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Northumbria University’s American Studies Early Career Visiting Scholarship

Northumbria University’s American Studies Early Career Visiting Scholarship American Studies at Northumbria University is offering a short Early Career Visiting Scholarship during Semester 2, 2017-2018. This Scholarship forms part of Northumbria’s American Studies program. The successful candidate will have been awarded (within the last 3 years) a PhD in any aspect of American culture, history, or literature, but will not yet hold a permanent full-time academic post. The Visiting Scholar will have a growing research profile and teaching experience and will be able to demonstrate exceptional promise in their chosen field. We welcome applicants with research interests in any aspect of American Studies, but particularly in U.S. politics and/or race and race relations. The deadline is 13 November. During their 2-day visit, successful applicants will: Deliver a research presentation to the American Studies Research Seminar. Lead a workshop on theory or methodology for Northumbria postgraduate students working in the arts, humanities […]

Job: Lecturer in American Literature and Culture (University of Manchester)

Fixed term, from 01/01/2018 until 30/06/2019 The deadline for application is 14 November 2017, and interviews will take place on 27 November 2017. The Division of English, American Studies & Creative Writing at the University of Manchester invites applications for an 18-month temporary teaching-focused 0.6 lectureship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture. The successful candidate will be able to teach a range of undergraduate courses in American literature and culture, with a particular focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The post holder will be expected to design and deliver a third year option course; to contribute lectures and seminars for the first year introductory survey courses in American literature; to contribute to other first and second year courses and MA teaching as necessary; and supervise a number of third year dissertations. An induction will be provided, and a senior colleague in the department will act as mentor […]

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, […]

BrANCA 3rd Biennial Symposium: The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S. (University of Exeter)

BrANCA 3rd Biennial Symposium: The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S. November 17-18, 2017 Streatham Campus, University of Exeter Plenary speakers: ·         Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (Professor of American Literature, University of Lausanne, Switzerland). Author of The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Ashgate 2010). ·         Lloyd Pratt (Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford). Author of Archives of American Time  (Penn 2009); The Strangers Book (Penn 2015). BrANCA: The British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists seeks proposals to its third biennial symposium, which will take place November 17-18 2017 at the Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, UK. We invite individual paper or group proposals on progressive aspects of U.S. literary culture during the long nineteenth century (comparative approaches are particularly welcome). Our symposium theme is “The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S”. “Not Yet” gestures to the renewed and growing interest in the variety of politically imminent imaginaries that increasingly defines […]

CFP: Edited Collection: Surveillance, Architecture and Control: Discourses on Spatial Culture

As our current political and cultural climate elucidates, the modern world has become increasingly fascinated by surveillance systems. Popular television series’ such as Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale speak of our fears of being controlled by those watching us, whilst remastered movies such as Blade Runner 2049 harness our inherent desire for, and ultimate reliance upon, technology’s advancement. The systems of hypersurveillance shored up in these examples demonstrate not only our Orwellian fear of being immersed in such systems, but also our active participation in their creation and perpetuation. In both examples, it is the architectural frames and division of boundaries which plays a fundamental part in controlling and dominating the individual. Westworld’s Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) controls his androids and their ‘roles’ via the vast network system at Westworld’s headquarters, which in turn controls the space of the ‘game’; Offred is controlled by Gilead’s network of spies and informers, […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “From a Global History of Divided Cities to a Global Urban History”

Cambridge American History Seminar 2017-2018  We are pleased to announce the schedule of seminars and events for the academic year 2017/18. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. Several of the seminars will be based on pre- circulated papers that will be made available two weeks prior to the seminar date. All inquiries should be directed to Jonathan Goodwin, jmg216@cam.ac.uk, 01223 335317. 20 November: Carl Nightingale, Professor of Transnational Studies and American Studies, University of Buffalo From a Global History of Divided Cities to a Global Urban History 

BAAS Postgraduate Conference 2017

BAAS Postgraduate Conference  Day 1 (25 Nov 2017): https://tinyurl.com/ycujjxyu  (Fee: £10) USSO Keynote: Patricia Malone (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘We Hold These Truths to Feel Self Evident: Post-Truth and American Myths, or “The Tyranny of Intimacy”’. Parallel Panel Sessions (We’ll publish the full programme for Day 1 soon.) Roundtable: Activism, Academia, and American Studies, speakers: Dr Kate Dossett (University of Leeds), Dr Francisca Fuentes (The British Library), Dr Gavin Grindon (University of Essex), Prof Colin Samson (University of Essex). Day 2 (26 Nov 2017): https://tinyurl.com/yagz9gll  (Free) – a CHASE-sponsored workshop day for all postgraduate research students and early career researchers. Session 1: Roundtable discussion: ‘Networks, Collaborations, Friendships: Beyond the dread of the buzzword’. Our speakers have kindly agreed to share their wisdom and honest stories about discovering like-minded individuals, creating networks, setting up collaborations, and developing friendships throughout their careers. We hope that the conversations resulted from this roundtable will enable us all to strip the word ‘networking’ of its corporate overtones and to approach the process of forming connections […]

CFP: Writing, the State, and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Concerns (Boston University)

Writing, the State, and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Concerns  In January 1868, John William De Forest took to the pages of The Nation with a call that would resound over the next century and a half: the writing of the "Great American Novel." In so doing, he asserted both the shaping force of the nation on the arts, and the importance of the arts for the national imaginary. On the sesquicentennial of De Forest's essay, the College of General Studies at Boston University will host a conference to explore the broader intersection of writing and the nation. This conference will meet on Boston University’s campus in London, England, on June 30, 2018. The conference will feature a keynote address by Daniel Karlin, Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol. The exigency of ongoing scholarly consideration of the relation between the nation and writing could not be […]

CFP: The Cartographic Imagination: Art, Literature and Mapping in the United States, 1945-1980

Call for Papers: The Cartographic Imagination: Art, Literature and Mapping in the United States, 1945-1980 A two-day international conference funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, in conjunction with the Centre for American Studies at the University of Kent and the Départment d’Etudes Anglophones at the University of Strasbourg. Dates: 18-19 May 2018 Venue: Reid Hall, 4 Rue de Chevreuse, 75006, Paris, France Organizers: Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg); Will Norman (University of Kent) Keynote speakers: Pamela Lee (Stanford University), David Herd (University of Kent) and Stephen Collier (Simon Fraser University) This conference investigates spatial representations and practices in postwar US literature and art, and their intersection with mapping. We are particularly interested in the ways in which American space is constructed, imagined, reconfigured, displaced, and questioned in writing and in artistic form. The conference will examine the specificity of the literary and artistic appropriation of cartographic tropes, as well as […]

PhD in Literary History: Race/Representation/Justice/Cultural Activism (Nottingham Trent University)

PhD in Literary History (Race/Representation/Justice/Cultural Activism) Overview Applications are welcomed from prospective students to research under the supervision of Professor Sharon Monteith, a Leverhulme Fellow writing a literary history of the US civil rights movement who has supervised c. 30 PhD students to successful completion. Proposals should focus on literary history in the cultural context of race (representation, rights, social justice, cultural activism) in the US and/or the UK. A range of methodological approaches and creative interventions, including critical-creative writing that responds to literary history, are welcome. A project might focus on: mapping new literary histories recovery of neglected writers, texts, print media a particular genre or cultural form (e.g. poetry, drama, the novel, personal journalism, the photo-essay) the US civil rights movement or struggles around race and rights in the UK African-American literary studies from Reconstruction to #Black Lives Matter Black British literary studies and cultural activism. Proposals based […]