theoretical contributions on the impact of Structuralist authors (from Slavic, French, Nor ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Poetry and AI
Considering the long history of computational poetics, what does the emergence of generative AI mean ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Futures of Resilience: Contemporary Afro-Latin American Literature and Culture
How do Afro-Latin American literatures and cultures respond to histories of slavery and colonialism? ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Pedagogical Criss-Crossing: Comfort, Confidence, and Courage
How do we, as humanities teachers, theorize, prioritize, or operationalize the sometimes overlapping ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Translating the Voices of Non-Humans in Literature and Beyond
This session invites proposals exploring strategies for translating non-human voices in literature a ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Dread and Black Cinematic Experience
We are seeking papers that address issues of affect, experience and narrative in Black cinematic rep ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Antarctica: Everyone's Home
This session is dedicated to humanity's home, Antarctica. We are seeking abstracts that address fam ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Asia-Pacific Ocean and the Blue Humanities
CFP on diverse bodies, old/new media, and their relations with the ocean and water in the Asia-Pacif ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Children’s Literature and Bioethics
Inviting proposals examining bioethical questions in children's literature, including topics such as ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
The Swiss Family of Languages
This session seeks papers on the rich literary and cultural texts of Switzerland written in Romansh, ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Fumes and Flames: Petro to Pyromodernism
This panel explores how fire and fossil fuels shape modernity and modernisms, focusing on literature ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Realism and Distraction
We invite 200 word abstracts that examine the relationship between distraction and the realist novel ... See morePosted Thursday, 27 February 2025
Alternate Relationalities
We seek 300-word abstracts touching on those who cannot/will not conform to society's requirements f ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
literature and theology in the Victorian era
We invite proposals for a panel on the dynamic interplay between literature and theology in the Vict ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Uncanny Resemblances: Technologies of (Re)production in Gothic Fiction
This panel invites proposals on the presence of technologies in Gothic fiction and its role in biolo ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Agnotology (or the cultural production of ignorance) in Media and Culture
Agnotology examines culturally induced ignorance and doubt. This panel explores its intersections wi ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Uselessness in Contemporary Fiction
Inviting 300-word abstracts for papers that reflect on uselessness as a motif in post-1960 Anglophon ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Transpacific Understandings of Indigenous Literature
This special session invites 250-word abstracts on the role of lingual and cultural translation in c ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Women's War Narrative from the Global South
This session seeks 250-word abstracts of critical and creative pieces on women’s war narratives from ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Satire and Humor as Resistance against Arab Stereotypes in Hollywood
Papers are invited on any aspect of global Arab culture-including but not limited to Arab stereotype ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Digital Archives and the Recovery of Afro-Latin American Histories
This session invites papers exploring transatlantic networks, digital curation, and archival methodo ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Prose and poetics of aging in migration narratives
I would like to organize a panel on aging in migration literature to provide a forum where participa ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
The Environment in Indigenous Literatures of Abiayala
This session centers on 20th and 21st-century literatures of Abiayala produced in Indigenous languag ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Girls and Women in Latin American Culture
This session explores girls and women’s representation in Latin American literature, art, and other ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
After "Moo": the Academic Novel in the Post-Cold War United States
Jane Smiley's Moo appeared in 1995, Bill Readings' University in Ruins in 1996; how has the academic ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Rhizomatic Diasporas: Migrant Interculturalism and the Micropolitics of Identity in Diasporic Literatures
Explore identity, nostalgia, and belonging through diasporic literature using concepts of rhizomatic ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Sinophone Science Fiction
This session invites papers on Sinophone SF from outside mainland China, including SF in literature, ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Spain, Hot and Cold: Thermal Affects in Spanish Literature and Film
Inviting 300 word abstracts on how works of literature or film in/about Spain represent affects of h ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
formalisms
What are the intersections and divergences between mathematical and literary formalisms? Send a 150- ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Environmentalism & Climate Narratives Across Disciplines
This session features interdisciplinary approaches to environmentalism. Papers invited on any aspect ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
What Happens Next? Rebuilding after Destruction in Contemporary French and Francophone Fiction
This panel will engage with contemporary French and Francophone fictional texts that explore how to ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Shifting Scales in Literary Studies
Inviting 250-word proposals that explore intersections of literature with scale, space, and infrastr ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Formal Experimentation in Colonial South Asia
The panel invites papers that explore native engagements with novel forms and genres in response to ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Displaced Families: Memory, Trauma, and the Limits of Kinship in Diasporic Writing
How do diasporic narratives navigate the tension between loss and familial ties? This panel examines ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Cognitive Marronnage: Thinking through the "Res Extensa"
If the Cartesian “res cogitans” is the modern cerebral subject, Sylvia Wynter reflects on his symbol ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Becoming and Performing the Literatus in Pre-14th Century China
This panel explores the complexities of achieving, maintaining, and performing literati identity in ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
Arab American Family Dynamics in Literature and the Media
This panel focuses on Arab American families in the diaspora and how societal pressures affect their ... See morePosted Friday, 28 February 2025
New Approaches to Byron: Looking Back at the Bicentennial
Papers on all aspects of Byron scholarship are invited, including--but not limited to--Celebrity Cul ... See morePosted Saturday, 1 March 2025
Anonymity and Pseudonymity in Early Nineteenth Century American Literature
Papers that investigate anonymous and pseudonymous publications by since recognized authors are welc ... See morePosted Monday, 3 March 2025
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