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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Electronic Review Copies of George Sand Novel in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago“The Romances of George Sand” (9/12/2014): email me for a free review copy at director@anaphoraliterary.com. Also, I hope you’ll add me as a friend/ fan/ or follow me on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn (search for my full name). Cheers, Anna Faktorovich, PhD, Director, Anaphora Literary Press
More information on the book a…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Endorsing or Volunteering for the New MLA Forum on Global Arab & Arab American in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues,
I wonder if those of you who are interested in Arab American literature and culture can take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.
You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Dramatic Monologue Panel & Trends in Literature for Children Panel for AWP 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Friends,
I’m organizing two panels for the AWP ((Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015): 1) The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Dramatic Monologue Panel & Trends in Literature for Children Panel for AWP 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Friends,
I’m organizing two panels for the AWP Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015): 1) The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you for your c…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic MLA 2015 CFP, Elena Poniatowska Criticism in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoOf 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]
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Rita Bode started the topic NeMLA WGSC cf session proposals for 2015 Convention in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe 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]
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Cedric R. Tolliver started the topic Afro-Modernist Lit/Film and the Long Durée in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 Vancouver Panel Proposal:
We solicit papers on afro-modernist literature and film that reveal the usefulness and limits of the long durée as an analytical tool. How do African American and other Black diasporic texts engage the dialectic between modernist aesthetics and philosophical concerns with history? Does this engagement move…[Read more]
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Michelle B. Slater started the topic Mayapple Center is offering a summer course taught by Deak Nabors in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDeak Nabors, “The Aesthetic Tradition of Perpetual War”
August 11-15th at the Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities, Stamford, CT ($1200.00 includes tuition ($800) and room & board ($400.00) Apply now at mayapplecenter.slideroom.com
Commentators have longed noted that the United States has remained more or less persistently at war since…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic CFP: SLDG @ MLA 2015 in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoMLA 2015 in Vancouver, January 8-11
Region and its (Dis)Contents
Participants sought for a roundtable assessing the meaning, value, and/or limitations of region as a framework for U.S. literary and cultural studies. What is “region”? How have notions of region been deployed in literary or other histories? How have the meanings of region or…[Read more]
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Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis 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] -
Richard Kopley started the topic CFP for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoProposals 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]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe 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. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 6-9, 2014. Hosted by D…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic Possible Changes to MLA Divisions in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear 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]
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April Logan started the topic Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C. in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: 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] -
April Logan started the topic Pauline Hopkins's Politics in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: 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] -
April Logan started the topic Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C. in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: 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] -
April Logan started the topic Deadline Extended CFP: Pauline Hopkins in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: 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] -
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoImages for “Geography and Tactile Maps for the Blind,” delivered at MLA 2104 for the panel, The Graphic Nineteenth Century
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