Extended Deadline!

Call for Papers

The 21st Summer Meeting

of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

June 2-5, 2016

The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont

During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]

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Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.

“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”

Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]

My name is Jason Courtmanche and I have been nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the Teaching of Literature Forum. For the last nine years I have been the Director of the Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs and Lecturer in English at the University of Connecticut. I was a high school English teacher for 12 years before earning my PhD,…[Read more]

Call for Papers for a prospective panel at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s Biennial Conference in Boston, March 10-12, 2016

“Region and National Technologies”

Pursuant to SSSL’s conference theme “The South in the North,” this panel welcomes proposals for papers that consider the formation and/or manifestation of region in…[Read more]

Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]

Proposals due September 1, 2014

In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and…[Read more]

Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]

Proposals due September 1, 2014

In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and ex…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://ethosreview.org).  This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly essays abou…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics.  This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly blog posts about culture and politics f…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Several faculty and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently launched Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics.  This digital project, which is supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, features weekly posts about culture and politics from i…[Read more]