Dear Colleagues,

As you make plans for the convention later this week, I’d like to draw your attention to a special session that will be of particular interest to those working in law and the humanities. The session, “Legal and Literary Persons,” highlights several innovative approaches to the concept of personhood in a range of natio…[Read more]

I’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at  [Read more]

I’d like to invite any members of the group attending this year’s convention to the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place on Thursday night at the JW. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

For more information (and to reserve your spot), visit  [Read more]

The Speculative Fiction Forum’s own Gerry Canavan, Assistant Prof. of 20th and 21st Century Literature at Marquette University, was a guest on the NPR show “On Point” on Friday Dec. 18th to discuss science fiction and film.  Check it out:

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point-with-tom-ashbrook

Dear All,

Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the many pedagogical materials and publications that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, to share some of your own.

– Nicky…[Read more]