Call for papers for edited collection Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene Brian Attebery, Tereza Dědinová and Marek Oziewicz (Eds.) “Fantasy’s main claim to cultural importance resides, I believe, in the work of redefining the relationship between contemporary readers and
CFP – Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and “Things”
Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and “Things” Seventh International Literary Juvenilia Conference UNSW Sydney 20 May to 23 May 2020 A young writer’s learning and creative experience is built around things. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s evocative phrase “material imagination,” this conference
CFP – Special Issue of Boyhood Studies: Boyhood and Belonging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Roles of Space and Place on Young Men’s Identities
Call for Papers Special Issue of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Boyhood and Belonging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Roles of Space and Place on Young Men’s Identities EDITOR: Michael R.M. Ward, Swansea University MANAGING EDITOR: Diederik F. Janssen, Independent Scholar
Call for Book Reviewers for Special Issue of Jeunesse
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures seeks academic reviews to be published in our upcoming Special Issue on Borders (Winter 2019). Reviews will be due September 1, 2019. Jeunesse publishes two types of academic reviews: Standard academic reviews of a single
CFP – Slavic Worlds of Imagination 3: Metamorphoses
International Conference “Slavic Worlds of Imagination 3: Metamorphoses” 23-24 September 2019, Cracow, Poland The Children’s and Youth Literature Research Centre of the Faculty of Polish Studies and the Institute of Slavonic Philology (Jagiellonian University) are hosting the third meeting in
CFP – Adapting Children’s and Young Adult Novels into Anglophone Television Series
Call for Papers International Conference by GUEST Normandie Adapting Children’s and Young Adult Novels into Anglophone Television Series Rouen Normandy University, 5-6 September 2019 Following up on its research programme exploring audiovisual serial fiction as narrative, aesthetic and ideological works
CFP – Special Issue of The Public Historian: Childhood, Consumerism, and Gender in Public History
The Public Historian is publishing a special issue on childhood, consumption, and gender, inspired in part by the continuing popularity of the American Girl dolls and books. We seek papers that address how children encounter public history through commercial representations
CFP – Children’s Poetry in Literary Education: Issue of Journal of Literacy Education
Call for Papers for the 2nd issue of the Journal of Literary Education Very often poetry has been defined as a particular kind of language that does innovative things with words, sound, rhythm and patterns, features that can be a
CFP – Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century
Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century University of Lincoln, 23 July 2019 Organisers: Dr Alice Crossley, Dr Amy Culley, and Dr Rebecca Styler This conference responds to the burgeoning critical interest of humanities scholars in age, ageing, and stages
CFP – Special Issue of International Journal of Qualitative Methods: Constructions of “Children’s Voices” in Qualitative Research
Special Issue on Constructions of “Children’s Voices” in Qualitative Research Guest Editors: Gail Teachman and Brenda Gladstone Overview Child-focused research across a continuum of participatory methodologies has frequently been credited with “giving voice” to vulnerable and marginalized groups. Issues concerning