MLA 2024 – Philadelphia

LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama announces the following CFP:

Session 1: Translating and Staging Spanish Early Modern Plays Throughout Time
Submissions on staging early modern Spanish plays in languages other than Spanish exploring the interplay of language, translation, and emotions. 250–300-word abs…[Read more]

Guaranteed session for CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern!

Papers of no more than 10 minutes for a roundtable on new insights into the cultures of early modern eating and food. How did the circulation of food carry with it encounters with new ideas and new people? How did changing culinary practices and tastes both reflect and influence cultural…[Read more]

The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather SeriesTaormina, SicilyJuly 10-12, 2023 Sponsored by the University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine Celebrating over 50 years of fandom, join us and commemorate Francis Ford Coppola’s series- The Godfather (March 15, 1972), The Godfather Part II (December 20, 19…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 25th with your nominations. Thanks!

Dear colleagues,

Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.

CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023

The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The faculty of English at Idaho State University invites nominations for the fifth biennial Teaching Literature Book Award, an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the undergraduate or graduate level. Nominations of books published in 2021 and 2022 are due March 15, 2023. For more information…[Read more]

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.

MLA 2024 – Philadelphia

LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama announces the following CFP:

Session 1: Translating and Staging Spanish Early Modern Plays Throughout Time
Submissions on staging early modern Spanish plays in languages other than Spanish exploring the interplay of language, translation, and emotions. 250–300-word a…[Read more]

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]

Dear Comediantes,

Happy New Year! We hope to see many of you at our two organized panels at this year’s MLA in San Francisco:

Saturday, Jan 7, 5:15-6:30 PM, Sierra Suite H, Marriott Marquis “Classical Theater in Today’s Higher Education”

Sunday, Jan 8, 8:30-9:45 AM, Nob Hill C (Marriott Marquis, Lower B2 level) “Comedia Poetics and Performance”…[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).