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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2024 NeMLA Convention: This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic, spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature and cinema from an interdisciplinary and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and natural science,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From monologues offering invectives about various characters in Shakespearean plays and poetry; suspicious narrations involving characters in Hawthorne’s short stories and novels; distrustful narrators in Marge Percy’s sci-fi stories, novels and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Narratology,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Re-engaging with the Old Myths: Contemporary Literature, Women, and Classics (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Re-engaging with the Old Myths: Contemporary Literature, Women, and Classics Novels and literary works that adapt Classical figures and text continue to be very popular, such as Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Posthumanism, Biocentrism, and Ecocriticism in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism, biocentrism, and ecocriticism have profoundly impacted the fields of literary studies and critical theory in the last two decades: more and more scholars have investigated how literature engages with the relationship between humans...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Ecocriticism,  Narratology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    The Russian Realist Novel and the World (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The panel seeks to examine Russian realist novels and their impact on other world literatures of the nineteenth and twentieth century, as well as contemporary authors, and study the possible connections between the Russian realist tradition and...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literature and sociology,  Literature and philosophy and 4 more
    Created on: 12.08.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Transgressive Fiction Today (Northeast Modern Language Association)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the 1990s, transgressive fiction authors like Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, and Irvine Welsh shocked, disgusted, and offended audiences with their depictions of terrorizing, murdering, and drug-abusing characters whose bad behavior...

    Fields of research Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 12.08.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.10.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Forgotten Genocides- Panel (NeMLA 53rd Annual Convention, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The tern Genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in a context heavily influenced by the events of the Jewish Holocaust. The parameters of Genocide, and its legal consequences were gathered in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 04.10.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Hidden Truths and Uncovered Secrets in French and Francophone Fiction (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Nobody keeps a secret better than authors writing in French! From hidden crypts, family or government secrets, buried bodies, and memories to a lack of transparency and truths resurfacing unexpectedly, French and Francophone fiction abounds in acts...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary theory,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Female Identities in Contemporary German Context (NeMLA Cfp)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although there appears to be a notable amount of literature discussing the topic of gender and media, the relation between gender, identity and their transposition in fiction remains a relevant aspect to be analyzed. “Frauenliteratur” is the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Inspired by and Invigorating Myth and Literature: Contemporary Literature and the Classics (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad , Madeline Miller’s Circe , Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships , Luigi Malerba’s Ithaca Forever , Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities, and Colm Toibin’s House of Names are just a small sample of...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Digital literature,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 2 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.09.2020
    Mythologies in the 21st Century (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes’s seminal work of social criticism, is a collection of 53 essays written between 1954 and 1956, which were originally published in the French literary magazine, Les lettres nouvelles. Whether he is deriding the...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  French literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 21.08.2020
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Écrire (sur) la ville / Writing (on) the City (NEMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ce panel bilingue français/anglais qui aura lieu à Philadelphie (USA) en mars 2021 cherche à analyser des textes récents comprenant des représentations des grandes villes françaises. De nombreux textes littéraires ont mis en scène des villes en...

    Fields of research Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 14.08.2020
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Human Rights Violations in a Lawless Space: Incarceration in 21st-century Literatures (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    While much of the reflections on human rights comes when there are human rights violations from the state, human rights documents, at least in legal dialogue, place the state to be responsible to uphold the law: distributing justice also means...

    Fields of research Literature and law,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 10.07.2020
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Egan, After Postmodernism (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will consider Jennifer Egan’s work in light of the post-90s literary and cultural movements emerging after postmodernism. While these contemporary trends have different names and aims (post-postmodernism, metamodernism, new sincerity,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 06.07.2020
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Still Greek to Us: Greek Myth and 21st-century Literature (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Stories from ancient Greek myths dot the literary landscape of the early 21st century. To some extent, this has been the result of deliberate planning, as when Canongate began publishing a series of mythological retellings by well-known authors in...

    Fields of research Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 26.06.2020