Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Studies in the Novel: Disability and Disease in the Novel Editors: Dr. Lydia R. Cooper (University of Seattle) and Dr. Matthew L. Reznicek (University of Minnesota) In this Special Issue, we are looking for scholars engaged with the question of how the novel returns us to the…
CFP: Shakespeare and the Mind
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference – Cleveland, OH (October 24-26) deadline for submissions: September 9, 2024 full name / name of organization: Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference contact email: ovsc2024@gmail.com Announcing the 47th Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference October 24-26, 2024 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Conference theme: “Shakespeare and the Mind” The study of Shakespeare…
CFP Deadline: Sick, Sad Girls: Experiences of Chronic Illness in Women’s Poetry (MLA 2025)
Inviting submissions for a panel on women’s pain and illness experiences in poetry, particularly using sick woman theory. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio by the deadline. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 1 March 2024
CFP Deadline: Lyric Poetry and Disability (MLA 2025)
What forms of generative pressure does disability exert on the body of lyric? How does “lyric”–as term and practice–accommodate physical and intellectual difference? 250 word abstract and CV.
MLA 2024
Sessions of interest: Thursday, 4 January Session 16: Neurodivergent Romanticisms 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Loews – Commonwealth D (2nd Floor) Friday, 5 January Session 186: Health, Care, and Disability in the Early Modern Francophone World 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM Marriott – Grand I (Level 5) Session 251: Health, Care, and Aging in Seventeenth-…
CFP: Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800
deadline for submissions: November 17, 2023 December 1, 2023 full name / name of organization: University of California – Santa Barbara (Early Modern Center) contact email: emcfellow@gmail.com The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be…
(Deadline Extended) CFP: Milton and Disability at RSA 2024
“The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that promotes the work of premodern disability studies. We invite paper submissions that consider any aspect of John Milton’s writings, life, historical and literary contexts, and intellectual legacy through the lens of critical disability studies. For consideration, please submit an abbreviated CV…
CFP Deadline: Milton and Disability (RSA 2024)
The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that promotes the work of premodern disability studies. We invite paper submissions that consider any aspect of John Milton’s writings, life, historical and literary contexts, and intellectual legacy through the lens of critical disability studies. For consideration, please submit an abbreviated CV…
