040 Echoes of Sepharad Across the Humanities:

Strategies for Teaching Sephardic Content

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Sheraton Grand – Huron

Session Information:

Scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Sephardic literature and culture present strategies for including Sephardic content in…[Read more]

Heading to MLA in Chicago? Looking for mentoring in writing for and publishing in peer-reviewed journals in your specialization? It’s not too late to sign up for Chat with an Editor! Sessions with experienced editors from MELUS, English Literary Renaissance, Legacy, Papers on Language and Literature and more still available for Friday and S…[Read more]

Dear Members,

Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Thursday Jan 3rd

54. And What does Colonial Mean? 

1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand

Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky

Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]

233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory  10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019  Sheraton Grand – Superior B

Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]

Natural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more]

Will you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.

Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]

The Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year.  This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]

Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]

Open assistant prof position in SE Asian Studies (including broadly-defined literature and culture focus) at UCLA:

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF04048

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures (http://www.alc.ucla.edu/) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for a position in Southeast Asian studies,…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

Hi everyone, we plan to make an announcement detailing all Southeast Asia related papers at MLA 2019, so please let me know if you are presenting one! Thanks. Cheryl

<p class=”western”><span style=”font-size: medium;”>Hello! Our Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia Diasporic forum in the Modern Language Association will have 3 sessions at the January 2019 Chicago MLA conference. I’m also giving a 2nd talk on Singaporean comics artist Sonny Liew’s earlier work in a special session on postcolonial graphic nar…[Read more]

Dept. of American Studies & Ethnicity

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

The Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, is seeking one tenure-track assistant professor in the field of American…[Read more]

Hi everyone: just FYI – there’s a petition to create a CLCS Forum focused on Indian Ocean Studies.

I support the creation of this forum as I think it can be a venue to discuss the historical and contemporary connections between Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and this forum could be a potential collaborator in future. Please consider…[Read more]

Dear academic colleagues: there’s still time (deadline March 15) to submit a paper to one of these three proposed sessions about Southeast Asia for the 2019 MLA conference in Chicago. Details below.

* “Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia”: What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? C…[Read more]

Hi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
Allied Organization:…[Read more]