Dear Members of the Twentieth-Century American Literature Group:  I thought you would be interested in this project:

Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women

For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus…[Read more]

Mentoring isn’t just for students. Great advice from Joycelyn Moody. Let’s keep the conversation going at #MLA15! Blog post here: http://bit.ly/1wPU6y9

Joyce Studies Annual has issued its annual call for papers.  Please note that the deadline is February 15, 2015 for the 2015 volume.

JSA welcomes manuscripts of up to 50 pages on any aspect of James Joyce studies:
• Archival
• Theoretical
• Comparative
• Historical

Fordham University Press uses Chicago Manual of Style format. Please send elec…[Read more]

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ANNOUNCES A ONE WEEK SUMMER INSTITUTE

THE FUTURES OF AMERICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE: QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING

MONDAY, JUNE 22 — SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015

Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)

Co-Directors: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University), Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern U…[Read more]

Special Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon

http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening

In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an e…[Read more]

If there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum. We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]

If there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum.

We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]

Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)

How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]

2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”

Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]

Call for Papers: Upcoming Special Issue, Modern Fiction Studies

Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Guest Editors: Aaron DeRosa and Stacey Peebles

Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2016

The Editors of MFS seek essays that focus on the fictional response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The…[Read more]

CFP: Upcoming Special Issue, Modern Fiction Studies

Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Guest Editors: Aaron DeRosa and Stacey Peebles

Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2016

The Editors of MFS seek essays that focus on the fictional response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The consequences of the…[Read more]

The Southern Quarterly

Special Issue: Photography and the Shaping of Southern Culture

Guest Editor: Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky Univ. <joseph.millichap@wku.edu>

Publication Schedule: Volume 51, Number 4, Summer 2015

Submissions for the 2015 special issue should relate photography to any other aspect of culture in the South, with both…[Read more]

Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]

Proposals due September 1, 2014

In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and ex…[Read more]