Calls for Papers - Special Sessions

The Sentimental Worlds of Ray Bradbury
Special Session
Topics include folktale, fairy tale, science fiction, children, and domesticity in the work of Ray ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013, last updated 18 March 2013

Tenure Denied: What Happens Next (A Roundtable Discussion)
Special Session
What happens to people after tenure denial? How do they reinvent, reorient themselves. Let's share ... See more
Posted 4 January 2013, last updated 14 March 2013

Mincing Their Words: Spanish Women in the Kitchen
Special Session
How did nineteenth through twentyfirst-century authors present food and food preparation? What does ... See more
Posted 11 January 2013, last updated 11 March 2013

Nation, Authorship, and Visual Culture: Revisiting 19-Century Latin America
Special Session
Reshape recent readings of this period in relation to nation, authorship, and visual culture. A 7 ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 9 March 2013

Merely Mnemonic? Reconsidering Middle English Medical Verse
Special Session
We invite papers on all aspects of Middle English medical verse, including poetics, sources, ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 5 March 2013

Costumbrismo en producción visual y escrita del siglo XIX latinoamericano
Special Session
Propuestas que aborden el costumbrismo como problema estético e ideológico en textos visuales y ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013

Conservadurismo y literatura en el siglo XIX hispanoamericano
Special Session
Exploraciones sobre las diferentes formas de articulación del pensamiento conservador en la ... See more
Posted 9 February 2013, last updated 4 March 2013

Travel and Seeing the Real Place
Special Session
How do authors represent the quest to experience the "authentic" in their journey? What threatens ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 1 March 2013

Shifting Vulnerabilities: Writing after the Truth Commissions
Special Session
Papers examining the roles of Latin American cultural production (literature, film, journalism, ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013, last updated 1 March 2013

Integrating Ecocriticism in New and Established Curricula
Special Session
We invite papers on theory and best practices of introducing ecological themes and/or ecocritical ... See more
Posted 25 February 2013

Sports in French and Francophone Literature and Film
Special Session
How are athletic activities (traditional games, modern sports) portrayed in literature and film ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013

Literary Study in the twenty-first century
Special Session
Vision for a new agenda related to new series, Oxford University Press from 2013. The Literary ... See more
Posted 22 February 2013

Queering "China": Transnational and Sinophone Perspectives
Special Session
Theorizing Chinese and/or Sinophone cultures through queer theory; queer Asia as methodology; ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013, last updated 22 February 2013

Globalización 2.0 en la ciencia ficción latinoamericana
Special Session
Es posible pensar en una postglobalización? Cómo diferentes manifestaciones de lo posthumano y la ... See more
Posted 22 February 2013

17th and 18th century French Fairy Tales: novelties
Special Session
Representation and exploration of avant-garde elements such as technical, scientific or medical ... See more
Posted 22 February 2013

Law, Literature, and the Possibility of Justice
Special Session
Papers on the relationship between literature and law/justice in American/global contexts, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Teaching narrative theory in undergraduate foreign literature courses
Special Session
Inviting researchers to present approaches of teaching and applying narratology in undergraduate ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Country Music and Resistance
Special Session
How does country music (and country-influenced literature and film) construct narratives and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Muslim Utopia
Special Session
Seeking abstracts that explore Muslim fiction writers’ overt as well as covert engagement with the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Reading Between Musical Lines
Special Session
Exploring perspectives on how the presence of music intensifies the meaning and/or the form of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

The Death of God in Nineteenth-Century America
Special Session
This session explores how American authors grapple with the time's spiritual crises by providing ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Piracy and Illicit Knowledge
Special Session
Seeking short papers on book piracy, underground libraries, illicit knowledge. Digital humanities, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Vulnerable Subjects
Special Session
Papers exploring cultural and political effects of constructions of vulnerability/agency in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Humanities in an Anthropocene Era
Special Session
This roundtable will consider the concept of the anthropocene. What challenges /opportunities does ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Addressing re-generation (1914-2014)
Special Session
Theoretical issues about the cultural uses of the concept generation; focusing on the construction ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

1930s Activist Literature
Special Session
Depression-era writers responded to vulnerabilities exposed by economic and environmental crisis ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Postnational Identities in Hispanic Literature
Special Session
As globalization is problematizing the question of identity, how do processes of hybridization/the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

In the Eye of the Press: Journalism and Tabloidism in Fiction (1830-1930s)
Special Session
Papers examining the roles and representations of journalism and tabloidism in fiction welcomed. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Representations of Lawyers and the Legal Profession in Fiction (1880-1930)
Special Session
This session will offer engaging perspectives on the roles and representations of lawyers in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Studies in Medieval Contexts
Special Session
Seeking papers on any aspect of medieval things and objects, simulacra, automata, or mirabilia, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Vulnerable Lives/Vulnerable Lands
Special Session
Analyses of literature/film/lifewriting that considers vulnerability of particular lives and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

The Generation of 1914 – The (Re)Evaluation of an Aesthetic (1914-2014)
Special Session
This panel reevaluates the aesthetics of the Generation of ’14, and its contribution to Spanish ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Conceptual Writing After Literature
Special Session
What is the status of conceptual writing after the "death of poetry" (Place) or the "event of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Romanticism After the Critique of Lyric
Special Session
Is the "critique of lyric" a critique of the Romantic lyric? What can the study of Romantic poetry ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

On the Road; the American Auto-Mobility Story
Special Session
The automobile in American literature. Cars liberate drivers; what's generated by the freedom to ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

At Peril: Lives on the Verge of Extinction
Special Session
Papers analysing and theorizing German 20th-century art, films and texts on human and animal ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century
Special Session
How do we reassess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Anticolonialism Since the 18th Century
Special Session
Papers invited on: anticolonial & antislavery thought in Europe/Americas/(post)colonial spaces; ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Special Session
Papers on life or works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, who suffered multiple vulnerabilities as ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Lab Lit
Special Session
Panel welcomes explorations of the genre of lab lit, especially with emphasis on contemporary ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Forms of Devotion in Early Modern Poetry
Special Session
Panel exploring “forms”—aesthetic, doctrinal, physical, material—in 16th and 17th century ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

No U-Turn: Chinese Literature, Film and Arts in the 1980s and the 1990s
Special Session
We would like to revisit the last two decades in mainland China through literature, film and arts. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Literature and Liturgy
Special Session
Interpenetrations of ritual, liturgy, and literature in English: language, form, text, theology, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Literatures and Cultures of the Mediterranean: Approaches and Case Studies
Special Session
Exploring interdisciplinary theoretical/methodological approaches to conceptualizing Mediterranean ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Popular Narrative during the American Depression
Special Session
How do popular narratives respond to vulnerable times? Transnational, eco-critical, feminist, and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Interpretation in Law and the Humanities
Special Session
Can the cultural study of law shape practical jurisprudence? The interpretive traffic among legal, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

African Literature and Modernism
Special Session
This panel considers colonial and postcolonial African literature in relation to transnational ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Shakespeare, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Special Session
Feminism and feminist reactions to psychoanalysis informed much of the best Shakespeare criticism ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Law and Literature in the Postcolony
Special Session
This panel explores how literary works articulate and think through problems of law and legality ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Electronic Literature after Flash
Special Session
Lightning talks on the death of Flash e-lit, the study and preservation of Flash works, and the ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writing
Special Session
This proposal seeks creative writers/scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Literature of Innocence and Escape Between the World Wars
Special Session
Explorations of how the World Wars influenced writers who served and then went on to write ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Digital Poetics
Special Session
Not digital humanities but digital poetics. What does digital literature and the emergent critical ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Innovative Session on Teaching Complex Prose
Special Session
How do you lead students to navigate syntactically-difficult narrative (Conrad, Faulkner, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013

The Half-life of the Cold War
Special Session
This panel explores representations of the Cold War in recent literature, film, television, and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Human Rights Modes: Protest
Special Session
Public shame and literary form in works in any genre, period, or nationality that protest a state's ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Being Vulnerable, Negotiating Life and Hope
Special Session
Desperate times, desperate measures? Vulnerability/empowerment, market successes/failures for those ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Sex-Radical Feminist Revolution in Early-Modern Poetry Studies
Special Session
The politics of women's desire: queer theory, new historicism, and pro-sex feminism as renovating ... See more
Posted 10 February 2013, last updated 21 February 2013

How to Do Things with New Media in Medieval Studies
Special Session
A hybrid-roundtable-session on intersections of theory and praxis in our forays into the digital ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Fiction in the Digital Age
Special Session
Exploring ways in which contemporary works of fiction are influenced by new media and digital ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Ethics of Vulnerability
Special Session
Vulnerability (hospitality, weakness, kenosis) has risen to prominence in interdisciplinary ethics. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Radical Curators, Vulnerable Genres: Lost Histories of Collecting, Editing, Bibliography
Special Session
Engaging institutional genres and textual practices as intellectual history of gender, race and ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Pacifism and the Avant-Garde 1900-1950
Special Session
This panel explores Modernism's engagement with pacifist movements, philosophies, and thinkers. ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Evaluating the Course Evaluation Process
Special Session
This session examines the course evaluation process, particularly its relationship to pedagogy: ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Testimonial Literature: The Role of Narrative in National Truth Commissions
Special Session
Panel explores the role of testimony in restorative justice processes in relation to truth, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

The Sublime Emotion and Cognitive Neuroscience
Special Session
Papers exploring the sublime emotion and question of disinterestedness in context of cognitive ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Precarity and Poetry in the 21st Century
Special Session
Papers on poetry in relation to the casualization of labor, burden of debt, and felt sense of ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Postcolonial Trauma
Special Session
This panel explores how postcolonial contexts challenge the current rubric of trauma in fostering ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Posthumanism and the Premodern
Special Session
Papers addressing the animal or bestial, the in- or non-human, the machine, the cyborg; in relation ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

New Perspectives on Sentimental Fiction
Special Session
Innovative readings of sentimental fiction - historical, intertextual, theoretical; including ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Queer Youth
Special Session
This panel features scholarship focused on the intersections of childhood and queer identities in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

(Post-)Racial Vulnerabilities
Special Session
Papers exploring black vulnerability in the so-called “post-racial” moment, including affective, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Postcolonial Intimacies
Special Session
This panel approaches materiality and locality by focussing on close relationships in particular ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Videogames and Mental Health
Special Session
How can videogames represent mental health issues in ways that films/literature/biographies cannot? ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Reading new India
Special Session
Writers pander to the demands of the market thereby reshaping India. How has globalization changed ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Balkan Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Music
Special Session
Is Balkan “always the other," and for whom? How has Balkan self-consciousness or the Balkan image ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Latin American Kitsch 2000
Special Session
Does kitsch exist in Latin America? Have theorizations of kitsch there evolved since milleneum, in ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

The Work of Literary Pastoral in Vulnerable Times
Special Session
How have contemporary novelists re-envisioned the pastoral mode in order to produce what Shoshana ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literature
Special Session
How does 20th/21st century Caribbean literature grapple with political, economic, environmental, ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Vulnerable Texts
Special Session
Approaches to the material vulnerabilities of texts in any medium as methodological and/or ... See more
Posted 21 February 2013

Work and Workers in 18th-century France
Special Session
Conceptualizations, representations, critiques. Practices, norms, values. Types of sociability, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Gendered spaces and aging in contemporary Spanish literature and film
Special Session
Representations of spaces occupied or traversed by the aging; perceptions of safety, opportunities ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Life/Death through Deleuze and Derrida
Special Session
This session will discuss both philosophers' texts in relation to literary, psychoanalytic or ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Sex, aging in contemporary Spanish writing
Special Session
Effect of aging on creativity and expressions of the body; vulnerability and invisibility of the ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Contagious Disorder(s)
Special Session
(Interdisciplinary) papers approaching bodies that are particularly vulnerable to disorder, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Modernist Melodrama
Special Session
Traditional melodrama operates around the figurability and legibility of emotion. How do modernist ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Marketing the Humanities
Special Session
Seeking critical analysis of how humanities have or have not been marketed, currently and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Modernism and Personality
Special Session
How did modernists theorize personality or engage personality discourse as it emerged in academic ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Visual Artifacts in Modern Latin America
Special Session
An exploration of the opacity of visual archives and their relationship to material culture, visual ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Public Memory in an Age of Digital Privacy
Special Session
Public memorials/sites of memory interacting with/challenging the performance of personal memory on ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Sixteenth-Century French Women and their Transnational World
Special Session
This session invites papers on French Renaissance women's cross-border forms of communication and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Enduring Noise: Sound and Sexual Difference
Special Session
Gendered sound in literature, theory, culture. Possible topics include: (queer) feminism and sonic ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Language Games and Normative Publics
Special Session
Would Marx permit a pragmatist philosophy of language? Papers on materiality and meaning; Marx, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013, last updated 20 February 2013

Changing Minds: Boethius and Philosophical Exercise
Special Session
Aspects of medieval and early modern reception of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Focus on ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

What's Material about Vulnerability?
Special Session
Seeking new perspectives on materialist theory and study of vulnerability in American culture, ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

French National Identity at Moments of Crisis
Special Session
Representations of French identity during war, regime change, social upheaval, etc. Any time period ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Indigenous Literatures in the Twenty-First Century: Performance, Text, and Reception
Special Session
We seek papers that discuss the diffusion and reception of indigenous literatures and narrative ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

War/Scar: Representing U.S. Torture and Imperial Violence since 1945
Special Session
How have literary and cultural productions represented instances of U.S. imperial violence and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Making Community in Vulnerable Medieval Times
Special Session
Roundtable to discuss how people made community in medieval Iberia. See blog on La corónica ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

First Person Vulnerable
Special Session
Papers addressing first person and hybrid accounts of pain, including ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Allegory - reflection between ornament and sign
Special Session
Seeking papers exploring allegory as a mode of meaning-making dependent on counter-mimetic ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Dreiser and Money
Special Session
Financial systems and their epistemologies in Theodore Dreiser’s work, including the "Trilogy of ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Comparative Translation Strategies and the Market for Foreign Literature
Special Session
This panel explores the relationship between translation strategy and saleability in major ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Postcolonial Environmental Criticism: Development, Modernity, and the Environment
Special Session
This panel examines the intersections of postcolonialism and environmentalism in contemporary ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Discursive Responses to the Politics of Domestic Seclusion
Special Session
Last decades of 19th-Century and beginnings of the 20th Latin American texts, about discursive ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

The Price of Culture in Latin America
Special Session
This panel interrogates the slippery concept of autonomy (literary/intellectual), and the tensions ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Form and Formalisms in Literature and Science
Special Session
Roundtable discussion of how approaches like STS, disciplinary history, cognitive theory, etc. ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Latina/o Chicago
Special Session
Seeking papers about Latina/o writers from Chicago or the Midwest and papers about Latina/o ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Formal Education
Special Session
How do literary and cultural productions relate to theories and practices of aesthetic education? ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Memory, History, and Cultural Discourses in Spain
Special Session
Papers on the relationship between memory and politics, nationalist movements and the past, the ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Essaying Masculinity
Special Session
How does Montaigne try out/question/reify masculinity? What is the role of intertextuality? Of the ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Singularity and Transnational Poetics
Special Session
If ‘singularity’ conveys singular-plural, relational, differential existences of bodies (of text), ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Vulnerable Readers
Special Session
Mid-century American novels and the reading practices they engender. How do experiments in genre ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Unveiling Herself: Women in the Works of Arab Women Filmmakers
Special Session
What happens when Arab women leave a position of ideological invisibility to step both before and ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Developing and Funding Online Teaching Platforms
Special Session
Given differently-resourced departments, how best to create and maintain Open Source teaching ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Forgotten Sources, Alternative Archives
Special Session
Documenting and explaining more elusive sources of well-known literary works; expanding what it ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

20th/21st Century Antisemitisms
Special Session
Papers theorizing antisemitism in law/policy debates, literature, film, television, etc. What ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

“Feminism and Nationalism”: The Case of South Asian Women
Special Session
Seeking proposals (roundtable) on the creation of the nation-state and the role of women in South ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Digital Pedagogy Going Global
Special Session
This panel focuses on the pedagogical benefits of cross-cultural online collaborative projects in ... See more
Posted 20 February 2013

Literature and Philosophy: New Perspectives
Special Session
We seek papers exploring new interconnections between (European or analytical) philosophy and ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Teaching Racist Texts: Roundtable on Pedagogy
Special Session
What problems/issues are at stake when teaching racist literature? What are our pedagogical ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Revisiting Popular Culture in Early Modern Spain
Special Session
New perspectives on the cultural practices of the popular classes in 15th- to 18th-century Spain. ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Vulnerable Times and the Rise of Fascism: Radical Writers on the Front of the Spanish Civil War
Special Session
This panel explores testimonies of writers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. 250-word ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Modernism and the Body
Special Session
How does modernist literature approach and appropriate the body? Topics: non-normative bodies ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Antebellum Affects: Literature & Theory
Special Session
Theories of affect and antebellum American literature, including sentiment’s historical mutations, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Extreme Politics in Popular Culture
Special Session
Papers on post-W.W. II popular cultural representations of neofascism, white supremacist groups, ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

The Victorian Photographic Imaginary
Special Session
Papers on any aspect of the relationship between Victorian literature and photography. Topics may ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

The New Weird
Special Session
Papers on authors/artists (any language) associated with the New Weird in fiction, film, or other ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Size and Scale in Literature and Culture
Special Session
Papers on bigness, smallness, proportion, the sublime, or other topics related to size and scale in ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Roots of Ecocriticism: the 1970's and 1980's
Special Session
papers on earliest initiatives toward ecocriticism both as scholarly theory and practice and in the ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

War Media
Special Session
Spectacles of combat; the cinema of endless war; the facts, fictions and fables of battlefield ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

The Quixotic in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction
Special Session
This panel will focus on the representation of the quixotic in twentieth-century women's fictions. ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Approaches to Feminist Orientalism
Special Session
The session will assess, complicate, and extend the important intersectional concept of “feminist ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Accenting Punctuation
Special Session
Punctuation--as used by a specific literary figure, in certain genres, or topics related to ... See more
Posted 19 February 2013

Infrastructuralism
Special Session
Themes of infrastructure - its environmental sustainability, its social and economic desirability, ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Between Vulnerability and Resilience: Representations of the Veil in Literature
Special Session
This roundtable will explore the re-emergence of the veil and its literary and cultural ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

"Disability, Prosthesis, and Medieval Literature"
Special Session
This panel explores how medieval literature makes use of disability and/or prosthesis as theme, ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Vulnerable Times in the Archive: Forgotten Modernist Literary Magazines
Special Session
Texts or individuals excluded from the recent Oxford critical volumes (by Brooker & Thacker) are ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Harlem’s Transnational Modernisms: Recovering the Black Archive Beyond the Nation
Special Session
Presentations on canonical or non-canonical Harlem writers addressing black transnationalism. ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Reading Postmodern Space
Special Session
How do postmodern literary and theoretical texts map and navigate, construct and alter, inhabit and ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

The Online Seminar Table
Special Session
How can we use technology to create intimate seminars that collapse geographical distance, ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Forms of Freedom: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought
Special Session
This session will explore the ways that poetry responds to the rise of liberalism during the long ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Cid Corman and American Poetry
Special Session
Looking for papers that examine the work of the Japan-based expatriate American poet Cid Corman and ... See more
Posted 18 February 2013

Picturing the 1914 "jeune-fille"
Special Session
What does the French literature, art and culture of the years 1890-1920 tell us about the blooming ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Vulnerable Children in Contemporary Narratives
Special Session
How is the vulnerability of children depicted or resisted within contemporary narratives? Abstracts ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Rethinking Lydia Sigourney
Special Session
For a critical reassessment, papers on any approach to her writings, including psychoanalytical, ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Duras at 100
Special Session
Papers on her work and on authors of her generation that confront personal, social, historical ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

The Perpetrator's Viewpoint
Special Session
Fiction focalizing and describing the perpetrator - from Dostoevsky to Littell - faces ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

Teaching Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Remapping the Canon
Special Session
Explores contemporary works by Arab women as they relate to teaching new/existing courses on ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013, last updated 17 February 2013

Gypsies in the American Cultural Imagination
Special Session
This session will include representations of Gypsies (Romani) in American Literature, Music, Film, ... See more
Posted 17 February 2013

New German Discourses About Conservatism: Forms and Expressions in Contemporary German Literature
Special Session
Panel critically explores discourses about conservatism in contemporary German literary production ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013, last updated 17 February 2013

Transatlantic Maghreb
Special Session
Explores engagement of American writers with North Africa and how this informed their own cultural ... See more
Posted 16 February 2013

Of Love Possessed: Biopolitics as/of Love
Special Session
Is love an “ontological event...producing the common” (Hardt and Negri) or a spiritual resolution ... See more
Posted 16 February 2013

How Inequality Has Displaced Class
Special Session
"Exploitation," Hardt and Negri claim, is "expropriation of the common" because capitalist ... See more
Posted 6 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013

Slavery in the 21st-Century American Cultural Imagination
Special Session
This panel seeks critical assessments of recent representations (filmic, literary, etc.) of racial ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013, last updated 16 February 2013

Beat Poets and L.A.N.G.U.A.G.E. Poetics
Special Session
Beat Studies Association: subjects open. Welcome proposals on Beat literature and L.A.N.G.U.A.G.E. ... See more
Posted 16 February 2013

Negotiating Impermanence in medieval Germanic text and words
Special Session
Papers concerning linguistic or literary transience and the awareness thereof in medieval Germanic ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Newer New or Coming After? Americanist Literary Criticism at the Present Moment
Special Session
This panel seeks papers that reflect on the work of the New Americanists. Abstracts (300-500 words) ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Red Chicago: Leftist Chicago Writers 19th Century to the Present
Special Session
Leftist Chicago writers 19th-21st centuries; representation of socialist/ communist/ anarchist ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Post-war Town: Constructing Urban Identity
Special Session
Urban space is defined by urban memory. But whose memory is it? Have WWII and Holocaust left place ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Making Digital Counterpublics
Special Session
How can humanities classroom and research practices use digital tools and platforms to facilitate ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Golden Age to Our Age: Re-reading 19th Century Aesthetics
Special Session
Seeking to explore twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature's reworking of ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

Representing Evil: The Holocaust, Slavery, and Beyond
Special Session
15-20 min. papers on American film/literature representations of "evil" and/or the pathological ... See more
Posted 15 February 2013

"The Controversy over Attribution of De Doctrina Christiana to Milton."
Special Session
This session welcomes papers by partisans in the controversy over Milton's reputed authorship of ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Almost Human
Special Session
This panel explores the roles that human replicas (puppets, mannequins, robots) play in Spanish ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

What is reading poetry worth, in the Age of Knowledge?
Special Session
This panel explores the specific heuristic nature of the contemporary Italian poetic language. Send ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

The Work of Alfonso Ruiz de Aguirre
Special Session
Abstracts dealing any aspect of any of the works of Alfonso Ruiz de Aguirre. 300 word abstract and ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Cinema of Guantanamo: Torture, Temporality, Complicity
Special Session
How do recent films normalize or critique torture, rewrite history or reconcile audiences to ... See more
Posted 1 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013

Spanish/Latin American Children and Adolescent Literature
Special Session
This panel invites papers that analyze children and adolescent literature written in Spanish from ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Embedded Music: Sung Song in Narrative and Theatre
Special Session
Embedded songs influence on audience: e.g., ballads in novels, leitmotifs in soap operas, songs in ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Comparing Theories of Trauma
Special Session
From antiquity to the present, panel will compare theories of trauma on the subject in literature. ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013, last updated 14 February 2013

Metafiction Revisited
Special Session
What are some contemporary and post-postmodern manifestations of metafiction? How has it evolved ... See more
Posted 14 February 2013

Michael Haneke: Vulnerable Minds, Bodies, Spectators
Special Session
Human vulnerabilities to modernity, emotion, violence, age, etc. in Haneke’s films. How Haneke ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Revolutionary Afterlives: Creative Conversation about Two Books, One Year Later
Special Session
Session juxtaposes new books on French Revolution by Julia Douthwaite and Katherine Astbury. ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Harriet Monroe, Poetry Magazine, and Chicago Modernism
Special Session
We invite papers on the central role these figures and sites played in shaping poetic modernism. ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Modes of Learning in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds
Special Session
Forms of pedagogy and apprenticeship in communities beyond the University — academic, artistic, ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Desire for Narrative in Law and Literature
Special Session
This roundtable (detailed cfp: See more
Posted 11 February 2013, last updated 13 February 2013

Diapora in Middle Eastern Literatures
Special Session
Proposals that focus on diaspora in Anglophone Middle Eastern Literatures and discuss broader ... See more
Posted 13 February 2013

Retheorizing the "Vernacular"
Special Session
Inviting fresh critical considerations of local, subaltern, and other non-canonical processes that ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

Beyond the Proto-Monograph: New Models for the Dissertation
Special Session
Focus on how the dissertation should/is changing in response to the digital turn, doctoral reform, ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

The image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain
Special Session
This panel explores fictionalized representations of Queen Elizabeth I and their impact on the ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

Teaching and Hospitality
Special Session
This roundtable explores how hospitality as a metaphor for teaching informs particular pedagogical ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

Visualizing Vulnerability
Special Session
How does Caribbean visual culture bear upon imaginings of social, historical or political ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

Job Success despite these Vulnerable Times
Special Session
Papers discussing successful academic and non-academic job searches, particularly offering tips for ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

Epic, Tragedy, and Community
Special Session
How do the memorializing practices instituted in epic and tragedy from any period or region ... See more
Posted 12 February 2013

The Policy Era
Special Session
This panel attends to the relationship between postwar American foreign policy and the aesthetic ... See more
Posted 11 February 2013

Medicine, Literature, and Gender
Special Session
We invite proposals that consider the relationship between gender and medicine in 19th- and early ... See more
Posted 10 February 2013

Why Rancière is important? Rethinking the Political in light of Contemporary Global Revolution
Special Session
This session invites papers discussing themes of vulnerability, resistance and social change in ... See more
Posted 10 February 2013

Coming Out as ‘Alt Ac’
Special Session
How open can students be about wanting non-tenure track careers? Roundtable on the personal and ... See more
Posted 10 February 2013

Eastern European and US American Cultures
Special Session
Seeking papers on connections between Eastern European and US literatures, cultures, or media ... See more
Posted 10 February 2013

Literary Communism: Community without Community
Special Session
Papers on the dialectics of class and difference in Nancy's "literary communism" as the ... See more
Posted 9 February 2013

Contemporary Central American Cultural Production
Special Session
DEADLINE EXTENDED! This session will adopt a fresh approach to contemporary Central American ... See more
Posted 11 December 2012, last updated 8 February 2013

Beyond Autobiography, Ethnography, and Profiling: Tabish Khair and Postcolonial Narrative Today
Special Session
The narrative interventions into history found in Tabish Khair’s novels (and/or in those of ... See more
Posted 8 February 2013

Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion Fifty Years Later
Special Session
The 50th anniversary calls for a renewed evaluation of this product of the early sixties. Abstract ... See more
Posted 8 February 2013

Reading Pragmatically in Vulnerable Times
Special Session
How might pragmatic critical methods (exemplified by Peirce, Dewey, James, Rorty, Poirier) help us ... See more
Posted 8 February 2013

Medieval Revival in France
Special Session
This panel investigates how the Middle Ages were remembered, imagined and reinvented in the arts ... See more
Posted 8 February 2013

La política de género: Reflexiones culturales en el capitalismo de la España contemporánea
Special Session
La redefinición de géneros sexuales desde la perspectiva literaria y fílmica. Brief abstract (500 ... See more
Posted 8 February 2013

JEAN-LUC GODARD: HISTORY, THEORY, CINEMA
Special Session
This panel will reassess the historical and theoretical implications of Godard’s films and media ... See more
Posted 7 February 2013

Representations of Muslim Female Sexuality in Early Modern English Travel Narratives
Special Session
Any theoretical paradigm is encouraged, especially feminist or post-colonial theory. Please submit ... See more
Posted 7 February 2013

Revisiting the US Queer of Color Canon
Special Session
Papers focused on revisiting/reinterpreting canonical texts by 20th/21st century US queers of ... See more
Posted 7 February 2013

The Materiality of Power: Embodied Performances of Resistance in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Special Session
This session examines how subjects traditionally seen as disenfranchised express resistance through ... See more
Posted 6 February 2013

Futures of South-South Comparison
Special Session
Seeking proposals for a roundtable on the challenges/potential of comparison in the Southern ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013, last updated 6 February 2013

Common Core State Standards: Paradigmatic Shifts
Special Session
An exploration of how CCSS will impact English majors who enter the K-12 teaching profession and ... See more
Posted 6 February 2013

The Naked Eye: Visuality and Vulnerability
Special Session
How does the visual/visible alongside, within, as text convey or resist vulnerability? Abstracts ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Representing African American Adolescence
Special Session
Seeking papers that address the literary representation of African American adolescence, ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Time and the Sublime around 1800
Special Session
Temporality and Romantic aesthetics circa 1780-1820. Seeking 5-10 minute talks (e.g. Lightning ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Occupy MLA
Special Session
@OccupyMLA was a netprov about vulnerable adjuncts dreaming of tenure. Papers analyzing work as ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Class Vulnerabilities in Academia
Special Session
Roundtable on the dangers and potentialities of class as a marker of scholarly, pedagogical, and ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Immigrant Auto/biography
Special Session
How does auto/biography help the immigrant subject negotiate, and situate him/herself in, shifting ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Lit Misbehaving: Digital Accidents and Agency
Special Session
Critical approaches to unmanageable, deviant, erring electronic texts--including digitized ... See more
Posted 31 January 2013, last updated 5 February 2013

Marxism and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century
Special Session
Addresses the theoretical-methodological intersectionality of two influential but controversial ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Nineteenth-Century American Popular Publishing
Special Session
Approaches defined broadly by production factors, volume, form, or relationships between publisher, ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Guns in American Culture
Special Session
Analyses of firearms, violence, gun culture and armed (or targeted) identities in American ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Las hijas del mar. Emociones de costa a ciudad
Special Session
Rosalía de Castro su generación. La exploración de la emotividad entre los sexos. Abstract inglés o ... See more
Posted 5 February 2013

Reading after Negri
Special Session
Hardt and Negri read Bartleby's “refusal to work" as inaugurating “a liberatory politics." Papers ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

Rethinking Hispanic Orientalism
Special Session
Papers theorizing and analyzing the development of Hispanic Orientalism in Spain and Latin America. ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

Animal and Artistic Life
Special Session
Does capital’s expansion over life link the vulnerabilities of animal life to those of artistic ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

Writing (Beyond) Regionalisms in Northeastern North America
Special Session
Seeking papers that consider or challenge the ways in which Atlantic Canadian/New England ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

"I've Known Rivers": Water in African Diasporic Literary Consciousness
Special Session
Research that engages water in African Diaspora literature. Including: migration, memory, access, ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

The Long Weekend: Popular Culture in Inter-War Britain
Special Session
Papers on any form of popular culture, including genre fiction, popular drama, film, middlebrow ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

Innovative Criticism
Special Session
Roundtable discussion about the production and publication of innovative, experimental, affective, ... See more
Posted 4 February 2013

Remembering the Perpetrators: Empathy and Moral Responsibility in Spanish Cultural Production
Special Session
Analyses of the figure of the power-abuser and perpetrator of violence in 20th/21st century Spanish ... See more
Posted 3 February 2013

Imprisonment and Resistance
Special Session
Current directions in American prison studies, with a focus on how twentieth-century US literature ... See more
Posted 3 February 2013

Affirmation and the End of the Negative
Special Session
Foucault dreamt of criticism that "would not judge." Has theory become affirmation of the existing? ... See more
Posted 3 February 2013

Soupirs et murmures
Special Session
From the unspoken sufferings of classical tragedy to the seditious mutterings of encyclopedic ... See more
Posted 2 February 2013

New Digital Vanguards in Spanish Literature
Special Session
Papers exploring the relationship between new media technologies and recent experimental changes in ... See more
Posted 2 February 2013

Between "Gay" and "Queer"
Special Session
The persistence of gay identity in a queer world; gay/lesbian vs/in queer theory; ... See more
Posted 2 February 2013

Shaw and Adaptation
Special Session
This panel invites papers that discuss specific play-scripts by Bernard Shaw and their ... See more
Posted 2 February 2013

Failure Studies
Special Session
Panel will investigate reasons why failure is subordinated as a category of critical thought, in an ... See more
Posted 2 February 2013

Children's Literature and New Trends
Special Session
We invite papers that consider 'transgressed boundaries' across Aesthetics, Content, and/or Genre ... See more
Posted 2 February 2013

Failed Hispanic Commemorations
Special Session
This session invites papers on 19th- to 21st- century cultural celebrations that were unsuccessful ... See more
Posted 1 February 2013

Contemporary Poet-Critics & Creative Scholarship
Special Session
What are the forms and purposes of hybrid creative-critical texts? How do they elucidate the ... See more
Posted 1 February 2013

Chanson and Cinema - A French Affair
Special Session
Chanson as genre, as narrative vehicle in French language fiction films. Literary, cultural, ... See more
Posted 1 February 2013

Poetry in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Special Session
How do we use poetry to challenge and engage first-year writers? Seeking innovative pedagogies and ... See more
Posted 1 February 2013

Digital Humanities and Early Modern Hispanic World
Special Session
Papers about websites, google articles, blogs, e-Journals, related to the early modern Hispanic ... See more
Posted 31 January 2013

Reticent Regionalism: Postwar Midwestern Literature
Special Session
Overlooked postwar artists who unsettle aesthetic or spatial definitions of Midwestern art. ... See more
Posted 31 January 2013

Afro-Diasporic Popular Culture Interventions
Special Session
This panel addresses Afro-diasporic popular culture forms (eg. Brazilian capoeira, Hip Hop, rumba) ... See more
Posted 31 January 2013

Periodicals as Tastemakers
Special Session
We seek papers from a variety of fields and disciplines which explore the role of 19th- and ... See more
Posted 31 January 2013

Authorship, Lecture Tours, & Politics in the U.S
Special Session
Their intersections in places and historical moments, particularly as writers addressed communities ... See more
Posted 31 January 2013

From Lope To Lorca: Reading The Social Nature Of Humans
Special Session
Panel seeks papers that apply an evolutionary perspective to the study of Spanish theater. 250-300 ... See more
Posted 31 January 2013

Approaches to Narconarratives
Special Session
What form does narcotrafficking take? How does narcotrafficking come to bear on literature? This ... See more
Posted 30 January 2013

The Great War in Modern Literature
Special Session
Perspectives on the First World War as represented in fiction published 1970 to the present, ... See more
Posted 30 January 2013

Re-evaluating the [English] Literary "Coterie" 1550-1790
Special Session
The role of social and literary networks, reading groups, and writing communities on English ... See more
Posted 30 January 2013

Piety and Pastry: Catholic Cooking in the English Renaissance
Special Session
The role of food in recusant culture in any literary capacity. Please send 250-word abstract and ... See more
Posted 30 January 2013

Spanish Shakespeares
Special Session
The image of Spain in England, the reverberations of Spanish literature in English drama, or ... See more
Posted 30 January 2013

Friendship in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Special Session
Female friendship, visual representations of friendship, politics of friendship; friendship and ... See more
Posted 29 January 2013

What Is the Impact of Humanities Scholarship?
Special Session
How are we to theorize or measure the impact of humanities scholarship? How might dwindling ... See more
Posted 29 January 2013

Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies
Special Session
Roundtable on how the spatial turn contributes to Latin American, Spanish, U.S. Latino and Chicano ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013, last updated 29 January 2013

New Modernist Studies/Feminist Pedagogy Roundtable
Special Session
How might the methodologies or subjects of new modernist studies influence the practice of feminist ... See more
Posted 29 January 2013

Deletion, Erasure, Cancellation
Special Session
How might we theorize the aesthetics and poetics of practices such as deletion and erasure? All ... See more
Posted 29 January 2013

Troubleshooting gender in 19/20th-Century French/European literature
Special Session
Exploring masculinity, femininity or/and hybridity of being throughout French and other ... See more
Posted 29 January 2013

Affect in Literature
Special Session
What can we say about affect in literature? 250-word abstracts plus vitae by 10 March 2013; Yubraj ... See more
Posted 29 January 2013

Arthur Miller: Self and Tragedy
Special Session
The Arthur Miller Society invites papers on the construction of the self and the conception of ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Incorporating Undergraduate Research in English Studies
Special Session
Panelists will discuss best practices and innovative approaches to incorporating undergraduate ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

One World, One Speed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Nation
Special Session
This panel explores the ways in which the pace-setting, synchronizing power of globalization is ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Transcendentalist Women and Friendship
Special Session
This session invites papers on transcendentalist women’s conceptions and practices of friendship, ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Du Bois, King and the Discourse of Freedom
Special Session
Examines the discourse of freedom and the promise of America in the work of Du Bois and Martin ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Romantic Partisanship
Special Session
Aesthetics of taking sides in period that birthed radicalism, conservatism, liberalism; interplay ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

American Literature and the Sea in the Long Nineteenth Century
Special Session
This panel focuses on oceanic spaces, journeys, and work to redraw geography of nineteenth-century ... See more
Posted 28 January 2013

Early Modern Media Ecologies
Special Session
How do Renaissance media (ranging from book to actor’s body to tapestry to ballad) cross-fertilize, ... See more
Posted 27 January 2013

Theorizing the Villain in Early Modern England
Special Session
Seeking new theorizations of the early modern villain or reconsiderations of old approaches ... See more
Posted 27 January 2013

Literature integration in language classes
Special Session
The 2007 Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages called for integrating literature in language ... See more
Posted 27 January 2013

Borges and Perception
Special Session
In light of Rodrigo Quian Quiroga's recent text, this panel will examine competing theories of mind ... See more
Posted 27 January 2013

Shakespeare in Performance
Special Session
Choose any play of Shakespeare on stage in the Western world and illustrate how the social and ... See more
Posted 26 January 2013

Frank Wedekind at 150
Special Session
Wedekind's work was ahead of its time. Or was it? What about today? Proposals sought focusing on ... See more
Posted 26 January 2013

The Romanticism of a Return to Communism
Special Session
Is it possible to rethink Marx(ism) and Romanticism by considering recent, non-economist ... See more
Posted 26 January 2013

Chess and Literature
Special Session
Proposals on the representation of chess in literature in any period or genre. 250 word abstracts ... See more
Posted 25 January 2013

Getting the Word Out: Communication Disabilities in Literature/ Scholarship
Special Session
Describing/experiencing/studying "invisible" communication disabilities: critiques of memoirs about ... See more
Posted 25 January 2013

Geospatial Literary Studies
Special Session
Investigating the geospatial in digital literary studies: GIS, gazetteers, spatial narratives, ... See more
Posted 25 January 2013

How We Talk about Contingent Faculty
Special Session
How are contingent faculty described and discussed, and by whom? What are the implications of this ... See more
Posted 24 January 2013

Jewish Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Pedagogy
Special Session
What constitutes a specifically "Jewish" rhetoric or pedagogy? And how do new developments in the ... See more
Posted 24 January 2013

Violent Sympathies
Special Session
This session explores how violent representation produces a space of vulnerability that allows for ... See more
Posted 24 January 2013

Latin American Darwinisms
Special Session
Literary responses to Social Darwinist discourses, analyses of texts only possible in a post-Darwin ... See more
Posted 24 January 2013

Bottom's Dreams and Beyond: Arno Schmidt at 100
Special Session
New perspectives on this post-war author's writings and his legacy, particularly on "Zettel's ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013

South to North: Modern Inter-American Cultural Transactions
Special Session
How have Latin American cultural productions informed political, aesthetic and cultural practices ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013

The Decade Modernism Forgot: The 1930s
Special Session
What is the relationship between modernism and 1930s literature, and is it as distinct and ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013

(Re)Thinking the Animal and the Human in Lusophone Literature since the 19th century
Special Session
Critical analysis of literary works concerning animal issues and the relations between humans and ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013

Postwhat?! Literary Postmodernism in the 21st Century
Special Session
Has postmodernism run out of steam, or are its effects only just now beginning to manifest ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013

Transpacific Memory: Life Writing Across the Western Divide
Special Session
Papers on life writing from transpacific travel in all directions, including Western expatriate ... See more
Posted 23 January 2013

What's Where in Latin America
Special Session
How, and for what purpose, do manuscripts inaugurate a new cartography of Latin America or of ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Verbal and Visual Satire in the Nineteenth Century
Special Session
Verbal and/or visual satire; relations to other forms; histories; British or comparative. 250-word ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Vulnerable Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Special Session
Joint session Gemela / Comediantes: hagiography , martyrdom, wife murder, rape, abuse of ... See more
Posted 22 January 2013

Digital Humanities and French Renaissance Culture
Special Session
Projects and practices that illustrate the promise of the Digital Humanities for the study of ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

Poverty and Naturalism
Special Session
New perspectives (interpretive or theoretical) on naturalism as a genre that takes the poor and ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

British Women Writers and the Arts 1880-1920
Special Session
How did music, theatre and art influence the construction of novels and poetry by British women ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

Arguing Religion in Early Modern England
Special Session
Panel will focus on the creative uses of various types of religious argument—satire, polemic, ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

Scenes of Reading in Luso-Hispanic Cultures (c. XV-XIX)
Special Session
Examining the ideologies embedded in textual and visual representations of reading in Luso-Hispanic ... See more
Posted 21 January 2013

Revisiting the Culture Wars
Special Session
Seeking new perspectives on the culture wars as they become part of our institutional history. ... See more
Posted 20 January 2013

American Literature and New Technologies 1865-1945
Special Session
We invite papers that consider the fault lines between literary narrative and new technologies. How ... See more
Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 20 January 2013

Gandhi's Modernity
Special Session
This panel will read texts that surround MK Gandhi's writing/thought (eg Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau), ... See more
Posted 20 January 2013

Wordsworth's Excursion at 200
Special Session
Keats called Wordsworth's Excursion one of the "three things to rejoice at in this Age." Papers ... See more
Posted 17 January 2013, last updated 19 January 2013

Latin American Feminist Representation a New Way of Resistance for the “Third World Women.”
Special Session
Feminist contemporary Latin American narrative: new scheme/representation a-response of the 20th ... See more
Posted 19 January 2013

Transperiod Literary Studies
Special Session
What alternatives are there to period-based literary studies? What are the limitations of the ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

The Vernacular as Critical Category
Special Session
Reviews, explications, contestations through theoretical reflections and/or readings of texts, ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

U.S. Immigrant Literature
Special Session
Goal: to establish a field of recent U.S. Immigrant Writing. Wanted: papers NOT treating works as ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

James T. Farrell and Chicago: New Approaches
Special Session
Proposals that consider the fiction and nonfiction of James T. Farrell, particularly investigations ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

Trans-Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies
Special Session
An exploration of the multilingual/multicultural or hybrid nature of Iberian literatures from any ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

China in World Literature
Special Session
Chinese literary works have a long history of circulation outside of China. What patterns of ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

Re-evaluating "Historical Context"
Special Session
Papers that reassess the relationship between literature and history; challenge the priority of ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Special Session
We seek proposals from alternative, innovative methods of teaching foreign languages. Papers might ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

Representation of Vulnerable Societies
Special Session
The representation of societies in conflict: social exclusion, marginalization and forced ... See more
Posted 18 January 2013

Orientalismo en el cine contemporáneo
Special Session
¿Cómo está siendo revisitada la representación de asiáticos, árabes y judíos en el cine hispano y ... See more
Posted 17 January 2013

Colonial Heroes and Martyrs
Special Session
Explorers, conquerors, and victims in early North and Latin America. Are heroism and sacrifice ... See more
Posted 17 January 2013

The Musics of Chicago
Special Session
From jazz to rock, disco and house to hip-hop, this panel examines the cultures, histories, and ... See more
Posted 16 January 2013

The dandy: fashionable victim or hybrid reflection?
Special Session
Social self-made novelty, Baudrillard identifies the dandy's position as "an aesthetic form of ... See more
Posted 15 January 2013

Terrorism and Temporality
Special Session
How do terrorist literary narratives reflect, respond to, or reconfigure notions of temporality ... See more
Posted 14 January 2013

Black German History and Culture in Research and Teaching
Special Session
Proposals addressing: current state of research; transnational/cross-cultural/comparative ... See more
Posted 14 January 2013

Animation in French Literature, 1550-1750
Special Session
Exploring the act, process, or result of imparting life, spirit, motion or activity. Theories and ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

The John Brown Event: Approaches to Antebellum Righteous Violence
Special Session
Innovative takes on responses to John Brown and other agents of nineteenth-century political ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

Affect Theory or Affect Studies?
Special Session
What would shifting to a "studies" model of affects, rather than focusing on affect "theory," mean ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

Parodic Form in Asian Diasporic Literature
Special Session
The roles of parodic form in Asian diasporic literature via the comedic, satirical, or absurd in ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

Unamuno’s Niebla 100 Years Later
Special Session
This panel will explore the continued significance of Niebla on the occasion of its 100th ... See more
Posted 13 January 2013

Vulnerada y curativa: Contemporary Poetry in Latin America
Special Session
This roundtable rethinks Latin American poetic productions as always-already 'vulnerated' ... See more
Posted 12 January 2013

The Brothers Quay and Literature
Special Session
The Brothers Quay and Literature Papers that consider the films of the Brothers Quay and their ... See more
Posted 11 January 2013

Girls and the f-word: twenty-first century representations of women’s lives
Special Session
Papers addressing the pioneering HBO show, attendant discussions and controversies, and/or related ... See more
Posted 11 January 2013

Premodern East Asia in/and the World Literature Canon
Special Session
Papers on classical East Asian genres or texts, and their position in, invisibility to, or impact ... See more
Posted 11 January 2013

Vulnerable Victorians: Identity and "Deviance"
Special Session
We seek papers that explore boundaries of normative behavior and “moral disability” in 19thc ... See more
Posted 11 January 2013

Post-Revolutionary Arab(ic) Literature
Special Session
Panel investigates the emerging “literature of the Revolution” in Arabic, English or French from ... See more
Posted 11 January 2013

Translingual Practice: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations
Special Session
Presentations on translingual practice in literature, linguistics, literacy, and rhetoric in ... See more
Posted 10 January 2013

Learning Language History through Literature
Special Session
Seeking papers that explore issues in the history of the vernacular in tandem with national ... See more
Posted 10 January 2013

Fragile Theatre
Special Session
Latin American theatre often breaks or blurs boundaries. How can the concept of fragility (of ... See more
Posted 10 January 2013

The Poetics of Information
Special Session
How are contemporary poets responding to the culture of information? How is information culture ... See more
Posted 10 January 2013

Kafka in Search for Alternative Realities
Special Session
Alternative realities (familiar - unfamiliar settings, narrative positions; Kafka's works; ... See more
Posted 9 January 2013

Eyes and Ears on "Homeland"
Special Session
How have critics and viewers responded to the TV show “Homeland”? How does the show complicate ... See more
Posted 9 January 2013

Radical Ecologies: (Re)Grounding Digital Pedagogy
Special Session
A conversation/workshop exploring the following: Is there a role for ecological thinking in ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013, last updated 9 January 2013

The expulsion of the Moriscos (1609-1614): History and Memory
Special Session
Post-1614 history and memory of the Moriscos: where they went and how they were remembered. ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013

Building a Book History of Theory and Criticism
Special Session
Investigating the book history of theory and criticism, for instance anthologies, journals, book ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013

One Thousand and One Nights as World Literature
Special Session
Theoretical, hermeneutic, and historical approaches to translations, rewritings, and adaptations of ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013

Speculative Realism and Literary Studies
Special Session
Philosophers on literature (e.g. Meillassoux on Mallarmé, Harmon on Lovecraft); literature attuned ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013

Generations of Contemporary American Fiction
Special Session
Looking for papers that focus on particular generations in contemporary U.S. fiction and think ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013

Postcolonial Studies and Human Rights
Special Session
Papers that address contemporary theoretical debates within postcolonial studies in relation to new ... See more
Posted 8 January 2013

Family Feeling in Early Modern Texts
Special Session
Questions of kinship and emotion in texts published between 1450-1750. Send abstracts and CVs to ... See more
Posted 7 January 2013

Teaching Current Events in Target Language Media: Roundtable Discussion
Special Session
Seeking participants to share pedagogical approaches to teaching language and culture through ... See more
Posted 7 January 2013

Corpulence, Excess, Obesity: Sizing Up the Body from Shakespeare to The Biggest Loser
Special Session
We seek papers that explore popular and canonical representations of the fetishized, non-normative ... See more
Posted 7 January 2013

Demons, Goblins, Ghosts and Witches in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature
Special Session
Papers will focus on demonology, demonolatry, idolatry, witchcraft, bestiality, demoniality, etc. ... See more
Posted 6 January 2013

Ethics, Politics and Contemporary Poetry
Special Session
How do contemporary poets and poetries respond to world politics and ethics? How do ethics inflect ... See more
Posted 6 January 2013

Publishing a Persona
Special Session
Exploring the typification, marketing and consumption of a diasporic author's identity in the ... See more
Posted 3 January 2013

Women-Authored Novels, Sound Studies, and Music
Special Session
How do women's representations of music evoke listening or artistic expression that transcends, ... See more
Posted 30 December 2012

Literature and Health
Special Session
In what ways might literature, broadly defined, be implicated in health, individual or public, and ... See more
Posted 24 December 2012

Balancing Personal Life and Academia
Special Session
What is “work-life balance”? Does it exist? Bringing personal to work and vice versa, work-life ... See more
Posted 24 December 2012

Literature and Bioethics
Special Session
Proposals invited for short papers examining, perhaps interrogating, "literature" and "bioethics" ... See more
Posted 24 December 2012

British South Africa, 1795-1919
Special Session
How was British identity constructed in or in relation to southern Africa? Abstract (250-500 words) ... See more
Posted 17 November 2012

Chicago's Playwriting Renaissance
Special Session
Since 1950 a renaissance in playwriting has occurred in Chicago. Proposals about playwrights, ... See more
Posted 14 November 2012

The Future of Close Reading
Special Session
This panel will examine emergent practices of close reading. We particularly seek papers addressing ... See more
Posted 27 October 2012, last updated 29 October 2012

The Project of a General Poetics
Special Session
Including but not limited to the theory of poetry. Broad or specific discussions on where we stand, ... See more
Posted 24 October 2012

Death and Affect in Chaucer
Special Session
How does Chaucer’s literature confirm/counter medieval ‘norms’ of emotions related to death? How do ... See more
Posted 4 October 2012

Using the Corpus of Historical American English for Literary Study
Special Session
Papers are invited exploring ways to use COHA (See more
Posted 1 October 2012

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