Publication: Bristol Journal of English Studies
Theme: Imagining and Re-Imagining
Closing Date for CFP: Sep 1
Further Details:

“”The Bristol Journal of English Studies is now accepting submissions for peer-reviewed publication. The journal publishes critical pieces from early-career academics and research students from across the gamut of English Studies. Articles should be 5,000 to 7,000 words in length. Short essays, of under 3,000 words, are published as notes. The Journal also encourages reviews, of up to 1,000 words, of recent critical publications within the field of English Studies. All submissions should adhere to the MHRA style guide.
The Journal publishes both a general and a themed edition, so all pieces in line with the above criteria are welcome.

Along with any submissions, please include the following information in the body of your email:
Author’s name; Author’s academic status (for example, lecturer, teaching fellow, doctoral candidate or postgraduate); Author’s university affiliation; Author’s email address; Title of the piece submitted; Author’s field of research (for example, Medieval Romance, Victorian Poetry, Contemporary America Fiction).”

Link: Contact Miss Pamela Lock at english-ejournal@bristol.ac.uk

Organisation:  University of Exeter’s Centre for Victorian Studies
Theme:  Strange New Today
Closing Date for CFP: July 15th
Date of Event: September 2011
Location: University of Exeter
Further Details:

“This conference is intended to elicit papers that respond to the generative effects of the perception of crisis in the Victorian period. Awareness of crisis stimulated intellectual enquiry in new disciplinary directions: in history and historiography, archaeology and classicism, evolutionary biology, economic and social theory, in literary expressions of cultural critique, and in personal and psychological narratives. Such intellectual productivity – and the insistence upon circulating the new analyses of crisis within a public realm of discussion – constitutes a response that we might wish to draw upon in our own times of perceived crisis.”

Link: Strange New Today

“Red Feather Journal seeks well-written, critical articles on any aspect of the child image. The journal welcomes submissions that examine a broad range of media: children’s film, Hollywood film, international film, Television, the Internet, print resources, art, or any other visual medium. Some sample topics include, but are certainly not limited to: studies of images of children of color; child as commodity; images of children in international films; political uses of the child image; children in advertising; childhood as myth, visual adaptations of children’s literary works; child welfare images; images of children and/in war; the child image in video games; or any other critical examination of the child image, or childhood, in a variety of visual mediums.”

Link to full details: Red Feather Journal

“A new open-access scholarly journal on global studies, The Journal of Empire Studies, is looking for articles on topics within the broad range of empire studies:
Science and Technology / Literature / Military Studies / Art and Architecture / Gender
Of particular interest are examinations of topics comparing eastern and western empires.”

Link to full details: Journal of Empire Studies

“o mark the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, in conjunction with the University of Wales, Newport, and the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, will host a one-day conference on the theme of ‘Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento’ on Friday 28 October 2011. The purpose of the conference is to allow for a critical examination of old assumptions and interpretations regarding British and Irish responses to the Risorgimento, and to map out new ways of understanding the impact of the ‘Italian Question’ on UK politics, society, commerce and culture (broadly defined). The conference will also examine the British-Irish influence on mid-century Italian politics, society, commerce and culture.”

Link to full details: Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento CFP

“For the Autumn 2011 issue of Forum, we invite submissons which explore representations of vengeance in literature, art and film. From The Bacchae to Kill Bill, retribution has been used as a vehicle for intense scrutiny of human emotions and social conditions, and the popularity of the revenge plot as an abiding blockbuster ratings-winner testifies to its continuing cultural relevance. What is the basis for this apparent fascination with revenge? How is it depicted within creative works, and do audiences’ responses alter according to perceived ethical norms? We hope to receive a wide range of articles seeking to reappraise the aesthetic and cultural implications of this “compelling mix of ingredients”…”

Link to full details: Forum Journal

“Submissions are invited for a three-day conference commemorating the life, work and legacy of Joseph Lister, Professor of Clinical Surgery at King’s College London from 1877 – 1893, to be held on the centenary of his death. Papers are requested for 15- or 20-minute parallel sessions which could take the form of talks, workshops or seminars, to be followed by 10 minutes of discussion…”

Link to full details: Learning from Lister

“Paranoia and Pain is an international cross-disciplinary conference, seeking to raise an awareness of various intersections of literature and science. The conference aims to explore overlapping paradigms of paranoia and pain in psychology, biological sciences, and literary texts/contexts…”

Link to full details: Paranoia and Pain CFP

“The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies is a bi-annual international peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of the relationship between literature and trauma.
For our inaugural issue, we welcome submissions that explore the connection between trauma and the tragic in all its literary and theoretical aspects.”

Link to full details: Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies CFP

“This conference seeks to examine the emergence of modernism outside elitist, avant-garde notions, particularly focussing on middlebrow literature in its relation to these socio-cultural developments. We assume that, even though middlebrow fiction usually adheres to conspicuously affirmative structures of plot development in order to meet genre expectations and publishers’ requirements, this narrative framework is often in a disintegrative state, in form and subject. Such narratives raise disturbing issues concerning the crumbling Empire, collapsing class structures and the deterioration of the Victorian family ideal. For women, in particular, the middlebrow novel provided a space for the negotiation of and experimentation with alternative social and gender roles. In this sense, middlebrow writing can be regarded as a domestication of modernist themes also prevalent at the time; allowing unsettling issues to be raised while maintaining at least a superficial impression of (narrative) stability and security…”

Link to full details: Middlebrow Writing