A Plethora of CFPs

Laura Vivanco

There are so many CFPs to post about that I'm only giving the minimum of details about each and providing a link to more information. The topics covered are: desire, women's writing, revenge, femininities and masculinities, medievalism, monsters, and American culture.

Desire: From Eros to Eroticism

The students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center present an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on November 10-11, 2011. [...]

Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by September 15, 2011.

More details here.

The Fourth Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association
Contemporary Women’s Writing: (Wo)Man and the Body
11-13 July 2012

[...] Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing (an AHCI journal published by Oxford University Press)

Applications and abstracts: 20 September 2011 (a newly extended deadline)

More details (but still giving the previous deadline) here.

Revenge
www.forumjournal.org/cfp
Deadline: 3rd October 2011

For the Autumn 2011 issue of Forum, we invite submissions which explore representations of revenge in literature, art and film.

More details here.

2nd Global Conference
Femininities & Masculinities
Thursday 3rd May – Saturday 5th May 2012
Prague, Czech Republic
[...] 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th November 2011. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 9th March 2012.

More details here.

Medieval Popular Culture and Arthurian Legends at the 42nd Annual Popular and American Culture Associations Conference
April 11-14th, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts

[...] we especially encourage abstracts on the following for this year’s conference [...] Paranormal romance and medievalism

[...] Deadline: December 15, 2011

More details here.

Monsters: Subject, Object, Abject

Thursday 12th - Sunday 15th April 2012
Manchester Museum
Manchester, United Kingdom

[...]Please send 300-word abstracts to the conference convenors by Sunday 1st January 2012.

More details here.

Studies in American Culture welcomes the submission of essays on all aspects of American culture, including studies of the literature, language, visual arts, and history of the United States, and from all scholarly and critical approaches.

Submissions for the October 2012 issue (35.1) must arrive by April 1, 2012.

More details here and here. "Studies in American Culture is a publication of the Popular Culture Association in the South and American Culture Association in the South" and they also have an online journal: Studies in Popular Culture.