The GL/Q Caucus of the MLA invites nominations for each of our three annual awards: the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, The Crompton Noll Award for Best Essay, The Michael Lynch Service Award, and a NEW award: The Audre Lorde Graduate Student Essay Award. Descriptions and instructions for the prizes are below. All nominations are due November 2,…[Read more]

Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
Volume 39, Issue 2 (July 2015)

Papers from the 16th Biennial International Conference for Netherlandic Studies,
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, June 2012

http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/dtc/39/2

CONTENTS

Guest Editorial
Henry Luttikhuizen

Hendrick Goltzius and Henry the Great:…[Read more]

We invite everybody interested to the panel of the Netherlandic discussion group in Austin (time t.b.c.):

Netherlandic Literature and its transnational Publics

Scholarly editions and the public face of literature
Yves T’Sjoen, Ghent University

Wartime Propaganda in the Gazette van Detroit (1914–1918)
Tanja Collet, University of Win…[Read more]

Queers Read LGBT Literature
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)

Help us acknowledge LGBTQ activism by academics; deadline extended to November 30.
THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD
This award serves not only to honor an LGBTQ academic activist every year, but also, in Eve Sedgwick’s words, “to publicize and celebrate—and as widely as possible—the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer act…[Read more]