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CFP: Special Issue of Southern Quarterly – Replaying Gone with the Wind and the New Souths

Special Issue of Southern Quarterly Call for Papers: Replaying Gone with the Wind and the New Souths Editor: Philip C. Kolin, The University of Southern Mississippi Publication Schedule: Volume 55, nos. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2018) Submission Deadline: 15 November 2017 The Southern Quarterly invites submission of original essays, 20 to 30 pages, for a special double issue on Replaying Gone with the Wind: Voices of the New Souths to be edited by Philip C. Kolin. We would like to receive manuscripts that explore this iconic film in light of adaptations/parodies; post-South and postmodern readings; responses to the film from reviewers and famous writers in non-English speaking countries; Southern foodways; the film and World War II; the ways the film has been translated into or reinterpreted in other media including music, art, dance, photography; recasting gender/racial roles; etc. The journal welcomes contributions from a variety of disciplines, unpublished interviews, and related archival […]

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships (The University of Texas at Austin)

For its 2018–2019 fellowship program, the Ransom Center will award 10 dissertation fellowships and up to 50 postdoctoral fellowships for projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections. The fellowships support research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2017, 5 P.M. CST Further information available here: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/application/

CFP: ExRe(y) 2018. Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture (Lublin, Poland)

Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin, Poland May 10-11, 2018 Department of American Literature and Culture, in cooperation with the Video Game Research Center, is organizing a two-day international conference “ExRe(y) 2018. Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture.” We seek proposals for papers and panels that focus on the topic of exhaustion and regeneration in American and Canadian literature and visual culture (film, visual arts, video games, television, and others) of the last seventeen years, from the year 2000 to the present day. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:  post-millennial literature of exhaustion and replenishment psychological and emotional exhaustion and regeneration (mental disorders, breakdowns, burnout, psychotherapy) disease and recuperation environmental crisis and sustainable design globalization as the agent of exhaustion and replenishment scarcity and accelerationism exhaustion of/with politics apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios in texts of culture the many faces of passing: longevity, death, immortality, […]