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Posted by on 2021-08-06
A reminder that BACLS-WHN 2021 will be held online on 2nd and 3rd September, with keynote presentations, sessions to support teaching and research, Contemporary Conversations panel, discussions with writers, and opportunities to meet and socialise with members. The conference is free for members.PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE HERE.REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE HERE.Do join us!
Posted by on 2021-06-25
Research sheds new light on the teaching of contemporary British literature in global higher educationBritish literature has always been a popular area of study in UK universities, but new research has revealed for the first time how and where contemporary British literature is being taught in Higher Education institutions around the world.Find out more: Write Now Report
Posted by on 2021-06-03
Guest speakers: Sharae Deckard (University College, Dublin), Stephen Shapiro (Warwick) and Jenny Bavidge (Cambridge)In the fourth in our series of online seminars, to be held on 11th June 2021, 2pm - 3.30pm, we are very pleased to welcome Sharae Deckard and Stephen Shapiro, editors of World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent, which won the BACLS Essay Collection Prize in [...]
Posted by on 2021-05-28
CFP Polysèmes 27, Spring 2022Joseph Conrad’s famous preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897) - “My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see ” - has time and again been quoted by Ian McEwan when questioned about the nature of his writing. McEwan thus explicitly claims to write “visual” [...]
Posted by on 2021-04-28
The British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) is pleased to invite abstract submissions for its virtual conference, to be held on Thursday 2 September and Friday 3 September 2021. We welcome proposals for individual papers and for three- or four-person panels.Please send panel proposals of no more than 400 words, and paper abstracts of no more than 250 words, with brief [...]
Posted by on 2021-04-23
Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification (Organisers: Nick Bentley and James Peacock) BACLS members are warmly invited to attend a free online symposium on Friday 7 May, 2 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. There will be nine papers from scholars based in Canada, Germany, the USA and the UK. These papers take intersectional approaches to the gentrification of urban spaces as it has been [...]
Posted by on 2021-03-31
Following the successful “Pandemic Pedagogies” and “Reflections on Research” sessions, the third of the BACLS online seminars, to be held on Friday 23 April 2021, 2 – 3.30 p.m., focusses on matters of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all areas of our current (and future) work. This is a good moment for BACLS members to reflect on EDI as a contemporary collective, to share concerns, problems, [...]
Posted by on 2021-03-27
The BACLS Monograph Prize, The BACLS Edited Collection Prize and The BACLS Postgraduate Essay PrizeEntries are invited for work published in 2020 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’. BACLS Executive Committee members will judge the entries and award prizes to the submissions they consider to be the best in each category. The winners of the Monograph Prize and [...]
Posted by on 2021-03-09
Alluvium has a new special issue out, devoted to Twenty-First Century Irish Women’s Writing. You can read it here.
Posted by on 2021-03-03
Following the successful “Pandemic Pedagogies” session in February, the second of the BACLS online seminars, to be held on 26 March 2021, 2 – 3.30 p.m., focusses on research matters. Just as we have been adapting our teaching practice in response to Covid restrictions, we are also having to consider the effects that the pandemic is having on our research – both in terms of what we are [...]
Posted by on 2021-02-10
We are currently accepting offers of interest to host the biannual BACLS-WHN main conferences in summer 2023 and 2025. Please send your application as an attachment to bacls.whn@gmail.com by the end of the day on Friday 30 April 2021. Full call available here.
Posted by on 2021-02-08
The French Society for Contemporary British Literature Studies (SEAC) is holding its annual conference in Avignon on 14-15 October 2021. The conference's theme is 'Disrupting' the City: Urban Cris(e)s in Contemporary British Literature and Art. You can find out more about the conference on the Society's website. Proposals are due before 15th April 2021. Full CFP attached.