Conferences & Funding

“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...