Calls for papers: a weekly round up

Crabbe's Tales

12-13 July 2012, Newcastle University

Reviewing Tales (1812) Francis Jeffrey claimed that George Crabbe was ‘upon the whole, the most original writer who has ever come before us’. In marking the bicentenary of its publication, this conference will focus on the telling of stories and the imagining of communities in Crabbe’s nineteenth-century oeuvre including Poems (1807), The Borough (1810), Tales and Tales of the Hall (1819). Its aim is to test Jerome McGann’s claim (in an essay published in 1981) that Crabbe is ‘a writer whose true historical period has yet to arrive.’

Abstracts should be submitted by 13 January 2012 to edwardsgavin@hotmail.com or michael.rossington@ncl.ac.uk. More information on the conference can be found here.

Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment

June 15-16 2012, Edinburgh University

This two  day disciplinary conference aims to bring back the senses and the sensuous back to the monstrous or deformed body, and to explore the questions, anxieties and denials which surround deformity when it is located within a continuum of sense.

Abstracts should be submitted by 31 January 2012 to sdefconference@ed.ac.uk. More information about the conference as well as a frequently updated blog of interesting and relevant material can be found here.

Joan Leach Memorial Interdisciplinary Essay Prize 2011/2012

The Gaskell Journal is pleased to inaugurate its Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder and president of the Gaskell Society.

The essay competition is open to all graduate students currently registered for an MA or PhD in Victorian Studies. Preference will be shown to essays with a clear interdisciplinary focus, i.e. those that consider Elizabeth Gaskell within contemporary Victorian cultural, aesthetic and scientific debates, or else, through recent critical theory.

 

The winning essay will be published in the 2012 edition of the Gaskell Journal and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, as well as a year’s free subscription to the journal. The closing date for the essay prize is April 30, 2012.

Please see the Gaskell Journal website for further submission details.