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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 ACLA: Exotic Europe (deadline 09/23) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoProposal submissions at: http://www.acla.org/seminar/exotic-europe
New translations from European languages welcome in this seminar!
This seminar will discuss and compare a variety of cultures of Europe beyond the “usual suspects” of Central and Western Europe that have shaped its dominant discourse and carried off most of the international lit…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic ESSE 2016: cfp in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CfP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the proposed ACLA seminar below:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mi…[Read more]
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Mario Santana started the topic CFP Translation and Iberian Literatures in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos has posted a call for papers for a dossier on “Translation and Iberian Literatures”: http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html
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Over the last three decades, translation has gained increasing visibility and attention in literary studies. This development is related to the questioning of p…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic Call for Abstracts: ICLA Conference 2016 in Vienna; Comparative Gender/Queer in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Call for essays in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Women’s Studies in Language and Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on wo…[Read more]
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Ignacio Infante replied to the topic CFP: Translation Review –Special Issue “Contemporary Translational Literature" in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoQuick clarification: I’ve just been informed that Translation Review is no longer the official journal of ALTA. Apologies for the confusion.
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Ignacio Infante started the topic CFP: Translation Review –Special Issue “Contemporary Translational Literature" in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers for a special issue of Translation Review (Routledge) expected to come out by the Summer of 2016 (the second issue of vol. 92).
Widely recognized as one of the most important peer-reviewed journals in the field and the official journal of ALTA, Translation Review serves as a major critical and scholarly journal to facilitate…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP – TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is October 8-10, 2015. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Place: University of West Georgia, Carrollton GA (45 miles west of Atlanta)
When: October 8-10, 2015
Deadline: July 12, 2015
Keynote speaker: Dr. David T. Gies,…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic WGSC NeMLA cfp for panels, Hartford, 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers – NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus
47th Annual NeMLA Convention
March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT
Hosted by the University of Connecticut
Session Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2015
Call for Papers Begins: June 15, 2015
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2015
All submissions are online at: http://www.buffalo.edu/ne…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]
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Denise Kripper replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoI’m a PhD Candidate in the Spanish & Portuguese Department at Georgetown University, currently working on my dissertation on the role of fictional translators in contemporary Latin American and Spanish Literature. I’d like to help in whatever way I can. Thanks.
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Scott G. Williams replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoIn addition to ALTA, it would be a good idea to reach out to ATISA as well:
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Melek Ortabasi replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoHi Nicky,
I can’t volunteer a lot of time, but I’d be willing to help collect and vet translation studies-related syllabi.
Best,
Melek
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Corine Tachtiris replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoI can put you in touch with Edwin Gentzler, if no one else has already.
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Margaret Carson replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHi Nicky, As Russell just mentioned,Alex Zucker and I (the current co-chairs of the PEN Translation Committee in NYC) are working on building resources with ALTA and ATA. We’d like to be in the loop as well! Our email is
On our webpage, we have a Model Contract for translations, a growing list of FAQs and other…[Read more]
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Russell Scott Valentino replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoNicky, Erica is at ALTA not ACLA (you can find her email at the ALTA website — all their emails are @literarytranslators.org. Also, Sibelan Forrester (on this forum) is on the liaison committee for ALTA, and I’m the current president. So that connection is pretty much already in place. For ATA, the current president is Caitlin Walsh…[Read more]
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