Greetings.

I am honored to have been asked to stand for election to the Executive Committee of CLCS Arthurian. As a member of the executive committee, I will work to protect the representation of this field at the MLA Conferences and in the PMLA journal (when possible) by proposing sessions/topics that reflect on the exciting possibilities…[Read more]

I’d like to bring the following CFP to the attention of any interested Anglo-Saxonists:
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Proposals are sought for Darkness, Descent and Depression in Anglo-Saxon England, a collection of articles that will cover the depiction of emotional or…[Read more]

CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) Conference. October 22-24, 2015, Little Rock, Arkansas

International Association for Robin Hood Studies Sponsored Session:

“Greenwood Fashion: Clothing, Textiles, Skins, and Furs in the Ongoing Robin Hood Legend”

The Robin Hood ballads and other Robin Hood tellings, from the past through the…[Read more]

This roundtable reopened a longstanding debate on the place of the author, the function of authorship, and the challenge of competing literatures in an expanding literary canon, one that seeks to include global Englishes, world literatures, and multiple perspectives (animal studies, ecological studies, disability studies, etc). Prompted in large…[Read more]

Call 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]

Hi 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]

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 other subjects. The Arthurian…[Read more]

<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]