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Dear Colleagues:

The Division of Language Theory solicits papers exploring recent aspects of narrative and discourse as these relate to language theory. Abstract of 300 words by 25 March 2014; Lee B. Abraham ( lba2133@columbia.edu ).

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Best regards,

Lee (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the…[Read more]

MLA 2015

NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable

Position papers on how Mexico is imagined and narrated after two decades of NAFTA’s implementation. Send abstract and bio by 15 March 2014; Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (jcramire@rohan.sdsu.edu).

Call for papers for Special Session. What is the importance of memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship? 250 word abstract and CV. by 14 March 2014; Lori Angela Lammert (llammert@yahoo.com).

MLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE

Of interest to members of the 20th-C Lat Am Lit Division

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, journalism, the specificity of w…[Read more]

We’re looking for papers for a panel on comparative media studies in Latin America to be held at the 2015 MLA convention. While most often comparative media studies is practiced in relation to new narrative forms and emergent literacies in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, this panel welcomes proposals focusing on other historical periods…[Read more]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disciplines,” its promise…[Read more]

Popular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.

Spaces of…[Read more]

Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more]

Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015

The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the…[Read more]

Call for Submissions

FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN

Intellect Books

Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm

A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.

This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]

The Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference.  We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of less canonical figures.  The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown P…[Read more]

The Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference.  We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of translation and other related topics.  The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel i…[Read more]

Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 201…[Read more]

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<p align=”center”><b>14^th Annual Portsmouth Translation Conference</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>8 November 2014</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>From classroom to workplace</b></p>
Translation studies is always at the meeting point of theory and practice. Professional practice affects and…[Read more]

Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens:  Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz.  From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014[Read more]