Early film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film.  Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate.  But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]

Guest Editors: Dr. S. Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA, and Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.

Submit: 400-word abstracts to S. Shankar (subraman@hawaii.edu) and Charu Gupta (charu7@hotmail.com) by September 15, 2015

Life Narratives (biographies, autobiographies, Fa…[Read more]

Shaw in New York (October 16-19, 2015)

Sponsored by Fordham University at Lincoln Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and The International Shaw Society

Paper proposal deadline: July 1

The conference organizers invite papers focused on any aspect of Bernard Shaw’s relationship to New York: productions…[Read more]

Call for Papers
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS)
Annual Conference 2015 “Texts and the City”
Hosted by Trinity College
Hartford, CT, USA, October 8-10, 2015

Panel: Urban Drama, Urban Theater

In the thought and literature of the eighteenth century, the theater often features as a distinctly urban space, one…[Read more]

Call for Papers – NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus

47th Annual NeMLA Convention

March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT

Hosted by the University of Connecticut

Session Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2015

Call for Papers Begins: June 15, 2015

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2015

All submissions are online at: http://www.buffalo.edu/ne…[Read more]

Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)

Gender in Distance Education

Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?

Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]

Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)

Gender in Distance Education

Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?

Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]

Good morning colleagues,

I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more]

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme:  Conflicts and Resolutions

Featured Luncheon Speaker:  Poet Linda Nemec Foster

 Location:  Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512 

We live in a society that has c…[Read more]

We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]

Familial/Communal Structures

Black Motherhood

The Presence of the ancestor

Other Mothering

Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma

Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)

Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)

Violence

Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood

Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons

Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]

The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in what we…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing Group,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:

Teaching Memory Studies

Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hinds…[Read more]

<div>CFP: “The modernist ‘mysterium’, between allegorical drama and revolutionary politics”</div>
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Modernist Studies Association Conference
November 19-22, 2015
Boston, MA
In The Death of Character (1996), Elinor Fuchs conceptualizes the “mysterium” as a modernist theatrical practice with a strong didactic orientation that adapts the exposit…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Drama Division is equally pleased to post this call for papers for a proposed cosponsored Panel with our colleagues in the Law as Literature Discussion Group. A more complete version, authored by Alex Feldmann, follows the short description below. We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you in Austin.

(up)Staging…[Read more]

Papers on Scottish physicians/rhetoricians–Enlightenment redefinitions of British bodies/bodies politic. Collaborative session between Late 18th-Century English Literature and Scottish Literature forums. 250-word abstracts by 5 March 2015; Rivka Swenson (rswenson@vcu.edu) and Juliet Shields (js37@u.washington.edu).