The Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) is delighted to announce winner of the 2017 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award.  The 2017 winner is the distinguished narrative theorist and independent scholar, Marie-Laure Ryan.  She will be receive her award during the Awards Luncheon at the 2017 a…[Read more]

The official blurb is below, and I’m asking for brief proposals/bios by March 25. This could certainly be a forum, so 20 minute talks are not strictly necessary. Email me for more info. steven.syrek@gmail.com.

Open Source Lit, Open Source Crit

The “open source” movement’s potential for literary studies. Literature as source code? Criticism as…[Read more]

The past few years I’ve been assembling a list of digitally-oriented sessions at the MLA (e.g. 2015’s list). Let’s do something different this year. Let’s crowdsource that list. I’ve started a Google Doc anyone can edit. Please add your DH session to the list!

Unofficial MLA 2016 List of Digital Humanities Sessions

Submissions welcome for panel at NEMLA 2016 (March 17-20, Hartford, CT) on the topic: Digital Humanities in the Modern Language Curriculum: Beyond the Language vs. Content Divide (See description below). Deadline: 9/30

This session seeks to expand scholarly dialogues about digital humanities beyond so-called content courses to include all levels…[Read more]

Submissions due 09/23.

The NEH’s recently launched Public Scholar program, a burgeoning number of public humanities initiatives and centers all over the country, and the increasing requirement of grant and job seekers that their work have a public component all indicate a redefinition of the public intellectual. Many of the products of such i…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to consider participating in the panel “Digital Humanities in the Global North and South: Trends, Debates, Initiatives” that I am co-organizing for the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2016 in Connecticut. You can access the Call for Papers by opening the following link:…[Read more]

2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX

Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC

Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users 

What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline once entwined with li…[Read more]

Pls. spread the word, East Carolina University is hosting a Digital Innovation and Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities Symposium in Greenville, NC, March 18th, 2015. Speakers below, guests welcome, 5-7-minute lightning-round presentations are currently being solicited at our website. Both graduate students and faculty welcome.

MORE…[Read more]

Start 2015 with Electronic Literature! The Electronic Literature Organization seeks proposals for the E-Lit@Vancouver reading, to be held 8pm, Friday, January 9, at the Rickshaw Theatre (254 E Hastings St). The reading is organized by ELO President Dene Grigar and ELO co-Vice President Sandy Baldwin. The event is free and open to the public, and…[Read more]

The following letter was sent on behalf of the radical caucus of the MLA members as a critique of the Taskforce Report on graduate study. The analysis of the taskforce report took part over a period of time on the radical caucus list, and was written by Margaret Hanzimanolis and Richard Ohmann, with help from many radical caucus members.

We…[Read more]

Panel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century
(Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
For Raymond Wi…[Read more]

Call for abstracts: NEMLA: Northeast Modern Language Association https://nemla.org/index.html 2015 annual convention Ryerson University, Toronto 30 April to 3 May 2015 Panel “Digital Humanities and Publishing Humanities Scholarship Today.” Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, org. Purdue University and Purdue University Press…[Read more]

Dear friends and colleagues,

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is proud to announce the alpha release of a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter-million text volumes.

HTRC Extracted Features Dataset:

https://sandbox.htrc.illinois.edu/HTRC-UI-Portal2/Features

Features are data attributes defined in such a…[Read more]

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CFP: MLA 2015</p>

Special Session Roundtable: Gender and the Archives</p>
This roundtable will discuss ways in which gender interacts with or impacts the collection, preservation, or very existence of archives and archival materials, broadly understood.</p>
<p dir=”ltr”>We encourage submissions from scholars working in all historical p…[Read more]

Designing an Archive for Cloud and Crowd –
How can networks (human and/or digital) combat institutional amnesia? What digital spaces can we build today to preserve a history for tomorrow? 350-word proposals by 14 March 2014. Contact amanda.licastro@gmail.com or benmiller314@gmail.com

The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses. Grants of $40,000 will be offered…[Read more]

I’ve joined a journal as “Digital Appropriations” editor for reviews of digital projects and texts related to William Shakespeare. For details, contact me and/or see the  Call for Submission here: http://ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/2013/09/27/bl/