Bridging the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Eds. Amy J. Ransom (Central Michigan University) & Dominick Grace (Brescia University) This call is to solicit chapter proposals for an edited volume of scholarly essays on Canadian science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. A book proposal, including accepted abstracts, […]
Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet April 28-29, 2017 As a writer of poems, novels, and non-fiction, Robert Kroetsch had a tremendous impact on Canadian literature and culture. His body of work has consistently been cited as the standard for innovation in Canadian literature. Likewise, it is nearly impossible […]
Modernist Studies Association: MSA 18 (November 17-20, Pasadena, CA): Vital Evidence: Speculative Realism and the Modernist Clue In his seminal mystery, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Edgar Allan Poe writes “[t]he ingenious are always fanciful and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic,” establishing from the beginning […]
Homeland Insecurities October 21-23, 2016 / Fredericton, New Brunswick http://www.unb.ca/conferences/homelandinsecurities/index.html Neoliberalism has ushered in new forms of global insecurity, which instill in American citizens the desire for enforced security. Through tightened border controls, antiterrorism laws, the expansion of the prison system, the war on drugs, and other measures, […]
Kenneth Kidd & Derritt Mason, Eds. Call for chapter proposals Queer at Camp The American Camp Association reports some 12,000 summer camps in the United States alone, and there are nearly a thousand more in Canada. While especially popular in North America, summer camp is a global affair. […]
