I have just started a group on teaching Chinese language and linguistics. If anyone is interested, please join the group and we’ll discuss aspects of our experiences as teachers and students of Chinese. I look forward to hearing from many of you!

Dear Members of the Teaching as a Profession group,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:

Teaching Memory Studies

Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]

Organizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston) 

Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at…[Read more]

Please consider attending the Delegate Assembly in order to support this MOTION:

Motion 2015-1:
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages
Supporting materials: Click here to see the information provided by the proposers.

Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF)…[Read more]

Abstracts below:

Friday, 9 January

Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir

10:15–11:30 a.m., West 210, VCC West

Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association

Presiding: Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community Coll.

“Photo-graphics: Mediating Memory in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” David Bahr, Borough of Man…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:

The faculty in the Ph.D. program in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the Teaching Literature Book Award. This new, nationally-juried prize seeks to encourage and recognize excellence in teaching by honoring every other year a book-length work on teaching literature at the…[Read more]

Dear all,

I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but style and method are closely connected, after all.

Could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not…[Read more]

Dear Forum Members,

About a year ago, one forum member raised a question about preparing graduate students for positions with 4-4 teaching loads. Given this question, I wanted to draw your attention to the Idaho State University Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English, which is program that aims to prepare students for these types of jobs.…[Read more]

CFP: NEMLA Session, Toronto, 4/30-5/3. College in Crisis: Higher Education in Literature and Popular Culture

Higher education in the United States is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy as constituents question its costs and benefits. Many scholars in various disciplines have analyzed this crisis, and simultaneously, narratives about higher…[Read more]

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]