Calls for papers
Call for Papers
LEON EDEL PRIZE
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in the Henry James Review.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Please send the manuscript in Microsoft Word format.
Send electronic submissions to: hjamesr@creighton.edu
Author's name should not appear on the manuscript. Please identify essays as submissions for the Leon Edel Prize. The competition is limited to one submission per author.
A brief curriculum vitae should be included.
Decisions about regular publication are also made at the same time as the prize decision.
Deadline: November 1, 2019
LEON EDEL PRIZE
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in the Henry James Review.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Please send the manuscript in Microsoft Word format.
Send electronic submissions to: hjamesr@creighton.edu
Author's name should not appear on the manuscript. Please identify essays as submissions for the Leon Edel Prize. The competition is limited to one submission per author.
A brief curriculum vitae should be included.
Decisions about regular publication are also made at the same time as the prize decision.
Deadline: November 1, 2019
The Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Conference, Chicago
November 14-17, 2019
Call for Papers 2019
The Henry James Society seeks proposals on the conference theme of “Duality, Doubles and Doppelgänger”as it relates to the life and/or works of Henry James.
Topics could include, but are by no means limited to:
Annual Conference, Chicago
November 14-17, 2019
Call for Papers 2019
The Henry James Society seeks proposals on the conference theme of “Duality, Doubles and Doppelgänger”as it relates to the life and/or works of Henry James.
Topics could include, but are by no means limited to:
- Doubles, doppelgängers, brothers, twins, mirror images, hauntings
- Identity, transcultural identity, psychology studies, cultural studies, literary criticism, gender studies
- Film and operatic adaptations of James’s fictions
- Duality in pedagogy, doubles in the classroom (the professor’s persona, teaching Gothic and other generic doubles and duplicities, the student-teacher relationship/dichotomy, teaching with various methods, digital teaching, hybrid and on-line teaching vs face-to-face; the use of avatars)
- Double-meanings (linguistics, semantics, multiple interpretations)
- Duality of texts and parataxis
- Double entendre: humor, jokes, dark humor, all aspects of laughter (laughter as a social construct, laughter as a cultural construct)
- Translations and translators (translating double meaning, cross-cultural interpretation, choosing the right word, translating the word vs translating the idea)
- Reproductions, mass productions, copies, reproducing the written word (printing press, typewriter, consumerism, capitalism)