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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Southeastern Women's Studies Conference CFP (Deadline: Jan. 9, 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University has extended the deadline for general CFP submissions until January 9, 2014. Please also note that this CFP includes below a link for SEWSA conference registration and membership.
The FAU WGSS Center is proud to host SEWSA 2015: “Trafficking in Gender: Feminist Di…[Read more]
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories byKeith Oatley (2012). About the psychology and emotions of fiction.
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Sabina Knight replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoI would recommend the following books for your worthwhile list:
Jonathan Culler, _Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 1998 and updated).
Sabina Knight, _Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 2012)
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but style and method are closely connected, after all.
Could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not…[Read more]
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance Drama (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoSociety for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminality and hybridi…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed call for proposals: http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals/
Queers & Comics – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) a…[Read more]
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Monica C. Miller started the topic 2014 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Awards in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages
welcomes submissions for its annual awards.
The 2014 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at a…[Read more]
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Patricia Comitini started the topic Call for Papers: Imaginary Relations in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoInviting Submissions to a new ejournal: Imaginary Relations: a Journal for the Ideological Critique of Aesthetic Objects (IR)
http://www.imaginaryrelations.netImaginary Relations is an experimental ejournal dedicated to ideological critique and analysis of aesthetic objects: poetry, fiction, drama, film and television. The journal seeks to examine the…[Read more]
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontar…[Read more]
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Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum
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Panel: “Digital Humanities and Latin America: New Trends, Challenges, and Developments”
This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends and developments on the subject such as the inclusion of…[Read more] -
Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Aphra Behn Society is hosting two sessions at ASECS 2015. Abstracts due to session organizer by September 1, 2014.
SESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of the…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic NeMLA WGSC cfp for individual paper abstracts in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoNortheast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention
Toronto, Ontario – April 30-May 3, 2015
NeMLA’s Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus seeks abstracts for the approved panels below – panel descriptions, submission guidelines and the full cfp are available at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2015.html
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014[Read more]
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Wendy Galgan started the topic CFP NeMLA 2015: Walk Poems: Moving Through America on Foot in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 through May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSubmission Deadline: September 30, 2014
This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the walk poem that suits American poets so well? How…[Read more]
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Betsy Dahms started the topic CFP: 29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPlease submit your abstract by August 15. Thank you.
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Susan Gorman replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks for posting this Laura. It sounds really interesting. Where/when should we send abstracts?
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Re-Imagining Theory Conference, Goa, Dec 2014 in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoXVII 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 Sciences21-24…[Read more]
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Lisa Propst started the topic CFP: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThis CFP might be of interest to the Women’s Studies forum:
Giving Voice, Appropriating Voices: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015)
Efforts to give voice to the silenced are central to postcolonial and feminist thought. Yet scholars in both disciplines, following Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty, have insisted that…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear 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. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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