Call for Abstracts

21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association

University of Vienna

21-27 July 2016

(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work

Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee

Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:

Unsettling the Gendered West

This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]

Panel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016

Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[Read more]

Hello all,

This forum has almost 750 members, so I would like to invite you all to introduce yourselves! And if it is not too painful to think about the fall semester yet, I’d encourage you to use the group as a locus of information exchange and syllabus brainstorming. If you’d like to share your syllabus while retaining copyright, you can…[Read more]