MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more]

Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives

This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]

Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

Join members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063

Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of literary study in English,…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I wanted to pass along this job ad for an assistant professor position in African American literature, joined to an urban studies research cluster.

Please do pass it along to anyone who pay be a good fit and encourage them to apply.

https://joblist.mla.org/job-<wbr />details/7961/assistant-<wbr…[Read more]

The Marygrove Conservancy announces the Marygrove African American Authors Collection (MAAAC), a digitized archive of video recordings, photographs, printed materials, and teaching resources generated by the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS).  The MAAAC was developed with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for…[Read more]

2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS Call for Participation

Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 23d meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]