Call for Submissions: Collision Magazine, University of Pittsburgh

Collision, a literary magazine based at the University of Pittsburgh, is currently open for submissions of undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. By submitting to the annual magazine, students will also be considered for the magazine's writing and cover art competitions.

Submissions for the annual magazine close Friday, February 19, but are read on a rolling basis. You can find more information about the magazine and our submission guidelines at www.collision.pitt.edu. Please direct any questions to editor in chief Hannah Woodruff at collision.pitt@gmail.com.

Dr. Jean Lutes to Speak on White Supremacist Violence and the Assault on the US Capitol -- February 18

Please join Villanova English professor Dr. Jean Lutes for an event on the January 6 assault on the Capitol and the history of white supremacist violence in the US. 

Dr. Lutes will be joined by Robert M. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities Judy Giesberg for a discussion of recent political events, history, racism, and democracy. This ACS-approved event will be held on Zoom Thursday, February 18 from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m, and is sponsored by the departments of History and English. You can register here. 

Johns Hopkins University's Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

Villanova English majors are invited to apply for Johns Hopkins University’s second annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium. 

The symposium was designed to offer students across the country the chance to gather together and disseminate their humanities research on a national scale. Due to COVID, last year's symposium was a virtual event, with 359 participants and more than 10,000 visits to the conference site to date. This year’s event will be virtual as well, held live on April 24 and 25, 2021. The conference application portal is now open.

This symposium is open to undergraduate students from any two-year or four-year college or university who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. The organizers hope to have 400 participants this year.

In addition to the multiple panels of student papers and presentations (including original creative works), there will be e a keynote speech delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional development panels featuring Johns Hopkins graduate students and faculty and editors from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome to attend. Attendees will also have the opportunity to work with our student editors to revise their presentation into a journal-length presentation for our journal of proceedings, the Macksey Journal.

 

You can learn more about the event at the conference site.

Call for Submissions: Laurel Moon

Laurel Moon, a national literary magazine based at Brandeis University, is accepting submissions for its next issue. For this issue, the editors will be accepting original, unpublished work written in English: up to five poems and three prose works from each author. They will also accept ten pieces of artwork and photography per submission.

The submission deadline for the upcoming issue is March 15, 2021. But the editors are offering one-on-one feedback to writers seeking guidance on any creative writing piece that they submit before February 20.

Call for Submissions: Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal

The Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2021 issue and is issuing a call for papers to all interested undergraduates and recent graduates.

The editors invite research papers from all those working in, around, or critically engaging with literary topics in a comparative nature. Papers in any language are welcome. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Papers comparing at least two authors or texts
• Interdisciplinary research engaging multiples disciplines within the humanities
• Research engaging with literary theory and schools of criticism

To review submission guidelines and submit your paper, or to view past issues of CLUJ, please visit the journal's submissions page.

 

Submissions will be accepted until March 1st 11:59 p.m., Pacific Time.

A Conversation with Dr. Travis Foster: Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States - February 8

On Monday, February 8, Villanova English professor Dr. Travis Foster will join Dr. Lara Langer Cohen (Swarthmore College) and Dr. Edlie Wong (University of Maryland) for a conversation about his recently published book Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States. The event starts at 7.30pm. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.

Schedule for 2021 Villanova Literary Festival