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CfP: Telepoetics, edited collection (deadline 25 Sep 2020)
Edited by Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard and Annabel Williams Call for Papers From the ‘waves of sound, transmitted o’er the line’ in Jones Very’s ‘The Telephone’ (1877) to the ‘thin voice speak[ing] / from a drowning world’ in Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Six Rings’ (2018), telephones have been calling in and across literary …
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CfP: The Body Politic in Pain: A Modernism/Modernity Print+ Cluster (deadline 10 September 2020)
Editor: Jeremy Colangelo (jcolang2@uwo.ca) Abstracts due: September 10, 2020 Full papers due: February 1, 2021 This article cluster seeks thoughtful, theoretically engaged essays on the subject of pain and pain expression in modernism and modernist literature for a proposed cluster of peer reviewed articles on Modernism/Modernity’s Print Plus platform. Bodily experience …
CfP: A New Poetics of Space: Literary Walks in times of Pandemics and Climate Change, 7 December 2020 (deadline 1 October)
Online conference: 7 December 2020 Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden Keynote Speakers: Professor Anne D. Wallace (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Professor Jon Hegglund (Washington State University) Organisers: Dr Lucy Jeffery & Professor Vicky Angelaki In the Exeter Book (c. 975), the speaker in an Anglo-Saxon lament entitled ‘The …
CfP: Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bradford, 15-16 Dec 2020 (deadline 28 June)
CFP: Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/sound-instruments-and-sonic-cultures-interdisciplinary-conference This interdisciplinary conference will take place on 15–16 December 2020 at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. Keynote speakers: Mara Mills (NYU Steinhardt) Trevor Pinch (Cornell University) COVID-19 NOTICE: In view of the unpredictability of the current pandemic situation, while we …
BAMS statement on Black Lives Matter
We at BAMS recognise that more needs to be done to counter the whiteness of academia and of modernism studies, and that we need to do more. In February 2020, The Higher Education Statistics Agency reported that fewer than 1% of professors employed at UK universities are black, whilst 85% are …
BAMS Essay Prize winners 2020
The BAMS Essay Prize 2020 received a huge response – far bigger than in recent years. The judging panel read some truly outstanding, innovative and challenging essays from all over the world, and decisions to arrive at a short-list and a winner were extraordinarily difficult. The sheer variety of the work …
CfP: Mary Butts: Feminist Reconstructions, book (deadline 15 June)
Mary Butts: Feminist Reconstructions In the past couple of decades, much has been done to recover British modernist author Mary Butts (1890-1937). Butts’s Collected Essays and unpublished novel Unborn Gods, forthcoming from McPherson & Co, attest to the ongoing nature of this project. There is still much more to do, and much to explore …
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CfP: Non-Canonical British Literature 1890-1945, book (deadline 15 April)
Non-canonical British literature: 1890-1945 Abstracts by 15 April – DEADLINE EXTENDED Papers due 30 August 2020 We are working on an edited book on non-canonical English literature between 1890 and 1945 to be published by a UK publisher. The provisional title of the book is Non-canonical British Literature: 1890-1945, and topics …
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CfP: From Proletariat to Precariat: Working-class writing 1930s to date, Birmingham, 26 June 2020 (deadline 30 April)
This conference is now postponed. The organisers hope to reschedule in 2021. From Proletariat to Precariat: Representations of Class and Identity in Working-class writing from the 1930s to the present Department of English, University of Birmingham 26th June 2020 We invite submissions to an interdisciplinary conference on working -class fiction, …
