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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.
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…
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…
Please consider submitting a proposal for the following special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX. We are especially interested in proposals from graduate students preparing for the job market, or currently on the job market. This roundtable will consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students, contingent…
Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our relationships to the disease. Please send 300-word abstracts by 13 March 2015; Kenneth Pinion (ktpinion@ncsu.edu). Paper topics might include: the collection, preservation, and discovery of…
This panel explores the state of contemporary LGBT literature and the value of a LGBT literary canon. Calling for papers that ask: what is LGBT literature now? Abstracts by 15 March 2015; Shanté Paradigm Smalls (smallss@stjohns.edu) and Ramzi Fawaz (fawaz@wisc.edu).