The Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature invites submissions for its guaranteed MLA session: “Adapting Digital Resources for Global and Comparative Studies”

The COVID-19 pandemic forced professors to rely on technology to teach online.  This session aims to share innovative methodologies used for teaching grad…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of the online journal Decimonónica (Revista de producción cultural hispánica) has just been released. The five essays comprising this issue (19.1 – Winter 2022) as well as all previous issues are available for free at the journal’s website: http://www.decimononica.org/

Saludos,

Luis

2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO

CALL FOR PAPERS

Working Conditions of Performance: Staging Early Modern Plays (This would be a Presidential Theme session, also not guaranteed)

This panel seeks contributions that explore the precarious working conditions under which theater practitioners develop their work. What conditions do companies face…[Read more]

2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)

This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study…[Read more]

2023 MLA CONFERENCE – SAN FRANCISCO
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed)

This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of…[Read more]

The Comedia Connection: England and Spain (Co-Sponsored with CLCS Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, competitive panel, not guaranteed) 

This panel explores new critical approaches to theatrical relations between Spain & England. Abstracts that take a comparative approach to the study of the Spanish Golden Age Comedia & plays by…[Read more]

You are cordially invited to attend the Second Book Fair hosted by the International Association of Galdós Scholars (Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas). This is a virtual event that will take place on Friday, April 8, 2022. See attached flier for details about time, registration link (registration is required), and program including the n…[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]

Race, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern

Guaranteed roundtable on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. How do the intersections of these terms illuminate cultural formations, social privileges, and legal rights? Comparative and transnational perspectives especially welcome. Brief CV…[Read more]

The Power of Ridicule in Spanish and Iberian Political Satire of the 18th and 19th Centuries
We invite 250-word abstracts that explore satire’s function as preserver of the established order; or that question whether it conserves important structures while allowing the collective a therapeutic release of tension. Is satire inherently subversive? De…[Read more]

Dissent and Dissension in Spanish and Iberian Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Texts
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We invite abstracts that explore dissent & dissension at the micro/macro levels. Examples include actors, artists, artisans, craftsmen, writers who pushed back against decrees & social norms while expressing dissent or dissension.…[Read more]

MLA 2023 Forum on 16th-and 17th c. Drama CFP
1. Classical Theatre in Today’s Higher Education
This panel explores the role(s) that higher education has played in the preservation, promotion and innovation of teaching and performing the Comedia. Innovative approaches to teaching, adaptation, translation, staging, and outreach are welcome.
2. C…[Read more]

CHEAP’ NATURE, ‘CHEAP’ LABOR, AND THE EARLY MODERN CAPITALOCENE
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Examining early modern/colonial literary, ethical, ecological reflections on the European capitalist violent expansion in search of ‘cheap’ nature and labor inaugurating the capitalocene era and emerging notions of nature and the human. One page abstracts…[Read more]

“New Rules” (Guaranteed roundtable sponsored by CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern)

Proposed new guidelines for conducting research, sharing work, and supporting the profession as we address the realities of systemic social inequity, climate change, the expansion of the adjunct labor force, and drastic shifts in institutional support for the…[Read more]