I hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[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]

And Forgetting? And future? Negotiating sites of memory focuses on various forms of remembering and seldom on the role that forgetting plays in creating a past. This is because we in literary studies normally assume that forgetting is the opposite of remembering, which is a rather narrow, Aristotelian way to understand this process and phenomenon.…[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]

Dear Colleagues,

The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.

Spaces of…[Read more]

Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015

The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the adoption…[Read more]

Call for Submissions

FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN

Intellect Books

Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm

A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.

This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]

CFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[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]

Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens:  Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz.  From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014<…[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]

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

Sessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more]

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE Translating Social Movements Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014 The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as the…[Read more]

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE

Translating Social Movements

Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014

The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]

The Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites proposals for an Editor-in-Chief to lead its award-winning, peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief will have oversight for all aspects of the publication, management, and promotion, and editing of the journal. The successful candidate should be a…[Read more]