The Wire: A Site for the MLA Commons Community
Thursday, 7 January, 8:45 p.m.–10 p.m., Brazos, JW Marriott We are thrilled to announce that the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz (complete with cash bar and prizes) will take place at the 2016 convention and include such topics as literary neologisms, fictional first lines, and translations and adaptations. (We suggest you…
This Society for the Study of Southern Literature panel welcomes proposals for papers that consider the formation and/or manifestation of region in a national context.
This NeMLA session seeks to expand scholarly dialogues about digital humanities beyond so-called content courses to include all levels of the language curriculum.
The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh invites abstracts for a transdisciplinary conference: “Doing the Body in the 21st Century.”
The special issue of Studies in the Novel devoted to Translingual Fiction will be published in winter 2016. Articles may deal with the history or theory of translingual fiction; a comparison of translingual novels or novelists; or specific translingual novels or novelists.
Proposals are sought for Darkness, Descent and Depression in Anglo-Saxon England, a collection of articles that will cover the depiction of emotional or physical states associated with darkness or descent as found in vernacular literature of the Anglo-Saxon period.
The Call for Papers for Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology‘s upcoming issues is currently open.
Call for abstracts for an edited volume, Corporealities of Suffering. Dis/ability and Pain in the Middle Ages, edited by Bianca Frohne and Jenni Kuuliala.