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Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf @SFU Jan 6-7 2015) in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre)
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 D…[Read more]
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Betsy Dahms started the topic CFP: U of West Georgia Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic MLA Volume on Approaches to Teaching Amitav Ghosh in the forum
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoJohn Hawley and I are editing a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. If you teach Ghosh’s works and haven’t done so already, please do consider filling the survey below. We also welcome proposals for contributions to the volume.
Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mlasurvey_ghosh
Regards,
Gaurav Desai
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Medieval Academy Meeting 2015 in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi all,
The deadline for Medieval Academy 2015 submissions is just around the corner–June 15. The full CFP is here:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf
Among the threads is one on manuscript studies, consisting of the following sessions:
o English Manuscript Studies
o Women in the Sc…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Endorsing the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American (deadline: June 14) in the forum
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues,
I wonder if those of you who are interested in Arab American literature and culture can take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.
You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Canadian Literature Discussion Group now invites proposals for two panels planned for the MLA 2015 conference in Vancouver, including one collaborative panel organized with the Children’s Literature Division. The due date for both is March 15th.
Visual Cultures and Young People’s Texts in Canada
Exploring visual culture produced by, for…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDisability and the Arthurian World
From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<div>From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian Literature Discussion Group will…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller posted an update in the group
CLCS Arthurian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World
From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among…[Read more]
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Shannon Gayk posted an update in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoCFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: “Middle English Science”
Sponsored by the MLA Division on Middle English Literature (excluding
Chaucer)Send abstracts by March 5, 2014 to me at sgayk@indiana.edu and Erin Labbie at labbie@bgsu.edu.
Description:
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Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months ago<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> seeks submissions for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London. Comparative studies welcomed.
Please send 10-to-15-page MLA-style papers to the issue’s co-editors Robin Visel ([Read more] -
Jeffery Stoyanoff started the topic CFP: Framing Memory in Late Medieval English Narrative – Sp. Session MLA 2015 in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years agoHow do late medieval English narratives frame cultural memory? From the great famines at the beginning of the fourteenth century to the ongoing Hundred Years War, the twilight of the Middle Ages in England contains many memorable events itself, yet poets and writers during this period also draw on a fantasized English past – Arthurian legend – and…[Read more]
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Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoFrom Sharon Aronofsky Weltman:
Applications 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,…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere are the Victorian Division’s calls for papers for MLA 2015:
Victorian Animals
Human and nonhuman animals; reflections on the in-, non-, post-human. Papers welcome on the state of the field and on new methods and modes of inquiry. One-page abstracts and CVs by 1 March 2014; William A. Cohen (wcohen@umd.edu).
Victorian…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for papers for the Canadian Literature Discussion Group session at the MLA Convention in Vancouver (January 8-11, 2015)
Coastal Canada
Ecozones, shipping terminals, ports of entry, and real estate gems, Canada’s coasts are sites of desire and contest, exploitation and stewardship, abandonment and creative inhabitation, and they feature r…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe 2015 MLA conference in Vancouver gives us a great opportunity to showcase Canadian literature and criticism. The discussion group executive committee would like to encourage all interested members to propose sessions. Calls for papers can be posted on the MLA site if they are sent by Feb. 21, and, of course, the MLA Commons is another great…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic new online issue of CANADA & BEYOND in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCanada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has
just published its latest issue at
http://www.canada-and-beyond.com/index.php/canada-and-beyond. We invite you
to browse the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoCheck out our session at MLA 2014:
Indigeneity and Diaspora: Exploring Intersections through Canadian Literature
Saturday, 11 January, 2014
1:45–3:00 p.m.Indiana-Iowa room of the Chicago Marriott
Presiding: Pauline Wakeham, Univ. of Western Ontario
1. “Reaching Gold Mountain: Rereading Labor Narratives in Chinese Canadian Literature,” Mal…[Read more]
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