We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

Dear Group Members

I’d like to announce a new publication that could be of interest. Thank you!

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415735650/

Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance

This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and…[Read more]

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives is pleased to announce its secod Call for Papers for the next MLA convention, to be held in Vancouver in January 2015:

<span>”Immigration and Comics”</span>

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<span>Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA)…[Read more]

Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers 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…[Read more]

http://www.library.arizona.edu/news/entries/view/2838

<h3>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h3>
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<div><b>Special Session</b></div>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more]

<h1>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h1>
<div>
<div><b>Special Session</b></div>
</div>
Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more]

Here’s the CFP for this year’s meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, which will convene at the WisCon feminist fan convention in Madison, WI. The deadline is February 1.

http://www.sfra.org/node/61

South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group will hold its general meeting today, January 11, from 5-6 pm in Sheraton Parlor G.  Please join us if you can.

The annual meeting of the South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group will take place today, January 11, from 5-6 pm in Sheraton Parlor G.  Please join us.

This is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:

http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/

If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]

Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has
just published its latest issue at
http://www.canada-and-beyond.com/index.php/canada-and-beyond. We invite you
to browse the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,
Pilar…[Read more]