Greetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!

Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 4-7).

At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2025 in New Orleans (Jan 9-12).

So we can ensure r…[Read more]

You are cordially invited to the  first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction

Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
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Dear forum members,

If you are interested in being considered for appointment to the executive committee (EC) for this forum, please email me by 28 December 2023. Include your CV along with a message of intent. This is a five-year commitment during which you become secretary in your third year and chair in the fourth. You must be a member of MLA…[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 next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

NOTE: There are just two days left before the March 15 deadline!

Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:

This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity,…[Read more]

The CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.

“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]

Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:

This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]

“20th-Century ‘Saints’ and Struggle”

If “spirituality” relates to a concern for the transcendent and a “saint” is one who has made a significant contribution to a spiritual tradition, this panel focuses on 20th-century saints whose spirituality intersected significantly with social and political struggle. Abstracts demonstrating familiarity…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.

CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023

The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]

We are currently seeking one new member for the Canadian Forum. Executive committees serve for five years and help choose the topics for the conference. Please send your nominations to Graham Jensen ghjensen@uvic.ca by Friday, Jan 20, 2023 at noon. Thank you.