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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q....

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Intersectional Crime Fiction: Investigating the Genre (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel examines the continuum of intersectional crime fiction writing in a U.S. context, illuminating the methods, exemplary texts, and narrative strategies that embrace inclusive tenets and movements, from Black Lives Matter to LGBTQ+ rights to...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    'Carried Down to Wondrous Depths': Meaning and Metaphor in Moby Dick (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Melville's Moby Dick is a book that defiantly (and perhaps frustratingly) defies a solitary meaning. Indeed, rather than providing readers with a single message in a simple narrative, the text is instead "overflowing" with meaning and the endless...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Hermeneutics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: North African Women Writers (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From Nawal el Saadawi’s writings against FGM to Tunisian protests advocating for changes to inheritance law, this panel considers North Africa’s women writers in conversation with the conference theme, resilience. How have these women writers...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Encounters and Dis-encounters in Latin American Erotic Poetry and Narrative (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association Event: 53rd NeMLA Annual Convention This panel explores concepts and stereotypes lying behind the vision of love and eroticism expressed by Latin American authors. This panel...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 30.08.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    État des lieux: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel: “État des lieux”: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction NeMLA 2022 Baltimore, MD March 10-13 Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Sept. 30th Session Description: Apart from some chapters and articles...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  North African literature and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women and Spanish Kiosk Literature (1907-1939): Modernization and Mass Culture (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Among the thousands of novelas cortas published in Spain between 1907 and 1939, more than 300 were written by women. The present panel seeks to explore the ways in which women used early-20th-century Spanish kiosk literature as a...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Literary historiography,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Masculine Wars, Feminine Exterminations: Experiences, Traumas and Revolts (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In general, war implies the use of force that could be declined in automatic, arbitrary and excessive violence. War is being used as a strategy to conquer territories and subjugate people in order to safeguard interests, be it strategic or not (Pius...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.08.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Between Entrapment and Release: Navigating Trauma in Contemporary World Literature, NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022 , in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021 ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Embodiment and Agency in Postcolonial Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel holds space for depictions of embodied practices/practices of agency in bodies of women of color, queer, nonbinary, trans, and other subjectivities in postcolonial literature and literatures of the Global South. What is the relation...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 3 more
    Created on: 16.07.2021
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.03.2022
    NeMLA 2022 conference: NeMLA's 53rd Annual Convention
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 2022 NeMLA conference theme is CARE. We understand CARE as the practice of interdependency, admitting our vulnerabilities as humans, animals, and other living organisms of the Anthropocene. The NeMLA theme of CARE will embrace but not be limited...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Walking in the Empire
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (March 10-13, 2022, Baltimore) Session Title: Walking in the Empire Session Organizer: Vivian Kao, Lawrence Technological University Walkers and walking figure prominently in the literature and literary theory of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 8 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  14. 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
  15. 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