Here’s a thread on things decimononical, if I may use the term. This time on gender, Stuart Mill, Darwin, and Austen. I was going to say things Victorian, and well I might, since Jane Austen is somewhat of a Victorian before the Victorians. Perhaps they wouldn’t have been so very Victorian without her lessons. Anyway, the title of this 1st post is…[Read more]

Please find as an attachment the Call for Papers for the Special Issue
“Contemporary Fictions of Migration and Exile: Writing Diaspora in the
21st Century”. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021.

We are glad to share with you that September 15 is the new extended deadline for the  CFP for the II International Conference From Manuscript to Digital: World Wide English Literature and World Wide Literatures in English, organized by University of Lincoln, Universidade de Lisboa, and Universidad de Jaén. The conference will be held in J…[Read more]

Publisher: Brill Publishers (series, European Perspectives on the United States)

Working Title: The Platinum Age of American Television
Editor: Ben Alexander
Contact: Benalexander@fas.harvard.edu

See pdf attached.

We might post here some interesting video resources on English literature, e.g. YouTube channels, notable video lectures on English authors, etc.  Here’s today: an EngLit channel with lots of video lectures by J Newman:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aHBlwgkXTPpQwdRvqTMig

Gender studies (feminist criticism, women or men’s studies, literature and sexuality etc.) has been a prominent interest in English literary studies in recent decades, and will presumably keep on that way. We might share here “things” we find relating to the subject or collection of subjects.   E.g. today this paper on Angela Carter:

Kaur, S…[Read more]

This is a reminder of the Call for Papers for issue number 16 of the journal Estudios Irlandeses, to be published in March 2021. Submissions that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media should be sent tocontributions@estudiosirlandeses.org not later than 1 November 2020, following the…[Read more]

Book Review: The Gossips’ Choice. By Sara Read. Wild Pressed Books. 2020. Pp 296. £12 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-916-4896-8-4. Reviewed by Rebecca Simpson
‘That’s the thing, mother. The journals got me thinking. I know you use them to help you teach. But think how many more midwives would learn from you if we made them fit for printing. I’ve pu…[Read more]

Pleased find attached the info on a CFP on Women’s Studies and Rock.

Possible subjects to be addressed include, but are not restricted to:

• Memory and Forgetting.
• Creation: reflections on musical and literary production.
• Narrative strategies of life-writing in a memoir.
• Being a woman in the music world.
• Aging: the perspective of a…

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