The Beat Studies Association invites papers for 2 panels at the upcoming American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Francisco (May 26-29, 2016): papers on all aspects of Beat Literature and Beats Studies OR  papers on the work and contributions to Beat Studies of the scholar Ann Charters, for the panel “Mapping Beat Movements…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

As you make plans for the convention later this week, I’d like to draw your attention to a special session that will be of particular interest to those working in law and the humanities. The session, “Legal and Literary Persons,” highlights several innovative approaches to the concept of personhood in a range of natio…[Read more]

If you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2017, post them here or email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the committee members before MLA! Sorry for late notice. (Teaching starts tomorrow here.)

Jonathan

I’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at  [Read more]

I’d like to invite any members of the group attending this year’s convention to the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place on Thursday night at the JW. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

For more information (and to reserve your spot), visit  [Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:

48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more]

Abstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:

https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/

Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.

Dear All,

Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the many pedagogical materials and publications that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, to share some of your own.

– Nicky…[Read more]

https://apply.interfolio.com/32882

We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]

(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)

De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer 

Colloque international

84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir

Université du Québec à Montréal

11, 12, 13 mai 2016

En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]