The 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

June 2-5, 2016

The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
Early Bird Special for Registration ends April 1!

Register here: http://www.planetreg.com/greenmountainhawthorne

Please please go to the website below to download a DRAFT of the program for the conference. This will be updated…[Read more]

We welcome proposals on biographical/contextual relations; representations of women; intertextuality; trans-Atlantic/trans-American treatments; race, gender, class, and sexuality, etc.

Please send 250-word abstracts to Ivonne Garcia (garciai@kenyon.edu) and Charlene Avallone (avallone000@gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.

The Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care

Literature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. Topics and t…[Read more]

Organization:    Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Title of session:    Ecologies of Hawthorne
Submission requirements:    Send 250-word abstracts.
Deadline for submissions:    15 March 2016
Description:    Consider representations of space and place, land and landscape, the “natural” and “unnatural,” environmental “transgressions,” “dev…[Read more]

During the 2016 annual convention of the MLA, the new TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum’s executive committee met to plan session proposals for the 2017 convention and other initiatives.

The forum’s executive committee leadership for 2016:

Rebecca Garden, president

Thomas Lawrence Long, secretary

Andrea Charise, member

Erin L…[Read more]