The Old English Forum announces these calls for papers for MLA 2022, 6–9 January in Washington, DC.

Session (1) Broken but Wondrous: Finding Hope in Old English Literature
Old English literature is rarely associated with hope – indeed, much of its poetry is littered with the ruins of lost peoples, frozen and desolate landscapes, meditations on…[Read more]

The Old English Forum announces these calls for papers for MLA 2022, 6–9 January in Washington, DC.

Session (1) Broken but Wondrous: Finding Hope in Old English Literature
Old English literature is rarely associated with hope – indeed, much of its poetry is littered with the ruins of lost peoples, frozen and desolate landscapes, meditations on…[Read more]

Shared on behalf of Leland G. Spencer, PhD, editor of Women and Language:

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical,…[Read more]

Isidore of Seville and the Persistence of Classical Antiquity in Iberia and the British Isles during the Middle Ages--Collaborative session with LLC Old English and LLC Medieval IberianMLA official CFP page: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper12918.html Papers on the dissemination of Isidore ́s works across Western Europe d…[Read more]

From the MLA Old English Forum Executive Committee:

We write to express our support for the changes currently being pursued by the membership of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.

First: We wish to recognize the work of Dr. Mary Rambaran-Olm, who served as second vice-president of ISAS from 2017 to the present, whose resignation from…[Read more]

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium

Call for PapersCrosscurrents: Recontextualizing Early Medieval Studies

Columbia University September 13-14, 2019 

“Cross-Currents” aims to provide a different context for the conceptualization of medieval literature by putting the field, broadly conceived, into direct contact with scholarship in Afri…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:
Registration is open for the IONA conference on early medieval Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. The conference is interdisciplinary, experimental, and collaborative. Seminars, labs, and workshops open to all registrants and there are four great headlining plenaries. Please consider coming to Vancouver in the spring to take…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:
Registration is open for the IONA conference on early medieval Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. The conference is interdisciplinary, experimental, and collaborative. Seminars, labs, and workshops open to all registrants and there are four great headlining plenaries. Please consider coming to Vancouver in the spring to take part.…[Read more]

Call for Papers from Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University:

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, in…[Read more]