Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …

As well, we have a Facebook page by the same name, that now has 655 members and we’d like it to reach 1000:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/

Please consider joining these sites to bu…[Read more]

Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …

As well, it would be great if you want to join the Facebook page by the same name:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/

These are spaces to build support for a resolution on Acade…[Read more]

Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …

As well, it would be great if you’d like to  join the Facebook page set up for this group, that has the same name:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/

After more than 3 hours of commit…[Read more]

Reminder of deadline for all proposals: February 13, 2015

 For the 2015 Triennial Conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Nov. 4-8, 2015, Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA., the conference organizers welcome proposals on any topic related to the study of American women writers, broadly conceived. The strength of…[Read more]

Call for Papers Special Issue of American Jewish History dedicated to Material Culture

American Jewish History is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on material culture, guest-edited by Laura Leibman (Reed College).  The journal offers articles on every aspect of the American Jewish experience and is the most widely recognized…[Read more]

ASAP/7: Arts & the Public, September 24-27, 2015 (Clemson University)
For ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) conference, ASAP/7: Arts & the Public, September 24-27, 2015, hosted by Clemson University. Looking for papers for a panel on pamphleteers, broadsiders, sidewalk ranters, bloggers, trollers, Tweeters, and other…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Twentieth-Century American Literature Group:  I thought you would be interested in this project:

Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women

For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus…[Read more]

Call for Submissions: In geveb, a Journal of Yiddish Studies
We are proud to announce In geveb, a new online journal of Yiddish Studies. In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the presentation of digitized archival documents, the exchange of…[Read more]

There will be a #BlackLivesMatter solidarity action at MLA on FRI at 1:30PM. Please assemble at 1:30 in Ballroom D, on the first floor (not ground floor) of the convention center.

We plan to have speakers and an open mic there, and then march outside.

Participants without MLA badges can access Ballroom D through the south entrance. We will have…[Read more]

Mentoring isn’t just for students. Great advice from Joycelyn Moody. Let’s keep the conversation going at #MLA15! Blog post here: http://bit.ly/1wPU6y9

Come one, come all to the two panels sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Studies [no longer called Discussion Group, but I forget what it’s now called] at this year’s MLA, starting this week:

275. Jewish Geographies, Jewish Space(s)

Friday, 9 January: 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 204, VCC West

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish C…[Read more]

Come one, come all to the two panels sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Studies [no longer called Discussion Group, but I forget what it’s now called]:

275. Jewish Geographies, Jewish Space(s)
Friday, 9 January: 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 204, VCC West
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish Cultural Studies and the Discussion Group on J…[Read more]