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]

Please attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA,  for your classes.  Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.

Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Comparative Readings of Doris Lessing’s Historical and Speculative Fiction
for the MLA Convention in Austin, 2016.

Seeking comparisons of Lessing’s historical-realist-autobiographical to her speculative novels or stories, as these are often considered by critics to be separate areas or phases of Lessing’s wo…[Read more]

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I am seeking speakers for a panel at the next meeting of the Modern Language Association in Austin TX, 7-10 January 2015. Successful panelists will present short critical papers (20 mins; 6 double spaced pages single sided; this is a firm limit) that discuss C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a whole on the 6…[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]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[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]