Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]

Hi all,

The deadline for Medieval Academy 2015 submissions is just around the corner–June 15.  The full CFP is here:

http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf

Among the threads is one on manuscript studies, consisting of the following sessions:

o English Manuscript Studies
o Women in the…[Read more]

Disability and the Arthurian World

From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian…[Read more]

The executive committee for the MLA Discussion Group in Classical Studies and Modern Literature invites you to our annual MLA panel at noon on Saturday, January 11, 2014, featuring two eminent classical translators:

CLASSICAL TRANSLATION FOR VULNERABLE TIMES:  HOMER’S ILIAD AND VERGIL’S AENEID

Session 527: 12-1:15 pm, January 11, 2014
Sheraton…[Read more]