Call for Chapters: Edited Collection on the writing of Richard Yates

** This is the second call for chapters to be included in a collection on the writing of Richard Yates **

Richard Yates, author of the cult classic Revolutionary Road, has been described as America’s least-known great writer. Spoken of in revered terms by other writers such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Ford, Yates has a reputation as a writer’s writer. However, during his lifetime his books went in and out of print with alarming regularity, and he never experienced sustained success. The recent reissue of all of his books by Vintage and the release of a major movie adaptation of Revolutionary Road has sparked a resurgence of interest in Yates’s work both with the general public and within academia. With the approach of the 90^th anniversary of his birth in 2016 the need for a new volume of essays on this particular writer is pressing. Proposals for chapters to be included in this collection are now requested. Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:

• Houses and homes; material culture and objects
• Autobiography in fiction
• Yates as a realist
• Gender; masculinity; attitudes to feminism; representations of women
• The nature of work
• Yates’s short stories
• Literary influences on Yates
• Yates as teacher; his work on creative writing courses
• Legacy; the influence of Yates on other writers
• Yates as speechwriter/screenwriter

NOTE: Proposals on Yates’s short stories in particular, and his lesser-known longer fiction, will be given preference.

Submission guidelines:

Proposals of no more than 350 words should be submitted by 15^th April 2016. Please also include a short biography (maximum of 300 words). This collection has attracted firm interest from a publisher and it is expected that the full manuscript will be submitted in late 2016. All chapters will be subject to a blind peer review process. Contributors may also be asked to act as reviewers for this collection. Please submit proposals as word documents to dalyj5@tcd.ie using the subject line ‘Richard Yates Collection’. Full details and submission guidelines will be provided to contributors on acceptance of proposals. Any queries can be sent to the editor, Jennifer Daly: dalyj5@tcd.ie

Gender, Activism, and Religion

Society for the History of Women in the Americas Annual Conference

Wednesday 29th June 2016

Royal Holloway, University of London

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its ninth annual conference, co-organised with The Bedford Centre for the History of Women, Royal Holloway, University of London.

The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Gender, Activism, and Religion.’ We welcome 250 word abstracts for 20-minute presentations on the intersecting relationship between gender, activism, and religion in the Americas across any geographical period or chronological time. We welcome comparative papers between two countries in the Americas or one in the Americas and a country outside the region. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Reproductive rights
• Political mobilisation
• Social movements
• Missionary networks
• The civil rights movement

Please submit abstracts and 100-word biography toshawconference2016@gmail.com by the 4^th April 2016. You will be notified of the outcome by 22nd April 2016. Papers chosen for the conference may be selected for inclusion in a special issue of History of Women in the Americas Journalsubject to peer-review.

Conference co-organisers:

Dawn-Marie Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Imaobong Umoren (University of Oxford)

Emerging Perspectives Graduate Conference


19^th May 2016

University College Dublin in association with the UCD English Graduate Society and Humanities Institute.

The UCD English Graduate Society warmly invites MA and PhD students of all levels to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words that engage with the theme ‘Emerging Perspectives’ for the 2016 EGS Graduate Conference.

Since 2010 the UCD English Graduate Society has provided early-stage scholars in universities across Ireland with the opportunity to share their research in a supportive environment. The fruits of their labour have been published annually in the postgraduate journal Emerging Perspectives. Both the conference and journal are kindly supported by the UCD School of English, Drama and Film.

The aim of the society’s 2016 conference is to continue fostering interdisciplinary dialogue amongst the greater Irish postgraduate community; early career scholars and MA students are strongly encouraged to apply. Submissions from international institutions are also welcome.

We encourage submissions from a broad range of areas surrounding the below disciplines including but by no means limited to:

• American, British, Irish Literature: New approaches to literature, multiculturalism, devolution, globalisation, ecocriticism, migration, diasporas, historical materialism;
• Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romantic, Victorian, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Beats, Postmodernism, Digital Age/ Post-postmodernism;
• Theory: materialism, structuralism, deconstruction, postmodernism, gender & queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, world literature, digital humanities;
•  the novel; poetry, film, drama.

This event will be held in the UCD Humanities Institute on the UCD Belfield campus. A selection of the proceedings of the conference will be published in the fifth volume of Emerging Perspectives.

We invite abstracts of 200-300 words by 15 March 2016, for 20-minute presentations. Submissions for panels are also invited.

Please email submissions as well as any queries regarding the event to englishgradsoc@ucd.ie