We invite paper proposals for a panel called “New Directions: H.D. and/or Her Circle” at this year’s South Atlantic MLA in Jacksonville, FL, November 4-6, 2016.

Papers may focus on work by H.D. and/or any of the many writers, filmmakers, and artists in her circle (Bryher, Kenneth MacPherson, Marianne Moore, Richard Aldington, Robert Herring, Sigmund Freud, John Cournos, Ezra Pound, and Paul and Eslanda Robeson constitute a partial list). The thematic focus of the panel is open to a range of new approaches, though we welcome papers that address SAMLA 2016’s conference theme, “Utopia/Dystopia: Whose Paradise Is It?”

Please send 250-word abstracts, a brief bio, and A-V requests to rawalsh@ncsu.edu by May 15, 2016.

For more information about SAMLA 2016, please visit

https://samla.memberclicks.net/

The Ezra Pound Society is organizing the following panel as a guaranteed session at the Modern Language Assn. Convention, January 5-8, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA. Due to an electronic glitch this CFP does not appear on the MLA website, but it does appear on the Ezra Pound Society website.

CFP: “Pound, H.D. and Bryher”:

Examinations of H.D.’s and Bryher’s engagement/disengagement with Pound’s aesthetics, literary works, and political activities throughout their careers. 250-word abstract and a brief bio. by 28 March 2016 to Demetres Tryphonopoulos (tryphonopoulosd@BrandonU.ca) and Sara Dunton (sara.dunton@unb.ca).

Please direct any preliminary questions to Sara Dunton. For more information about MLA 2017, here is the conference website:

https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2017

Please contact Sara Dunton with any preliminary inquiries

Paper proposals are invited for an H.D. International Society panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 18-20, 2016. This is a welcoming conference that is hosted each year by the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY and which typically features a healthy mix of academic and creative writing presentations. Keynote speakers on the program will include Rodrigo Toscano, Johanna Drucker, Mat Johnson, and Lisa Gitelman.

This call for papers is open topic: we are happy to consider work attending to any aspect of H.D. and/or her circle as we field a cohesive panel. Please send 250 word abstracts and a brief bio to Rebecca Walsh, rawalsh@ncsu.edu, by Monday, September 14 (please note that the Louisville conference organizers have extended their own deadline to Sept 15). Feel fee to get in touch with any questions.
For more information, please visit the conference website:

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The study of H.D., the many other modernist figures in her orbit, and the many modes in which she worked has often focused on aesthetic revolution (language, form, genre) and cultural revolutions (gender/sexuality, and lately national identity). This panel seeks to build on and expand the revolutionary frame by inviting papers that either re-evaluate this existing terrain or shed new light on H.D. and/or her circle by considering transformations in technology, science, media, culture, translation, notions of history or of the everyday, and/or in particular literary movements or genres. Each paper ideally will thus link H.D. and/or those in her circle to at least one other modernist phenomenon. Send brief bios and 500 word abstracts by April 15 to Celena Kusch (ckusch@uscupstate.edu)

The 2015 MSA Conference will be held in Boston, Nov. 19-22, 2015. For more information, see: https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa17/CFP.html

“H.D. and Feminist Poetics” Conference: Call for Papers and Panels

Department of English, Lehigh University in Bethelem, PA, September 17-19, 2015

To commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of Lehigh University, the Department of English will host a conference that celebrates the life, works, and legacies of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania’s own Hilda Doolittle. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels that explore a wide range of approaches to the conference’s theme, “H.D. and Feminist Poetics.” In addition to proposals that examine the emergence, evolution, and nature of a feminist poetics in H.D.’s works, we also welcome papers or panels that address feminist poetics more broadly, whether by focusing on the poetry of H.D.’s contemporaries or by considering the legacies of H.D.’s feminist and poetic influence.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) feminist poetics and:

• Gender and sexuality
• Modernism/Imagism
• Queer poetics
• Religion/mysticism/spirituality
• Psychoanalysis
• War/violence
• Literary salons/print culture/female literary communities

The conference will also feature an “H.D. and Biography” roundtable that showcases new and emerging biographical projects focusing on H.D. herself or on individuals who were significant in her life. We welcome proposals to participate in this roundtable discussion. Additionally, we invite proposals for fully formed roundtable sessions on other topics as well.

 Submission Details:

 For individual papers, please send a 250-word proposal and a brief scholarly biography.

For panels of three or four, please send – in one document – a proposed panel title and a 250-word abstract for each paper, along with a brief scholarly biography for each presenter.

For the biography roundtable, please send a 250-word description of the biographical project along with a brief scholarly biography. To propose a roundtable session on another topic, please send – in one document – a 500-word description of the roundtable along with a brief scholarly biography for each participant.

Send proposals to Jenny Hyest at jehc@lehigh.edu. For the e-mail subject line, please use: “H.D. Conference Proposal.”

Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2015

The  H.D. International Society will again be sponsoring a panel at the American Literature Association conference, May 21-24, 2015, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. The call for paper proposals is open ended, although projects working with some aspect of biography would be particularly welcome given the recent publications of H.D. editions and their scholarly framings as well as new interest in critical biography. Please send a brief paper proposal (250 words) along with a biography/CV to Rebecca Walsh, rawalsh@ncsu.edu, no later than January 26, 2015.

Here is a link to the ALA site for more information about the upcoming Boston, MA convention:
http://americanliteratureassociation.org/calls/annual-conference/

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The 25th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, sponsored by Bloomsburg University, will take place in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, June 4-7, 2015. The topic, Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries, seeks to contextualize Virginia Woolf’s writing alongside the work of her contemporaries. This unprecedented number of women writers — experimentalists, middlebrow authors, journalists, poets, and editors — was simultaneously contributing to, as well as complicating, modernist literature. In what ways did these burgeoning communities and enclaves of women writers intersect with (or coexist alongside) Virginia Woolf?

Conference organizers welcome proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and visual art exhibits from literary and interdisciplinary scholars, creative and performing artists, common readers, undergraduates, students, and teachers at all levels. Submissions should relate to Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries and may emphasize either the development of enclaves or specific female subcultures or individual writers who were contemporaneous with Virginia Woolf. Deadline: Jan. 24, 2015

Note: To reach Bloomburg University of Pennsylvania, conference participants should fly to Newark, where a conference shuttle will bring participants to Bloomsburg, and affordable housing will be available in a newly renovated residence hall.