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MCEA Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015 Theme: Conflicts and Resolutions Featured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512 We live in a society that has conflict among different social, ethnic, and economic…
Participate in the development of a new MLA volume, Approaches to Teaching Federico García Lorca, and submit a proposal to the book’s editors. Respond to this questionnaire to express your interest.
The Executive Council approved the following statement in March 2015. In its 2009 Statement on Academic Freedom, the Modern Language Association recognized that “despite a long history of the defense of academic freedom, each generation of scholars faces new challenges to its protection.” The recent murders and disappearances of students…
Erin Lamb is conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and is looking to find respondents who both Teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and Address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or tangentially The…
Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transition Hosted by Maren Wood (Lilli Research Group) and Jennifer Polk (From PhD to Life) May 2 and 9, 2015 Attend one day: US $25 Attend two days: US $39 Register at: beyondprof.com/registration Career Day (May 2, 2015) 11:00 A.M….
Textos Híbridos, the electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Latin American chronicle from the Conquest to the present day, invites the submission of critical studies on the Latin American literary chronicle for its JULY 2015 issue. The journal seeks to lend additional visibility to the chronicle as an…
Call for Papers for Special Issue of WSQ on QUEER METHODS Guest Editors: Amin Ghaziani, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia Matt Brim, Associate Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY Queer Studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars have begun…
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayaka In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Professor Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthcoming issue of Postcolonial Text dedicated to Prof….
The MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (CSWP) seeks feedback from MLA members on the use of trigger warnings—written warnings that alert students that material assigned in a course might be upsetting or offensive—at their institutions. Please take a brief survey, which is intended to gather information…
From the Paris Review’s conversation with Elena Ferrante, the first in-person interview the writer has granted. At fifteen I began to write stories about brave girls who were in serious trouble. But the idea remained — indeed, it grew stronger — that the greatest narrators were men and that one…