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We are the Women's & Gender Studies Caucus, part of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Learn more about us here: https://www.nemla.org/areas/caucuses/wgs.html#title_0

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Call for abstracts! In addition to our two caucus-sponsored panels at the 2026 NeMLA conference, there are 54 sessions related to women's & gender studies still open for submissions.

Check out the NeMLA CFP list here (Sep 30 deadline): cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP

24.09.2025 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
This panel is an exploration of the historical and colonial entanglements of drag culture and queer performativity in South Asia, which seeks to understand how cultural memory, capitalism, and colonialism shape drag’s aesthetics and politics and its commodification. It welcomes interdisciplinary work on marginalized queer voices and performance which challenge Western perceptions and understanding of drag as a social phenomenon.

This panel is an exploration of the historical and colonial entanglements of drag culture and queer performativity in South Asia, which seeks to understand how cultural memory, capitalism, and colonialism shape drag’s aesthetics and politics and its commodification. It welcomes interdisciplinary work on marginalized queer voices and performance which challenge Western perceptions and understanding of drag as a social phenomenon.

Submit an abstract for our caucus-sponsored panel 'Queer Drag and Imperial Shadows: Performance Cultures of South Asia' (NeMLA 2026) here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

24.09.2025 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Tortured Poets Department (2024) uses the relationship between Taylor Swift and poet Emily Dickinson, the singer’s sixth cousin, to suggest shared aesthetics and aims. Our NeMLA 2025 double session featured scholars’ fruitful parallels between Swift’s and Dickinson’s treatment of memory, desire, and form. Our NeMLA 2026 session asks what more we can learn by examining the intersection of gender, literature, and popular music. To what extent are women writers and recording artists “tortured poets,” and what does it mean to envision the trope of the tortured poet as a woman? This panel explores further connections between women writers and popular recording artists, trans or cis. We invite proposals that analyze relationships between a female recording artist and any woman writer since the nineteenth century. How do their personas, art, mythology, image, and/or reception relate to one another? How do the artists’ works connect thematically, lyrically, and musically? What potential does the pairing–or the concept of the woman as tortured poet–hold for “regenerating” canon, scholarship, and/or pedagogy? We welcome papers that address these questions.

Tortured Poets Department (2024) uses the relationship between Taylor Swift and poet Emily Dickinson, the singer’s sixth cousin, to suggest shared aesthetics and aims. Our NeMLA 2025 double session featured scholars’ fruitful parallels between Swift’s and Dickinson’s treatment of memory, desire, and form. Our NeMLA 2026 session asks what more we can learn by examining the intersection of gender, literature, and popular music. To what extent are women writers and recording artists “tortured poets,” and what does it mean to envision the trope of the tortured poet as a woman? This panel explores further connections between women writers and popular recording artists, trans or cis. We invite proposals that analyze relationships between a female recording artist and any woman writer since the nineteenth century. How do their personas, art, mythology, image, and/or reception relate to one another? How do the artists’ works connect thematically, lyrically, and musically? What potential does the pairing–or the concept of the woman as tortured poet–hold for “regenerating” canon, scholarship, and/or pedagogy? We welcome papers that address these questions.

Submit an abstract for our caucus-sponsored panel 'New Voices in the Tortured Poets Department: Women, Literature, and Music' (NeMLA 2026) here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

24.09.2025 19:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Call for abstracts! In addition to our two caucus-sponsored panels at the 2026 NeMLA conference, there are 54 sessions related to women's & gender studies still open for submissions.

Check out the NeMLA CFP list here (Sep 30 deadline): cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP

24.09.2025 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
CFP: Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France. Panel NeMLA (2025-2026) Call for papers: Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026-03-05 to 2026-03-08 Gannon University Erie, Pennsylvania. USA Since the 1970s, LGBTQ+ Francophone authors and scholars have produced an expansive critique of psychoanalytic practices and thought. Despite their differing views, Guy Hocquenghem, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, Didier Eribon, Sam Bourcier, and Paul B. Preciado have all underscored the normative tendencies of psychoanalysis (particularly in its structuralist Lacanian tradition) and its complicity in enforcing the regime of sexual difference.

CFP: Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France. Panel NeMLA (2025-2026)

Call for papers: Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026-03-05 to 2026-03-08 Gannon University Erie,…

04.09.2025 20:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

'Companion Texts' and Regenerated Feminist Pedagogy (NEMLA 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/09/companion-texts-and-regenerated-feminist-pedagogy-nemla-2026 #acrel

12.09.2025 07:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Women's & Gender Studies Caucus The NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus welcomes members interested in feminist scholarship, women’s and gender studies, and the status of women in the profession at all stages of thei...

👋 Greetings from the NeMLA WGS Caucus! Follow us if you'd like to see CFPs for women's and gender studies, info about our conference events, and updates on our member opportunities (like our mentorship program and essay prize).

Learn more about us at www.nemla.org/areas/caucus...

14.08.2025 17:24 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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