This panel at the NEMLA Annual Convenion in Baltimore, 23-26 March 2017, will consider the question of how “German” literature has been conceived in the past, and of how such conceptions may be changing as we head into the future. We begin with the polyvalence of the adjective “German,” which can refer either to the language, or to an ethnic…[Read more]

This panel at the NEMLA Annual Convenion in Baltimore, 23-26 March 2017, will consider the question of how “German” literature has been conceived in the past, and of how such conceptions may be changing as we head into the future. We begin with the polyvalence of the adjective “German,” which can refer either to the language, or to an ethnic…[Read more]

This panel at the NEMLA Annual Convenion in Baltimore, 23-26 March 2017, will consider the question of how “German” literature has been conceived in the past, and of how such conceptions may be changing as we head into the future. We begin with the polyvalence of the adjective “German,” which can refer either to the language, or to an ethnic…[Read more]

CfP: Writing Spaces – Landscapes and/in German Travel Writing (Panel)
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA)
March 23-26, 2017
Baltimore, MD
Submission deadline: Sept.30, 2016
The desire to conquer hostile landscapes and explore unknown places has long constituted an essential aspect of traveling and hence also of co…[Read more]

NeMLA 2017 – Disability in Anglophone Literature (Panel)

48th Annual NeMLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23 – 26th, 2017

Deadline to submit abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: Anglophone and British Literature.
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Institutional host: Johns Hopkins University

CFP: panel on “Disability in Anglophone Literature”

This…[Read more]

On the DL: Athletes, Athletics, and Disability is the title of a proposed essay collection that will read competitive athletics through a disability studies lens. Given the myriad definitions of “sport” across the globe, On the DL is interested in compiling a wide variety of theoretically-engaged analyses of sporting culture. In addition to…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,

The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.

We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students…[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]