Call for Abstracts

21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association

University of Vienna

21-27 July 2016

(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work

5-Day Seminar Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee

Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:

Unsettling the Gendered West

This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]

CFP: In/Security

Special issue of English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2016 (Vol. 54, No. 2)

This issue of ELN takes for its focus the topic of security and its necessary correlate, insecurity. As Itty Abraham notes, the term “security” is a “traveling signifier” that has “attached itself to every scale of human activity, from the individua…[Read more]

The Society for Novel Studies (SNS) invites proposals for fifteen-minute papers to be given at its biennial conference held at the University of Pittsburgh, May 13-14, 2016. For more information, visit http://novel.trinity.duke.edu/news/2015/07/08/sns-2016-call-for-papers.

Proposals should not exceed 200 words and are due by September 7, 2015.

I would value recommendations of novels and stories that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the context of contemporary, developing markets. This is for a project to bring world literature into the business classroom, scholarly management research, and even the dialogue of busi…[Read more]

CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South, March 11-12, 2016

Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)

We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the…[Read more]

Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia 

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

The editors of a forthcoming special issue of Postcolonial Text—to be dedicated to the memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam—would like to remind scholars that papers are gratefully accepted until June 15, 2015.

To date, we have recei…[Read more]

Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

The editors of a forthcoming special issue of Postcolonial Text—to be dedicated to the memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam—would like to remind scholars that papers are gratefully accepted until June 15, 2015.

To date, we have rec…[Read more]

We invite proposals for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women’s Writing, edited by Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi.

This volume seeks meaningful responses to the following questions: What do we teach when we teach South Asian Women’s Writing? How do we teach it in a variety of cont…[Read more]

We invite proposals for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women’s Writing, edited by Deepika  Bahri and Filippo Menozzi.

This volume seeks meaningful responses to the following questions: What do we teach when we teach South Asian Women’s Writing? How do we teach it in a variety of cont…[Read more]