Current CFPs
Eliot Society MMLA CFP 2025
The International T.S. Eliot Society is accepting proposals for a panel at the 2025 Midwest MLA conference at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI to be held November 14-16, 2025. Any proposal on a subject reasonably related to Eliot studies will be considered. Papers on Eliot and religion, or those drawing from the Hale correspondence, The Complete Prose, or Letters would be especially welcome. If you are interested in participating, please send abstract proposals (250-300 words) to Professor Edward Upton (edward.upton@valpo.edu). Submissions must be received no later than April 15, 2025. For more information on MMLA 2025, please see https://www.midwest-mla.org/convention. Please note: the Society does not provide funds for travel to and from the conference.
MLA 2026: Not with a Bang: T. S. Eliot’s Century
This panel explores sexuality, gender, and utopian/dystopian tensions in Eliot’s work, from The Waste Land’s sexual anxieties to Four Quartets’ spiritual longing. Papers may examine his poetry and prose, letters, or his legacy in literary studies. Send abstracts of 200 words and a brief CV to Dr. Megan Quigley megan.quigley@villanova.edu. Deadline for submissions: 12 March 2025. The MLA will be held in Toronto next year, from 8-11 January.
CFP for the American Literature Association 2025
The T. S. Eliot Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2025 annual conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Please send proposals (up to 250 words), along with a brief biography or curriculum vitae, to Professor Emerita Nancy K. Gish (nancy.gish@maine.edu.) Submissions must be received no later than January 15, 2025. For information on the ALA and its 2025 meeting, please see the ALA website.
52nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture February 17-18 (Virtual) – 20-22 (In-Person), 2025
Keynote speakers – Ben Lerner, Rachel Kushner, Jahan Ramazani, and George Medina
The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture invites critical & creative papers and full panel discussions about literature from the 20th and 21st centuries. Applicants may submit papers that connect to other art forms and academic fields. The conference also welcomes creative submissions, such as literary compositions, videos, or hybrid genres, as well as critical-creative submissions exploring poetics, crafts, or writing practices. We encourage proposals that bring together people from different universities or organizations, with varying levels of experience in academia, and from various fields of study. Submissions are accepted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, and Italian. Panels involving global literature and culture in other languages are encouraged. Here’s the link for more information about submissions
This panel at Northeast MLA (Philadelphia, 6-9 March 2025) will focus what T. S. Eliot can do for the Humanities today and what the Humanities ought to do with T. S. Eliot. Eliot’s work offers a compendium of Humanities material: poetry and drama chock-full of literary history, philosophy, religion, and music; literary, cultural and social criticism; political and economic theorizing; translation, and more. Eliot’s writing and ideas were enormously influential in the development of the academic Humanities in the 20th century, and he often fought for traditions and disciplines that are now threatened from every quarter. At the same time, the Humanities have also undergone a long process of reassessing the influence of Eliot and figures like him. Given this shifting terrain and the wealth of new Eliot resources available in the last decade—letters, eight volumes of prose, biographies, scholarly editions of the poems—what can we say about Eliot and the Humanities today? What did Eliot see that we need to see again? What did he miss? What is the place of Eliot in the contemporary Humanities landscape? Preference will be given to proposals that engage with those newly available Eliot materials. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a brief bio to https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21032 by 30 September 2024.
Modern Language Association 2025: 21st-Century Eliot: Recent developments in Eliot studies, including the release of the Eliot/Hale letters and the publication of Eliot’s complete prose in digital format, as well as the new editions of his poetry and new scholarly biographies and collections, promise to transform Eliot studies for the foreseeable future. 21st Century Eliot brings together Eliot scholars with a focus on digital methodologies and/ or approaches drawing on the new materials available for research. Send abstracts of 200 words and a brief CV to Dr. John McIntyre at jmcintyre@upei.ca by 10 March 2024.
AI response to “Eliot playing Xbox”–prompt provided by John McIntyre
Annual CFPs
The organizations below all have recurring panels reserved for our Society (and generously organized by Society members). We’ll post on this page the CFPs for each of these annual conferences just as soon as the panel organizers pass them on to us.
