We are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]

Hello,

The Executive Committee of the Travel Writing Forum invites suggestions for new members of the Executive Committee. Feel free to message one of us directly, or to post a reply here.

All best,

Jessica Howell, Bernadette Andrea, Patricia Akhimie, Natalya Din Kariuki and Churnjeet Mahn

The Cognitive and Affect Studies forum invites papers that discuss vital signs in literature for a guaranteed session at the 2024 MLA. Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to mhulstyn@stanford.edu by 15 March.

Please join us tomorrow Sunday for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee, “Words on Food.” Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent?

Sunday, J…[Read more]

Please join us today for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee. Panelists will examine the role, symbol, and landscapes of California in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and thought.

Saturday, January 7 

3:30pm – 4:45pm 

Marriott Marquis – Nob Hill C (Lower B2 Level) 

Please join us today for a roundtable on démission/resignation as a multifaceted motif and a critical stance in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone cultural and literary imagination, and on the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this dual phenomenon, whether it proceeds from the stasis of discontent or as an…[Read more]

All: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).

All: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).

I hope everyone will attend our forum’s sponsored sessions this year at MLA2023! Here is a convenient link to all three in the convention program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/2149

We have three very different sessions this year. First up, on Thursday, is a face-to-face session exploring neurodiverse modes of literary…[Read more]

I hope our forum members will consider attending our sponsored sessions at this year’s MLA convention, and help out our work by letting others who will be in attendance know about them!

* Attention, Please! Thu 5:15-6:30, Moscone West – this face to face session examines attention from neurodiverse perspectives, including neuroqueer, ADHD, and…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]