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Calls for Papers - Allied OrganizationsAlliance for the Study of Adoption and CultureAdoption and DisabilityAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture panel invites 15-min. papers that explore ... See more Posted 18 January 2013 American Association for Italian StudiesItalian Representations of BlacknessTopics include Italy, Africa, and the Mediterranean; Afro-Italian Narratives; Italy and ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 Religious, Spiritual, Theological Approaches to Dante Dante’s works explored from any religious, spiritual, or theological perspective. Abstract (200 ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 American Association of Australian Literary StudiesLiterature and Film in AustralasiaAAALS seeks proposals for 15-20 minute papers on any aspect of Australian or New Zealand literature ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 American Association of Professors of YiddishJoseph C. Landis: In MemoriamSession on topics studied by Joe Landis, the late founder of our association: An-sky, Asch, ... See more Posted 3 February 2013, last updated 6 February 2013 American Association of Teachers of GermanConstructive responses to current challenges faced by GermanConstructive, radical curricular revisions incorporated at undergraduate/graduate level in response ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European LanguagesIs the Post- in Post-Humanism the Same as the Post- in Post-Socialism?Cultural phenomena from the Second World and its successor territories that question the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Socialist Culture in the Age of Disco Papers on any aspect of 1970s culture in socialist East Europe and/or the USSR: literature, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 American Boccaccio AssociationBoccaccio & PetrarchWe welcome papers that deal with Boccaccio & Petrarch's friendship and with any kind of relations ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Lecturae Boccaccii An ongoing MLA tradition, the Lecturae are intelligent readings of one Decameronian novella. This ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Open Session We welcome proposals related to the study of Boccaccio's life and/or works. 300-word proposals and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 American Humor Studies AssociationThe Tyranny of Irony and Irony's Edge300-word abstracts welcome on interpretive practice in the wake of insights from David Foster ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Wit, Humor, and 'Serious' Texts Abstracts welcome on any subject related to comic dimensions in literary works not normally ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 American Name SocietyNames and naming in language studiesPapers on names and naming in any area of language study from anywhere in the world are welcomed. ... See more Posted 9 January 2013, last updated 4 February 2013 American Portuguese Studies AssociationLuso-Hispanic ExchangesA comparative examination of Portuguese- and Spanish-language literary and cultural materials. ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 American Theatre and Drama SocietyATDS panels at MLAATDS invites proposals for papers on performance, theatre, and/or drama, engaging the MLA theme, ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 "Does It Explode?" Discursive Redlining in CLYBOURNE PARK How does Bruce Norris' play revise/revisit the Youngers' neighborhood in Lorraine Hansberry's A ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Association des Amis d'André GideLes Caves du Vatican: 100 ans aprèsApproaches to Gide's sotie on the centenary of its first publication. 250-word abstracts, in French ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Association for Business CommunicationBringing Contemporary Experience and Innovative Tools to Business Writing CoursesIn university Business Writing and Communication courses, how are graduate assistants using their ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Association for Documentary EditingLiterary Works in Multiple VersionsThis panel investigates the implications of multiple versions of a text, particularly for scholarly ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Association for the Study of American Indian LiteraturesAmerican Indian GothicPanel seeks to investigate the recent prevalence of this genre within contemporary Indigenous ... See more Posted 3 September 2012 Native American Memoir in the West: Historical Trauma and Healing This panel considers how Native authors negotiate healing of their personal histories in the ... See more Posted 3 September 2012 Native Voices in Genre Fiction Session seeks papers analyzing American Indian voices in genre fiction; will explore the ... See more Posted 4 September 2012 Association for the Study of Dada and SurrealismThe Avant-Garde at WarPapers welcome on the exigency and fate of radical aesthetics in times of war: e.g. anti-colonial, ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Dada, Surrealism, and the Poetics of Outsider Art Papers invited that explore the interrelationships between Dada, Surrealism and self-taught / ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Byron Society of AmericaFuture Directions in Byron StudiesNew research and methodologies applied to Byron's life/works, including: material culture studies, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Cervantes Society of AmericaEmotion in CervantesEmotion, including the plural sense of emotions, affects, sentiments, passions, in Cervantes’ ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Children's Literature AssociationDeliver Us To Normal: Children’s Literature and the MidwestThis panel considers how children’s literature and the American Midwest mutually construct one ... See more Posted 14 August 2012, last updated 28 August 2012 Epistolary Children’s & Young Adult Literature Analyses of epistolary Children’s and Young Adult literature even as these epistolary modalities ... See more Posted 14 August 2012 Pre-Raphaelites and Children's Literature On any aspect of text, illustration, or design of Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic, or Fin de Siecle ... See more Posted 14 August 2012 Conference on Christianity and LiteratureLiterary Crossroads: African-American Literature and ChristianityPapers exploring the complex intersection between African-American literature and Christianity, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Conseil International d'Etudes FrancophonesCrise du français, impact de la francophonie ?Consulter See more Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013 D. H. Lawrence Society of North AmericaD. H. Lawrence and the PoetryOn the brink of the Cambridge University Press publication of the Poems, we invite papers on the ... See more Posted 15 October 2012 Doris Lessing and D.H. Lawrence Lessing's reading of Lady Chatterley's Lover as an anti-war novel suggests important intertextual ... See more Posted 1 October 2012 Dickens SocietyDickens and the EnvironmentHow might we characterize modes of nineteenth-century environmental thinking, and how did Dickens ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Stupid Dickens Moving beyond pronouncements that Dickens produced one-dimensional characters appealing to our ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Doris Lessing SocietyDoris Lessing and D.H. LawrenceLessing's reading of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" as an anti-war novel suggests important intertextual ... See more Posted 1 October 2012 Emigres, Expats, and Exiles in Postwar London When Doris Lessing returned to Britain in 1950 she joined an influx of immigrants to London. ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Learned Society Journals: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century What challenges and opportunities do learned society journals face in the twenty-first century? ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Edith Wharton SocietyQueer WhartonHomosexuality and homosociality in Wharton; queer authors, intertexts, and aesthetics in Wharton’s ... See more Posted 9 February 2013 Emily Dickinson International SocietyDickinson and VisualityEmily Dickinson’s engagements with vision in any of its senses. Visual cultures, technologies, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Dickinson, Poe, and 19c Aesthetic Practices Papers comparing the work of Dickinson and Poe by locating them within a 19th-century cultural ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Ernest Hemingway Foundation and SocietyHemingway and the Chicago RenaissanceWe invite papers that explore Hemingway’s relationship with the Chicago Renaissance and the writers ... See more Posted 9 January 2013 Eugene O'Neill SocietyO'Neill and the CityO’Neill's relationship to urban life, as depicted in his plays, in contexts that influenced his ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Feministas Unidas¿Terror feminista/femenina?We will engage the language of terror(ism) in creative works by Spanish-speaking/U.S. Latina women ... See more Posted 8 October 2012 GEMELA: Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800)Women’s Fears and Fear of Women 1300-1800Women's texts about women experiencing fear, or as subjects to be feared, in Iberia and Latin ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 George Sand AssociationEcocritical SandThe natural world, artistic creativity, and the environment; nature vs. nurture; city vs. country. ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Women on Work, Women's Work Literary and cultural approaches to work; material labor and the work of culture and language in ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 Goethe Society of North AmericaNational EpicWe seek papers that analyze the particular fascination of the German literary imagination with ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 The Sacrificial Dynamic in Goethe Papers discussing the degree to which Goethe’s works reflect, and reflect on, sacrificial ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Graduate Student CaucusCompromising, Negotiating: Being a Graduate StudentHow to be a grad student? Privacy, negotiating conflicts, living healthy, planning the future, ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Exile, Death, Sacrifice: The Poetics of Suffering in Francophone Literature Exile, death, and sacrifice in Francophone literature (19th to 21st century): writing “souffrance” ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Harold Pinter SocietyPinter and the ArtsPresentations on Pinter and his relation to other art forms welcome. 250-word abstracts with name, ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 Henry James SocietyJames and Conrad: Art, Criticism, HistoryTopics might address these issues in fiction, non-fiction, or through historical interaction. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 International Association of Galdós ScholarsAlternative Sexualities in 19th-century Realist FictionWhat are the questions arising from the study of non-normative sexualities in the fiction of Benito ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 International Brecht SocietyBrecht and the Century of WarAnticipating the 100th anniversary of the onset of hostilities in WWI, this panel explores how war ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Teaching Brecht Proposals sought with critical reflections and best practices on teaching Bertolt Brecht’s ideas ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 International Courtly Literature SocietyStorms at/of the CourtThis session will explore how medieval courtly literature uses the storm (emotional or literal) as ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 International Society for the Study of NarrativeNarrative Empathy for "the Other"How do literary texts depict and/or elicit empathy that transgresses identity categories? What ... See more Posted 9 December 2012 What Makes a Modernist Plot? Modernism's supposed resistance to plot needs reconsideration, given an enlarged modernist corpus ... See more Posted 8 November 2012 International Spenser SocietySpenser's "Darke" MaterialsAs Amphion moved stones with songs to build Thebes, Spenser shaped matter into poetry. This panel ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 International Virginia Woolf SocietyVirginia Woolf, book history & artsWoolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of the material book or printing process ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Virginia Woolf, book history & arts Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of the material book or printing process ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Woolf and London's Colonial Writers Literary, political, social, and spatial connections between Virginia Woolf and London-affiliated ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Woolf, Wittgenstein, and Ordinary Language Woolf's and Wittgenstein’s philosophies of ordinary language, their tangential relationship to the ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 International Vladimir Nabokov Society"Nabokov and Indeterminacy"Guaranteed session. Criticism has debated conflicting solutions for Pale Fire, Sebastian Knight, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Nabokov and the Future of the Humanities Seeking papers that explore ways Nabokov’s works can help reinvigorate the humanities’ role within ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Joseph Conrad Society of AmericaConrad and CognitionPapers are invited exploring the relations between recent work in cognitive science and Conrad's ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 James and Conrad: Art, Criticism, History Topics might address fiction, non-fiction, or historical interaction. Comparative papers discussing ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Keats-Shelley Association of AmericaKeats & CompanyKeats’s life and work in the context of Romantic sociability: friends, coteries, and collectors, ... See more Posted 2 February 2013, last updated 4 February 2013 Langston Hughes Society"Langston Hughes's Poetry in Vulnerable Times"Abstracts examining the theme of “vulnerable times” in Hughes’s texts. Presenters must join the ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 Lyrica Society for Word-Music RelationsDadaphone: Interminacy in Words and MusicDada texts and indeterminate music utilize non-traditional means of organization. Send proposals ... See more Posted 19 January 2013 Sir Walter Scott and Music Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Waverley, we seek proposals on any of Scott's works and ... See more Posted 27 December 2012 Margaret Atwood SocietyElectronic AtwoodOn Atwood's creative use of electronic media. 250 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Theodore F. ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Margaret Atwood's Latest Work: A Roundtable Discussion The ORYX AND CRAKE trilogy will be completed in October. A roundtable discussion of the final book. ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Margaret Fuller SocietyThe Genres of Margaret Fuller's WritingTranslation. Travel. Essay. Conversation. Dialogue. Utopian vision. Mysticism. Poetry. Fiction. ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Mark Twain Circle of AmericaBeyond Huck and Puddn'head: Mark Twain and Racethree paper panel. 300 word abstracts examining Twain and race in wor by 15 March 2013; John Bird ... See more Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Mark Twain's Style(s) A three-paper session analyzing Mark Twain's style. 300 word abstracts analyzing aspects of Mark ... See more Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Medieval and Renaissance Drama SocietySpectatorship and Reception in Early DramaRoundtable session on the audience's role in early drama, with attention to theories of ... See more Posted 9 September 2012 MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United StatesNew Directions in American Multiethnic Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Theories and CriticismsWe welcome both theoretical conceptualizations and application of them to analyzing multiethnic ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Rustbelt Migrations: Ethnicities and (De)Industrialization Literature of immigrants (from Europe, Asia, etc.) and internal migrants (Blacks, Chicanos, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Melville SocietyImagery and Influence: Hawthorne and MelvilleThis collaborative panel explores how Hawthorne and Melville shared influences, traded influence, ... See more Posted 18 December 2012 Melville and Matter Echoing themes of vulnerability and resilience, we seek readings of Melville vis-a-vis what has ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Milton Society of AmericaJohn Milton: A General SessionPapers on all topics relating to John Milton. Please send abstracts or complete papers. 8-page o by ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Milton in the Long Restoration This session will explore Milton's presence in the long Restoration. We seek papers that address ... See more Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 15 January 2013 Milton’s Modernities Papers addressing the poet’s seventeenth-century context or later influence. Full CFP at See more Posted 15 January 2013 Modern Austrian Literature and Culture AssociationPsychoanalysis and Its LegaciesReflections on the impact of this Viennese methodology on culture, on the limitations of Freud's ... See more Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 Modernist Studies AssociationWhat Makes a Modernist Plot?Modernism's resistance to plot needs reconsideration, given new modernist corpus and narrative ... See more Posted 18 November 2012, last updated 21 November 2012 Nathaniel Hawthorne SocietyHawthorne in 1864In his last year of life, Hawthorne faced challenges on many fronts. All interpretations of this ... See more Posted 20 December 2012 North American Society for the Study of RomanticismRomanticism and SystemsAny aspect of the relationship between Romanticism and systems (aesthetic, biological, linguistic, ... See more Posted 12 February 2013 Paul Claudel SocietyClaudel et les Amériques: Théâtre et PoésieProposed by Sergio Villani, the session will focus on Claudel’s production in North and South ... See more Posted 24 January 2013, last updated 25 January 2013 Pirandello Society of AmericaGlobal PirandelloPirandello in and of the world: topics such as cosmopolitanism and global geographies, including ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Modern Consciousness: Pirandellian Obsessions Topics including psychology, spirituality, sexuality and other aspects of modern consciousness in ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Poe Studies AssociationDickinson, Poe, and 19-Century Aesthetic PracticesPapers comparing the work of Dickinson and Poe by locating them within a 19th-century cultural ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Hoaxing Poe Papers that deal with specific Poe hoaxes (e.g., “Hans Pfall,” “The Balloon Hoax,” “Valdemar”) ... See more Posted 17 November 2012 Reception Study SocietyBookshops: History of the Vanishing PresentLiterary, archival, ethnographic, and economic approaches to the question: What does it mean to ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Reception Study We invite papers/panels on any topic related to literary/film reception or book history. Join the ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Romanian Studies Association of AmericaThe Reciprocal Gaze between Romania and SpainImages of Spain in the works of Romanian-speaking writers, and/or of Romania in the works of ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian BranchCharlemagne at the Crossroads of Europe: Negotiating IntersectionsPapers addressing reflections in the romance epic of Charlemagne negotiating intersections ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Society for German Renaissance and Baroque LiteratureCORPORA: Textual, Sexual, Non-Human BodiesTopics including: gender/sexuality, body politic, bodies of text, real/imagined bodies, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Society for Medieval Feminist ScholarshipMedieval Women and PovertyWe are interested in examining medieval women and charity, limited resources in households and ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches What happens to marginal approaches (feminist, queer, disability, racial) and boutique subjects ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Society for the Study of Midwestern LiteratureDreaming the Actual: Chicago Literary VoicesHow do Chicago writers use - - and resist - - the city in their art? Title, a short Vita, and a one ... See more Posted 2 February 2013 Society for the Study of Southern LiteratureNative South: Past, Present, and FutureWhere do Native American and southern literary studies intersect? What are the perils/possibilities ... See more Posted 22 January 2013, last updated 4 February 2013 Other Archives, Other Souths How have authors incorporated histories beyond those found in traditional archival sources in order ... See more Posted 22 January 2013, last updated 4 February 2013 South Asian Literary Association100 Years of BollywoodCritical reflections on a century of films coming from Mumbai and popular in the West. Themes ... See more Posted 1 February 2013 South Asia at Risk analyses of South Asian literary/film texts examining violated bodies, homophobia, racism, gender ... See more Posted 31 January 2013 South Asian Diasporas beyond the US Presenters will explore the intersections, parallels, and tensions between South Asians and other ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 T. S. Eliot SocietyT. S. Eliot and the Other ArtsWe invite proposals exploring the relations between Eliot’s work and extraliterary art forms such ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Thoreau SocietyTranscendental MaterialismsWe seek presentations demonstrating how new/green materialist approaches elucidate the Concord ... See more Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 2 February 2013 Western Literature AssociationGlobal Art, Western American ContextThe influence of reading/seeing art from all times and areas, such as in museums or books, within a ... See more Posted 28 December 2012 Native American Memoir in the West: Historical Trauma and Healing This panel considers how Native authors negotiate healing of their personal histories in the ... See more Posted 22 October 2012 William Carlos Williams SocietyNew Directions in Williams StudiesContemporary approaches to Williams in “lightning talk” PechaKucha format -- possible topics ... See more Posted 27 January 2013 William Faulkner SocietyFaulkner and DisabilitySuggested topics: representation of disability, constructions of ableism, applications of ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Faulkner and Women Writers Proposals on Faulkner’s relation to women writers, including but not limited to: specific writers, ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 William Morris SocietyWilliam Morris, Arts and Crafts, and the MidwestPapers are invited on the influence of Morris and his associates on Midwestern culture. 1 page ... See more Posted 14 October 2012 Women in GermanFifty Shades of BrechtBrecht's (mis-)treatment of female collaborators is notorious. Panel considers why women sacrificed ... See more Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Made in Germany: Nation Branding through Feminist Literature and Film This panel considers how German feminist texts support, challenge, and/or undermine the creation ... See more Posted 23 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Women's Caucus for the Modern LanguagesAlt-Academic Feminism I: "Teaching Outside the Classroom through Digital Humanities."Amid Fembot Collective, Black Girls Code, MOOCs, “brogrammers,” new collaborations—how women teach, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Alt-Academic Feminism II: "Theorizing Collaborative Action Beyond Classrooms" Community-based, integrative, and service-learning as recognized high-impact practices but also ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Alt-Academic Feminism III: Feminist Vulnerability on Post-Feminist Campuses Success, support, problems, or backlash in developing programs/curriculum, equity in policy (e.g., ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Wordsworth-Coleridge AssociationRomantic AdaptationEssays should examine the purposes and techniques of textual adaptation in British Romantic ... See more Posted 14 December 2012 Community College Humanities AssociationVulnerability and Survivalism of Humanities in Corporatized AcademiaA roundtable on how humanities faculty can resist adjunctification and other neoliberal ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 John Clare Society of North America"John Clare: The Voices of Nature."Papers addressing any aspect of Clare's poetry and prose, especially regarding the intersection ... See more Posted 28 December 2012 Society for Textual ScholarshipTexts Divided: Textual Scholarship and the American Civil WarPapers on Civil War textuality—broadly considered--for Society for Textual Scholarship panel. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingBook History and WoolfVirginia Woolf, book history & arts. Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Books and the Law Readers, writers, publishers, printers, booksellers, and the law: copyright, sedition/blasphemy, ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Roundtable: Book History and Digital Humanities The relationships between book history and digital humanities. Short presentations on new ... See more Posted 12 February 2013
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