From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

The MLA Travel Writing Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030. Please send nominations to bernadette.andrea@ucsb.edu by January 15, 2024. Self-nominations are welcome.

• Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
• Seven convention years must elapse…

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We’d very much like nominations for our new committee member.  The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!):  c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE:  Jan 15th 2024.

Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please click this l…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary study in English,…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I wanted to pass along this job ad for an assistant professor position in African American literature, joined to an urban studies research cluster.

Please do pass it along to anyone who pay be a good fit and encourage them to apply.

https://joblist.mla.org/job-<wbr />details/7961/assistant-<wbr…[Read more]