CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies
Special Collection: L.M. Montgomery and the Politics of Home

“It’s the home of my heart, this little room—the spot I love, for here I am happiest.”
—L.M. Montgomery, 30 April 1903

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies (JLMMS) invites the submission of abstracts for scholarly articles and creative works (written, visual, or audio-visual) based on the theme of the L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 16th Biennial Conference, “L.M. Montgomery and the Politics of Home.” We invite projects that consider the complex intersections of home and politics in L.M. Montgomery’s works and world. Submissions should engage these formative forces in Montgomery’s life, creative work, and life-writing. Possibilities include but are in no way limited to:

• Montgomery’s childhood home as literary landmark, tourist site, contested property, or sacred space;
• The political roots and history of Montgomery’s family;
• Montgomery as homemaker, including the aesthetics and relational dynamics she sought in her own homes;
• Montgomery’s engagement with the overtly political—her stances on matters such as war and suffrage;
• Depictions of home in Montgomery’s fiction, life-writing, and poetry, such as home-seeking as quest, home as refuge, or home as contested space;
• Depictions of displacement in Montgomery’s work, such as displacement due to lack of economic status or social capital or through lack of political power;
• Land as contested space in Montgomery’s work, and her literary treatment of (or failure to acknowledge) the Indigenous peoples on whose land she made her homes, including the ways in which Acadian and Mi’kmaw people and cultures continue to thrive;
• The conflicting sense of private and public selves Montgomery balanced in her life as minister’s wife and well-known author;
• Treatment of home and politics in adaptations and translations of Montgomery’s works;
• Treatment of cultures marginalized by Montgomery in her works or in adaptations of those works.
• Creative work in all genres and media inspired by Montgomery’s writings, or by the places that inspired the author.

Submissions of 300–400-word abstracts of both scholarly and creative work are due 15 Sept. 2024. To be considered by the editors, submissions must reflect the JLMMS’s Aims and Scope. All submissions undergo editorial review. Please indicate whether you will want your submission to be double-blind peer reviewed. All submissions for written papers and creative projects should follow the JLMMS’s “Instructions for Contributors” and “Style Sheet,” which is based on a version of MLA 8.

Questions and submissions should be directed to the editors of this collection, Caroline Jones and Holly Pike, at montgomeryjournal@upei.ca, subject line “Politics of Home.”