Hello! Emily here with the weekly edition of the Scrivener, your source for news about Shakespeare scholarship. Lots of calls for papers this week and some other business, so let us commence.
Fulbright Scholarship
The Fulbright Commission is offering scholarships to study Shakespeare this summer at the Globe Theatre in London. Shakespeare’s Globe Education Theatre Program will allow students to study with directors, actors and other theatre personnel for three weeks in June. More information about the program, and a link to apply for the scholarship, can be found here.
Calls for Papers
The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association welcomes paper proposals for a session that examines any theme in Shakespeare. The conference meets this fall in Boulder, and abstracts are due March 9. Another panel at the RMMLA seeks papers that address Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama, and welcomes submissions that examine drama through the lenses of queer, feminist or gender theory.
The Medieval and Early Modern Student association at Durham University seeks paper proposals for its annual conference. Titled Transition and Transformation in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures, the conference will examine “the liminal and transformative aspects” of these periods. Papers are sought across the disciplines, and a list of suggested topics can be found here.
Shakespeare, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Shakespeare Association, is seeking contributions for a special issue on Shakespeare and the Great War. This issue will be published in 1914 to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the war’s beginning. Potential article topics include the use of Shakespeare in pro- and anti-war propaganda, the impact of WWI on Shakespeare studies, and wartime performances of Shakespeare. Please see the full call here.
Three calls for MLA 2013 panels on the Early Modern were announced this week. One seeks abstracts on Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England that explore issues of diachronic and synchronic imitatio, cognitive models, and conversational circles. Another panel seeks submissions about the ways in which contemporary poetry has represented and engaged with the Early Modern Imaginary. The third panel examines The Renaissance Anthropocene: Imagining Life Without Nature in Early Modern Literature. Papers are sought on a wide range of topics, including eco-criticism, decay of nature, and the ways in which nature comes to be associated with and inseparable from artifice. For further topic suggestions, please see the call here.
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