Conferences & Funding

March 15-16, 2013 Duquesne University With traditionalists hearkening for a return to founding principles while protesters of various stripes look forward to dismantling the very notion of norms themselves, questions about the foundations of societal structures occupy a central place in myriad contemporary debates. For the  (anti)Foundations Conference the Duquesne University English Graduate Organization invites considerations of societal structures, their foundations, and the ways that these structures are both reinforced and challenged by works of literature and culture. We welcome proposals of academic papers from the humanities, arts, and sciences, as well as submissions of creative work from graduate and undergraduate students. Our aim is to establish a space of intellectual inquiry in which scholars can explore and subvert the idea of foundations as they reach across disciplines, genres, genders, religions, cultures, places, time periods, races, and classes. ...

“Alt,” neither a word nor a prefix in the grammatical sense, has nevertheless been a generative concept in contemporary scholarly interrogations of non-normative ways of engaging with and inhabiting the world. Various fields and disciplines have begun to investigate the meaning, value, and application of alt, inviting critical discourses around questions of alterities, alternations, and alternatives. From considering relations with others to shifting theoretical frameworks to imagining alternate realities, alt complicates periodizations, genres, identities, subjectivities, epistemologies, and discourses. The Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association’s (NU EGSA) seventh annual conference, alt/, is interested in discussions of how a consideration of alt transforms the production, reception, and interpretation of cultural materials. In the spirit of alt, we seek work that examines or engages with such alternative conceptualizations, methodologies, and readings. Ou...

The School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University is excited to announce the upcoming graduate symposium themed "Humanities and Social Change: How Literature Impacts Class, Gender and Identity." We welcome submissions in all areas of Literary and Cultural studies. WHEN: March 1-2, 2013 WHERE: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Click here to view the Call for Papers

"American Literature in the World" Graduate Conference.    Yale University April 19, 2013 Margaret Fuller and Herman Melville. Edith Wharton and Mark Twain. Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Langston Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop. Leslie Silko and Lyn Hejinian. Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz. Jhumpa Lahiri and Dave Eggers. To study these and countless other authors is to see that the United States and the world are neither separate nor antithetical, but part of the same analytic fabric. We invite papers exploring these complex networks on a variety of platforms: from the human bodies and cultural archives migrating across the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Caribbean, to the dynamic interactions between indigenous populations and those from other continents; from the publishing circuits and institutions of print, to the new genres and media making up the digital globalism of the twenty-first century. This is ...

The Graduate English Organization (GEO) of the University of Maryland, College Park invites you to submit an abstract for the upcoming 6th annual interdisciplinary conference on April 5 and 6, 2013 . The conference theme is “(Dis)realities and the Literary and Cultural Imagination,” and we seek to explore Western and non-Western notions of (dis)reality and its relationship to realities in various cultural and literary imaginaries. Presentations on original compositions in fiction, poetry, drama, dance, arts and film are highly welcome. Scheduled plenary speakers include Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum of the Department of English and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Dr. Vessela Valiavitcharska of the Department of English, Dr. Christina Hanhardt of the Department of American Studies, and Dr. Faedra Carpenter of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. To encourage graduate student participation and inspire thou...

Now in its fifth year, the theme for Queertopia! this May 25-27 at Northwestern University is Sexing the Law: Love as/at the Limit. Abstracts of 250 words are due FEBRUARY 28th to nuqpgsa@gmail.com , along with a 100 word presentation summary & 75 word bio (to go in the conference booklet). This year's theme invites scholars, artists, and activists from all disciplines to sex the law; that is, to explore the violent / erotic tension between sexuality and "law" in the broadest sense possible. As always, Queertopia! is an interdisciplinary affair as we invite proposals from all areas of research! Additionally, Queergasm! An Interdisciplinary Performance Event will be part of the academic festival, this year hosted at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, and as always we'll close out the conference with a celebratory party. Queertopia! is sponsored by Northwestern University's Queer Pride Graduate Student Association and The Graduate School. We want you t...

The deadline to submit your work to the 23rd Annual Elizabeth Cady Stanton Student Research Conference is coming up on February 27th! Every spring, the Gender and Women's Studies program organizes the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Conference to highlight and celebrate the incisive work produced by students from all across campus during the previous year. It features a number of panels where both undergraduate and graduate students present their work, as well as a keynote address from an invited scholar. This year's keynote speaker is Cynthia Enloe, Professor in the Departments of International Development, Community, and Enviroment and Women's Studies at Clark University. Click here  for more information on the Gender and Women's Studies website, or  Click here to view their Call for Papers poster.

The University of Delaware would like to extend an invitation to Villanova University's English department for the symposium "Celebrating Mr. Dickens." The Saturday symposium will take place on February 18, 2012 at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE The Symposium is in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist Charles Dickens. The "Celebrating Mr. Dickens" program includes talks on Dickens and his world by faculty members, a tour of two exhibitions in the University of Delaware Library, and a performance of the author's most celebrated public reading, "Sikes and Nancy." Speakers include:  Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Humanities, who will speak on "He wanted a wife and a family: Charles Dickens and Women." Thomas Leitch, Professor of English and Director of the Film Studies Program, who will speak on "Dickens, Dickens, and Adaptation." Heidi Kaufman, Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies, wh...

The graduate students of the Department of English at the University of Rhode Island are proud to announce our sixth annual Graduate Student Conference, Innovations and Anxieties, scheduled for Saturday, March 31st, 2012. The conference title, Innovations and Anxieties, speaks to a broad range of disciplines and they anticipate an exciting mix of presentations. Click here to view their Call for Papers (CFP) Click here for more information and to submit abstracts All inquiries regarding the conference may be sent via email to  urigradconference@etal.uri.edu