This month’s issue of Dickens Quarterly sees the publication of my article on the discovery of what appears to be the earliest published translation of writing by Dickens into Spanish.  I argue that the unsigned translation should be attributed to Guillermo Macpherson, who would go on to be a noted Shakespeare translator. In a closing section on…[Read more]

Another significant resource with many papers: the English & American Research Network at the SSRN: https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/lit/

European Romances Across Languages: Book Celebration and Research Perspectives

7 June 2021, 14:30 – 16:00 pm BST / 15:30 – 17:00 pm CEST

Sofia Lodén and Lydia Zeldenrust have both recently published books that look at romances across multiple languages and literary traditions. To celebrate the occasion, we invite you to join us for this online…[Read more]

Deadline for submissions: 15th June 2021

German Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare-Tage, 12–14 November 2021 in Weimar, Germany. 

Should travel be restricted or deemed unsafe by participants we endeavour to host the seminar as an online or hybrid event. This year’s Shakespeare Seminar seeks to discuss the countless ways in which Shake…[Read more]

The Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries29–30 June 2021

Registration is now open. Our speakers will investigate how people understood and coped with loneliness within their immediate circles and as exiles from the Henrician era to the Restoration. There will also be a final roundtable on precarity, loneliness and b…[Read more]

Online seminar: Thanatic Ethics. The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces.

Speakers: Dr. Bidisha Banerjee (University of Hong Kong), Dr. Judith Misrahi-Barak (Université Paul Valéry), Dr .Thomas Lacroix (Maison Française d’Oxford)

9th June

See the pdf attached for more information on registration.

I would like to share with you the news of the publication of the book entitled Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Memory Lost (Routledge, 2021).
This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the…[Read more]

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the 9th SELICUP Conference, whose deadline for proposals has been extended to 13 June. This event, hosted by P J Safárik University’s Department of British and American Studies (Kosice, Slovakia), is a joint collaboration with SKASE (Slovak Association for the Study of English), the University of the…[Read more]

ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies has announced the Call for Submissions for the next issue (43 (2022)).

ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies is published yearly by the Department of Filología Inglesa at the University of Valladolid, and accepts submission of original manuscripts in the form of articles and book reviews d…[Read more]

Session five: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Rights Retention and Licensing
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/yzhrFPvoITg

• The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1utEvB1q0DxGxW86EcE07ijPmaeDWC80C0fpNE4eQfXg/edit?usp=sharing

Meeting notes:

• Breakout 1: https…

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Session four: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Discoverability and Metadata
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/p7daWftSlLs

• The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkfLoVBSzdyBAiBEe-dLhWzjrzkY0VWf5cDqQxIiPw0/edit?usp=sharing

Meeting notes:

• Breakout 1: https:/…

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Call For Papers: Ghost Scenes / Scènes de spectres

25-26 November 2021

Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’âge Classique et les Lumières (IRCL – UMR 5186) Montpellier, France 

Keynote Speaker:François Lecercle, Sorbonne University 

Organised by Pierre Kapitaniak (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellie…[Read more]

Please, find below (also in the attached pdf) the CFP for the EJES: European Journal of English Studies Special Issue “Limitrophy in Contemporary Literatures in English” (2023)

Call for Papers for Volume 27 (2023) The editors of EJES are issuing calls for papers for the three issues of the journal to be published in 2023. EJES operates in a tw…[Read more]

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the “(De)Writing the Borderline: Human and Non-Human Liminal Identities” conference that is being organised at the University of Vigo, with the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of A Coruña.

The conference will take place on 13th and 14th January 2022 in an on-site/online hybr…[Read more]

Hi everyone, I’d like to share an exciting development for our Open Infrastructures in the U.S. (the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB) and OAPEN).

Earlier this week we announced a Collective-Action agreement between DOAB, OAPEN and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), becoming a part of the BTAA member libraries’ “strategic portfolio of…[Read more]

The call for presentations for our Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture international conference is now open. The event will take place in mixed format on the days 15-19 November 2021.

We are particularly interested in presentations that seek to engage with questions of intersectional discrimination in ST…[Read more]

“Queer Temporalities in Literature,
Cinema and Video Games”
December 2-4, 202
This International Conference sees the study of time as being central to the understanding of identity configurations. Studying time as a producer and reproducer of identities can be approached as the unearthing of past events, the imagining of other futures, or as the…[Read more]

CFP: Recognition and Recovery of Caribbean Canadian Cultural Production (Deadline: July 31, 2021)
Please find attached the Call for Papers for the next Special Issue of  the Journal Canada & Beyond, guest edited by Michael A. Bucknor and Cornel Bogle.Deadline: July 31, 2021

Recognition and Recovery of Caribbean Canadian Cultural Production: a sp…[Read more]