Dear Colleagues,

Scottish Literature is particularly well represented at the MLA in Vancouver this year. We warmly invite you to our sessions and to the Friday night Cash Bar jointly hosted with the English Romantic and Victorian Divisions. Please see below for further details.

If you don’t already know the The Association for Scottish Literary…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to submit abstracts to the Annual ASLS (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Conference, to be held in Stirling, UK, on 3-5 July 2015:
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers on Globalisation and De…[Read more]

Dear Friends,

Can anybody suggest me some good book/s  or articles on the History of Translation ?

Best,

Prithviraj

<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]

Calls for papers have been published for the Scottish Literature Discussion Group’s sessions at the 130th MLA Convention in Vancouver, 8th -11th January 2015. There are two sessions, as follows. Both are listed in the MLA’s calls for papers. We welcome abstracts, or please contact us with any enquiries.

 1. Discussion Group in Scottish…[Read more]

The forum provides a place where we can discuss what’s happening in Scottish literature. Do you have anything to share? Here’s your chance . . .

Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more]

How do late medieval English narratives frame cultural memory? From the great famines at the beginning of the fourteenth century to the ongoing Hundred Years War, the twilight of the Middle Ages in England contains many memorable events itself, yet poets and writers during this period also draw on a fantasized English past – Arthurian legend – and…[Read more]

The Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference.  We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of translation and other related topics.  The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel i…[Read more]