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Edith Wharton's New York: A Conference Sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society

New Yorker Hotel June 17th-20th 2020

Please join the Edith Wharton Social club for its upcoming conference marking the centennial anniversary of the publication of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, The Age of Innocence. We will celebrate this momentous year in New York, the setting not simply of so many of Wharton's works only besides of much of her life.

While all topics are welcome, we are specially interested in whole panels and private papers that focus on New York as a geographical and thematic element in Wharton'south life and works. Papers could explore the role of New York City and/or the Hudson River Valley in Wharton'southward works, Wharton's ain history with the region, or Wharton's relationship to place and infinite more generally. Papers that offer new readings of The Age of Innocence—such as new historical approaches or legacies of The Age of Innocence, the novel'south relationship to other works by Wharton and/or her peers, and adaptations of the novel (for film, theater, etc.)—are too welcome.

Since 1920 marks the start of what many consider the "later years" of Wharton's career, examinations of Edith Wharton'south works in the shifting literary and political foundations of post-WWI guild are as well of interest. The 20s marking the centennial of other pregnant Wharton texts, and essaysthat examine these subsequently works are of detail involvement.

In addition, there will be a keynote speaker and opportunities for tours of local attractions. Further details forthcoming. Nosotros welcome submissions for total panels of four-five participants and roundtablesof 6-7 participantsas well as individual paper submissions. Delight submit proposals no later than August 1st, 2019 to whartonnewyork@gmail.com

For full panel and roundtable proposals, delight submit 200-350-give-and-take summaries of each presentation included in the panel or roundtable too as a brief fifty-word bio and A/5 requests for each presenter.

For individual paper proposals, please submit a 350-500-word abstract, a brief l-discussion bio,and A/V requests as one Word certificate.

All conference participants must exist members of the Edith Wharton Order at the time of registration.For boosted information, contact co-directors at email accost above or individually:

Margaret Toth (One thousand thousand), Manhattan College margaret.toth@manhattan.edu

Margaret Jay Jessee (Jay), University of Alabama at Birmingham mjjessee@uab.edu

CFP Conference Aix-Marseille Academy, FranceApril three-4, 2020
Women's Resistance to Feminism(southward) in the United States since the 19^th century

From the 1911 National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage to Phyllis Schlafly'due south "Stop-ERA" campaign in the 1980s and governor Kay Ivey's contempo signing into law of Business firm Beak 314 criminalizing ballgame in Alabama, women have played a prominent function in opposing feminism in the US. Yet these visible forms of anti feminism are but the tips of a much larger iceberg of women's resistance to feminism that this two-day conference, organized past the "Women and the F-Discussion" team (https://wfw.hypotheses.org), proposes to explore.    The notion of women's resistance to feminism includes—simply is not reduced to—organized antifeminism, a countermovement which has been the object of pioneering work (A. Dworkin,Right Wing Women, 1983, T. Jablonsky, The Abode, Heaven, and Mother Party, 1994, S. Marshall,Splintered Sisterhood, 1997). Resistance is understood as a broad set of negative reactions experienced and/or expressed past women or groups of women when they are faced with self-styled feminist behaviors, ideas or actions. As feminism is conceived as a flexible and evolving ideology, which the plural "feminisms" more adequately reflects, the modes and mechanisms of resistance volition be examined from a diachronic and dialogical perspective that always takes into account the detail historical moment. This interdisciplinary conference ways to join contributions shedding light on the specific features of women'south resistance to feminisms in the United states of america since the 19th century.

Papers addressing the following issues will be welcome:

 How did/practice women perceive the beginning women's rights advocates?

What precise term initially triggers resistance?: Rights? Suffragism?  Feminism? Modern/Radical feminism? White? Elite? Abortion? Etc..

How do women (de)construct their own (non) feminism through those terms?

What sort of discourses/actions did/do they produce or perform and how did/exercise they spread them?

How did/practise women evolve from a position of "feminist" to "anti "or "non feminist"?

How did/do they (re)negotiate their identification to womanhood?

How of import are the binaries feminism/femininity, feminism/individualism?

How does intersectionality shape resistance and how, in turn, does resistance strengthen intersectional identities?

How did/exercise women contest the boundaries of mainstream feminism?

How does globalization bear upon the mechanisms of resistance?

Are there cases of transnational resistance?

How has resistance evolved over the centuries? (persistence and change)

How does women's resistance touch on feminism?

Can indifference be considered a form of resistance?

Please send a 300- word abstract and a cursory bio to :claire.sorin@univ-amu.fr,  marc.calvini-lefebvre@univ-amu.fr and nicolas.boileau@univ-amu.fr

Deadline: Oct xv, 2019.Place and engagement of the briefing: Aix-Marseille University29 avenue Robert Schuman13621 Aix-en-ProvenceFrance Apr iii-4 2020

Keynote Address :Dr Ronnee Schreiber (San Diego State Academy), author ofRighting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics (OUP, 2008)

CFP: Carson McCullers Club MSA 2020 (Borderline January 5, 2020)Call for papers for two-part roundtable at the next MSA meeting in Brooklyn, New York, October 22-25, 2020.

MSA 2020: Southern Modernist Women Writers and the Topographies of the Street
The Carson McCullers Society is soliciting abstracts for a two-part roundtable series on southern modernist women writers and the topographies of the street for the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) conference in Brooklyn, NY, on October 22-25, 2020. This two-role series goes with the MSA conference theme of "the street" and is intended to spark conversation and collaboration amid Welty, O'Connor, McCullers, Porter, Petrie, Chopin, and Hurston scholars, among others, about the innovations and interventions of southern modernist women writers in creating street scenes, situations, and characters. Interested parties should ship a 300 give-and-take abstract and a short bio to Isadora Wagner, Carson McCullers Club President (isadora.wagner@westpoint.edu) and Sarah-Marie Horning, Society Vice President (S.D.HORNING@tcu.edu), by January 5, 2020.

CFP: Carson McCullers Gild SSSL 2020 (Deadline October one, 2019)

Call for papers for two panels at the next SSSL meeting, University of Arkansas, April 2 to v, 2020.

Carson McCullers and the Borderless South

In conjunction with the biennial Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) conference theme of "how borders, binaries, and bars operate in lived experience equally well equally intellectual practice," the Carson McCullers Gild invites abstracts for 2 panels on the topic of the borderless south: one examining immigration themes in McCullers' works, and the other, the function of national and international media like newspapers and radio broadcasts in the works of McCullers and her contemporaries. Papers that work comparatively betwixt McCullers and other southern writers are highly encouraged. If interested, please ship a 250-300 give-and-take abstract and a short bio to the Carson McCullers Order president and vice president, Isadora Wagner (isadora.wagner@westpoint.edu) and Sarah-Marie Horning (S.D.HORNING@tcu.edu), past October 1, 2019.

Author: Bethany Wood

Women Adapting: Bringing 3 Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen

Academy of Iowa Press, 2019

Women Adapting examines three well-known stories that debuted as women's mag serials: Anita Loos'sGentlemen Prefer Blondes, Edith Wharton'southThe Age of Innocence, and Edna Ferber's Testify Gunkhole. Through meticulous archival enquiry, this study traces how each of these beloved narratives traveled beyond publishing, theatre, and motion-picture show through accommodation. Bethany Wood documents the germination of adaptation systems and how they involved women'due south voices and labor in modern entertainment in means that have been previously underappreciated. What emerges is a picture of a unique window in time in the early decades of the twentieth century, when women in entertainment held influential positions in production and management.

Available for purchase hither: https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609386498/women-adapting

Author: Brigitte Bailey

American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824-62

Edinburgh University Printing, 201viii

American Travel Literature analyzes tourist writings almost Italian republic from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, artful response and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United States. The Italian tour and its textual and visual expressions were forms through which predominantly white, northeastern elites dreamed their way into national identity and cultural authorisation. Its interdisciplinary methodology draws on antebellum visual culture, tourist practices and shifting class and gender identities to describe tourism and tourist writing as shapers of an aristocracy (and then normative) national subjectivity. Bringing perspectives from art history and aesthetics, information technology historicises aesthetic practices, illuminating the depth of Americans' turn towards visual iconography in articulating social and national identities.

The book investigates tourists' triangulations of the categories of 'England', 'Italy' and 'America', discusses authors understood every bit national representatives − Irving, Cooper, Sedgwick, Kirkland, Fuller, Hawthorne and Stowe − in the context of other US and European writers and artists and looks at transatlantic tourist writing every bit a pregnant genre of the menses that shaped the nation.

Bachelor in print and digital formats with paperback edition forthcoming September 1, 2019. Purchase here.

Call for Papers, for a panel at the next NeMLA conference, in Boston, March five-eight, 2020.

NeMLA's theme this year will be:"Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures"

This is an accepted session.

Antebellum City Texts: Print Culture and Emergent U.S. Metropolitan Spaces

This panel will feature current research on pre-Civil War representations of U.S. cities and on publications in and nigh cities. Topics might include depictions of the city in fiction, verse, religious tracts, newspapers, other periodical "texts"—including engravings–and sketches. But they may also focus on the urban location of publications; due east.g., to what extent are abolitionist "appeals" by Lydia Maria Child or David Walker urban texts? Or, how do oral performances (lyceum speeches, sermons, etc.) printed in periodicals function as part of an urban print civilisation? Transatlantic topics and interdisciplinary perspectives welcome, from geography, history, literary history, visual studies, and environmental humanities.

Please submit a 300-discussion abstract and a brief bio pastSeptember 30, 2019, through NeMLA's website (http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers.html) —  the session's number is 18015. If you have questions, please contact the console chair, Brigitte Bailey, at brigitte.bailey@unh.edu .

In the 1960s, long before at that place was Julie & Julia, an aspiring writer named Nora Ephron cooked her way through the holy trinity of cookbooks: Julia Kid'south Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Michael Field's Cooking Schoolhouse, and Craig Claiborne's New York Times Cook Book. In a New Yorker column from 2006, titled "Serial Monogamy: My Cookbook Crushes," Ephron describes her relationship with the authors of these books: "as I cooked, I had imaginary conversation with them both [Claiborne savage out of favor early on]. Julia was nicer and more forgiving. … Field was sterner and more meticulous; he was almost fascistic. He was total of prejudice about things similar the garlic printing (he believed that using one made the garlic bitter), and I threw mine abroad for fear that he would suddenly materialize in my kitchen and disapprove" (73). Ephron later on continued her serial cookbook monogamy with Martha Stewart, "whom I worshipped and had long, long imaginary talks with," and more recently Nigella Lawson (75), with whom she likewise likely conversed, given her notice that they take similar styles in the kitchen and at table. Ephron responded to these cookbooks because they gave her narrative that evoked emotive and linguistic response, and these are cookbooks that describe attention to the genre of the literary cookbook.

Calling something literary, at its most basic, is to refer to writing of value, writing with emotive force. The literary cookbook genre includes cookbooks based on authors and/or their writing, such as The Bloomsbury Cookbook or Alice Eats: A Wonderland Cookbook. Widely configured, information technology can also include novels or memoirs laden with recipes, such as Like H2o for Chocolate or Miriam's Kitchen. And sometimes seemingly straightforward cookbooks turn out to be literary epics, like the work of Anthony Bourdain. Whatever its form, the literary cookbook centers on consumption, and the question of what (or sometimes who) is consumed makes these books as interesting (and delicious) as they are useful. It is, therefore, our aim with this edited drove to examine how consumption is represented, constructed, explained, or manipulated in the literary cookbook.

Contributors might focus on:

• cookbooks based on authors and/or their writing, such as the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook or The Game of Thrones Cookbook
• novels or memoirs laden with recipes, such equally Like H2o for Chocolate or Miriam's Kitchen or Heartburn
• cookbooks that weave travel or historical or biographical narrative with the recipes, such every bit Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen
• cookbooks that follow Kid and Fields in prefacing each recipe with a narrative, such every bit those by Anthony Bourdain or Yotam Ottolenghi

Deadline for Proposals (500 words) and Biography (250 words): v September 2019

Borderline for Chapters (6000 words): 5 January 2020

Please ship proposals to Roxanne Harde rharde@ualberta.ca and Janet Wesselius jcw3@ualberta.ca

Roxanne Harde is Professor of English language at the University of Alberta's Augustana Faculty, where she also serves equally Associate Dean, Research. A Fulbright Scholar, Roxanne researches and teaches American literature and culture, focusing on children'south literature, popular culture, women's writing, and Ethnic literature. Her most recent book is The Embodied Child, coedited with Lydia Kokkola (Routledge, 2017). She has published manufactures in The Lion and the Unicorn, Mosaic, Critique, Jeunesse, and IRCL, and chapters in more than twenty collections of essays.

Janet Wesselius is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta's Augustana Faculty, where she specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of science. She has previously published on Pollyanna and pragmatism and Anne of Green Gables and the embodied reader. In improver to philosophy, she besides teaches feminist theory.

The 25th AISNA Biennial Conference: 'Gate(d) Ways. Enclosures, Breaches and Mobilities Across U.South. Boundaries and Beyond'

The briefing takes place in Ragusa, Sicily with the Università degli Studi di Catania from September 26th to the 28th.All the data can exist found in the link below:
http://www.sdslingue.unict.it/it/content/telephone call-papers-ane

Console: Walls as Tropes of Separation and Contact in American Literature

Strictly speaking, the definition of the give-and-take "wall" suggests a separation every bit well as an enclosure. But what if the wall is represented not every bit a permanent division, but rather a permeable membrane betwixt the inside and outside? What kind of contact takes place through the wall and despite it? What is the epistemological relevance of the wall in literature? "Something at that place is that doesn't love a wall" is the opening line of Robert Frost's verse form "Mending Wall." The scrivener Bartleby, in Melville's most memorable tale, chooses to spend about of his fourth dimension staring out of his office's window at a brick wall. How has the wall been portrayed in American literature? How does this fit in and compare to the wider context of Globe Literature? The wall can function as spatial and generic demarcation and at the same time it can represent a want for transgression and hybridity. The U.s. myth of the frontier is in itself a metaphorical wall of separation that has been negotiated and renegotiated, written and rewritten – and thus reappropriated – over fourth dimension. Moreover, notions of "walls" are in constant evolution, and can exist considered every bit being the product of historical, social and political relations, weaving a network of representations and mental images.

This console volition specifically focus on critical relations between interior and exterior, the known and the unknown, class and formlessness, flux and fixity, absence and presence, existent and imaginary geographies, forms or acts of "translation" in the etymological sense of "conveying across." In the absence of a concrete wall, what are the metaphorical representations of borders, margins, thresholds and gate(way)s? How might these exist read equally a creative re-use of walls? The coordinators invite proposals for papers on fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, translation, ecocriticism, geocriticism and spatial literary studies in American literature.

Panel Coordinators:
Paola Loreto, Academy of Milan, paola.loreto@unimi.it
Margarida Cadima, Academy of Glasgow, mcadima@gm.slc.edu

Newspaper proposals (max. 300 words) should be submitted, together with a brief biographical note, to the Panel Coordinator(s), to the Conference Organizer Gigliola Nocera (noceragi@unict.it) and to the Aisna Secretary Simone Francescato (segretario-aisna@unive.it) by June 15, 2019. Successful proponents will exist notified by June 30, 2019.

CFP: Emily Dickinson Social club at SAMLA

Nov 15-17, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia

The Emily Dickinson International Lodge invites proposals that explore any aspect of Emily Dickinson's linguistic communication. Nosotros welcome artistic works as well every bit projects by graduate students. We believe Dickinson's work aligns especially well with the theme of this year's SAMLA, which celebrates "languages, the ways we use them, the ways they apply us, the ways they shape our realities."

Past June 15, please ship a 250-give-and-take abstruse, a CV, and AV requests to Dr. Trisha Kannan at tk1139@gmail.com.

If you're interested but unable to submit an abstract by June 15, then experience gratis to contact me direct at tk1139@gmail.com. Also, I'thou looking for someone to take over as chair for the EDIS panel at these annual SAMLA conferences, so please reach out if you're interested!

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