The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.

Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]

Call for Proposals
Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production
The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexu…[Read more]

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CFP – Studies in the Novel

Special Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West” 

Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:

Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern

Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]

<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more]

Special Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu).

This panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric  perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]

Call for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza

Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016

Proposal deadline 15 March 2016

Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]

Call for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)

“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”

Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim c…[Read more]

In geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.

In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.

In geveb began…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German

Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more productively thought together as tangled and i…[Read more]

“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability

The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016)

Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in associ…[Read more]

Dear Forum Members,

Please check out our CFP for the sponsored Forum for 2017!!! The topic, “Ecomedia,” reflects your requests from last year.

Looking forward to seeing your abstracts!