Calls for Contributions

Issue 57: January 2021: Pandemics in the Twentieth and Twenty-first century European and Indian Literature

Guest-Editor: Nikoleta Zampaki, PhD Candidate of Modern Greek Philology, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Concept Note: Papers are invited for a special issue of Café Dissensus on the topic of Pandemics in Twentieth and Twenty-first century European and Indian Literature. The essays might explore the topic of pandemics (diseases, plagues, etc.) as well as the psychological dimensions of the threats to human health and survival posed by pandemics. Papers might address some of the following questions:

How did authors continue ...

Creative Forms of Writing in the Age of Covidocene

The Green Theory and Praxis Journal (http://greentheoryandpraxisjournal.org/) is calling for proposals exploring the entanglements of COVID – 19 into creative forms of writing (poetry, fiction etc.). We seek work that advocates for changed paradigms, challenges new thinking, and above all, encourages us to reimagine our future.

Poetry Submit up to three previously unpublished poems in any style. Poems may be single-spaced and should use a standard font. Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as GTPJ is notified if your work is accepted elsewhere. Email ...

Arcadiana – A Blog about Literature, Culture and the Environment Call for Submissions

We are currently looking for submissions for Arcadiana, an upcoming blog hosted by postgraduate members of the European Association for Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE).

We invite submissions on the subjects of literature, culture and the environment by postgraduate and early career researchers working in and across the disciplines of the environmental humanities who are interested in making the field accessible to a public audience. Posts can discuss topics from all periods of literary, cultural and natural history from all geographical areas but ...

Edited Collection on Kurdish Ecology

Call for Papers 2020: Contributions sought for an edited collection on Kurdish Ecology

Lexington Books (humanities and social sciences imprint of independent publishing house Rowman & Littlefield), have invited me to produce a book on environmental issues relating to the Kurdish region. This will be an addition to their current series on “Environment and Society.” Abstracts are invited for contributions to an edited collection of essays relevant to the ecological initiatives of the Kurdish freedom movement post-2000.

Proposed title: Kurdish Ecology: Environmental Thought, Challenges and ...

Religion and the Coronavirus Pandemic issue of JSRNC

Call for Paper Proposals: Religion and the Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.issrnc.org/journal/call-for-submissions/

The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (JSRNC) is calling for paper proposals exploring the entanglements of religion, the Coronavirus, and socioecological (aka biocultural) systems. We seek scholarly work that explores how the virus, and religious dimensions of the response to it are influencing, and may decisively reshape socioecological systems, including religious perceptions and practices.

Pandemics are nothing new in human and religious history, of course. Indeed, religion and disease have long been ...

Literature for Change: How Educators Can Prepare the Next Generation for a Climate-Challenged World

Essays or K-12 lesson/unit plans analyzing how literature frames a specific environmental concern are invited from educators around the world. Contributions will be organized in an instructional follow-up resource to Confronting Climate Crises: Reading Our Way Forward (2018). Intended to support educators’ implementation of literature-based interdisciplinary climate instruction, the project is titled Literature for Change: How Educators Can Prepare the Next Generation for a Climate-Challenged World. The collection will be published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

If you ...

Call for Book Proposals: Environment and Religion

Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives

This series aims to publish scholarly monographs with limited or no previously published material which explores the subject of ecofeminism from feminist-womanist, queer, and indigenous perspectives. The governing assumption of the series is that ecofeminism is not only a mode of scholarly discourse and analysis, but also a hub for social formation and action. What distinguishes this series in particular is that it focuses on ecofeminism as a disciplinary matrix through which the voices of ...

Call for Entries: Public Resource for Teaching Environmental Film

Jenna Gersie is a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder and is putting together a public resource for teaching environmental film as part of her Environmental Media Studies class and Digital Humanities certificate. She is crowdsourcing data to build the resource. If you would like to include a brief description of an environmental film you have taught, please fill out the form on the website.

Spenserian Ecological Futures

The last ten years of work in early modern studies has looked increasingly toward nonhuman and more-than-human worlds as part of a broader environmental humanities turn towards the green and blue. This new direction has attracted an upcoming generation of scholars interested in studying Spenser and his ecological world. This call for submissions asks to hear these new voices and their experience working in Spenser’s ecologically dense world. Specifically, we are looking for broadly construed ecological, ecocritical, and/or environmental humanist readings of one ...

Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series)

Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series)

Proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series entitled Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost.

Essays in this volume could address teaching Frost’s work by focusing on topics such as science, Darwinism and belief, gender relations/gender conflict, rural/urban life, politics, race/racism, traditional media/new media, the natural and/or the supernatural, the formal innovations Frost made with dramatic monologue, the sound of sense, or Frost’s engagement with traditional verse ...