Call for Papers | Women & Language

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All…[Read more]

What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]

Please consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues. Many thanks

Title: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]

I am looking for participants for a roundtable for the 2021 MLA Conference. The description for the session is pasted below. Please reach out to me directly (kel.irene.aliano@gmail.com) with any questions or to submit a proposal.

Putting Writing and Performance in Conversation

This panel welcomes abstracts (max. 300 words) that explore the…[Read more]

The 53rd Annual IASA Pittsburgh Conference November 5-7, 2020
Mining the Diaspora: Italian-American Materialities, Archaeologies, and Intersections
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020
The Italian American Studies Association (IASA formerly the American Italian Historical Association AIHA) celebrates its fifty-third year of academic inquiry…[Read more]

The Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Rhetoric (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric, specialize in the teaching of Composition, and demonstrate a proven…[Read more]

My name is Silvia Guslandi. I hold a Ph.D. in Euro-American Comparative Literature and I am currently a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago (working on Emanuel Carnevali, among other things). Thank you for the honor of considering me as a candidate for the Delegate Assembly. As my research interests are situated…[Read more]

3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers

May 28-31, 2020

Fondazione Campus

Via del Seminario Prima, 790

Lucca, Italy

http://www.fondazionecampus.it 

Italian Diaspora(s): The Manifestations and Dynamics of Cultural ChangeSubmission Deadline: Saturday, February 1, 2020 https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit The I…[Read more]

Fellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,

My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee member, an…[Read more]

Buon giorno a tutt*,

Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.

I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]