CFP Celebrating 215 years of Edgar Allan Poe Conference (proposals by 9/13/2024)

Celebrating 215 years of Edgar Allan Poe

deadline for submissions:
September 13, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Noah Gallego (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona)

contact email:
eap215conference@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/09/celebrating-215-years-of-edgar-allan-poe

Deadline: September 13, 2024

Conference Date: October 5, 2024

Format: Online (via Zoom)

Abstract: 200 words + short biographical statement + timezone

Submit to: eap215conference@gmail.com



Ring in the Halloween season by celebrating the life and works of the U.S.’s grandfather of Goth, Edgar Allan Poe! Scholars from across all disciplines are invited to convene for a (tentatively) two-day conference on the weekend of his 215th deathday where we will critically examine the Tomahawk’s works, including his poetry, prose, novel, and essays. (Other media such as theatrical, graphic, televised, or cinematic adaptations of his work may also be considered, provided they relate back to the author’s legacy and work. For instance, any of the Universal Studios adaptations or Scott Cooper’s loosely biographical The Pale Blue Eye (2022) or the recent Mike Flanagan production The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) may be explored).



Lenses through which to consider presentations may include but are not limited to:

• Orientalism
• Psychoanalysis
• Feminism
• Marxism
• Gothic
• Corporeality
• Other-than-human
• Gender, sexuality, and/or queerness
• Spatiality and Temporality
• Race
• Narratology
• New Materialism
• Disability
• Trauma
• Monstrosity and Abjection
• Religion, spirituality, the occult, and theology
• Ecocriticism
• Rhetoric and Poetics

Please submit abstracts of 200 words as well as any and all inquiries to eap215conference@gmail.com. Please also provide a short biographical note of up to 100 words in addition to your timezone in order to best arrange presentation times for those outside of PST. This conference will be held online at no charge. The Zoom link will be sent out the week prior.




Last updated June 17, 2024

CFP Celebrating 215 years of Edgar Allan Poe (8/2/2024; online 10/5-6/2024)

CFP: Celebrating 215 years of Edgar Allan Poe

deadline for submissions: August 2, 2024

full name / name of organization: Noah Gallego

contact email: eap215conference@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/09/cfp-celebrating-215-years-of-edgar-allan-poe

Deadline: August 2, 2024

Conference Date(s): October 5-6, 2024

Format: Online (via Zoom)

Abstract: 200 words + short biographical statement + timezone

Submit to: eap215conference@gmail.com 

Ring in the Halloween season by celebrating the life and works of the U.S.’s grandfather of Goth, Edgar Allan Poe! Scholars from across all disciplines are invited to convene for a (tentatively) two-day conference on the weekend of his 215th deathday where we will critically examine the Tomahawk’s works, including his poetry, prose, novel, and essays. (Other media such as theatrical, televised, or cinematic adaptations of his work may also be considered, provided they relate back to the author’s legacy and work. For instance, any of the Universal Studios adaptations or Scott Cooper’s loosely biographical The Pale Blue Eye (2022) or the recent Mike Flanagan production The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) may be explored).

Lenses through which to consider presentations may include but are not limited to:

• Orientalism
• Psychoanalysis
• Feminism
• Marxism
• Gothic
• Corporeality 
• Other-than-human
• Gender, sexuality, and/or queerness
• Spatiality and Temporality
• Race
• Narratology
• New Materialism
• Disability
• Trauma
• Monstrosity and Abjection
• Religion, spirituality, the occult, and theology
• Ecocriticism 
• Rhetoric and Poetics

Please submit abstracts of 200 words as well as any and all inquiries to eap215conference@gmail.com. Please also provide a short biographical note of up to 100 words in addition to your timezone in order to best arrange presentation times for those outside of PST. This conference will be held online at no charge. The Zoom link will be sent out the week prior. 

Last updated January 17, 2024

CFP Stranger Worlds: H. G. Wells, Transgression and the Gothic (8/15/21, virtual UK 11/13/21)

2021 Conference Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Stranger Worlds: H. G. Wells, Transgression and the Gothic 

Saturday, 13 November 2021  

Source: http://hgwellssociety.com/statementofobjects/2021-conference-call-for-papers/

There you touch the inmost mystery of these dreamers, these men of vision and the imagination. We see our world fair and common … By our daylight standard he walked out of security into darkness, danger and death. But did he see like that?

H.G. Wells, The Door in the Wall

This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Wells’s death. In a career that spanned fifty years and over a hundred books, Wells invited his readers to step across the threshold of human consciousness and to venture into realms beyond space, time and morality. His scientific romances expose the fragility of the human body and the thinness of humanity’s separation from the animal (The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau). A reviewer of The Time Machine felt that Wells’s imagination was ‘as gruesome as that of Poe’ and his short stories often dramatize gothic transgressions between the living and the dead. Later works such as The Croquet Player and The Camford Visitation see consciousness slipping its moorings and inhabiting or possessing other bodies.     

Once considered an annexe or niche in literary studies, the Gothic is now firmly established as a key mode of understanding research in, and the enormous global popularity of, genres such as horror, science fiction and fantasy. We invite applications for papers that consider the importance of the Gothic in the work of H. G. Wells. Papers need not be exclusively confined to Wells, but may also consider Wells’s gothic afterlife, reception and influence.  

Presentations will take the form of 20-minute papers, given via Zoom.   

Topics may include, but are not limited to:  

• Wells and Gothic genres and his relationship to his Gothic predecessors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mary Shelley 
• Wells’s use of horror and terror in for instance, The War of the Worlds
• Gothic bodies; the Gothic across species  
• Gothic geographies  
• Returns from the dead; buried secrets; Gothic histories  
• Ghosts, monsters, apparitions and vampires  
• Transgressive behaviour and crime in Wells’s work
• Wellsian afterlives in science fiction, the graphic novel, cinema, TV, and computer games  

Please send a 250-word abstract to Dr Emelyne Godfrey juststruckone@hotmail.com by 15 August 2021.

Members: Free

Non-members: £10 Applicants will be notified by 31 August 2021. We encourage attendees to become members of the H.G. Wells Society and look forward to seeing you there.   

CFP Poe Studies Association at MLA 2022 (3/17/21; Washington DC 1/6-9/22)

 More from the Poe Studies Association's website:

Modern Language Association Annual Convention
Washington, D.C., 2022

Poe scholars and Poe aficionados are always talking about Poe and always reading and rereading his works. He is ubiquitous—in print, film, popular culture, and all over the internet. His online presence increased even more in the late winter and early spring of 2020 as the world wrestled with the COVID-19 pandemic. For those of us who teach Poe and those of us who write about him, doing so in 2020 and 2021 seems more timely than ever, but it also feels different.

Why should we read or teach Poe “now”? How is or isn’t Poe relevant in the midst/wake of a global pandemic and serious social conflict? Is his work timely, timeless, both, neither? Submit 250-word proposals and 1-page CVs to emronesplin@gmail.com by Wednesday, March 17.

Depending on the number and quality of submissions, this session will either run as a 3-4 person panel or as a roundtable including several participants.

CFP Poe Tales Boston Conference (6/15/21; Boston 4/7-10/21)

From the Poe Studies Association's website. I included the call below.

Poe Takes Boston

The Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference

Boston, MA April 7-10, 2022

The Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference will take place at the historic Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. For more information, see the attached call for papers and flyer.

CFP Poe Studies Association Panels at the ALA (1/15/15; ALA Boston 5/21-24/15)

Poe Studies Association Panels at the ALA

CFP: “Rethinking Poe’s Sublime: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 175 years later”; A Poe Studies Association panel at the 26th Annual American Literature Conference in Boston, MA (May 2015)

Poe abandoned his proposed Tales of the Folio Club sometime after 1835, but still wanted to issue a collected edition of his prose fiction. Dropping the literary club motif, he combined the original tales with additional items from the Southern Literary Messenger. This new collection of 25 stories became Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840). What choices informed Poe’s decisions about what to include? To what extent does the term “grotesque”—especially as it relates to Poe’s notions of the sublime—function as a defining characteristic of the two volumes’ contents? Papers are invited on specific tales as well as on Poe’s discussions of the sublime and/or the grotesque in his reviews, miscellaneous writings, and poetic treatises. Other related topics are welcome as well.

To submit a proposal, send a title and an abstract of no more than 350 words to: William Engel (wengel@sewanee.edu); in the subject line, put “PSA panel 2015.” The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015 (panelists will be notified shortly thereafter).


CFP: “Teaching Poe and Popular Culture,” a Poe Studies Association panel at the 26th Annual American Literature Conference in Boston, MA (May 21-24, 2015)

Few American writers have enjoyed the posthumous popularity of Poe, whose works inspire adaptations in various genres such as film and graphic novel while lunchboxes and bobblehead figures commemorate the man himself. Such popularity is a boon for teachers of Poe, who can use movies, comic books, and online videos to help students make sense of a nineteenth-century writer whose stories and poems might seem, at first glance, peculiar and puzzling. Contemporary creative reinterpretations of Poe’s writings also provide insight into how we remove Poe from his antebellum milieu and refashion him to suit our tastes. Studying Poe’s nineteenth-century career, students can discern how popular trends shaped his work, for the example of Poe reveals many ways that writers respond to and shape mass culture. The Poe Studies Association solicits proposals for this pedagogical panel. Possible topics include Poe and contemporary Gothicism; The Raven and Poe biography; Poe’s influence on filmmakers such as Corman and Burton; Poe as rock-and-roll icon; popular images of Poe’s body; nineteenth-century sensation fiction and Poe; Poe and death in antebellum popular culture; Stephen Foster, Poe, and the popular lyric in the nineteenth-century. Other related topics are, of course, welcome.

To submit a proposal, send a title and an abstract of no more than 350 words to Travis Montgomery at tdmontgomery2@fhsu.edu. The subject line should read “PSA panel 2015.” The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015.

CFP Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference (6/1/14; New York 2/26-3/1/14)

UPDATE Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference
full name / name of organization:
Poe Studies Association and Penn State Lehigh Valley Continuing Education
contact email:
bac7@psu.edu
Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference
full name / name of organization:
Poe Studies Association and Penn State Lehigh Valley Continuing Education
contact email:
rxk3@psu.edu and bac7@psu.edu

Proposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference to be held in New York City, February 26-March 1, 2015. Email 250-word abstracts, subject heading “2015 Poe Conference,” to Barbara Cantalupo bac7@psu.edu by June 1, 2014.


By web submission at 05/26/2014 - 15:57

CFP Lovecraftian Poe (11/15/13)

Here's another expired CFP. I just learned about the project at MAPACA earlier this month. Details from cfp.english.upenn.edu:

By web submission at 09/03/2013 - 16:22

The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on influence, reception, interpretation and transformation - abstracts due by Nov 15, 2013
full name / name of organization:
Sean Moreland, Ph.D.
contact email:
moreland.sean@gmail.com

The editor invites original scholarly essays that address the reception and transformation of Edgar Allan Poe's thought and writing by H. P. Lovecraft.

That Poe was among the greatest influences on Lovecraft is widely known; Lovecraft famously referred to Poe as both his "model" and his "God of Fiction." Yet, despite widespread recognition of this fact amongst scholars and fans of both Poe and Lovecraft's work, there has surprisingly so far been no collection that brings together scholarly approaches to this topic. This collection aims to address this absence, gathering original essays that focus closely on the precise nature and extent of Poe's influence on Lovecraft, Lovecraft's role in Poe's wider reception and dissemination, and his adoption and adaptation of many of Poe's concepts and techniques.

Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Specific considerations of the way Lovecraft's fictions make use of and modify Poe's (for example, the reworking of “The Fall of the House of Usher” in “The Rats in the Walls,” or “M. Valdemar” in “Cool Air”).
• The influence of Poe's philosophical and critical writings on Lovecraft's thought (for example, the cosmicism of Poe's Eureka and Lovecraft's “cosmic indifferentism,” or Lovecraft’s conception of Poe’s “Unity of Effect”).
• Lovecraft's critical assessment of Poe (in Supernatural Horror in Literature and elsewhere).
• The development of Gothic and science-fictional conventions in Poe and Lovecraft’s fictions.
• Philosophical, historical and aesthetic differences and continuities between Poe's and Lovecraft's writings.
• The interdependence of Poe and Lovecraft's literary and popular legacies.
• The ways in which Lovecraft's reception of Poe has influenced Poe's reception by later writers (examples might include Borges, Bradbury, Matheson, King, Ligotti or Kiernan.)
• The continuing importance of Lovecraft's contributions to Poe scholarship and appreciation.

The volume will include an introductory chapter by influential Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi.

Abstracts of 400 - 500 words on any aspect of this topic are invited, with a deadline of Nov 15, 2013. Finished essays will be due by May 2014. Abstracts may be directed to: moreland.sean@gmail.com

About the editor:

Sean Moreland is a professor, editor, and writer of poetry and short fiction. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Ottawa, where he currently teaches part-time. He recently co-edited the essay collection Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror (McFarland, 2013), is currently co-editing Holy Terrors: Essays on Monstrous Children in Cinema, and has recently published chapters in a number of books, including Deciphering Poe and Generation Zombie. He is on the editorial board for the Edgar Allan Poe Review, and is founder and a fiction editor of Postscripts to Darkness (PstD), a serial anthology of dark fiction and art.

CFP Poe Studies Association (1/15/13)

Another call courtesy the American Literature Association (pdf at http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/2014%20Poe%20CFP.pdf). 

American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22 – 25, 2014
Washington DC
CALL FOR PAPERS
Poe Studies Association

1. “Lyrical Eruptions in Poe’s Prose: ‘The Haunted Palace’ 175 years later”

On several occasions Poe inserted a previously published lyric into a new story, perhaps to
assure that his poems reached a wider audience. By way of exploring this mode of recycling
and re-inscription, and to honor its 175th anniversary, this session will take as its focus “The
Haunted Palace,” first published in April 1839 and then given a renewed literary life in The Fall
of the House of Usher (September 1839). The context in which it appears may well provide
deeper insight into the character of our narrator (who self-consciously comments on why he is
able to recite it from memory); and also, by virtue of “the under or mystic current of its meaning,”
into the mind of Roderick Usher. Papers are invited that consider the relation of the poem to the
story; and whether (and to what extent) “The Haunted Palace” is a mirror in miniature,
emblematically refracting the world of the story from within while at the same time projecting a
self-contained if melancholy world of fragile beauty. Close readings and critical interpretations of
the poem are welcome; as are papers that look at the broader issue of lyrical eruptions in Poe,
which might also consider the place of “The Conqueror Worm” (1843) in Ligeia (1845). Do such
lyric eruptions betoken some larger aesthetic plan or purpose? Other topics involving “The
Haunted Palace” as it relates to Poe’s oeuvre also are welcome. To submit a proposal, send a
title and an abstract of no more than 350 words to: William Engel (wengel@sewanee.edu); in
the subject line, put “PSA panel 2014.” Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014 (panelists
will be notified shortly thereafter).

2. “Teaching Poe’s Poetry”

For Emerson, Poe the poet was a “jingle man,” a writer of lachrymose lyrics, but
Baudelaire and the Symbolists venerated Poe, whom they considered a model of poetic
excellence. Eliciting divergent responses during the nineteenth century, Poe’s verse
continues to frustrate and to intrigue readers in our time. Such divergences present
opportunities for teachers, who can choose from a wide range of approaches as they
introduce the poetry of Poe to students. For this panel, which will feature papers about
pedagogical matters, the Poe Studies Association solicits proposals. Possible topics
include Poe and the lyric in nineteenth-century America; Poe’s poems as primary texts
for theory classes; Poe as a poet in and/or against the Romantic grain; madness as
discursive formation in Poe’s poems of grief; visions of apocalypse in the poetry of Poe
and his contemporaries; Poe and prosody; othering in the poems of Poe; and Poe’s poetry
in the world of antebellum print culture. Other topics are, of course, welcome.
To submit a proposal, send a title and an abstract of no more than 350 words to Travis
Montgomery at tdmontgomery2@fhsu.edu. The subject line should read “PSA panel
2014.” The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014.