Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia

Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture

Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]

[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Teaching Beyond University

In its effort to recognize other spaces for postgraduate careers beyond 4-year institutions, the Teaching as a Profession Forum is inviting submissions for a virtual roundtable focused on teaching beyond a traditional university department. We are…[Read more]

[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Ungrading as Liberatory Practice 

As a pedagogical practice, ungrading decenters grade-based assessment and focuses instead on student learning. It is based on the philosophical premise that grades are not an accurate assessment of learning, and institutionalized grading…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’d like to call your attention to three CFPs for the 2024 MLA convention that may interest you.

• The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success: As the nature of contingency evolves with non-tenure track faculty assuming increased responsibilities within the academy, what models or strategies can help to a…

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The RCWS Literacy Studies forum committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2024 conference theme of celebration: joy and sorrow, with a focus on self-care literacies. What are the varied ways that instructors, artists, students, scholars, writers and readers enact and enable literacies of self-care? How do such literacies commemorate,…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]

As the convention approaches, the Teaching of Literature Forum is seeking a new delegate. If you would like to participate or if you have any suggestions for someone who would be a good fit, please share them here. If you have questions, you can share them here or email me at jdespai@siue.edu.

Columbus State Community College is a great place to work! The college has amplified our efforts to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across hiring, curriculum, and teaching.

Our positions are posted here:

Link to Tenure-Track Instructor – Rhetoric and Composition

If you have questions about the positions, college, or Columbus, feel f…[Read more]

The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

Below you’ll find four CFP’s for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year’s MLA.  Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.

1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]