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]

NeMLA 2015, Toronto
Roundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also…[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]

Dear 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]

Dear 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]

Disability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]

The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]

Dear Friends,

I’m organizing two panels for the AWP ((Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015):  1)  The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me…[Read more]

Dear Friends,

I’m organizing two panels for the AWP Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015):  1)  The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you for your c…[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]

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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]

MLA 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]

Deak Nabors, “The Aesthetic Tradition of Perpetual War”

August 11-15th at the Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities, Stamford, CT  ($1200.00 includes tuition ($800) and room & board ($400.00) Apply now at mayapplecenter.slideroom.com

Commentators have longed noted that the United States has remained more or less persistently at war since…[Read more]

Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers
Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)

Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statis…[Read more]