The NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program Summer fellowships up to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over the summer. Fellowships primarily support untenured junior faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. All applicants will be notified before the convention.…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

As you make plans for the convention later this week, I’d like to draw your attention to a special session that will be of particular interest to those working in law and the humanities. The session, “Legal and Literary Persons,” highlights several innovative approaches to the concept of personhood in a range of natio…[Read more]

I’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at  [Read more]

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Article # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:

https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/9

We invite abstracts that explore representations of linguistic varieties and variation in postcolonial literature from the perspective of literary linguistics. 300-word abstract by 27 Feb 2016; Robert Troyer (troyerr@mail.wou.edu).

Following the successful session on syntax and poetry in 2016, we invite abstracts on how poets employ and challenge the conventions of syntax for poetic effect. 300-word abstract by 27 Feb 2016; Robert Troyer (troyerr@mail.wou.edu).

Hello!

Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]