Calls for Contributions

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 ...

The editorial committee for Hemisphere: Visual Culture of the Americas seeks essays from graduate students for the 2020 issue. Volume 13 will center on the theme, “Cartographic Infrastructures: Mapping and the Graphic Arts in the Americas.” and will feature articles and short exhibition reviews presenting interdisciplinary research that considers the ways in which the spectrum of media—i.e. graphic arts, graphic design, printmaking, needlepoint, infographics, pictographs, and/or works on paper—thematically, conceptually, and formally intersect across historical eras and political, ideological, and geological boundaries. Our ...

The call is addressed mainly, but not exclusively, to scholars investigating the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, who might be interested in contributing to the volume The Power of Greenness: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and American Environmentalist Discourse. The title of the planned collection of essays is an allusion to the classic 1955 study by Harry Levine The Power of Blackness. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville. As the “greenness” in the title suggests, the volume proposes to reexamine the fiction of ...

International Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies is a bi-Yearly and bilingual Journal (Tamil Language & English Language) gives keen scope to understand and evaluate the classical antiquity of Tamil Language and Literature and modern trends in it. The Journal ijtlls mainly focuses on the thrust areas such as History of Tamil Language and Culture, Folk Arts, Temple Studies, Siddha Medicine, Tamil Linguistics, Tamil Criticism, Tamil Literature, Creative writing in Tamil Language, Tamil Literature and Psychology, Women in Tamil Literature, Eco-criticism, Comparative ...

As an understanding of reality that is defined and measured by human experience, humanism finds one of its cornerstones in the idea of a harmonious correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm—between man and universe—that has proven as ideologically idealistic as impossible to achieve. However, the specter of a “collapse of nature” and the awareness of the precariousness of human life on earth have always haunted our imagination. In Italian culture in particular, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period, several thinkers, writers, and ...

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book examining global portrayals of the coronavirus in diverse print, broadcast, and online media, including but not limited to newspapers, magazines, social media, television, podcasts, and popular culture.

A sampling of confirmed chapters follows: • “A Historical Handshake between the Mainstream Media and Social Media in Response to COVID-19 in Vietnam,” Dinh Thi Thuy Hang and Hien Thi Minh Nguyen, Academy of Journalism and Communication, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Administration, Vietnam • “Does Overnight Online ...

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book called Coronavirus, Climate Crisis, and Eco-anxiety: Psychology of Pandemics, Global Heating, and Planetary Hope. Chapter proposals should explore the psychological dimensions of the threats to human health and survival posed by pandemics such as the coronavirus, as well as by the accelerating global climate emergency. Chapters might address questions like • “How can individuals continue to work together at a time when prudent policies of social distancing may lead to a sense of isolation and loss ...

COVID-19 is an irrefutably global provocation that is currently reconfiguring nearly every aspect of life on Earth. The non-linear spread of the virus’ impact, which exceeds and differs from the rate of infection, has amplified and magnified already latent conditions of precarity, injustice, and inequality. It has been declared a pandemic, the etymology of which is pan + demos, meaning “all people,” but it is not affecting all people equally. These uncertain socio-political circumstances demand agile, dynamic, and multifaceted responses. In their recent ...

In response to coronavirus-caused disruptions, the journal Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry has extended the deadline for its Undergraduate Student Essay Contest until March 31.

We seek work that conjures the experiences, observations, and insights of journeys to places where there are no roads. The length limit is 3,000 words. There is no entry fee. Up to three essays will be chosen for publication in the June 2020 volume of Deep Wild Journal, and the authors will receive cash awards of $100 and ...

We invite submissions for a book compilation of fictional texts in Spanish on the topic of Ecofeminism under the provisional title of “Ecofeminist Fictions in Spanish/Ficciones ecofeministas en el contexto hispano.” This volume is open to any genre: poems, comics, vignettes, short stories, etc. For longer genres (novels, drama plays), a fragment will be selected for publication purposes.

Description Ecofeminism tries to explain and solve the current global ecological crisis through the interaction of Ecology and Feminism. The parallel exploitation of women and nature prompts ...