If there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum. We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]

If there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum.

We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]

Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)

How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

As some of you may know, John Hawley and I are putting together a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. We have received a number of excellent proposals but are interested in a contribution from someone who teaches Ghosh’s works in a creative writing workshop. If you or anyone you know does so, I would be…[Read more]

Walk Poems: Moving Through America on Foot

NeMLA’s 46th Annual Conference in Toronto, Ontario, April 30 through May 3, 2015

Deadline for Submission: September 30, 2014

This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the…[Read more]

John Hawley and I are editing a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. If you teach Ghosh’s works and haven’t done so already, please do consider filling the survey below. We also welcome proposals for contributions to the volume.

Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mlasurvey_ghosh

Regards,

Gaurav Desai

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I wonder if those of you who are interested in Arab American literature and culture can take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.

You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab…[Read more]

Watch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!

“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to modernity in East…[Read more]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

The Cold War and Experimental Fiction
Panel proposed by the Slavic and East European Literatures Division
In what ways did the Cold War generate experimental narratives? What impact did the Cold War discourse have on unofficial literature? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2014 to Julia Vaingurt (vaingurt@uic.edu).

Central and Eastern Europe in…[Read more]

Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 8-11 Jan. 2015, in Vancouver. Jointly sponsored by the MLA Division on <i>European Literary Relations </i>and the MLA Discussion Group on <i>Comics and Graphic Narratives</i>.

Recently, the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in Pari…[Read more]

<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> seeks submissions for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London. Comparative studies welcomed.
Please send 10-to-15-page MLA-style papers to the issue’s co-editors Robin Visel ([Read more]

MLA-style calendar dates (in this case, 1900-2000) as markers of emergence or deliquescence of cultural or literary formations are obviously artificial, especially when the use of alternate periodization systems (e.g., Spanish generational, modern Japanese by emperor name, etc.) is taken into consideration. Yet such dating is also apt to take on…[Read more]