XVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)

Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
&
The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences

21-24…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I wonder if those of you who are interested in Arab American literature and culture can take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.

You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

I would like to ask those of you who are current MLA members to take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.

You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab American to endorse the new…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.

You can read the  MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh

Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]

I am proposing a roundtable about new approaches and strategies to integrate the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new and  it is time for an update. The NeMLA convention will meet in Toronto, Ontario April 30 – May 3rd.  Each participant will have about 10 minutes to present a project or class experience and  the re…[Read more]

Special Session for MLA 2015 (in association with South Asian Literatures and Languages (SALL) Discussion Group)

This special session seeks papers that examine literary or cinematic representations of unfinished South Asian and South Asian diasporic pasts. Papers could examine events such as the Partition of British India, the civil war in Sri…[Read more]

And Forgetting? And future? Negotiating sites of memory focuses on various forms of remembering and seldom on the role that forgetting plays in creating a past. This is because we in literary studies normally assume that forgetting is the opposite of remembering, which is a rather narrow, Aristotelian way to understand this process and phenomenon.…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.

Spaces of…[Read more]

<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> seeks submissions for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London. Comparative studies welcomed.
Please send 10-to-15-page MLA-style papers to the issue’s co-editors Robin Visel ([Read more]

CFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more]

CFP: “Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)

Sex is everywhere – even on the left.  Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it?  Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed…[Read more]

<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>American Literature Association</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>25th Annual Conference</b></p>
<p align=”center”>May 22-25, 2014</p>
<p align=”center”>Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill</p>
<p align=”center”></p>
<p align=”center”><b>Sessions Sponsored By</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>The…[Read more]

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE

Translating Social Movements

Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014

The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]

The Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites proposals for an Editor-in-Chief to lead its award-winning, peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief will have oversight for all aspects of the publication, management, and promotion, and editing of the journal. The successful candidate should be a…[Read more]