Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers
Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)

Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statis…[Read more]

The Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:

The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]

<b>Writing in Context: Content Based First Year Composition (MLA 2015 Jan 8-11, Vancouver, BC)</b>

Stacey Lee Donohue/Discussion Group on the Two Year College/MLA

sdonohue@cocc.edu

While composition is often a standalone course, some colleges offer it as discipline-specific writing, either as a linked course or integrated into a learning…[Read more]

The Winter 2014 (Vol. 18, Iss. 4) Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice.  Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical…[Read more]

http://www.library.arizona.edu/news/entries/view/2838

Here’s the CFP for this year’s meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, which will convene at the WisCon feminist fan convention in Madison, WI. The deadline is February 1.

http://www.sfra.org/node/61

If you are going to be in Chicago for this year’s MLA, please do try to join us for some of the children’s literature sessions and events being held. I’ve also listed here sessions planned by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Discussion Group. The Children’s Literature and Comics Groups are co-hosting a cash bar on Friday night beginning at 7…[Read more]

Dear all,

I’d like to remind everyone of the MLA Convention Access Guidelines, which you can read here:

http://www.mla.org/conv_access_guide

Happy new year and have a great convention!

Idaho State University (ISU) has a distinctive program Ph.D. program that might interest members of this group or their students.

The Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English integrates research in literature with practical and theoretical training in the teaching of composition and literature. The aim of the program is to prepare graduates…[Read more]