46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 – May 3, 2015
Toronto, Canada

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014

Growth in Writing, Teaching, and Learning

In his classic composition text Writing Without Teachers, Peter Elbow asks us to consider the metaphor of growing as a way to encourage and teach fluid, flexible writing. The idea of growth…[Read more]

Forgive me for cross-posting, please.

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…[Read more]

Members of this group may be familiar with the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) 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…[Read more]

This CFP might be of interest to the Women’s Studies forum:

Giving Voice, Appropriating Voices: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015)

Efforts to give voice to the silenced are central to postcolonial and feminist thought. Yet scholars in both disciplines, following Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty, have insisted that…[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. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

“The Romances of George Sand” (9/12/2014): email me for a free review copy at director@anaphoraliterary.com. Also, I hope you’ll add me as a friend/ fan/ or follow me on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn (search for my full name). Cheers, Anna Faktorovich, PhD, Director, Anaphora Literary Press

More information on the book a…[Read more]

Hello:

I recently observed a colleague making disparaging remarks about the language skills of an ESL student. While my colleague believed the student’s English was weak, I thought there was noticeable development. The difference in perception made me wonder if U.S. minority students and/or students in the U.S. from abroad experience problems in…[Read more]

Hello:

I recently observed one of my colleagues make inaccurate assumptions about the language skills of an ESL student. My colleague thought the student’s English was weak, but I disagreed. In mulling over this situation, I began to wonder if U.S. minorities and/or students from abroad encounter problems in writing classrooms distinct to these…[Read more]