Where: In-person on Swansea University Singleton Campus, Talbot Building, Room 980 (1st floor, accessible from the Faraday Building main entrance) When: 8th October 2026 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm This seminar will consider George Herbert’s collection The Temple (1633) as a neurodivergent work. I don’t at all propose to be diagnostic about it (and I am not interested in contemporary…
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.
(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…
Global Blake: In Conversation with Jared S. Richman – ‘Blake’s Visionary Temporalities: Disability and Form in Milton: A Poem’
Blake’s Visionary Temporalities: Disability and Form in Milton: A Poem While eschewing the potential limits of human perception, William Blake’s poetic vision is remarkable for its commitment to the materiality of human form and sensuality. In fact, the very corporeality of Blake’s metaphorical expression insists that we understand his vision of human experience as essentially…
