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A Rich Field for Rhetorical Analysis

I know you are all familiar with the Orwell novel 1984, with its permanently at war nations of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia.  The Newsspeak and media coverage were something that Orwell gave some time
and attention to in that novel. Oceania is always right, tells the truth, the other two…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.

You can read the  MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh

Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]

Dear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:

As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 a.m. EDT on 2 June 2014 (in other words, Sunday 1 June 2014, before midnight EDT), to cast your online ballot for the MLA member ratification vote on R…[Read more]

How do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]

I 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]

MESSAGE FROM PROF. SEAN ROBINSON RE: STUDY ON THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ FACULTY

Inside the Lavender Tower: Stories of LGBTQ Faculty
Call for LGBTQ Faculty Participants

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

I am conducting an international, qualitative study on the experiences of LGBTQ faculty. The purpose of my research is to capture the stories and…[Read more]

The New York Public Library

LGBT Visiting Scholars Program

Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars

http://www.nypl.org/node/113221

Each year, The New York Public Library provides stipends for up to two Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars. The stipends support travel to New York City and related expenses to do research in the Library’s premier LGBT (…[Read more]

Sponsored by both the Division on Postcolonial Studies and the Discussion Group on Law as Literature.

Sexualities, Legislation, and Memory
How are global victories and legal challenges to LGBT rights shaping autobiography, film, relationships with nations of origin, political engagement? 300 word abstracts by 14 March 2014 (deadline may be…[Read more]

Special 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]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

<p class=”MsoNormal”>QUEER ARCHIVES.
Remembering, forgetting; loss, abandonment, preservation, invention; foundations, authorities; remainders, survivals, salvages; epistemic arrangements, derangements, reorderings; material and immaterial archives; future archives; archive fever; presence, place, trace. 250-word abstracts, 1-page CV by 15 March…[Read more]