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CFP: “Where’s Nora?” Reclaiming the Irish Girl’s Presence in New England literature

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“Where’s Nora?” Reclaiming the Irish Girl’s Presence in New England literature

Call for papers

 

“Where’s Nora?” Reclaiming the Irish Girl’s Presence in New England literature
A panel organized by Cécile Roudeau (Université Paris Diderot) and Stephanie Palmer (Nottingham Trent University) and sponsored by the Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society for submission to the Transatlantic Women 3: Women of the Green Atlantic Conference at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, Ireland, June 21-22, 2018.

Taking the title of one of Sarah Orne Jewett’s story as its tagline, this panel starts with a simple constatation: in nineteenth century New England literature, Nora, Bridget, Erin and other Irish girls were an ubiquitous presence. They popped in and out of New England sketches— from Louisa May Alcott’s “Work” (1873) to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s “The Tenth of January” (1868) to Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A Little Captive Maid” (1893) or “Elleneen” (1901). And yet, ubiquitous as she is, the Irish girl is also conspicuously absent in major scholarly studies of New England literature. If “Bridget” or “Peggy” has received much-needed attention from historians and is central to discussions of diasporic identity in recent studies of Irish-American history and culture (Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, 2006; The Irish Bridget, Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 2009, among others), she has remained a shadow in literary studies. Paradoxically so.

For more than two decades, following the pathbreaking work of Judith Fetterley, June Howard, Marjorie Pryse, Susan Gillman, Sandra Zagarell, and more recently Patrick Gleason and Rebecca Walsh, questions of gender, race, and empire have redesigned the approaches to American letters, and the corpus of New England women’s literature in particular. As a “problem,” the Irish girl sits at the center of questions of political and poetical representation, of transactions of gender, race and class. But where’s Nora in our readings of New England women writers? Nourishing nativist fears and religious anxieties while being also praised as “a valuable element in the new race” (Margaret Fuller, “The Irish Character,” 1845), the Irish girl, whose propensity to serve was both an asset and a liability to her becoming American, proved a challenge to the mystique of American democracy and a symptom of its colonialist penchants. Racialized, minoritized as an unfortunate victim of a belated feudalism, she was a foil to the “mistress”‘s femininity, a threat to the household’s racial homogeneity, and a constant challenge to domestic government. She was also key to a forbidden imaginery, that of Catholicism, of the illicit realm of poetry (Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Servant Girl Question, 1881). It is high time to acknowledge her stubborn, disquieting, and terribly appealing, presence.

This panel argues that the Irish girl is part of the shadows that matter in American literature. Papers may inquire into:

– reading well-known or lesser known texts by New England women writers from the perspective of the Irish girl, however marginal a character she may seem to be. (Catharine Beecher, Lydia Sigourney, Louisa May Alcott, Louise Imogen Guiney, Rose Terry Cooke, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett….)
– Tracing the presence of the Irish girl as a problem, or a question, across genres (essays, poems, domestic manuals, political pamphlets, labor novels, diaries, travel narratives, but also vaudeville, plays, caricatures…); the Irish girl in New England periodicals (Boston Transcript, The Atlantic Monthly…).
– “Avenging Bridget”: contemporary subversive rewritings of the stereotype; giving back a voice, a gaze, to the absentee (Aife Murray, Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life and Language, 2010; Nuala O’Connor, Miss Emily, 2015; Maeve Brennan’s The Rose Garden, 2001…)

Leah Blatt Glasser (Mount Holyoke College) will chair the panel.

Please send 300-word abstracts for papers and a short bio to Cécile Roudeau and Stephanie Palmer at cecile.roudeau@gmail.com and stephanie.palmer@ntu.ac.uk by November 27. The conference abstract deadline is December 1, 2017.

CFP: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference

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The BACLS Biennial Conference

The inaugural British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN) is on 10th-12th July 2018 at Loughborough University, UK.

We invite contributions to the first official BACLS ‘What Happens Now’ conference.
Understanding the contemporary as a fluid and hybrid ‘moment’, contemporary literary studies explores works of culture and their relation to the emerging political and social formations of the present.

We welcome contributions on topics from across the field of contemporary literary studies, including modern languages, comparative and world literatures, eco-criticism, postcolonial studies, translation studies, linguistics, performance studies, media theory, comics studies, video games studies, adaptation studies, the study of popular music, cultural studies, critical theory, and digital humanities.

BACLS-WHN will include readings and performances, as well as three themed conference strands (below). If you are submitting to one of these strands please make it clear in your proposal.

  1. Gendered Lives In honour of our host institution’s work with the Gendered Lives Research Group we welcome panel proposals that bring together those researching gender, how it is experienced, and how it is represented in personal documents and cultural objects in contemporary culture.
  2. Pedagogy Because of the challenges of teaching the contemporary, BACLS-WHN will have sessions devoted to pedagogy and issues of teaching. If you would like to propose to run a workshop on pedagogy or linked issues, or if you have any suggestions of workshops you would like to attend, please email bacls.whn@gmail.com
  3. Professional Development BACLS-WHN will have sessions devoted to PGR and ECR perspectives on the field and the academic profession more broadly. If you would like to propose to run a workshop on professional development, or if you have any suggestions of workshops you would like to attend as a PGR/ECR academic, please email bacls.whn@gmail.com

BACLS is especially concerned to encourage and enhance representation and participation from minorities, and is proactively working to reduce physical, social, and economic barriers to participation and to develop an environment rooted in a belief of equal respect for all. We strongly encourage and will give preference to panels that reflect the diversity of our field in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and institutional affiliation. All-male panel proposals will not be accepted.

Loughborough accessibility statement:
All scheduled events will take place in Martin Hall, which is full accessible. For evening meals, all venues will be chosen with accessibility in mind. Please let the organisers know in advance if you need help with any travel arrangements between the main campus and where the evening events will take place in town. Loughborough is a big campus. If you are staying in campus accommodation, please let the organisers know if you need travel arrangements between the accommodation and Martin Hall.

Please send panel proposals of no more than 600 words, and paper abstracts of no more than 250 words, with brief biographical notes (about 50 words) in word format to the conference email address, bacls.whn@gmail.com by 31st January 2018.

To attend BACLS-WHN you will need to register as a member of BACLS. You do not need to be a member to submit a panel, paper, or workshop proposal.

Conference Organisers: Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University), Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham).

CFP: Rethinking Black Love Since E. Franklin Frazier

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CFP: Rethinking Black Love Since E. Franklin Frazier
by Kathryn Vaggalis

“Rethinking Black Love Since E. Franklin Frazier”

A special guest-edited issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color by

Ayesha K. Hardison and Randal Maurice Jelks

Submission deadline: February 1, 2018

In this special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color the editors are soliciting scholarly contributions that rethink what the affective word “love” means in Black communities.

In 1939, when the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier published his study The Negro Family in the United States, he had no idea he was initiating a discussion about Black life, love, and family that would be debated well into the twenty-first century. Three years after Franklin’s death in 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s public policy report used information gleaned from Frazier’s research to assert that Black families, purportedly dominated by Black women, were largely pathological. Moynihan’s damaging conclusions were both sexist and racist by today’s standards, as well as those of his day, and failed to consider the non-normative familial connections and LGBTQ relationships that have historically been a part of Black communities. His work also overlooked the emergence of new perspectives on Black sexuality and families, including Black feminism amidst the Civil Rights Movement. Although a great deal of sociological and historical work has been done to countervail these depictions and their reverberating consequences, popular culture, media, law, research, and social practices continue to conscribe Black families with racially biased, patriarchal tropes that stem from the work of Frazier and his intellectual descendant, Moynihan. These often-unquestioned assumptions regarding Black families’ structures, welfare, and sustainability are at the root of conflicts over Black love in its many forms, including the erotic, familial, platonic, and communal expressions of love among Black people.

We invite scholars, writers, and artists to join us in contemplating themes of Black love in literature, religious thought, philosophy, history, and popular culture to inform and expand readers’ understanding of the emotional and affectionate bonds within Black communities.

Contributors may address the following topics, though this list is not exhaustive:

  • Current issues in Black romantic life
  • The sacred meaning of Black love
  • The role of media, people, or space in the construction and shaping of our appreciation of Black love
  • Gendered notions of love and their effect on Black family socialization and expectations
  • Issues of employment and education and the relationship of these variables to Black love and families
  • Sexuality and physical intimacies
  • Parenting and child rearing
  • Divorce and single parenting

Please submit a 250-word abstract in Times-New Roman, size 12 font, and a brief two-page CV to wgfc@ku.edu by February 1, 2018.

About the Journal: Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a multidisciplinary journal that centers the study of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American women, gender, and families. Within this framework, the journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from history, the social and behavioral sciences, and humanities including comparative and transnational research, and analyses of domestic social, political, economic, and cultural policies and practices within the United States.

About the Editors:

Ayesha K. Hardison is associate professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of African and African-American Studies. Her award-winning book, Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2014) examines representations of Black women and the politics of Black literary production during the 1940s and 1950s. Hardison has published book chapters and reviews as well as articles in African American Review and Meridians, and she has received fellowships and awards from the Ford Foundation, Schomburg Center, Black Metropolis Research Consortium in Chicago, and Kansas Humanities Council. Recently, she co-organized with Randal Maurice Jelks “Black Love: A Symposium,” a week-long series of events celebrating the 80thanniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God at the University of Kansas.

Randal Maurice Jelks is a professor of American Studies and African and African-American Studies. He also holds courtesy appointments in History and Religious Studies; he is the co-editor of the journal American Studies; and he is an ordained Presbyterian clergy (PCUSA). Jelks is the author of two award-winning books: African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights Struggle in Grand Rapids (The University of Illinois Press, 2006), which won the 2006 State History Award from the University and Commercial Press of the Historical Society of Michigan, and Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography (University of North Carolina Press 2012), winner of the 2013 Lillian Smith Book Award and the 2013 Literary Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. He recently co-organized with Ayesha K. Hardison “Black Love: A Symposium,” which celebrated the 80th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.  Currently, Jelks serves as an executive producer for the two-part biographical documentary I, Too, Sing America: Langston Hughes Unfurled, a film collaboration with the Dream Documentary Collective and the Lawrence Arts Center supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

CFP: American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2018

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American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2018

Call for Papers

The forty-fourth annual conference of the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association will be held at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 January 2018. The keynote speaker will be Professor Marc J. Hetherington (Vanderbilt University) http://www.vanderbilt.edu/political-science/bio/marc-hetherington

There is a broad conference theme: “The US Constitutional and Political Order: Challenges and Constraints”. This can be approached in various ways, and we will also be happy to receive proposals considering subjects and material beyond this particular theme. For example, papers or panel proposals examining contemporary US political institutions or processes, foreign policy issues or political history are invited. The conference organizers would also welcome papers addressing comparative themes or relevant theoretical or methodological issues. Proposals (no more than 150 words for single papers, 300 words for panels) should be sent to Dr Clodagh Harrington (cmharrington@dmu.ac.uk) by no later than 20 October 2017.

The APG is the leading scholarly association for the study of US politics in the UK and also has members in continental Europe and the USA. Further details about the group and its activities can be found on the APG website (http://www.american-politics-group-uk.net).

Full details of the conference will also be posted on the website. In the meantime any enquiries should be directed to Clodagh Harrington.

Dr Clodagh Harrington

Chair of the American Politics Group

(cmharrington@dmu.ac.uk)

CFP: Modern Americas Series

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CfP: Modern Americas Series

Editors: Claire Lindsay, Tony McCulloch, Maxine Molyneux, Kate Quinn

Modern Americas is a brand new series that will publish open access books on the culture, politics, and history of the Americas from the nineteenth century to the present day. The series aims to foster national, international, trans-national, and comparative approaches to topics in the region, including those that bridge geographical and/or disciplinary divides, such as between the disparate parts of the hemisphere covered by the series (the US, Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean) or between the humanities and social/natural sciences.

The series invites proposals for monographs and edited volumes from scholars in all disciplines. The editors will also consider publication-ready translations of works that have originally appeared in Spanish, French, or Portuguese.

All books published in the list will be available in free online access form.

Proposals (including three sample chapters and an introduction, all in English) may be sent to Dr Claire Lindsay (claire.lindsay@ucl.ac.uk) and Dr Tony McCulloch (tony.mcculloch@ucl.ac.uk)

CFP: Surveillance, Architecture and Control: Discourses on Spatial Culture (Edited Collection)

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CFP – Surveillance, Architecture and Control – Edited Collection

As our current political and cultural climate elucidates, the modern world has become
increasingly fascinated by surveillance systems. Popular television series’ such as Westworld
and The Handmaid’s Tale speak of our fears of being controlled by those watching us, whilst
remastered movies such as Blade Runner 2049 harness our inherent desire for, and ultimate
reliance upon, technology’s advancement. The systems of hypersurveillance shored up in
these examples demonstrate not only our Orwellian fear of being immersed in such
systems, but also our active participation in their creation and perpetuation. In both
examples, it is the architectural frames and division of boundaries which plays a
fundamental part in controlling and dominating the individual. Westworld’s Robert Ford
(Anthony Hopkins) controls his androids and their ‘roles’ via the vast network system at
Westworld’s headquarters, which in turn controls the space of the ‘game’; Offred is
controlled by Gilead’s network of spies and informers, as well as by her position as the
handmaid, confined to the attic’s uncomfortable surroundings. Both examples demonstrate
the power of architectural space to maintain prescribed roles, and the manner in which
these frames create boundaries which cannot be transgressed (the space of Westworld’s
hyperreal landscape and the territory of Gilead).

In these narratives of urban futures, architecture’s capacity as a vehicle for surveillance
appears to be both inherent, and silent in its power exertion. Architectural frames can be
both large and yet hidden; both unremarkable and active. They are spaces which can
observe and not be observed. With the advancement of technology, Bentham’s panopticon
no longer requires the centralisation of localised sight, but rather, can be omnipresent
throughout a system of spaces. Flows of people and of culture between interior and exterior
spaces are central to many contemporary narratives, and to use McLuhan’s term ‘the
medium is the message’, structures and spaces play an integral part in fictions of control.
As Laura Poitras’ film Project X (2016) demonstrated, architectural frames perpetuate the
division between visible and invisible, being themselves part of the matrix of observer and
observed. In a world of surveillance practices and control regimes, traditional design
specialisms have broken down. Architecture, service design and public art are all affected by
and affect surveillance practices and have profound consequences for the division between
private and public space. The ambition of modern architecture to blur the division between
inside and outside is surely realized, yet the omnipresence of glass and of ‘being seen’ is no
longer about transparency, it is about surveillance. The window is a technology of control.
Recent work in the field of surveillance studies has demonstrated the potential for the gaze
to transgress the lens of technology, and instead, to reside within systems relating to art,
literature, film, and the body. This collection seeks to expand the interdisciplinary nature of
concerns over the surveillance of the individual into that of architecture. Drawing on some
of the themes in the editors’ previous collections Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves
(2017), and Surveillance, Race, Culture (forthcoming in 2018), this collection seeks to
explore instances of surveillance within and around specific architectural entities, both real
and created, in works of fiction, film, photography, performance and art. Drawing on both
Bentham’s and Foucault’s frameworks, we seek contributions from scholars working within
the humanities, social sciences and technology, design and environment. This collection
takes a cultural studies approach to depictions of surveillance and seeks to engender new
debates about canonical and new narratives.

Chapter topics may include but are not limited to:

• Narratives of spatial design and surveillance.
• Urban futures and architectural forms on screen.
• Digital technologies and branded spaces in narratives of the future.
• The manner in which frames (built, figurative, symbolic) can create/inhibit identity
narratives, and the impact of surveillance on bodies within specific environments.
• Confining structures; disability, illness and mental health settings.
• Alternative bodies in alternative spaces.
• How the built space (cities, landscapes, etc) can shape individuals into types of
citizens, and can categorise bodies.
• The performativity of gender, race and sexuality within spatial locations under the
camera eye, and the manner in which it is framed and manipulated by the gaze.
• The role of art installations and gallery space in determining how art is viewed, read
and inscribed.
• The role of architectural spaces/surfaces (windows etc) in enabling the surveillance
of bodies and the surveillance of others through literature, film and television.
• The geographical and physical positioning of surveillance technologies and the
manner in which location can permit/prohibit identity creation through active
viewing.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words including a title, along with a biographical
note and email address, to Dr Antonia Mackay antoniamackay@brookes.ac.uk and Dr Susan
Flynn s.flynn@lcc.arts.ac.uk by 20th of November 2017.

CFP: The Texas Center for Working-Class Studies Conference

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Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2017
Full name/name of organization: The Texas Center for Working-Class Studies
Contact email: LKirby@collin.edu

The Texas Center for Working-Class Studies, housed at Collin College, a two-year institution serving Collin County, is pleased to announce a one-day Working-Class Studies conference for interested scholars and students. The conference will consist of panels in a range of disciplines and on a variety of issues related to social class and labor issues, both historical and contemporary. The keynote speaker will be noted scholar Dr. Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University and author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, and Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South.

Conference organizers invite scholars from all disciplines to take part in this conference and submit proposals for individual papers, full sessions, roundtables, or workshops. Graduate and undergraduate students, in particular, are encouraged to submit their work.

Potential topics might include:

-Working-Class Literature
-The Worker and the Modern Workplace
-Understanding Working-Class Studies
-The Future of Working-Class Studies
-Working-Class History
-Connections among Race, Class, and/or Gender
-Class Representations in the Media and Popular Culture
-The Complexity of Social Class
-The Pedagogy of Social Class

Those interested should submit an abstract of no more than 150 words to Digital Commons@Collin (http://digitalcommons.collin.edu/txcwcs/) by December 1, 2017. For more information, please contact Dr. Lisa A. Kirby, Director of the Texas Center for Working-Class Studies and Professor of English, at LKirby@collin.edu.

CFP: What If? Alternative Histories and Reimagined Worlds

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Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2017
Full name/name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Contact email: jl479@cornell.edu

Seeking abstracts for the 49th Northeast Modern Language Asssociation (NeMLA) Annual Convention at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The panel is called “What If? Alternative Histories and Reimagined Worlds” (description below).

Abstracts of around 300 words must be submitted via the NeMLA site: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17033.

What would our world look like if the Axis powers won World War II? What would it be like if the Union lost the American Civil War? What if the Great Depression never ended? Whether it is from our desire to change the past or our relief at horrors that did not occur, we like to imagine alternative histories, often the province of science fiction. Alternative histories range from expansive visions that focus on the fate of the world (Ward Moore’s Bring the Jubilee, Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle) to highly personal stories that concern a single life (James Tiptree, Jr.’s “Backward, Turn Backward”). Science fiction experiments with world-shaping possibilities, and it can present us with changed visions of our pasts, opening up possibilities—both good and bad—for our presents and futures. Written for dramatic and often ironic effect, alternative histories chronicle the moment of divergence and the consequences of that divergence. Among the consequences of these changed timelines are reimagined spaces: borders shift, and those who were welcome are now excluded. This panel explores the relationship between history and space, asking panelists to examine fictional histories and investigate the impact of alternative timelines upon the landscape. How do mechanisms like time travel, time loops, and timeslips into parallel worlds make these reimagined worlds possible? Do positive alternative histories demolish borders while negative ones erect them? Are natural spaces as susceptible to change by altered timelines as political boundaries?

The submission deadline is September 30, 2017. Applicants will hear back by October 15, 2017.

CFP: American Literature in the World Graduate Conference, Yale University, April 6, 2018

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Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2017
Full name / name of organization: Yale University, Department of English
Contact email: americanliteratureintheworld@gmail.com

The conference hopes to broaden the scope of American literature, opening it to more complex geographies, and to a variety of genres and media. The impetus comes partly from a survey of what is currently in the field: it is impossible to read the work of Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz, Yusef Komunyakaa and Carolyn Forché, Tony Kushner and Lynn Nottage without seeing that, for all these authors, the reference frame is no longer simply the United States, but a larger, looser, more contextually varied set of coordinates, populated by laboring bodies, migrating faiths, generational sagas, memories of war, as well as the accents of unforgotten tongues, the taste and smell of beloved foods and spices.

The twenty-first century is a good century to think about American literature in the world. But other centuries are equally fertile ground, as the writings of Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, William Apess, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Sui Sin Far, Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Frank O’Hara, and Tomás Rivera make abundantly clear. To study these and countless other authors is to see that the United States and the world are neither separate nor antithetical, but part of the same analytic fabric. Our conference explores these extended networks through many channels: from the cultural archives circulating across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans as well as the Caribbean Sea; to the dynamic interactions between indigenous populations and those newly arrived; from the institutions of print, to the tangled ecologies of literature, art, theater, music, and film, to the digital globalism of the present moment.

The conference is supported by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; the Creative Writing Program; the English Department; the American Studies Department; and the African American Studies Department.

Conference attendees are also invited to a slate of related events: a reading by former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove on Thursday; a research workshop with Melissa Barton, Curator at the Beinecke Library; and a publication workshop with Wai Chee Dimock, editor of PMLA, and Gregory Cowles, columnist and staff editor at the New York Times Book Review.

Please send a 1-page abstract (250-650 words) to americanliteratureintheworld@gmail.com by December 15.

CFP: American Studies in Europe: Life as a Postgraduate Student and Early Career Researcher – Call for Contributions

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The Postgraduate Forum of AISNA (Italian Association of North American Studies), in coordination with the PG representative of BAAS Katerina Webb-Bourne and with thebacking and full support of the EAAS Board as well as the President, Philip McGowan, is organising a panel at the EBAAS conference of London on ‘American Studies in Europe: Life as a Postgraduate Student and Early Career Researcher’. The panel is designed as an occasion for networking and exchange between PG students and ECRs across Europe, with the objective of confronting problems,sharing best practices and building a European community of young scholars of American Studies.

We are seeking contributions from representatives of PG and ECR Forums associated with the Associations of American Studies across Europe, but we would also be very interested to hear from individual members of the American Studies community. Ideally, contributions should discuss the situation of the PG and ECR communities in the country of origin of the speaker, and offering comments on problems and best practices. The length of each contribution will be decided according to the final number of presenters. We aim to have an informal event, with open interaction between presenters and the public.

To express your interest in taking part in the panel, please email l.costaguta@bham.ac.uk with a brief personal introduction, academic affiliation, and the position held in one of the associations of American Studies affiliated with EAAS (if any), by September 29th at the latest. We look forward to have representatives from as many European countries as possible, so please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.