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Post-Conference Note: 19th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English

19th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English“The Relational Turn in the Literary Anglosphere: Writing Connection and Interdependence”

Location and Date: University of Zaragoza, May 21–23, 2025

We are pleased to share a few glimpses from the 19th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English, held at the recently renovated Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Zaragoza. Under the title The Relational Turn in the Literary Anglosphere: Writing Connection and Interdependence, the conference brought together scholars from across the globe to reflect on literature’s role in expressing and shaping new paradigms of relationality, care, and interdependence in today’s world.

The event featured four distinguished plenary speakers:

  • Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  • Rosario Arias (University of Málaga)
  • Gordon Henry (Michigan State University)
  • John McLeod (University of Leeds)

Over the course of three intellectually vibrant days, participants engaged in a wide range of discussions on topics including Indigenous cosmologies, posthumanist ethics, affect theory, environmental humanities, transmodernity and transmodern feminism. Beyond the academic exchange, the conference itself became a living embodiment of its theme: relationality was not only discussed, but truly enacted in the spirit of dialogue, mutual care, and shared experience.

We believe the success of the event lies precisely in this meaningful convergence of scholarly inquiry and human connection. The conference was part of the activities of the research project Literature Of(f) Limits: Pluriversal Cosmologies and Relational Identities in Present-Day Writing in English (LimLit)” (PID2021-124841NB-I00) and the research group “Contemporary Narrative in English” (H03_23R), University of Zaragoza.

Tenured Professorship in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies

Tenured Professorship in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies
University College of Teacher Education Vorarlberg (Pädagogische Hochschule Vorarlberg), Feldkirch, Austria
Start date: October 1, 2025
Application deadline: July 3, 2025
Contact for inquiries: ingrid.gessner@ph-vorarlberg.ac.at
Job ad link (German): 
https://bund.jobboerse.gv.at/sap/bc/jobs/#/details/00505684EFE71FD090A2F4A5831B4108

The University College of Teacher Education Vorarlberg is the leading research and training institution for teacher education in the region of Vorarlberg, Austria.

Requirements

  • Completed doctoral degree; ideally a habilitation or internationally equivalent qualification
  • Relevant publications in the field of Anglophone literary and/or cultural studies
  • Research or demonstrated teaching expertise in at least two of the following areas: gender, diversity, digitality, sustainability
  • At least four years of experience teaching at the university level in Anglophone literary and cultural studies as well as language proficiency
  • Preferably, professional teaching experience in English at a secondary education institution in Austria or abroad
  • Higher education teaching competence with a focus on innovative, reflective, and student-centered learning
  • Willingness and ability to engage in collaborative, research-driven, and project-oriented work with colleagues
  • Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, including a commitment to diversity
  • Familiarity with the Austrian school and education system
  • Team spirit and respectful engagement with students and colleagues

Responsibilities

  • Teaching in the field of Anglophone literatures and cultures as well as language proficiency (primarily within teacher education programs for secondary education)
  • Conducting research projects and acquiring third-party funding
  • Collaborating with national and international educational institutions (including universities, research partners, and regional organizations)
  • Engaging with stakeholders in the educational landscape of Vorarlberg
  • Cooperating with faculty colleagues and supporting foreign language assistants
  • Supervising and evaluating Bachelor’s and Master’s theses
  • Willingness to contribute to institutional committees and governance bodies

What We Offer

  • A supportive, collegial work environment
  • Active exchange of knowledge and collaboration in educational development
  • A monthly salary (14x/year) of at least €3,427.30 (PH1) or €3,570.30 (ph1), plus a monthly allowance of €654.53. Previous relevant experience may raise the salary in accordance with Austrian federal regulations. Final salary classification is determined upon appointment by the Austrian Ministry of Education.

Anglo-Iberian Studies

Anglo-Iberian Studies (Book Series Peter Lang). Permanent CFP.

Issue edited by Dr. Puga (rogerio.puga@fcsh.unl.pt) and Dr. Martínez-García (martinezlaura@uniovi.es)

Publication presentation

“Anglo-Iberian Studies” is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed book series that aims to showcase innovative research in the interdisciplinary field of AngloIberian Studies. The collection provides a platform for comparative and critical scholarly work on historical, artistic, literary, cultural, scientific, commercial and religious relations between Portugal and Great Britain, Europe’s oldest allies (Anglo-Portuguese Studies), and between Spain and Great Britain (AngloSpanish Studies). The aim of the collection is to foreground areas of multidisciplinary connections between the Iberian Peninsula and Great Britain, as well as between Portuguese- Spanish- and English-speaking communities all over the world. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The series publishes books in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. We are especially interested in work that brings new intellectual impetus to recognized research areas.

Website address

https://www.peterlang.com/series/anis

Contact details

Dra Martínez-García (martinezlaura@uniovi.es).

CFP

For further details, please check the original call inserted below.

Essay Prize Competition

P G Wodehouse Society (UK) Essay Prize 2025

To mark the 50th anniversary of P G Wodehouse’s death in 2025, the P G Wodehouse Society (UK) is excited to launch its second essay prize competition open to everyone, everywhere. P G Wodehouse’s output was prolific, from poetry, to lyrics for stage and screen, short stories, journalism and novels. “The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles”, so Wodehouse once said, and his writings have provided lighthearted relief from the trials and tribulations of the world to millions of readers worldwide. A prize of £750 will be awarded to the winner of the competition.  

The Prize will officially launch on Sunday 1 June and entries will close on Monday 17 November 2025 at 23:59 GMT. All of the information for the prize, including full guidance, judging process and FAQs will be found on the Society’s webpages from the launch date: https://www.pgwodehousesociety.org.uk/essayprize

The guidelines for the Prize are as follows:

  • Word count of 3,000 to 6,000 words, excluding footnotes and bibliography. 
  • Essays need to be formatted in the MHRA style
  • While the Society does not want to be restrictive in the areas or topics that may be covered (and understand that literary critical essays often draw on illuminating historical and contextual engagement), we are primarily seeking essays that focus on Wodehouse’s novels, stories, lyrics, plays, and journalism, rather than essays of a purely biographical nature. 
  • Comparative essays are acceptable, but the focus of the essay must be on Wodehouse. 
  • Works submitted for publication elsewhere will not be considered, and the Society will run a plagiarism check on potential shortlisted essays to verify. 

If anyone has any questions about the Prize, please email Dr Becky Andrew (Chair of the Essay Prize) at PGWSocietyUKEssay@gmail.com

For more regular updates, you can find the Society on social media – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pgwodehouseuk; Instagram/Threads: @pgwsocietyuk; BlueSky: @pgwsocietyuk.bsky.social. 

Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology, new series

The new series is called “Words about… / les mots de…”. The first issue, co-edited by Frank Arnould (Inist – CNRS, France), Stéphanie Béligon (Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France) and Céline Souchay (Université de Grenoble Alpes, LPNC UMR 5105, France) is devoted to the theme “Les mots de la mémoire / Words about memory”. This new series is resolutely interdisciplinary, and aims to bring together various disciplines by questioning the “words of…”. The first issue, with an introduction and 10 articles, is freely available here: https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/8888?lang=en

Contents

Introduction

Frank Arnould, Stéphanie Béligon and Céline Souchay, Introduction: Words about Memory [Full text]

Papers / Articles

Frank Arnould, CogMemo: a standardized, structured and formalized terminological repository on human memory [Full text]

Rémi Digonnet, Take a trip down memory lane : une approche contrastive des métaphores de la mémoire [Full text]

Charlène Meyers, The conceptual metaphors of memory: Cases of interdomanial nomadism from computer science to quantum computing [Full text]

Maria T. De Monte, Memory in the signifying body. An insight into lexicon from different sign languages [Full text]

Victoria Beatrix Fendel, Crossing thresholds: the lexicalization and performance of memory in early imperial funerary inscriptions from Sicily [Full text]

Natalia Cziganj, Spiritual and Medical Dimensions of the Language of Memory in Middle English Texts [Full text]

Isabelle Luciani, Quand l’écriture entre dans le quotidien : les mots de la mémoire dans les livres de raison (Provence, fin xve-xviiie siècles) [Full text]

Kourken Michaelian, Shin Sakuragi and Vilius Dranseika, Trends in philosophy of memory: A quantitative approach [Full text]

Julien Alliot, The psychoanalytical investigation of memory: a subversion of subjectivity [Full text]

Claire Garnier-Tardieu, A lover’s dictionary of Kathleen Raine [Full text]

Temporary Lectureship in English Literature

University lecturer in English, with specialization in literature, 1.8.2025-31.7.2026

Åbo Akademi University wishes to appoint a university lecturer in English, with specialization in literature. The employment is fixed-term for the period  1 August 2025 until July 31 2026. The appointment is full-time. 

The university lecturer will work in the subject English Language and Literature, within the Study Programme of Languages in the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology (FHPT) in Turku (Finland).

Details here.

Book Announcement: Perceiving-Thinking-Writing

Title: Perceiving-Thinking-Writing: Merleau-Ponty and Literature
Author: Donald Wesling
Publisher: Sciendo, 2024

Year of publication: 2025
Volume in the series: HJEAS Books

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/9788367405959

Presentation

Donald Wesling’s leading argument, drawn from a crossover theory of the humanities, has philosophy and literature in a relation of constructive interference. What is common to both disciplines is the attempt to understand the necessary but often forgotten act of perceiving within the embodied mind. Wesling asks and answers: How does perceptual content enter thinking and writing?

His topics include a redefinition of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology as a big-hearted rationality; quantum interference as a metaphor for thinking and also for the relation of self to the outer surround of things and persons; nine key terms from Merleau-Ponty as applied to the practical reading of poems and stories; the role of the sentence as an energy that structures thinking and writing; ordinary creativity and co-creativity.

Overall, Wesling emphasizes that the meaning for the humanities, now, may be found in Merleau-Ponty’s belief that future work will be a search for “a secondary, laborious, rediscovered naïveté” and that in this pursuit “our relation to what is true must pass through others.”

This book is open access. Click to download: https://sciendo.com/book/9788367405959?top-tab=description

The European Journal of English Studies (EJES) is currently looking for a new book review editor

EJES takes an interest in topics that investigate the borders and  intersections between different research fields in English  studies, including, but not limited to, literary analysis, linguistics, critical and cultural theory, and gender and sexuality  studies. This expansive focus allows the journal to encompass the plurality of English studies in Europe, a reflection of its affiliation with the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).  

The journal is looking for a book review editor.  

Tasks 

▶ Evaluating the content and suitability of books that are proposed for review within the  journal;
▶ Commissioning and editing 6-9 book reviews per year;
▶ Participating in editorial meetings 

Requirements 

▶ A PhD in the field of English studies;
▶ An excellent research track record marked by an interest of English studies in its  variety, sustained by relevant publications and close integration in the international  scholarly community.

Recruitment process 

Please send a brief CV (up to 4 pages) and a cover letter (1 page), explaining prior  experience, reasons for applying and perspective on the book reviews section, to the  EJES General Editors, Isabel Carrera Suárez, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Frederik Van  Dam at: 

by 28 February 2025.

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in March (online).

Vacancy: Assistant / Associate professor or Professor of English Literatures

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of

Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor of English literatures

The successful applicant may be appointed to a permanent professorship or a fixed-term assistant or associate professorship (tenure track system), depending on their qualifications and career stage.

Job description

The successful applicant is expected to be an internationally oriented researcher who, in addition to their own area of expertise, is also familiar with other research approaches in English literatures. We are looking for a versatile literary scholar who possesses skills that align with the University’s strategy as well as the priorities of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Languages. Research in English literatures at the University of Helsinki covers the entire field from early modern literature to contemporary literature, including English-language world literature. Research approaches represented include narrative approaches, cognitive research, and literary history.

Details here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Assistant-Associate-professor-or-Professor-of-English-Literatures/812482602

Book Announcement: Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics

Title: Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics
Author: Laura Colombino
Publisher: Routledge

Year of publication: 2025
Volume in the series:
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
ISBN: 9781032660677

Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of Ishiguro’s fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters – their sense of responsibility and pride in service, their attempts at self-determination and the value they assign to loyalty, love and friendship. Ethics in Ishiguro’s work is structured around the tension between the limits of the characters’ agency and their striving towards the good. On the one hand, they are tied to the existential condition of being in the world, which acquires a distinctively Heideggerian quality of thrownness; on the other, they aspire to the good in the Platonic sense. Ishiguro’s novels are shown to tackle fundamental ethical questions posed by ancient Greek philosophers, especially Plato, and modern Western ones, from Adam Smith through Jean-Paul Sartre to Martha Nussbaum. What is the human soul? What is dignity? What does it mean to be human? These issues are expressed in his narrative world through the universal and timeless language of myths, allegories and images that are both ancient and modern as well as cross-cultural. The book makes use of onomastics and intertextuality to uncover unexpected layers of philosophical, literary and artistic allusions with which Ishiguro shapes his ethical concerns. 

Details: Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics – 1st Edition – Laura Colombino – Routledge

Book Announcement: British Theatre and Young People

Title: British Theatre and Young People
Edited by: Uğur Ada
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032746876
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003470434
312 Pages

British Theatre and Young People gathers together new and original studies on the issues, theories, practices and perceptions which characterise British theatre about, for, by, and with young people in the 21st century. Interrogating the critical relationship between theatre and young people today, the book brings together perspectives on theatre about, for, by, and with young people and presents it as an art form in its own right. The first part of the book focuses on applied and socially engaged theatre practice with young people, illustrating the ways in which theatre can highlight inclusivity, well-being, community and politics among young people. Part two presents essays on adaptation and appropriation, generally looking at how classic texts have been adapted for young audiences. Finally, the last part of the book looks at the ways in which British Youth Theatre and practice in the UK has impacted regional and national theatre scenes. Highlighting this rich and active community and practice, this edited collection paints a picture of the state of theatre for and by young people in the UK today. British Theatre and Young People is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre studies and applied theatre with an interest in British theatre. 

The preview of the book has been published. You can check it out and download it for free. It is also available for pre-order on February 5, 2025. Item will ship after February 26, 2025.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003470434/british-theatre-young-people-u%C4%9Fur-ada

https://www.routledge.com/British-Theatre-and-Young-People-Theory-and-Performance-in-the-21st-Century/Ada/p/book/9781032746876

Vacancy: Tenure-Track Professor of Applied Linguistics (English)

KU Leuven is hiring a Tenure-Track Professor in Applied Linguistics, with a focus on English.

We offer a full-time position with teaching duties at the university’s Antwerp Campus in the Dutch-taught Bachelor of Applied Language Studies and Master of Multilingual Communication. This position should be of interest to junior colleagues holding a PhD in (Applied) Linguistics with a focus on English, with research expertise in either multilingualism & language acquisition or in multilingual communication, and with strong quantitative methodological skills.

Details in the complete document inserted below.

Book Announcement: Negotiating Age: Aging and Ageism in Contemporary Literature and Theatre

Title: Negotiating Age: Aging and Ageism in Contemporary Literature and Theatre
Edited by: Mária Kurdi
Publisher: Sciendo
Volume in the series: HJEAS Books
ISBN: 978-83-67405-44-7

Many societies in the world today are challenged by the rapidly escalating phenomenon of an aging population with its unique problems and needs that call for being addressed both in daily life and in research. From the end of the last century onward, age studies has developed as a comparatively new discourse within the humanities which, necessarily, tends to explore crosscurrents between aging, ageism, feminism, gender, class, dis/ability, and so on. Arguably, aging does not always refer to the state of being fairly advanced in years but can appear as the experience of any age group, underscoring the culturally constructed and inculcated nature of experiencing one’s age and its shaping contexts. This collection of essays published in the HJEAS Books series began as a themed block of five essays on age and aging in literature and theatre included in the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (2020.2). Six new essays and a note about a recent and very timely theatre event in Ireland were then added. The authors are from Britain, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Writers whose novels or works for the stage are discussed in the collection include Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Edward Bond, John M. Coetzee, Brian Friel, Ronald Harwood, Martin McDonagh, Frank McGuinness, Conor McPherson, Arthur Miller, David Mitchell, Tom Murphy, and Tennessee Williams. The essays draw on up-to-date theoretically and critically focused reference literature and on observations of critical gerontology and international age studies. The analyses demonstrate the importance of aging for writers, readers, and theatre audiences alike.

Open-Access link: https://sciendo.com/book/9788367405423

More about the series: https://sciendo.com/series/HJEAS-B

Book Announcement: Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada

Title: Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada
Edited by: Balázs Venkovits
Publisher: Sciendo
Volume in the series: HJEAS Books
ISBN: 978-83-67405-46-1

The collection of essays in this volume of HJEAS Books explores the history of immigration to Canada from Central and Eastern Europe, spanning a period of approximately one hundred years and adding fresh perspectives and methodological approaches that enrich scholarly discourse in the field. The chapters written by authors from the USA, Canada, Belgium, France, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary highlight differences in the migration trajectories of people from various countries of the region, while also shedding light on the shared experience of immigrants of different time periods. The chapters provide valuable insights for migration studies, as well as the history of the Americas and Europe, and study the topic of immigration to Canada from a broad array of vantage points, among others, exploring the complex migration pathway from the places of emigration to Canada, the impact of race, ethnicity, and religion on migration, inter-American aspects of immigration to Canada, the contributions of immigrants to the evolving image(s) of Canada in Central and Eastern Europe, and the representations of immigration in literature, arts, and music. 

Open-Access link: https://sciendo.com/book/9788367405454

More about the series: https://sciendo.com/series/HJEAS-B

Conference Report: H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us

H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us (University of Siedlce, Poland), 21 September 2024

On 21 September 2024, the H. G. Wells Society held its international conference ‘H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us’. Organized by Dr Maxim Shadurski of the University of Siedlce (Poland), the event took place at Voluntary Action Islington in London and brought together delegates from eight countries: the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Poland, India, and the Philippines. During the day, 17 papers were presented, including plenary talks by David Shackleton of the University of Cardiff (UK) and Gregory Claeys of Royal Holloway University of London (UK). Discussions focused on the relevance of Wells’s legacy in twenty-first-century contexts, analysing issues such as deep time and history, anthropocentrism, posthuman geology, the fate of Earth and its inhabitants, coevolution, degradation and symbiosis of humans and nonhumans, as well as the harmful impacts of extractivism on climate, life, and matter.

Lexis HS3: The Impact of Multilingualism on the Vocabulary and Stylistics of Medieval English

Issue has been edited by Richard DANCE, Sara PONS-SANZ and Louise SYLVESTER

Contents

Introduction

Richard Dance, Sara M. Pons-Sanz and Louise Sylvester, Introduction [Full text]

Papers

Kateryna Krykoniuk and Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Trends in the development of vocabulary for emotion and cognition in English: A millennial perspective [Full text]

Richard Ingham, Loanwords and polysemy: An investigation of specialized domain lexis in Middle English [Full text]

Louise Sylvester and Megan Tiddeman, Lexicalization, polysemy and loanwords in anger: A comparison with non-affective domains in Middle English [Full text]

Gloria Mambelli and Johanna Vogelsanger, The church and the manor: Assessing and comparing the effects of language contact on two Middle English lexical domains [Full text]

Olga Timofeeva and Christine Wallis, Social ties and negotiation of lexical norms in Old English: The vocabularies of vices [Full text]

Max Fincher, Revising Layamon: The Otho scribe and his French additions [Full text]

Christine Wallis, Annina Seiler and Heather Pagan, Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536 [Full text]

EJES 2026

The European Journal of English Studies is inviting proposals for special issues in volume 30 (2026). 

EJES takes an interest in topics that investigate the  borders and intersections between different  research fields in English studies, including, but not  limited to, literary analysis, linguistics, critical and  cultural theory, and gender and sexuality studies.  This expansive focus allows the journal to  encompass the plurality of English studies in Europe, a reflection of its affiliation with the European  Society for the Study of English (ESSE). Topics of  special issues feature high-level scholarship as well  as a reflection on the argumentative strategies  behind ongoing work and emerging directions in the  study of Anglophone language and culture. 

Guest editing teams should consist of two or three scholars who work in different locations within Europe and who have some previous editorial experience. In some cases, EJES publishes  issues that have grown out of a conference or a conference panel. Such issues can be  considered if the resulting CFP also appeals to scholars who did not participate in the original  event. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process. 

Proposals for topics for volume 30 (2026) should be sent to the editors before 30 November  2024: 

  • Isabel Carrera Suárez (University of Oviedo): icarrera@uniovi.es 
  • Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou (Artistotle University of Thessaloniki): katkit@enl.auth.gr
  • Frederik Van Dam (Radboud University, Nijmegen): frederik.vandam@ru.nl 

Procedure 

  1. Aspiring guest editors submit a CFP of 300-500 words to the general editors. This document includes a list of leading questions (for examples, see the current CFPs on  the ESSE website), and brief biographies of the guest editors. 
  2. The general editors select new topics for the issues before the end of 2024. The chosen  CFPs are edited to cohere with EJES’s aims. 
  3. During the following calendar year, the resulting CFPs are distributed widely.  Abstracts for potential submissions are collected in the spring of 2025 and are  reviewed by the guest editors and general editors. 4. Selected authors are then invited to submit full-length essays of between 6,000 and  8,000 words by November 2025. These essays are peer-reviewed and appear in the  EJES issues scheduled for 2026.

Full professorship in English Literature and Culture at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

The University of Salzburg invites applications for a tenured full professorship in English Literature and Culture. The position will become available in the Department of English and American Studies (Faculty of Arts and Humanities) as of 1 October 2025.

Details in the document inserted below.

Book Announcement: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown

Title: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities.
Edited by: Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, Conrad Scott.
Publisher: Routledge.
ISBN 9781032385914.

This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements.

Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the chapters in this volume home in on critical topics such as posthumanism, multispecies futures, agency, political ecology, environmental justice, and Indigenous and settler-colonial environmental relations. The book asks: how do pandemics and ecological breakdown show us the ways that humans are deeply interconnected with the more-than-human world? And what might we learn from exploring those entanglements, both within creative works and in lived reality? Brazilian, Indian, Polish, and Dutch texts feature alongside classic literary works like Defoe’s A Journal of a Plague Year (1722) and Matheson’s I Am Legend(1954), as well as broader takes on movements like global youth climate activism. These investigations are united by their thematic interests in the future of human and nonhuman relationships in the shadow of climate emergency and increasing pandemic risk, as well as in the glimmers of utopian hope they exhibit for the creation of more just futures.

This exploration of how pandemics illuminate the entangled materialities and shared vulnerabilities of all living things is an engaging and timely analysis that will appeal to environmentally minded researchers, academics, and students across various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.

About the editors:

Heather Alberro is a Senior Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development in the Department of History, Heritage and Global Cultures, Nottingham Trent University. She also serves as co-convenor for the Political Studies Association’s (PSA) environmental politics specialist group and as a member of the PSA’s Executive Committee.

Emrah Atasoy, an Associate Professor of English, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), working in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Nora Castle is currently a Lecturer at the University of Bonn. She received her PhD in 2023 from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK, where she also completed an Early Career Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study.

Rhiannon Firth is a Lecturer in Sociology of Education at IoE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. She co-leads the MA modules Sociology of Education and Gender, Sexuality and Education, and is Program Leader for the MA in Sociology of Education.

Conrad Scott, PhD, is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, and is an Individualized Study Tutor for the University of Athabasca’s Honours English course “The Ecological Imagination,” where he holds a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

Endorsement statements

“Fully globalized, immediately connected, yet still radically unequal in resources and protections, humanity has now become aware of itself as a species in a new, more urgent way: when pathogens and environmental disruptions strike, how can past experiences and their representations provide perspective, balance, and hope? This book provides answers.” (James Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA)

This book is a collection of diverse and passionately engaged explorations of the way we live now. It is imbued both with a sense of the traumas of (post)apocalypse and a hope that human and non-human species can find ways to survive into futures that are not simply continuations of a present scarred by pandemics, extinctions, and the eco-injustices of global capital. The essays here are international in scope, multiplex in their critical methodologies, and comprehensive in their coverage. They provide resources for thinking about how to move into futures in which, through this “breakdown,” we take our non-anthropocentric place as one of the many species co-existing in an ecosystem that encompasses all life on the planet.” (Veronica Hollinger, Editor, Science Fiction Studies, and Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies, Trent University, Canada)

“As the introduction describes, this timely book emerged out of a dark and precarious contemporary moment, in the world and in the field of utopian studies. By bringing together this collection of cutting-edge studies by such a diverse mix of scholars addressing one of the most disruptive and destructive events of recent times, the editors have delivered an insightful and impactful counterpoint to official and normative invitations to despair and capitulate. This volume is itself an act of utopian annunciation in the face of official denunciation. Read it, hope, and act.” (Tom MoylanProfessor Emeritus in the School of English, Irish, and Communication, and member of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland)

More: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown

The book and/or individual chapters can be downloaded via the following link: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown

Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), Fall 2024 General Issue

An international biannual print and online publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.

The Editorial Board welcomes articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines, as well as comparative studies of the United States. The Board also welcomes movie and book reviews for each issue. Standard Book Reviews should be no longer than 1500 words although depending on the book being reviewed. They may be shorter or longer. Book reviewers should discuss the length of the review with the editors before writing. 

The Journal of American Studies of Turkey is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and the Classificazione ANVUR delle riviste scientifiche (Italy). It also appears in the Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and the MLA Directory of Periodicals. It can be accessed online (see the sidebar), in print, and through the EBSCO and Dergi Park databases.

The copyright of all material published will be vested in the Journal of American Studies of Turkey unless otherwise specifically agreed. This copyright covers exclusive rights of publication of printed or electronic media, including the World Wide Web. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material for which they do not own copyright.

The deadline for the Fall 2024 issue is September 20, 2024.

Please see our submission guidelines for more information.
Please use the following link for general submissions: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jast

Correspondence should be directed to:

Nisa Harika Güzel Köşker
Editor-in-Chief
Ankara University, Turkey
nisahguzel@gmail.com

Tarık Tansu Yiğit
Editor
Başkent University, Turkey
tariktansuyigit@gmail.com

Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies

CFP for Vol. 5 (2026)

Annual deadline: September 15

Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies welcomes research articles and reviews related to all subjects in the field of English Language and Literature. The journal is an international, double-blind peer reviewed journal which offers open access to all. The scope of the journal covers theoretical, critical and thematic contexts regarding English Studies, including English literature, linguistics, translation, cultural studies and all other related subjects. Authors are to submit complete, original and full length articles (4000-8000 words) and reviews (1000-2000 words) which have not been published or under evaluation elsewhere. Please use the submission template uploaded on the journal website before sending the article for submission. All articles will be scanned for plagiarism via Ithenticate. If any instances of plagiarism are found during any of the stages of publication (reviewer evaluation, editorial reading and typesetting) the article will be rejected and the author will be notified immediately. Citation manipulated articles, or in other words, articles that are submitted to increase the citation number of a specific author will be rejected directly.

Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies is currently indexed in MLA and ERIHPLUS and under evaluation for TR Dizin.

Please submit your manuscript using the link below. 

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/3914/submission/step/manuscript/new

For further information: overtonesege@gmail.com

Editor

Dr. Begüm Tuğlu Atamer
tuglubegum@gmail.com
Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies
Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Letters
Ege University
35100 Bornova / Izmir/ Turkey

For details about Procedure and Stylesheet, please check the original call inserted below.

2024 Book Awards Shortlist

ESSE Book Awards 2024

For books first published in 2022 and 2023 (date on imprint page of published book)
Category A is open for all books
Category B is for the first book only

ESSE Book Awards Ceremony

Monday, August 26, 2024, 14.00, Lausanne
ESSE-17 Conference opening 13.30

Shortlists

In alphabetical order

1. English language and linguistics

    Category A (Open)

    1. Di Martino, Emilia. Indexing ‘Chav’ on Social Media: Transmodal Performances of Working-Class Subcultures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
    2. Lawson, Robert. Language and Mediated Masculinities: Contexts, Cultures, Constraints. Oxford University Press, 2023.
    3. Mattiello, Elisa. Transitional Morphology. Combining Forms in Modern English. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

    Category B (First book)

    1. Pettersson-Traba, Daniela. The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy. De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. 
    2. Rasse, Carina. Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and Interpretation. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022.
    3. Sánchez Fajardo, José A. Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022.

    2. Literatures in the English language

      Category A (Open)

      1. Brasme, Isabelle. Writers at War: Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden. Routledge, 2023.
      2. Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792. Oxford University Press, 2022.
      3. Mukherjee, Ankhi. Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor. Cambridge UP, 2022.
      4. Rowland, Antony. Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry. Cambridge UP, 2022.
      5. Sell, Jonathan P. A. Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos. Routledge, 2022.

      Category B (First book)

      1. Armie, Madalina. The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Tradition, Society and Modernity. Routledge, 2023.
      2. Callison, Jamie. Modernism and Religion: Between Orthodoxy and Mysticism. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
      3. Pan, Caterina. Popular Theatre in Early Modern England, Germany and Italy (1570—1640): A Study in Intercultural Theatricality with an Analysis of Engelische Comedien und Tragedien (1620). Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2023.
      4. Suoranta, Esko. The Sky Above the Port Was the Color of Capitalism: Literary Affordance and Technonaturalist Speculative Fiction. University of Helsinki, 2023.
      5. Van Dijck, Cedric. Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

      3. Cultural and area studies in English

        Category A (Open)

        1. Parageau, Sandrine. The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France. Stanford UP, 2023.
        2. Rose, Arthur. Asbestos – The Last Modernist Object. Edinburgh UP, 2022.

        Category B (First book)

        1. Gómez-Muñoz, Pablo. Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns. Routledge, 2023.

        Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology. Issue 23 | 2024

        The Phonology-Lexicology interface / À l’interface de la phonologie et de la lexicologie

        Co-edited by Christophe COUPÉ, Quentin DABOUIS, Olivier GLAIN & Vincent HUGOU

        Introduction

        Christophe Coupé, Quentin Dabouis, Olivier Glain et Vincent Hugou

        Introduction: The Phonology-Lexicon Interface [Texte intégral]

        Papers / Articles

        Pierre Fournier

        The impact of source languages on the stressing of loanwords in English [Texte intégral]

        Semra Baturay-Meral

        Phonological templates and the lexicon [Texte intégral]

        Mael Farina

        Groaning and grunting: Investigating sound correspondences in the English lexicon [Texte intégral]

        Chris A. Smith

        Rah-rah! Investigating the variation in phonosemantic motivation in a set of iconic nouns expressing the concept <enthusiasm energy vitality>. A diachronic semantic approach [Texte intégral]

        Laetitia Sansonetti

        What a difference a digraph made: phonetic spelling and the assimilation of the word “armada” in Early Modern English [Texte intégral]

        Website

        https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/6568