Contrary to claims made on the MLA Commons site Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion, that “Those who would impose a sectarian political platform on the MLA will harm it and weaken its ability to act on behalf of the profession”, the MLA already has a long-standing and honorable record of speaking out on political issues and passing resolutions a…[Read more]

Here’s hoping this will start a good discussion of this important issue.  I’d like to urge you all to read the PDF “ Resolution ACBI Evidence”  which was prepared to accompany the proposed boycott resolution (see under “Files” on the left side of this page).   It provides documentation about the situation of the Palestinian universitie…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,
As some of you may know, John Hawley and I are putting together a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. We have received a number of excellent proposals but are interested in a contribution from someone who teaches Ghosh’s works in a creative writing workshop. If you or anyone you know does so, I would be m…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,
As some of you may know, John Hawley and I are putting together a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. We have received a number of excellent proposals but are interested in a contribution from someone who teaches Ghosh’s works in a creative writing workshop. If you or anyone you know does so, I would be m…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

As some of you may know, John Hawley and I are putting together a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. We have received a number of excellent proposals but are interested in a contribution from someone who teaches Ghosh’s works in a creative writing workshop. If you or anyone you know does so, I would be…[Read more]

John Hawley and I are editing a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. If you teach Ghosh’s works and haven’t done so already, please do consider filling the survey below. We also welcome proposals for contributions to the volume.

Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mlasurvey_ghosh

Regards,

Gaurav Desai

Dear Friends,

If you teach the works of Amitav Ghosh, please consider filling the survey below and proposing a chapter for the MLA volume that is being edited by John Hawley and me.

Regards,

Gaurav Desai

Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mlasurvey_ghosh

XVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)

Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
&
The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences

21-24…[Read more]

XVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)

Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
&
The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA

Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New…[Read more]

Disability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]

The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]

Call for Papers
Special Issue: Katrina – A Decade After

the minnesota review, a journal of creative and critical writing, invites submissions for a Special Issue on “Katrina – A Decade After” to be guest edited by Gaurav Desai (English/African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University). Our aim is to reflect on the hurricane, the measure…[Read more]

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