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Posted by on 2021-01-29
BACLS members are invited to contribute to the first event in the BACLS 2021 Seminar Series, which will address emerging best practices in pedagogy during the pandemic.This year many BACLS members across the country have been trying out new teaching methods and adapting to digital classrooms - whether on Zoom, on online-learning platforms, or in socially distanced spaces on campus. However, [...]
Posted by on 2020-12-07
Alluvium Journal 8.3 is now available to read online here. This issue explores “Contemporary Representations of Homelessness“.
Posted by on 2020-10-05
New open-access articles and reviews are available to read online in the C21 Journal. The C21 journal is also open for article submissions.
Posted by on 2020-09-04
Alluvium Journal invites proposals for 2,000—2,500 word articles on contemporary representations of homelessness. Abstract Deadline: 15 September 2020Article Deadline: 17 October 2020Please see the Alluvium Journal for more information on the submission criteria.
Posted by on 2020-08-07
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the BACLS prizes for research published in 2019:The BACLS Monograph PrizeTimothy C. Baker, Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)The BACLS Edited Collection PrizeSharae Deckard & Stephen Shapiro (eds), World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of [...]
Posted by on 2020-07-22
The new issue of Alluvium is now available online. Issue 8.2, “Locating the Centre in Contemporary Literature” is guest edited by Dr Daniel South and Dr Lola Boorman.
Posted by on 2020-06-24
We are pleased to announce the results for our latest Executive Committee Elections. The BACLS Executive Committee would like to thank our outgoing Publicity Officer, Rachel Sykes, and our outgoing Graduate Student Representatives—Chloe Ashbridge, Caroline Wintersgill and Zoe Bulaitis for their hard work. We are excited to welcome Zoe Bulaitis, as our Publicity Officer, and our three new Graduate [...]
Posted by on 2020-06-17
Papers for our Virtual Conference - Crisis in Contemporary Writing - are now available via our website: Registration will remain open until 22nd June:
Posted by on 2020-05-21
Deadline: 14th June 2020Nominations are now open for Publicity Officer (three-year term) and three Graduate Student Representatives (two-year term) on the BACLS Executive Committee.To be eligible to stand for these posts you must be a current member of BACLS. Graduate Student Representatives must be a full- or part-time graduate student at a UK university, or no more than one year after the [...]
Posted by on 2020-05-09
This Special Issue of Humanities calls for papers on twenty-first-century Brooklyn fictions. By “Brooklyn Fictions,” I mean novels and short stories set wholly or partly in New York City’s most populous borough, and ones that explicitly engage with Brooklyn’s neighbourhoods as distinctive communities. Although it has become a commonplace to declare, often ruefully, that “Brooklyn has changed,” [...]
Posted by on 2020-05-06
Alluvium journal issue 8.1 edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Andreas Theodorou is now available to read online.
Posted by on 2020-04-29
The British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) is pleased to invite abstract submissions for a virtual conference on the theme of Crisis in Contemporary Writing, to be held on Friday 26 June 2020.We invite paper proposals on contemporary representations of “crisis” understood broadly. Our choice of theme is prompted by the Covid-19 public health crisis, which has focussed minds [...]