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Calls for Papers - Divisions
Divisions are listed in alphabetical order within each category.
American LiteratureAmerican Indian LiteraturesCritical Indigenous StudiesThis panel seeks papers that take a critical indigenous studies approach to the alliances and ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Multilingualism in Native American/Aboriginal Texts Panel analyzes Native American/Aboriginal texts in original languages and/or with other languages; ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 Native Literary Chicago This panel seeks papers on Chicago as an Indigenous space in Native literature, from early trade ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 American Literature to 1800New Oceanic Studies of the Colonial AmericasHow have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Scandal and Early American Literature Innovative approaches to the interdynamic between scandal and EAL and culture: scandals in ... See more Posted 8 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Scientific Americans: Exploring Science in Early American Literature New perspectives on the place of scientific inquiry in early American literature, and/or the ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Asian American LiteratureAiiieeeee! and Asian American Literature, 40 Years LaterDebating the legacy of Aiiieeeee!, the first major anthology of Asian American literature, forty ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Asian American Literary Criticism Today Open call for papers on Asian American literature. 1 pg abstract, 2 pg CV by 8 March 2013; Paul Lai ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Asian Americans and the Undead Considerations of the undead (including but not limited to zombies, vampires, ghosts) in relation ... See more Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013 Black American Literature and CultureWhen Chicago Was In Vogue: A "Second Awakening" in African American Art and CultureNew perspectives on the Chicago’s South Side as a milestone site for creative ferment among black ... See more Posted 22 February 2013 Chicana and Chicano LiteratureCisneros, Chicago, MangoSeeking papers considering The House on Mango Street's impact on its 30th anniversary and in a year ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 ¿Anthologizing Latinidad? What are the promises and pitfalls of teaching with Latina/o literature anthologies, and with the ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American LiteratureThe Philosophical (Re)Turn?After the cultural turn, the philosophical return? Assessments of (or perspectives from) the recent ... See more Posted 25 February 2013 Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureThe Graphic Nineteenth CenturySubmissions addressing the combination of word and image in the nineteenth century, from proto ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Literature and Media in the Nineteenth-Century US How have media history and media theory transformed the study of nineteenth-century American ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Twentieth-Century American LiteratureAuthor vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century LiteratureShifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 "How to Read Now" Can hermeneutics of suspicion and "surface readings" join forces? Can ideological interpretations ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Traffic The everyday circulation of people, information, capital, and commodities. Literary and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Comparative StudiesComparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century LiteratureMaking Sense of Big DataPapers would address issues in creating comparative literature data sets and/or methodologies for ... See more Posted 26 February 2013 Comparative Studies in Medieval LiteratureEncyclopedismThe many facets of the encyclopedic urge in the 13th-15th centuries. Any and all approaches are ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013 Medieval Literature, Digital Humanities Methods, tools, new directions: any and all approaches considered. 250-word abstracts by 15 March ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013 Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque LiteratureComparative Renaissance FestivityPapers on religious and secular festival, festive custom, festive drama, literary representations ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Montaigne and Shakespeare Intertextual relations including issues of rhetoric, of translation and cultural exchange, of ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Renaissance Rhetoric All aspects and topics of Renaissance rhetoric in a comparatist context, with an emphasis on ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth CenturyLife DrivesPapers on human and non-human forms of life in literary and scientific discourse, competing notions ... See more Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature20th-Century South Asian Literatures - Without EnglishSeeking papers on writers of South Asia who publish in indigenous languages of the region. ... See more Posted 23 October 2012 Author vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature Shifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Cross-Cultural Dialogues Seeking papers about literature or film involving cultures or languages of the global south ... See more Posted 7 January 2013 European Literary RelationsConstantinople/Istanbul: East/WestLiterary and visual representations of the ancient and modern city in European texts. Send ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 World War I in Film and Literature The military self-destruction of Europe that took place between 1914 and 1918 has been portrayed ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 English LiteratureChaucerChaucer and the New AestheticsRethinking aesthetics, including affect and the sensorium; material culture; the descriptive turn; ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Middle English Keywords This roundtable asks: What are the critical terms through which we currently think about Chaucer ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 English Literature Other Than British and AmericanDebt and IndebtednessFinancial (states, individuals), ecological, cultural, literary (intertextuality, anxieties of ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 The English Romantic PeriodNatureof/ and/ or Romanticism: the un-green, post-green, ever-green; grafts, transplants, hybrids; ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Late-Eighteenth-Century English LiteratureHave we ever been secular?Papers revisiting customary narratives about Enlightenment and secularization; exemplifying ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 World War In the wake of the 250th anniversary of the Seven Years War, we invite submissions upon concepts, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature2014's 1914: Great WarEmergent approaches to World War One stressing revisionism motivated by recent events and ... See more Posted 23 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding ShakespeareAssessing Early Modern Queer StudiesRoundtable exploring current debates and new trends. 8-10 minute position papers. Newer voices ... See more Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013 Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding ChaucerFeel the Pain: Medieval TraumaRound Table Possible topics: hagiography, romance, psychoanalysis, affect, bodies, torture, ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Medieval England and the History of the Book session will address the materiality of written culture: codicology, paleography, manuscript ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Old English Language and LiteratureAnglo-Saxon Studies in the ProfessionRoundtable on Anglo-Saxon curricula and studies in the profession. Short papers on teaching, ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Cultures of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England Forms of meditative, ascetic, and active reading; representations of reading/ readers; close ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Old English Law and Literature How do legal and literary texts illuminate social and political developments, or conceptions of ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Wonder in Anglo-Saxon England Wonder as an emotional, physical or intellectual response; textual and material catalysts for ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English LiteratureMilton in the Long RestorationThis session will explore Milton's presence in the long Restoration. We seek papers that address ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Rape of the Lock at 300 (Why) do we still read and teach Rape of the Lock? How can innovative theoretical approaches ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Rethinking the Place of the Novel in the History of Genre What can other genres teach us about the early English novel? Seeking papers that revise our ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Slavery and the Book Trade This panel will combine the methodology of the history of the book with recent studies of slavery ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Seventeenth-Century English LiteratureLiterature and the English Revolution: 1640-1659We welcome papers on any kind of written material from this period (pamphlets, poems, treatises, ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 Networks of Influence in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry We welcome papers on individual poets, pairs of poets and coteries, cultures, and subcultures of ... See more Posted 10 January 2013 ShakespeareMontaigne and ShakespeareIntertextual relations including such issues as translation, rhetoric, skepticism, and the coming ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Shakespearean Hierarchies: History and Natural History sovereignty; legitimacy; subordination; natural law; chain of being; order and disorder; ... See more Posted 10 February 2013 Twentieth-Century English LiteratureBlockbusters and BestsellersHow does popular success shape novels? Topics might include literary prizes, adaptations in other ... See more Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 15 January 2013 The Victorian PeriodVictorian InformaticsPapers related to producing, organizing, circulating knowledge; information taxonomies and ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Victorian Temporalities Papers related to instantaneity, lived time, realtime, geological time, duration, (a)synchrony, ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 French LiteratureEighteenth-Century French LiteratureContesting the Radical EnlightenmentThis session will be devoted to a reevaluation and critique of the concept of Radical ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 The Embodied Mind How was the relationship between mind and body understood in the eighteenth century? In what ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Francophone Literatures and CulturesLiterature, Culture and Film of the Indian OceanNew developments, genres, modes of expression, performance, and intellectual inquiry in today’s ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Performance in Francophone Cultures Pioneering cultural models in performance—collaborative, experimental, and innovative genres such ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 French Medieval Language and LiteratureNature and the Natural WorldWe invite papers on NATURE AND THE NATURAL WORLD in its many guises – theological, legal, ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Voice and Silence Inviting responses to how voice speaks in a text or voices silence so that it can be heard. ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Nineteenth-Century French LiteratureAnimals and AnimalityAnimal encounters in fiction and theory, discourse, images, phenomena, events. Topics: allegory, ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Nineteenth-Century French Studies in the Twenty-first Century Roundtable on the state of research/teaching in the field. What are the emerging trends/looming ... See more Posted 28 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 14 February 2013 Seventeenth-Century French LiteratureDiplomacy in 17th-century French CultureRelations between disparate cultures; evolving practices and forms of diplomacy; its languages; its ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 The Imagined Text Exploring the boundaries between texts and meta-texts: what is there to learn from edits, rewrites, ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Sixteenth-Century French LiteratureCognitive Approaches to French Renaissance LiteratureWhat can cognitive science tell us about literature, and literature about cognitive processes? Case ... See more Posted 7 February 2013 Renaissance Cosmopolitanism Poetics, politics and/or philosophies of being at home all over the world, as seen from the world ... See more Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Roundtable on the Renaissance Mediterranean Current research on the early modern Mediterranean. Comparativist proposals, focus on the ... See more Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013 Twentieth-Century French LiteratureFrancophone African Writers and AnthropologyThis collaborative session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Literature and/as Ethnography Papers will explore the ethnographic impulse in 20th/21st-century French literature. Topics may ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Where is French Theory Today? “French Theory” in a global context (e.g. migration studies, social media, Occupy movements); how ... See more Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013 Genre StudiesAutobiography, Biography, and Life WritingLife Writing and Vulnerable Ethnic CommunitiesLife writing that communicates the vulnerability of certain ethnic groups or is embraced by them. ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 Postcolonial Graphic Memoirs Please submit abstracts examining graphic texts dealing with self-construction/representation and ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Stealing Lives: appropriation, hoaxes, ownership Papers consider the ethics and legality of online and print publishing when life stories are stolen ... See more Posted 30 January 2013 DramaDrama Divisions TodayWhat’s right or wrong about the present configurations of theater and performance studies, in the ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Drama Divisions Tomorrow How should the Drama Division transform to address emerging debates and shape the future of theater ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 FilmAbject ComedyExploring abjection in screen comedy. Are comedies of embarrassment, excess, or awkwardness a new ... See more Posted , last updated 25 February 2013 Deleuze and the States of Film Analysis Relate Deleuze’s philosophy to film analysis. How do 'movement-image' and 'time-image' help ... See more Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 18 February 2013 Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas (collaborative session) Visual technologies and the historical advancement of capitalism in the Americas. Objects of the ... See more Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Literary CriticismMarx and PoetryHow might reading poetry with and through Marx shape poetry criticism and Marxism? 500-word ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Methods of Literary ResearchOld Materials, New MaterialismsSubmissions welcome on all aspects of archival scholarship and new materialisms (including ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 What is Data in Literary Studies? A Roundtable Do all literary scholars work with data of some kind? Or are projects involving data ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and AutobiographyChronicling a Financial CrisisSeeking papers on the task of chronicling a financial crisis. What questions do such accounts ask? ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 The Essay in the Age of Its Electronic Reproducibility The essay and its "digital" production, storage, and distribution; the essay as scholarly ... See more Posted 11 January 2013 Manifesto Revisited The manifesto as a unique nonfiction genre and vehicle for aesthetic and political intervention. ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 PoetryActivist Poetics: Jayne Cortez and Adrienne RichSeeking papers on any aspect of the works of Jayne Cortez and/or Adrienne Rich. 300-word abstract ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Prose FictionMass versus Coterie I: The Audio BookHow does the audio book shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider ... See more Posted 8 January 2013 Mass versus Coterie II: The Rare Book How does the limited edition shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider ... See more Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 German LiteratureEighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German LiteratureAsia in GermanyHow does engagement with Asia precede the concept of world literature? Romantic interest in ... See more Posted 13 February 2013 German Literature to 1700Continental ArthurSeeking papers discussing the role of Arthurian motives in literature on the continent, especially ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 The Lyrical 'I' Seeking papers exploring the figure and function of the 'I' in medieval German poetry. One-page CV, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Medieval German Literature and Mystical Theology Seeking papers addressing the intersection of literature and mystical theology. One-page CV, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Medieval 'World Literature'? Seeking papers addressing questions of what moves, what doesn't move, what circulates, and what ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013 Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German LiteratureLettersLetters as literature; letters in literature; letters as autobiography; open letters; letters and ... See more Posted 21 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013 Twentieth-Century German LiteratureArtistic and Scholarly Practice in the Digital AgeSeeking papers that explore the interplay of aesthetics, science, and politics across sites of ... See more Posted 18 January 2013, last updated 21 January 2013 Hispanic LiteraturesColonial Latin American LiteraturesNew Oceanic Studies of the Colonial AmericasHow have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers ... See more Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013 Political Animals: Nature, Culture, Race in Early America Colonizers believed the 'natures' of nations obeyed geography. How did contact among Europeans, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish LiteratureCosmopolitanism and its DiscontentsThis panel will explore the tensions between cosmopolitanism and its various conceptual antagonists ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Economy and Literature How are 18th and 19th-century economic processes (profit, value, money, commerce, management of ... See more Posted 6 February 2013 Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900Capitalism I: Commodities and Mass CultureResponses to commodification and the rise of mass culture in nineteenth-century Latin America. ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Capitalism II: Body and Labor Aesthetic and ideological dimensions of literary and visual constructions of the body in different ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Capitalism III: Rebellions and Riots Uprisings, riots, and other forms of rebellion in relation to transnational capital. Reflections on ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas Visual technologies and the historical advancement of capitalism in the Americas. Objects of the ... See more Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013 Luso-Brazilian Language and LiteratureLuso-Hispanic ExchangesA comparative examination of Portuguese- and Spanish-language literary and cultural materials. ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Memory/History/Stories The intersection of memory, history and fiction in the construction of national and self identity; ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Sport and Nation in the Lusophone World The relationship between sport and nationality in literary, cinematic and visual texts. We ... See more Posted 15 January 2013 Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and CulturesMaking Community in Vulnerable Medieval TimesRoundtable to discuss how people made community in medieval Iberia. Submit proposal for a brief ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 New Currents in Medieval Hispanic Studies New work, issues or approaches in medieval Hispanic or Iberian studies. Abstract, CV by 15 March ... See more Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Representing Passion Narratives in Varied Linguistic Registers in the Iberian Peninsula: Mirroring or Conflicting Versions of Affective Piety? Invites cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary approaches to medieval Iberian Passion texts. Abstract ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 The Wisdom of Translation This session will explore the role of medieval Iberia as a center for linguistic, literary, and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish DramaDomesticity and the ComediaNew perspectives on the marriage plot and family relations, domestic spaces . Consideration of ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Lope de Vega and Peasant Drama: 400 years later new approaches to peasant drama, canonical and lesser known plays and authors, consideration of ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and ProseGóngora’s Soledades After 400 YearsInterpretations, Reception and Appropriations. Send one-page abstract and two-page CV by 7 March ... See more Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013 Science (and) Fiction in Early Modern Spain History of Science, New Technologies, Magic and Marvels. Send one-page abstract and two-page CV by ... See more Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013 Twentieth-Century Latin American LiteratureEnd(s) of Poetry: A RoundtableModern, postmodern, diasporic, epic, web-based, spoken word, queer, feminist, nationalist, ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 Fiction in Flux: Genre and Transmission in Recent Latin American Narrative Exploring manifestations of fiction and modes of transmission (hand-made books, blogs, other ... See more Posted 3 February 2013 Latinoamericanismo Reloaded Contemporary theoretical readings on thinkers of Latin Americanism writing between 1900 (Ariel) and ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 New Social Movements Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin ... See more Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013 Twentieth-Century Spanish LiteratureAlternative HistoriesTheoretically informed proposals for, or analyses of, new ways of conceptualizing cultural, ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 The Commons/Lo común Analysis of how the concept is deployed in contemporary Spanish cultural production, including ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 Critical Regionalisms Analysis of emergent conceptualizations of the regional and of cultural difference that question ... See more Posted 17 January 2013 New Social Movements Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin America, Spain, or the ... See more Posted 12 January 2013 Interdisciplinary ApproachesAnthropological Approaches to LiteratureChicago Schools of Anthropology and LiteraturePapers that explore or exemplify anthropological methods associated with Chicago in dialogue with ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 Children's LiteratureBroadway BabiesPapers should examine constructions of childhood and issues of child performance in musicals such ... See more Posted 22 January 2013 Chidren's Literature and The Common Core Roundtable discussion of the consequences of common core standards to teaching children's ... See more Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013 Diaries of the Young Girl: The Craft of Female Selfhood Girls’ diaries from diverse perspectives: feminism, the bildungsroman, constructions of ... See more Posted 19 February 2013 Randall Jarrell at 100 This panel seeks papers celebrating Randall Jarrell, children’s author, teacher, poet, critic, ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Cognitive Approaches to LiteratureCognitive Approaches to FilmTheory; new interpretations; unexpected angles. We invite papers at the intersection of cognitive ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Cognitive Historicist Approaches to Literature Papers examining literary works (across cultural traditions) in relation to the ideas about the ... See more Posted 16 February 2013 Disability StudiesDisability Discourses in Latin America: Academy and ActivismRoundtable exploring current issues and discourses in disability studies in LA. 6-7 minute position ... See more Posted 4 February 2013 History, Form, Theory of Early Modern Disability Reflections on historical, formal, theoretical models of disability representation in early modern ... See more Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013 Toxic Bodies Disabled persons as canaries in coal mines of globalization. Intersectional connections to other ... See more Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013 Ethnic Studies in Language and LiteratureLiterary Sociologies of Race and EthnicityTheorists and sociologists such as Randolph Bourne, Robert E. Park, Alain Locke, Charles S. Johnson ... See more Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Rustbelt Migrations: Ethnicities and (De)Industrialization Literature of immigrants (Europe, Asia) and internal migrant populations (Blacks, Chicanos, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 South Asians in North America Inter-ethnic readings of history, culture, representation, theory - including and beyond race, ... See more Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 15 February 2013 Gay Studies in Language and LiteratureDeviant ChicagoSexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Digital Queers or Queering the Digital Queering online presences; queer digital performances and objects; queering the codes; digitizing ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Queer Matter Queer materialisms; queer mattering; the queerness of matter; queer material; material queer; queer ... See more Posted 29 January 2013 Queer Philology Explorations of “queer philology,” the close inspection of the historical meaning of words and ... See more Posted 26 January 2013 Linguistic Approaches to LiteratureHistory of Style: Language’s Impact on LiteratureSession fits topic of “Vulnerable Discourses: Linguistic Manipulation of Literature,” specifically ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Oulipo : Avant-garde Language Session fits theme “Vulnerable Worlds." Oulipo, the last international avant-garde (1961), ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013 Literature and Other ArtsLiterature and ArchitectureThis panel explores literature and architecture in view of recent spatial, pictorial, affective, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Transnational Comics Comics and graphic narratives present visual and textual testaments to global interaction. This ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Literature and ReligionHeresy: Arius to RushdieWe seek a range of papers from different periods, languages, religious traditions. 300-500 word ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Literary Crossroads: African-American Literature and Christianity Papers exploring the complex intersection between African-American literature and Christianity, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Literature and ScienceBiodiversity and ExtinctionSubmissions sought for panel on literary/cultural approaches to species, biodiversity, endangered ... See more Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013 Organic Mechanisms: Whitehead, Literature, and Science New approaches to literature and science informed by the resurgent philosophy of nature, ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Philosophical Approaches to LiteratureVital Matters II: Lively MaterialismsThe animation of materialism, literary or nonliterary, including questions of vitality and ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Vital Matters III: Things, Animals, Humans We welcome papers on writing livingness, with emphasis on biopolitics, animal studies, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Popular CultureDeviant ChicagoSexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 In the Meme Time “Meme” accounts for phenomena such as “Gangnam Style” dance. Papers that pressure the “popular” ... See more Posted 18 February 2013 Torture and Popular Culture Papers on the representation of torture in popular culture, especially in recent work like Zero ... See more Posted 17 February 2013 Postcolonial Studies in Literature and CultureCities and Cultural MobilityPopulation dispersals and re-aggregations were significant effects of colonialism; papers exploring ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Cultures of the Global South Collaboration with Sociological Approaches to Literature; papers foregrounding lifeworlds in the ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Psychological Approaches to LiteratureThe Unconscious in TranslationThe unconscious structured like a foreign language? Papers welcome on topics relating ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Sociological Approaches to LiteratureCultures of the Global SouthForegrounding lifeworlds in the historically disadvantaged "industrializing" global South, and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Materialist Aesthetics Rethinking/revisiting materialism as a concern for politicized notions of aesthetics; Marxism; ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Tragedy of the Commons? Historicizing the affective appeal of the idea of a commons, commonality and/or communism in ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Women's Studies in Language and LiteratureChicago Women PlaywrightsThe panel invites work by or about women playwrights from Chicago such as Sarah Ruhl, Lydia R. ... See more Posted 25 January 2013 The Streets of Bronzeville: Gwendolyn Brooks Seeking new approaches to the novels and poetics of Gwendolyn Brooks. Particular attention given to ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Women and the Literature/Language of Human Rights Possible topics: the language/practice of the Beijing Platform for Action or CEDAW; human rights ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Italian LiteratureMedieval and Renaissance Italian LiteratureCandor, Deception, and DissimulationThe contexts, uses, and reception of candor, its appearance, and/or its manipulation in Italian ... See more Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons Literary explorations of relationships between mothers and daughters and/or mothers and sons, as ... See more Posted 23 January 2013 New Approaches to Vivifying Literature Roundtable examination of how today's scholars bring Medieval and Renaissance literature to modern ... See more Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Pilgrims and Pilgrimages Odeporic Middle Ages: Portraying Real and Quack Pilgrims, Adventurers, Merchants and Various ... See more Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013 Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian LiteratureNon-Christian Identities in the Italian ContextThis session welcomes papers that address Atheist, Jewish, Libertine, Muslim, and Protestant ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Twentieth-Century Italian LiteratureItalian DifferenceThe Italian historical-theoretical disposition to impurity, profanation, and contamination in ... See more Posted 2 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Italian Maladies Narrative medicine, illness, vulnerability, biopolitics, disease, trauma, disability and ... See more Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 25 February 2013 Re-Thinking Divismo: Italy and Modern Celebrity Culture Celebrity studies analyzing identities, politics, theatre, literature, cinema, media from Duse and ... See more Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013 Language StudiesApplied LinguisticsAutobiographies of Applied LinguistsEmerging fields inevitably struggle with identity; with questions of membership; and with defining ... See more Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 Sign language use and development around the globe Papers that analyze or problematize the use and/or development of signed languages. Abstract: 150 ... See more Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 Social pedagogies and second language development Theoretical/empirical papers that examine the feasibility and effectiveness of pedagogical ... See more Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013 The History and Theory of Rhetoric and CompositionEarly American Networks of Writing and the Politics of Writing InstructionSeeking new research on the politics of early American rhetoric and writing instruction networks. ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Language ChangeDiversity and ChangeWhat role does “diversity” play in understanding language change? Papers will explore perspectives ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Language Change and Literature How does language change matter to literature (and vice versa)? How might change inform recent ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Language TheoryNarrative and Language TheoryWe solicit papers exploring relationship between narrative and theory of language. Paper proposals ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 New Work in Language Theory We solicit papers exploring any aspect of linguistics that contributes to recent trends in language ... See more Posted 20 January 2013 Language and SocietyDiscourse, Food, and Social JusticeLanguage at the intersection of food and society: justice, foodways, labor, ethics. How does ... See more Posted 20 February 2013 Other Languages & LiteraturesAfrican LiteraturesAfrican Literature/Performance and New MediaPaper proposals considering how new media technologies are shaping the production, circulation and ... See more Posted 14 February 2013 Expatriation, Authorship, and Reception in African Literatures Forms and themes of expatriation and location in African literatures. Who/what is an African ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Francophone African Writers and Anthropology This session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 The State in African Literatures Papers on representations of the state (both the real and the desired) and biopolitics in African ... See more Posted 11 February 2013 Arabic Literature and CultureNew Arabic GenresSeeking papers on new Arabic media, including electronic modes of writing, graphic narratives, and ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Novels of the Arab Diaspora Seeking papers on novels by Arab writers of the diaspora, early and contemporary topics welcome, ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, ... See more Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 16 January 2013 Vulnerable Expression after the Arab Uprisings Seeking papers examining cultural freedoms since the Arab Uprisings, with an emphasis on legal and ... See more Posted 16 January 2013 East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900Asia and the Nobel Prize in LiteraturePapers exploring the cultural, linguistic, literary, and political meanings of this prize and the ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Representations of Disaster in Contemporary Asia Papers that consider issues of representation of recent disasters throughout Asia, such as ... See more Posted 21 January 2013 Thinking Fanlation Papers that explore the theoretical or political ramifications of fanlation, scanlation, ... See more Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 18 January 2013 East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900East Asian Traditional Poetry in the Digital AgeImpact of modern technology on circulation, discussion, and composition of poetry in traditional ... See more Posted 28 January 2013 Influence/Confluence of Genres in East Asia Explorations of the influence between and confluence of literary and performative genres as ... See more Posted 14 January 2013 Slavic and East European LiteraturesCulture and Activism in the 2011-13 Russian Protest MovementsPapers may discuss specific figures (Pussy Riot, Akunin, Sobchak) or broader questions of theory, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Digitizing Slavic Studies The panel invites papers examining the engagement of Slavic arts and humanities with technology, ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 Russian Periodical Studies Periodicals, a marker of aesthetic and social change, offer a glimpse into the modes of cultural ... See more Posted 21 February 2013 TeachingTeaching as a ProfessionContingency at the CoreImplications for curriculum change when a school's curriculum is taught largely by contingent ... See more Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013 The History of Teaching as a Profession Short papers examining past historical accounts of teaching or presenting new histories from which ... See more Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013 The Teaching of LanguageLinguistic Foundations for Teaching in the Post-Methods EraDiscusses how foundations in Linguistics (L1 and L2 acquisition theory, phonology, phonetics, ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 Raising the Bar: Academic Rigor in the Language Classroom This session examines frameworks and approaches for teaching foreign language through ... See more Posted 15 February 2013 The Teaching of LiteratureThe Pleasure of the Text: Creating Life-Long ReadersTeaching literature with an eye to life beyond the classroom. How do we connect literature to ... See more Posted 24 January 2013 Teaching Brecht Proposals sought with critical reflections and best practices on teaching Bertolt Brecht’s ideas ... See more Posted 13 January 2013 The Teaching of WritingTextual Carnivals Revisited20 years after Susan Miller’s Textual Carnivals, Are we still “the sad woman in the basement?” This ... See more Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013
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