Title/topic: European Popular Literatures and Their Sociocultural Implications.
Guest editors: Asunción López-Varela (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, alopezva@ucm.es ), Antonio Ballesteros-González (UNED, aballesteros@flog.uned.es )
Deadlines: Abstracts (300 words) and bioprofiles (50 words) should be sent to guest editors by 30 September 20…[Read more]

Yebra, José M. The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5275-4360-7

Now out is the third issue (Volume 2.1, summer 2020) of the Dylan Review, the open-access online journal launched in 2019 and dedicated to the academic study of Bob Dylan’s work, and of which I am an editorial board member. The new issue is available at:https://www.dylanreview.org/vol-2-1-summer-2020(for the earlier issues, see entries on my bl…[Read more]

Thank you José Ángel! The blog “This Huge Stage” includes relevant publications in this field and all members of the group will find it very useful.

Indeed, drama has not always been considered as literature, but rather as entertainment. Fortunately, its reputation has gradually grown and today theatrical studies are a fruitful research area.

Great, José Ángel, thanks for sharing.

Here you have two online publications on Restoration theatre. The first is a discussion of  Wycherley’s adaptation a comedy by Calderon de la Barca and the second deals with the dedication of The Mulberry Garden (1668), dedicatory writing being my field of expertise.

• Calderon and Wycherley’s Dancing-Masters: https://idus.us.es/handle/11441/61560…

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Thank you, José Angel, for sharing your publication!

CFPs Edited Volume   Vulnerable. Representing Vulnerability in Literature and Film_ Edited by Miriam Fernández Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández 

Deadline for abstract submissions: December 18, 2020

Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2021

Submission of full chapters: November 1, 2021

The term “vulnerability,” consolidated in the 7…[Read more]

Here you have a few, although some of these are quite specific. But I’m sure those of you interested in Early Modern Literature will find them particularly useful:

• Shakespeare Unlimited. A Podcast on Shakespeare and Early modern literature by the Folger Library: https://www.folger.edu/podcasts-and-recordings
• Before Shakespeare. An online…

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Call for papers. Special Issue

Strangers and Trespassers in Contemporary Women’s Crime Fiction (2000-2020). Papers on Language and Literature (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Guest editors: Carla Rodríguez González and Esther Álvarez López(Universidad de Oviedo) Crime fiction is a “strange” genre situated at the paradoxical coordina…[Read more]

Welcome, José Ángel. Thank you for joining!