Boundary Conditions in Netherlandish Literature, Language and Culture

5–8 January 2017, Philadelphia

A session organized by the MLA Dutch Forum

Chair: Johannes Burgers (Queensborough Community College, NY)

Negotiating Intergenerational cultural Boundaries in Moroccan-Dutch Writing
Ahmed Idrissi Alami (Purdue University)

Recent decades have w…[Read more]

Call for papers

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN NETHERLANDISH
LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

5–8 January 2017, Philadelphia
Sessions organized by the MLA Dutch Forum

At the 2017 convention of the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA Dutch Forum will organize one or more sessions on the 2017 MLA Presidential theme ‘Boundary Con…[Read more]

Call for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)

“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”

Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Musl…[Read more]

Call for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)

“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”

Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim c…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German

Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more productively thought together as tangled and i…[Read more]

Hi, all,

As someone partly of both German and Czech background, I feel very torn in some ways similarly to the old boy Kafka himself.  Rather than ignoring the issue of Czechs and Germans as so many writers are doing, or–worse–siding with one or other, why not take a more interesting question: given that Czech-speakers and German-speakers (and…[Read more]

Although Lessing’s examinations of literature in contrast to the other arts have been an object of considerable scholarly focus, Lessing is rarely mentioned in the many studies of world literature. Lessing’s absence contrasts with Goethe’s, who is well-known as being one of the earliest (often credited as being the earliest) theorist of world li…[Read more]

I’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at  [Read more]

Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the following publication that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (You can see any such items by clicking the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleague’s work and to perhaps share your own course materials or researc…[Read more]

The Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas invites you to a cash bar on Thursday, January 7, 7-10 pm, at Austin Ale House at 301 W. 6th Street (corner 6th and Lavaca). This is an easy walking distance from the JW Marriott and other conference hotels. We will provide finger foods. Please come and join us!