Early film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film.  Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate.  But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]

Call for Papers – NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus

47th Annual NeMLA Convention

March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT

Hosted by the University of Connecticut

Session Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2015

Call for Papers Begins: June 15, 2015

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2015

All submissions are online at: http://www.buffalo.edu/ne…[Read more]

Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)

Gender in Distance Education

Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?

Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]

Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)

Gender in Distance Education

Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?

Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]

Cahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparées (CIEC)/ Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS)

Volume 2 Numéro 1

Hégémonie et domination en traductologie

La traduction a été perçue comme la “reproduction du message” du texte original dans la langue-culture cible par Eugene Nida et Charles Taber (Theory and Practice of Translation, Leiden: E.J.…[Read more]

Good morning colleagues,

I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more]

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme:  Conflicts and Resolutions

Featured Luncheon Speaker:  Poet Linda Nemec Foster

 Location:  Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512 

We live in a society that has c…[Read more]

Hi all,

I just wanted to alert this group’s members to the fact that there have been a couple of comments on the Commons Newswire piece on your work. I thought one of you might like to respond.

https://thewire.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ecocriticism-environmental-humanities/

Yours,

Nicky

We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]

Familial/Communal Structures

Black Motherhood

The Presence of the ancestor

Other Mothering

Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma

Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)

Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)

Violence

Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood

Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons

Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]

CFP for 2016 MLA in Austin, TX

Grasping at Screens

This panel asks whether the multiplication of screens and the constant traversal of different media demand new ways of thinking about embodied engagement with the moving image.  As our bodies move, our various screens may move with us.  We may be engaged intensely with a given flow of images, o…[Read more]

The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in what we…[Read more]

“After Transnational American Studies” (MLA 2016): What does it mean to come after Transnational American Studies? Papers may consider transnationality, Americanity, globality, planetarity, empire, and/or the anthropocene. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Abby Goode (abby.l.goode@gmail.com).

CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:

Dear Friends,

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):

Global Arab Texts and their Publics

Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]

Hi All,

Please see the CFP below for an MLA 2016 panel I’m organizing with Clare Echterling. Circulate as you see fit. Thanks!

Best, Nicole

Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities

For this panel, organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, we invite proposals for papers that place…[Read more]