Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)

How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]

2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”

Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]

Textos Híbridos, the electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Latin American chronicle from the Conquest to the present day, invites the submission of critical studies on the Latin American literary chronicle for its JULY 2015 issue.  The journal seeks to lend additional visibility to the chronicle as an important genre and to promote d…[Read more]

                                     SSAWW Triennial Conference November 4-8, 2015

                                                     Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA

                                                                               Call for Proposals

Due Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2015 for all proposals. 

For the 201…[Read more]

The South in the North

A Pre-MLA Mini-conference

January 6-7, 2015

Simon Fraser University

Vancouver, BC

Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne Duck, Jennifer Greeson, Matthew Lassi…[Read more]

Walk Poems: Moving Through America on Foot

NeMLA’s 46th Annual Conference in Toronto, Ontario, April 30 through May 3, 2015

Deadline for Submission: September 30, 2014

This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the…[Read more]

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<div>This panel invites papers that examine the intersections of “sustainability” and “population” in literature. Papers may consider how race, demography, biopolitics, fertility, economics, agriculture, and spatial distribution help clarify, illuminate, and evaluate “sustainability”—what literary…[Read more]

The topic for this special session is Indigenous literatures and languages of record (alphabetic, hieroglyphic, syllabic, signed/gestured, mnemonic, etc.) in the face of settler-colonialism, the wired atmosphere, climate change, and resource extraction. 300-word abstracts and CVs due March 15 to penelope.kelsey@colorado.edu.

Proposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, to be held in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel on 45th Street near Madison Avenue (http://www.theroosevelthotel.com/) Thursday, February 26th, to Sunday, March 1st, 2015.  Our PSA-sponsored conferences have been located at cities where Poe lived and worked; we have…[Read more]

The Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference.  We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of less canonical figures.  The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown P…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Nineteenth Century American Literature:

During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century American Literature executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:

During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels that the general shift from “…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:

<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”>During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the </span>divisions<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”> in Ame…[Read more]

Hi all,

I want share this announcement for the National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 summer seminar on “The Meanings of Property” at Marist College. I am the research assistant for the seminar so feel free to contact me if you can any questions or just want to learn more about it.

Project Title: The Meanings of Property

Project…[Read more]

Call for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Session Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more]