Category: Calls for Papers

CFP: “Race, Dystopia, and American Identity”

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Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2017
Full name/name of organization: The St. John’s University Humanities Review
Contact email: saunderc@stjohns.edu

Call for papers, The St. John’s Humanities Review Spring 2018 Issue

The St. John’s University Humanities Review

Special Issue: “Race, Dystopia, and American Identity”

Deadline for Abstracts: December 15, 2018

Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2018

Editors: Scott Koski and Catherine C. Saunders

Contact email: scott.koski16@my.stjohns.edu & saunderc@stjohns.edu

“Race, Dystopia, and American Identity”

A Special Issue of The St. John’s University Humanities Review Spring 2018

Focusing on race, dystopia and how they shape or contribute to American identity, The St. John’s University Humanities Review (http://stjenglish.com/st-johns-humanities-review) is accepting submissions for its special issue, “Race, Dystopia, and American Identity” which will be published in the spring of 2018. The editors are seeking reviews, interviews, and essays that contemplate race, dystopia, and American identity through theoretical, pedagogical, and/or personal lenses. The editors are especially interested, but not limited to, reviews or criticisms that consider race, dystopia, and the role of the fool (or satiric versions of) within dystopian spaces.

The editors are also seeking book reviews on recent publications, both fiction or non-fiction, that contain themes of race, dystopia, and American identity. If interested in reviewing one of the following titles, or a recent title of your suggestion please reach out to the editors immediately.

 

We Were Eight Years and Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones

Be Fierce by Gretchen Carlson

CHOKEHOLD by Paul Butler

Borne: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer

 

Please submit an abstract of 250 words with a working title along with a CV by December 15, 2018. The final deadline for submissions is February 15, 2018.

Submissions must be sent as Microsoft Word documents (.doc or .docx only) attached via email (i.e. not in the body text of the email) to both editors:

scott.koski16@my.stjohns.edu

saunderc@stjohns.edu

 

Submissions must be double-spaced, adhering to Chicago Manual of Style (NB w/footnotes, 16th Edition). Book reviews and interviews should be no more than 1000 words; essays and all other submissions no more than 5000 words.

Submissions may consider (but are not limited to) the following queries:

  • How does popular culture portray the intersection between race, dystopia, and American Identity (e.g. NBC’s This is Us, ABC’s Scandal, and Netflix’s Orange is the New Black or House of Cards)?
  • Does the role of the fool (wise, trickster, clown etc.) necessarily mean comic relief/a figure of levity, or could we rewrite the narrative of this term by also including those who embody idealism in the face of dystopia?
  • How does satire or humor complicate dystopia, especially in conjunction with race?
  • How might current media narratives—such as the pervasive narratives of racial tension, political conflict, or sexual assault—connect dystopia and American identity?
  • How do race and dystopia affect classroom environment? How might educators engage race and dystopia to create inclusive classroom environments?
  • How might classroom engagement, or avoidance, of race and dystopia affect American Identity?

CFP: 10th Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS)

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Deadline for submissions: January 5, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Swedish Association for American Studies
Contact email: saasconference2018@gmail.com

10th Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS)

“Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America”

Stockholm, September 28–30, 2018

Call for Panels and Papers

The Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS) will hold its 10th biennial conference in Stockholm on September 28–30, 2018. Confirmed keynote speakers are David R. Roediger (University of Kansas), Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth), and Frida Stranne (Halmstad University).

We hereby invite proposals on any subject in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. The overarching theme for the conference is “Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America,” which highlights central tensions in American culture and politics: the relation between isolationism and internationalism, openness and closure, migration and borders, exceptionalism and universalism. We particularly welcome submissions engaging with this broader theme.

SAAS is an academic network that encourages scholarship in the multidisciplinary field of American Studies. SAAS seeks to develop a critical understanding of the role, position and meaning of the United States and Canada. In Sweden, research about North America is conducted in many different disciplines; the SAAS conference thus functions as an important forum for interdisciplinary exchange and provides American Studies scholars with an opportunity to meet and network. We welcome panels from junior and senior scholars on any topic related to the study of the United States and North America from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

 

  • Art
  • Visual Culture
  • Film and Media Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literature
  • Musicology
  • Popular Culture
  • Gender Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Political Science
  • Religion
  • US or North American History

The year 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of president Woodrow Wilson’s famous “Fourteen Point Speech,” where he described his vision for a world of peace and unity. Wilson’s first “point” was a call for “Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.” Nine months after the US entrance in World War I, the principles of free trade, democracy, and national autonomy formed the foundation for the postwar peace negotiations and the establishment of the League of Nations. Although Thorstein Veblen noted just one year later that “the President’s proud words have gone whistling down the winds,” Wilson’s internationalism stand in sharp contrast to the current president Donald Trump’s agenda of “America First.” As Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen has pointed out, these changes are not only political but also aesthetic, ultimately affecting the public discourse through manipulations of language and culture. Notions of United States internationalism or isolationism are intimately connected to American exceptionalism, to immigration, race, and ethnicity, and fundamentally to the perception of America at home and abroad. The theme of this year’s SAAS conference invites participants to engage both with a national American and a global horizon in exploring notions of “Open Covenants” in history, politics, literature, film, cultural studies, and other areas of American Studies.

Proposals for Panels and Individual Papers

In order to submit a panel proposal, please provide us with a title for the panel, the name, email address and brief bio of the panel convener, and a description of the topic (200-500 words). If the convener already has one or more panelists, please also provide the name, email and bio of individual presenters (max 100 words) as well as a title and abstract (of 200-250 words) for each presentation. Panel proposals should be sent to saasconference2018@gmail.com. Deadline: January 5, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to panel conveners by January 15, 2018. Panels that have been accepted will then be posted on our website, and a separate call for papers will be announced for these panels, with a later deadline, in consultation with the panel conveners.

In order to submit an individual paper, please send in an abstract (200-250 words) with a title that clearly outlines the topic of the paper, along with a brief biographical description of the presenter (max 100 words), including address details. Paper proposals should be sent to saasconference2018@gmail.com. Deadline: January 5, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to individual paper presenters by February 1, 2018.

For more information about the conference, please visit our website: www.saasinfo.se/conference.

CFP: Washington Irving Society (ALA 2018)

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Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Washington Irving Society
Contact email: Tracy_Hoffman@baylor.edu

CFP: Early American Literature and Food Culture (ALA 2018)

The Washington Irving Society invites proposals connecting Irving and his contemporaries with food culture studies for the ALA Conference in San Francisco, May 24-27, 2018. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the history of particular foods, the politics of the kitchen, agricultural practices, cross-cultural food encounters, mealtime rituals, hunger, or overconsumption as represented in early American literature. All critical frameworks are welcome. Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words plus a short CV to skeck@stlawu.edu by January 15, 2018.

CFP: Christmas Traditions in American Literature (ALA 2018)

Washington Irving’s Sketch Book contains a handful of Christmas stories set at an English manor called Bracebridge Hall. These Christmas sketches influenced Charles Dickens, among others, and brought old English traditions into America’s Christmas consciousness. The sketches inspired Irving fans to host Bracebridge dinners, and these festivities continue almost 200 years later. In fact, an extravagant Bracebridge production occurs every December at Yosemite National Park. The Washington Irving Society invites papers from participants of such dinners, Irving scholars, and experts in other American texts dealing with the holidays for an ALA round table discussion of Christmas traditions. Please send an abstract of 250-300 words and a short CV to Tracy_Hoffman@baylor.edu by January 15, 2018.

For further information about the American Literature Association’s conference, held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, May 24-27, 2018, please consult the ALA website: http://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/.

CFP: Southern Cultures Special Issue on Music and Protest

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CFP: Southern Cultures Special Issue on Music and Protest

Southern Cultures, the award-winning quarterly of the Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, musicians, and visual artists for our Music and Protest Issue, to be published Fall 2018. We will be accepting submissions for this special issue through December 1, 2017, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/submit .

This call aims to gather work that documents and understands southern music’s relationships to protest and resistance, both historically and in its present moment, and in the voices of musicians, scholars, critics, audiences, visual artists, and activists, broadly defined. We understand southern music to exist across many genres, communities, and collaborations and seek to expand the conversation beyond the sometimes-limiting lenses of “traditional music” and “protest songs.” To that end, we are less interested in stereotypes, revisiting past debates, or fetishized music culture than we are in the interaction of peoples and cultures with the broader forces of political, social, historical, and economic change at work in the South.

Submissions can explore any topic or theme related to southern music and protest, with a special interest in pieces that seek new understandings of the region and its musics, identify current communities and concerns, and address its ongoing struggles for justice and expression. We welcome explorations of the region in the forms Southern Cultures publishes: scholarly articles, memoir, interviews, surveys, photo essays, and shorter feature essays.

Possible topics and questions to explore might include (but are certainly not limited to):

  • How have musicians and audiences in the American South aligned or unaligned their musics with their politics and ethics, both historically and today, within both formal and vernacular contexts? How has music addressed, rectified, or exacerbated oppressive situations over the course of southern history?
  • Is music inherently political or apolitical, and do musicians have political responsibilities or not? How do artists and listeners engage with southern politics and social justice through music beyond the confines of programmatic “protest music” with explicit political content? What other strategies of political engagement and action through music are possible and fruitful?
  • How are musicians responding, both within their art and beyond, to the current cultural and political climates of the South? Topics might include discourses related to Black Lives Matter; arguments about the removal of Confederate monuments; the recently increased visibility and violence of white nationalists in the South; HB2 and debates about gender and transgender rights; the acrimonious 2016 presidential election and its aftermath; immigration and the U.S.–Mexico border; and the military, national security, and the ongoing “War on Terror.”
  • As the South assumes an increasingly diverse and global identity, how is the music of (or about) recent immigrant, refugee, and transplanted communities engaging or disengaging with articulations of protest, social justice, and identity? How is the music and musical consumption of recent arrivals changing the textures of southern music?
  • How have new technologies and media—allowing for the increasingly rapid creation, sampling and editing, dissemination, and critique of music both new and old—changed the capacity, pace, and immediacy of musical protest and resistance in the South and beyond?

As we also publish digital content, we are able to feature select essays with video, audio, and interactive visual content. We encourage creativity in coordinating print and digital materials in submissions and ask that authors submit any potential digital materials with their essay or introduction/artist’s statement.

We encourage authors to gain familiarity with the tone, scope, and style of our journal before submitting. Those whose institutions subscribe to Project Muse can read past issues for free via http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/ . To read our current issue, access our submission guidelines, or browse our content, please visit www.southerncultures.org .

CFP: “Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America”

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10th Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS)

“Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America”

Stockholm, September 28–30, 2018 Call for Panels and Papers

The Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS) will hold its 10th biennial conference in Stockholm on September 28–30, 2018. Confirmed keynote speakers are David R. Roediger (University of Kansas), Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth), and Frida Stranne (Halmstad University).

We hereby invite proposals on any subject in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. The overarching theme for the conference is “Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America,” which highlights central tensions in American culture and politics: the relation between isolationism and internationalism, openness and closure, migration and borders, exceptionalism and universalism. We particularly welcome submissions engaging with this broader theme.

SAAS is an academic network that encourages scholarship in the multidisciplinary field of American Studies. SAAS seeks to develop a critical understanding of the role, position and meaning of the United States and Canada. In Sweden, research about North America is conducted in many different disciplines; the SAAS conference thus functions as an important forum for interdisciplinary exchange and provides American Studies scholars with an opportunity to meet and network. We welcome panels from junior and senior scholars on any topic related to the study of the United States and North America from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Art
Visual Culture
Film and Media Studies Cultural Studies
Literature
Musicology
Popular Culture
Gender Studies
Anthropology
Political Science
Religion
US or North American History

The year 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of president Woodrow Wilson’s famous “Fourteen Point Speech,” where he described his vision for a world of peace and unity. Wilson’s first “point” was a call for “Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.” Nine months after the US entrance in World War I, the principles of free trade, democracy, and national autonomy formed the foundation for the postwar peace negotiations and the establishment of the League of Nations. Although Thorstein Veblen noted just one year later that “the President’s proud words have gone whistling down the winds,” Wilson’s internationalism stand in sharp contrast to the current president Donald Trump’s agenda of “America First.” As Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen has pointed out, these changes are not only political but also aesthetic, ultimately affecting the public discourse through manipulations of language and culture. Notions of United States internationalism or isolationism are intimately connected to American exceptionalism, to immigration, race, and ethnicity, and fundamentally to the perception of America at home and abroad. The theme of this year’s SAAS conference invites participants to engage both with a national American and a global horizon in exploring notions of “Open Covenants” in history, politics, literature, film, cultural studies, and other areas of American Studies.

Proposals for Panels and Individual Papers

In order to submit a panel proposal, please provide us with a title for the panel, the name, email address and brief bio of the panel convener, and a description of the topic (200-500 words). If the convener already has one or more panelists, please also provide the name, email and bio of individual presenters (max 100 words) as well as a title and abstract (of 200- 250 words) for each presentation. Panel proposals should be sent to saasconference2018@gmail.com. Deadline: January 5, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to panel conveners by January 15, 2018. Panels that have been accepted will then be posted on our website, and a separate call for papers will be announced for these panels, with a later deadline, in consultation with the panel conveners.

In order to submit an individual paper, please send in an abstract (200-250 words) with a title that clearly outlines the topic of the paper, along with a brief biographical description of the presenter (max 100 words), including address details. Paper proposals should be sent to saasconference2018@gmail.com. Deadline: January 5, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to individual paper presenters by February 1, 2018.

For more information about the conference, please visit our website: www.saasinfo.se/conference.

CFP: Transatlantic Women 3: Women of the Green Atlantic

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Transatlantic Women 3: Women of the Green Atlantic

Dublin, Ireland Royal Irish Academy

21-22 June 2018


Sponsored by the Catherine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society

“Since every wind that blows brings to our shores a fresh swarm of these people, who are to form so potent an element in our future national character, it behooves us to study them well, and make the best we can of  them.”

Catharine  Sedgwick,  “The  Little  Mendicants” (1846)

The third meeting of Transatlantic Women will take place in Dublin, Ireland, on 21-22 June 2018 at the Royal Irish Academy. It will focus on Irish/American crosscurrents of the long nineteenth century, on the transatlantic stream of writers, reformers, and immigrants crossing over the Green Atlantic who were engaged in refuting but also perpetuating stereotypes and racist beliefs that troubled Irish-American relations. Such authors as Catharine Sedgwick, for instance, wrestled with contradictory conceptions created of Irish immigrants who appear in many of her writings, including “Irish  Girl”  (1842) and  “The  Post  Office:  An  Irish  Story”  (1843). In a different context, “An  Affectionate  and  Christian  Address  of  Many  Thousands  of  Women”   (1852) pointedly  addressed  American  women  as  the  “sisters”  of  women  from  both  Great  Britain   and Ireland; although Harriet Beecher Stowe never traveled to Ireland, she met deputations from that country during her first visit to Europe (1853). In  “What  Is  a  Home?”  (1864)  and  “Servants”   (1865), she expressed concerns about the Irish in the United States similar to those of Sedgwick.

This transatlantic gathering will celebrate, and question, nineteenth-century women who crossed the Green Atlantic, wrote about it, or in other ways connected the United States with Ireland through networks, translations, transatlantic fame, or influence. As Peter  D.  O’Neill  and   David Lloyd demonstrate in The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas (2009), people from Ireland, as well as from Africa and the United States, crossed the Atlantic as slaves and servants, as cultural and political exiles or activists. Many women, active in travel writing, pamphleteering, writing fiction, newspaper articles, speeches, fairy tales, and ghost stories, were  promoters  of  women’s  rights  and  the  figure  of  the New Woman, and were engaged in philanthropy, temperance, abolitionism, social commentary—and simply just in sightseeing and enjoying themselves. Among the most prominent figures to build bridges between the United States and Ireland around activism are such well-known Americans as Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony (on the Irish Question), Frances Willard, Ellen Craft, Ida B. Wells, and the Irish Frances Power Cobbe; among those who have received less attention are, for example, the African American Sarah Parker Remond and the poet Frances Osgood. And the exchange went both ways: fiction by Irish writer Maria Edgeworth, for instance, influenced Sedgwick, among others.

The Transatlantic Women 3 conference brings together scholars representing various countries and disciplines to examine the ways in which these women and their ideas moved, how they resisted oppression and created new ways to conceptualize their identities and the reality surrounding them. We welcome presentations on any topic related to nineteenth-century transatlantic women but are especially interested in those dealing with women of the Irish- American nexus. Some of the key concepts include race, stereotypes, assimilation, immigrant reality; conceptualization of space, distance, and identity; movement, and memory—historical and personal.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • recovering voices of Irish-Americans, or American-Irish women
  • struggles of immigrant women
  • women pioneers, in professions, activism, innovation
  • female networks and sisterhoods—of writers, journalists, travelers
  • women activists (abolitionism, anti-lynching,  temperance,  women’s  rights,  peace,  white slavery, reform, animal rights)
  • women travelers and their descriptive gaze
  • fictional and realistic descriptions of places, people, and societies
  • women’s  articulations  of  transatlanticism and the Green Atlantic

Abstracts, which should be about 250 words, and a short bio, are due by 1 December 2017. They should be emailed to transatlanticwomen3@gmail.com.

We look forward to yet another stimulating transatlantic conversation with you!

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the organizers:
Beth L. Lueck (lueckb@uww.edu), Sirpa Salenius (sirpa.salenius@uef.fi), or Lucinda Damon-Bach (ldamonbach@salemstate.edu).

CFP: Widening the Lens: Beyond the Orient and Occident in Narrative Perspectives of the East and West

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Call for Papers

The American University in Dubai

April 5-7, 2018

Widening the Lens: Beyond the Orient and Occident in Narrative Perspectives of the East and West

We live in an age in which mass media representations of the Middle East have done much to influence Western attitudes toward the region’s peoples and cultures.  Similarly, Middle Easterners’ views of the West have also been affected.  That these representations have so consistently advanced disparaging stereotypes has resulted in an unfortunate legacy of cultural misunderstanding that demands investigation and redress. The literary arts, from the Middle Ages to Modernity have all too often represented cultural differences in ways that have aided in the construction and/or perpetuation of an antagonistic East/West divide.  While the exploration of this divide has been valuable, what is now needed is an exploration of how literature has also engaged in productively complex, nuanced intercultural dialogues that complicate, fracture, and ultimately widen the narrow lens used to frame the relationships between East and West. The conference Widening the Lens: Beyond the Orient and Occident in Narrative Perspectives of the East and West seeks to explore how the dialogue between literatures of the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and North America approach, inspire, challenge, and ultimately benefit each other. In other words, this conference intends to consider that literature can help correct the divisions caused by entrenched cultural stereotypes, and that this help can take a myriad of forms.

The goal of this conference is to examine works of literature and other forms of creative expression that try to move beyond the stereotypes of Orientalist and Occidentalist imagination to construct a more authentic rapport between the two regions. Participants will consider works that try to bridge cultural, religious, and linguistic differences in order to engage in constructive, though not uncritical, dialogues between the East and West. To accomplish this, the English Division at the American University in Dubai invites papers that focus on expanding the perspectives by which the cultures of the East and the West regard one another.

Topic Suggestions:

  • American and European perspectives of the Middle East and North Africa
  • Middle Eastern and North African perspectives of the United States and Europe
  • Comparative studies of Middle Eastern/North African and US/European works or authors
  • Perspectives on Christianity and Islam
  • Critical approaches to gender and sexuality in the East and West
  • Representations of democracy in the East and West
  • Literary translations between East and West
  • Pedagogical approaches to teaching Middle Eastern literature in the West, or Western literature in the Middle East
  • Literature that widens the lens between the East and the West, including but not limited to Young Adult/Children’s Literature, War Literature, Essays, Biography, Autobiography, and Poetry
  • Film, Media, and Popular Culture pieces that move beyond stereotypes
  • Dialogues arising from Post-Colonial tensions and conflicts

 

Please send 300-word proposals to literatureconference@aud.edu no later than December 22, 2017. Proposals should include name, contact information, affiliation, and title of paper. Presentations should be a maximum of twenty minutes in length. Panel proposals (comprised of three to four presenters) are also welcome; please include the names, contact info, affiliations, and paper titles for all members. Notification of acceptance to the conference will be sent via email by January 5, 2018.

Widening the Lens: Beyond the Orient and Occident in Narrative Perspectives of the East and West will be hosted by the American University in Dubai’s School of Arts and Sciences.  Conference website is forthcoming.

CFP: MELUS Special Issue: New Directions in Irish American Literature and Culture

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Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Contact email: byrne_james@wheatoncollege.edu

Call for Papers for MELUS Special Issue:

New Directions in Irish American Literature and Culture

Guest Editor: James Byrne

Deadline for Submissions: 15 April 2018

Anticipated Publication: 2019

In his preliminary note to the 1993 MELUS special issue on Irish American Literature, Charles Fanning wrote, “In hundreds of works as accomplished as any in American literature, [Irish American] writers have described and considered the experience and changing self-image of the American Irish. The result is a literature the study of which has much to teach us about ethnic otherness in American life” (1).Since this issue, not only has the number of works written about the self-image of the American Irish continued to grow, more significantly, the ways in which we’ve come to understand this self-image has been exponentially developed and deepened. Along with the list of exciting new transnational writers of the Irish American image has come a new and often challenging critical reflection on the construct and contours of the Irish American ethnic subject. Issues such as race, gender, space, performativity, and national sympathies have been reexamined as part of an engaged study of the Irish American stereotype as it has developed over the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. New studies have emerged in Irish American autobiography, interethnic relations, and the Irish American subject in the popular and political press. This new issue seeks to gather and reflect some of these new directions in Irish American studies. We invite broad understandings and a varied approach to the theme of this issue. Topics to be addressed might include, but are not limited to, the following:

– Irish American literature and culture in a multi-ethnic context

– Interethnic relations in Irish American literature and culture

– Race and Irish American ethnicity

– Gender, sexuality, and Irish American ethnicity

– Transnational Irish American literature

– The Irish language in Irish American culture

– The ‘new wave’ of Irish American writers, dramatists, filmmaker, artists, etc.

– Performance and performativity in Irish American literature

– Irish and American nationalism

– Staging Irishness in literature, drama, film, art, music, photography, television, etc.

– The role of space in registering Irish American ethnicity

– Private and public identity

– Popular culture and the Irish American subject

– The American press and the Irish American subject

– Ideology and the Irish American subject

– The Irish American as paradigmatic ethnic American citizen

– The conflicts of generational ethnicity

– Irish American autobiography

Submissions should be between 7,000 and 10,000 words, including notes and works cited, prepared according to the MLA Style Manual 8th edition. Please do not include the author’s name anywhere in the manuscript. Essays under review at other journals or previously published in any form will not be considered for publication in MELUS. Please also include a 250-word abstract with your submission. All submissions will go through MELUS’s normal refereeing process.

Please submit completed papers through the MELUS online manuscript system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/melus by 15 April 2018. Also, you will need to indicate in the “custom questions” section of the online submission form that you are responding to the CFP for the special issue on New Directions in Irish American Literature and Culture. For questions about the issue, please contact James Byrne (byrne_james@wheatoncollege.edu).

CFP: Emerson Society Awards announcement

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Deadline for submissions: January 12, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
Contact email: prentiss.clark@usd.edu

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.

*Graduate Student Paper Award*

Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2018) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2018). Submit a 300-word abstract to David Greenham (david.greenham@uwe.ac.uk) by January 12, 2018. Abstracts should address the 2018 CFPs posted at emersonsociety.org.

*Research Grant*

Provides up to $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference given to junior scholars and graduate students. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation, and a 1-2-page project proposal, including a description of expenses, by April 1, 2018.

*Pedagogy or Community Project Award*

Provides up to $500 to support projects designed to bring Emerson to a non-academic audience. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation, and a 1-2-page project proposal, including a description of expenses, by April 1, 2018.

*Subvention Award*

Provides up to $500 to support costs attending the publication of a scholarly book or article on Emerson and his circle. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation, and a 1-2-page proposal, including an abstract of the forthcoming work and a description of publication expenses, by April 1, 2018.

Send Research, Pedagogy/Community, and Subvention proposals to:

Prentiss Clark (Prentiss.Clark@usd.edu) and

Kristina West (k.j.west@reading.ac.uk)

Award recipients must become members of the Society; membership applications are available at http://www.emersonsociety.org.

 

CFP: Philip Roth’s Non-Fiction

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Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Philip Roth Studies
Contact email: philiprothstudies@gmail.com

September 2017 saw the publication of the final volume in the Library of America series of the complete works of Philip Roth: Why Write?: Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013. The volume includes Roth’s literary criticism, critical introductions, interviews, movie reviews, political writing, cultural commentary and open letters.

For an issue of Philip Roth Studies offering a special focus on “The Non-Fiction of Philip Roth,” we invite scholars to submit essays on any aspect of Roth’s non-fiction. Subjects might include, but need not be restricted to, the following: the relationship between Roth’s non-fiction and fiction; Roth’s literary relations with other authors; Roth’s role as a public intellectual; Roth as literary critic; Roth as polemicist; Roth as interviewee and interviewer; Roth as custodian/curator of his own oeuvre.

For inquiries and submissions, please contact Executive Co-Editors David Brauner and Debra Shostak at philiprothstudies@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is September 1st, 2018.