MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more]

Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

Dear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,

I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]

Looking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]

Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

See attachment of the forum’s first annual newsletter.

We hope to see you at the MLA in Philadelphia!

[1] Scripting the Global Hispanophone in the Iberian Colonial World [Session 99 in the program] on Thursday, 4 January 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM Marriott – 307 (Level 3)

[2] Afterlives of Slavery across Seas and Oceans – Roundtable [Session 260 i…[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 Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary study in English,…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I wanted to pass along this job ad for an assistant professor position in African American literature, joined to an urban studies research cluster.

Please do pass it along to anyone who pay be a good fit and encourage them to apply.

https://joblist.mla.org/job-<wbr />details/7961/assistant-<wbr…[Read more]