This edited collection will address educational practices and pedagogies for teaching writing in prisons. The collection’s framing concept argues for social and political consciousness within prison writing education that represents equal and shared learning between writers and teachers. The collection will offer material that advocates an e…[Read more]

Call for Papers
Prison Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning with Imprisoned Writers

This edited collection will address educational practices and pedagogies for teaching writing in prisons. The collection’s framing concept argues for social and political consciousness within prison writing education that represents equal and shared learning between w…[Read more]

If you are attending the MLA convention in Austin, TX please join us at Container Bar (made of recycled shipping containers!) for a happy hour on Thursday January 7 beginning at 8 PM. The gathering is co-sponsored by ASLE and the MLA Ecocriticism and Environmental Forum. All are welcome!

The Container Bar is located at 90 Rainey St, Austin, T…[Read more]

CFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene
http://www.acla.org/seminar/writing-disaster-era-anthropocene
Location: Harvard University
Date: March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23rd, 2015 (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper)
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave and Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William Smith…[Read more]

Dear All:

I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]

CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West

<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more]

We are excited to announce that Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, is now available for open peer review on MLA Commons. As the volume focuses on pedagogy, we would particularly value the input of members of this forum, so please do take a moment to read t…[Read more]

Hi all,

I just wanted to alert this group’s members to the fact that there have been a couple of comments on the Commons Newswire piece on your work. I thought one of you might like to respond.

https://thewire.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ecocriticism-environmental-humanities/

Yours,

Nicky

Warner’s essay is concerned that students will continue to be ill prepared for college because of Common Core testing:  https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/unfortunately-i-am-ready-common-core

“After Transnational American Studies” (MLA 2016): What does it mean to come after Transnational American Studies? Papers may consider transnationality, Americanity, globality, planetarity, empire, and/or the anthropocene. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Abby Goode (abby.l.goode@gmail.com).

Hi All,

Please see the CFP below for an MLA 2016 panel I’m organizing with Clare Echterling. Circulate as you see fit. Thanks!

Best, Nicole

Transgender Studies, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities

For this panel, organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, we invite proposals for papers that place…[Read more]

Come join the conversation at http://sustainabilityandpopulationinalh.mla.hcommons-staging.org/!