Postgraduate-led journal of The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (@BACLS_official) | 21st-century literary criticism | ISSN 2050-1560.
✨Call for Papers: BACLS What Happens Now 2023 Conference✨
6 September University of Birmingham
8 September online
Panel proposals & abstracts for the BACLS WHN 2023 Conference can be submitted until 19 May 2023.
Full CfP & more details on our website:
https://t.co/qHrwtWjozb
Our new issue is published today! A bumper special issue of Alluvium on C21st Irish Women’s Writing – guest edited by @dsm_houston & @darling_orlaith All open access, as always. You can read all about the articles in Dearbhaile and Orlaith’s editorial here https://t.co/5MwJYtczuU
@HDJvanDam The domain and email are currently down and is being sorted. Not 100% sure on timeframe at the moment but we'll keep everyone posted! Thanks, Emma
@KitSchusterAca We hope you enjoy reading the excellent articles in Issue 10.2 of Alluvium! If you are working on 21-st century writing, check out the journal website for some great research and consider sending in your work. Cheers!
Issue 10.2 is now out! https://t.co/ZMrMsxLh4J Thanks to @KitSchusterAca, Sophie Bartle and Jasmin Lieberwirth for guest editing, and all contributors!
@KitSchusterAca Finally, in her article "Reimagining Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Living in Virtual Spaces and Cyber Autocracy in Hank Green’s 'The Carl Saga'" Alyssa Whiting considers the potential of the Internet to build and break communities.
https://t.co/iSK8nNtQ91
@KitSchusterAca Elsie Unsworth’s (@ultimatedot) article “‘Is There No Alternative?’: Capitalist Realism and Genre in Contemporary Political Fiction” examines if the genres of British social realism and speculative fiction imagine worlds beyond capitalism.
https://t.co/Yjl2liSbJD
@KitSchusterAca Next, Orlaith Darling discusses three novels about working in the arts industry in a capitalist world in her article "Something as definitionally useless as art’: Contemporary Women Writers’ Künstlerromane and the Possibility of a Beautiful World"
https://t.co/x2e5203NaS
@KitSchusterAca Carleigh Garcia, in her article "Shamrock Social Norms: Security, Catholicism, and Shame", explores the socially-conditioned nature of shame in the context of Catholicism in Ireland as seen in John McGahern's autobiographical novel "The Dark" (1965).
https://t.co/pJEZo1ZPyI
@KitSchusterAca The Editorial for Issue 10.2 observes that the contributors examine adversity and the resulting "struggles, losses, and triumphs" in a selection of international texts exploring how literature can critique injustices and imagine better futures.
https://t.co/HSdkAqbmrd
Hello from your incoming @BACLS_official graduate student reps, and new managing editors of @AlluviumJournal! Looking forward to reading some fantastic contributions in the coming year!
The next BACLS Virtual Seminar will take place on Friday 24 June at 2 p.m. UK time. @JenniferACooke will present "Editing a Prize-winning Essay Collection: a How-to Guide," sharing her experiences editing the BACLS 2020 prize-winning book, The New Feminist Literary Studies.
Vacancy for a Lecturer in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling
@CaroWintersgill is happy to chat to anyone who is potentially interested in this role
Deadline 6 June!
https://t.co/5JAak8v2gW
Call for Papers
Our guest editors are looking to commission articles for this year's general issues! More details on our website. Please share widely.
https://t.co/mqKrL6vQ9t
✨Voting for the 2022 Executive Committee Elections is now open!✨
You can read the statements from nominees on our website: https://t.co/dOC4F8OwNA
Please cast your vote by using the online form linked on the website. The elections will close on 6th June.
Call for Papers
Our guest editors are looking to commission articles for this year's general issues! More details on our website. Please share widely.
https://t.co/mqKrL6vQ9t
✨EXTENDED DEADLINE✨
The deadline for the BACLS Edited Collection Prize has been extended to 20th May.
Further details about our prizes, and how to submit a nomination, are available on our website: https://t.co/MbENFEaQ2Q