ENSFR 7th Annual Conference Manchester: Landscape and Temporality
Dates: 23-25 October 2023
Our annual conference is fast approaching. If you haven’t registered yet, please do so asap. The deadline is 20 October.

Our annual conference is fast approaching. If you haven’t registered yet, please do so asap. The deadline is 20 October.

University of Angers, France 22-24 June 2022 “The nomad has a territory; he follows customary paths; […] A path is always between two points, but the in-between has taken all the consistency and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own. The life of the nomad is the intermezzo.” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 380. “If the…
Short Fiction in Theory & Practice ISSN 2043-0701 | online ISSN 2043-071X 2 issues per volume | First published 2011 Special issue: ‘Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives’, guest edited by Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka (University of Debrecen) In 1972, seventeen-year-old Heather Scott submitted a memorable entry – ‘As Canadian as possible under the circumstances’ – to radio host…
We are editing a Handbook of the Short Story in the World for Brill as part of the series Handbooks of Literary and Cultural Studies, and we are looking for chapters on some specific topics (see below). We are well aware that the chapters are broad in their scope. Some of these chapters should have…
Conference Dates: Thursday 13 and Friday 14 March 2025 Location: Le Mans University, France (https://maps.app.goo.gl/nrrshiTddgof53vB7) Keywords: W. Somerset Maugham, Popular, Middlebrow and High Culture, Literary Criticism, Colonialism, Travel Studies, Gender Studies, Biography, Adaptations, Translations, Cultural Transfers, Propaganda Conference Format: In-person, but videoconference will be possible in specific cases Conference Languages: English; French a possibility for…
Conference “Modernism and Matter” 13-14 October 2022 Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3 An International workshop organised by EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3) in collaboration with CIRPaLL (Université d’Angers) This workshop on modernism and matter is an incentive to interrogate the meaning of matter, and investigate its power in modernist literature. Proposals 1 June 2022.
The 17th International Conference on the Short Story in English directed by Dr Maurice A. Lee will take place in Killarney, Ireland, in June 2025. Theme: “How it Works: The Uniqueness of the Short Story.” Often, the short story is defined by what it is not: the novel. Yet perhaps the better question to ask…