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Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize Competition Winner 2015

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize Competition Winner 2015 

The Katherine Mansfield Society is delighted to announce that this year’s prize for the best essay on the theme of ‘Katherine Mansfield and Psychology’ has been awarded to Polly Dickson. The judges, Professor Laura Marcus (Goldsmith’s Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford), Dr Isobel Maddison (Director of Studies in English, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge) and Professor Clare Hanson (Professor of Twentieth Century Literature, University of Southampton) were unanimous in choosing this essay from a wide field of excellent entries.
Chair of the Judging Panel Professor Clare Hanson comments: ‘Polly Dickson’s winning essay “Interior Matters: Hunger and Secrecy in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’” is a subtle, finely nuanced essay which allows us to see this much-discussed story in a new light. It adopts a mode of enquiry in which psychoanalysis is not applied to Mansfield’s texts, rather the essay explores the implication of psychoanalysis within them. This yields a reading which is supremely alert to textual detail and which opens up new perspectives on this familiar story. The essay is innovative, beautifully written throughout and announces the arrival of a fresh and original critical voice’.
Polly Dickson is a Ph.D. student with the departments of German and French at the University of Cambridge (UK). Her dissertation focuses on mimesis and mimicry in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac. She is currently a visiting research scholar at New York University. She will receive a prize of NZ$ 500 (£211), and her essay will appear in the annual book series Katherine MansfieldStudies (Volume 8), on Katherine Mansfield and Psychology, to be published in October 2016 by Edinburgh University Press (sent free to all members of the Society).
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CFP International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact

The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
                      Special Issue Call for Essays
International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact
When former head of the MI5 Stella Rimington compared literary critics to the KGB, she might have extended the analogy to include the cultures, histories, and theories of espionage. Her elision highlights the growing interest in the genre and its international reach, as it calls into question divisions between nation states and ideologies and suggests new ways of thinking about relations between gender, race, citizenship, nationhood, refugee, agency, and subjectivity.
Strikingly, John le Carré has called international intrigue and its opportunities for interpretation — neverending
From legendary stories of Lawrence in Arabia and Mata Hari in the 1920s, to Borges’ parody of the genre, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” to Rebecca West’s 1949 study of fascist treachery, and onwards to retrospective films of WWII and Cold War espionage, the proliferation of spy fictions, reportage, biographies, and histories provides a mobile set of metaphors for artists working through conditions of belonging, exile, and outsider.  While Stevie Smith’s 1938 novel Over the Frontier poses life itself as “living in enemy territory,” Vladimir Nabokov’s 1930 novel Sogliadata (trans. ‘the spy’) explores the émigré as suspect.
Fictions of state surveillance and secret intelligence also bleed into real politics, as with George Orwell, who helped underground translators and publishers devise ever more ingenious ways of smuggling his political dystopia 1984 into Poland, and the 2007 release of MI5 files that exposed the widespread practice of spying on writers.
This special issue of The Space Between brings together new work and approaches to literary, film, TV, and interdisciplinary media studies of espionage and international intrigue from 1914-1945, including retrospective representations of the period.  Suggested topics include:
   — The genre’s intervention in literary history and theory, including modernism,
        intermodernism, the middlebrow, popular culture, and pulp fiction.
   — The genre’s challenges to boundaries between history, fiction, memoir, reportage.
   — The roles of propaganda, polemics, and/or parody in narratives of international espionage.
   — Tropes of spying, surveillance, voyeurism and pastiche as they inflect literary technique.
   — Philosophical and theoretical implications of espionage
 
Please submit inquiries and Essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation style, to the editors by December 31, 2016. 
Clare Hanson: c.hanson@soton.ac.uk
Phyllis Lassner: phyllisl@northwestern.edu
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Call for interest- new Early Career Researchers in British Art network

Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to join our new Early Career Researchers network for historians of British art. The aim of this network is to provide a forum for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) working in the field of British art history to meet and connect, share work and provide supportive criticism. The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art will host regular afternoon gatherings where members can present short papers, offer one another feedback, discuss their experiences and share information about career-related topics.
Meetings in the coming semester will held on 12th November, 26th November, and 10th December 2015 between 4.30-6pm at the Paul Mellon Centre, 15-16 Bedford Square, WC1B 3JA.Meeting 1 will be a chance for us to get to know one another, to talk a bit about our work, and for some of us to present research and gain feedback.
At Meeting 2 Oriana Baddeley, Dean of Research at University of the Arts London, will be on hand to discuss REF and how best to approach it. We will also have time to share research.Meeting 3 will be our last before Christmas, and Samuel Bibby, Associate Editor of Art History, will join us to discuss preparing manuscripts for submission to journals. Again, we will also have time to discuss our own research. We anticipate that this session will end with a sociable trip to the pub.
Members are invited to share their research journeys and profile information via our blog. Please contact us via ecrbritart@gmail.com.
 We define Early Career Researchers as post-doctoral scholars who are within 5 years of receiving their doctorate, or preparing for their viva. This definition can be flexible, so please do get in touch if you think the ECR network might be useful for your situation.
With very best wishes,
Dr Hannah Leaper, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art
Dr Sophie Hatchwell, University of Bristol
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CFP for a Journal Special Issue

The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945

                      Special Issue Call for Essays

International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact

 

When former head of the MI5 Stella Rimington compared literary critics to the KGB, she might have extended the analogy to include the cultures, histories, and theories of espionage. Her elision highlights the growing interest in the genre and its international reach, as it calls into question divisions between nation states and ideologies and suggests new ways of thinking about relations between gender, race, citizenship, nationhood, refugee, agency, and subjectivity.

Strikingly, John le Carré has called international intrigue and its opportunities for interpretation — neverending

 

From legendary stories of Lawrence in Arabia and Mata Hari in the 1920s, to Borges’ parody of the genre, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” to Rebecca West’s 1949 study of fascist treachery, and onwards to retrospective films of WWII and Cold War espionage, the proliferation of spy fictions, reportage, biographies, and histories provides a mobile set of metaphors for artists working through conditions of belonging, exile, and outsider.  While Stevie Smith’s 1938 novel Over the Frontier poses life itself as “living in enemy territory,” Vladimir Nabokov’s 1930 novel Sogliadata (trans. ‘the spy’) explores the émigré as suspect.

 

Fictions of state surveillance and secret intelligence also bleed into real politics, as with George Orwell, who helped underground translators and publishers devise ever more ingenious ways of smuggling his political dystopia 1984 into Poland, and the 2007 release of MI5 files that exposed the widespread practice of spying on writers.

 

This special issue of The Space Between brings together new work and approaches to literary, film, TV, and interdisciplinary media studies of espionage and international intrigue from 1914-1945, including retrospective representations of the period.  Suggested topics include:

 

— The genre’s intervention in literary history and theory, including modernism,

intermodernism, the middlebrow, popular culture, and pulp fiction.

— The genre’s challenges to boundaries between history, fiction, memoir, reportage.

— The roles of propaganda, polemics, and/or parody in narratives of international espionage.

— Tropes of spying, surveillance, voyeurism and pastiche as they inflect literary technique.

— Philosophical and theoretical implications of espionage

Please submit inquiries and Essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation style, to the editors by December 31, 2016. 

 

Clare Hanson: c.hanson@soton.ac.uk

Phyllis Lassner: phyllisl@northwestern.edu

Will May: w.may@soton.ac.uk

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Associate or Full Professor of 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Florida State University — Job Listing

Dear Modernist colleagues,

Please spread the word about this position: https://apply.interfolio.com/31709

The Department of English at Florida State University invites applications for a senior appointment in 20th and 21st century American literature for the Frances Cushing Ervin Professorship in American literature. Candidates should be tenured or tenure-eligible with strong records of published scholarship and excellent teaching. Applicants with expertise in fiction, post-1945 literature, modernism, transnational, or multi-ethnic U.S. literatures are especially encouraged to apply. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. 2/2 teaching assignment with one graduate course per year. Starting date August 2016.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, a c.v., and contact information for at least three references via Interfolio/ByCommittee (https://apply.interfolio.com). Materials should be addressed to Professor Andrew Epstein, Chair, Ervin Professor Search Committee. A review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled; preference will be given to applicants whose materials are received by Nov. 15.

FSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer; women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply. A Public Records Agency.

Andrew Epstein
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
English Department
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL  32306-1580
850-645-9874; 850-644-4230 (main office)

http://english.fsu.edu/
http://english.fsu.edu/faculty/aepstein.htm

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Celebrating arts and humanities this October

According to United States President Barack Obama, “we rely on the arts and humanities to broaden our views and remind us of the truths that connect us”. This month, join Cambridge Scholars Publishing in celebrating National Arts and Humanities Month, which has run throughout October every year since 1993. Events and celebrations are planned to take place across America to highlight the occasion.

As our focus at Cambridge Scholars is on publishing original academic work in the arts, humanities and social sciences, we are very pleased to lend our support to National Arts and Humanities Month and invite our global community of authors and readers to take part as well. We are also offering a 50% discount on three of our best-selling related titles – click here to read more.

We are also delighted to be featuring another of our well-established and successful Series this month. Pierides, edited by leading Latinist Professor Philip Hardie and Emeritus Professor Stratis Kyriakidis, contains a variety of studies on a wide range of ancient Greek and Roman literature and, in the words of Professor David Konstan of New York University, “fills a real need”. To find out more about Pierides and to get a 50% discount on the titles in the series, please click here.

Our October discount campaigns, with a time-limited discount of up to 60%, include:

Book of the Month – this month’s must-read is Citizenship in Transition: New Perspectives on Transnational Migration from the Middle East to Europe. This book’s topic is particularly relevant given the current refugee crisis in Europe and “deserves a wide readership” according to one reviewer. We are offering a 60% discount on this title – please click here to find out more.

The Editorial Advisory Board’s ‘Recommended Reads’ – this month, Professor Jonathan Winterton has chosen his recommended read: Work and the Challenges of Belonging: Migrants in Globalizing Economies edited by Mojca Pajnik and Floya Anthias. We are offering a 50% discount on this book to all our readers. Please click here to view Professor Winterton’s choice.

Forthcoming Titles, New Releases and Best Sellers – be the first to know about our new and noteworthy, or best-selling titles—all reduced by up to 50%. Our Editors have hand-picked 9 titles that are generating a buzz. Please click on our homepage to view the selection.

Happy reading!

Christine

Christine von Gall
Deputy Editor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
christine.von-gall@cambridgescholars.com

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The Future of the English PhD

The Future of the English PhD:
A One-Day, AHRC-Funded Workshop for PhD Students in English
on November 12 2015 at De Montfort University, Leicester

As part of Academic Book Week 2015, De Montfort University is holding a one-day workshop for second and third-year PhD students in English (PT and 4th year FT students also welcome), to discuss the future of the literary PhD. The Academic Book of the Future is an AHRC-funded two-year project in collaboration with the British Library.

Consideration of the academic book of the future will be incomplete unless the training of PhD students in English is also scrutinised. We therefore invite applications from PhD students based at universities in the Midlands, and who are approaching the second half of their PhD study. 

The day will consist of talks from stakeholders in academia (academics, publishers, funding councils), which will stimulate student discussion in small groups. Participants are invited to come along prepared to discuss ideas and proposals for PhD training in English, which the event co-ordinator will then collate and embed into a report sent back to The Academic Book of the Future, and ultimately to AHRC.

As the next generation of literary academics, this is your chance to envisage the future of the English PhD: by reflecting on the role of the university in society, the nature of literary criticism, the challenge of translating a PhD into an academic book, and the process of defining academia for REF purposes.

Please apply and submit an Expression of Interest using this form.

Deadline for applications is October 16th.

Participant travel expenses will be reimbursed up to £20.
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Mediated Cities Book series – open call for contributions

Intellect books will launch its Mediated Cities book series April 01-03, 2016 with three books.

Digital Futures and the City of Today:  New Technologies and Physical Spaces. ISBN: 978-1-78320-560-8
Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices & Social Criticism Through the Lens. ISBN: 978-1-78320-554-7
Imaging the City: Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations. ISBN: 978-1-78320-557-8

This is a call for chapter contributions for the following book in the series from the perspective of all disciplines that engage with issues of the city, its design, mediation, representation and experience.

Contributions are welcome from urban design, planning, cultural studies, digital art, emerging technologies, social media, film, photography  etc.

The next book in the series will be drawn from the conference: Digital-Cultural Ecology and the Medium-Sized City.

For details: http://architecturemps.com/bristol-uk/

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15th NOVEMBER, 2015

This conference is organised by the journal Architecture_MPS, Intellect Books, the University of the West of England and the Centre for Moving Image Research. The publication series is a joint AMPS / Intellect Books initiative. See:
http://architecturemps.com/publications-2/

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Cultures de la Communication/Cultures of Communication

The Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, publishes a journal of communication (in French and English): Cultures de la Communication/Cultures of Communication.
The editorial team invites you to join them. Please send your intent to join the editorial team at: bhmors.popescu@yahoo.com
Please send your papers to Constantin Popescu, associate professor, PhD at: bhmors.popescu@yahoo.com.

Cultures de la Communication/ Cultures of communication is therefore interested in publishing studies, chapters from doctoral theses, reviews, etc. coming from different cultures of the world having elaborated different cultures of communication; according to the journal, teaching is continually mutual.

Manuscripts will have 10 to 15 pages (no pagenumbers), in TNR 12, 0 pt spacing, single line
spacing.
Left aligned, title (lower case, TNR 16, bold) will not exceed two lines. Paper size: 11.69″ x 8.27″ (29,7 cm x 21 cm) (A4). Margins have 0.79″ (2 cm). Author’s first name will be in lowercase, his / her last name – in uppercase. His / her full name (TNR 12) will be right aligned. Under author’s name: institutional affiliation and e-mail (TNR 12). Author’s name is separated from title by two blank lines (TNR 12).
Articles can have three authors, their names written one under another. Term Abstract is TNR 12, lowercase, bold; text of abstract (in English): about 200 words, TNR 11, lowercase, italics, 0 pt spacing, single line spacing. Between text of abstract and term Keywords, a blank line (TNR 12). Term Keywords is TNR 12, lowercase, bold; the words, in English (4-6) – TNR 11, lowercase, italics, separated by commas. Between keywords and first line of text, two blank lines (TNR 12)
Examples of references:
-books
BRUNE, François, 1981, Le bonheur conforme, Paris, Gallimard
-articles
BARTHES, Roland, 1964, “Rhétorique de l’image”, Communications, 4, p.40-51
-chapters in books, papers in anthologies, articles in edited volumes…
GREIMAS, A.J., 1973, “Les actants, les acteurs et les figures”, in CHABROL, Claude (ed.), Sémiotique narrative et textuelle, Paris, Larousse, p.161-176
Please send your papers to Constantin Popescu, associate professor, PhD at: bhmors.popescu@yahoo.com.
The deadline is December, 1, 2015.

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The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture

The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, issued both in print and online versions, is pleased to announce its new website. You’re warmly invited to visit the current and archived issues and to submit articles and book reviews online. Several members of the editorial team work on modernism: Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge), Eli Park Sorensen (Seoul National), Delphine Grass (Lancaster), Earl Jackson (NCTU), etc. Amongst advisory board member are Rachel Bowlby (Princeton/UCL), Timothy Mathews (UCL), Eric Robertson (RHUL), Cristanne Miller (SUNY Buffalo), and Andrew Taylor (Edinburgh). For details, follow the link: http://www.wreview.org