CFP: Discourse and Disability: Constructing Disability through Speech Acts

Organizer: Alison Purnell Organizer: Michael Nagy ; michael.nagy@sdstate.edu Delivery Mode: Virtual Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Speech Act Society Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages In the rapidly-expanding field of Medieval Disability Studies, thus far little attention has been paid to the potential that discourse analysis, pragmatics, and speech act…

CFP Deadline: Disabilities Studies in Art and Literature (MLA 2025)

Looking for work that considers invisible disability in works of literature, art, philosophy, etc. Some suggested topics are spoon theory, crip time, spectacle, sick woman theory, the grotesque, etc. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome. 500 word abstracts Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 20 March 2024