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Posted by on 2022-02-23
Transatlantic Studies Association20th Annual ConferenceThe 2022 Annual Conference of the TSA will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, 4-6 July 2022.Submissions are invited for the conference. The extended deadline for panel and paper proposals is 20 March 2022. The TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in a variety of [...]
Posted by on 2022-02-10
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. C21 Literature is a logical development of the explosion of interest in 21st-century writings, seen in book groups, university courses, and the [...]
Posted by on 2022-02-09
This international Conference at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, to be held on 16-18 September 2022, investigates contemporary British writing published after the fall of the Berlin Wall, whose narrative focus lies on the Eastern and Central European past of the Cold War period – the so-called ‘second world’.The CfP can be found below and on the conference website. The deadline has [...]
Posted by on 2022-01-22
Unfortunately, we have had to cancel this seminar due to take place on 27th May. Apologies for the inconvenience. Our next online seminar will be on Friday 24th June. Further details coming soon - save the date.
Posted by on 2021-12-16
Alluvium issue 9.6 is out now. Find out more about the issue, edited by Emma Catan, Franca Leitner and Sofie Schrey, here.
Posted by on 2021-10-31
The next BACLS online seminar will take place on Friday 26 November 2021, 2-3:30pm.Following our October seminar on academic book publishing, BACLS is running a seminar on publishing in academic journals. We have four guest speakers: Chris Louttit (English Studies), Melissa Schuh (C21), Martin Paul Eve (Open Library of Humanities) and Martin Goodhead (Alluvium). Their presentations will be [...]
Posted by on 2021-10-01
The next BACLS online seminar will take place on Friday 22 October 2021, 2-3:30pm.Representatives from Bloomsbury, Edinburgh and Duke UPs give advice and answer questions on publishing for PGRs and early career scholars.This is the first of a series of seminars on publishing. Future events will explore in more detail the writing of book proposals (for monographs and edited collections), and [...]
Posted by on 2021-09-07
We are delighted announce the winners of the BACLS 2020 prizes. Read more here.
Posted by on 2021-09-06
This issue unites its articles under a thematic umbrella of highlighting underrepresented voices and genres. These articles discuss works of writing that are not widely represented within our received canon, whether such under-representation pertains to the kinds of stories they tell, social groups they foreground, or genres they occupy. All four articles in this September issue of Alluvium [...]
Posted by on 2021-09-01
Special Issue "Eyes on the Prize: Women’s Writing and Literary Awards"Call For PapersPapers on the above topic are invited to be published in the online, peer-reviewed Humanities Journal. Further information here. The deadline for an abstract of around 200 words is 30 September 2021. The submission date for the paper is 30 June 2022 and the editor, Dr. Jane Dowson, is looking for [...]
Posted by on 2021-08-20
QUB Postgraduate Book Club will be in Conversation with Joseph O'Neill on 14 September 5-6pm on MS Teams. Register here.
Posted by on 2021-08-06
This year’s BACLS Annual General Meeting will take place online from 9.30-10.30am on Friday 3rd September 2021.All BACLS members are warmly encouraged to attend - the online meeting link for the meeting will be circulated closer to the time. See the agenda here. We look forward to seeing you there!