Post-9/11 British and American Literature: Ten Years Later

Kristine Miller, an English professor at Utah State University, is compiling a series of essays centered on the theme of "post-9/11 British and American literature" for publication in a book.

Potential topics include:

• The work of a particular British or American writer 
• Comparative studies around a particular post-9/11 theme
• Representations of other conflicts (WWII, for example)
• Literature by or about British or American Muslims
• Representations of the media
• Women responding to 9/11
• Representations of public rhetoric and/or private trauma
• The 9/11 Commission Report as literary text
• Graphic novels or comics after 9/11
• Literary commemoration and memorialization 

If interested in submitting an essay, continue reading here.

Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2011
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2012

Changes After 9/11

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts is seeking papers on how the events of 9/11 "have framed how we address race, religion and national origin in the policy and public realms."

Topics of interest include:

• How has 9/11 changed the way that we think about race, religion, national origin, and immigration status in the United States and abroad?
• What tools and strategies have been used by community activists to sustain and build community during and after the 9/11 moment?
• What impacts does being targeted as “suspect” by the United States government have on an individual? A family? A community?
• What are some of the success stories around coalition-building and race relations that have occurred since 9/11?
• What lasting impacts, if any, have the events of 9/11 and their aftermath had on relationships between racial and ethnic minority communities in the United States or abroad?
• What lasting impacts, if any, have 9/11 and the subsequent decade-long, global War on Terror had on the political consciousness of Arab American, South Asian, Muslim and/or Sikh communities inside or outside the United States?

If interested, continue reading here.