Organization:    Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Title of session:    Ecologies of Hawthorne
Submission requirements:    Send 250-word abstracts.
Deadline for submissions:    15 March 2016
Description:    Consider representations of space and place, land and landscape, the “natural” and “unnatural,” environmental “transgressions,” “dev…[Read more]

The Literacy Studies Forum Executive Committee members will be putting together a call for papers for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia over the course of the next couple of weeks. Please use this discussion thread to suggest any ideas you have framing the CFP (keeping in mind that we only have 35 words).

Thank you to all of our MLA 2016 panelists for two excellent RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions. I hope that we can build a repository of materials from this year’s (and future) panels so that we can continue and extend conversations beyond the conference itself.

There are two ways to upload materials to the forum and two places for forum members to…[Read more]

Congratulations to Peggy Otto on her election to the RCWS Literacy Studies Executive Committee! We welcome your participation in planning for the next several MLA Literacy Studies sponsored sessions and in building an active literacy studies online exchange in the MLA forum over the next several years.

The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum Executive…[Read more]

Extended Deadline!

Call for Papers

The 21st Summer Meeting

of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

June 2-5, 2016

The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont

During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]

*Extended Deadlines!*

Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.

“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”

Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]

Community College faculty,

The Community College Forum’s Executive Committee will be meeting at MLA16 in Austin on January 8th to plan ahead for the next MLA Convention in Philadelphia. We invite you all to help us brainstorm ideas for sessions for 2017: post ideas below or email Stacey Donohue or Michael Burke.

Democratic Vistas: Reading and Writing in the Community College Classroom

Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 9A, ACC

Threshold Concepts in First-Year Composition (FYC) at the Community College

Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 10B, ACC

Career Opportunities in Community Colleges

Saturday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 202, JW Ma…[Read more]

Part-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.

Here’s the link:
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/MLA-Financial-Assistance/Non-Tenure-Track-Faculty-Members-and-Unemployed-Members-Traveling-to-the-Convention

Freeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsMUuEpxO0

My name is Jason Courtmanche and I have been nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the Teaching of Literature Forum. For the last nine years I have been the Director of the Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs and Lecturer in English at the University of Connecticut. I was a high school English teacher for 12 years before earning my PhD,…[Read more]