Conferences & Journals
LIS would like to encourage members to have their hard work recognized through submission to conferences and publications. In order to help our members achieve this goal, LIS is compiling a selection of conferences and publications accepting student work as well as a suitable means of contact where you can find further information for each entry. LIS supports the philosophy that writing is a process; therefore, members wishing to submit their work for publication or to be featured in conferences are encouraged to take advantage of the LIS Writing Circle. It's a great way to gain a new perspective on your paper and develop your writing by working with your fellow LIS members!
Information below is from the University of Pennsylvania's website: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/. This list is by no means comprehensive and LIS members are encouraged to check the above link often for current information and new entries.
Information below is from the University of Pennsylvania's website: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/. This list is by no means comprehensive and LIS members are encouraged to check the above link often for current information and new entries.
Death and Dying in Literature April & November 2012
Previously unpublished critical essays are being sought for a new volume tentatively entitled The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature. The Final Crossing aims to collect scholarly essays on death and dying in literature for those who might be interested in this fundamental but ignored topic in literary studies. The essays will be grouped in 3-5 thematic categories, such as “The Way We
Die,” “Death and Spirituality,” “Death and Ethical Issues,” “Those Left Behind,” and “Death and Dying in Postmodernism.”
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
*Death as an expression of personal experience
*Death as a reflection of cultural meanings or symbols
*Death as a literary device
*Death and Postmodernism
Submissions are welcome from both literary scholars and nonliterary academics who have some background in literature and the humanities. To express interest and request more detailed information, please e-mail John J. Han at hanjn_at_mobap.edu.
Abstracts of proposed essays (500 words) and a brief professional vita should be submitted as Word attachments by April 1, 2012.
Deadline for completed essays of 15-20 pages is November 1, 2012.
More information can be found here.
Die,” “Death and Spirituality,” “Death and Ethical Issues,” “Those Left Behind,” and “Death and Dying in Postmodernism.”
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
*Death as an expression of personal experience
*Death as a reflection of cultural meanings or symbols
*Death as a literary device
*Death and Postmodernism
Submissions are welcome from both literary scholars and nonliterary academics who have some background in literature and the humanities. To express interest and request more detailed information, please e-mail John J. Han at hanjn_at_mobap.edu.
Abstracts of proposed essays (500 words) and a brief professional vita should be submitted as Word attachments by April 1, 2012.
Deadline for completed essays of 15-20 pages is November 1, 2012.
More information can be found here.
Virginia Woolf and Jews/Jewishness June & August 2012
The 2013 volume of Woolf Studies Annual will be devoted to the topic of Jews and/or Jewishness in Woolf’s writing. The content should be less concerned with whether or not Woolf herself was or was not antisemitic (except insofar as this can be articulated in readings of her texts) than in how the figure of the Jew operates within her work. The special issue is not limited to work on Virginia Woolf herself, but also will welcome contributions on Leonard Woolf, and on the Bloomsbury milieu.
In addition to full-length articles, we also envisage a forum of short commentary, and an annotated bibliography.
The Forum: up to 750 words on a relevant short passage from Woolf’s writing: for example, from the “Present Day” chapter of The Years; “The Duchess and the Jeweller”; “Street Haunting”; Three Guineas; Between the Acts, and elsewhere—there is no limitation on what you might select. They also welcome brief statements in response to the following questions found here. Forum commentaries and statments are due June 30, 2012.
Annotated Bibliography:Recommendations for previously published scholarship and sources on the topic are also welcome and will be included as an annotated bibliography in the special issue.
Full-length Articles (8,000-10,000 words): Will be accepted on the above topic. The deadline for submission is August 30, 2012. N.B. WSA submission guidelines apply and can be found at http://www.pace.edu/press/journals/woolf-studies-annual .
For more information please check the website link here and contact: [email protected]
In addition to full-length articles, we also envisage a forum of short commentary, and an annotated bibliography.
The Forum: up to 750 words on a relevant short passage from Woolf’s writing: for example, from the “Present Day” chapter of The Years; “The Duchess and the Jeweller”; “Street Haunting”; Three Guineas; Between the Acts, and elsewhere—there is no limitation on what you might select. They also welcome brief statements in response to the following questions found here. Forum commentaries and statments are due June 30, 2012.
Annotated Bibliography:Recommendations for previously published scholarship and sources on the topic are also welcome and will be included as an annotated bibliography in the special issue.
Full-length Articles (8,000-10,000 words): Will be accepted on the above topic. The deadline for submission is August 30, 2012. N.B. WSA submission guidelines apply and can be found at http://www.pace.edu/press/journals/woolf-studies-annual .
For more information please check the website link here and contact: [email protected]
Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies September 1, 2012
on Contemporary Episodic Televisual Narrative
James M. Decker (Professor of English, Illinois Central College) and Kenneth Womack (Professor of English & Integrative Arts, Penn State Altoona) are inviting the submission of essays that employ interdisciplinary approaches towards the study of the rise and
growing hegemony of contemporary episodic televisual narrative in such texts as Dexter, Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Weeds, Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey The Tudors, and Sherlock (BBC), among a wide range of others. They are especially interested in the applications of multidisciplinary frameworks in the analysis of contemporary televisual texts.
Accepted essays will be published in a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State University Press).
Please send essays of no longer than 7,500 words to James M. Decker, Illinois Central College ([email protected]) and Kenneth Womack, Penn State Altoona ([email protected]).
More information can be found here.
growing hegemony of contemporary episodic televisual narrative in such texts as Dexter, Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Weeds, Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey The Tudors, and Sherlock (BBC), among a wide range of others. They are especially interested in the applications of multidisciplinary frameworks in the analysis of contemporary televisual texts.
Accepted essays will be published in a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State University Press).
Please send essays of no longer than 7,500 words to James M. Decker, Illinois Central College ([email protected]) and Kenneth Womack, Penn State Altoona ([email protected]).
More information can be found here.