Call-for-papers: Special issue of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review

CFP Fall 2026 special issue, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review

Hawthorne the Wanderer/Hawthorne, the Traveling Man in Europe

250-500 word proposal due June 1, 2026; 

Final essays due Oct. 1, 2026 (6,500-7.500 words)

 

Send proposals and essays to Monika Elbert, Editor, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review

[e-mail]

 

Hawthorne’s reinvention of the notion of home

Career man (in Liverpool, being feted in London, in his Liverpool correspondence, in his English Notebooks, journals )

Family man traveling in France; in Rome; in Florence

Hawthorne’s idyllic time in Florence

Hawthorne and his encounters with European men and women, in person (such as with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning in Florence), at dinners, in correspondence, in his journals

Ecological views of various European landscapes

View of poverty in Europe

European food 

Churches, Castles, Hotels, and Museums (sightseeing, and visits with Sophia--sharing also her views of art, from her writings and her art work)

Art, Architecture, Museums (e.g., “Italian objects, antique, pictorial, and statuesque” which Hawthorne alludes to in is Preface to The Marble Faun)

Travels (by railway, or by boat)

Life with children in Europe (Una’s dire illness in Rome, Rose’s European experiences which inform her later conversion to Catholicism)

Focus on Hawthorne’s journals (thematic) and on his correspondence in Europe

Comparison of Hawthorne’s journals (The English Notebooks and The French and Italian Notebooks, or his sketches in his time in England, in Our Old Home) and Sophia’s Notes in England and Italy; for example, comparisons of their reactions to artwork in Florence

The Marble Faun (as his European novel, in which Hawthorne states in the preface that here, in Italy, he can write about the past, as America wasn't old enough to have a dark, gloomy, mysterious, or shadowy past--which isn’t true, but stated tongue-in-cheek) since he wrote about the American past in a dark manner in previous novels and stories)

Call for papers: Hawthorne Society at MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)

Hawthorne’s Nonfiction: Engagements, Aesthetics, and Fame

 

In nineteenth-century American studies, nonfiction scholarship has become more prominent as primary sources are becoming more readily available, including with Thoreau’s sprawling, digitized Journal. Nonfiction studies of early Appalachian travel writing, too, have emerged in recent years. In Hawthorne Studies, nonfiction studies of Hawthorne and his circle, including Sophia and her writings, continue to have much currency. Hawthorne’s journals from his English and Italian visits, as well as The American Notebooks, provide a window into how he internalized his authorial fame and how he developed an aesthetic method, among other observations. Hawthorne wrote extensively in the genre of nonfiction, whether with his political biography of Franklin Pierce, his reflection on England and America in Our Old Home, or his later study of colonial history in Grandfather’s Chair. Hawthorne’s Lost Notebooks, from 1835-1841, discovered in the 1970s, offers even more insight into both Hawthorne’s thinking and his writerly approaches. Hawthorne’s epistolary works comprise some of his memorable exchanges on love, relationships, and Transcendental idealism, too. Hawthorne’s nonfiction can be understood in dialectic relation to his fiction in several ways, as nonfiction journal writing provides a mirror into Hawthorne’s method. For this guaranteed MLA session, the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society solicits papers that engage with Hawthorne’s nonfiction writings in fresh ways, considers his long and short fiction in relation to the nonfiction writings, or compares his nonfiction works to other nineteenth-century writers and their works. Please send 250-300 word abstracts to Ariel Silver ([e-mail]) by 20 March 2026.

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors： Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

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Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

 

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Dick, working across a range of settings, countries and contexts, and will be composed largely of essays by instructors.

 

Complete the survey and get information about proposal submission here.  The extended deadline for completing the survey and submitting an essay proposal:  1 April 2026.