Hi Folks–want to get more involved in the MLA Gothic Studies forum? We need to submit to MLA a short list of nominees (2 or 3 people) to attend the delegate assembly meeting at the annual convention. So the person needs to be a member of MLA (or willing to become one!) who plans to attend the convention at least twice in the next 3 years. Please…[Read more]

Hi Folks–want to get more involved in the MLA Gothic Studies forum? We need to submit to MLA a short list of nominees (2 or 3 people) to attend the delegate assembly meeting at the annual convention. So the person needs to be a member of MLA (or willing to become one!) who plans to attend the convention at least twice in the next 3 years. Please…[Read more]

For anyone interested, there is now an MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group (easier to use / access than the MLA forum site I think).  You can sign on at http://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies

For anyone interested, there is now an MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group (easier to use / access than the MLA forum site I think).  You can sign on at http://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies

MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century
What methodologies and/or texts best help us make sense of our current bodily relationship to health, illness, and medicine? Papers utilizing posthumanism, new materialism, feminist science studies, or other philosophical tools are welcome. All literary genres and time p…[Read more]

MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century
What methodologies and/or texts best help us make sense of our current bodily relationship to health, illness, and medicine? Papers utilizing posthumanism, new materialism, feminist science studies, or other philosophical tools are welcome. All literary genres and time p…[Read more]

Thank you again to those who have expressed support for the idea of a Gothic Studies MLA forum.  We have more than the required number of signatories and MLA has now invited a formal proposal.  MLA is suggesting, however, that LLC (Language, Literature, and Culture) curiously might be too narrow for Gothic Studies and has suggested CLCS (…[Read more]

Thank you for visiting this group!   I’m initiating the process of getting an MLA forum on LLC Gothic Studies approved. At present this is only a prospective forum. To get approval requires several steps:   First, we must gather at least 35 signatures supporting a petition to create a Gothic Studies forum. We must also have at least 5 volu…[Read more]

Medical Humanism / American Literature

CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference

May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA

Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]

Medical Humanism / American Literature

CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference

May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA

Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]