Calls for Papers

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

In Meredith Lyn Jeffers’ recent piece on public humanities, she argues that “the time has come to reimagine the humanities as an inherently public enterprise that provides an opportunity for collaborating with and understanding the experiences of others. The time has come to practice the humanities, and not just to study them” (551). Heeding this call, this roundtable brings together scholars and community practitioners who have been engaged with ...

Panel proposed for Collective Atmospheres: ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park

Write what you know? Well we’ve learned a lot more recently about the senses, cognition, and emotions of other animals. So how can we write about them in ways that support conservation, compassion, respect, and appreciation? This panel is looking for storytellers who can share challenges, tips, and techniques for creatively incorporating critical anthropomorphism (CA) into their work. CA combines scientific knowledge of animals and their environments ...

DEADLINE EXTENDED to DECEMBER 19

Panel at Collective Atmospheres, ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park

Games are not diversions from real-world challenges such as environmental crisis; rather, games are already shaping the planetary future across scales and cultures. Climate-themed board games proliferate, inviting players to strategize potential solutions and envision novel infrastructures. Video games from major studios bring environmental justice themes to enormous player bases, while indie developers experiment with the affects entailed in ecological collapse. Many of us ...

The Society of Early Americanists is seeking conference paper proposals for two society-sponsored panels to be held at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference in Boston. The conference will be held from May 21-24, 2025 at the Westin Copley Place Hotel. Please consider submitting a proposal and sharing this CFP with graduate students and other interested parties.

Boston, New England, and the Northeast hold a deep significance in American literary studies, for instance, in Lisa Brooks’s analysis of “the common pot” in Native conceptions ...

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

Next year marks a decade since Jason W. Moore’s influential Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015). In the book’s robust, post-dualist critical engagement with capitalism, Moore details his theories of World Ecology, Cheap Nature, and the Capitalocene. He argues that late capitalism is not constituted by a duality of nature plus society, but a post-dualist World Ecology of an always-already imbricated nature-culture ...

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

Sponsored by the Ecomedia Interest Group, this guaranteed panel invites contributions exploring the intersection of atmospheric aesthetics and ecocinema through the lens of women filmmakers. Drawing on the conceptualization of air as a medium (Horn 2018) and the philosophy of elemental media (Peters 2016), we examine how cinema, through genre, technique, or form, relates to the material, political, and sensory dimensions of air. This approach fosters a prismatic understanding ...

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

Fleeting, distant, elusive, and often operating beyond the human sensorium, airborne collectivities (birds, bats, insects, microbes, pollen, seeds, etc.) offer new ways of thinking about collective action and environmental histories in an atmospherically challenged planet. This panel seeks papers on the representation of airborne collectivities as environmental agents. What can swarms, flocks, clouds, murmurations, and other flying phenomena tell us about the current state of our damaged planet? How ...

AIRBORNE GOTHIC ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic

This panel sets out to consider how gothic is carried and transmitted through air. Airborne gothic takes many forms: stories told around campfires; plague and Covid narratives; texts featuring ominous flying creatures (birds, bats, and bugs!); radiation/nuclear gothic; propagandistic talk about windmills as killing machines; airplanes or spacecraft as gothic sites; the winds and wutherings that course through so many gothic stories; and more. How do gothic texts evoke unrest, ...

ALA 2025 Society for the Study of American Travel Writing CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline, January 15, 2025

Society for the Study of American Travel Writing

American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA

May 21-24, 2025

The Society for the Study of American Travel Writing (SSATW) seeks proposals for two panels at the American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference in Chicago, IL May 23-25, 2024.

Panel One: Blue Journeys: Water, Ecology, and Travel

Recent work in the anthropocenic blue humanities raises new questions about the ...

Resistance, as performed by both human and nonhuman entities, is a fundamental tool of self-assertion, advocacy, rebellion, and transformation that has an extensive history across many spaces, traditions, and eras within the Romance world. Scholarly discussions have led to the elaboration of various forms of resistance that transcend the dichotomy of violent and non-violent. Social, political, physical, economic, material, intellectual, and poetic/literary resistance are topics broached by many scholars and are widely acknowledged as manners by which both human and nonhuman entities can ...