Guest Editor: Angela Jill Cooley, Minnesota State University

Publication Schedule: Volume 56, no. 1 (Fall 2018)

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2017

The Southern Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue on foodways in the South. We are interested in interdisciplinary scholarly articles, unpublished archival materials, and photo essays that examine how food and drink, and the culture, literature, and practices surrounding them, express the ethos of the South. We are looking for articles that encompass a broad chronology from the 16^th to 21^st centuries. Some topics that would fit this issue include foodways in the Global South, food justice initiatives, food and intersectional feminism, LGBTQ issues surrounding food or drink, Southern chefs or cookbooks, Southern restaurants or cafes, food festivals, regional drinkways, ethnographies, literary theory, critical race theory, food and the environment, public health, and dietetics. This is not an exclusive list. We would be interested in seeing other topics related to the theme as well.

Articles should not exceed 20-25 double-spaced typescript pages in length, including all documentation. We do not consider previously published work or work being considered elsewhere. Manuscripts should be submitted by December 1, 2017, through our online submission system by clicking on the “submit article” link on our website (www.usm.edu/soq). Contact our managing editor with any questions about submitting through this system. For any other questions, please contact the issue’s guest editor, Dr. Angela Jill Cooley at angela.cooley@mnsu.edu.

The Southern Quarterly is an internationally known scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts and culture. For SoQ, “the arts” is defined broadly, and includes painting, sculpture, music, dance, theatre, poetry, photography, and popular culture. We also publish studies of Southern culture from such disciplines as literature, folklore, anthropology, and history. “The South” is defined as the region south of the Mason-Dixon line, including the Caribbean and Latin America. Regular features include reviews of books and films, periodic reviews of exhibitions and performances, as well as interviews with writers and artists.

Date: 10 November 2017

University of Ulster

To celebrate the upcoming publication of The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1 in autumn 2017, the Faculty of Arts at Ulster University would like to extend an invitation to scholars, fans and members of the public to attend a conference on the work of Sylvia Plath. The publication of Plath’s Letters will no doubt produce new views on her life and work and with that in mind; this conference seeks to foster fresh commentaries on Plath by encouraging the fusion of her work with a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.

In anticipation of the clarity that The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1 will surely produce, this conference seeks papers that will explore new and diverse discussions about Plath’s writing, the contexts against which her work was written, how we read her in the past and how we read her today. Papers are encouraged but not limited to the following subjects:

– (Re)reading and recuperating Plath
– Published/unpublished Plath
– Plath and her archives
– Plath and her correspondences
– Plath and friendship
– Plath and biography
– Ecocriticism
– Representations of Plath in popular culture
– Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
– Plath, her peers and literary influences
– Feminism and Plath
– Plath and Whiteness
– Queering Plath
– Plath and place
– Plath and voice

Papers from all disciplines are welcome – with full panels and artistic contributions especially encouraged. Please send proposals of no more than 350 words to sylviaplath@ulster.ac.uk by Monday 31 July 2017.

This conference is sponsored by the School of English and History at Ulster University. The event is free and is open to the public, but registration is necessary. Registration and accommodation information (including conference discounts) will be available shortly.

For more information and media enquiries, please follow on Twitter and Facebook or contact the conference organiser, Dr. Maeve O’Brien .

Dates: September 14–16, 2017

University of Łódź, Dept. of American Literature

Contacts: Mark Tardi (turlepin@yahoo.com); Dr. Krzysztof Majer (krzymajer@gmail.com)

In his 1976 novel Ratner’s Star, Don DeLillo wrote “beauty was mere scenery unless it was severe,” and in conceptions of the sublime from Longinus through Kant, Hegel, and more recently, Mario Costa and others, severity –– in its myriad meanings –– has been a vital aspect of  what constitutes the sublime. Whether we are encountering the severe in the drama of nature’s fury or a severing multiplicity while navigating applications and communications in the digital world, we are confronted with the sublime dynamically (à la Kant) and/or disembodied and atomized (à la Costa). Thus, in considering Romantic notions of the sublime with more contemporary digitally-informed aesthetics, the sublime could be thought of as hovering like a proverbial “ghost in the ravine,” a selfie taken in front of Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.

We invite papers on literature and media dealing with subjects including, but certainly not limited to, the following themes:

*Technological and/or spiritual negotiations of the sublime in novels, poetry or plays

*Comparative sublimes

*Science fiction, futurity and the sublime

*[En]Gendering the sublime

*[Mis]Uses of technology in literature

*New literary genres

*Death/violence and/of the sublime

*Ecology, pastoral and the sublime

*Performativity/theatricality and/of the sublime

This is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on literature but not limited to it.  We welcome theoretical, historical, philosophical, and creative contributions on these and related themes from [art] historians, literary theorists, artists, writers, philosophers, sociologists, psychoanalysts, and others. Presentations are expected to take 20 minutes. Another 10 minutes is planned for discussion.

The keynote speaker for the conference will be Dr. David E. Nye, Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark and author of numerous books, including the renown American Technological Sublime, Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture, Technology Matters: Questions to Live With.

Please submit abstracts and supporting information to Mark Tardi (turlepin@yahoo.com) and Dr. Krzysztof Majer (krzymajer@gmail.com) no later than April 30, 2017. A complete proposal should include the following: your complete contact information, the title of your paper, an abstract of no more than 300 words, a brief biographical statement, and a note on any audio/visual requirements.

More information and updates on the conference can be found here:

https://machinesravines.wordpress.com/

15 July 2017, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)

“I am choking, I am drowning. This pencil and these scraps of paper aren’t enough. I need colours, sounds – oils and orchestras. I need something more than words.” -Martin Amis, The Zone of Information (2014).
“Postmemory is a powerful form of Memory precisely because its connection to its object source is not mediated through recollection but through an imaginative investment and creation. Postmemory characterizes the experiences of those who grow up dominated by narratives that preceded their birth, whose own belated stories are evacuated by stories of the previous generation, shaped by traumatic events that can be neither fully understood nor re-created.”
–Marianne Hirsch, Past Lives: Postmemories in Exile (1996)

This symposium proposes a critical insight into contemporary representations of the Holocaust in Fiction, Poetry, Film, Historical and artistic interpretations. An intention to showcase research which  considers how interpretations of Holocaust memory and readings of narrative trauma challenge and redefine central conceptions of Holocaust studies, as well as opening a space for debate on varying forms of testimony in the Humanities. New critical perspectives such as speculative readings of the Holocaust as influence or after-image, as well as works considered examples of Holocaust impiety are of particular interest. Both researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit papers.

Examples include:

• How the fiction of W.G. Sebald, Cynthia Ozick,  Bernard Schlink, Martin Amis, Michael Chabon, David Grossman, Herta Müller, Jonathan Safran-Foer, Johnathan Little, Patrick Modiano and Dăsa Drndić addresses re-interpretations of Holocaust memory
• How Poets addressed the Holocaust after the assertion of Theodor Adorno that after Auschwitz the practice of writing poetry would be “barbaric”
• Film and Documentary approaches to addressing Holocaust subjects
• How the graphic work of Art Spiegelman and Anselm Kiefer addresses the “unimaginable” challenge of representations of the individual’s interpretation of genocide
• How Holocaust studies have influenced the rhetoric of Human Rights discourse and registration in the 21st century
• Current critical debates on Postmemory and Trauma: The Aftereffects of Holocaust Imagery on Creative Representation
• How representations of Trauma and Memory in Theatre productions such as those staged by Projekttheater Vienna and other practitioners engage with the psychological past and the physical present

This symposium will feature panels consisting of University of East Anglia staff and postgraduate research students, as well as scholars and practitioners from other institutions and industries.

Submission Process

Please send proposals for papers (20 minutes in duration) to Westley Barnes (w.barnes@uea.ac.uk). Proposals should be no more than 300 words in length and address the themes above. Please include your contact details and a short biography (250 words).

The deadline for submission of proposals is 30 April 2017.

Editor: Philip C. Kolin, The University of Southern Mississippi

Publication Schedule: Volume 55, nos. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2018)

Submission Deadline: 15 November 2017

The Southern Quarterly invites submission of original essays, 20 to 30 pages, for a special double issue on Replaying Gone with the Wind: Voices of the New Souths to be edited by Philip C. Kolin. We would like to receive manuscripts that explore this iconic film in light of adaptations/parodies; post-South and postmodern readings; responses to the film from reviewers and famous writers in non-English speaking countries; Southern foodways; the film and World War II; the ways the film has been translated into or reinterpreted in other media including music, art, dance, photography; recasting gender/racial roles; etc. The journal welcomes contributions from a variety of disciplines, unpublished interviews, and related archival materials.

SoQ does not consider multiple submissions or work that has been approved elsewhere. All submissions should follow the SoQ guidelines, which are available on our website (www.usm.edu/soq).

Manuscripts should be submitted no later than 15 November 2017 through our online submission system by clicking on the “submit article” link on our website. Contact our managing editor with any questions about submitting through this system. For any questions about this special issue, please contact the editor Philip C. Kolin at Philip.Kolin@usm.edu.

The Southern Quarterly is an internationally known scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts and culture. For SoQ, “the arts” is defined broadly, and includes painting, sculpture, music, dance, theatre, poetry, photography, and popular culture. We also publish studies of Southern culture from such disciplines as literature, folklore, anthropology, and history. “The South” is defined as the region south of the Mason-Dixon line, including the Caribbean and Latin America. Regular features include reviews of books and films, periodic reviews of exhibitions and performances, as well as interviews with writers and artists.