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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]