Hello to you all. On behalf of this forum’s Executive Committee, we invite you to consider submitting a proposal for our sponsored session at MLA 2024. Details follow.
Addressing Underrepresentation of Marginalized Populations in Institutional Archives – A Roundtable
Proposals for 7 minute presentations on community-based archival practices…[Read more]

The CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.

“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]

See attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.

“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores trans…[Read more]

Here are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.

Adapting Middle English Literature

Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma

This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]

“20th-Century ‘Saints’ and Struggle”

If “spirituality” relates to a concern for the transcendent and a “saint” is one who has made a significant contribution to a spiritual tradition, this panel focuses on 20th-century saints whose spirituality intersected significantly with social and political struggle. Abstracts demonstrating familiarity…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.

CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023

The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]

Please note new deadline of 2/1 for proposal submissions, with apologies for the confusion!!

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a…[Read more]

Hello,

The Executive Committee of the Travel Writing Forum invites suggestions for new members of the Executive Committee. Feel free to message one of us directly, or to post a reply here.

All best,

Jessica Howell, Bernadette Andrea, Patricia Akhimie, Natalya Din Kariuki and Churnjeet Mahn

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

If you are at the Convention in San Francisco, please consider attending the Religion and Literature Forum Session 377 on Friday, 6 January 2023, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM.

“Making Sacred, Making Holy: The Canonization of People and Texts” in the Marriott Marquis – Sierra Suite H (Level 5)
Presider
Jason Lewallen, U of Dallas
Presentations (3)
• D…[Read more]

For those attending MLA in San Francisco in January, please join us for two sessions sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum:

Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing

Friday, January 6, 10:15-11:30, Moscone West 3006

Marissa Nicosia, Presiding

Panelists: Filipa Calado, Daniela D’Eugenio, Kara Flynn, Juniper…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2024. The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]

Dear Middle English Forum members,

Below is the information for the three sessions that our forum is sponsoring or cosponsoring, with links to session abstracts.

We are also seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Middle English Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through…[Read more]

The Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]