View the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals

Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out F…[Read more]

View 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, 2015

Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) a…[Read more]

The 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]

Panel: 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]

Please Circulate Widely!
Friday, 9 January
351. Chicano Narrative at Twenty-Five
3:30–4:45 p.m., West 202, VCC West
Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature
Presiding: Yolanda Padilla, Univ. of Washington, Bothell
1. “The Diachronics of Difference: Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad,” Jesse Alemán, Univ.…[Read more]

Colleagues,

The Ethnic Studies Division Executive Committee has sent the following letter to UIUC Chancellor Wise urging her to reinstate Professor Steven Salaita.

If you would like to sign on to this letter as a member of the Ethnic Studies Division, please email me by Friday, August 22 at Cheryl.Higashida@colorado.edu.  I will then send…[Read more]

One of the Ethnic Studies Division’s 2015 sessions, Whose Border? Whose Memory? Ethnic Studies and Palestine and Israel, will examine “the intellectual, political, and professional stakes of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement” (further details below).  Featuring Professors Salah Hassan, Rajini Sr…[Read more]

Call for Papers: Upcoming Special Issue, Modern Fiction Studies

Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Guest Editors: Aaron DeRosa and Stacey Peebles

Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2016

The Editors of MFS seek essays that focus on the fictional response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The…[Read more]

CFP: Upcoming Special Issue, Modern Fiction Studies

Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Guest Editors: Aaron DeRosa and Stacey Peebles

Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2016

The Editors of MFS seek essays that focus on the fictional response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The consequences of the…[Read more]

The 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

writecjw@gmail.com

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]

The Southern Quarterly

Special Issue: Photography and the Shaping of Southern Culture

Guest Editor: Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky Univ. <joseph.millichap@wku.edu>

Publication Schedule: Volume 51, Number 4, Summer 2015

Submissions for the 2015 special issue should relate photography to any other aspect of culture in the South, with both…[Read more]

Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]

Proposals due September 1, 2014

In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and ex…[Read more]

                              SSAWW Triennial Conference November 4-8, 2015

                                         Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA

                                                                 Call for Proposals

Due Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2015 for all proposals.

 For the 2015 Triennial Conference of the…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The South in the North

A Pre-MLA Mini-conference

January 6-7, 2015

Simon Fraser University

Vancouver, BC

Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne Duck, Jennifer Greeso…[Read more]

CFP: NEMLA Session, Toronto, 4/30-5/3. College in Crisis: Higher Education in Literature and Popular Culture

Higher education in the United States is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy as constituents question its costs and benefits. Many scholars in various disciplines have analyzed this crisis, and simultaneously, narratives about higher…[Read more]

Northeast 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]