CFP Using Popular Culture in the Classroom Collection (8/1/2026)

Of related interest:

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Using Popular Culture in the Classroom

deadline for submissions:
August 1, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Josef Vice and Laura Getty

contact email:
jvice@purdueglobal.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/04/21/call-for-chapters-using-popular-culture-in-the-classroom

Call for Chapters!

Using Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching Traditional Skill Sets with Popular Culture Artifacts





Editors: Laura Getty, University of North Georgia (lgetty@ung.edu) and Josef Vice, Purdue University Global (jvice@purdueglobal.edu)



Deadline for submitting chapter proposals (400 words): August 1, 2026

Notification of acceptance: ongoing, no later than September 1, 2026

Provisional deadline for essay draft submission (approximately 5,000-8,000 words, including teaching resources): December 31, 2026



Proposals are sought for essays for a volume that critically examines using popular culture to teach traditional skill sets in the classroom. A wide range of voices and perspectives would be particularly valuable and welcome. We welcome chapters that address skill sets across disciplines, especially skill sets in STEM courses. We have submitted a formal proposal to McFarland Press, and they have already expressed interest in the book.



Chapters should explain how instructors can use popular culture artifacts in specific classroom assignments in place of and/or to supplement traditionally used materials. They should include one or more pop culture artifacts from any medium: from film, TV, and literature to music, sports, and video games, plus many other options. Specify the skill sets that are taught, with examples and explanations. Chapters should also include resources (for example, class discussion questions) that could be used to support classroom instruction.



Submissions: Submit your proposal and short bio no later than August 1, 2026 to both lgetty@ung.edu and jvice@purdueglobal.edu



Last updated April 21, 2026

CFP Fostering Interpretive Communities in the Classroom and Research through Adaptation Studies (Roundtable) (Virtual) (9/30/2026; NeMLA 3/6-9-2027)

Fostering Interpretive Communities in the Classroom and Research through Adaptation Studies (Roundtable) (Virtual)

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2026

58th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Salve Regina University (Newport, RI)/Online.

Hybrid event: 6-9 March 2027


This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

Rationale

Explorations of adaptations offer many ways to investigate the conference theme of Empowering Communities. Adaptations, especially contemporary ones, create opportunities for inclusion that may not have been present in the source. This forges a new space for receivers of the text to connect to its narrative. Highlighting how and why these new works appeal to and have an effect on us can help our students (and ourselves) relate to older material and see the ways that a story can find new relevance.

Topics might include adaptations that recast, reset, and/or restage a text; adaptations that rewrite and/or reboot a text; adaptations that expand texts (such as prequels, midquels, or sequels); and adaptations that present ways to remedy problematic texts and authors.

We welcome investigations of adaptations across all media, as well as adaptation within transmedia franchises/universes.

Submission Instructions

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22514 by 30 September 2026. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, Brief Bio, Media Needs, and Modality. This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

Notification on the status of your submission will be made by 16 October 2026. If accepted, NeMLA asks you to confirm your participation with the session chairs by accepting their invitation and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2026. For the 2027 Convention, registration will be the same for in-person and remote attendance. (See NeMLA’s Membership and Registration page, at https://www.nemla.org/about/members.html, for full details.)


Be advised of the following policies for the Convention: All participants must be members of NeMLA for the year of the conference. Participants may present on up to two sessions of any type. Registrants at NeMLA may not present the same abstract/paper on two different sessions. (See NeMLA’s Presenter Policies page, at https://www.nemla.org/convention/policies.html, for further details. Information on Session Types can be found at https://www.nemla.org/convention/sessions.html.)


NeMLA offers limited funding for travel to graduate students and to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty. Details can be found at NeMLA’s Travel Awards page at https://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.


Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com.


For more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please visit our blog, Mass Mediævalisms: The Middle Ages of Popular Culture, at https://MedievalinPopularCulture.blogspot.com/.

CFP Teaching the Middle Ages at the K-12 Level (10/1/2024; Symposium IMA 11/22/2024)

Teaching the Middle Ages at the K-12 Level

deadline for submissions:
October 1, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Illinois Medieval Association

contact email:
mwgeorge.51@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/02/teaching-the-middle-ages-at-the-k-12-level

Deadline for Proposals: October 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) November 22, online via Zoom

Medieval topics tend to intrigue elementary, middle-school, and high-school students. In a teaching environment where time is precious, how do teachers approach the Middle Ages? This session seeks papers addressing issues, opportunities, and innovations in the K-12 classroom to inform the larger community of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators about how the topic is approached at the K-12 level.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than October 1, 2024.

Last updated August 8, 2024

CFP Teaching the Middle Ages: Issues, Opportunities, and Innovations (9/11/2024; Symposium IMA 10/18/2024)

Teaching the Middle Ages: Issues, Opportunities, and Innovations

deadline for submissions:
September 11, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Illinois Medieval Association

contact email:
mwgeorge.51@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/02/teaching-the-middle-ages-issues-opportunities-and-innovations

Deadline for Proposals: September 11
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) October 18

In the last few decades, courses on the Middle Ages and medieval studies programs have been either cut or severely restricted in the United States. In fact, recently a variety of humanities programs have been on the chopping block, forcing and providing an opportunity for specialists in medieval studies to integrate our specialties into other courses. This year’s Illinois Medieval Association Symposium seeks to explore issues incorporating medieval studies into our curricula. We seek papers that deal with problems/solutions, opportunities, and innovations. Single papers (20-minute length) and, especially, full sessions are encouraged.

The 2023-24 IMA Symposium is distributed throughout the academic year, with sessions occurring on specific Fridays beginning at 2:00 pm Central time. All sessions are online via Zoom, and presenters can share their screens.

This session a general session on the topic. Papers and full sessions that don’t fit with the later topics are welcome.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than September 11, 2024.


Last updated August 8, 2024

CFP Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students: A Digital Symposium (10/1/2023; Zoom 12/4/2023)

An exciting project. Do consider giving it your support.

Call for Papers – Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students: A Digital Symposium

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Chris

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-teaching-the-middle-ages-and-renaissance-to-stem-students-a-digital-symposium/

We’re pleased to announce “Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students” digital symposium hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology‘s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, together with the Studies in Medieval Renaissance Teaching (SMART) December 4, 2023. The symposium will be held entirely on Zoom and brings together colleagues with professional experience at teaching medieval and Renaissance subject matter to student audiences mostly or entirely consisting of STEM majors.

“Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students” invites proposals for 15-minute presentations that explore teaching medieval and Renaissance subject matter to student audiences mostly or entirely consisting of STEM majors. The increasing importance of the sciences and technology at institutions of higher learning suggests that medievalists and Renaissance scholars also have an increased need to understand how we should respond to student audiences whose focus lies outside the humanities and social sciences. Are STEM students’ horizons of expectation and interest substantially different from those in art, history, literary studies, music, religion, philosophy, or sociology? Do these audiences (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) and their environments (labs, future- and progress-orientedness, linkages to industry, profession-ready education) demand that we adjust our themes, philosophies, and methodological approaches? How is the instruction of medieval and Renaissance subject matter structurally integrated for these audiences and environments?

How to participate

Please send proposals of c. 350 words, in an MS Word file attached to your email, to Lainie Pomerleau (lpomerleau6@gatech.edu) and Richard Utz (richard.utz@lmc.gatech.edu) by October 1, 2023. Please also indicate if you plan on submitting an essay version of your presentation for consideration for publication. Presentations will be delivered via Zoom and should be non longer than 15 minutes (approximately 6 to 8 double-spaced pages).

Session of Interest at MAPACA 2022: Teaching the Middle Ages Today

I'm pleased to announce the the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture is sponsoring a roundtable on teaching medieval topics at this year's meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association to be held online 10-12 November 2022. Access to the conference is through paid registration. Full details are available at MAPACA's website accessible from this link. 

Here are the full details:

Teaching the Middle Ages Today

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE / ROUND TABLE

Friday, November 11, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (The Paper Nautilus)

Presentations

Arthur for All: Curating an Open-Access Reader for the Arthurian Legends

Michael A Torregrossa (Independent scholar)

Teaching the Global Middle Ages

Angela Jane Weisl

A New Approach to Teaching Medieval History? Let Me Count the Ways

Pete Burkholder

Session chair

Rachael Kathleen Warmington (Seton Hall University)

CFP V International Congress of the John Gower Society: “Gower in Contexts: His Words, His Books, His Heritage” (9/1/2022; St Andrews, Scotland 7/7-10/2023)

V International Congress of the John Gower Society: “Gower in Contexts: His Words, His Books, His Heritage”

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/06/03/v-international-congress-of-the-john-gower-society-%E2%80%9Cgower-in-contexts-his-words-his

deadline for submissions:
September 1, 2022

full name / name of organization:
John Gower Society

contact email:
bgastle@wcu.edu



The John Gower Society invites proposals for presentations at the V International Congress of the Society, July 7- 10, with an optional excursion 11 July, 2023, on the campus of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. The Congress theme, “Gower in Contexts: His Words, His Books, His Heritage,” is broadly understood, to encompass: 

- interpretative, linguistic, and/or stylistic discussions of his poetry;

- books behind the books he wrote—his sources;

- published forms his work has taken, both in manuscript and print;

- his poetic legacy, including the nature and extent of his influence on his contemporaries and later writers;

- Gower in the classroom.

In addition to proposals for individual papers consonant with the Congress theme, full paper sessions and/or roundtables organized around a relevant topic are also encouraged.

Proposals of all types should be no more than 250 words in length, and sent to R. F. Yeager, President of the Society, via email at rfyeager@hotmail.com or alternatively to Brian Gastle, by either email bgastle@email.wcu.edu or by post, Department of English, 305 Coulter Hall, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723.

The deadline for receipt of proposals is 1 September, 2022.

N.B. Presenters originally scheduled for the cancelled 2020 Congress at Notre Dame may be included automatically in the 2023 program. If your paper was accepted for the 2020 Congress, and you wish to present at the 2023 Congress, please email R. F. Yeager (rfyeager@hotmail.com) with your updated title and a brief (a few sentences would be fine) precis if your focus has changed or developed significantly.




Last updated June 7, 2022

Opportunity: 2022 MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy (3/25/2022)

Another great opportunity to share:

2022 MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy

Source: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/2022-MLA-Institutes-on-Reading-and-Writing-Pedagogy




Through the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MLA hosts regional summer institutes to strengthen the teaching of English at access-oriented institutions (AOIs)—community colleges and other colleges that prioritize access over selectivity in admissions. Between 2019 and 2022, the association will have organized eight regional summer institutes for those who teach at AOIs and those who would like to make their teaching careers at them.

We invite applications for the 2022 regional institutes from doctoral students in English and related fields and from part-time and full-time instructors at access-oriented institutions.

Housing and meal expenses for the institute will be covered, and participants will receive a $2,500 stipend for their participation. Completion of the institute will qualify the participant to receive the MLA Certificate in Reading-Writing Pedagogy at Access-Oriented Institutions.



Institute Locations and Dates

University of Missouri, St. Louis: 6–10 June 2022

California State University, Los Angeles: 26–30 June 2022

Princeton University: 11–15 July 2022



Purposes and Outcomes of Participation

The institutes

• provide new and future faculty members with an understanding of the needs and circumstances of students at AOIs, who are primarily first-generation collegegoers, Pell Grant recipients, and students of color;
• provide new and future faculty members with intensive training in pedagogical theory and practices for the teaching of writing and reading together to improve writing instruction at AOIs and to nurture the study of the humanities in vocationally oriented educational settings;
• develop strategies for locally sustaining the collaborations started by the institutes; and
• renew conversation in the profession about relationships among literature, composition, and the humanities and build stronger connections between introductory writing courses and upper-level humanities courses.

Criteria for Application

Applications for participation in the regional institutes will be accepted from doctoral students in English and related fields and from part-time and full-time instructors at access-oriented institutions, especially community colleges, within the area of the host institution.

Applications must be submitted through Interfolio by 25 March and should include

1. Letter of application that speaks to your interest in and commitment to collaborative inquiry and how this institute will address your goals for professional development as a teacher of the humanities
2. CV
3. Two reference letters that speak to your commitment to the humanities and your teaching at an access-oriented institution
4. Statement of teaching philosophy (up to 500 words)

We provide the following questions for you to use if they are helpful to you:

• What are the key dilemmas that you have faced in teaching students to read and write in your courses? How have you attempted to address them?
• What essential questions about the teaching of reading and writing continue to shape your approach to teaching, and how might they be related to issues of access in higher education?
• What scholarship in literary and writing studies informs your teaching and your community work?
• How would you like this institute to help you address current issues of access on your campus in reading/writing pedagogy for the humanities?

Apply now

CFP Many Ghosts of Hamlet (3/15/2022; Spec Issue of Theory and Practice in English Studies Journal )

Many Ghosts of Hamlet

deadline for submissions: March 15, 2022

full name / name of organization: Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University

contact email: thepes@phil.muni.cz

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/01/26/many-ghosts-of-hamlet

Many Ghosts of Hamlet

Special Issue of Theory and Practice in English Studies Journal 11/1 (Spring 2022)

Issue Editor: Anna Mikyšková (Masaryk University)

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play with unprecedented cultural currency and has influenced generations of people from all walks of life. Oceans of ink have been spilled in analyses of Hamlet and its story has been redefined, reshaped and reconceptualized in all ways and languages imaginable. Since new meanings are constantly being assigned to the play, the aim of this issue is to collect recent diverse perspectives on Hamlet’s afterlives, reimaginations and cultural experiences shaped by the story of the Danish prince. We hope to show the variability and relevance of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy and the scope of the cultural influence of the many ghosts of Hamlet.

We welcome articles which address (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Hamlet in performance,
• Hamlet in translation,
• adaptations and appropriations of Hamlet,
• echoes of Hamlet in works of art and popular culture,
• reception of Hamlet in non-Anglophone cultures,
• experiences of theatre professionals with Hamlet,
• Hamlet in modern society and its relevance for current social phenomena,
• Hamlet in education curricula.

Please submit paper proposals of no more than 300 words by 15th March 2022. The deadline for article submission is 30th April 2022, the expected length being between 3,000 and 6,000 words. See our publication guidelines for more information. We also welcome contributions by postgraduate students and early-career researchers.

The proposals are to be sent to thepes@phil.muni.cz.


Last updated February 1, 2022

CFP Balancing Acts: Finding Time for Work and Scholarship (Roundtable) (9/30/21; NeMLA 3/10-13/2022)

CFP Balancing Acts: Finding Time for Work and Scholarship (Roundtable)

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

For the 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association

To convene at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, Maryland, from 10-13 March 2022

Proposals due by 30 September 2021

In connection with the conference theme of “Care”, this roundtable seeks to create a conversation about how we specialists of literature and languages might find a balance between our careers as teachers/workers with our lives as scholars/researchers. We face similar obstacles to achieving success. Can we work together to create a solution? 

Call for Papers

Like many, we specialists of literature and languages often stretch ourselves incredibly thin: as teachers/workers and as scholars/researchers. Many of us work multiple jobs as adjuncts, have temporary or precarious contracts, or teach overloaded schedules; others labor outside the academy. When, then, is there time for our own research, for conferencing, for writing, for publishing? 

This roundtable seeks to present a real-time discussion of these problems within English and language studies and hopes to try and find active answers to these questions. Rather than a presentation of papers, this is conceived as a traditional speaking roundtable: the presenters will have a few remarks prepared, but, ideally, this will serve as an academic conversation to jumpstart a larger, more necessary discussion amongst professionals about how and why finding a balance between working and scholarship is necessary, particularly in our fields. 

While this roundtable may appeal more to early-career academics, we encourage tenured and tenure-track faculty to participate in the conversation: Their contributions will only add to the greater picture of the emerging viewpoints of the field and can lead to some concrete solutions and suggestions for scholars to help find the balance that is necessary to be successful, both in one’s work and in one’s own research goals and agenda.

Guiding Questions:

• How can you balance an overloaded course schedule with a research requirement?
• How can you remain active in research and teach full-time/overtime?
• How can adjuncts/temporary faculty find time to do anything other than find a job?
• What do you do when your job isn’t in your field, and you can’t find time to do research or write?
• Are there organizations that can help with these issues?
• What do you do if you don’t have departmental support?
• How do you find the time to write and do research?
• How do you balance being a professional with your personal life? 
• How do you balance teaching, research, and service with personal health?

Submissions should be made directly into NeMLA’s conference management program at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19225. Potential presenters will need to create an account with NeMLA to submit a proposal (including a presentation title, brief abstract--not more than 250 words--of some talking points addressing our major questions, academic bio, and AV needs)and to become members of NeMLA should their proposal be accepted for the session. Notice of acceptance will be made after 1 October 2021. Please go to the website nemla.org for details about session types and presenter guidelines.

Please address any other questions to the session organizers at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com. We also welcome suggestions for resources (in print or online) that might be of value to the panel and its audience. 

CFP Saving the Day: Advice on Publishing in Popular Culture Research (Roundtable) (9/30/21; NeMLA 3/10-13/2022)

 CFP Saving the Day: Advice on Publishing in Popular Culture Research (Roundtable)

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

For the 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association

To convene at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, Maryland, from 10-13 March 2022

Proposals due by 30 September 2021

Finding where to submit our research is an issue for many, especially for those working on popular texts, like anime, comics, games, and genre fiction. Too often, the scholarship “dies”. It remains part of our CV or lesson plan but fails to reach the wider audience it deserves. This roundtable seeks published scholars to present on approaches to finding the right “fit” for work in popular culture and to relate their experiences with the processes of publication all in the hopes of encouraging others to get their work out into the world. 

Call for Papers

Many scholars working with popular culture have had their work feel largely out of place when looking at calls for papers or submitting to journals and edited collections. For example, papers on medievalist games tend to get rejected from strict medieval journals, and staunch comics studies collections focus on the medium and presentation of image rather than the adapted narrative of Frankenstein. Where, then, do we turn to publish our research? And, can anyone help us to do so?

This roundtable seeks published scholars to share their experiences within Popular Culture Studies. How have you achieved success in finding the right “fit” for your work in publications? Can you relate your experiences with the process of acceptance, peer review, revision, and final publication? Our goal is to help new and emerging scholars working with popular culture texts to more easily navigate the various CFPs and submission processes and to learn how and why their work may or may not fit for certain publications or publishers.

We welcome and, indeed, encourage submissions that span the genres of popular culture studies (including anime/manga, fantasy, games, horror, Internet video and memes, medievalisms, and science fiction) and that might highlight perspectives from various specialties (including classics, ecocriticism, feminism, LGBTQ+, romanticism, etc.). The more widespread the discussion, the more we can begin to expand the conversation about approaches to finding publication opportunities and the processes therein, both for new scholars and for those shifting into popular culture from another field. We also hope to begin to create a larger understanding of how and why many popular culturalists remain unpublished or remain relatively unknown outside of a few groups. 

Submissions should be made directly into NeMLA’s conference management program at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19224. Potential presenters will need to create an account with NeMLA to submit a proposal (including a presentation title, brief abstract of 250 words detailing your experiences with and approaches to publication in popular culture, academic bio, and media needs) and to become members of NeMLA should their proposal be accepted for the session. Notice of acceptance will be made after 1 October 2021. Please go to the website nemla.org for details about session types and presenter guidelines.

Please address any other questions to the session organizers at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com. We also welcome suggestions for resources (in print or online) that might be of value to the panel and its audience. 

Notice MAA 2021 Conference (4/15-18/21)

 Just came across this as well.

The program and registration information have been posted for the following event:

96th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

Indiana University Bloomington

15-18 April 2021

Further details at the conference website. Most of the events are said to be remote. 

I see a number of papers/sessions on medievalism and some devoted to pedagogy and professionalism. 

 

Our NeMLA 2021 Sessions

Details on our sponsored sessions this weekend. Apologies for the delay in posting. 

The 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association

Virtual event, 11-14 March 2021

Full details at http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/VirtualConvention-page.html.

 

Saturday, Mar 13 (Track 22): 09:00-10:15           

22.20 Can We Be More Than the Middle Ages? Medievalism Studies and Medieval Studies (Roundtable)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Chair: Carl Sell, Lock Haven University

Pedagogy & Professional & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"The Perverted Anglo-Saxon: White Nationalism in the Medieval Classroom"

Maggie Hawkins, New York University

"Medievalisms in the Medieval Literature Classroom, Or Attempts to Do Everything in One Semester"

Kara McShane, Ursinus College

"The Historical Novel. A Genre, Trespassing a Science-Literature Border?"

Paul Csillag, Universität Innsbruck

 

Saturday, Mar 13 (Track 23): 10:30-12:00           

23.42 Uncharted Medievalisms: Revealing the Medieval in Popular Fiction and Games

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Cultural Studies and Media Studies & Comparative Literature

"Queer Roleplaying Impulses: Building Neomedieval Narratives in Dungeons & Dragons"

Lars Johnson, Cornell University

"Wizard Male Privilege: A Literary History of Misogyny and Gendered Magic"

Richard Fahey, University of Notre Dame

"These Are Fighting Words: Challenging and Perpetuating the Status Quo"

Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University

"Arthurian Figures in the 41st Millennium: The Emperor and Roboute Guilliman in Warhammer 40,000"

Carl Sell, Lock Haven University

CFP New Chaucer Studies, Pedagogy and Profession vols 2 and 3 (9/1/2020)

Of potential interest:

New Journal: New Chaucer Studies, Pedagogy and Profession.

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/03/02/new-journal-new-chaucer-studies-pedagogy-and-profession


deadline for submissions:
September 1, 2020


full name / name of organization:
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession


contact email:
ncs.pedagogyandprofession@gmail.com




New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession CFP

The mission of the New Chaucer Society is to “provide a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age.” As the working conditions of those teachers and scholars change, this forum needs to expand to reflect those changes. For this reason, NCS is happy to announce the launch of a new on-line venue, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, hosted on the New Chaucer Society website. This peer-reviewed, open access site will offer brief essays on teaching, service, and institutional environments/ cultures. We would like to invite submissions for this new project from a wide range of contributors, including K-12 educators and independent scholars. We are particularly interested in essays that are immediately concerned with usefulness -- to readers across institutions and non-institutional settings.

Some areas for inquiry might include the following: teaching medieval literature in a Gen Ed curriculum and/ or in a K-12 context; recruiting graduate students for the study of medieval literature; the impact of curricular change on medieval courses; issues of hiring, tenure and promotion; the workings of professional organizations, journals, and conferences; graduate training for a shrinking number of academic jobs; outreach to the public and to colleagues in other disciplines; strategies for equity and inclusivity in teaching, recruiting, and hiring; strategies for addressing or rectifying institutional constraints (budgets, criteria for tenure, etc.). We also welcome collaborative essays or responses unified around a single topic.

We are now seeking contributions for Issue 2, #MeToo, and Issue 3, Open Topic. Please submit essays of 3000 words to ncs.pedagogyandprofession@gmail.com by September 1, 2020 for consideration in Issue 2, to appear March 15, 2021, or Issue 3, to appear July 1, 2021.



Last updated March 4, 2020
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CFP MAPACA Sponsored Sessions - Getting Medieval on Popular Culture (6/15/20; 11/5-7/20)

Getting Medieval on Popular Culture at MAPACA 2020

Submissions by 15 June 2020

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture seeks submissions for the following sponsored roundtable and papers sessions to be included in the Medieval & Renaissance Area for the 2020 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association to be held at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, Princeton, New Jersey, from 5-7 November 2020. 

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture is a community of scholars and enthusiasts organized to promote and foster research and discussion of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture and mass media. We share the Medieval & Renaissance Area’s commitment to expanding the corpus of Medievalism Studies and welcome research on neglected genres and media of modern culture. 

Making Medievalisms Matter (A Roundtable)

The goal of this session is on the professionalism of Medievalism Studies. We seek to highlight successful strategies for integrating popular representations of the medieval into our academic lives. Participants would share their experiences in researching, teaching, and (hopefully) publishing. 

Medieval Monsters Now (Papers Session)

Following two past sessions on monsters and medievalism, the goal of this session is to explore further examples of how medieval monsters continue to have an impact on the modern world. We are especially interested in recent examples, but discussions of depictions from any post-medieval era are welcome.

Nordic Medievalisms: Vikings and Their World in Popular Culture (Papers Session)

The Vikings remain enormously popular in modern culture and continue to elicit much discussion and debate. We seek to continue that dialogue at MAPACA with fresh insights into their depictions in popular culture.

Please send inquiries and paper proposals (paper title, 300-word abstract, A/V requests and a brief academic biography) to the organizers at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com.  Submissions are requested by 15 June 2020. 

All presenters must be members of Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association or join for the conference. Further details on MAPACA can be accessed at https://mapaca.net/. 

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture maintains a variety of blogs and discussion lists. Details on these activities can be found at our blog, Making Medievalisms Matter, accessible at https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/. 

The full Medieval & Renaissance Area call can be found at https://mapaca.net/areas/medieval-renaissance. 

CFP Reimagining “The Middle Ages” (9/15/19; Kalamazoo 2020)

Kalamazoo ICMS 2020: Reimagining “The Middle Ages”
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/08/07/kalamazoo-icms-2020-reimagining-%E2%80%9Cthe-middle-ages%E2%80%9D

deadline for submissions:
September 15, 2019
full name / name of organization:
Medieval Association of the Pacific
contact email:
miranda_wilcox@byu.edu


“The Middle Ages” are created and maintained by those who imagine them today, lending urgency to the project of narrating a global medieval that resists the field’s racist and nationalist myths. Given a need for new imaginaries:

• What prospects of medievalism arise when medieval sources are freed from their nineteenth-century creation myths?
• How do medieval depictions of cross-cultural encounter provoke new imaginaries?
• How might medievalists ethically incorporate premodern Indigenous and Pacific Rim cultural artifacts to imagine beyond, rather than replicate, settler-colonial and imperialist mode(l)s?
• What can medieval sources offer, imaginatively encountered in the public sphere or classroom, to new audiences?

We invite 15- to 20-minute papers employing a broad range of methodologies for the discursive goal of critically reimagining a global medieval studies. We use “global medieval” not only as geopolitical designation but also to indicate inclusive praxis that involves telling the Middle Ages (and considering how they’ve been told) and amplifying marginalized voices, sources, and medievalisms. Such praxis may include professional reflection and critical theorizing about the roles and responsibilities in reimagining and recreating “the medieval” and the challenges and opportunities of counter-narrating.

In keeping with MAP's organizational focus as an academic society whose membership, affiliated institutions, and mission statement embraces our position on the Pacific Rim, we aim to foreground the voices of medievalists of colour and Indigenous medievalists, and of scholars who work at the intersection of Indigenous and Pacific Rim cultures and medieval studies.

Please email abstracts of approximately 300 words with the Participant Information Form (available at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions) to Miranda Wilcox (miranda_wilcox@byu.edu) by September 15th, 2019.


Last updated August 7, 2019

From Iceland to the Americas Conference Information

I came across this on the Medieval Academy of America blog (http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/conferences-from-iceland-to-the-americas/). The organizers offer limited information on the conference, but it seems this could have been so much more. Details to date follow.


From Iceland to the Americas
September 24-26, 2018
https://notredame-web.ungerboeck.com/coe/coe_p2_details.aspx?eventid=20156&sessionid=ff8fblfa6fg5ff2fan

The medieval Icelandic sagas claim that around the year 1000 Leif Eriksson and other Nordic explorers sailed westwards from Iceland to a place they called Vinland. Although archeological evidence has verified only one small, short-lived Norse settlement in Newfoundland, the contact initiated by Leif has had an outsized impact on cultural imagination in and of the Americas. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, indeed, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, and now films and video games have all reflected a rising interest in the medieval Norse presence. In this three-day conference, 14 international authorities on archeology, mythology, literature, language, and cultural studies will gather to discuss this Nordic dynamic, not only exploring the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probing why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.



Speakers: Christopher Abram, Adolf Friðriksson, Dustin Geeraert, Simon Halink, Kevin J. Harty, Jón Karl Helgason, Verena Höfig, Seth Lerer, Emily Lethbridge, T. W. Machan, Amy Mulligan, Heather O’Donoghue, Matthew Scribner, Angela Sorby, Bergur Þorgeirsson.


Short version:

A three-day international conference exploring the impact that brief medieval Norse settlements have had on cultural imagination in and of the Americas – in novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films, and video games.

For additional information, contact Tim Machan (tmachan@nd.edu)


Promotional flier available for view at https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/events/2018/09/26/from-iceland-to-the-americas/.


REGISTRATION: (link)

Registration includes meeting materials, refreshments, reception, Monday 24th, and lunch on Tuesday 25th.
Faculty Registration $50
Graduate Students/Post Doc $20
ND/St Mary’s Faculty/Student/Staff $0



REGISTRATION deadline September 17, 2018

Medieval Worlds Resource

The Medieval Academy of America recently launched an new outreach site called Medieval Worlds: K-12 Learning Resources. There is not much content yet, but I with them luck with this worthwhile endeavor.

The site can be accessed at https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/medievlalacademyk12/home.

CFP Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (10/1/2017; PCAACA 2018)

CFP: Medievalism in Popular Culture
http://pcaaca.org/medieval-popular-culture-arthurian-legends/


PCA/ACA 2018 National Conference
March 28th – 31st, 2018 – Indianapolis, Indiana

The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Anglo-Saxon, Robin Hood, Arthurian, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:

• The Arthurian World
• Papers on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword may generate a dedicated panel to this film
• Children’s Books/Shows/Games (e.g. Coup, Carcassone, etc.)
• Medievalism in Advertising
• “Medieval” as a social and political signifier
• Medievalism in Game of Thrones
• Representations of medieval/Renaissance nobility and royalty in television (Reign, The White Princess, Wolf Hall, etc.)
• Robin Hood
• Medievalism and Teaching
• Board Games/Online Gaming and/or Cosplay
• Medievalism in Novels/Short Stories/Poems
• Potential panel on the novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

If your topic idea does not fit into any of these categories, please feel free to submit your proposal as well. I would like to encourage as much participation as possible, and depending on submissions, I may rearrange the topic groupings.

All papers will be included in sessions with four presenters each, so plan to present on your topic for no more than 15 minutes, inclusive of any audio or visual materials.

Panel submissions are also welcome on any topic of medievalism. If you would like to propose a panel, please submit your complete panel to me directly at cfrancis@bloomu.edu. Individual papers will then have to be submitted to the PCA online system (see below).

Submission requirements:

Please submit a title and a 250 word abstract to http://conference.pcaaca.org. All submissions must be directed to the online database. Be sure to indicate whatever audio/visual needs you may have. Traditionally, all rooms at the PCA/ACA conference provide a projection screen with sound capability. Presenters are required to bring their own laptops and any special connectors.

Deadline for submission: October 1st, 2017

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Christina Francis, Associate Professor of English, Bloomsburg University, at cfrancis@bloomu.edu.

SMART Fall 2016

Another recent issue of this exemplary journal. Back issues can be purchased at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart.


STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING

Fall 2016 (Volume 23, Issue 2)

QUEER PEDAGOGY (feature collection guest edited by Graham N. Drake)

• GRAHAM N. DRAKE Introduction to Queer Pedagogy (A Roundtable)
• MICHELLE M. SAUER Queer Pedagogy, Medieval Literature, and Chaucer
• SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING Queer Pedagogy in the Two-Year College
• LISA WESTON Queer Pedagogy, Medieval Literature, and the Writing of Difference

ELIZABETH WILLIAMSEN Foreign Territory: Teaching the Middle Ages through Travel Writing

JANE BEAL Reading in a Roundtable, Socratic Dialogue, and Other Strategies for Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

HILLARY M. NUNN and LAUREN A. SCARPA Student Encounters with Suicide in Julius Caesar

GAEL GROSSMAN Student Food Schema of the Medieval Diet Based on Self-Selected Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

CHRISTINA FRANCIS The Usefulness of Eli Stone to Teaching Medieval Narrative





HELEN DAMICO Book Review: Old English Liturgical Verse: A Student Edition, edited by Sarah Larratt Keefer

BRIGITTE ROUSSEL Book Review: Women and Writing c. 1340–c. 1650: The Domestication of Print Culture, edited by Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Phillipa Hardman

JENNY REBECCA RYTTING Book Review: Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200–1550, by Helen M. Jewell

SUSAN KENDRICK Book Review: Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, edited by Scott L. Newstock and Ayanna Thompson

RICHARD KAY Book Review: Bede and the End of Time, by Peter Darby

AILEEN A. FENG Book Review: Short History of the Renaissance, by Lisa Kaborycha

GLENN DAVIS Book Review: Old English Reader, edited by Murray McGillivray

STEPHEN F. EVANS Book Review: Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment, edited by Allison Levy