Dressing a Picture: Reimagining the Court Portrait 1500-1800

6 – 7 May 2021

CRASSH, University of Cambridge

As Ulinka Rublack asserts in Dressing Up, her seminal book on dress in early modern Europe, society was extremely dress-literate and nowhere more so than in the courtly environments that generated and fuelled fashion. Within these…[Read more]

VIRTUAL EME: Early Modern Futures

04 May 2021, 11:30 am–1:30 pm

UCL’s Centre for Early Modern Exchanges celebrates its ten year anniversary this year and the launch of its PhD programme in Early Modern Studies. To mark this occasion, we are bringing together researchers associated with the Centre with colleagues from the award-winning Centre for…[Read more]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the book, Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction, as part of the Peter Lang Series Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture.

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You can find attached information about the one-day conference “Mapping Anglo-Iberian Relations: Stereotypes, Alliances & Fictions” that will take place online on 28 May 2021.

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood, ed. by Coral Ann Howells. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Second edition. http://services.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/canadian-literature/cambridge-companion-margaret-atwood-2nd-edition?format=PB&isbn=9781108707633

We are delighted to announce the publication of Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. The link on the Palgrave site is here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/<wbr />book/9783030584856

International Conference: Literary Translation: A World that Makes Women (In)visible

23 and 24 September 2021

Deadline for submission of proposals: 17 May 2021.

Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema and Video GamesDecember 2-4, 2021

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]

CALL FOR PAPERS (Sep-Dec 2022) Gothic Studies Special Issue N. 19 Ibero-American Gothic: Gothic productions in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America.

The Journal Abusões is pleased to announce a call for papers for issue 19, on the topic of “IberoAmerican Gothic: Gothic Productions in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America”. We invite i…[Read more]

Please find below the CFP for a special issue of ABEI Journal on the Irish poet Eavan Boland: https://www.abeibrasil.org/news/call-for-papers-abei-journal-232-special-issue-eavan-boland-in-her-many-images.html?lang=pt

“The Journal Abusões is pleased to announce a call for papers for issue 19, on the topic of “Ibero-American Gothic: Gothic Pro…[Read more]

Summer course in Narrative Studies (Online edition). PhD course, Aarhus University, 26-29 July 2021. Apply before: April 26. Please find more details in the poster attached.

The politics of piracy in Renaissance England: the case of Thomas Tomkins

Online- via Zoom

22 March 2021, 5:15PM – 7:00PM

IHR Seminar Series: Tudor & Stuart History  with Paul Hammer (University of Colorado Boulder). This work-in-progress paper explores the misfortunes of a gentleman privateer, Thomas Tomkins, who was branded as a pirate after…[Read more]

• “Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature”, hosted by the Department of English & German Studies (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). This is an online event to be held from Wednesday 08 to Thursday 09 September 2021.  Keynote speakers: Professor Jay Winter (Yale Unive…

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The International Conference “Literary Connections: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Literariness” will take place between 30 November- 04 December, 2021. For further information see the document attached and check their website: http://www.literaryconnectionsconference.es

Gender Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal that aims to contribute to the advancement of gender as a theoretical and analytical category. It seeks to strengthen the public debate on gender related issues and to make an impact in an array of disciplines. The journal publishes high- quality, peer-reviewed articles by authors from…[Read more]

• CFP for New Voices in English Studies: ASYRAS VII Conference, which will take place online via Google Meet on 17-18 June, 2021. The Conference is intended as a forum where early-career specialists in English Studies can present the results of their research.  More information here: http://asyras.org/7th/asyras-conference/
• CfP for the Fourth Po…

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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 Balearic Islands’ British and Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group and the ‘21st-Century Anglophone Literatures: Narrative an…[Read more]