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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView 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] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView 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] -
Jessica Winston started the topic ISU Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoDear Forum Members,
About a year ago, one forum member raised a question about preparing graduate students for positions with 4-4 teaching loads. Given this question, I wanted to draw your attention to the Idaho State University Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English, which is program that aims to prepare students for these types of jobs.…[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
Popular Culture 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, Ontario)
For Ra…[Read more]
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Sandra K. Soto started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division Panels (MLA 2015) in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPlease 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] -
Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic Ethnic Studies Division EC Statement of Support for Steven Salaita in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoColleagues,
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]
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William E. Lenz started the topic CFP Travel Culture at Popular Culture 2015 in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
PCA/ACA Travel & Tourism
CALL FOR PAPERS AT NATIONAL PCA/ACA CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, APRIL 1-4, 2015
We had 7 panels in Travel and Tourism last year in Chicago; I hope to see 15 this year.
I’m looking for any and all interesting papers or presentations regarding travel and tourist culture. This i…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic Ethnic Studies, Palestine and Israel: Firing Steven Salaita in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoOne 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]
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Peter Powers started the topic CFP: NEMLA Session. College in Crisis: Higher Ed in Literature and Pop culture in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCFP: 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]
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoMembers of this group may be familiar with the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) 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…[Read more]
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Selma R. S. Vital started the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI am proposing a roundtable about new approaches and strategies to integrate the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new and it is time for an update. The NeMLA convention will meet in Toronto, Ontario April 30 – May 3rd. Each participant will have about 10 minutes to present a project or class experience and the re…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic Unfinished South Asian Pasts in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session for MLA 2015 (in association with South Asian Literatures and Languages (SALL) Discussion Group)
This special session seeks papers that examine literary or cinematic representations of unfinished South Asian and South Asian diasporic pasts. Papers could examine events such as the Partition of British India, the civil war in Sri…[Read more]
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Cedric R. Tolliver started the topic Afro-Modernist Lit/Film and the Long Durée in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 Vancouver Panel Proposal:
We solicit papers on afro-modernist literature and film that reveal the usefulness and limits of the long durée as an analytical tool. How do African American and other Black diasporic texts engage the dialectic between modernist aesthetics and philosophical concerns with history? Does this engagement move…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoEthnic Studies Division CFPs for MLA 2015:
Violence on the Borders
Intersections of memory, gender, race, ethnicity, and geography— Indigenous Indignities, The (New) Jim Crow, Cuidad Juárez, Highway of Tears, Japanese Internment, etc. 300-word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2014; Penelope Kelsey (penelope.kelsey@colorado.edu) and Am…[Read more] -
Susannah Mary Chewning started the topic Committee for the Community College MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:
The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]
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Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP: Music behind Bars: Articulating Incarceration and Popular Music in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPopular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP "Sexing the Left"/ English Language Notes in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP: “Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014[Read more]
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