Author: cwwaorg
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ESSE 2016 Panel on Literature and Medical Discourse in 20th and 21st Centuries.
ESSE 2016, Galway, 22nd – 26th August Further details of ESSE at http://www.esse2016.org/ CFP: In her 1930 essay ‘On Being Ill’ Woolf noted how “strange” it was “that illness ha[d] not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.” Does Woolf’s comment still hold? A number of…
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23rd METU British Novelists Conference: Agatha Christie and Her Work
23rd METU British Novelists Conference: Agatha Christie and Her Work 5-6 April 2016 METU Culture and Convention Centre Ankara, Turkey Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Contact person: Asst. Prof. Dr. Dürrin Alpakın Martinez-Caro Contact email: bnc2016@metu.edu.tr “23rd METU British Novelists Conference: Agatha Christieand Her Work” is a two-day conference organized by the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University,…
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Calls for papers by MA students: “American Youth” (of American studies or related fields)
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** We would like to kindly ask for your help in distributing our calls for papers to students of American studies or related fields. aspeers, the first and currently only MA-level peer-reviewed journal for American studies in Europe, will accept submissions by 18 October 2015. In its ninth issue, aspeers will feature a…
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The 10th Anniversary Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** LEGACIES & LIFESPANS: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The 10th Anniversary Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association University of Brighton ／17 October 2015 The deadline is extended to 22 September. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20 minute papers by 22 September 2015 via this form<https://docs.google.com/a/nadinemuller.org.uk/forms/d/1pB-nq-mZzEENl-Dy8qN71fOJ9TH8PjmmXWNS1NWSSUs/viewform>.
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1st International Virtual Conference on Cultural Studies on the topic of “Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies: Sites and Insights”
CFP: 1st International Virtual Conference on Cultural Studies on the topic of “Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies: Sites and Insights” from January 15 – 17, 2016 Dead line for Abstracts: September 10, 2015 Call for Papers for the 1st International Virtual Conference on Cultural Studies on the topic of “Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies: Sites and Insights” to be held fromJanuary 15 –…
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MLA Commons: CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS
CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS Deadline: 1 December 2015 Visit the MLA Commons site dedicated to the development of this volume; you’ll find the book proposal, resources, opportunity to offer comment and feedback, as well as this call and a submission portal: https://modwomen.commons.mla.org Essay proposals are invited for a volume entitled Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in…
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British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now
British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now July 2015 Edited by Emma Young and James Bailey Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? Considering the…
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CWWA 10th Anniversary Events
We are delighted to announce two events that celebrate the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s tenth anniversary. Please circulate the attached and the below as widely as possible, and to any students and colleagues who may be interested. We’re looking forward to your abstracts and hope you will be able to join us in Brighton for…
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Free access to interviews with contemporary women writers
Oxford University Press is offering free access to interviews published in the Contemporary Women’s Writing journal. Featured authors include: Marilyn Chin Shirley Geok lin-Lim Mitsuye Yamada Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Caroline Bergvall Jhumpa Lahiri Leila Aboulela An interview with Ali Smith is forthcoming in 2015.
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Special issue of Journal of Gender Studies: Feminism, Academia, Austerity
In September 2012, a conference at the University of Nottingham was dedicated to an exploration of the effects of austerity on gender in academia. The conference was co-organised between the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (CWWA) and the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA). The conference organisers, Dr Helen Davies and Dr Claire O’Callaghan are…