Atemporality. The atemporal has been identified with aesthetic achievement by critics such as Cleanth Brooks, Murray Krieger, Michael Fried, and Anne-Lise François. At the same time other critics like Fredric Jameson, Stephen Best, and Frank Wilderson have identified the atemporal with the anti-aesthetic, the anti-human, and the anti-narrative. Within these broad parameters we invite papers on the atemporal in literature, literary criticism, and literary and aesthetic theory. We are interested in papers on works from all literary genres, periods, and traditions and on all modes of the atemporal including (but not limited to): the perpetually present, the forever incipient, the non-actualized, the virtual, the still, the recursive, the eternal return, the infinite loop, and permanent stasis. We are also interested in papers on both works of non-literary media and works of literature that remediate non-literary media in order to either achieve or escape atemporality. We understand the atemporal broadly, as an aspect or phenomenon that can be characterized positively, negatively, or neutrally. It can be the opposite of the temporal but it also can be the quintessence of time. It can be what secures aesthetic achievement or what makes such achievement impossible. It can be a formal aspiration or an ontological impediment. It can manifest as the simultaneous or the instantaneous but also as the stochastic, the incremental, or the sequential. In short, we are interested in presenting the range of contemporary positions on the problem of atemporality, and highlighting both the resonances among, and the conflicts between, these positions.