Calls for Papers - Divisions

Mass versus Coterie II: The Rare Book
Prose Fiction
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

Candor, Deception, and Dissimulation
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
The 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

Drama Divisions Today
Drama
What’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

New Approaches to Vivifying Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Italian 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
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Odeporic Middle Ages: Portraying Real and Quack Pilgrims, Adventurers, Merchants and Various ... See more
Posted 19 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013

Autobiographies of Applied Linguists
Applied Linguistics
Emerging 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
Applied Linguistics
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
Applied Linguistics
Theoretical/empirical papers that examine the feasibility and effectiveness of pedagogical ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013

Making Sense of Big Data
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Papers would address issues in creating comparative literature data sets and/or methodologies for ... See more
Posted 26 February 2013

Abject Comedy
Film
Exploring abjection in screen comedy. Are comedies of embarrassment, excess, or awkwardness a new ... See more
Posted , last updated 25 February 2013

The Philosophical (Re)Turn?
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
After the cultural turn, the philosophical return? Assessments of (or perspectives from) the recent ... See more
Posted 25 February 2013

Italian Maladies
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
Narrative medicine, illness, vulnerability, biopolitics, disease, trauma, disability and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 25 February 2013

Chidren's Literature and The Common Core
Children's Literature
Roundtable discussion of the consequences of common core standards to teaching children's ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013

Life Drives
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century
Papers 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

When Chicago Was In Vogue: A "Second Awakening" in African American Art and Culture
Black American Literature and Culture
New perspectives on the Chicago’s South Side as a milestone site for creative ferment among black ... See more
Posted 22 February 2013

Native Literary Chicago
American Indian Literatures
This panel seeks papers on Chicago as an Indigenous space in Native literature, from early trade ... See more
Posted 22 February 2013

Critical Indigenous Studies
American Indian Literatures
This panel seeks papers that take a critical indigenous studies approach to the alliances and ... See more
Posted 22 February 2013

Marx and Poetry
Literary Criticism
How might reading poetry with and through Marx shape poetry criticism and Marxism? 500-word ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Manifesto Revisited
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
The manifesto as a unique nonfiction genre and vehicle for aesthetic and political intervention. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Oulipo : Avant-garde Language
Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Session fits theme “Vulnerable Worlds." Oulipo, the last international avant-garde (1961), ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013

History of Style: Language’s Impact on Literature
Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Session fits topic of “Vulnerable Discourses: Linguistic Manipulation of Literature,” specifically ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013

Vital Matters III: Things, Animals, Humans
Philosophical Approaches to Literature
We welcome papers on writing livingness, with emphasis on biopolitics, animal studies, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Digital Queers or Queering the Digital
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Queering online presences; queer digital performances and objects; queering the codes; digitizing ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Vital Matters II: Lively Materialisms
Philosophical Approaches to Literature
The animation of materialism, literary or nonliterary, including questions of vitality and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Deviant Chicago
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Sexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Deviant Chicago
Popular Culture
Sexual communities and practices in Chicago: migration, settlement, same-sex relations, interracial ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Cultures of the Global South
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
Collaboration with Sociological Approaches to Literature; papers foregrounding lifeworlds in the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

The Embodied Mind
Eighteenth-Century French Literature
How was the relationship between mind and body understood in the eighteenth century? In what ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Transnational Comics
Literature and Other Arts
Comics and graphic narratives present visual and textual testaments to global interaction. This ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Rape of the Lock at 300
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
(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

Literature and Architecture
Literature and Other Arts
This panel explores literature and architecture in view of recent spatial, pictorial, affective, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Cities and Cultural Mobility
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
Population dispersals and re-aggregations were significant effects of colonialism; papers exploring ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Tragedy of the Commons?
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Historicizing the affective appeal of the idea of a commons, commonality and/or communism in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

The Streets of Bronzeville: Gwendolyn Brooks
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
Seeking new approaches to the novels and poetics of Gwendolyn Brooks. Particular attention given to ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Russian Periodical Studies
Slavic and East European Literatures
Periodicals, a marker of aesthetic and social change, offer a glimpse into the modes of cultural ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Culture and Activism in the 2011-13 Russian Protest Movements
Slavic and East European Literatures
Papers may discuss specific figures (Pussy Riot, Akunin, Sobchak) or broader questions of theory, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Digitizing Slavic Studies
Slavic and East European Literatures
The panel invites papers examining the engagement of Slavic arts and humanities with technology, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Making Community in Vulnerable Medieval Times
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Roundtable to discuss how people made community in medieval Iberia. Submit proposal for a brief ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Representing Passion Narratives in Varied Linguistic Registers in the Iberian Peninsula: Mirroring or Conflicting Versions of Affective Piety?
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Invites cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary approaches to medieval Iberian Passion texts. Abstract ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

The Wisdom of Translation
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
This session will explore the role of medieval Iberia as a center for linguistic, literary, and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Trans-­Mediterranean Literature and Film
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-­Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Literature, Culture and Film of the Indian Ocean
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
New developments, genres, modes of expression, performance, and intellectual inquiry in today’s ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Performance in Francophone Cultures
Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Pioneering cultural models in performance—collaborative, experimental, and innovative genres such ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

New Currents in Medieval Hispanic Studies
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
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

The Unconscious in Translation
Psychological Approaches to Literature
The unconscious structured like a foreign language? Papers welcome on topics relating ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Capitalism III: Rebellions and Riots
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Uprisings, riots, and other forms of rebellion in relation to transnational capital. Reflections on ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Capitalism II: Body and Labor
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Aesthetic and ideological dimensions of literary and visual constructions of the body in different ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Capitalism I: Commodities and Mass Culture
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
Responses to commodification and the rise of mass culture in nineteenth-century Latin America. ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Discourse, Food, and Social Justice
Language and Society
Language at the intersection of food and society: justice, foodways, labor, ethics. How does ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas (collaborative session)
Film
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

Traffic
Twentieth-Century American Literature
The everyday circulation of people, information, capital, and commodities. Literary and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Materialist Aesthetics
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Rethinking/revisiting materialism as a concern for politicized notions of aesthetics; Marxism; ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Cultures of the Global South
Sociological Approaches to Literature
Foregrounding lifeworlds in the historically disadvantaged "industrializing" global South, and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Women and the Literature/Language of Human Rights
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
Possible topics: the language/practice of the Beijing Platform for Action or CEDAW; human rights ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Literary Crossroads: African-American Literature and Christianity
Literature and Religion
Papers exploring the complex intersection between African-American literature and Christianity, ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013

Drama Divisions Tomorrow
Drama
How should the Drama Division transform to address emerging debates and shape the future of theater ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Rustbelt Migrations: Ethnicities and (De)Industrialization
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Literature of immigrants (Europe, Asia) and internal migrant populations (Blacks, Chicanos, ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013

Literary Sociologies of Race and Ethnicity
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Theorists 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

Biodiversity and Extinction
Literature and Science
Submissions sought for panel on literary/cultural approaches to species, biodiversity, endangered ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013

Randall Jarrell at 100
Children's Literature
This panel seeks papers celebrating Randall Jarrell, children’s author, teacher, poet, critic, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

World War I in Film and Literature
European Literary Relations
The military self-destruction of Europe that took place between 1914 and 1918 has been portrayed ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Constantinople/Istanbul: East/West
European Literary Relations
Literary and visual representations of the ancient and modern city in European texts. Send ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Author vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Shifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Diaries of the Young Girl: The Craft of Female Selfhood
Children's Literature
Girls’ diaries from diverse perspectives: feminism, the bildungsroman, constructions of ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Author vs. Form vs. Concept: The Clash of Paradigms in the Study of Twentieth-Century Literature
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Shifting history, consequences, and/or possible future of critical paradigms. 5-7 minute roundtable ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Have we ever been secular?
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Papers revisiting customary narratives about Enlightenment and secularization; exemplifying ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

World War
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
In the wake of the 250th anniversary of the Seven Years War, we invite submissions upon concepts, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Renaissance Cosmopolitanism
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
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

Rethinking the Place of the Novel in the History of Genre
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
What can other genres teach us about the early English novel? Seeking papers that revise our ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Medieval German Literature and Mystical Theology
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers addressing the intersection of literature and mystical theology. One-page CV, ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013

The Lyrical 'I'
German Literature to 1700
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 'World Literature'?
German Literature to 1700
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

Continental Arthur
German Literature to 1700
Seeking papers discussing the role of Arthurian motives in literature on the continent, especially ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013, last updated 19 February 2013

Feel the Pain: Medieval Trauma
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
Round Table Possible topics: hagiography, romance, psychoanalysis, affect, bodies, torture, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Medieval England and the History of the Book
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
session will address the materiality of written culture: codicology, paleography, manuscript ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Asian American Literary Criticism Today
Asian American Literature
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

Aiiieeeee! and Asian American Literature, 40 Years Later
Asian American Literature
Debating the legacy of Aiiieeeee!, the first major anthology of Asian American literature, forty ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Asian Americans and the Undead
Asian American Literature
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

Organic Mechanisms: Whitehead, Literature, and Science
Literature and Science
New approaches to literature and science informed by the resurgent philosophy of nature, ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

In the Meme Time
Popular Culture
“Meme” accounts for phenomena such as “Gangnam Style” dance. Papers that pressure the “popular” ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Chaucer and the New Aesthetics
Chaucer
Rethinking aesthetics, including affect and the sensorium; material culture; the descriptive turn; ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Middle English Keywords
Chaucer
This roundtable asks: What are the critical terms through which we currently think about Chaucer ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Where is French Theory Today?
Twentieth-Century French Literature
“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

Deleuze and the States of Film Analysis
Film
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

Textual Carnivals Revisited
the Teaching of Writing
20 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

Torture and Popular Culture
Popular Culture
Papers on the representation of torture in popular culture, especially in recent work like Zero ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Assessing Early Modern Queer Studies
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare
Roundtable exploring current debates and new trends. 8-10 minute position papers. Newer voices ... See more
Posted 16 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013

Cognitive Approaches to Film
Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Theory; new interpretations; unexpected angles. We invite papers at the intersection of cognitive ... See more
Posted 16 February 2013

Cognitive Historicist Approaches to Literature
Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Papers examining literary works (across cultural traditions) in relation to the ideas about the ... See more
Posted 16 February 2013

The Graphic Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Submissions 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
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
How have media history and media theory transformed the study of nineteenth-century American ... See more
Posted 16 February 2013

Political Animals: Nature, Culture, Race in Early America
Colonial Latin American Literatures
Colonizers believed the 'natures' of nations obeyed geography. How did contact among Europeans, ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013

Modern Vision and the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900
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

South Asians in North America
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Inter-ethnic readings of history, culture, representation, theory - including and beyond race, ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013, last updated 15 February 2013

Early American Networks of Writing and the Politics of Writing Instruction
the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition
Seeking new research on the politics of early American rhetoric and writing instruction networks. ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Raising the Bar: Academic Rigor in the Language Classroom
the Teaching of Language
This session examines frameworks and approaches for teaching foreign language through ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Linguistic Foundations for Teaching in the Post-Methods Era
the Teaching of Language
Discusses how foundations in Linguistics (L1 and L2 acquisition theory, phonology, phonetics, ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Heresy: Arius to Rushdie
Literature and Religion
We seek a range of papers from different periods, languages, religious traditions. 300-500 word ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Language Change and Literature
Language Change
How does language change matter to literature (and vice versa)? How might change inform recent ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Diversity and Change
Language Change
What role does “diversity” play in understanding language change? Papers will explore perspectives ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Debt and Indebtedness
English Literature Other Than British and American
Financial (states, individuals), ecological, cultural, literary (intertextuality, anxieties of ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Non-Christian Identities in the Italian Context
Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature
This session welcomes papers that address Atheist, Jewish, Libertine, Muslim, and Protestant ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

African Literature/Performance and New Media
African Literatures
Paper proposals considering how new media technologies are shaping the production, circulation and ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Contesting the Radical Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century French Literature
This session will be devoted to a reevaluation and critique of the concept of Radical ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Montaigne and Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Intertextual relations including such issues as translation, rhetoric, skepticism, and the coming ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Women on Work, Women's Work
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Literary and cultural approaches to work; material labor and the work of culture and language in ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Roundtable on the Renaissance Mediterranean
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
Current research on the early modern Mediterranean. Comparativist proposals, focus on the ... See more
Posted 7 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013

Montaigne and Shakespeare
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Intertextual relations including issues of rhetoric, of translation and cultural exchange, of ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Comparative Renaissance Festivity
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Papers on religious and secular festival, festive custom, festive drama, literary representations ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Renaissance Rhetoric
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature
All aspects and topics of Renaissance rhetoric in a comparatist context, with an emphasis on ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Asia in Germany
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature
How does engagement with Asia precede the concept of world literature? Romantic interest in ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Profession
Old English Language and Literature
Roundtable on Anglo-Saxon curricula and studies in the profession. Short papers on teaching, ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Old English Law and Literature
Old English Language 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
Old English Language and Literature
Wonder as an emotional, physical or intellectual response; textual and material catalysts for ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Cultures of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England
Old English Language and Literature
Forms of meditative, ascetic, and active reading; representations of reading/ readers; close ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

New Oceanic Studies of the Colonial Americas
Colonial Latin American Literatures
How have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013

Encyclopedism
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature
The 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
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature
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

Nature
the English Romantic Period
of/ and/ or Romanticism: the un-green, post-green, ever-green; grafts, transplants, hybrids; ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

"How to Read Now"
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Can hermeneutics of suspicion and "surface readings" join forces? Can ideological interpretations ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Italian Difference
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
The Italian historical-theoretical disposition to impurity, profanation, and contamination in ... See more
Posted 2 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013

Re-Thinking Divismo: Italy and Modern Celebrity Culture
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
Celebrity studies analyzing identities, politics, theatre, literature, cinema, media from Duse and ... See more
Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 11 February 2013

Scandal and Early American Literature
American Literature to 1800
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
American Literature to 1800
New perspectives on the place of scientific inquiry in early American literature, and/or the ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

New Oceanic Studies of the Colonial Americas
American Literature to 1800
How have oceanic studies reframed approaches to early Anglo and Iberian colonialisms? Papers ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Literature and/as Ethnography
Twentieth-Century French Literature
Papers will explore the ethnographic impulse in 20th/21st-century French literature. Topics may ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Francophone African Writers and Anthropology
Twentieth-Century French Literature
This collaborative session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Francophone African Writers and Anthropology
African Literatures
This session will explore the engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Expatriation, Authorship, and Reception in African Literatures
African Literatures
Forms and themes of expatriation and location in African literatures. Who/what is an African ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

The State in African Literatures
African Literatures
Papers on representations of the state (both the real and the desired) and biopolitics in African ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Postcolonial Graphic Memoirs
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Please submit abstracts examining graphic texts dealing with self-construction/representation and ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

2014's 1914: Great War
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature
Emergent approaches to World War One stressing revisionism motivated by recent events and ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013, last updated 11 February 2013

Shakespearean Hierarchies: History and Natural History
Shakespeare
sovereignty; legitimacy; subordination; natural law; chain of being; order and disorder; ... See more
Posted 10 February 2013

Cognitive Approaches to French Renaissance Literature
Sixteenth-Century French Literature
What can cognitive science tell us about literature, and literature about cognitive processes? Case ... See more
Posted 7 February 2013

Economy and Literature
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
How are 18th and 19th-century economic processes (profit, value, money, commerce, management of ... See more
Posted 6 February 2013

Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
This panel will explore the tensions between cosmopolitanism and its various conceptual antagonists ... See more
Posted 6 February 2013

Contingency at the Core
Teaching as a Profession
Implications 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
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

Chicago Schools of Anthropology and Literature
Anthropological Approaches to Literature
Papers that explore or exemplify anthropological methods associated with Chicago in dialogue with ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

Disability Discourses in Latin America: Academy and Activism
Disability Studies
Roundtable exploring current issues and discourses in disability studies in LA. 6-7 minute position ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

Fiction in Flux: Genre and Transmission in Recent Latin American Narrative
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Exploring manifestations of fiction and modes of transmission (hand-made books, blogs, other ... See more
Posted 3 February 2013

Life Writing and Vulnerable Ethnic Communities
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Life writing that communicates the vulnerability of certain ethnic groups or is embraced by them. ... See more
Posted 30 January 2013

Stealing Lives: appropriation, hoaxes, ownership
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing
Papers consider the ethics and legality of online and print publishing when life stories are stolen ... See more
Posted 30 January 2013

Cisneros, Chicago, Mango
Chicana and Chicano Literature
Seeking 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?
Chicana and Chicano Literature
What are the promises and pitfalls of teaching with Latina/o literature anthologies, and with the ... See more
Posted 30 January 2013

Queer Matter
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Queer materialisms; queer mattering; the queerness of matter; queer material; material queer; queer ... See more
Posted 29 January 2013

Slavery and the Book Trade
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
This panel will combine the methodology of the history of the book with recent studies of slavery ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Activist Poetics: Jayne Cortez and Adrienne Rich
Poetry
Seeking papers on any aspect of the works of Jayne Cortez and/or Adrienne Rich. 300-word abstract ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Nineteenth-Century French Studies in the Twenty-first Century
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Roundtable on the state of research/teaching in the field. What are the emerging trends/looming ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Animals and Animality
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Animal encounters in fiction and theory, discourse, images, phenomena, events. Topics: allegory, ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Chronicling a Financial Crisis
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
Seeking papers on the task of chronicling a financial crisis. What questions do such accounts ask? ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

East Asian Traditional Poetry in the Digital Age
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900
Impact of modern technology on circulation, discussion, and composition of poetry in traditional ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

End(s) of Poetry: A Roundtable
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Modern, postmodern, diasporic, epic, web-based, spoken word, queer, feminist, nationalist, ... See more
Posted 26 January 2013

Queer Philology
Gay Studies in Language and Literature
Explorations of “queer philology,” the close inspection of the historical meaning of words and ... See more
Posted 26 January 2013

Chicago Women Playwrights
Women's Studies in Language and Literature
The panel invites work by or about women playwrights from Chicago such as Sarah Ruhl, Lydia R. ... See more
Posted 25 January 2013

Letters
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature
Letters as literature; letters in literature; letters as autobiography; open letters; letters and ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013, last updated 24 January 2013

Góngora’s Soledades After 400 Years
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose
Interpretations, 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
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose
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

The Pleasure of the Text: Creating Life-Long Readers
the Teaching of Literature
Teaching literature with an eye to life beyond the classroom. How do we connect literature to ... See more
Posted 24 January 2013

Multilingualism in Native American/Aboriginal Texts
American Indian Literatures
Panel analyzes Native American/Aboriginal texts in original languages and/or with other languages; ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013

Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Literary explorations of relationships between mothers and daughters and/or mothers and sons, as ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013

Voice and Silence
French Medieval Language and Literature
Inviting responses to how voice speaks in a text or voices silence so that it can be heard. ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Nature and the Natural World
French Medieval Language and Literature
We invite papers on NATURE AND THE NATURAL WORLD in its many guises – theological, legal, ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Broadway Babies
Children's Literature
Papers should examine constructions of childhood and issues of child performance in musicals such ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Victorian Informatics
the Victorian Period
Papers related to producing, organizing, circulating knowledge; information taxonomies and ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Victorian Temporalities
the Victorian Period
Papers related to instantaneity, lived time, realtime, geological time, duration, (a)synchrony, ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Lope de Vega and Peasant Drama: 400 years later
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
new approaches to peasant drama, canonical and lesser known plays and authors, consideration of ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Domesticity and the Comedia
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
New perspectives on the marriage plot and family relations, domestic spaces . Consideration of ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Representations of Disaster in Contemporary Asia
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers that consider issues of representation of recent disasters throughout Asia, such as ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

Asia and the Nobel Prize in Literature
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers exploring the cultural, linguistic, literary, and political meanings of this prize and the ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

What is Data in Literary Studies? A Roundtable
Methods of Literary Research
Do all literary scholars work with data of some kind? Or are projects involving data ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

Artistic and Scholarly Practice in the Digital Age
Twentieth-Century German Literature
Seeking papers that explore the interplay of aesthetics, science, and politics across sites of ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013, last updated 21 January 2013

Narrative and Language Theory
Language Theory
We solicit papers exploring relationship between narrative and theory of language. Paper proposals ... See more
Posted 20 January 2013

New Work in Language Theory
Language Theory
We solicit papers exploring any aspect of linguistics that contributes to recent trends in language ... See more
Posted 20 January 2013

Thinking Fanlation
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900
Papers that explore the theoretical or political ramifications of fanlation, scanlation, ... See more
Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 18 January 2013

Critical Regionalisms
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analysis of emergent conceptualizations of the regional and of cultural difference that question ... See more
Posted 17 January 2013

Novels of the Arab Diaspora
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers on novels by Arab writers of the diaspora, early and contemporary topics welcome, ... See more
Posted 16 January 2013

New Arabic Genres
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers on new Arabic media, including electronic modes of writing, graphic narratives, and ... See more
Posted 16 January 2013

Vulnerable Expression after the Arab Uprisings
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers examining cultural freedoms since the Arab Uprisings, with an emphasis on legal and ... See more
Posted 16 January 2013

Trans-Mediterranean Literature and Film
Arabic Literature and Culture
Seeking papers that theorize a Trans-Mediterranean culture. Suggested topics include colonialism, ... See more
Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 16 January 2013

Luso-Hispanic Exchanges
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
A comparative examination of Portuguese- and Spanish-language literary and cultural materials. ... See more
Posted 15 January 2013

Sport and Nation in the Lusophone World
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
The relationship between sport and nationality in literary, cinematic and visual texts. We ... See more
Posted 15 January 2013

Memory/History/Stories
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
The intersection of memory, history and fiction in the construction of national and self identity; ... See more
Posted 15 January 2013

Diplomacy in 17th-century French Culture
Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Relations between disparate cultures; evolving practices and forms of diplomacy; its languages; its ... See more
Posted 15 January 2013

Blockbusters and Bestsellers
Twentieth-Century English Literature
How does popular success shape novels? Topics might include literary prizes, adaptations in other ... See more
Posted 14 January 2013, last updated 15 January 2013

Influence/Confluence of Genres in East Asia
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900
Explorations of the influence between and confluence of literary and performative genres as ... See more
Posted 14 January 2013

Milton in the Long Restoration
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
This session will explore Milton's presence in the long Restoration. We seek papers that address ... See more
Posted 14 January 2013

Teaching Brecht
the Teaching of Literature
Proposals sought with critical reflections and best practices on teaching Bertolt Brecht’s ideas ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

Latinoamericanismo Reloaded
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Contemporary theoretical readings on thinkers of Latin Americanism writing between 1900 (Ariel) and ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

History, Form, Theory of Early Modern Disability
Disability Studies
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
Disability Studies
Disabled persons as canaries in coal mines of globalization. Intersectional connections to other ... See more
Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013

New Social Movements
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin ... See more
Posted 12 January 2013, last updated 13 January 2013

The Commons/Lo común
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analysis of how the concept is deployed in contemporary Spanish cultural production, including ... See more
Posted 12 January 2013

New Social Movements
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Analyses of recent movements ("yo soy 132," "indignados," etc.) in Latin America, Spain, or the ... See more
Posted 12 January 2013

Alternative Histories
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
Theoretically informed proposals for, or analyses of, new ways of conceptualizing cultural, ... See more
Posted 12 January 2013

The Imagined Text
Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Exploring the boundaries between texts and meta-texts: what is there to learn from edits, rewrites, ... See more
Posted 11 January 2013

The Essay in the Age of Its Electronic Reproducibility
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography
The essay and its "digital" production, storage, and distribution; the essay as scholarly ... See more
Posted 11 January 2013

Literature and the English Revolution: 1640-1659
Seventeenth-Century English Literature
We 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
Seventeenth-Century English Literature
We welcome papers on individual poets, pairs of poets and coteries, cultures, and subcultures of ... See more
Posted 10 January 2013

Mass versus Coterie I: The Audio Book
Prose Fiction
How does the audio book shape the making and consuming of prose fiction? Papers might consider ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013

Old Materials, New Materialisms
Methods of Literary Research
Submissions welcome on all aspects of archival scholarship and new materialisms (including ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013

Cross-Cultural Dialogues
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Seeking papers about literature or film involving cultures or languages of the global south ... See more
Posted 7 January 2013

20th-Century South Asian Literatures - Without English
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Seeking papers on writers of South Asia who publish in indigenous languages of the region. ... See more
Posted 23 October 2012

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