Dear Teaching of Writing forum members:

MLA has tentatively approved a new forum for Literacy Studies under the Rhetoric and Writing Studies group, but it needs 35 MLA members to sign the petition by June 15 in order for the forum to make for the 2014 year. Currently, 8 people have signed the petition, which is located here:…[Read more]

Of interest to women’s studies scholars:

MLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE

Of interest to women’s studies scholars:

Elena Poniatowska: Five Decades of Critical Inquiry

Elena Poniatowska’s corpus has inspired three generations of scholars to engage in highly diverse approaches to literary theory and criticism, including approaches to testimonio, j…[Read more]

The Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus (WGSC) of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) welcomes session proposals (panel, roundtable, seminar) for the 2015 Convention in Toronto ON Canada, April 30 – May 3. The deadline for submission is April 22, 2014, and the online proposal form will be available mid-March.<b> </b>Please see [Read more]

Teaching with the Oxford English Dictionary: A Roundtable

We invite proposals for 8-10 minute presentations (which will be followed by a general discussion). Topics include: teaching students to use the OED; descriptions of successful assignments; negotiating the OED Online; and broader reflections on dictionaries in the classroom.

Please send…[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]

This may be of interest to Women’s Studies members.

Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 19…[Read more]

Proposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, to be held in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel on 45th Street near Madison Avenue (http://www.theroosevelthotel.com/) Thursday, February 26th, to Sunday, March 1st, 2015.  Our PSA-sponsored conferences have been located at cities where Poe lived and worked; we have…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Division of Nineteenth Century American Literature:

During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century American Literature executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels…[Read more]

Call for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Session Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more]

Call for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill

Session Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Panel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more]