CAAS 2023: WEST BY NORTHEAST, 22-24 September 2023 “West by Northeast” is an interdisciplinary conference, hosted by Mount Saint Vincent University and the Canadian Association for American Studies. It will take place in online (virtually) on 22-24 September 2023. In his 1893 address in front of the American Historical Association during the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Frederick Jackson Turner asserted,… Read more →
Call for Papers The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 20-24, 2023. The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects. Additionally, it offers workshops held by… Read more →
Call for Papers: The Present is the Future in Motion: Afropresentism as Verb and Aesthetic In their April 2022 interview with BOMB magazine, visual artist and theorist Neema Githere (they/she) notes that Afropresentism is as much a practice as it is an aesthetic or theory. “I always say that the present is the future in motion,” Githere insists. “We carry ancient legacies… Read more →
Please download ACCUTE’s CFP for Congress 2023 (York University/Toronto/Tkaranto!
Failure in/and American Literature American Literature Association, 2023 Conference, May 25-28, Boston Jasleen Singh (University of Toronto) and Ross Bullen (OCAD University) 19 September 2022 In “The American Style of Failure,” Denis Donoghue asks: “Do we not feel that American literature thrives upon conditions of failure and that it would lose its character, if not its soul, were it given… Read more →
The Robert K. Martin prize is awarded to the best book published by a CAAS member in the previous calendar year. CAAS is now accepting nominations for the Robert K. Martin prize for best book published in 2021. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2022. All submissions should be sent directly to: Jennifer Harris (Robert K. Martin Prize Committee… Read more →
In the 1980s and 1990s scholars of Melville and Hawthorne were mostly interested in political readings of the two writers’ work, focusing on issues of race and gender. Without disregarding such issues, recent scholarly voices have been less engaged in tracing the hidden workings of ideology; rather, they have addressed broader themes such as history, subjectivity, or literary form. As… Read more →
Trent University invites applications for a one-year (12-month) limited-term appointment (LTA) in American Literature in the Department of English Literature. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will commence August 15, 2022. This position is located at Trent’s Peterborough Campus and is subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate’s course load may include: ENGL 1003: Revolution! ENGL 2705: Literature and… Read more →
The Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) is pleased to announce that our 2022 conference, “Reanimations,” will take place October 28-30, 2022. The conference will be hosted online via Zoom at OCAD University in Toronto. Proposals for individual presentations, panels, roundtables, or other presentation formats can be submitted via a Google Form (see CFP for link). Questions about the conference… Read more →
Wharton and Ecology Special Issue of the Edith Wharton Review Call for Papers Guest editors Melanie Dawson and Jennifer Haytock seek contributions for a special issue of the Edith Wharton Review focusing on “Wharton and Ecology.” Essays may cover any aspect of Wharton’s writing about the natural world, gardening, surrounding environmental contexts/histories, deep time, animal nature(s), healthy and unhealthy ecosystems, and travel to… Read more →