“After Transnational American Studies” (MLA 2016): What does it mean to come after Transnational American Studies? Papers may consider transnationality, Americanity, globality, planetarity, empire, and/or the anthropocene. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Abby Goode (abby.l.goode@gmail.com).

Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Comparative Readings of Doris Lessing’s Historical and Speculative Fiction
for the MLA Convention in Austin, 2016.

Seeking comparisons of Lessing’s historical-realist-autobiographical to her speculative novels or stories, as these are often considered by critics to be separate areas or phases of Lessing’s wo…[Read more]

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Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—

“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”

a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time

For new members, or members who were…[Read more]

This panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:

The varying nature of Bukowski’s reception across time and space (his contemporary European reception, for instance,…[Read more]

Hi All,

Please see the CFP below for an MLA 2016 panel I’m organizing with Clare Echterling. Circulate as you see fit. Thanks!

Best, Nicole

Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities

For this panel, organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, we invite proposals for papers that place…[Read more]

Call for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association

(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.

Satire and the Editorial Cartoon

Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]

Call for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association

(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.

Satire and the Editorial Cartoon

Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]

MLA 2016, Special Session 

Organizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston) 

Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this spe…[Read more]

Come join the conversation at http://sustainabilityandpopulationinalh.mla.hcommons-staging.org/!

Special Session: MLA 2016

The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market

This roundtable will consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students, contingent faculty, and even full-time faculty into an already overcrowded market. This panel seeks to initiate discussions about the psychodynamics of job candidacy in dis…[Read more]

CFP: Special session proposal for the 2016 Modern Language Association convention in Austin, TX.

“Circulating Notions of TB”

Conference papers invited that examine the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis in imaginative, digital, and other texts.

How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with–or even active…[Read more]

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I am seeking speakers for a panel at the next meeting of the Modern Language Association in Austin TX, 7-10 January 2015. Successful panelists will present short critical papers (20 mins; 6 double spaced pages single sided; this is a firm limit) that discuss C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a whole on the 6…[Read more]