Hello all, here’s a CFP that may be of interest:

Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language…[Read more]

Natural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more]

We are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.

I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
is…[Read more]

*NEW HUMANITIES PROGRAMME AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES LIST: CALL FOR PROPOSALS! *Emerald Publishing (2018 IPG Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year) is pleased to announce investment in a new Humanities book programme. Our commitment to interdisciplinary research means that we are moving into the Humanities for the first time, building…[Read more]

From the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.

The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]

German Studies Association

Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon

“Future Past”

Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network

Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019

The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]

German Studies Association

Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon“Future Past”

Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network

Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019

The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]

Vegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture

This panel will explore the role of plants in the German literary and cultural imagination, with a special focus on questions of gender, sexuality, and ecofeminism.

Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio or CV by 1 March 2019 to Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu) and…[Read more]

Transnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 — stop by if you are around!

Saturday 23 March     8:30 am – 10:00 am

 Transnational Beat Generation

Chair: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University

Location: Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A (Media Equipped)

American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

“Bridging the Iron Curtain: When Lawrence Fer…[Read more]

Will you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.

Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Though a new member of the Sound forum, I am writing to ask for your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. For 20 years, I have been producing scholarship in the field of sound. Since 2001, I have presented on the topic of sound at MLA, beginning with “The Negative Dialectics of Phonographic Sound” (2001,…[Read more]

The Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year.  This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]

Please note the following four sessions organized by the Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature at MLA 2019. We hope to see some of you there.

084: American Lives: Whitman and Melville (co-organized with the Forum on Life Writing)

Date: Thursday, Jan 3, 2019

Time: 3:30 PM–4:45 PM

Location: Hyatt Regency – Roo…[Read more]

Memoir and Recovery Narratives, 1945-1980

American Literature Association 2019 – Boston, May 23-26 / Postwar Area Literature Group

Memoirs and autobiographies; lost and found objects, persons, and selfhoods in literatures of the postwar period.  Abstracts by January 15 to foertsch@unt.edu

Samples and Fragments, 1945-1980

American Li…[Read more]

Resisting Otherwise: Mobilizing Submerged Perspectives in Global Social Ecologies (Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA)

Ends on December 15, 2018

Organizers:  Katherine Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) and Constanza Contreras (cbcontre@umich.edu), University of Michigan

Planned Format:  Roundtable (5-6 Presenters)

For decades, i…[Read more]

Medical Humanism / American Literature

CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference

May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA

Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]