NeMLA 2017 – Disability in Anglophone Literature (Panel)

48th Annual NeMLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23 – 26th, 2017

Deadline to submit abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: Anglophone and British Literature.
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Institutional host: Johns Hopkins University

CFP: panel on “Disability in Anglophone Literature”

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On the DL: Athletes, Athletics, and Disability is the title of a proposed essay collection that will read competitive athletics through a disability studies lens. Given the myriad definitions of “sport” across the globe, On the DL is interested in compiling a wide variety of theoretically-engaged analyses of sporting culture. In addition to…[Read more]

Of Podcasts, Performances, and Public Engagement: Asserting Yourself as a Junior Scholar

I’m kind of scared of the academy/ I think my parents are proud of me/ I just wish I knew how to be comfortable here/ I never feel like I’m allowed to breathe/Rubbing shoulders with these old nerds/ Rockin’ sweater vests in they office hours/ Eating hors d’oeu…

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In order to encourage graduate students and part-time faculty members, the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages has dropped membership dues to zero for those whose income is below $20,000/year. This is only one strategy of many in our campaign to revitalize our membership. Please visit http://www.wcml.org for more information.

Hi there! I’m trying to spread the word about the availability of NeMLA Summer Fellowships. Here is a brief description. Please follow the link for more information.

The NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program Summer fellowships up to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over…[Read more]

I’d like to invite members of the group to the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz at this year’s convention in Austin. It promises to be extra nerdy, but in a good way. Sign up to reserve your spot: https://thewire.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2015/12/register-for-the-pub-quiz-at-the-convention/

Hope to see you there!

Nicky

<div>Bodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated,…[Read more]

Thursday, 7 January

120. Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism

3:30–4:45 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies

Presiding: Susan Antebi, Univ. of Toronto

1. “The Biopolitics of Disability,” David Mitchell, George Washington Univ.; Sharon Snyder, George Washington Univ.

2. “Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and As…[Read more]

Friday, 8 January

325. Disability and Interdependence

1:45–3:00 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies

Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Disforming Cure,” Katherine Schaap Williams, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi

2. “‘The Servant . . . Formed Himself into a Sort of Crutch’: Disability, Dependency, an…[Read more]

Saturday, 9 January

619. Queer Crips across Time

3:30–4:45 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies

Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.

Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]

Panel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016

Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[Read more]

An analysis by the MLA Subconference collective re CSA 2015 and the MLA Subconference 2015.

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The (Capitalist) Devil is in the Details, or, the theory and praxis of academic conferences

The academic conference is a microcosm of academia as a whole and contains all of the latter’s contradictions. Primary among t…

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MLA Commons now comes with a repository (the CORE button in the top menu on the right) which allows you to upload articles, syllabi, dissertation chapters, conference papers, data sets, works-in-progress, talks, blog posts, etc. You retain the copyright to your work, but you get the opportunity to publicize it or request feedback on a draft by…[Read more]

I invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.

connect.mla.hcommons-staging.org

I have a student who is graduating with a B.A. in English and wants to pursue an M.A. in English through an online graduate program. The school is accredited and has a physical campus, but my student would be enrolled in the online graduate program only. She is choosing an online option because her husband is in the military, and they will be…[Read more]