L.M. Montgomery and Gender: Deadline extended to 31 August 2015 From Anne’s initial iconic and heartrending cry in Anne of Green Gables—“You don’t want me because I’m not a boy”—to the pressure on young men to join the war effort in Rilla of Ingleside, and from the […]
The Uses of “Religion” in 19th Century Studies Armstrong Browning Library: March 16-19, 2016 Baylor University From March 16 – 19, 2016, the Armstrong Browning Library will host an international conference on “The Uses of ‘Religion’ in 19th Century Studies.” The conference will engage questions being asked ever […]
ESC—“‘Fear, Love, and Confusion’: A Special Issue on the AUTOMATED BODY” Deadline for submission of abstracts or completed papers: August 15, 2015 ESC: English Studies in Canada invites submissions for a special issue on the automated body, edited by Cecily Devereux and Marcelle Kosman, to be published Spring […]
“Words in Place,” from the University of Waterloo’s English Department, is announcing our first ever One Sentence English Contest! (We’re calling the contest OneSEC, because that’s how long it will take you to submit the shortest academic application ever.) The OneSEC prize is for the best single sentence […]
Call for Contributions to Edited Collection A Feel for the Text: Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice Ever since Massumi posited the autonomy of affect and Sedgwick called for us to pay more attention to the felt “texture” of experience, there has been a surge of interest across […]
